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3) 501st
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Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
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"The Jedi have been decimated in the Great Purge, and the Republic has fallen. Now the former Republic Commandos--the galaxy's finest special forces troops, cloned from Jango Fett--find themselves on opposing sides and in very different armor. Some have deserted and fled to Mandalone with the mercenaries, renegade clone troopers, and rogue Jedi who make up Kal Skirata's ragtag resistance to Imperial occupation. Others--including men from Delta and...
Publisher
Koch Vision
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Documentary films produced by the Allied military during 1944-1945 as a permanent visual record of the campaigns in Europe. Covers every major engagement from D-Day to the fall of Berlin. Disc 1: The true glory: Widely regarded as one of the greatest war documentaries ever made and utilized the footage of combat cameramen from nine nations. From Italy to D-Day: Covers the war in Europe from July 1943 to June 1944 and concentrates on the land operations...
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Pub. Date
2011
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English
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"After the collapse of the Han dynasty in the third century CE, China divided along a north-south line. Mark Lewis traces the changes that both underlay and resulted from this split in a period that saw the geographic redefinition of China, more engagement with the outside world, significant changes to family life, developments in the literary and social arenas, and the introduction of new religions." "The Yangzi River valley arose as the rice-producing...
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中文(繁體)
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When she saw her sister looking at her with a cruel smile, and her gentle husband looking at her with disdain, she knew that she was just a substitute for her sister and a stepping stone for him to reach a high position. In fact, she is only a puppet controlled by others. Thanks to heaven's mercy, she was given a chance to start over again. This life, she decided to punish her evil sister severely, retaliate against the unfaithful man. Let's see how...
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Cassandra Chamberlain has always stood out. It's hard not too at 6'1" and 165 pounds with jet black hair and sapphire blue eyes. And if that wasn't enough she is also brilliant, graduating from Harvard at fifteen, teaching at MIT at nineteen and up for the prestigious Magellan Award at twenty five. But she's never really fit in. Not with her peers, not with her contemporaries, only with her family. But everything changes when the Earth is attacked...
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中文(繁體)
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When she saw her sister looking at her with a cruel smile, and her gentle husband looking at her with disdain, she knew that she was just a substitute for her sister and a stepping stone for him to reach a high position. In fact, she is only a puppet controlled by others. Thanks to heaven's mercy, she was given a chance to start over again. This life, she decided to punish her evil sister severely, retaliate against the unfaithful man. Let's see how...
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中文(繁體)
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She traveled back to the ancient times by accident. That injured man thought she was tempting him, while she just wanted to help. He teared her clothes and took over her body. How can she be so unlucky? Be bullied by a stranger when she just arrived this place! "If you touch me again, I will chew off the tongue and die." She said angrily. In the grand place where is fully of tricks and lies, they start with unwillingness and violence can they have...
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Victoria Lynn Chamberlain... at two, she was abducted by an alien race, the Regulians... at nine, her world literally explodes when the Regulians returned, destroying Earth. She and her Aunt are the only survivors thanks to another alien race, the Carinians. Now she's eighteen, a new graduate from their top medical school, and is ready to claim her life mate. Lucas, the handsome Carinian pilot that saved her all those years... cycles... ago.
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12) Ancillary sword
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English
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"What if you once had thousands of bodies and near god-like technology at your disposal? And what if all of it were ripped away? The Lord of the Radch has given Breq command of the ship Mercy of Kalr and sent her to the only place she would have agreed to go -- to Athoek Station, where Lieutenant Awn's sister works in Horticulture. Athoek was annexed some six hundred years ago, and by now everyone is fully civilized -- or should be. But everything...
13) Ancillary mercy
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Series
Imperial Radch volume 3
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English
Description
"For a moment, things seemed to be under control for Breq, the soldier who used to be a warship. Then a search of Athoek Station's slums turns up someone who shouldn't exist, and a messenger from the mysterious Presger empire arrives, as does Breq's enemy, the divided and quite possibly insane Anaander Mianaai--ruler of an empire at war with itself"--Page 4 of cover.
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中文(繁體)
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She traveled back to the ancient times by accident. That injured man thought she was tempting him, while she just wanted to help. He teared her clothes and took over her body. How can she be so unlucky? Be bullied by a stranger when she just arrived this place! "If you touch me again, I will chew off the tongue and die." She said angrily. In the grand place where is fully of tricks and lies, they start with unwillingness and violence can they have...
15) The high ground
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Series
Imperials saga volume 1
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English
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Emperor's daughter Mercedes is the first woman ever admitted to the High Ground, the elite training academy of the Solar League's Star Command, and she must graduate if she is to have any hope of taking the throne. Her classmate Tracy has more modest goals--to rise to the rank of captain, and win fame and honor. But a civil war is coming and the political machinations of those who yearn for power threatens the young cadets. In a time of intrigue and...
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Jotham is the King of the House of Protection. He was the youngest male ever to assume the position because of the sudden death of his father in Jotham's twentieth cycle. In the last forty cycles, he married his life mate, Lata, and lost her in a transport accident. He had two sons and lost one due to his son's own treachery. Now his first son, Barek, is interested in a woman and Jotham is going to find out everything about her he can.
Jacinda is...
17) Dynasty: A Novel
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An epic of love and adultery, money and power, set amid the revolutionary turbulence of twentieth-century China, from the author of Manchu and Mandarin. Founder of the Sekloong dynasty of Hong Kong, Sir Jonathan, the illegitimate offspring of an Irish adventurer and his Chinese mistress, overcame colonial prejudice to build a vast and influential trading empire spanning half a century. The marriage of Sir Jonathan's profligate son Charles to the ambitious...
18) Manchu: A Novel
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New York Times Bestseller: This epic novel of the conquest of the Ming dynasty "does for 17th-century China what James Clavell's Shogun did for 16th-century Japan" (TheChristian Science Monitor). Francis Arrowsmith is a man without a country, a soldier-of-fortune in search of a war. An English orphan raised in France by exiled Jesuits, he hopes to make a quick pile out of his rare skills in building and operating artillery. Little does he know that...
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A grand tale of intrigue in nineteenth-century China, where imperial rule is crumbling as the Opium Wars and Taiping Rebellion rage, from the author of Manchu. Loyalty is put to cruel test in Shanghai, where Jewish merchant Saul Haleevie and his longtime Chinese partner, Aisek Lee, have weathered hardship and distrust to build a thriving business. When Aisek is falsely accused of 'abomination' for causing his mother's suicide, their world is shattered....
20) Provenance
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"A power-driven young woman has just one chance to secure the status she craves and regain priceless lost artifacts prized by her people. She must free their thief from a prison planet from which no one has ever returned. Ingray and her charge will return to her home world to find their planet in political turmoil, at the heart of an escalating intergalactic conflict. Together, they must make a new plan to salvage Ingray's future, her family, and...