The Rowan
Rowan/Damia Series: Book #1
- By: Anne McCaffrey
- Narrated by: Jean Reed Bahle
- Length: 9 hours 48 minutes
Description
Told in the timeless style of Anne McCaffrey, The Rowan is the first installment in a wonderful trilogy. This is sci-fi at its best: a contemporary love story as well as an engrossing view of our world in the future.
The kinetically gifted, trained in mind/machine gestalt, are the most valued citizens of the Nine Star League. Using mental powers alone, these few Prime Talents transport ships, cargo and people between Earth's Moon, Mars' Demos and Jupiter's Callisto.
An orphaned young girl, simply called The Rowan, is discovered to have superior telepathic potential and is trained to become Prime Talent on Callisto. After years of self-sacrificing dedication to her position, The Rowan intercepts an urgent mental call from Jeff Raven, a young Prime Talent on distant Deneb. She convinces the other Primes to merge their powers with hers to help fight off an attack by invading aliens. Her growing relationship with Jeff gives her the courage to break her status-imposed isolation, and choose the more rewarding world of love and family.
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Rowan/Damia Series Series

The Rowan
By: Anne McCaffrey
Narrated by: Jean Reed Bahle
Length: 9 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Told in the timeless style of Anne McCaffrey, The Rowan is the first installment in a wonderful trilogy. This is sci-fi at its best: a contemporary love story as well as an engrossing view of our world in the future.
The kinetically gifted, trained in mind/machine gestalt, are the most valued citizens of the Nine Star League. Using mental powers... Read more »
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Damia
By: Anne McCaffrey
Narrated by: Jean Reed Bahle
Length: 11 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
The Rowan was one of the greatest telepaths ever born, treasured by the people she saved from alien invasion—and loved by a young man who never hoped to win her heart. In spite of his feelings, Afra remained loyal to the Rowan. He stayed by her side and helped to raise her Talented daughter, Damia. Now years later, Damia is a full-grown Talent... Read more »
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Damia's Children
By: Anne McCaffrey
Narrated by: Jean Reed Bahle
Length: 8 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
In Damia's Children, one of science fiction and fantasy's most beloved novelists, Anne McCaffrey, continues the story of psychic Talent begun with The Rowan and Damia. The Rowan's next generation of passionate and talented descendants prepare to defend their worlds against an alien attack of mysterious origin.
Damia had deflected a previous... Read more »
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Lyon's Pride
By: Anne McCaffrey
Narrated by: Jean Reed Bahle
Length: 9 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
The beautiful woman called The Rowan was the most powerful telepath on all the planets of the Alliance—until the birth of her daughter, Damia. Damia and her husband, Afra Lyon, were the most extraordinary team of telepaths the Alliance had ever seen—until the powers of their children began to emerge.
Now the combined power of all these... Read more »
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The Tower and the Hive
By: Anne McCaffrey
Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
Length: 9 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
For generations, the descendants of the powerful telepath known as the Rowan have used their various talents to help mankind - some are telepaths, others can teleport through space, others are empathic healers. The clan has grown powerful. They have led Earth to ally itself with the alien Mrdini, and together the two races have held back the... Read more »
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