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2) Invasion
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Secret world chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Baen
Language
English
Description
When Nazis in mechanized suits begin wreaking havoc, it is up to the best-intentioned metahumans--people with superhuman powers--to stop them.
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Series
Karres novels volume 3
Publisher
Baen Books
Language
English
Description
After Captain Pausert and two Karres witches, Goth and The Leewit, realize they are being tracked by unknown forces in the Chaladoor region of space, Goth travels back in time to meet Pausert as a young boy, while, in present time, Pausert and The Leewitface a desperate situation.
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Series
Cobra war volume 1
Publisher
Baen Pub. Enterprises
Language
English
Description
Just as most people are thinking that the Cobra warriors--a guerilla force whose weapons are surgically implanted--are not worth their high cost, a new menace emerges that even the formidable Cobra warriors may not be able to defeat.
6) The hot gate
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Series
Troy rising volume 3
Publisher
Baen Books
Language
English
Description
Tyler Vernon and his troops aboard the gigantic battle station "Troy" face a desperate battle with the forces of galactic tyranny. And the very survival of the Earth and its people is not all that is at stake. The galaxy itself must choose to live free or die--and if the tyrants win this battle, darkness will fall across the galaxy for millennia to come.
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Liaden universe novels volume 13
Publisher
Baen
Language
English
Description
Just as her powerful husband, the Delm of Korval, is about to whisk her away from the dangers of the Liad, Aelliana's family objects and she finds there is much more to the man she loves that she ever imagined--and that her escape from the Liad is part of a much larger plan.
8) Time spike
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English
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THE DEADLIEST PREDATORS OF THREE SEPARATE EONS Captain Andy Blacklock was overseeing the change of shifts at the state of Illinois' maximum-security prison when the world outside was suddenly ripped. They thought it was an earthquake until they found that the Mississippi River had disappeared, along with all signs of civilization. Then the sun came up-in the wrong direction. And a dinosaur came by and scratched its hide against the wall of the prison...
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"Book Fourteen in the best-selling Vorkosigan series. Captain Ivan Vorpatril is happy with his relatively uneventful bachelor's life of a staff officer to a Barrayaran admiral. Ivan, cousin to Imperial troubleshooter Miles Vorkosigan, is not far down the hereditary list for the emperorship. Thankfully, new heirs have directed that headache elsewhere, leaving Ivan to enjoy his life on Komarr, far from the Byzantine court politics of his home system....
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Publisher
Baen
Language
English
Description
Escaping the prison laboratory where he grew up, technologically enhanced Jon Moore teams up with intelligent assault vehicle Lobo to help less fortunate people before he is aggressively pursued by private armies, a clever courtesan, and an amoral scientist.
14) Endless blue
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English
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The appearance of the warp drive from the long lost Fenrir spaceship triggers an epic quest for Captain Mikhail Volkov. According to the drive's computers, Fenrir had been lost to hypothetical 'nowhere' of subspace, but with the drive's housing covered with coral and sea life, obviously Fenrir has gone somewhere. Faced with genocide at the hands of the alien Nefrim, humans need a miracle to survive. On the chance that Fenrir's mysterious location...
15) Manxome foe
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Series
Looking glass (John Ringo) volume 3
Language
English
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Description
The crew of the Alliance space ship Vorpal Blade goes back into action when news arrives that a gate colony has fallen to an unidentified alien invasion, heading out to find out what happened to the colony, rescue survivors, and uncover the attackers' identity.
16) Mission of honor
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Series
Honor Harrington novels. Main series volume 12
Publisher
Baen
Language
English
Description
As the Republic of Haven, the Solarian League, and other hidden enemies bear down on the Star Kingdom of Manticore, Honor Harrington must do all she can to prevent billions of people from being killed in an all-out galactic war.
18) The ruby dice
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Saga of the Skolian Empire volume 12
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English
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Nebula Award winner Catherine Asaro's tales of the Skolian Empire have earned tremendous acclaim and a devoted following. War between the Eubian Concord and the Skolians has devastated the galaxy before. Now another epic clash is brewing, and the leaders of both empires might be powerless to stop it. Further complicating matters, both men hide shocking secrets that could spell their doom.
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Humans-there's no understanding them, and no dealing with them either. Or even their planet. Pity the poor aliens, whose shape-changing ability should let them take over the planet Earth before the humans even know they're there-if it weren't for all that omnipresent pollution.
Or consider another set of invaders, from a planet where the weather is always mild and the changing of the seasons is hardly noticeable. They land in force and their weapons...
Author
Series
Star Kingdom novels volume 1
Publisher
Baen Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Stephanie Harrington, a genetically-enhanced girl on the pioneer planet of Sphinx, bonds with a treecat, a telepathic and fully sentient animal, putting her in danger from highly placed enemies who want to ensure that the planet remains entirely in human hands.
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