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1) Leviathan
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The renowned work by the English political philosopher examines the structure of society and legitimate government, arguing for a social contract and rule by an absolute sovereign.
""During the time men live without a common Power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called Warre." Written during the turmoil of the English Civil War, Leviathan is an ambitious and highly original work of political philosophy. Claiming that...
2) Leviathan
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Leviathan trilogy volume 1
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In an alternate 1914 Europe, fifteen-year-old Austrian Prince Alek, on the run from the Clanker Powers who are attempting to take over the globe using mechanical machinery, forms an uneasy alliance with Deryn who, disguised as a boy to join the British Air Service, is learning to fly genetically-engineered beasts.
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Expanse volume 9
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"The Laconian Empire has fallen, setting the thirteen hundred solar systems free from the rule of Winston Duarte. But the ancient enemy that killed the gate builders is awake, and the war against our universe has begun again. In the dead system of Adro, Elvi Okoye leads a desperate scientific mission to understand what the gate builders were and what destroyed them, even if it means compromising herself and the half-alien children who bear the weight...
4) Leviathan
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Two drugged-out couples contemplate life and morality in "Leviathan," a classic short-story by the masterful Tobias Wolff.
For Helen's thirtieth birthday party, her husband decides to throw her a small party. Armed with booze and three grams of cocaine, the four partyers-Helen, her husband, and another couple-spend the night and the next morning in a drug-induced stupor. As their talk turns to past misdeeds and shameful acts, the couples begin to...
5) Leviathan
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Ein geheimnisvolles Artefakt auf dem Meeresgrund.
Eine rätselhafte Mordserie. Die Opfer sind bestialisch entstellt.
Eine uralte Macht, die nicht von dieser Welt zu sein scheint.
Und ein Mann, der im Kampf gegen das Böse seine Berufung findet: John Sinclair.
"Sinclair - Dead Zone" ist der Auftakt der neuen Serie SINCLAIR und erzählt die Entstehungsgeschichte von John Sinclair - völlig neu und von Anfang an. Noch nie war Sinclair zeitgenössischer,...
6) Leviathan
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Event Group thrillers volume 4
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The ships of the world are under attack, attacks so sudden and vicious that many ships are lost without a single distress call. Enter the Event Group, the most secret organisation in US history. Armed with proof that history is repeating itself, the Group finds themselves in the grasp of an insane genius straight out of the pages of Jules Verne.
7) Leviathan
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No one lives to old age in the village. When their Time is come, they are taken and never seen again. That is The Way. And, should anyone try to break with the established order of things, then the fury of Herne the Hunter is unleashed...
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Expanse volume 1
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When Captain Jim Holden's ice miner stumbles across the derelict, abandoned ship the Scopuli, he uncovers a secret that threatens to throw the entire system into war. Attacked by a stealth ship belonging to the Mars fleet, Holden must find a way to uncover the motives behind the attack, stop a war and find the truth behind a vast conspiracy that threatens the entire human race. Detective Miller is looking for a girl. One girl in a system of billions,...
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Mallory brothers cycle volume 2
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Terrorists threaten America in this “thriller that takes the ‘Day After Tomorrow’ concept of accelerated weather disasters a bit further” (The Charlotte Observer).
Homeland Security secretary Catherine Blaine has received a frightening communication from a hacker identified only by the pseudonym “Janus.” Three recent natural disasters around the world were correctly predicted—in...
Homeland Security secretary Catherine Blaine has received a frightening communication from a hacker identified only by the pseudonym “Janus.” Three recent natural disasters around the world were correctly predicted—in...
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The epic history of the "iron men in wooden boats" who built an industrial empire through the pursuit of whales. Few things can capture the sheer danger and desperation of men on the deep sea as dramatically as whaling. Environmental writer Dolin chronicles the rise of a burgeoning industry, from its brutal struggles during the Revolutionary period to its golden age in the mid-1800s when a fleet of more than 700 ships hunted the seas and American...
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In Ben Bova's novel JUPITER, physicist Grant Archer led an expedition into Jupiter's hostile planetwide ocean, attempting to study the unusual and massive creatures that call the planet their home. Unprepared for the hostile environment and crushing pressures, Grant's team faced certain death as their ship malfunctioned and slowly sank to the planet's depths. However one of Jupiter's native creatures-a city-sized leviathan-saved the doomed ship. This...
12) Leviathan's War
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One ship stood against many in a war that has lasted a thousand years...
The Blaze are getting their direction and technology from those who had driven the Progenitors from the galaxy. The Vestrall.
Leviathan takes his select humans to the frontlines in Earth's war with the Blaze Collective to collect intelligence on where to find the Vestrall. The Blaze aren't forthcoming.
They go farther, a thousand light-years behind enemy lines to a planet...
13) Leviathan's Fear
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Trapped in Ga'ee space, Leviathan runs for its life.
And the lives of its crew.
Declan Payne and Harry Wesson decide to go on the offensive. They have no choice.
They can't go home. It only delays the inevitable.
The Ga'ee march relentlessly into the space of the seven races while turning an inward eye toward the interloper, the ship they call God1. They direct tens of thousands of Ga'ee carriers to destroy Leviathan.
The silicon-based life forms...
14) Leviathan Rises
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The Ga'ee escaped, but aren't on the run.
They are coming back, and when they return, it'll be with a vast armada of ten-kilometer-long ships with millions of drones.
Next time would be for real.
The invasion would mean the end of all life.
Earth Fleet must rally the seven races.
And Declan Payne and his team are at the front of the fight as Leviathan goes to war.
While goliaths wrestle, the galaxy's fate hinges on the decisions of a small group...
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Peace is earned, not given.
Aliens are seizing planets at the edge of Berantz space. Earth Fleet sends an armada to investigate.
They're never heard from again.
Word reaches the Vestrall home planet of the encroachment. Declan Payne knows what has to be done, convince Leviathan to investigate. Peace through superior firepower, through the threat of annihilation.
But Lev is retired. And so is Payne and his team.
The choice is taken out of their...
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The Vestrall fight back, but Leviathan stands in their way. And Major Payne opens a new front in the war.
His goal is nothing less than turning the Vestrall's allies against them to bring peace to the galaxy.
The Vestrall exist, and they have secrets. The war will continue because it suits them.
Humanity must confront the real enemy. They must win or the war will continue for another thousand years. There's only one ship that can do what needs...
17) The Leviathan
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Enormous, with a Scots father and a Greek mother, Tay Munro is the stuff gods are made of. He is also the meanest, biggest, nastiest trainer of men at Blackchurch. Most importantly, he is a firm believer that women should not be warriors and he does his best to wash out the female he is assigned to train.
Enter Athdara de Ghent. Beautiful and mysterious, Tay is attracted to her from the start but that does not stop his attempts to break her. When...
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The leviathan is the vast unity of the State. But how are unity, peace, and security to be attained? Hobbes' answer is sovereignty, but the resurgence of interest today in Leviathan is due less to its answers than its methods: Hobbes sees politics as a science capable of the same axiomatic approach as geometry. Written during the turmoil of the English Civil War, Leviathan was, in Hobbes' lifetime, publicly burnt and even condemned in Parliament as...
19) Black Leviathan
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Melville's Moby Dick unfolds in a world of dragon hunters in Black Leviathan, an epic revenge fantasy from German award-winning author Bernd Perplies.
Beware! A shadow will cover you, larger than that cast by any other dragon of this world. Black as the lightless chasm from whence it was born at the beginning of time.
In the coastal city Skargakar, residents make a living from hunting dragons and use them for everything from clothing to food, while...
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A derelict warship, ancient but still alive. A small team of humans fighting for all humanity.
Built for a time when the races were just finding their way to the stars, finding that they could dominate others. The galactic conquests created the arms race and the ancients, the Progenitors had to protect their own. They built a ship to drive the others away.
It worked. And it didn't. The Progenitors abandoned the galaxy to the newcomers, leaving relics...
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