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61) Bloodline
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Series
Language
English
Description
A prequel to Star Wars: The Force Awakens, set roughly six years before the events of the film.
When the Rebellion defeated the Empire, Leia Organa believed it was the beginning to a lasting peace. Now a respected senator, Leia must grapple with the dangers that threaten to cripple the fledgling democracy-- from both within and without. Desperate to take action, senators are calling for the election of a First Senator. It is their hope that this...
62) Valiant dust
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Series
Breaker of empires volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
Commonwealth starship CSS Hector. As the ship's new gunnery officer and only Kashmiri, he must constantly prove himself better than his Aquilan crewmates, even if he has to use his fists. When the Hector is called to help with a planetary uprising, he'll have to earn his unit's respect, find who's arming the rebels, and deal with the headstrong daughter of the colonial ruler - all while dodging bullets...
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Series
Fleet school volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Dabeet Ochoa is a very smart kid. He's top of his class in every school, but he doesn't think he has a chance at Fleet School, because he has no connections to the Fleet. But then Colonel Graff arrives at his school for an interview, and everything changes.
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English
Description
"For the past year, their close loss in the annual Boarding Games has haunted Interceptor Team: Zuma's Ghost. With this year's competition looming, they're looking forward to some payback--until an unexpected personnel change leaves them reeling. Their best swordsman has been transferred, and a new lieutenant has been assigned in his place. Maxine Carmichael is trying to carve a place in the world on her own--away from the pressure and influence of...
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Series
Star Wars novels. Film novelizations volume 7
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
The official novelization of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the highly anticipated blockbuster film directed by J. J. Abrams, released in theaters December 2015.
66) Marque of caine
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Series
Tales of the Terran Republic volume 5
Language
English
Description
"It's been two years since Caine Riordan was relieved of his command for following both his orders and his conscience. Now he's finally received the message he's been waiting for: a summons to visit the ancient and enigmatic Dornaani. And this time, making direct contact is not just professional, but personal: the Dornaani still have his mortally-wounded love, Elena Corcoran, in their unthinkably advanced medical facilities. But instead of arranging...
67) An ancient peace
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Series
Peacekeeper novels (Tanya Huff) volume 1
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Gunnery Sergeant Torin Kerr had been the very model of a Confederation Marine. But when she learned the truth about the war the Confederation was fighting, she left the military for good. But Torin could not walk away from preserving and protecting everything the Confederation represented. Instead, she drew together an elite corps of friends and allies to take on covert missions that the Justice Department and the Corps could not, or would not, officially...
68) A talent for war
Author
Series
Alex Benedict novels volume 1
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
Christopher Sim changed mankind's history forever when he forged a rag-tag group of misfits into the weapon that broke the alien Ashiyyur. But now, one man believes Sim was a fraud, and Alex must follow the legend into the heart of the alien galaxy to confront a truth far stranger than any fiction.
69) The stars at war
Author
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
In the period of peace following the Human-Orion War, a ship from a half-forgotten history emerges from a warp point notorious for sevouring ships and opens fire on the Orions, in Crusade, while five thousand years after Sun Tzu writes The Art of War, his advice is followed during the Fourth Instellar War between the terible Bugs and the humans, who are aided by their catlike Orion allues, in In Death Ground.
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Series
Language
English
Description
Presents a retelling of the third Star Wars movie, featuring Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and Princess Leia as they battle the Empire. The evil Empire is constructing a second Death Star to crush the Rebel Alliance. But Luke Skywalker has other plans-- to destroy the Empire and stop the Emperor once and for all. Yet there is one thing standing in his way... his father.
72) The human
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Series
Rise of the Jain volume 3
Publisher
Night Shade Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A Jain warship has risen from the depths of space, emerging with a deadly grudge and a wealth of ancient yet lethal technology. It is determined to hunt down the alien Client, and will annihilate all those who stand in its way. So Orlandine must prepare humanity's defense.
74) Impersonations
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Series
Dread empire's fall volume 4
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
Having offended her superiors by winning a battle without permission, Caroline Sula has been posted to the planet Earth, a dismal backwater where careers go to die. But Sula has always been fascinated by Earth history, and she plans to reward herself with a long, happy vacation amid the ancient monuments of humanity's home world. Sula may be an Earth history buff, but there are aspects of her own history she doesn't want known. Exposure is threatened...
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Series
Starfire trilogy (Spencer Ellsworth) volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Half-breed human star navigator Jaqi, working the edges of human-settled space on contract to whoever will hire her, stumbles into possession of an artifact that the leader of the Rebellion wants desperately enough to send his personal guard after. An interstellar empire and the fate of the remnant of humanity hang in the balance. Spencer Ellsworth has written a classic space opera, with space battles between giant bugs, sun-sized spiders, planets...
Author
Series
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
Michelle Henke, Queen Elizabeth of Manticore's first cousin, Honor Harrington's best friend, and the commanding officer of Manticore's Tenth Fleet, is just a bit surprised when a messenger arrives from the Mobius System to inform her that the Mobius Liberation Front is prepared to rise in rebellion against the hated regime President Svein Lombroso. She has no orders from her government to assist any rebellions or liberation movements, she's short...
77) A rising thunder
Author
Series
Honor Harrington novels. Main series volume 13
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"After a brutal attack on the Manticoran home system, Honor Harrington has rooted out a plan designed to enslave the entire human species. Behind that plans lies the shadowy organization known as the Mesan Alignment. Task #1 for Honor is to shut down and secure the wormhole network that is the source of the Star Kingdom's wealth and power--but also its greatest vulnerability. Yet this is an act that the ancient and corrupt Earth-based Solarian League...
78) Tempest runner
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English
Description
The Nihil storm has raged through the galaxy, leaving chaos and grief in its wake. Few of its raiders are as vicious as the Tempest Runner Lourna Dee. She stays one step ahead of the Jedi Order at the helm of a vessel named after one of the deadliest monsters in the galaxy: herself. But no one can outrun the defenders of the High Republic forever. After the defeat of her crew, Lourna falls into the hands of the Jedi—but not before she hides her...
Author
Series
Honor Harrington novels. Main series volume 1
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
Having made him look the fool, she's been exiled to Basilisk Station in disgrace and set up for ruin by a superior who hates her. Her demoralized crew blames her for their ship's humiliating posting to an out-of-the-way picket station. The aborigines of the system's only habitable planet are smoking homicide-inducing hallucinogens. Parliament isn't sure it wants to keep the place; the major local industry is smuggling; the merchant cartels want her...
80) The hive
Author
Series
Second Formic War volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A second prequel to Ender's Game continues the sci-fi history of the Formic Wars and finds the warring nations and corporations of Earth struggling to set aside their differences to defend against an imminent alien invasion.
"A coalition of Earth's nations barely fought off the Formics' first scout ship. Now it's clear that there's a mother-ship out on edge of the system, and the aliens are prepared to take Earth by force. Can Earth's warring nations...
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