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  • Legacies by Jason Anspach, Nick Cole

    Legacies by Jason Anspach, Nick Cole

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Galaxy's Edge returns with an all-new adrenaline-fueled season of the military sci-fi series! With his duty to the Legion satisfied, Wraith sets out to find a lost member of his crew-the young girl, Prisma. But not only does the journey bring with it more death and destruction-and loss-than he ever imagined, it revives the shadows of a forgotten past..
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    war  action-adventure  adult  aliens  audiobook  book  fiction  male-mc
  • Fall of Hades by Richard Paul Evans

    Fall of Hades by Richard Paul Evans

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Michael and his friends try to recruit Hatch’s Electric Youth to their side as the thrilling action continues in this electrifying sixth installment of the New York Times bestselling series!Michael and the Electroclan are about to embark on their deadliest mission yet. Some of them may not make it back...
  • Mountain of Mars by Glynn Stewart

    Mountain of Mars by Glynn Stewart

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The Mage-King of Mars is deadChaos rocks Olympus MonsA new monarch must rise – but she does not stand alone!As the celebration of the victory at Legatus cools, a shuttle accident claims the lives of the Mage-King of Mars and his heir. The Crown and the Mountain fall to the Mage-King’s daughter, seventeen-year-old Kiera Alexander...
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    crime  war  action-adventure  adult  aliens  angst  audiobook  book
  • Memory by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Memory by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    Forced to abandon his undercover role as leader of the Dendarii Mercenaries, Miles Vorkosigan persuades Emperor Gregor to appoint him Imperial Auditor so he can penetrate Barrayar’s intelligence and security operations (ImpSec)...
  • Judas Unchained by Peter F. Hamilton

    Judas Unchained by Peter F. Hamilton

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    Robust, peaceful, and confident, the Commonwealth dispatched a ship to investigate the mystery of a disappearing star, only to inadvertently unleash a predatory alien species that turned on its liberators, striking hard, fast, and utterly without mercy. The Prime are the Commonwealth's worst nightmare...
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    crime  war  action-adventure  adult  ai  aliens  audiobook  book
  • Deception by Craig Martelle, Michael Anderle

    Deception by Craig Martelle, Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Lies & deceit leading to a domino of crimes.The Trans-Pacific Task Force is getting ready to deploy but they don’t have what they need. Someone’s been skimming. A contract won through mistruths. Incomplete payments limiting the army’s readiness.Colonel Marcie Walton is angry and calling anyone who will answer.Magistrate Rivka Anoa is on the job and thrown into the middle of two shooting wars...
  • The Last Hunter by J.N. Chaney, Terry Mixon

    The Last Hunter by J.N. Chaney, Terry Mixon

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.Two centuries after the Confederation staved off an invasion by the robotic Locusts, Captain Jack Romanoff faces mandatory retirement from an ever-shrinking Navy. Actions speak louder than words. The Confederation doesn’t think the Locusts are coming back...
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    war  crime  sci-fi  space-opera  fiction  military  aliens  audiobook
  • The Red Admiral by C.R. Daems

    The Red Admiral by C.R. Daems

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Anna's success as the Eastar NIA station chief has catapulted her into the position of Director of NIA Stations. Anna is uncomfortable with the promotion and bored. She has a master chief secretary, a lieutenant aide-de-camp, and fifteen commanders and their staff to do the work. But she suspects not all of her commanders are happy with their new, very young admiral or are doing their jobs...
  • Diplomatic Immunity by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Diplomatic Immunity by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    A rich Komarran merchant fleet has been impounded at Graf Station, in distant Quaddiespace, after a bloody incident on the station docks involving a security officer from the convoy's Barrayaran military escort. Lord Miles Vorkosigan of Barrayar and his wife, Lady Ekaterin, have other things on their minds, such as getting home in time to attend the long-awaited births of their first children...
  • Dark Victory by Jason Anspach, Nick Cole

    Dark Victory by Jason Anspach, Nick Cole

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    The Darkest Secrets Stay HiddenGalaxy’s Edge Season Two continues as a divided galaxy is navigated by heroes forced to chart their own dangerous courses.Wraith, seeking to acquire intel on the mysterious Kill Team Ice, finds himself teamed up with an unlikely Nether Ops ally. Zora and Garret, in pursuit of a lost friend, will have their loyalty to Captain Keel tested...
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    war  action-adventure  adult  aliens  audiobook  book  fiction  male-mc
  • In the Shadows by Hailey Turner

    In the Shadows by Hailey Turner

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Take a chance. Staff Sergeant Alexei Dvorkin doesn’t trust easily, and he most certainly doesn’t trust spies. He’ll work with them if ordered to, but that doesn’t mean he has to like it. Except Agent Sean Delaney is proving to be the exception to the rule. There’s something about Sean that gets under Alexei’s skin and won’t let go...
  • The Mountains of Mourning by Lois McMaster Bujold

    The Mountains of Mourning by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    [A Miles Vorkosigan Story] Twenty year old Ensign Miles Vorkosigan plays detective in a murder case, and tests the balance of power as a member of the Barrayaran nobility. [Publisher's Note: The Mountains of Mourning was originally published as a stand-alone novella in the May 1989 issue of Analog...
  • The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 2: We Can Remember it for You Wholesale by Philip K. Dick

    The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 2: We Can Remember it for You Wholesale by Philip K. Dick

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Many thousands of readers consider Philip K. Dick the greatest science fiction mind on any planet. Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in Dick's works has continued to mount and his reputation has been further enhanced by a growing body of critical attention. The Philip K. Dick Award is now given annually to a distinguished work of science fiction, and the Philip K...
  • 180 Proof Vega by Santino Hassell

    180 Proof Vega by Santino Hassell

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Emilio Vega is a shit-talking, eighteen-year-old gunrunner who is dragged out of the world of crime he grew up in, and forced to work for a covert organization that deals in assassination and political intrigue.The full version of Volume 1 is expected to be published in 2015.Note: The first three parts of Volume 1 are available for free on the author's GR profile...
  • Dire Wolf Stakes by Ramy Vance, Michael Anderle

    Dire Wolf Stakes by Ramy Vance, Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Love kills. So do bow-wielding assassins.Maine’s troubles are only just beginning. The Mantle is still catnip to assassins. News of her victory is out and another liqudator of the living is after her. That would be enough trouble, if her ex wasn’t also in town, proclaiming his undying love for her...
  • Auberon by James S.A. Corey

    Auberon by James S.A. Corey

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    A novella set in the universe of James S. A. Corey’s NYT-bestselling Expanse series, Auberon explores a new and alien world and the age-old dangers that humanity has carried with it to the stars. Now a Prime Original series.Auberon is one of the first and most important colony worlds in humanity’s reach, and the new conquering faction has come to claim it...
  • Stryker's War by Josh Hayes, Jason Anspach

    Stryker's War by Josh Hayes, Jason Anspach

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Feel the thunder! Stryker Company always brings the fight, but when they relieve embittered and embattled Republic marines, they find an enemy unwilling to stand up and face them. Tasked with protecting the Republic's interests on a mining world, the legionnaires face roadside ambushes, double-dealing locals, and constant sabotage...
  • State of Vengeance by Summer Lane

    State of Vengeance by Summer Lane

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Vengeance is coming. Monterey Bay, California, has barely survived a brutal attack from the evil invasion forces of Omega, and Cassidy Hart is exhausted. She has lost a friend and gained a new enemy. The militias seem to be weakening, and Omega seems to be getting stronger...
  • Raiders by C.R. Daems

    Raiders by C.R. Daems

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Anna and her Naval Intelligence Agency, NIA, teammates have a new high-priority assignment: foreign raiders who are wreaking havoc within the United Alliance of Stars. They hit high value targets, have access to inside information, kill the security guards, and leave no witnesses. The NIA team soon discovers the raiders' system has been well thought out and has no weak links to exploit...
  • The Windy City by Roland Smith, Michael P. Spradlin

    The Windy City by Roland Smith, Michael P. Spradlin

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    After Q and Angela help foil a Ghost Cell plot in San Antonio, they head to Chicago, the next stop on the Match tour. Since they've been busy fighting international terrorism, they're behind on their school assignments. Their parents tell them if they don't get caught up, it's off to boarding school...
  • Komarr by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Komarr by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Komarr could be a garden with a thousand more years' work, or an uninhabitable wasteland if the terraforming fails. Now, the solar mirror vital to the terraforming of the conquered planet has been shattered by a ship hurtling off course. The Emperor of Barrayar sends his newest imperial auditor, Lord Miles Vorkosigan, to find out why...
  • The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 2: We Can Remember it for You Wholesale by Philip K. Dick

    The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 2: We Can Remember it for You Wholesale by Philip K. Dick

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Many thousands of readers consider Philip K. Dick the greatest science fiction mind on any planet. Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in Dick's works has continued to mount and his reputation has been further enhanced by a growing body of critical attention. The Philip K. Dick Award is now given annually to a distinguished work of science fiction, and the Philip K...
  • In the Ruins by Hailey Turner

    In the Ruins by Hailey Turner

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Truth and lies. Captain Jamie Callahan knows the Metahuman Defense Force frowns on fraternization. For once in his life, he’s breaking all the rules. Having Staff Sergeant Kyle Brannigan on his team and in his bed is worth the risk of being found out. When a mission comes down requiring Alpha Team to go undercover in order to infiltrate a criminal alliance, Jamie knows it won’t be easy...
  • Written in Fire by Marcus Sakey

    Written in Fire by Marcus Sakey

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    The explosive conclusion to the bestselling Brilliance TrilogyFor thirty years humanity struggled to cope with the brilliants, the one percent of people born with remarkable gifts. For thirty years we tried to avoid a devastating civil war.We failed.The White House is a smoking ruin. Madison Square Garden is an internment camp...
  • Unto the Breach by John Ringo

    Unto the Breach by John Ringo

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Sequel to Ghost, Kildar and Choosers of the Slain.Michael Harmon has been there and done that. Rescued co-eds, killed major terrorists, stopped nuclear assaults. Now he'd just like to kick back and relax with his harem of lovelies. Unfortunately, the world keeps turning...
  • Red Zone by Janet Elizabeth Henderson

    Red Zone by Janet Elizabeth Henderson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Welcome to the new world. Things have changed just a bit. Big Brother's not only monitoring important things like what toilet paper you buy--it now has direct access to everything you see thanks to the mandatory implant you get at birth. And Friday Jones has seen something she wishes she hadn't...
  • Defender by Janet Edwards

    Defender by Janet Edwards

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Becoming a telepath was hard. Being a telepath is harder. Eighteen-year-old Amber is the youngest of the five telepaths who protect the hundred million citizens of one of the great hive cities of twenty-sixth century Earth. Her job is hunting down criminals before they commit their crimes, but this time her team arrive too late. Someone is already dead. Someone that Amber knows...
  • State of Destruction by Summer Lane

    State of Destruction by Summer Lane

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "Lane is surely worth picking up and reading, whoever you may be." - Daniel M. Harrison, #1 Bestselling Author of Butterflies and Editor of MarxRand The destruction of California is at hand. Cassidy Hart and Chris Young have survived a dangerous mission into the heart of Sky City, a secret Omega base hidden deep in the mountains, but their vengeance has come with a price...
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    crime  war  action-adventure  apocalyptic  book  dark  drama  dystopia
  • Bestiarii by James Tarr

    Bestiarii by James Tarr

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Mexican civil war had been grinding on for so long that the U.S. resorted to using private contractors—mercenaries—to prop up the failing Mexican Army. One of the many things the Mexican Army failed to protect was Pangaea, the famed animal park in remote northeast Mexico, a symbol of rampant capitalism. All the creatures inside were killed at the time. At least, that’s what was reported...
  • Tidal Rip by Joe Buff

    Tidal Rip by Joe Buff

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A new world war has begun. It is the year 2012, and extremists in Germany and South Africa have succeeded in staging simultaneous coups to forge the Berlin-Boer Axis, a cabal determined to take over the world. The key instrument of this war is tactical nuclear weaponry, where a single torpedo or cruise missile can destroy an entire ship or city...
  • The Bronze Skies by Catherine Asaro

    The Bronze Skies by Catherine Asaro

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Major Bhaajan achieved the impossible. Born Undercity, the slums below the City of Cries on the planet Raylicon, she broke free to become a military officer with Imperial Space Command. Now retired from military duty, she works as a private investigator on retainer to the Majda Family.Hired by The Ruby Pharaoh herself, Major Bhaajan is tasked with finding a killer...
  • Star Wars: The Essential Guide to Warfare by Jason Fry, Paul R. Urquhart

    Star Wars: The Essential Guide to Warfare by Jason Fry, Paul R. Urquhart

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Anakin, Rex, Ahsokaand a host of other characters from the Cartoon Network seriesleap off the page in full color. Devoted "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" fans will find all the stats they need, from Anakin Skywalker's lightsaber skills to Ziro the Hutt's scheming, and everything in between...
  • Hail the Hero by Timothy Ellis

    Hail the Hero by Timothy Ellis

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This is an alternate cover edition for ASIN: B015AYA7CGAs the war comes to an end, Jonathon Hunter sees the good and bad sides to being considered the hero, but which is which? All he wants to do is go home, but home isn’t any closer than it was a month ago, and this time, he's going the long way around...
  • Hard Luck Hank: Stank Delicious by Steven Campbell

    Hard Luck Hank: Stank Delicious by Steven Campbell

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Belvaille has cemented its place as the most important System in the galaxy and Hank is working as an official Factotum, negotiating deals between gangs and noblemen under the watchful eye of the Arch Minister. When his ever-capable butler, Cliston, is approached to become the general manager of a Super Class glocken team, Hank is hired not only as protection, but as a player...
  • A Better World by Marcus Sakey

    A Better World by Marcus Sakey

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    The brilliants changed everything.Since 1980, 1% of the world has been born with gifts we’d only dreamed of. The ability to sense a person’s most intimate secrets, or predict the stock market, or move virtually unseen. For thirty years the world has struggled with a growing divide between the exceptional...and the rest of us.Now a terrorist network led by brilliants has crippled three cities...
  • Red Angel by C.R. Daems

    Red Angel by C.R. Daems

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Anna nearly dies, along with all her family, at age four from the deadly Cacao virus. But she survives, thanks to a poisonous red-headed krait. The medical community is excited since there is no known cure for the virus, but Anna and her snake, Red, have a symbiotic relationship—containment, not cure. If she is ever separated from Red, she will die.Anna struggles through foster homes...
  • Brothers in Arms by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Brothers in Arms by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    In the wake of unexpected planetary peace and the disappearance of the Dendarii payroll, mercenary captain Miles Naismith attempts to discover the link between the insufferable Captain Galeni and the Komarran rebel expatriates. Reissue. AB...
  • Choosers of the Slain by John Ringo

    Choosers of the Slain by John Ringo

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Sequel to Ghost and Kildar.Former SEAL Michael Harmon (Ghost, Kildar) has a pretty good life. He's settled down in the country of Georgia and built a solid commando-quality militia out of his local retainers. The Keldara have an ancient history of being first-class mountain warriors and all they needed was a few million in modern weapons and training to bring them up to speed...
  • A Deeper Blue by John Ringo

    A Deeper Blue by John Ringo

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Sequel to Ghost, Kildar, Choosers of the Slain and Unto the Breach.Heart-sick over the deaths of so many of his Keldara followers, and one in particular, former SEAL Mike Harmon, hero of Ghost, Kildar and Choosers of the Slain, decides to sit this one out. WMDs headed for the US no longer matter to the Kildar...
  • Maid of Baikal by Preston Fleming

    Maid of Baikal by Preston Fleming

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What if a Siberian Joan of Arc had rescued the White Armies at a critical point of the Russian Civil War in 1919? MAID OF BAIKAL offers an alternative outcome to that war through the intervention of Zhanna Dorokhina, a young woman from the shores of Siberia’s Lake Baikal...
  • Invasion Day by Scott Moon

    Invasion Day by Scott Moon

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    David Osage is a dangerous man with a dangerous past, but these days he’s just trying to keep his head down, driving big rigs. One night he saddles himself with a hitchhiker, a nuisance who’s more than she seems. And that’s when everything changes.No one was ready for an alien invasion. Death is raining from the sky and the only question left is do you run, fight, or submit...
  • Escalante by Andrew Vaillencourt

    Escalante by Andrew Vaillencourt

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    There's a stranger in town, and he just wants to be left alone.But Dockside doesn't like strangers, and the dirty old town never leaves anyone alone.Join New Boston's most famous fixer for his first week in the most dangerous part of town...
  • Alpha Wave by Jonathan Maberry, Weston Ochse

    Alpha Wave by Jonathan Maberry, Weston Ochse

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Created to defeat the invaders. Forgotten in victory. They will rise again...We were outnumbered, outfought. Mankind was about to fall to the alien Flock. Our only chance was a desperate gamble, transforming Tier One SpecOps agents into deadly super soldiers.In the end, we won the war, but we lost the peace...
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    war  crime  sci-fi  fiction  audiobook  military  mystery  death
  • The Gilded Scarab by Anna Butler

    The Gilded Scarab by Anna Butler

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When Captain Rafe Lancaster is invalided out of the Britannic Imperium’s Aero Corps after crashing his aerofighter during the Second Boer War, his eyesight is damaged permanently, and his career as a fighter pilot is over...
  • Country of the Bad Wolfes by James Carlos Blake

    Country of the Bad Wolfes by James Carlos Blake

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A page-turning epic about the making of a borderland crime family, Country of the Bad Wolfes will appeal both to aficionados of family sagas and to fans of hard-knuckled crime novels by the likes of Donald Pollack, Elmore Leonard, James Lee Burke and James Ellroy...
  • The Book of War by Melissa McShane

    The Book of War by Melissa McShane

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Helena and the oracular bookstore Abernathy’s stopped an attack by the alien invaders’ human allies and destroyed their attempt at a second oracle, giving the Wardens much-needed victories. Now, after months of fighting a defensive war, the Wardens plan a direct assault on the enemy stronghold.But as the battle approaches, Abernathy’s has other plans...
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    war  crime  romance  fantasy  urban-fantasy  paranormal  mystery  magic
  • Unexpected Hero by Willow Summers

    Unexpected Hero by Willow Summers

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From USA Today Bestselling author, Willow Summers, comes an action packed romance you won't want to put down. "Peppered with Summers' brand of humor, the Skyline Trilogy makes for an exquisite read." MarKat ★★★★★ "I love that Jenna is such a strong heroine and Josh is the strong and deadly silent type...
  • Some Murders in Berlin by Karen Robards

    Some Murders in Berlin by Karen Robards

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A serial killer on the loose. A profiler with a hidden past. A world at war.Trust is a luxury no one can afford.September 1943: Berlin is the heart of darkness—and the last place Dr. Elin Lund wishes to be. An expert in psychological profiling, she’s been summoned from Copenhagen to investigate the gruesome murders of eight young women...
  • Spaceside by Michael Mammay

    Spaceside by Michael Mammay

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A military legend is caught in the web between alien intrigue and human subterfuge… Following his mission on Cappa, Colonel Carl Butler returns to a mixed reception. To some he is a do-or-die war hero. To the other half of the galaxy he’s a pariah...
  • State of Alliance by Summer Lane

    State of Alliance by Summer Lane

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    NOW AVAILABLE!There is no such thing as safe. For Commander Cassidy Hart, staying alive is only one of her day-to-day problems. As a newly minted Senator of the State of California, she must travel to Monterey Bay with the hope of bringing an agreement between the militia forces and the Pacific Northwest Alliance as the United States desperately battles against the shadow invasion forces of Omega...
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