David Weber
2) In fury born
Author
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
When her world is destroyed by planet pirates and her family is slaughtered, former commando leader Alicia DeVries turns pirate herself, steals a cutting-edge ship from the Empire, and launches a campaign to seek revenge on those responsible.
Author
Series
Honor Harrington novel volume 9
Publisher
Baen Books
Language
English
Description
Honor Harrington's escape from a prison planet has landed the woman the newsies call "the Salamander" once more in the heart of the war. But this time, the furnace may be too hot for even a salamander to survive.
4) We few
Author
Series
Empire of men volume 4
Language
English
Description
Prince Roger MacClintock was an heir to the galaxy's Throne of Man-and a self-obsessed spoiled young brat-until he and the Royal Marines sent to protect him were stranded on Marduk with only their feet to get them half way around the entire planet. So far, they've crossed a continent, crossed a sea full of ship-eating monsters, taken over an enemy spaceport, and hijacked a starship. But they're not home-free yet, because home is no longer free. In...
Author
Series
Honor Harrington novel volume 13
Language
English
Description
After a brutal attack on the Manticoran home system, Honor Harrington learns of a Mesan Alignment plot to enslave the entire human species and prepares for a defense that places the Star Kingdom at terrible risk.
Peril and strife strike on a double front for Honor Harrington and company. After a brutal attack on the Manticoran home system, Honor Harrington and the Star Kingdom she serves battle back against a new, technologically powerful, and utterly...
Author
Series
Safehold volume 2
Language
English
Description
Despite the implacable hostility of the Church of God Awaiting, Charis still stands, still free, still tolerant, still an island of innovation in a world in which the Church has worked for centuries to keep humanity locked at a medieval level of existence. But the powerful men who run the Church aren't going to take their defeat lying down. Charis may control the world's seas, but it barely has an army worthy of the name. And as King Cayleb knows,...
Author
Series
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
Language
English
Description
SCIENCE FICTION. Young Cayleb Ahrmahk has accomplished things few people could even dream of. Not yet even thirty years old, he's won the most crushing naval victories in human history. He's smashed a hostile alliance of no less than five princedoms and won the hand of the beautiful young Queen Sharleyan of Chisholm. Cayleb and Sharleyan have created the Charisian Empire, the greatest naval power in the history of Safehold, and they've turned Charis...
Author
Series
Shongairi volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A master sergeant prowling the back country of the Balkans and a firearms instructor and former Marine find themselves at the center of a growing network of resistance against an invading force of alien, carnivorous Shongari intent on annihilating the human race.
Author
Series
Honor Harrington novel volume 1
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
12) March to the sea
Author
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Marooned on a barbaric world, Prince Roger MacClintock, the Royal Brat, and his Royal Marines take on barbarian hordes and fierce monsters as they make their way to a distant port that holds their only hope for escape.
Author
Series
Honor Harrington novel volume 19
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Honor's finishing what she started. The Solarian League's navy counts its superdreadnoughts by the thousands. Not even its own government knows how enormous its economy truly is. And for hundreds of years, the League has borne the banner of human civilization, been the ideal to which humanity aspires in its diaspora across the galaxy. But the bureaucrats known as the "Mandarins," who rule today's League, are not the men and women who founded it so...
Author
Series
Saganami volume 3
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 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
The Kingdom of Charis and the Kingdom of Chisholm have joined together, pledged to stand against the tyranny of a corrupt Church. The youthful Queen Sharleyan of Chisholm has wed King Cayleb of Charis, forging a single dynasty, a single empire, dedicated to the defense of human freedom. Yet there are things Sharleyan still does not know. Secrets Cayleb has not been permitted to share, even with her--and these secrets may threaten all they have achieved...
Author
Series
War God volume 5
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"It's always good to know who you are, but sometimes that's a little difficult. Kenhodan has no last name, because he has no past...or not one he remembers, anyway. What he does have are a lot of scars and a lot of skills, some exhilarating and some terrifying and a purpose. Now if he only knew where he'd gotten them and what that purpose was... Wencit of Rum, the most powerful wizard in the world, knows the answers to Kenhodan's questions, but he...
Author
Series
Safehold volume 8
Publisher
Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
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. Those...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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...
Author
Series
Star Kingdom volume 1
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
1140L
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.