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Alta: Joust #2
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Astra Publishing House 2005
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In the second novel in national best-selling legend Mercedes Lackey's richly-conceived new Joust series, the dragonrider Vetch escapes to Alta, the subjugated land of his birth.  There, he hopes to teach his people to raise and train dragons-and build an army that will liberate his homeland.
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Mercedes Lackey. (2005). Alta: Joust #2. Astra Publishing House.

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Mercedes Lackey. 2005. Alta: Joust #2. Astra Publishing House.

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Mercedes Lackey, Alta: Joust #2. Astra Publishing House, 2005.

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Mercedes Lackey. Alta: Joust #2. Astra Publishing House, 2005.

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        Lackey is the author of
        Exile's Valor (Forecasts, Oct. 27, 2003) and many other novels in her Valdemar series.

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