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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 come to an end. However, even though a provisional veil of peace has fallen over human colonies, the quiet will not last. For Safehold is a broken world, and as international alliances shift and Charis charges on with its precarious mission of global industrialization, the shifting plates of the new world order are bound to clash.

The Star Kingdom's ally Erewhon is growing increasingly restive in the alliance because the new High Ridge regime ignores its needs. Add to that the longstanding problem of a slave labor planet controlled by hostile Mesans in Erewhon's stellar back yard, a problem which High Ridge also ignores.

After an industrial ship carrying advanced self-replicating machines explodes on its way to Mercury, analysis of the wreckage reveals it to be forty years too old. Raibert Kaminski, the Gordian Division’s top agent, and his crew on the TransTemporal Vehicle Kleio soon discover the ship had been transported to an uncharted universe, one with temporarily accelerated time. Forty years passed for the ship’s industrial machines while everyone else experienced only a few short days. Raibert is certain a powerful weapon of some nature has been built out in the unexplored reaches of the multiverse.

Lieutenant Travis Long of the Royal Manticoran Navy is the sort of person who likes an orderly universe. One where people follow the rules. Unfortunately he lives in the real universe. The good news is that Travis is one of those rare people who may like rules but has a talent for thinking outside them when everything starts coming apart. That talent has stood him - and the Star Kingdom - in good stead in the past, and it's one reason he's now a "mustang" - an ex-enlisted man who's been given a commission.

The Church of God Awaiting's triumph over Charis was inevitable. Despite its prosperity, the Charis was a single, small island realm. It boasted less than 2 percent of the total population of Safehold. How could it possibly resist total destruction? The Church had every reason to be confident of a swift, crushing victory, an object lesson to other rebels.

Prince Roger is coming home, but home isn't what it was when he left. Traitors have murdered his brother and sister, his nieces and nephews. His mother, the empress, is still alive but in the hands of Roger's own biological father, who controls her through drugs and physical and psychological torture. A new heir to the throne has been conceived, and once the child is born his mother will no longer be necessary to the traitors' plans.

We've come a long way in the forty years since the Shongairi attacked Earth, killed half its people, and then were driven away by an alliance of humans with the other sentient bipeds who inhabit our planet. We took the technology they left behind, and rapidly built ourselves into a starfaring civilization. Because we haven't got a moment to lose. Because it's clear that there are even more powerful, more hostile aliens out there, and Earth needs allies. But it also transpires that the Shongairi expedition that nearly destroyed our home planet ... wasn't an official one.

The Atlas Corporation was all set to tear apart the planet Mercury—converting its resources into a swarm of solar-collecting megastructures—when Esteban Velasco, lead Atlas engineer, is found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. Detective Isaac Cho and Special Agent Susan Cantrell, both eager to return to active duty despite close calls on their last case, are sent in to assess the situation. Their superiors expect a simple declaration of suicide, but Velasco’s death proves anything but typical.

A New Age of Reason: Harnessing the Power of Tech for Good provides a roadmap for integrating emerging world-changing technologies, such as AI/robotics, chips/sensors, and quantum computing, to solve some of today's thorniest and most pressing problems like climate change and world hunger.

Throughout the human experience, historians have wondered “what if?”. What if Sherman had fought for the South in the US Civil War? What if Germany had fought to the end in World War I? What if World War III had actually happened? Wonder no more, for these questions, along with many others, are answered in this audiobook.

Set in and around contemporary Jerusalem, Shulamith Hareven's Twilight and Other Stories is a mesmerizing collection, bringing readers into the lives and worlds of her characters. Praise: “Haraven once again uses her creative skill to craft these troubling, almost surreal stories . . . whose psychological insight and imaginative prose make them both engrossing and haunting.” — Molly Abramowitz, Library Journal

If you’re ready to take a journey into yourself unlike ever before, you’re ready for My Life Has No Purpose! It’s a hands-on guide for those truly ready to understand themselves and the world around them with incredible clarity...Imagine knowing- truly knowing at a core level - what is really going on and being able to find your own purpose using your own innate gifts. In other words, what if you could live your life for you?

Auch in diesem Abenteuer hat Honor Harrington es wieder einmal mit allerlei Widrigkeiten zu tun. Zwar wurde der Angriff der Republik von Haven erfolgreich abgewehrt, doch damit sind die Probleme des Königreiches Manticore noch nicht beendet. Honor findet sich unerwartet inmitten einer innerpolitischen Krise wieder, verraten von einem alten Feind, den sie schon lange besiegt geglaubt. Nun muss sie auf einem Schlachtfeld für Gerechtigkeit kämpfen, das ihr gänzlich unvertraut ist.

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Die erfolgreiche Military-Science-Fiction-Serie von Bestseller-Autor David Weber erstmals als Hörbuch! Ein neues, in sich abgeschlossenes Abenteuer um die schillernde Honor - diesmal im Exil. Wenn C. S. Forester, der Autor der Horatio-Hornblower-Romane, Science Fiction geschrieben hätte: Dies hier wäre das Resultat.

Die erfolgreiche Military-Science-Fiction-Serie von Bestseller-Autor David Weber erstmals als Hörbuch! Der Planet Grayson spielt eine Schlüsselrolle im Konflikt zwischen Manticore und der Volksrepublik Haven. Das Außenministerium Ihrer Majestät der Königin übersieht jedoch eine "unbedeutende kulturelle Besonderheit", als es Honor Harrington beauftragt, auf Grayson für Ruhe und Ordnung zu sorgen: Dort besitzen Frauen weder Recht noch Stand; die bloße Anwesenheit Honors ist ein unerträglicher Affront.

Die erfolgreiche Military-Science-Fiction-Serie von Bestseller-Autor David Weber erstmals als Hörbuch! Manchmal ist es für Admiral Lady Dame Honor Harrington alles andere als leicht zu entscheiden, wer der Feind wirklich ist. Trotz politischer Gegener, beruflicher Eifersüchteleien und des Skandals, der sie ins Exil trieb, erhält sie eine Chance, wieder das Weltraumschwarz und Gold der Royal Manticorans Navy zu tragen und ihre Karriere in der Flotte ihrer Geburtswelt erneut aufzunehmen. Die Sache hat nur einen Haken. Wieder gewöhnlicher Captain, muss sie das Kommando über ein "Geschwader" aus aufgemotzten bewaffneten Handelsschiffen übernehmen, deren Besatzungen sich aus dem Bodensatz der Flotte rekrutieren.

Honor Harrington hat einen Fehler begangen: Sie hat sich ihren Vorgesetzten zum Feind gemacht. In Unehren wurde sie daraufhin auf den kleinen Außenposten Basilisk versetzt. Ihre demoralisierte Mannschaft macht sie für diese Degradierung verantwortlich. Das Parlament weiß nicht, ob es den Sternensektor überhaupt behalten will; die ortsansässigen Händler sind Schmuggler und fordern Honors Kopf; ein benachbartes Sternenreich schmiedet dunkle Ränke.

Die erfolgreiche Military-Science-Fiction-Serie von Bestseller-Autor David Weber erstmals als Hörbuch! Die Familien, welche die Republik von Haven regieren, stecken in Schwierigkeiten: Die Schatzkammern sind leer, das Volk ist unruhig, und ein Bürgerkrieg droht. Doch es gibt eine Taktik, die sich in der Vergangenheit bereits mehrfach bewährt hat: Ein kurzer Krieg muss her, ein schneller Sieg, der das Volk wieder eint und die Schatzkammern füllt.

The Great Tome Series continues with The Great Tome of Dragons and Draconic Lore. Enjoy this collection of tales that provide a unique exploration of the legendary creature and its kin.