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When a mysterious enemy strikes at the very foundation of the Ascendancy by widening the rifts between the Nine Ruling Families and Forty Great Houses, Thrawn and his allies must decide what matters most--the security of their family or the survival of the Ascendancy itself.
63) Cobra slave
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"In times of war, the Cobras are necessary, yet in times of peace they are often reviled by those they have saved. Now the Cobras have resisted a second invasion of the alien Troft forces, and forced the Troft to a stalemate--and even converted some thoughtful Troft into uneasy allies against their kin. Yet all is not well in the human sector of the galaxy. A supposed sister empire, the Dominion of Man, threatens the Cobra worlds with what is, in...
64) Cobra outlaw
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"Cobra warriors: technologically enhanced human warriors designed to combat an implacable alien menace. Now, and not for the first time, the Cobras are facing trouble from their own kind. The Broom clan of Cobra warriors finds itself pressed between two star empires headed for war. Paul Broom is due to have his memories sifted through by the often destructive Dominion MindsEye to find the location of legendary Qasama--a planet where huge advances...
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Nicole Hammond's life is going nowhere. No family, no money, and stuck in a relationship with a thug named Bungie. But after one of Bungie's 'deals' goes south, he and Nicole are whisked away by a mysterious mothlike humanoid to a strange ship called the Fyrantha. Once aboard, life on the ship seems too good to be true. All she has to do is work on one of the ship's many maintenance crews. However, she learned long ago that nothing comes without a...
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"Growing up, Travis Uriah Long yearned for order and discipline in his life...two things his neglectful mother couldn't or wouldn't provide. So when Travis enlists in the Royal Manticoran Navy, he thought he'd finally found the structure he'd always wanted so desperately. But life in the RMN isn't exactly as expected. Boot camp is rough; his first ship assignment lax and disorderly; and with the Star Kingdom of Manticore still recovering from a devastating...
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"Book three in the nationally best-selling Manticore Ascendant series, a prequel series to David Weber's multiple New York Times best-selling Honor Harrington series. Sequel to A Call to Duty and A Call to Arms. After the disastrous attack on the Manticoran home system by forces unknown, the Royal Manticoran Navy stands on the brink of collapse. A shadowy enemy with the resources to hurl warships across hundreds of light years seeks to conquer the...
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"Lieutenant Travis Long of the Royal Manticoran Navy is one of those rare people who likes rules but has a talent for thinking outside of them when everything starts coming apart. That is why he is now a mustang and also why he has enemies. At the moment, there are powerful forces in the young Star Kingdom's Parliament who don't think they need him or the navy for that matter. Unhappily for them, the edge of the explored galaxy can be a far more dangerous...
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"Now, discover how Grand Admiral Thrawn became one of the most feared military tacticians in a galaxy far, far away. Meet young Lieutenant Thrawn, who graduated the Imperial Academy with the highest marks possible. He's been assigned his own personal assistant, Ensign Eli Vanto, and is ascending quickly--but that doesn't mean everyone in the Imperial Army wants him to succeed. And Thrawn isn't the Empire's only rising star--so is Arihnda Pryce. The...
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Book four in the nationally best-selling Manticore Ascendant series, set in the world of David Weber's multiple New York Times best-selling Honorverse series.
Yesterday, the Star Kingdom of Manticore was a small, unimportant interstellar backwater. A quiet little star nation, only recently recovered from the devastating blow of the Plague Years. More affluent than some, perhaps, but with little to attract trade or interstellar commerce,
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Five years after the rebel victory against the second Death Star, Luke Skywalker is the first of a new line of Jedi Knights. Han Solo and Princess Leia are married, expecting twins, and have taken on many of the burdens of governing the New Republic. But thousands of light years away, the Emperor's greatest tactician, Admiral Thrawn, has taken command of the shattered Imperial fleet, readied it for war, and pointed it at the fragile New Republic.