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"Something's Alive In There!"She was just a little girl, with a tiny horn in the center of her forehead, funny-looking feet, beautiful silver hair, and several curious powers: the ability to purify air and water, make plants grow, and heal scars and broken bones. A trio of grizzled prospectors found her drifting in an escape pod amid the asteroids, adopted her, and took her to the bandit planet Kezdet, a place where no questions are asked and the girl might grow up free.
But Kezdet has its own dark secret. The prosperity of the planet is based on a hideous trade in child slave labor, administered by "The Piper" -- a mystery man with special plans for Acorna and her powers. But free little girls have a way of growing into freedom-loving young women, and Acorna has special plans all her own. . .
Complete one of the following tasks:
📘Read a book 3 in the series
📘Read a book with someone who is adopted
📘Read an Anne McCaffrey book
✅ Book 1 - Acorna: The Unicorn GirlBook: Nerves of Steel: How I Followed My Dreams, Earned My Wings, and Faced My Greatest Challenge
Author: Tammie Jo Shults
Pages: 288
Date Read: July 12th
Task: Read a book with someone who is adopted
How it Fits: The MC's child is adopted
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Acorna’s people, the Linyaari, have begun reclaiming their homeworld from the ravages of the brutal Khleevi. But the first wave of explorers has unlocked a larger mystery about the origins of the Linyaari—one that has led Aari, Acorna’s beloved lifemate, on a dangerous journey from which he may never return.
Setting off on a quest to find Aari, Acorna and her friends—Captain Becker, Mac, Nadhari, and RK—are forced to crash land on the beautiful and barbaric exotic jungle world of Makahomia, home of the mysterious Temple Cats. But an evil scheme threatens to destroy the sacred felines. To save the cats, Acorna will lead a band of rebels on a journey into Makahomia’s temples and hidden sanctuaries.
And there, within one sacred shrine, she will discover shocking information that could lead to Aari . . . or to disaster.
Complete one of the following tasks:
📘Read a book with a cat on the cover or in the story
📘Read a book set in a jungle
📘Read an Anne McCaffrey book
✅ Book 2 - Acorna's QuestBook: Attempting Normal
Author: Marc Maron
Date Read: July 12th
Task: Read a book with a cat on the cover
How it Fits:
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"Welcome Home, Linyaari Child!"With the help of her "uncles" and the thousands of humans who love and admire her, Acorna has found her true people, the peaceful, telepathic Linyaari. But Acorna still has much to do before she can enjoy her new home. The legendary resting place of the lost Linyaari ancestors has yet to be found. And with the help of a rogue spacetrader and his feline sidekick, Acorna must strive to right an unspeakable wrong and defeat an enemy even crueler than the Khleevi. Along the way, she will at last uncover the Universe's most carefully guarded secret--the true nature of the ancient link between the Linyaari and the space-faring humans she has also come to think of as her "people."
Complete one of the following tasks:
📘Read a book with a sidekick character
📘Read a book where someone has a secret
📘Read an Anne McCaffrey book
✅ Book 3 - Acorna's PeopleBook: The Beat of a Different Drum: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
Author: Jagdish Mehra
Date Read: July 13th
Task: Read a book where someone has a secret
How it Fits: "Feynman had all the secrets of the atomic bomb at his disposal." p.190
✅ Book 4 - Acorna's WorldBook: Don't Stand too close to a Naked Man
Author: Tim Allen
Date Read: July 13th
Task: Read a book that starts with a letter in ROADKILL
How it Fits: Starts with D
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Acorna the "unicorn girl" found as a baby years ago, abandoned and floating alone in an escape pod at the far end of the galaxy has made peace with her past, her Linyaari heritage, and with the powerful "differences" that set her apart from the loving humans who raised her. But only in the deep reaches of limitless space can she truly feel at home.
Now, aboard the interplanetary salvage vessel Condor, Acorna is free once more, traveling through space in the company of her good friend, ship's commander Captain Jonas Becker, his gargantuan feline "first mate" Roadkill, and Aari, a proud Linyaari survivor of torture at the hands of the savage, bug-like Khleevi.
But the journey is interrupted when a transmitted distress call faint but undeniable draws Acorna and her companions down to the surface of a nearby planet.
What awaits them is a world of wonders, shrouded in an atmosphere of strange, intoxicating perfumes. Intelligent, sentiment plants help guide Acorna, Becker, Aari, and RK to the source of the SOS. But a broken, burned out alien ship is all they find, the pitiful remnants of a relentlessly brutal yet carefully coordinated assault. To Acorna, the signs are unmistakable.
This is the grim handiwork of the cold-blooded species that seeks the complete eradication of all human and Linyaari life from the galaxy... the Khleevi!
And suddenly all that Acrona holds dear is in grave peril. Because the devastation that was wrought here was no isolated occurrence, but the opening move in a planned onslaught that will decimate the two races to whom Acorna is culturally, emotionally, and genetically tied. A worlds-shattering catastrophe is in the making unless one courageous and beautiful young woman with remarkable healing powers and her small, motley group of friends can go the unthinkable: discover the fearsome insectile enemy's greatest weakness... and strike first.
Complete one of the following tasks:
📘Read a book that starts with a letter in ROADKILL
📘Read a book set in space
📘Read an Anne McCaffrey book
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The homeworld that Acorna has never known was horribly scarred in the brutal attack by the cold-blooded Khleevi, but the Linyaari—the unicorn girl’s gentle, spiritual race—live on. Now is the time for healing and rebuilding, for restoring the natural beauty corrupted by the savage insectile oppressors.
But Acorna’s Linyaari friends and colleagues begin mysteriously disappearing soon after work gets under way, among them her beloved Aari. And her desperate search for answers will lead courageous Acorna to a shocking discovery beneath the surface of her people’s world—and deep into the realms of limitless space, where the truth of the origin of everything awaits.
Complete one of the following tasks:
📘Read a book where someone disappears
📘Read a book with all the letters of AARI in the title
📘Read an Anne McCaffrey book
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Acorna’s people, the Linyaari, have begun reclaiming their homeworld from the ravages of the brutal Khleevi. But the first wave of explorers has unlocked a larger mystery about the origins of the Linyaari—one that has led Aari, Acorna’s beloved lifemate, on a dangerous journey from which he may never return.
Setting off on a quest to find Aari, Acorna and her friends—Captain Becker, Mac, Nadhari, and RK—are forced to crash land on the beautiful and barbaric exotic jungle world of Makahomia, home of the mysterious Temple Cats. But an evil scheme threatens to destroy the sacred felines. To save the cats, Acorna will lead a band of rebels on a journey into Makahomia’s temples and hidden sanctuaries.
Complete one of the following tasks:
📘Read a book where someone crashes
📘Read a book tagged mystery
📘Read an Anne McCaffrey book
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Now, finally, Aari has returned, and together they can finish rebuilding their home world. But Aari is oddly changed, to the point where he barely remembers Acorna—much less their love—and his actions grow more and more sinister. . . . As Acorna tries to stop a vicious criminal from destroying innocents, a new complication arises. Sensing the Linyaari weakness, the deadly Khleevi return, determined to take back the planet—for good. In this dark time, it will take all the unicorn girl’s courage and determination to rescue Aari and stop the alien menace once and for all.
Complete one of the following tasks:
📘Read a book where someone loses their memory
📘Read a book with aliens
📘Read an Anne McCaffrey book
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✅ Book 5 - Acorna's SearchBook: Quentin Tarantino and Philosophy: How to Philosophize With a Pair of Pliers and a Blowtorch
Author: Richard Greene
Date Read: July 15th
Task: Read a book with all the letters of AARI in the title
How it Fits: quentIn tARAntino
✅ Book 6 - Acorna's Rebels
Book: Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
Author: Anne Helen Petersen
Date Read: July 15th
Task: Read a book where someone crashes
How it Fits: The book is about burnout, which is synonymous with crashing
✅ Book 7 - Acorna's Triumph
Book: Travelers to Unimaginable Lands: Stories of Dementia, the Caregiver, and the Human Brain
Author: Dasha Kiper
Date Read: July 15th
Task: Read a book where someone loses their memory
How it Fits: Many characters lose their memory
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The breathtaking saga of the second generation begins! It is difficult growing up in the shadow of heroes revered throughout the galaxy. But that is the lot of young Khorii -- daughter of the legendary Acorna and her lifemate Aari -- who must now follow her own destiny through a fantastic universe of wonders and perils. On a journey, Khorii's trip is delayed when her ship encounters a derelict spacecraft floating aimlessly among the stars, its crew dead in their seats. Suddenly a planned visit by her parents has turned into a terrifying race against time as a deadly plague spreads relentlessly across the universe. Even the healing powers of the Linyaari cannot slow its horrific advance. And now Khorii, one of the few unaffected by the outbreak, must find an antidote -- before the scourge consumes everyone and everything in its path . . . including those she loves above all others.
Complete one of the following tasks:
📘Read a book with a plague
📘Read a book with a healer character
📘Read an Anne McCaffrey book
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It is difficult growing up in the shadow of heroes revered throughout the galaxy. But that is the lot of young Khorii—daughter of the legendary Acorna and her lifemate, Aari—who must now follow her own destiny through a fantastic universe of wonders and perils. Khorii became a hero in her own right as she fought to save the universe from a mysterious, deadly plague that not even the healing powers of the Linyaari could stop. Now, confined with the rest of the survivors on Paloduro, the home planet of the disease, it seems as if the danger may be fading, and Khorii and her friends may be able to stem the tide of death and disease . . . until ominous signs indicate that the perpetrators are near and that the epidemic is only beginning. As old enemies reemerge and a shocking family secret is revealed, Khorii must unlock the malevolent mysteries of the deadly pestilence with the aid of her android "brother" before their unknown foes complete their covert mission to cripple the entire star system.
Complete one of the following tasks:
📘Read a book with an android character
📘Read a book where the MC has an unknown foe
📘Read an Anne McCaffrey book
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Khorii, the rebellious daughter of the near-mythic Acorna and her lifemate, Aari, has followed in Acorna's footsteps leading their people from danger, but the pressure to succeed and fulfill a legacy is tremendous. For the deadly foe that has ravaged the known worlds and weakened even her famous parents has launched its final assault, and only Khorii and her newly discovered sister, Ariin, are able to stop the brutal attack. But success is elusive, and fragile, and even time itself may not be enough to help their desperate quest to save their family . . . much less the universe.
Complete one of the following tasks:
📘Read a book with sisters
📘Read a book where someone goes on a quest
📘Read an Anne McCaffrey book
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✅ Book 8 - First Warning: Acorna's ChildrenBook: Fires in the Dark: Healing the Unquiet Mind
Author: Kay Redfield Jamison
Date Read: July 16th
Task: Healer character
How it Fits: Features doctors & psychologists who help treat PTSD
✅ Book 9 - Second Wave: Acorna's Children
Book: The Sky Is Falling: How Vampires, Zombies, Androids, and Superheroes Made America Great for Extremism
Author: Peter Biskind
Date Read: July 19th
Task: Read a book with an android character
How it Fits: It's in the title, so there's many characters in the book
✅ Book 10 - Third Watch: Acorna's Children
Book: The Father of Forensics: The Groundbreaking Cases of Sir Bernard Spilsbury, and the Beginnings of Modern CSI
Author: Colin Evans
Date Read: July 16th
Task: Read a book with sisters
How it Fits: "two sisters in Bristol" p.42
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How can one girls save an entire world?
To the nobles who live in Benden Weyr, Lessa is nothing but a ragged kitchen girl. For most of her life she has survived by serving those who betrayed her father and took over his lands. Now the time has come for Lessa to shed her disguise-and take back her stolen birthright.
But everything changes when she meets a Queen dragon. The bond they share will be deep and last forever. It will protect them when, for the first time in centuries, Lessa's world is threatened by Thread, an evil substance that falls like rain and destroys everything it touches. Dragons and their Riders once protected the planet from Thread and the blood-red star, but there are very few of them left these days. Only the gigantic, golden Queen can breed new dragons. And the Queen is fading... dying...
Now brave Lessa must risk her life, and the life of her beloved dragon, to save her beautiful world...
Complete one of the following tasks:
📘Read a book with a blue cover
📘Read a book where someone risks their life to save others
📘Read an Anne McCaffrey book
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Another Turn, and the deadly silver Threads began falling again. So the bold dragonriders took to the air once more and their magnificent flying dragons swirled and swooped, belching flames that destroyed the shimmering strands before they reach the ground.
But F'lar knew he had to find a better way to protect his beloved Pern, and he had to find it before the rebellious Oldtimers could breed anymore dissent... before his brother F'nor would be foolhardy enough to launch another suicide mission... and before those dratted fire-lizards could stir up any more trouble!
Complete one of the following tasks:
📘Read a book with dragons
📘Read a book with brothers
📘Read an Anne McCaffrey book
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For centuries, the world of Pern has faced a destructive force known as Thread. But the number of magnificent dragons who have protected this world and the men and women who ride them are dwindling.
As fewer dragons ride the winds and destruction falls from the sky, Menolly has only one to sing, play, and weave the music that comes to her so easily—she wishes to become a Harper. But despite her great talents, her father believes that a young girl is unworthy of such a respected position and forbids her to pursue her dreams. So Menolly runs away, taking shelter in a cave by the sea. Miraculously, she happens upon nine fire lizards that could possibly save her world...and change her life forever.
Complete one of the following tasks:
📘Read book 9 in any series
📘Read a book with one female on the cover
📘Read an Anne McCaffrey book
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✅ Book 11 - Dragonsflight Book: Whole: How I Learned to Fill the Fragments of My Life with Forgiveness, Hope, Strength, and Creativity
Author: Melissa G. Moore
Date Read: July 22nd
Task: Read a book with a blue cover
How it Fits:
✅ Book 12 - Dragonquest
Book: Rudy: My Story
Author: Rudy Ruettiger
Date Read: July 20th
Task: Read a book with brothers
How it Fits: "that house was packed full of brothers and sisters." p.22
✅ Book 13 - Dragonsong
Book: Yes Please
Author: Amy Poehler
Date Read: July 21st
Task: Read a book with one female on the cover
How it Fits:
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Menolly needs more than music’s power to make it as a Harper in the second book in the Harper Hall trilogy, set within science fiction legend Anne McCaffrey’s beloved and bestselling Dragonriders of Pern series.
In the world of Pern, Harpers are more powerful than kings, for the music they play can control the minds of others. For young Menolly, her dreams of becoming a Harper have nothing to do with power, but rather her love of music. Now she is finally living out her musical dreams as an apprentice Harper, but it’s turning out to be more challenging than she thought. Formerly forbidden to study music because of her gender, Menolly quickly encounters hostility from a number of her male peers and masters.
With the help of new friends, teachers, and her nine tiny, colorful dragons, Menolly finds that her musical talents may be stronger than anyone could imagine.
Complete one of the following tasks:
📘Read a book tagged music
📘Read a book with a teacher MC
📘Read an Anne McCaffrey book
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"The Smallest Dragonboy" is set during the Ninth Pass. It tells of Keevan, a boy who is a candidate for Ramoth's latest clutch in Benden Weyr. Keevan is shorter than the other candidates, and is teased about this by Beterli, a boy who has stood for eight Impressions and has not been chosen. Keevan works hard but his size leads most to underestimate his abilities. When he overhears some of the senior dragonriders talking about dropping some of the younger candidates from the Impression, Keevan automatically thinks he will be dropped.
Complete one of the following tasks:
📘Read book 8 in any series
📘Read a book with a short/small character
📘Read an Anne McCaffrey book
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Never in the history of Pern has there been a dragon like Ruth. Mocked by other dragons for his small size and pure white color, Ruth is smart, brave, and loyal—qualities that he shares with his rider, the young Lord Jaxom. Unfortunately, Jaxom is also looked down upon by his fellow lords, and by other riders as well. His dreams of joining the dragonriders in defending Pern are dismissed. What else can Jaxom and Ruth do but strike out on their own, pursuing in secret all they are denied? But in doing so, the two friends will find themselves facing a desperate choice—one that will push their bond to the breaking point . . . and threaten the future of Pern itself.
Complete one of the following tasks:
📘Read book with a white cover
📘Read a book tagged friends
📘Read an Anne McCaffrey book
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✅ Book 14 - DragonsingerBook: Break on Through: The Life and Death of Jim Morrison
Author: James Riordan
Date Read: July 27th
Task: Read a book tagged music
How it Fits: MPG is Music
✅ Book 15 - The Smallest Dragon Boy
Book: Glow Kids: How Screen Addiction Is Hijacking Our Kids -- And How to Break the Trance
Author: Nicholas Kardaras
Date Read: July 25th
Task: Read a book with a short character
How it Fits: Many children characters
✅ Book 16 - The White Dragon
Book: Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything
Author: B.J. Fogg
Date Read: July 26th
Task: Read book with a white cover
How it Fits:
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As Menolly uncovers magic and intrigue, mischievous Piemur discovers the rhythm of adventure in the final book in the Harper Hall trilogy, set within science fiction legend Anne McCaffrey’s beloved and bestselling Dragonriders of Pern series.
Mischievous Piemur is used to getting away with a lot. He has one of the most impressive voices at Harper Hall and, in the world of Pern, there are few things more important than the ability to sing and write songs. But when his voice begins to change, Piemur loses all confidence and questions everything he thought he knew about himself.
No longer capable of singing, Piemur is sent on various errands by Masterharper Robinton, including the task of learning the complicated beats of the messenger drums. Piemur has no clue of the grand adventures that await him, and he’ll need to find the courage within himself to survive.
Complete one of the following tasks:
📘Read a book tagged adventure
📘Read a book with a singer
📘Read an Anne McCaffrey book
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An air of pleasant anticipation hung so thickly over the Halls, Holds, and Weyrs of Pern that it had affected even the businesslike ways of Moreta, the Weyrwoman of Fort Weyr. Her dragon, Queen Orlith, would soon clutch; spring had made a glorious debut; the Gather at Ruatha Hold was extremely merry; and Moreta was enjoying the attentions of Alessan, the new Lord Holder of Ruatha Hold. With only eight Turns remaining before the deadly Thread would cease to Fall, all seemed well on Pern. Then, without warning, a runnerbeast fell ill. Soon myriads of holders, craftsmen, and dragonriders were dying; and the mysterious ailment had spread to all but the most inaccessible holds. Pern was in mortal danger. For, if dragonriders did not rise to char Thread, the parasite would devour any and all organic life it encountered. The future of the planet rested in the hands of Moreta and the other dedicated, selfless Pern leaders. But of all their problems, the most difficult to overcome was time.…
Complete one of the following tasks:
📘Read a book with a queen
📘Read a book where someone dies
📘Read an Anne McCaffrey book
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Everyone, holder and dragonrider alike, pitched in to help--except Nerilka's father, who refused to share Fort Hold's bounty with the other holds. So, ashamed of her family and determined to do her part, Nerilka packed up medicines and supplies and sneaked off to aid her people.Her quest to help wherever she was most needed led her finally to Ruatha Hold, where Lord Alessan was frantically inoculations against the dread plague.
Nerilika had long ago abandoned the hope of marriage and a home of her own. Now she found happiness in being useful and appreciated---first the Healers and then Alessan made very clear that they were grateful for her help.
She had no idea that her new path would change the course of her life forever.
Complete one of the following tasks:
📘Read a book with a selfish character (your interpretation)
📘Read a book where someone helps others
📘Read an Anne McCaffrey book
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✅ Book 17 - Dragondrums Book: Really Saying Something: Sara & Keren – Our Bananarama Story
Author: Sara Dallin
Date Read: July 30th
Task: Read a book with a singer
How it Fits: The book is about 2 singers from the band Bananarama
✅ Book 18 - Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern
Book: The Ultimate Legacy: A Novel
Author: Jim Stovall
Date Read: Aug 1st
Task: Read a book where someone dies
How it Fits: An old lady dies & the book goes through the completion of her will
✅ Book 19 - Nerilka's Story
Book: Overthinking About You: Navigating Romantic Relationships When You Have Anxiety, OCD, and/or Depression
Author: Allison Raskin
Date Read: July 27th
Task: Read a book with a selfish character
How it Fits: Selfish partner
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The beautiful planet Pern seemed a paradise to its new colonists—until unimaginable terror turned it into hell. Suddenly deadly spores were falling like silver threads from the sky, devouring everything—and everyone—on their path. It began to look as if the colony, cut off from Earth and lacking the resources to combat the menace, was doomed.
Then some of the colonists noticed that the small, dragonlike lizards that inhabited their new world were joining the fight against Thread, breathing fire on it and teleporting to safety. If only, they thought, the dragonets were big enough for a human to ride and intelligent enough to work as a team with a rider…
And so they set their most talented geneticist to work to create the creatures Pern so desperately needed—Dragons!
Complete one of the following tasks:
📘Read a book with fire on the cover
📘Read a book with a talented character (your interpretation)
📘Read an Anne McCaffrey book
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As long as the people of Pern could remember, the Holds had protected them from Thread, the deadly silver strands that fell from the sky and ravaged the land. In exchange for sanctuary in the huge stone fortresses, the people tithed to their Lord Holders, who in turn supported the Weyrs, whose dragons were Pern's greatest weapon against Thread. But not everyone on Pern was part of that system of mutual care and protection, particularly those who had been rendered holdless as punishment for wrongdoing. And there were some, like Jayge's trader clan, who simply preferred the freedom of the roads to the security of a hold. Others, like Aramina's family, had lost their holds through injustice and cruelty. For all the holdless, life was a constant struggle for survival.
Then, from the ranks of the criminals and the disaffected, rose a band of renegades, led by the Lady Thella. No one was safe from Thella's depredations, and now her quarry was Aramina, reputed to have a telepathic link with dragons. But when Thella mistakenly vented her rage on Jayge's family, she made a dangerous mistake. For Jayge was bent on revenge . . . and he would never let her have the girl who heard dragons!
Complete one of the following tasks:
📘Read a book with all the letters of JAYGE in the title/subtitle
📘Read a book with the author's initials in Aramina
📘Read an Anne McCaffrey book
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For generations, the dragonriders had dedicated their lives to fighting Thread, the dreaded spores that periodically rained from the sky to ravage the land. On the backs of their magnificent telepathic dragons they flew to flame the deadly stuff out of the air before it could reach the planet's surface. But the greatest dream of the dragon riders was to find a way to eradicate Thread completely, so that never again would their beloved Pern be threatened with destruction.
Now, for the first time, it looked as if that dream could come true. For when the people of Pern, led by Masterharper Robinton and F'Lar and Lessa, Weyrleader and Weyrwoman of Benden Weyr, excavated the ancient remains of the planet's original settlement, they uncovered the colonist's voice-activated artificial intelligence system - which still functioned!
And the computer had incredible news for them: There was a chance - a good chance - that they could, at long last, annihilate Thread once and for all!
Complete one of the following tasks:
📘Read a book with a planet on the cover
📘Read a book with all the letters THREAD in the title
📘Read an Anne McCaffrey book
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✅ Book 20 - DragonsdawnBook: Dr. George Washington Carver: Scientist
Author: Shirley Graham du Bois
Date Read: Aug 1st
Task: Read a book with a talented character
How it Fits: He was a very talented scientist.
✅ Book 21 - The Renegades of Pern
Book: 15 Things You Should Give Up to Be Happy: An Inspiring Guide to Discovering Effortless Joy
Author: Luminita D. Saviuc
Date Read: Aug 6th
Task: Read a book with all the letters of JAYGE in the title & subtitle
How it Fits: 15 things You should Give up to bE hAppy: an inspiring guide to discovering effortless Joy
✅ Book 22 - The Weyrs of Pern
Book: The Nature of Leadership: Reptiles, Mammals, And the Challenge of Becoming a Great Leader
Author: B. Joseph White
Date Read: Aug 2nd
Task: Read a book with all the letters THREAD in the title
How it Fits: tHe nATare of leaDERship
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When the first humans came to settle the planet Pern, they did not come alone: intelligence-enhanced dolphins also crossed the stars to colonize Pern’s oceans while their human partners settled the vast continents. But then disaster struck. The deadly silver spores called Thread fell like rain from the sky, and as the human colonists’ dreams of a new, idyllic life shattered into a desperate struggle for survival, the dolphins were forgotten.
Now, centuries later, as the dragonriders of Pern prepare to complete the momentous task of ridding their world of Thread forever, T’lion, a young bronze rider, and his friend Readis, son of the Lord Holder of Paradise River Hold, make contact with the legendary “shipfish.” And as the dragonriders grapple with the end of an era, T’lion, Readis, and the dolphins face the start of a new one: reviving the bond between land- and ocean-dwellers—and resurrecting the dreams of the first colonists of Pern.
Complete one of the following tasks:
📘Read a book with dolphins or other ocean-dwellers
📘Read a book that takes place mostly on or in water
📘Read an Anne McCaffrey book
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In Anne McCaffrey's New York Times bestselling DRAGONSEYE,
join Weyrleaders, Holders, and Craftmasters in the creation of the legendary Star Stones and the teaching ballads of Pern!
It's been two-hundred years since the deadly Thread fell like rain upon Pern, devouring everything in its path. No one alive remembers that first horrific onslaught and no one believes in its return--except for the dragonriders. For two centuries they have been practicing and training, passing down from generation to generation the formidable Threadfighting techniques.
Now the ominous signs are the violent winter storms and volcanic eruptions that are said to herald the approach of the Red Star and its lethal spawn. But one stubborn Lord Holder, Chalkin of Bitra, refuses to believe--and that disbelief could spell disaster. So as the dragonriders desperately train to face a terrifying enemy, they and the other Lord Holders must find a way to deal with Chalkin--before history repeats itself and unleashes its virulence on all of Pern. . . .
Complete one of the following tasks:
📘Read a book with a natural disaster (volcanic eruption, flood, etc) in the story
📘Read a book with 200+ pages
📘Read an Anne McCaffrey book
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MasterSinger Merelan and Harper Petiron were a brilliant and devoted couple. Merelan was the most outstanding soprano ever heard on Pern, and was often the only one who could master Petiron's technically accomplished compositions. When, after a long and difficult birth, Robinton was born to them, it should have been the culmination of a unique partnership.
But Petiron, almost from the first day, had no time for his son, refusing to see the incredible talent the boy possessed, ignoring his achievements and maintaining a strict and disapproving vigilance over him at all times.
Carefully, secretly, the Harper Hall took over, training the greatest talent Pern had ever seen - a talent that was more than just musical, for Robinton was able to talk to the dragons of Pern.
As constant sadness beset his personal life, so a startling career sent him like a meteor through the Holds and Weyrs of Pern until, as MasterHarper, he became part of the great plan to rescue Lessa from the brutal rule of Holder Fax - Lessa, who was to be the saviour of the dragons of Pern.
Complete one of the following tasks:
📘Read a book with a couple on the cover
📘Read a book where someone is rescued
📘Read an Anne McCaffrey book
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✅ Book 23 - The Dolphins of PernBook: Eloquence of the Sardine: Extraordinary Encounters Beneath the Sea
Author: Bill François
Date Read: Aug 11th
Task: Read a book with ocean-dwellers
How it Fits: It's a book about creatures of the sea
✅ Book 24 - Dragonseye
Book: Chillpreneur: The New Rules for Creating Success, Freedom, and Abundance on Your Terms
Author: Denise Duffield-Thomas
Date Read: Aug 7th
Task: Read a book with 200+ pages
How it Fits: 304 pages
✅ Book 25 - The Masterharper of Pern
Book: Barefoot Running: How to Run Light and Free by Getting in Touch with the Earth
Author: Michael Sandler
Date Read: Aug 11th
Task: Read a book with a couple on the cover
How it Fits:
Mod
It is a time of hope and regret, of endings and beginnings. The Red Star, that celestial curse whose eccentric orbit was responsible for Thread, has been shifted to a harmless orbit, and the current Threadfall will be the last. Technological marvels are changing the face of life on Pern, and the dragonriders, led by F’lessan, son of F’lar and Lessa and rider of bronze Golanth, and Tia, rider of green Zaranth, must forge a new place for themselves in a world that may no longer need them.
But change is not easy for everyone. There are those who will stop at nothing to keep Pern and its people pure. And now a brand-new danger looms from the skies and threatens a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions. Once again, the world looks to the dragons and their riders to save the world. But now, as the friendship of F’lessan and Tia begins to bloom into something more, unforeseen tragedy strikes: a tragedy destined to forever change the future–not just of the two young lovers, but of every human and dragon on Pern . . .
Complete one of the following tasks:
📘Read a book with a red or green cover
📘Read a book that starts with a letter in DANGER
📘Read an Anne McCaffrey book
Mod
The son of a miner, Kindan has no expectations for any other life. He loves his lessons with the camp’s harper, but music isn’t part of a miner’s future. He also enjoys helping out with the camp’s watch-wher— a creature distantly related to dragons and uniquely suited to work in dark, cold spaces—but even that important job can’t promise a future above the ground. Then disaster strikes. In one terrible instant, Kindan loses his family and the camp loses its watch-wher. It will take a new friendship and a new responsibility to teach Kindan that even a seemingly impossible dream is never out of reach . . . and that light can be found in the deepest darkness.
Complete one of the following tasks:
📘Read a book with a miner
📘Read a book with the word KIN in the text
📘Read an Anne McCaffrey book
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Hello Anne McCaffrey fans!
This is a mega-sized individual self-paced challenge based on 84 books written by Anne McCaffrey. There will be 2 tasks (plus the optional one to read one of Anne McCaffrey's books) to choose from for each book but you only have to complete one to move on to the next book.
Each time you complete a task, you will post it here in YOUR OWN THREAD. Please copy the following example for your Completion Post.
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Challenge Rules:
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📘Your first prompt will be posted on January 1, 2024.
📘Books must be completed after the task has been posted.