A. C. Crispin

A crisis on the planet Vulcan necessitates Mr. Spock's return, and upon his arrival he finds himself torn between duty to the Federation and responsibility to his people in Spock's World, and a chronicle of the life of Spock's perpetually logical, full-blooded Vulcan father covers his career as one of the Federation's premiere ambassadors and his conflicts with his half-human son, in Sarek, in two popular Star Trek novels. Original.

Eydrth is a Master Songsmith... who has no magic. She will do anything to save her father from the evil that has stolen his mind. But the paths to the magic of the Witch World are many-and to save the ones you love, the truest magic must come from the heart... Andre Norton has been called "one of the most popular writers of our time" (Publishers Weekly) and has for over twenty-five years enchanted readers with the most famous and popular of her works: the enthralling Witch World. With bestseller A. C. Crispin, Norton has woven an eternal love story, filled with magic and wonder. Songsmith is the novel that Witch World fans have been waiting for-a shining jewel in the Witch World cosmos.

The Heritage of the Gryphon Will Choose Its Own. The Time of Choice Is Now. The urge within him is overwhelming, and Kerovan-he of the cloven hooves and amber eyes-is driven toward the mountains-toward the dark. With him goes the Lady Joisan, who carries with her secrets unknown to Kerovan. By calling upon the Powers within themselves, willing the forces of Light to fight against the forces of the Dark, they reach their destination...only to face That Which Runs the Ridges in the final battle. Everlasting Undeath-and horror for all the world-will take them if they fail.

At the farthest reaches of the solar system, Ellen Ripley awakens on board the space station Auriga. Her last memory is of her own fiery death. And yet she is somehow alive. Ripley discovers that her "resurrection" is a result of an incredible experiment which has altered both her and the creature she has been carrying. To combat the incalculable alien menace, she teams up with a renegade band of space smugglers.

Here is the second novel in the blockbuster new trilogy that reveals the never-before-told story of the young Han Solo. Set before the Star Wars(r) movie adventures, these books chronicle the coming-of-age of the galaxy's most famous con man, smuggler and thief. Solo is now a fugitive from the Imperial Navy. But he has made a valuable friend in a former Wookiee slave named Chewbacca, who has sworn Han a life debt. Han will need all the help he can get. For the Ylesian Hutts have dispatched the dreaded bounty hunter Boba Fett to track down the man who already outsmarted them once. But Han and Chewie find themselves in even bigger trouble when they agree to lend their services to the crime lords Jiliac and Jabba the Hutt. Suddenly the two smugglers are thrust into the middle of a battle between the might of the Empire and the treachery of their outlaw allies...a battle where even victory means death!

This novel begins with Han's late teen years and shows us how he escaped an unhappy adopted home situation to carve out a new life for himself as a pilot.