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Vatta's war volume 3
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English
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Kylara Vatta draws on her killer instinct for business and battle after her parents are killed and the Vatta shipping empire is destroyed, pushing Kylara to find those responsible and get revenge.
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Lightbringer series (Brent Weeks) volume 2
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English
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Gavin Guile is dying. He'd thought he had five years left--now he has less than one. With fifty thousand refugees, a bastard son, and an ex-fianc e who may have learned his darkest secret, Gavin has problems on every side. All magic in the world is running wild and threatens to destroy the Seven Satrapies. Worst of all, the old gods are being reborn, and their army of color wights is unstoppable. The only salvation may be the brother whose freedom...
3) Empire
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Empire novels (Orson Scott Card) volume 1
Pub. Date
2006.
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IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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The American Empire is growing too fast, and the fault lines at home are stressed to the breaking point. The war of words between Right and Left has collapsed into a shooting war, though most people just want to be left alone. The battle rages between the high-technology weapons on one side and militia foot soldiers on the other, devastating the cities and overrunning the countryside. But the vast majority, who only want the killing to stop and the...
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After an alien race called the Shongari virtually conquers Earth, Master Sergeant Stephen Buchevsky and the rest of the humans must forge an alliance with Earth's vampires, who, once the enemies of the humans, now are willing to make amends--to defend the home planet they have in common.
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The burning volume 1
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English
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The Omehi people have been fighting an unwinnable war for almost two hundred years. The lucky ones are born gifted. One in every two thousand women has the power to call down dragons. One in every hundred men is able to magically transform himself into a bigger, stronger, faster killing machine. Everyone else is fodder, destined to fight and die in the endless war. Young, gift-less Tau knows all this, but he has a plan of escape. He's going to get...
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Vatta's war volume 5
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English
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Kylara Vatta has one final opportunity to muster the forces to destroy forever her enemy's power and to restore her family's name.
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"The Shongairi conquered Earth. In mere minutes, half the human race died, and its cities lay in shattered ruins. But the Shongairi didn't expect the survivors' tenacity. And, crucially, they didn't know that Earth harbored two species of intelligent, tool-using bipeds. One of them was us. The other, long-lived and lethal, was hiding in the mountains of eastern Europe, the subject of fantasy and legend. When they emerged and made alliance with humankind,...
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Discworld volume 29
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IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
690L
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English
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Ever since her brother Paul marched off to battle a year ago, Polly Perks has been running The Duchess, her family's inn, even though the revered national deity, Nuggan, has decreed that female ownership of a business is an Abomination. To keep The Duchess in the family, Polly must find her missing sibling. So she cuts off her hair, dons masculine garb, and sets out to join him in this man's army.
10) The heroes
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First Law World volume 2
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English
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Over three bloody days of battle, the fate of the North will be decided. But with both sides riddled by intrigues, follies, feuds and petty jealousies, it is unlikely to be the noblest hearts, or even the strongest arms that prevail. Three men. One battle. No heroes.
11) Nightchaser
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Captain Tess Bailey and her crew of Robin Hood-like thieves are desperate and on the run. Pursued by a vicious military general who wants them dead or alive, Tess has to decide if she can trust Shade Ganavan, a tall, dark and arrogant stranger with ambiguous motivations. What Tess and Shade don't know about each other might get them killed...unless they can set aside their differences and learn to trust each other--while ignoring their off-the-charts...
12) Kings rising
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Captive prince trilogy volume 3
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English
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After it is revealed that Damen is really Damianos of Akielos, he must join forces with his rival Prince Laurent if they are to defeat the Regent and reclaim the throne.
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Shadowdance novels volume 4
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English
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""Prove that you can stand against the darkness and live." Haern is the King's Watcher, born an assassin only to become the city of Veldaren's protector against the thief guilds. When Lord Victor Kane attacks the city, determined to stamp out all corruption, foreign gangs pour in amidst the chaos in an attempt to overthrow the current lords of the underworld. And when a mysterious killer known as the Widow begins mutilating thieves, paranoia engulfs...
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IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
960L
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The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes...
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STUDENTS OF HONOR . . .
The Star Kingdom of Manticore is once again at war with the Republic of Haven after a stunning sneak attack. The graduating class from Saganami Island, the Royal Manticoran Navy's academy, are going straight from the classroom to the blazing reality of all-out war.
Except for the midshipmen assigned to the heavy cruiser HMS Hexapuma, that is. They're being assigned to the Talbott Cluster, an out of the way backwater,
...16) We few
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Left stranded on the barbarian planet Marduk with a group of Royal Marines, Prince Roger MacClintock and his followers set out to recapture an interstellar empire from enemies who have branded Roger a traitor and outlaw.
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Honor Harrington novels. Main series volume 14
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"After the League, committing atrocities such as the galaxy has not known in a thousand years, kills many of the people she loves, Honor Harrington, a.k.a. the Salamander, is about to show the League members something they could have never imagined"--
18) Hidden empire
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Saga of seven suns volume 1
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English
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The three branches of humanity consider themselves the lords of creation, but when they discover a machine that can convert giant gas planets into life-giving suns, they believe the universe is their's to colonize, but the result of their new technology is more hideous than they ever thought possible.
19) Dreamspinner
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Searching for a master swordsman who will save her evil-plagued land, Aisling of Bruadair, whose life is forfeit if she fails, finds an unexpected candidate in a wounded elven prince masquerading as a soldier and forges an unprecedented alliance. By the author of The Mage's Daughter.
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Honor Harrington novels. Main series volume 6
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English
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For Captain Honor Harrington, it's sometimes hard to know who the enemy really is. Despite political foes, professional jealousies, and the scandal which drove her into exile, she's been offered a chance to reclaim her career as an officer of the Royal Manticoran Navy, But there's a catch: She must assume command of a "squadron" of jury-rigged armed merchantmen with crew drawn from the dregs of the galaxy.
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