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Richard Nance

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in Elkin, NC, The United States

August 16, 1944

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Now retired and turned writer. Spent 8 1/2 years in the US Navy after College at NC State University school of electrical engineering where I wrote an advanced course in Computer Technology and taught the course I wrote for 1 1/2 years. Left the Navey and worked for a local national manufacturing firm. After early retirement spent 5 years as a simple electrician with another local company and retired finally. With the urging of my family and especially my youngest daughter I wrote the Hidden World Chronicles series. Because of the encouragement and help from her I made her co-author of our series. She had heard parts of the story all her life and after gettting me to tell her the whole story she insisted that I write it down for other peopl ...more

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The Hidden World Chronicles

Journey of the Chosen The Secrets of the Sword

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Published on April 30, 2012 18:41 • Tags: adventure, fantasy, sci-fi, ya

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	Journey of the Chosen (The Hidden World Chronicles #1) by Richard Nance (Goodreads Author), Rhonda Roth 4.06 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Secrets of the Sword (The Hidden World Chronicles #2) by Richard Nance (Goodreads Author), Rhonda Roth 3.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dragon Princess of Shambala (The Hidden World Chronicles #3) 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mysterious Mr. Malone it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Arrogance and Conceit are the mother and father of a closed mind.
Charles Jennings, "Journey of the Chosen".”
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“Arrogance and Conceit are the mother and father of a closed mind.
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