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A court of thorns and roses volume 5
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Nesta Archeron has always been prickly-proud, swift to anger, and slow to forgive. And ever since being forced into the Cauldron and becoming High Fae against her will, she's struggled to find a place for herself within the strange, deadly world she inhabits. Worse, she can't seem to move past the horrors of the war with Hybern and all she lost in it. The one person who ignites her temper more than any other is Cassian, the battle-scarred warrior...
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Remembrance of Earth's past volume 1
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"With the scope of Dune and the commercial action of Independence Day, this near-future trilogy is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience this multiple-award-winning phenomenon from China's most beloved science fiction author. Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the...
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Angel in the whirlwind volume 2
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
2016.
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406 pages ; 21 cm.
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"Now a celebrated war hero, Captain Kat Falcone is back at the helm of HMS Lightning and up against near-impossible odds. After an ill-timed outburst almost ends her career, Kat is handed command of a deep-strike mission into enemy space. The objective is to gather intelligence and distract the hostile Theocracy while the Commonwealth prepares its counteroffensive. The chances for success are slim and for survival even slimmer"--Back cover.
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H.G. Wells' "scientific romance," published first in serial form and then as a book in 1898, attained perhaps its greatest fame in another form, the infamous realistic 1939 radio broadcast "Invasion from Mars" by Orson Welles. It was also made into an early 1950s science fiction adventure movie. Stover (emeritus, Illinois Institute of Technology) describes Wells' story as "a prophecy of startling originality foreseeing the coming of totalitarianism...
5) Fourth wing
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Empyrean volume 1
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Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general--also known as her tough-as-talons mother--has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. But when you're smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away...because dragons don't bond to "fragile" humans....
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Stormlight archive volume 2
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The war with the Parshendi moves into a new, dangerous phase, as Dalinar leads the human armies deep into the heart of the Shattered Plains. Meanwhile Shallan searches for the legendary city of Urithuru, and Kaladin, leader of the restored Knights Radiant, masters the powers of a Windrunner.
7) Iron flame
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Empyrean volume 2
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Everyone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her first year at Basgiath War College--Violet included. But Threshing was only the first impossible test meant to weed out the weak-willed, the unworthy, and the unlucky. Now the real training begins, and Violet's already wondering how she'll get through. It's not just that it's grueling and maliciously brutal, or even that it's designed to stretch the riders' capacity for pain beyond endurance. It's...
8) Red metal
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Berkley
Pub. Date
2019.
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xiv, 638 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
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A desperate Kremlin takes advantage of a military crisis in Asia to simultaneously strike into Western Europe and invade east Africa in a bid to occupy three rare Earth mineral mines that will give Russia unprecedented control over the world's hi-tech sector for generations to come. Pitted against the Russians are a Marine lieutenant colonel pulled out of a cushy Pentagon job, a French Special Forces captain and his intelligence operative father,...
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Blood and Ash volume 4
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"Casteel Da'Neer knows all too well that very few are as cunning or vicious as the Blood Queen...Nothing will stop Poppy from freeing her King and destroying everything the Blood Crown stands for...Together, Poppy and Casteel must embrace traditions old and new to safeguard those they hold dear...But war is only the beginning. Ancient primal powers have already stirred, revealing the horror of what began eons ago. To end what the Blood Queen has begun,...
10) Forever peace
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Forever series (Joe W. Haldeman) volume 2
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Ace Books
Pub. Date
1997
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326 p. ; 24 cm.
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Shadow Campaigns volume 2
Publisher
Roc
Pub. Date
[2014]
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viii, 500 pages : illustration ; 24 cm.
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About to become Queen Regnant in the wake of her father's death, Raesinia Orboan must beware of the ambitious men who will wish to control her, and the throne.
12) Coming home
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Alex Benedict novels volume 7
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2014.
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358 pages ; 24 cm.
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An antiquities dealer travels to Earth to search for an artifact of the early space age and to search for an interstellar transport that vanished 11 years prior.
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World War Z is a fictional account of a worldwide outbreak of the living dead in the near future. WWZ is done in an interview-style format with each chapter consisting of first-person interviews of individuals who lived through the Zombie War from its initial outbreak to it's final battles and mop-up operations.
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Worldwar saga. Worldwar series volume 4
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1996
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ix, 465 p. ; 25 cm.
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The final volume of an alternative World War II which is abruptly halted when Earth is invaded by lizard-like creatures from outer space. The former enemies join forces to save the planet, and in this volume the war ends in a truce with the invaders allowed to stay and colonize a part of Earth.
15) The immortals
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Edge chronicles. Original series volume 10
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David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
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668 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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Nate Quarter, a lowly lamplighter in the phraxmines of the Eastern Woods, must flee for his life when the mine sargeant wants him killed, while elsewhere, a storm unlike any ever seen is building.
16) The City
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Ace Books
Pub. Date
2013
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520 pages ; 24 cm
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Shuskara engages in a final battle with the seemingly eternal emperor of The City in an effort to stop the endless wars with local tribes.
17) The tyrant's law
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Dagger and the coin volume 3
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2013
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513 p. : map ; 24 cm.
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In the great war, tyrant Geder Palliako will do anything to bring peace, banker Cithrin finds herself in the path of danger, Clara has become a traitor, and Captain Marcus Wester tracks an ancient secret that could change the result.
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Shadow Campaigns volume 1
Publisher
ROC
Pub. Date
[2013]
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viii, 513 pages : map ; 24 cm.
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Winter Ihernglass poses as a man to enlist in the Vordanai Colonials and must form an allegiance with a new colonel, appointed by the king to restore order, after she is promoted to a command post.
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Coven volume 3
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Tor
Pub. Date
2020.
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416 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
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"War has come to Fireach Speur. The once forgotten Xoconai empire has declared war upon the humans west of the mountains, and their first target are the people of Loch Beag. Lead by the peerless Tzatzini, all that stands in the way of the God Emperor's grasp of power is Aoelyn, Talmadge, and their few remaining allies. But not all hope is lost. Far away from Fireach Speuer, an ancient tomb is uncovered by Brother Thaddeus of the Abellican Church....
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Nicci chronicles volume 4
Pub. Date
2020.
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"In the wake of the brutal war that swept the Old World in Siege of Stone, a new danger is forming along the coast. Taken captive by their enemies, King Grieve, along with Lila and Bannon are about to discover the terrifying force that threatens to bringdestruction to the Old World. The Norukai, barbarian raiders and slavers, have been gathering an immense fleet among the inhospitably rocky islands that make up their home. With numbers greater than...
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