Лучшие книги Элизабет Энн Скарборо

Сбывается давняя мечта Акорны, девушки-единорога, когда-то найденной в глубинах космоса и воспитанной людьми. Она находит свою родину и своих соплеменников и улетает к ним. Однако реальность оказывается далеко не такой радужной, как это представлялось Акорне - с первых же шагов по планете линьяри она начинает ощущать себя чужой в этом мире. И вскоре ей вновь приходится обратиться за помощью к старым друзьям...

После долгой службы в армии всемогущей Интергалактической Компании демобилизованная по инвалидности майор Янаба Мэддок попадает на Сурс, "планету с суровыми условиями существования". При таких морозах, которые большую часть года свирепствуют на Сурсе, не может работать почти никакая техника и жизнь обитателей планеты чрезвычайно примитивна. Однако на деле эта простая с виду планета оказывается полна тайн. На Сурсе обнаружены залежи ценных минералов, но все экспедиции Компании пропадают без вести. Почему исчезают люди? Что вообще происходит на этой суровой и загадочной планете? Яна должна это выяснить...

В жизнь Акорны, казалось бы, наконец приходят покой и радость — ее родная планета возрождается, возлюбленный найден. Однако с самой первой встречи девушка чувствует, что Ари вернулся из путешествия во времени совершенно другим. Его словно подменили, и дальнейшие события только подтверждают сомнения Акорны. Новые дороги, новые поиски приводят ее в прошлое, в самый разгар оккупации Вилиньяра инопланетными захватчиками. Но за истинное счастье Акорна готова бороться до конца...

Девушка-единорог Акорна вместе с другими представителями своего народа, линья-ри, возвращается домой, на планету Вилиньяр. Ее родина была почти полностью уничтожена космическими захватчиками-кхлеви, но теперь линьяри собираются, при помощи своих друзей-землян, восстановить Вилиньяр. Однако для этого необходимо произвести тщательные изыскания на поверхности планеты. Во время этих исследований неожиданно начинают пропадать ученые-линьяри, и Акорна приступает к расследованию этих таинственных исчезновений…

Разум во Вселенной принимает самые невероятные формы. В том, что планета Сурс разумна и способна общаться с людьми, майор запаса Яна Мэддок убедилась на собственной шкуре. Но оказывается, что планете и ее обитателям грозит серьезная опасность. Недра Сурсабогаты полезными ископаемыми, и на них мечтает наложить лапу могущественная Интергалактическая Компания, за спиной которой не один опустошенный, превращенный в камень мир. Борьба за Сурс начинается…

Трудно выиграть битву, но еще труднее сохранить плоды победы. Могущественная Интергалактическая Компания, мечтавшая наложить лапу на богатые полезными ископаемыми недра Сурса, изгнана с этой планеты, однако старые враги не оставляют попыток дискредитировать ее жителей в глазах Межпланетного Сообщества. Больше того, с их подачи космические пираты похищают Яну Мэддок, майора запаса, ставшую главой администрации Сурса. Борьба продолжается, и вскоре в нее вступает и сама планета...

После долгой службы в армии всемогущей Интергалактической Компании демобилизованная по инвалидности майор Янаба Мэддок попадает на Сурс, `планету с суровыми условиями существования`. При таких морозах, которые большую часть года свирепствуют на Сурсе, не может работать почти никакая техника, и жизнь обитателей планеты чрезвычайно примитивна. Однако на деле эта простая с виду планета оказывается полна тайн. На Сурсе обнаружены залежи ценных минералов, но все экспедиции Компании пропадают без вести. Почему исчезают люди? Что вообще происходит на этой суровой и загадочной планете? Яна должна это выяснить...

A literary departure for acclaimed fantasy author Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, The Healer’s War draws on her personal experience as an army nurse in Da Nang to create a classic novel of the Vietnam War, enriched with a magical, mystical twist.

Lt. Kitty McCulley, a young and inexperienced nurse tossed into a stressful and chaotic situation, is having a difficult time reconciling her duty to help and heal with the indifference and overt racism of some of her colleagues, and with the horrendously damaged soldiers and Vietnamese civilians she encounters during her service at the China Beach medical facilities. She is unexpectedly helped by the mysterious and inexplicable properties of an amulet, given to her by one of her patients, an elderly, dying Vietnamese holy man, which allows her to see other people’s “auras” and to understand more about them as a result. This eventually leads to a strange, almost surrealistic journey through the jungle, accompanied by a one-legged boy and a battle-seasoned but crazed soldier—as McCulley struggles to find herself and a way to survive through the madness and destruction.

In Deluge the selkie twins, Ronan and Murel, leave Petaybee on a mission to help rescue their friend Marmie, who has been falsely arrested on the orders of a corrupt Colonel. However, the Colonel has more power in the Company than they realized and they end up being imprisoned themselves and taken to the Gwinnet Incarceration Colony. There they have to try to evade the clutches of their old adversary Dr Mabu, an unscrupulous scientist who wants to study their unusual shape-changing ability, and doesn't care how much pain her experiments cause them.

Meanwhile, the powerful and avaricious Company is making another attempt to take over the world of Petaybee for its resources, and the twins parents, Yana and Sean, along with the entire planet, must fight for the independence of their sentient world once and for all...

In Changelings, bestselling authors Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough returned to the sentient planet Petaybee with a story of growth and transformation in the face of deadly new threats. The telepathic, shapeshifting twins Murel and Ronan found that Petaybee had plans for them as well. Now those plans begin to bear fruit with fresh possibilities... and dangers.
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Now that Petaybee is forming a new equatorial island, the planet has agreed to harbor a group of new refugees, workers indentured to the powerful InterGal Corporation. But the mission to collect the immigrants becomes a rescue operation when it is revealed that InterGal is doing nothing to help these survivors of a world devastated by a meteor shower. Murel and Ronan set out to persuade the frightened refugees to come out of hiding, leave their world, and bring along their sacred totem animals, the gifted sea turtles called the Honus. But the twins discover that they've taken on more than they expected: the Honus are not the only animals sacred to the refugees. There are also the Manos, intelligent sharks who have lost none of their predatory habits-and who cannot be left behind to die.
When the Manos are released into Petaybee's waters, a tragic misunderstanding endangers the whole resettlement operation. At the same time, the mysterious sea otters who once rescued the twins' father are suddenly revealed to be much more than they appear to be.
Now it is up to Ronan and Murel, with the intrepid assistance of their river otter friend Sky, to smooth the waters before a maelstrom of revenge destroys Petaybee's harmonious way of life.
But even as the twins uncover startling new facts about Petaybee's past that will change everything they thought they knew about the planet, the forces of InterGal are gathering, preparing to strike...

Twin brother and sister Ronan and Murel are true children of Petaybee, the sentient planet that is their home. Like their father, they are changelings, able to converse telepathically with creatures and to transform into seals. The Petaybeans wish to protect the twins from curious scientists, but no one realizes that Ronan and Murel hunger to discover the origins of their shape-shifting talent—and that their search for knowledge will place them in the path of peril. Meanwhile, Petaybee is changing. To investigate its sudden evolution, the twins’ father heads out to the open water in his seal form—and is presumed lost. Only Ronan and Murel, with their remarkable talents of transformation, can hope to find him and bring him home . . . if they dare to risk exposure and face the dangers of the newly unstable sea.

Welcome home, Linyaari child!'
Acorna's quest has paid off. With the help of her 'uncles' and the thousands of humans who love and admire her, she has found her true people at last. And they have found her - Khornya, daughter of the illustrious Feriila and the valiant Vaanye, who was given up for lost after the insect-like Khleevi destroyed their home planet. Abandoned in space as a baby, rescued and raised by gruff human asteroid miners, Acorna is at last among her own. The beautiful healing horn in the center of her forehead and the funny feet and hands that once set her apart now make her one with the telepathic Linyaari, who live on a lush agrarian planet where they pursue their peaceful dreams. Acorna's people welcome her with a lavish costume ball - and an already-chosen mate! But Acorna still has much to do before she can enjoy the home she is offered. The legendary resting place of the lost Linyaari ancestors has yet to be found. With the help of the rogue spacetrader Becker and his cat, RK (RoadKill), Acorna must strive to right an unspeakable wrong and defeat an enemy even more cruel than the Khleevi themselves. In the search, Acorna and her new friends rescue another survivor, also given up for lost. Most importantly though, Acorna at last uncovers the Universe's most carefully guarded secret - the true nature of the ancient link between the hoofed, telepathic Linyaari and the space-faring humans she has come to think of as her people as well.

In all literature, there is no creature more wondrous, no girl more beautiful, no youth more adventurous than Anne McCaffrey's beloved Unicorn Girl. Acorna and Acorna's Quest told of her childhood and early youth. Now award-winning author Elizabeth Ann Scarborough joins Anne McCaffrey to continue the saga of this beloved character in a story that will delight every fan and win new hearts too. Acorna's People is a story for readers of all ages - especially those who have not yet lost (or who still remember) the magic that lives in the hearts of the young.

Девушка-единорог Акорна вместе с другими представителями своего народа, линьяри, возвращается домой, на планету Вилиньяр. Ее родина была почти полностью уничтожена космическими захватчиками-кхлеви, но теперь линьяри собираются, при помощи своих друзей-землян, восстановить Вилиньяр. Однако для этого необходимо произвести тщательные изыскания на поверхности планеты. Во время этих исследований неожиданно начинают пропадать ученые-линьяри, и Акорна приступает к расследованию этих таинственных исчезновений…

Although she has made peace with her Linyaari heritage, Acorna knows that only by returning to the frozen stillness of space will she ever truly feel at home. But the solitude she desires must wait.

Answering a faint distress call leads Acorna into a strange, intoxicating perfumed world of intelligent and sentient plants. There she finds a burned-out space ship with all the signs of a Khleevi attack. And suddenly all that Acorna holds dear is in grave peril. Because the devastation that was wrought here w no isolated occurrence, but the opening move in a plani "ight that will decimate the two races to which Acorn illy, emotionally and genetically tied.

Facing the annihilation of both her races, Acorna must discover the Khleevi's weakness - and strike first.

Народ Акорны, линьяри, начинает потихоньку возвращаться в свой родной дом после разрушительной волны с кхлеви. С помощью путешествий во времени они воссоздают свою цивилизацию. Во время одного из таких путешествий пропал возлюбленный Акорны, Ари. Акорна отправляется на планету Макахомия — родину РК, чтобы там в таинственном храме найти то, что поможет ей вернуть Ари или привести к катастрофе.

Elizabeth Ann Scarborough continues the tale of Cleopatra's resurrection as the Queen of the Nile's DNA is blended with two present day hosts.
In this compelling new thriller, forensic anthropologist Leda Hubbard and Egyptologist Gabriella Farouk-Cleopatra 7.1 and 7.2 respectively-face recriminations from the U.S. government for illegal DNA blendings--as well as the good and ill effects of playing host to an Egyptian Queen.

Nebula award-winning author Elizabeth Ann Scarborough brings together nine of her best short stories in Scarborough Fair and Other Stories. Her wit and wisdom are encapsulated in these stories that blend fantasy, history -- and that indefinable touch that only Elizabeth Ann Scarborough has -- into a magical journey through worlds that only she could create.

No one could have told Lieutenant Kitty McCulley that this was what it meant to be a war nurse. No one could have told her that she was going to Vietnam, not to heal, but to ready her patients for the real pain. Not to alleviate suffering, but to become an object of contempt and misdirected lust. Not to try to save all victims, but to choose sides against people she thought she was there to help. No one could have told her. And it wouldn’t have made any difference anyway.

When one of her patients, a revered holy man to the Vietnamese, gives Kitty an amulet with seemingly inexplicable powers, her world is changed forever. For the amulet gives her the power to see the auras that emanate from those around her; and the auras allow her to separate the brave from the cowardly, the compassionate from the heartless, and the truly dangerous from the frightened and confused. It is a power she will need to save not only her sanity, but her life. Going against orders, Kitty convinces a helicopter pilot to help her take one of her orphan patients to safety; but when the chopper is shot down, Kitty is left in the enemy-held jungle to survive by her wits… and the power of the amulet.

With the child and a lone American soldier whose aura suggests almost total fear and potential danger, Kitty becomes witness to war at its most horrid… and its most human. Here in the jungle, war and its participants are lade bare and the most basic of truths are revealed to those with the power to see them.

A multifaceted, riveting reading experience, The Healer’s War is one of the first novels to explore the life of a military nurse in Vietnam. It is a powerful, evocative, and touching story that extends beyond the bounds of fantastic fiction to offer a richly satisfying novel of the human heart.