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Author
Series
Safehold volume 10
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Those on the side of progressing humanity through advanced technology have finally triumphed over their oppressors.The unholy war between the small but mighty island realm of Charis and the radical, luddite Church of God's Awaiting has finally come to an end. However, even though a provisional veil of peace has fallen over human colonies, many secrets of Safehold's past still remain unearthed. With new alliances forged and old regimes fractured, Merlin--the...
3) Treecat wars
Author
Series
Star Kingdom volume 3
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"Two young settlers on a pioneer planet seek to stop a war and to save the intelligent alien treecats from exploitation by unscrupulous humans"--
Author
Series
Star Kingdom volume 1
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Stephanie Harrington, a genetically-enhanced girl on the pioneer planet of Sphinx, bonds with a treecat, a telepathic and fully sentient animal, putting her in danger from highly placed enemies who want to ensure that the planet remains entirely in human hands.
5) Fire season
Author
Series
Star Kingdom volume 2
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Stephanie Harrington and her fellow Provisional Forest Rangers on the planet Sphinx must prevent disaster from befalling a treecat clan caught in a blaze while preserving the secret that the treecats of Sphinx are highly intelligent and deserving of rights that some would deny them.
Author
Series
Safehold volume 8
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Centuries ago, the human race fought its first great war against an alien race, and lost. A tiny population of human beings fled to distant Safehold. Centuries later, their descendants have forgotten their history; for them, life has been an eternal Middle Ages, ruled by the Church of God Awaiting, whose secret purpose is to prevent the re-emergence of industrial civilization. But not all of Safehold's founders were on board with this plan... --Publisher....
Author
Series
Safehold volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
With humankind reduced to a single colony on the world of Safehold, the human rulers of the planet, in an effort to preserve the remnants of their industrial civilization, build a religion designed to hide the colony by keeping its society medieval.
Author
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...
Author
Series
Safehold volume 7
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"For centuries, the world of Safehold, last redoubt of the human race, lay under the unchallenged rule of the Church of God Awaiting. The Church permitted nothing new--no new inventions, no new understandings of the world. What no one knew was that the Church was an elaborate fraud--a high-tech system established by a rebel faction of Safehold's founders, meant to keep humanity hidden from the powerful alien race that had destroyed old Earth. Then...
10) A call to arms
Author
Series
Manticore Ascendant volume 2
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Dieter Lanz's regiment, "The Scarlets", is called into battle when an orc army starts a rampage across the country. The Scarlet's are defeated and now Hochland is threatened with collapse.
11) A call to duty
Author
Series
Manticore Ascendant volume 1
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Safehold volume 9
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When the leaders and soldiers of the tiny island of Charis rise up behind cybernetic avatar Merlin to defend their home, a powerful Church of God Awaiting, pushed to the brink of defeat, draws on its formidable resources and forbidden technologies in an ultimate battle between freedom and oppression. --Novelist.
Author
Series
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The Mesan Alignment has a plan--one it's been working on for centuries. A plan to remake the galaxy and genetically improve the human race--its way. Until recently, things have gone pretty much as scheduled but then the Alignment hit two bumps in the road: one called the Star Empire of Manticore, the other named Honor Harrington. In order to undercut Manticore's galaxy-wide reputation as a star nation of its word, it launched Operation Janus--a false-flag...
Author
Series
Manticore Ascendant volume 3
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"After the disastrous attack on the Manticoran home system by unknown forces, the Royal Manticoran Navy stands on the brink of collapse. A shadowy enemy seek to conquer the Star Kingdom from without while from within, forces from Manticore's own government seek to discredit and weaken the Navy for their own political gain. It's up to officers like Travis Long and Lisa Donnelly to defend the Star Kingdom but the challenge is greater than any they have...
15) Mission of honor
Author
Series
Honor Harrington volume 12
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
As the Republic of Haven, the Solarian League, and other hidden enemies bear down on the Star Kingdom of Manticore, Honor Harrington must do all she can to prevent billions of people from being killed in an all-out galactic war.
Author
Series
Worlds of Honor volume 3
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
A collection of short fiction presents the dangerous and multifaceted world of Honor Harrington--starship captain, admiral, and interstellar heroine.
Author
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
"Doctor Benjamin Schroder was a history teacher until a psychotic episode turned his world upside down. Benjamin now had memories, not just of his own life, but of an entire ghastly world where millions of civilians had been systematically slaughtered in 'extermination camps,' there is still a Soviet Union, the Korean Peninsula is divided, thousands of nuclear warheads spread their threat across Earth and the Middle East was a festering sore of bloodshed,...
19) Out of the dark
Author
Series
Out of the dark volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
After an alien race called the Shongari virtually conquer Earth, Master Sergeant Stephen Buchevsky and the rest of the humans must forge an alliance with Earth's vampires, who, once the enemies of the humans, now are willing to make amends--to defend thehome planet they have in common.
Author
Series
Manticore Ascendant volume 4
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"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, it had little need for a navy... and even less interest in paying for one. But Manticore has now become a target. The Star Kingdom isn't certain who is attacking it, or...
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