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Scythe by Neal Shusterman
Thou shalt kill.A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery. Humanity has conquered all those things, and has even conquered death. Now scythes are the only ones who can end life—and they are commanded to do so, in order to keep the size of the population under control.Citra and Rowan are chosen to apprentice to a scythe—a role that neither wants...Categorized as:
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Traitor Born by Amy A. Bartol
Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsRebel warrior Roselle St. Sismode returns in the second book of the epic Secondborn series by USA Today bestselling author Amy A. Bartol. In the Fates Republic… Firstborns reign supreme. Secondborns kneel in servitude. Thirdborns face death. And Census shadows them all. Secondborn Roselle St...Categorized as:
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The Girl Who Dared to Rise by Bella Forrest
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe stakes grow ever higher for Liana Castell... and she must rise to meet them.Return to the Tower in the gripping fourth book of The Girl Who Dared series, where Liana will face her greatest challenge yet:Become Ambrose's replacement, or die trying.Pre-order now... -
Four: The Initiate by Veronica Roth
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 49 ratingsComplete your Divergent library with the Four stories! Fans of the Divergent series by #1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth will be delighted by "Four: The Initiate," the second of four stories, each between fifty and seventy-five pages long, set in the world of Divergent and told from Tobias's point of view... -
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Middle Ground by Katie Kacvinsky
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsFor four weeks Maddie has been living in Los Angeles, trying to be good. But no matter how hard she tries, something inside her won't be sated. She can't live a life of half-truths and false pretenses. So one night, she says how she really feels. That's all it takes. One night... -
The Gender End by Bella Forrest
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsThe breathtaking, earth-shattering GRAND FINALE of the bestselling Gender Game series.Return to Matrus and Patrus one last time.. -
The Wanted by Lauren Nicolle Taylor
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsWhat would you be willing to sacrifice to get what you Wanted? It’s the question facing both Rosa and Joseph as they are pushed and pulled in unimaginable directions. It’s the question Superior Grant answered with a resounding, “Anything and everything.” The only thing they want is to be back in each other’s arms... -
Psyren #05: Visions by Toshiaki Iwashiro
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsReads R to L (Japanese Style), for audiences rated teen. Ageha Yoshina just got transported to a warped alternate dimension where you've got to fight your way back to our world--or die trying. Visions A video recording shows a dark vision of the future, where many of Ageha’s friends are ruthlessly killed. To escape the danger posed by W.I.S... -
Wired by G.P. Ching
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsFaith kept her plain. Science made her complicated. Lydia and Korwin are the Liberty Party’s only hope of stopping Dr. Konrad and the Green Republic from developing a new genetically engineered weapon. But the already high stakes become personal when Konrad turns his thirst for power and revenge on what Lydia holds most dear... -
Ashen Winter by Mike Mullin
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsIt’s been over six months since the eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano. Alex and Darla have been staying with Alex’s relatives, trying to cope with the new reality of the primitive world so vividly portrayed in Ashfall, the first book in this series. It’s also been six months of waiting for Alex’s parents to return from Iowa...Categorized as:
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Het Gulden Vlies van Thule by Thea Beckman
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsDe Badeners zijn er tenslotte in geslaagd de Thuleense hoofdstad Gothab en enkele andere kustplaatsen te veroveren. Elvira komt naar Thule als dochter van ondergouverneur Upernavik, een kustplaats in het noorden. 's Nachts worden de Badeners opgeschrikt door sabotagedaden van de Thulenen. De kolonosatie stagneert. Het lijkt Elvira verstandig Thuleens te leren... -
The Selection Stories: The Prince & The Guard by Kiera Cass
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 51 ratingsTwo novellas set in the world of Kiera Cass's #1 New York Times bestselling Selection series are now available in print for the first time. The Prince and The Guard both offer captivating views into the hearts and minds of the two men fighting to win America Singer's love...Categorized as:
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The Treatment by Suzanne Young
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsCan Sloane and James survive the lies and secrets surrounding them, or will The Program claim them in the end? Find out in this sequel to The Program, which Publishers Weekly called “chilling and suspenseful.” How do you stop an epidemic? Sloane and James are on the run after barely surviving the suicide epidemic and The Program. But they’re not out of danger... -
Morrighan by Mary E. Pearson
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsA richly illustrated and romantic origin story of Mary E. Pearson's Remnant universe, the world of the BookTok sensations Dance of Thieves and Vow of Thieves and the New York Times-bestselling Remnant Chronicles... -
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Recon by Tarah Benner
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsEli knows corruption runs deep within the compound. It's a reality he's forced to confront every year on Bid Day. But when your job is to go out into the radiation-soaked Fringe so that others can live in peace, you don’t ask too many questions. For Harper, the bid system works just fine...Categorized as:
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The Returning by Rachelle Dekker
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsTwenty years have passed since Carrington and Remko Brant's baby, Elise, was kidnapped and they were forced to leave her captive in the Authority City. Though they fled with the Seers far from Authority reach, they've never given up hope of rescuing their daughter from the man who betrayed them...Categorized as:
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Sunset Rising by S.M. McEachern
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFebruary 2024: Desperate to find refuge from the nuclear storm, a group of civilians discover a secret government bio-dome. Greeted by a hail of bullets and told to turn back, the frantic refugees stand their ground and are grudgingly permitted entry. But the price of admission is high. 283 years later… Sunny O'Donnell is a seventeen-year-old slave who has never seen the sun...Categorized as:
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Sky on Fire by Emmy Laybourne
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsTrapped in a superstore by a series of escalating disasters, including a monster hailstorm and terrifying chemical weapons spill, brothers Dean and Alex learned how to survive and worked together with twelve other kids to build a refuge from the chaos. But then strangers appeared, destroying their fragile peace, and bringing both fresh disaster and a glimmer of hope... -
Savage Drift by Emmy Laybourne
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsThe stunningly fierce conclusion to Emmy Laybourne's Monument 14 trilogy. The survivors of the Monument 14 have finally made it to the safety of a Canadian refugee camp. Dean and Alex are cautiously starting to hope that a happy ending might be possible. But for Josie, separated from the group and trapped in a brutal prison camp for exposed Type Os, things have gone from bad to worse...Categorized as:
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Independent Study by Joelle Charbonneau
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 47 ratingsIn the series debut The Testing , sixteen-year-old Cia Vale was chosen by the United Commonwealth government as one of the best and brightest graduates of all the colonies . . . a promising leader in the effort to revitalize postwar civilization... -
Flame by Amy Kathleen Ryan
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsIn the thrilling conclusion to the Sky Chasers series Waverly, Kieran, and Seth struggle to survive on-board the New Horizon—and take down their enemies before it's too late. Waverly and the other members of the Empyrean have scattered, and their home ship has been destroyed... -
Prized by Caragh M. O'Brien
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 44 ratingsStriking out into the wasteland with nothing but her baby sister, a handful of supplies, and a rumor to guide her, sixteen-year-old midwife Gaia Stone survives, only to be captured by the people of Sylum, a dystopian society where women rule the men who drastically outnumber them, and a kiss is a crime...Categorized as:
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Frozen by Erin Bowman
The Heists were only the beginning. Gray Weathersby escaped from the primitive town of Claysoot expecting to find answers, but what he discovered shook him to the core: A ruthless dictator with absolute power. An army of young soldiers blinded by lies. And a growing rebellion determined to fight back... -
Ashfall by Mike Mullin
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 46 ratingsUnder the bubbling hot springs and geysers of Yellowstone National Park is a supervolcano. Most people don't know it's there. The caldera is so large that it can only be seen from a plane or satellite. It just could be overdue for an eruption, which would change the landscape and climate of our planet...Categorized as:
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Nexis by A.L. Davroe
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn the domed city of Evanescence, appearance is everything. A Natural Born amongst genetically-altered Aristocrats, all Ella ever wanted was to be like everyone else. Augmented, sparkling, and perfect. Then…the crash. Devastated by her father’s death and struggling with her new physical limitations, Ella is terrified to learn she is not just alone, but little more than a prisoner... -
The Program by Suzanne Young
In Sloane’s world, true feelings are forbidden, teen suicide is an epidemic, and the only solution is The Program. Sloane knows better than to cry in front of anyone. With suicide now an international epidemic, one outburst could land her in The Program, the only proven course of treatment. Sloane’s parents have already lost one child; Sloane knows they’ll do anything to keep her alive...Categorized as:
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Double Digit by Annabel Monaghan
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsDigit and John are back for a second book and in way over their heads. To say eighteen-year-old Farrah Higgins—or Digit—is good at math is a laughable understatement. She’s been cracking codes since childhood, and is finally at home with “her people” at MIT in Cambridge...Categorized as:
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In a Handful of Dust by Mindy McGinnis
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe only thing bigger than the world is fear. Lucy’s life by the pond has always been full. She has water and friends, laughter and the love of her adoptive mother, Lynn, who has made sure that Lucy’s childhood was very different from her own. Yet it seems Lucy’s future is settled already—a house, a man, children, and a water source—and anything beyond their life by the pond is beyond reach... -
Because It Is My Blood by Gabrielle Zevin
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 31 ratings“Every time I think I’m out, they pull me back in.”- Michael Corleone, The Godfather Freed from jail, Anya hopes that things will get back to normal. But life on the outside is even more dangerous than life behind bars. Some of her gangland family want revenge for the crime for which she has done time: the shooting of her uncle...Categorized as:
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Sky Without Stars by Jessica Brody, Joanne Rendell
Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsA thief. An officer. A guardian. Three strangers. One shared destiny . . .When the Last Days came, the planet of Laterre promised hope. But five hundred years later, it’s now a place where an extravagant elite class reigns supreme; where the clouds hide the stars and the poor starve in the streets; where a rebel group, long thought dead, is resurfacing...Categorized as:
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Nil by Lynne Matson
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsOn the mysterious island of Nil, the rules are set. You have one year. Exactly 365 days--to escape, or you die. Seventeen-year-old Charley doesn’t know the rules. She doesn’t even know where she is. The last thing she remembers is blacking out, and when she wakes up, she’s lying naked in an empty rock field... -
Not a Drop to Drink by Mindy McGinnis
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 44 ratingsRegret was for people with nothing to defend, people who had no water. Lynn knows every threat to her pond: drought, a snowless winter, coyotes, and, most importantly, people looking for a drink. She makes sure anyone who comes near the pond leaves thirsty, or doesn't leave at all. Confident in her own abilities, Lynn has no use for the world beyond the nearby fields and forest... -
Prototype by M.D. Waters
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsThe stunning debut that began with Archetype— and has readers buzzing—concludes in Prototype, when a woman’s dual pasts lock onto a collision course, threatening her present and future. Emma looks forward to the day when she can let go of her past—both of them...Categorized as:
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Doomed by Tracy Deebs
Beat the game. Save the world. Pandora's an average teen, glued to her cell phone and laptop, until the day her long-lost father sends her a link to a mysterious site featuring photos of her as a child. Curious, Pandora enters the site, unwittingly unleashing a global computer virus that plunges the whole world into panic: suddenly, there's no Internet. No cell phones...Categorized as:
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Rebel Heart by Moira Young
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsNothing is certain and no one is safe in the scorching sequel to Blood Red Road, which MTV’s Hollywood Crush blog called “better than The Hunger Games.”There is a price on Saba’s head. She brought down a ruthless tyrant and saved her kidnapped brother. But winning has come at a terrible cost...Categorized as:
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Restoration by Ann Aguirre
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIf you wondered why Fade retreated from Deuce at the end of Outpost, find out in his own words.Can be found athttp://page.macmillan.com/mcpg/razorl..Categorized as:
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Divided by Elsie Chapman
The hunter becomes the hunted. . . . West Grayer is done killing. She defeated her Alternate, a twin raised by another family, and proved she’s worthy of a future. She’s ready to move on with her life. The Board has other plans. They want her to kill one last time, and offer her a deal worth killing for...Categorized as:
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XBestia by Melissa Conway
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the future, bioengineered animals provide organs for human transplantation. Grafts of animal skin have replaced tattoos in popularity, which gives rise to a unique new demographic: xenofreaks...Categorized as:
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Raging Star by Moira Young
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsHer passion kept them alive. Now it may destroy them all. Saba is ready to seize her destiny and defeat DeMalo...until she meets him and finds herself drawn to the man and his vision of a healed earth, a New Eden. DeMalo wants Saba to join him, in life and work, to build a stable, sustainable world…for the chosen few. The young and the healthy. Under his control...Categorized as:
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Still Point by Katie Kacvinsky
Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsIn the final installment to the trilogy begun with Awaken, Maddie returns home to make her final stand against Digital School, and uncovers deeply guarded secrets about her family an new truths about herself...Categorized as:
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Captive by Aimee Carter
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsFor the past two months, Kitty Doe's life has been a lie. Forced to impersonate the Prime Minister's niece, her frustration grows as her trust in her fake fiancé cracks, her real boyfriend is forbidden and the Blackcoats keep her in the dark more than ever...Categorized as:
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A Girl Called Fearless by Catherine Linka
Rated: 3.62 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAn Indie Next Pick! Avie Reveare has the normal life of a privileged teen growing up in L.A., at least as normal as any girl’s life is these days. After a synthetic hormone in beef killed fifty million American women ten years ago, only young girls, old women, men, and boys are left to pick up the pieces... -
The Vault of Dreamers by Caragh M. O'Brien
Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsFrom the author of the Birthmarked trilogy comes a fast-paced, psychologically thrilling novel about what happens when your dreams are not your own. The Forge School is the most prestigious arts school in the country...Categorized as:
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Meritropolis by Joel Ohman
Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn Meritropolis everyone is assigned a numerical Score that decides their worth to society and whether they live or die. After a young boy is killed because of a low Score, his brother plots to take down the System. “ The Hunger Games meets The Village with a young Jack Reacher as a protagonist...Categorized as:
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All These Things I've Done by Gabrielle Zevin
Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars · 43 ratingsIn 2083, chocolate and coffee are illegal, paper is hard to find, water is carefully rationed, and New York City is rife with crime and poverty. And yet, for Anya Balanchine, the sixteen-year-old daughter of the city's most notorious (and dead) crime boss, life is fairly routine... -
Arena by Holly Jennings
Rated: 3.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA fast-paced and gripping near-future science fiction debut about the gritty world of competitive gaming... Every week, Kali Ling fights to the death on national TV. She’s died hundreds of times. And it never gets easier... The RAGE tournaments—the Virtual Gaming League’s elite competition where the best gamers in the world compete in a no-holds-barred fight to the digital death... -
Resist by Sarah Crossan
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsThe sequel—and conclusion—to Sarah Crossan's Breathe. Three teen outlaws must survive on their own in a world without air, exiled outside the glass dome that protects what's left of human civilization. Gripping action, provocative ideas, and shocking revelations in a dystopian novel that fans of Patrick Ness and Veronica Roth will devour. Bea, Alina, and Quinn are on the run... -
Day 21 by Kass Morgan
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 50 ratingsNo one has set foot on Earth in centuries -- until now. It's been 21 days since the hundred landed on Earth. They're the only humans to set foot on the planet in centuries...or so they thought. Facing an unknown enemy, Wells attempts to keep the group together. Clarke strikes out for Mount Weather, in search of other Colonists, while Bellamy is determined to rescue his sister, no matter the cost...Categorized as:
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The Prince by Kiera Cass
Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars · 79 ratingsTwo novellas set in the world of Kiera Cass's #1 New York Times bestselling Selection series are now available in print for the first time. The Prince and The Guard both offer captivating views into the hearts and minds of the two men fighting to win America Singer's love... -
Salvage by Alexandra Duncan
Rated: 3.65 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsSalvage is a thrilling, surprising, and thought-provoking debut novel that will appeal to fans of Across the Universe , by Beth Revis, and The Handmaid's Tale , by Margaret Atwood. This is literary science fiction with a feminist twist, and it explores themes of choice, agency, rebellion, and family...Categorized as:
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