Steve Shilstone

The Bekka Chronicles

1 - Bekka of Thorns (Jun-2010)
2 - Carven Flute (Mar-2011)
3 - Rakara (May-2011)

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  Chance
  

  • Apr-2000
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  Wondering whether Nabokov might have left any unpublished manuscripts behind and if so, did they have baseball themes? If anyone reading this knows the answer, please check the files to see if there's a manuscript for a novel named Chance. . . . It's...

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  Bekka of Thorns
  

  • Jun-2010
  • / General Fiction
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  The Bekka Chronicles - 1
  

  On the world of Boad, Bekka and Karro of Thorns, a pair of young hedge-dwellers, dare to leave the tunnels and bowers of home to seek adventure in the Woeful Wanderers' Wasteland and uncover the lost city of Rumin -- a strange choice for members of t...

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  Carven Flute
  

  • Mar-2011
  • / General Fiction
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  The Bekka Chronicles - 2
  

  In her second chronicle, Bekka of Thorns, hedge-dwelling bendo dreen, or bramble dwarf, and her shapeshifting sorceress jrabe best friend Kar journey to break through the Barrier blocking the Danken Wood on the world of Boad. They are on a mission to...

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  Rakara
  

  • May-2011
  • / General Fiction
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  The Bekka Chronicles - 3
  

  In RAKARA, Book Three of The Bekka Chronicles, on the world of Boad, Bekka and her lifelong best friend Kar accept a challenge to descend through many Realms solving puzzles and riddles until they reach the Realm Beyond Realms, where Kar, with no hel...

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  The Woodlock
  

  • Aug-2011
  • / Fantasy
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  In the 4th story of The Bekka Chronicles, a time-traveling shapeshiftress sends Bekka of Thorns 1000 years into the past to perform a task. What task? The frustrated Bekka is unsure and blames the shapeshiftress for failing to give her enough instruc...

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  The Blue Hills
  

  • Jul-2012
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  In Book #5 of The Bekka Chronicles, Bekka of Thorns awakens one morning to complete silence. She looks around and notices that the only magic item she possesses, The Carven Flute, is a dead wooden brown in color instead of its usual flush yellow pink...

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  The Wicked Wand
  

  • Apr-2013
  • / Fantasy
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  Bekka, in your 6th chronicle, The Wicked Wand, please heed the warning of your best friend Kar. Be satisfied with your new collection of 22 magic rings. Don’t try to find the hiding place of the Wand just because it, too, now belongs to you. It’s...

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  Quen Nim
  

  • Sep-2013
  • / Fantasy
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  Nimble Missst, shapeshifting Cloud Castle City princess, rages against her betrothal to the ridiculous Blossom Prince, Zootch. Reluctantly bound to duty, she agrees to go through with the marriage, but always in her snapjaw mind she devises plans of ...

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  Vineyard's Children
  

  • Nov-2013
  • / General Fiction
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  In the late 1970s, in the Northern California wine country, a hippie commune known as Vineyard has evolved from sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll into a working farm and winery. Ten-year-old JC, short for Joyful Child, a name he naturally despises, is a de...

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  Jesterbeasts
  

  • Nov-2014
  • / Fantasy
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  Bekka Ja Harick, lavender witch on the world of Boad, decides to leave 20 of her magic rings behind when she travels to visit her best friend Kar on Fan Waââ,¬â"¢s Island. She wants to practice casting spells without the temptation of using a ring. ...

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  Plumly
  

  • Mar-2016
  • / Fantasy
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  Given the name Plumly and dyed pale blue by the good lavender witch, a ten-year-old girl from the mountains of California is plunked down alone in the Orrun foothills on the world of Boad, where she is expected to find a story within forty days to pr...

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  The Snows of Charborr Forest
  

  • / Science Fiction
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  Neverending snow falls gently, steadily, on the Charborr Forest. It is prophesied that when the highest black needle on the highest black branch of the tallest black tree is buried, the entire black forest will burst into writhing purple flames, dead...

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