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The fall before the rise…The Penguin Alliance is growing, and the Overlord's plans of conquest begin to take shape. But all is not well at Pack Ice Command. Dissent simmers close to the surface and shows itself in the form of his sons' discontent. Weary of life under their father's increasingly maniacal rule, General Liutites and his brother Temalus hope to free themselves from the Overlord's tyranny. With the rank of Supreme Commander hanging...

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The Reacher, helped by King Dalverious, finally possesses all the pieces required to reconstruct the Staff of the Din, the one instrument that will allow him to gain corporeal form, cross into the Whist and seize the lives of all who live there.Back in Illguard, Bet and her crew set off in search of Fealist-Marsh, the Omia Temporian, the only being strong enough to oppose the Reacher and his dark forces. Moth, the Ancient One, can show them th...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings papers from the 8th International Workshop on Performance Modeling, Benchmarking and Simulation of High Performance Computing Systems, PMBS 2017, held in Denver, Colorado, USA, in November 2017. The 10 full papers and 3 short papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 36 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: performance evaluation and analysis, p...

Malweather Farm: A place where cruelty, abuse, and the promise of endless toil is the order of the day. Also home to Bet (Don't call me Bethany!), an orphaned teen. Malweather is the only world she knows. The rest, she's learned from books.Bet has a secret that could get her killed. One night, delirious with fever, she speaks of it. Her only chance of survival rests in her ability to cross into another realm and leave the darkness she grew up ...

The fourth installment in The Rise of the Penguins Saga. THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES...Since the fall of the Overlord, Nok and the penguins of Rockhopper Colony 23 have fought bitterly just to survive. Nok, the colony's leader, is plagued by dissent and distrust at every turn as the colony struggles to regroup and stabilize. But something far worse lurks below the safety of the warrens, and Nok's political rival, Lydeck, and his unyielding oppositi...

THE HUMANS HAVE BROUGHT THE FIGHT TO ANTARCTICA&hellip, As the War of the Species rages, the Overlord has sent General Diutes to regain control of the fracturing Penguin Defense Alliance. Desperate for a strong leader in the General's absence, Antaean offers the rogue Warlord of Planarseae, the chance to take Diutes' place and stall the human onslaught. But Talus and his band of outcasts have no loyalty to the Overlord... Russian-born mer...

The War of the Species has begun. An ancient race of penguin has reemerged. From this race a powerful leader declares himself Overlord and unites the penguin clans of the world. His goal: to drive the human presence away from Antarctica and to exact revenge for the atrocities of the past against penguinkind. Through shadowy alliances and manipulation the Overlord launches a full scale war against the humans. The Overlord's tactics are ruthless...

After suffering incredible losses, the Penguin Defense Alliance regroups on RHC 23. Under the leadership of Lavour, Leepoh and Nok, the penguins implement a new strategy of survival. Foregoing the Overlord's ideas of conquest, they reform themselves as the Alliance of Independent Colonies and embark on a journey to the west coast of the South America to protect the threatened Humboldt Penguins. However, the Royal Emperor leadership has other i...

The Order of Kings has governed the affairs of the King Penguins since time immemorial. But after a costly victory against the humans on South Georgia Island, the colony leader, King Elinthaw, convinces the Order to go on the offensive against the Royal Emperors, seeking revenge for breaking their alliance. A stalwart commander, Admiral Gregor, suspects something more is at play and begins to question the king's motives. However, Gregor has hi...

A new threat has emerged from the ruins of Pack Ice Command... The penguins have fled Antarctica. Regrouping on a remote island, the fractured alliance falls under the command of the Royal Emperor, Mearna. But is she different from her blood-thirsty predecessors? Her obsession with finding the legendary Basileios penguin, Aperion, leads many to doubt her leadership-including her son, Ceocilus. However, any hope Ceocilus has to restore order re...