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River of Bones

Taylor Anderson · 479 pages

Alternate HistoryOcean and ShipsWorld War IIMilitary Sci-Fi
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Designated Targets

John Birmingham · 448 pages

It's World War II and the A-bomb is here to stay.The only question: Who's going to drop it first?The Battle of Midway takes on a whole new dimension with the sudden appearance of a U.S.-led naval task force from the twenty-first century, the result of a botched military experiment. State-of-the-art warships are scattered across the Pacific, armed to the teeth with the latest instruments of mass de

Alternate HistoryMilitary Sci-FiOcean and ShipsWorld War II
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To Sail a Darkling Sea

John Ringo · 374 pages

Book 2 of the Dark Tide Rising series. This is the continuing story of rebuilding the US military (mainly Navy/Marines/Coast Guard) after the release of a bio-weapon turns people into "zombies". They are not zombies, though. They are dangerous, infected people with damaged minds who have turned animal. The main characters are Faith "Shewolf" Smith, a 13 year old girl who is provisionally grante

Ocean and ShipsMilitary Sci-FiSoldiers and WarfareScience Fiction
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Striking the Balance

Harry Turtledove · 560 pages

Alternate HistoryWorld War IIMilitary Sci-FiSoldiers and Warfare
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Conquistador

S.M. Stirling · 608 pages

Alternate HistoryPortal FantasyScience FictionSoldiers and Warfare
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Leviathan

Scott Westerfeld · 444 pages

**Choose Your Weapon: Beastie or Clanker** Alek is a prince without a throne. On the run from his own people, he has only a fighting machine and a small band of men. Deryn is a girl disguised as a guy in the British Air Service. She must fight for her cause--and protect her secret--at all costs. Alek and Deryn are thrown together aboard the mighty airship *Levithan*. Though fighting side

Alternate HistorySoldiers and WarfareOcean and ShipsScience Fiction
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A Mutiny in Time

James Dashner · 196 pages

Time has gone wrong, and best friends Dak Smyth and Sera Froste, together with the young Hystorian Riq, must use the infinity ring to travel back to one of the Great Breaks--a mutiny on the Santa María--to correct history and defeat the SQ.

Ocean and ShipsAlternate HistoryScience FictionFast-Paced
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His Majesty's Dragon

Naomi Novik · 356 pages

Aerial combat brings a thrilling new dimension to the Napoleonic Wars as valiant warriors rise to Britain's defense by taking to the skies . . . not aboard aircraft but atop the mighty backs of fighting dragons.When HMS Reliant captures a French frigate and seizes its precious cargo, an unhatched dragon egg, fate sweeps Capt. Will Laurence from his seafaring life into an uncertain future--and an u

Alternate HistoryOcean and ShipsSoldiers and WarfareFast-Paced
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1634 The Baltic War

Eric Flint, David Weber · 728 pages

The time-traveling Americans from the West Virginia town of Grantville find themselves caught in the middle of the Baltic War, with Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, launching a counterattack on the combined forces of France, Spain, England, and Denmark.

Alternate HistorySoldiers and WarfareOcean and ShipsScience Fiction
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Blood for Blood

Ryan Graudin · 400 pages

In this alternate version of the 1950s, after the Axis powers win World War II, Yael, a Jewish skinshifter, fails in her mission to kill Hitler and finds herself being hunted while trying to finish what she started.

Alternate HistoryWorld War IIScience FictionFast-Paced
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Deathstalker War

Simon R. Green · 522 pages

Military Sci-FiSoldiers and WarfareScience FictionMultiple POV
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Front Lines

Michael Grant · 548 pages

**1942, WORLD WAR II.** The most terrible war in human history. Millions are dead; millions more are still to die. The Nazis rampage across Europe and eye far-off America. The green, untested American army is going up against the greatest fighting force ever assembled--the armed forces of Nazi Germany. But something has changed. A court decision makes females subject to the draft and elig

Alternate HistoryWorld War IISoldiers and WarfareMultiple POV
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The Hunt for Red October

Tom Clancy · 469 pages

Somewhere under the Atlantic, a Soviet sub commander has just made a fateful decision...the Red October is heading west.The Americans want her.The Russians want her back.And the most incredible chase in history is on...The Hunt for Red October is the runaway bestseller that launched Tom Clancy's phenomenal career. A military thriller so accurate and convincing that the author was rumored to have b

Ocean and ShipsMilitary Sci-FiMultiple POVSoldiers and Warfare
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Ark Royal

Christopher G. Nuttall · 380 pages

Soldiers and WarfareOcean and ShipsMilitary Sci-FiScience Fiction
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Halo: Contact Harvest

Joseph Staten · 400 pages

Based on the universe and characters from the multimillion selling Xbox video games Halo and Halo 2, Halo: Contact Harvest continues the story of humanity's next great battle in their ongoing wars against the seemingly infinite alien factions who consider the human race heathens. This is how it began... It is the year 2524. Harvest is a peaceful, prosperous farming colony on the very edge of human

Soldiers and WarfareMilitary Sci-FiScience FictionMultiple POV
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Halo: The Cole Protocol

Tobias S. Buckell · 368 pages

In the first, desperate days of the Human-Covenant War, the UNSC has enacted the Cole Protocol to safeguard Earth and its Inner Colonies from discovery by a merciless alien foe. When the Prophets send their best---an ambitious and ruthless Elite--to destroy the the Outer Colonies and acquire the location of Earth, a three-man renegade squad led by Navy Lieutenant Jacob Keyes fights to hold togethe

Soldiers and WarfareMilitary Sci-FiScience FictionMultiple POV
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Fortune's Stroke

Eric Flint, David Drake · 457 pages

Alternate HistorySoldiers and WarfareScience FictionMultiple POV
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Homeworld

Evan Currie · 500 pages

War comes home to the Sol system when the Drasin track a human ship back to Earth, with devastating consequences. Facing massive force of invading alien ships wielding terrible power, the crew of the NAC spacecraft, their allies, and the people of Earth must mount a desperate effort to stop them. Doomed from the start, but with nowhere to retreat, Captain Eric Weston commits his ship to the defens

Soldiers and WarfareMilitary Sci-FiScience FictionFast-Paced
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South by Java Head

Alistair MacLean · 272 pages

A classic World War 2 adventure set in south-east Asia. February, 1942: Singapore lies burning and shattered, defenceless before the conquering hordes of the Japanese Army, as the last boat slips out of the harbour into the South China Sea. On board are a desperate group of people, each with a secret to guard, each willing to kill to keep that secret safe. Who or what is the dissolute Englishman,

Ocean and ShipsWorld War IISoldiers and WarfareFast-Paced
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Light Bringer

Pierce Brown · 823 pages

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Darrow returns as Pierce Brown’s New York Times bestselling Red Rising series continues in the thrilling sequel to Dark Age. The Reaper is a legend, more myth than man: the savior of worlds, the leader of the Rising, the breaker of chains. But the Reaper is also Darrow, born of the red soil of Mars: a husband, a father, a friend. Marooned far from home after a devastati

Soldiers and WarfareMilitary Sci-FiScience FictionFast-Paced
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Manxome Foe

John Ringo, Travis S. Taylor · 341 pages

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.

Military Sci-FiSoldiers and WarfareScience FictionFast-Paced
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Red Inferno: 1945

Robert Conroy · 353 pages

Imagines an alternate-history World War II in which the United States fatefully takes Churchill and Patton's controversial advice to invade Berlin to prevent Stalin's expansion into Europe.

Alternate HistoryWorld War IISoldiers and WarfareMultiple POV
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Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor

Matthew Woodring Stover · 311 pages

When Luke Skywalker and his companions are lured to Mindor and into battle with the Black Stormtroopers, they are unaware that the confrontation is part of a plot by Lord Shadowspawn to destroy the heroes of the New Republic and to restore the Empire with himself as ruler.

Military Sci-FiSoldiers and WarfareScience FictionFast-Paced
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Rally Cry

William R. Forstchen · 416 pages

Alternate HistoryPortal FantasySoldiers and WarfareScience Fiction

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