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An Impossible Situation. An Impossible Balance. A Choice Like No Other.
One choice determines the path of billions.
My choice determines everything. My choice damns or saves my people. My choice gives or loses me power.
Do I keep the balance? Or lose everything?
If you love enthralling, suspenseful political science fiction short stories, you'll love this one!
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The planet Attica has two continents: Lambda and Delta. The indigenous alien population being restricted to Delta, Earth's colony was planted on Lambda. Before the arrival of the Daedalus, two sailing ships had set out from Lambda to cross the ocean separating the two continents, and neither had returned. Now a third is on its way, and Mariel Valory and Alex Alexander of the Daedalus have hitched a lift, in order that Mariel might use her talent to...
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In Volume 2 of The Throne of Olympus - "Balance of Power", Zane Ravenscroft comes face to face with Christophe Villon, in a final showdown for control of the two great banking dynasty families. To the victor will go great power and control of 'The Work of Ages' - to the defeated, oblivion. Set against the backdrop of true, world events, "Dallas" and "I Claudius" unite, resulting in a deeply engaging and richly entertaining experience. The protagonists...
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They aren't above killing, and now his family and boyfriend are missing. Everyone thinks The Order's dangerous new super villain Nightmare wants to destroy the world, but Quinn knows better.This is different. This time, it's personal.The stakes have never been higher, and Quinn-as the superhero Blue Spekter-has a crazy plan that just might work. Can he defeat Nightmare and The Order before it's too late?If he fails and Nightmare slaughters him, who...
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Power. The elixir that drives many. Power the combining wealth and intelligence has crash landed in Shepherds Pass. The balance of power that has for decades kept two sides of a waring family in deadlock now seems destined to tilt.An outside gangster bent on profiting from an inevitable onslaught sends killers to stop Lavon and Abby's progress.
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Leaf is the new Elven King. His enemies have uncovered ancient weapons from the bowels of the earth, and now Leaf must recover his own artefacts if he is to maintain a balance of power. With an army at his command he journeys to those places where time has stopped and evil resides. Heroes rise, adventure awaits along with all the promise of epic fantasy: dragons, demons, and a quest against impossible odds, magic and sorcery, and an unexpected turn...
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In the years since the end of The Herald War, the world has become complacent despite Catrin Volker's warnings. When the darkness of her visions comes to pass, no one is prepared, and the fate of humanity will rest in her hands.
The Balance of Power trilogy is the second trilogy in the World of Gods land fantasy series.
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Randall L. Schweller is Associate Professor of Political Science at The Ohio State University. Schweller's research focuses on theories of world politics, international security, and strategic studies. He is the author of Deadly Imbalances: Tripolarity and Hitler's Strategy of World Conquest, as well as many articles in journals such as World Politics, International Studies Quarterly, International Security, American Political Science Review, American...
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Abandoned at birth.
Relentlessly hunted by the enemies of her family.
The Test of Balance is her only hope of survival.
Laina and Drake Larsen live a happy, unassuming life in the remote mountainous Middle Vale, far from the growing turmoil spreading across Endari. But, Laina's source energy is awakening and the protection that once hid her from vengeful eyes is lifting. The magic of her family will soon become a beacon for the hunters sent from...
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Gale Researcher Guide for: Reform, Identity, and the Balance of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.
11) Jesus in Beijing: How Christianity Is Transforming China And Changing the Global Balance of Power
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This book details the great unreported story of the Chinese giant, its enormously rapid conversion to Christianity, and what this change means to the global balance of power.
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Since living in peace is a way to freedom. We all would need to be willing to follow rules, regulations and laws in order to enjoy our life. We all need an environment that is free of violence and crime where all of us can really enjoy the earth with all it splendor.
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Ninigret (c. 1600–1676) was a sachem of the Niantic and Narragansett Indians of what is now Rhode Island from the mid-1630s through the mid-1670s. For Ninigret and his contemporaries, Indian Country and New England were multipolar political worlds shaped by ever-shifting intertribal rivalries. In the first biography of Ninigret, Julie A. Fisher and David J. Silverman assert that he was the most influential Indian leader of his era in southern New...
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"The United States government is strong. But no single person has all that power. What do you know about checks and balances? Discover the roles of the three branches of government, how their power is divided, and the systems that stop any one part of government from getting too strong. It's key social studies curriculum made approachable for all!"--
15) Once a witch
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Witch volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
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Born into a family of witches, seventeen-year-old Tamsin is raised believing that she alone lacks a magical Talent, but when her beautiful and powerful sister is taken by an age-old rival of the family in an attempt to change the balance of power, Tamsin discovers her true destiny.
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"Chaos reigns in the wake of the collapse of Afghanistan's Soviet-backed government. In the rural, warlord-ruled south, a student is badly beaten at a checkpoint run by bandits. His mullah, who leads a madrassa for orphans left behind by Afghanistan's civil war, leads his students back to the checkpoint and forces the bandits out. His actions set in motion a chain of events that will change the balance of power in his country and send shock waves...
17) The cloud roads
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Books of the Raksura volume 1
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"Moon has spent his life hiding what he is--a shape-shifter able to transform himself into a winged creature of flight. An orphan with only vague memories of his own kind, Moon tries to fit in among the tribes of his river valley, with mixed success. Just as Moon's true nature is once again discovered and he is cast out by his adopted tribe, he encounters a shape-shifter like himself... someone who seems to know exactly what Moon is, who promises...
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Nick Flynn novels volume 2
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In this sequel to Dale Brown's New York Times bestselling Arctic Storm Rising, former U.S. Air Force officer Nick Flynn is caught up in a shadow war against allied Russia and Iran—a duo wielding a terrifying new weapon.
Nick Flynn is back in action, and he has a new employer—a shadowy intelligence outfit whose roots go back to the very beginning of the Cold War. But his first mission for them almost becomes his
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NUMA files volume 15
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Everywhere, waters are rising—and that's just the beginning of the world's peril unless the NUMA crew can beat the clock in this thrilling #1 New York Times-bestseller from the grand master of adventure.
An alarming rise in the world's sea levels—much larger than could be accounted for by glacier melt—sends Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala, and the rest of the NUMA scientific team rocketing around the globe in search of answers. What...
An alarming rise in the world's sea levels—much larger than could be accounted for by glacier melt—sends Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala, and the rest of the NUMA scientific team rocketing around the globe in search of answers. What...
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Cotton Malone novels volume 15
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"In New York Times bestseller, Steve Berry's, latest Cotton Malone adventure, one by one the seven precious relics of the Arma Christi, the weapons of Christ, are disappearing from sanctuaries across the world. After former Justice Department agent, Cotton Malone, witnesses the theft of one of them, he learns from his old boss, Stephanie Nelle, that a private auction is about to be held where incriminating information on the president of Poland will...
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