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Author
Series
Expanse volume 9
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"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...
3) Leviathan
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
An analysis of how and why power must be used in a market society to preserve peace and prosperity.
Author
Series
Expanse volume 1
Language
English
Description
When Captain Jim Holden's ice miner stumbles across a derelict, abandoned ship, 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.
5) Leviathan
Author
Series
Leviathan trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
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.
6) Leviathan
Author
Series
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Two Syndicate Worlds star systems have fallen prey to a mysterious fleet of warships a fleet controlled entirely by artificial intelligence that is now targeting Alliance space. The warships are no mystery to Geary. They were developed by his government to ensure security, but malfunctioned. If the Syndics learn the truth, the war with the Alliance will resume with a vengeance. As the government attempts to conceal the existence of the AI warships...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Russian
Description
Kolya lives in a small fishing town near the stunning Barents Sea in Northern Russia. He owns an auto-repair shop that stands right next to the house where he lives with his young wife Lilya and his son Roma. The town's corrupt mayor is determined to take away his business, his house, and his land.
8) Leviathan
Author
Series
Adventuregame comics volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A "choose your own story" graphic novel. In a small medieval coastal town, the residents live in fear of a giant sea creature, the Leviathan, who attacks anyone who lies. Your mission: discover the secrets and defeat the creature before it's too late! How you go about it depends on the choices you make.
Author
Series
Grand tour of the solar system volume 18
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Several years after his Jupiter ocean exploration team is rescued by a native creature in an act that proved the species' intelligence, physicist Grant Archer prepares for a new expedition that is threatened by both the hostile environment of the giant planet and sabotaging humans.
11) Calypso
Author
Language
English
Description
David Sedaris sets his formidable powers of observation toward middle age and mortality. This is beach reading for people who detest beaches, required reading for those who loathe small talk, and also Sedaris' darkest and warmest book yet.
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Red clouds over Metropolis The terrorist group Leviathan has outmaneuvered every intelligence agency in the DC Universe, attacking strongholds and amassing power. But while Superman responds to the global chaos, Metropolis also faces a local menace. The Invisible Mafia is a clandestine criminal organization, somehow managing to operate right under the Man of Steel s nose, aided by the metahuman enforcer Red Cloud. Amidst the madness, Lex Luthor returns...
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The ultimate conspiracy The DC Universe is a dangerous place. And for every superhero soaring through its skies or super-villain stalking its streets, there is a secret organization waging war beneath the surface. Checkmate. Spyral. A.R.G.U.S. The D.E.O. Task Force X. Some of these clandestine agencies and secret societies are good. Some are evil. Some operate in shades of gray. Now, one by one, theyre being taken down by the most dreaded conspiracy...
14) Goliath
Author
Series
Leviathan trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Alek and Deryn encounter obstacles on the last leg of their round-the-world quest to end World War I, reclaim Alek's throne as prince of Austria, and finally fall in love.
Author
Publisher
Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"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 airborne ships hunt them in the white expanse of the Cloudmere. Lian does his part carving the kyrillian crystals that power the ships through the cloud...
16) The tainted cup
Author
Series
Shadow of the leviathan volume 1
Language
English
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Description
"An eccentric detective and her long-suffering assistant untangle a web of magic, deceit, and murder in fantasy reimagining of the classic crime novel"--
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