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Video Game Agents: Book 3: Critter Crossing Catastrophe by Pixel Ate
Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBetter late than never, Max and Zoe finally get some much needed new secret agent training. Their first task? Enter the game Critter Crossing to bring back something the VGA bug-catching nets. But when they enter the game, something else leaves. Oops! It’s just a tiny wasp, though. Not a big problem, right?WRONG.Tiny wasps grow into giant, angry wasps...Categorized as:
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Video Game Agents: Book 4: A Link to the Lost by Pixel Ate
Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThings are heated with the Video Game Agents and that's putting it lightly.Not only have Max and Zoe, new recruits to the VGA, gotten themselves kicked off the crew, they discovered their missing mother isn't so missing after all—and she's enemy number one of the agency.What. Is. Going. On?!Their ship/sister (yeah, it's weird) has a lead on where their mom might be...Categorized as:
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Boneshaker by Joshua Dalzelle
Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsMarine First Lieutenant Jacob Brown is bored.For months he's been sitting around on an alien planet, waiting for command to recall his scout team so they could rest and be re-outfitted. The team went through hell during their previous mission, losing both their commanding officer and their ship...Categorized as:
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Marine by Joshua Dalzelle
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsAliens exist… and, as it turns out, most of them aren’t that friendly. Jacob Brown wasn’t even born yet the first time they attacked Earth. He was only fourteen the second time it happened. When Earth finally came together and fielded its first spaceborne military, Jacob didn’t hesitate to volunteer...Categorized as:
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Allies by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEven Clan Korval needs friends, and the kinds of friends they often need aren't simply buddies and pals, but allies. As Cantra so succinctly put it:"In the matter of allies only two things are important...Categorized as:
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Fortune's Favors by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsARE YOU FEELING LUCKY? Mar Tyn eys'Ornstahl is a lucky man. His very presence can determine the fall of a card, the spin of a wheel, or whether the bread will rise or fall. In fact, Mar Tyn eys'Ornstahl isn't merely lucky. Mar Tyn is a Luck; a focal point for the elemental force of random event. While most people think that there is good luck and bad, Mar Tyn knows better... -
Warden's Folly: A Sci Fi Adventure by Tony James Slater
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLord Anakreon, Warden of the First Circle, has lost a weapon.Not just any weapon; the Planet Forge is an ancient alien artefact with the power to create worlds...Or to end them.His arch-rival, the traitor Lord Demios, is hell-bent on conquering Earth. He aims to tear the planet to pieces, and sell off the human population as spare parts... -
Purgatory Road by Russell Blake
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsIn the second volume of The Day After Never trilogy, Lucas must make an impossible choice and risk everything in order to save those closest to him. An epic saga of survival and redemption set in a near-future wasteland, by a NY Times and USA Today bestselling author...Categorized as:
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April by Mackey Chandler
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsApril is an exceptional young lady and something of a snoop. She finds herself involved with intrigues that stretch her abilities after a chance run in with a spy. There is a terrible danger she and her friends and family will lose the only home she has ever known in orbit and be forced to live on the slum ball below. It's more than a almost teen can deal with...Categorized as:
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To End in Fire by David Weber, Flint
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTHE CROWN OF SLAVES SAGA CONTINUES. ADVENTURE AND INTRIGUE IN THE STAR KINGDOM FROM NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHORS DAVID WEBER AND ERIC FLINT.The Solarian League lies in defeat, crushed by the Grand Alliance of Manticore, Haven, and Grayson...Categorized as:
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Spinward Fringe Broadcast 1: Resurrection by Randolph Lalonde
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsCaptain Jacob Valance has no memory of his past. Left on a strange ship in an unfamiliar sector of the galaxy, he's forced to begin a new life. Possessing a skill set that leads to bounty hunting and object repossession, he gathers a crew from the rough fringe of the galaxy... -
Spinward Fringe Broadcast 7: Framework by Randolph Lalonde
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe crew of the Triton find themselves marooned in the Rega Gain solar system. Refusing to abandon the refugees and liberated slaves who joined them along the way, Ayan Rice and her friends negotiate a deal with the Carthan Government to found a home on a terraformed moon...Categorized as:
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Kantovan Vault by Joel Shepherd
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe UFS Phoenix is on a mission to find a lost data-core that may contain the secret to defeating the alo-deepynine alliance. But the means to find the data-core is hidden deep in tavalai space, in a highest-security vault where the tavalai's manipulative State Department keep all their most treacherous secrets. To recover it, Phoenix must pull off the most daring heist the Spiral has ever seen... -
Spinward Fringe Broadcast 5: Fracture by Randolph Lalonde
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe crew of the Triton, a rare, Earth built Space Combat Carrier, make their way to Ossimi Station, a safe haven for independent ships and traders. In a galaxy gripped by conflict and teetering on the verge of chaos, Captain Jacob Valance and his crew will be faced with the unexpected, the unknown, and an opportunity to save thousands of lives...Categorized as:
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Covenant by Russell Blake
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsIn the third installment of the bestselling Day After Never series, Lucas and Sierra must prepare themselves for the ultimate showdown with a ruthlessly brutal enemy. In a winner-takes-all climax, the forces of light face off against those of darkness in an epic saga that will leave readers breathless...Categorized as:
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Cauldron of Ghosts by David Weber, Eric Flint
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSequel to national bestsellers Crown of Slaves and Torch of Freedom, Cauldron of Ghosts is the return of Secret agent Anton Zilwicki and Victor Cachat in the Wages of Sin, the classic tie-in series set in David Weber's Honorverse...Categorized as:
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Spinward Fringe Broadcast 4: Frontline by Randolph Lalonde
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWhat at first seemed to be a chaotic uprising of machine against man is becoming a controlled event, destroying the lives of billions and hurling the known galaxy into a state of utter discord. The fourth fall of mankind is well underway. The Order of Eden seems to be the only force for order and peace, offering a place in their new society in trade for a large investment and their freedom...Categorized as:
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Malleus by Dan Abnett
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsIn the 41st Millenium, the enemies of mankind are legion, omnipresent and utterly deadly. While the warriors of the Imperium fight with firepower and faith, the Holy Inquisition hunts the shadows for the most terrible of foes – rogue psykers, xenos, and daemons. Inquisitor Eisenhorn must track down and defeat the forces who would destroy him or face the wrath of the Ordo Malleus...Categorized as:
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Hereticus by Dan Abnett
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsIn this concluding novel of Dan Abnett's sensational trilogy, a dark figure from the past returns to exact a cruel vengeance upon Inquisitor Gregor Eisenhorn... -
Special Forces 01 by Honor Raconteur
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis is an alternate cover edition of ASIN B00AO8CO02Captain Arystair Savar has seen more of war in his seventeen years than most retired officers. He has been defending his home colony from the Nova Federation ever since he graduated from the Army Academy at 14 years old...Categorized as:
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Nick and Tesla's Secret Agent Gadget Battle: A Mystery with Spy Cameras, Code Wheels, and Other Gadgets You Can Build Yourself by Bob Pflugfelder
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn this third installment of the series, 11-year-old whiz-kids Nick and Tesla discover that someone in the quiet town of Half Moon Bay has placed their beloved Uncle Newt under electronic surveillance—but who is spying on him, and why? To expose the secret agent, Nick and Tesla build all kinds of outrageous contraptions...Categorized as:
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Bloodline by Mark Walden
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis ninth book in the H.I.V.E. series concludes the high-octane adventures of the supremely talented team of criminals.As the students of H.I.V.E. face the challenges of their final year at the school, Otto Malpense is forced to confront his own legacy as a new threat rises from the shadows of his past...Categorized as:
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Aftershocks by Marko Kloos
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsAcross the six-planet expanse of the Gaia system, the Earthlike Gretia struggles to stabilize in the wake of an interplanetary war. Amid an uneasy alliance to maintain economies, resources, and populations, Aden Robertson reemerges. After devoting twelve years of his life to the reviled losing side, with the blood of half a million casualties on his hands, Aden is looking for a way to move on...Categorized as:
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Control by David Mack
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom the New York Times bestselling author David Mack comes an original, thrilling Section 31 novel set in the Star Trek: The Next Generation universe!No law…no conscience…no mercy. Amoral, shrouded in secrecy, and answering to no one, Section 31 is the mysterious covert operations division of Starfleet, a rogue shadow group pledged to defend the Federation at any cost... -
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Eagle Station by Dale Brown
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratings“Dale Brown is a superb storyteller.”— W. E. B...Categorized as:
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Spy Night on Union Station by E.M. Foner
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSpy Night on Union Stationis is Book 4 of the EarthCent Ambassador series. The story picks up less than a year after the events of High Priest on Union Station, with Kelly coming to the conclusion that EarthCent needs an intelligence service. Of course, EarthCent has no institutional knowledge of what spies do, or how they work, so the new agency gets off to a slow start... -
Descent by Marko Kloos
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA nationalist uprising triggers an interstellar wrest for control in an epic novel of embattled worlds by the author of Citadel and the Frontlines series.POW Aden Jansen has lost a decade of his life to both the war and internment when he’s recruited by the Alliance...Categorized as:
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Spinward Fringe Broadcast 3: Triton by Randolph Lalonde
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsCaptain Valance has taken the Triton to the Enreega System. The Samson crew man the massive Sol Defence vessel with the help of deserters and are soon joined by recently displaced refugees. Though they may have taken possession of the mighty ship, the battle to keep and tame her is only beginning. She's filled with surprises and secrets...Categorized as:
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Torch of Freedom by David Weber, Eric Flint
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Direct Sequel to Crown of Slaves. Two New York Times Best-Selling Authors Again Join Forces in a New Novel in David Weber’s Honor Harrington Universe...Categorized as:
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Agent of Change by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsTwo tough-but-tender characters with a bright future--if they live that long. Terran Miri Robertson was a mercenary, but she retired to a cushy job as a private bodyguard. What she didn't know what that her client had powerful enemies. Now he's dead, and they're after her...Categorized as:
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Runaways by Diane Duane, Tom Clancy
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNet Force Explorer Megan O'Malley tracks her missing equestrian teammate Burtto a mysterious online courier business--a service to which many runaways aresent out, but few ever return... -
The Star Brotherhood (AGU: SC Intelligence #1) by Thomas DePrima
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSpace Opera meets Horse Opera in this fast-paced adventure story featuring the Space Command Intelligence undercover team headed by Trader Vyx. The team, introduced in Book 4 of the A Galaxy Unknown series, and with small roles in subsequent books, is now featured in their own story as this AGU: SCI series kicks off...Categorized as:
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Resurgence by Kerry Wilkinson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Can I ask you one thing...why does it have to be you?"My throat is dry but I manage to say the words clearly enough: "If I don't do it, who else will?"An entire country has been lied to.Silver Blackthorn was supposed to be one of the privileged few, chosen to serve and help rebuild a shattered nation.Instead, she is a rebel.Tales of her defiance have spread across the land...Categorized as:
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Remote Control by Jack Heath
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAgent Six of Hearts, 16-year-old superhuman, is on a mission. His brother Kyntak has been kidnapped. A strange and sinister new figure is rising in power. Six is suspected of being a double agent. The Deck has been put into lockdown by the Queen of Spades. A mysterious girl has appeared who acts as Six's guardian angel...Categorized as:
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The Ultimate Escape by Marc Cerashi, Tom Clancy
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJulio Cortez has left the Net Force Explorers to move with his family to a new home. But when he and his family are held hostage, the team has to convince the world that Julio's in danger...Categorized as:
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The Escape of the Deadly Dinosaur by Elizabeth Singer Hunt
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn The Escape of the Deadly Dinosaur, Jack zooms to the city that never sleeps to try to solve the mystery of the missing Allosaurus toe. Starting at the Natural History Museum, Jack's detection takes him to a competitive grade-schooler determined to win the science fair with his experiment crossing his own dog with the DNA from the bone of a dangerous, carnivorous dinosaur...Categorized as:
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The Rescue by Sophie McKenzie
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe third title in a thrilling new series about four teenagers with psychic abilities, from Red House Book Award-winning author, Sophie McKenzie...Categorized as:
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The Voyage of the Sable Keech by Neal Asher
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSable Keech is a walking dead man, and the only one to have been resurrected by nanochanger. Did he succeed because he was infected by the Spatterjay virus, or because he came late to resurrection in a tank of seawater? An ancient hive mind, almost incomprehensible to the human race, has sent an agent to this uncertain world... -
The Service of the Sword by David Weber, John Ringo
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsReaders can't get enough of Honor Harrington and her world, and here David Weber is again, accompanied by some of the top science fiction writers in the field, with new adventures of the best starship commander in the galaxy, and explorations of previously uncharted corners of her universe...Categorized as:
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The Way to Glory by David Drake
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsViolence racks Cinnabar. The fleets of the tyrannical Alliance are on the move, and at home class riots threaten to rip apart not only society but the Republic of Cinnabar Navy. Lt. Daniel Leary has earned promotion, but the needs of the Republic and the RCN require that he serve under an officer whose paranoia has already led him to execute crewmen out of hand...Categorized as:
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Judgment at Proteus by Timothy Zahn
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThe Quadrail train connects our galaxy, and takes secret warriors Frank Compton, from Earth, and lovely Bayta, to the horse-like alien Fillies' Proteus Station. The Mohdri, a coral group intelligence, controls minds after a scratch... -
Death's Bright Day by David Drake
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA NEW NOVEL IN THE NATIONALLY BEST-SELLING RCN MILITARY SF SERIES! Leary and Mundy are back in another military science fiction adventure as they undertake a mission to a distant but critical star system.IT'S JUST A REBELLION IN A DISTANT STAR CLUSTER. Captain Daniel Leary thinks that his marriage will allow him to slip into the quiet role of a naval officer in peacetime...Categorized as:
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Trial by Fire by Charles E. Gannon
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen reluctant interstellar diplomat and intelligence operative Caine Riordan returns from humanity's first encounter with alien races, sudden war clouds burst. With Earth's fleet shattered by a sneak attack and its survivors fighting for their lives, Caine must rely upon both his first contact and weaponry skills to contend with the non-humanoid enemy... -
The Bayern Agenda by Dan Moren
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA new Cold War threatens the galaxy, in this fast-paced and wisecracking thriller of spies and subterfuge.Simon Kovalic, top intelligence operative for the Commonwealth of Independent Systems, is on the frontline of the burgeoning Cold War with the aggressive Illyrican Empire...Categorized as:
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Missing by Francine Pascal
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNobody knows where I am. Nobody knows how to find me. Nobody knows my real identity.Including me... -
The Ecologic Envoy by L.E. Modesitt Jr.
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFour hundred years after winning Secession from the Terran Empire, the star system Accord wants to sign a simple trade treaty on microchip export tariffs...Categorized as:
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Betrayed by Francine Pascal
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCompletely blind and terrified, Heather confesses her involvement with Loki to Gaia. Meanwhile, Tom and Natascha return home with important news but Gaia is nowhere to be found. Fearing she has gone to confront Loki by herself they rush after her...Categorized as:
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Kangaroo Too by Curtis C. Chen
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSet in the same world as Waypoint Kangaroo, Curtis C. Chen's Kangaroo Too is bursting with adrenaline and intrigue in this unique outer space adventure.On the way home from his latest mission, secret agent Kangaroo’s spacecraft is wrecked by a rogue mining robot...Categorized as:
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The Star Agency by R.E. Weber
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWinner of the IBD "Indie Book of the Day" award for May 19th 2014.Thirteen-year-old Theopolis James Logan doesn't much care for his first name, but then that's the least of his problems... -
Tourists of the Apocalypse by C.F. Waller
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDylan Townsend stands on the beach watching commercial jets fall out of the sky like oak leaves twirling in the wind. A wing shears off the one closest to the shore just before it splashes down in the sea...Categorized as:
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