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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... -
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Library Wars: Love & War, Vol. 4 by Kiiro Yumi, Hiro Arikawa
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn the near future, the federal government creates a committee to rid society of books it deems unsuitable... -
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![Library Wars: Love & War, Vol. 3 by Kiiro Yumi]()
Library Wars: Love & War, Vol. 3 by Kiiro Yumi
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsIn the near future, the federal government creates a committee to rid society of books it deems unsuitable. The libraries vow to protect their collections, and with the help of local governments, form a military group to defend themselves--the Library Forces!Iku is witness to a disturbance during a Board of Education speech on protecting children from the danger of books... -
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Sunrise by Mike Mullin
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsThe Yellowstone supervolcano nearly wiped out the human race. Now, almost a year after the eruption, the survivors seem determined to finish the job. Communities wage war on each other, gangs of cannibals roam the countryside, and what little government survived the eruption has collapsed completely. The ham radio has gone silent...Categorized as:
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![Four: The Initiate by Veronica Roth]()
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... -
![Middle Ground by Katie Kacvinsky]()
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]()
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]()
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... -
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Insignia by S.J. Kincaid
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsThe earth is in the middle of WWIII in Insignia , the first entry in S. J. Kincaid's fast-paced sci-fi adventure trilogy perfect for fans of Ender's Game . The planet's natural resources are almost gone, and war is being fought to control the assets of the solar system. The enemy is winning. The salvation may be Tom Raines. Tom doesn't seem like a hero... -
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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... -
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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... -
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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]()
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... -
![Worlds Collide by S.M. McEachern]()
Worlds Collide by S.M. McEachern
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsCenturies old secrets and forbidden love collide in the action-packed sequel to Sunset Rising.In Worlds Collide, the second book of the Sunset Rising Trilogy, Sunny and Jack must continue a life of subterfuge in order to stay alive and find a way to free the Pit... -
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![The Wounded by Lauren Nicolle Taylor]()
The Wounded by Lauren Nicolle Taylor
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsYou think you’re in control. That it’s your hands on the reins. But I’m starting to think either someone else is driving, or the reins are attached to nothing. Just flapping and snapping in the breeze. What could be simple, never is. Rosa doesn’t want to get used to being separated from Joseph, from Orry... -
![The Wall by Lauren Nicolle Taylor]()
The Wall by Lauren Nicolle Taylor
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsJoseph, wake up, wake up, wake up... She says it over and over. It’s her mantra, her prayer, her plea. But life doesn’t stop while he’s sleeping. With a newborn baby in her arms, Rosa's thrown into a new world, with new rules and a philosophy that sounds too good to be true. She’s sure they didn’t rescue her out of the goodness of their hearts. The Survivors must want something in return... -
![Chronicle of the Eternal: Volume 1 by D. Wolfin, Dylan Pierpont]()
Chronicle of the Eternal: Volume 1 by D. Wolfin, Dylan Pierpont
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the year XX, the human population exhausted the world’s resources, leading to cataclysmic environment changes and the imminent extinction of all life on the planet. Frantic space exploration became the world's focus, but failed to find a new world for the human race. In desperation, humanity went digital. Minds were scanned, encoded, and transferred to the virtual world of Grandosa... -
![Solar Fury: A Post-Apocalyptic Survival Romance by E.A. Chance]()
Solar Fury: A Post-Apocalyptic Survival Romance by E.A. Chance
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNavigating life is no picnic for young widowed surgeon, Riley Poole, so when a global solar flare strikes - destroying the power grid and stranding her in Washington, D.C. with her teenage daughter - it will take near superhuman courage to find safe harbor in a world gone mad... -
![Erebos by Ursula Poznanski]()
Erebos by Ursula Poznanski
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsErebos ist ein Computerspiel, das an einer Londoner Schule als Raubkopie von Schüler zu Schüler herumgereicht wird; wer es einmal spielt, wird "süchtig" danach... -
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The Son by Veronica Roth
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 44 ratingsMore Four! Fans of the Divergent series by No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth will be thrilled by ‘The Son’, the third of four new short stories told from Four’s perspective...Categorized as:
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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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![Recoil by Joanne Macgregor]()
Recoil by Joanne Macgregor
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsWhen a skilled gamer gets recruited as a sniper in the war against a terrorist-produced pandemic, she discovers there’s more than one enemy and more than one war. The Game is real. Three years after a series of terrorist attacks flooded the US with a lethal plague, society has changed radically... -
![The Returning by Rachelle Dekker]()
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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Outcasts by Jill Williamson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSince entering the Safe Lands, Mason has focused on two things: finding a way to free his village from captivity and finding a cure for the disease that ravages many within the walls of the Safe Lands. After immune-suppressive drugs go missing in the clinic, Mason discovers his coworker, Ciddah, may know more about the Safe Lands than imagined...and may have an agenda of her own... -
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![Second Daughter by Susan Kaye Quinn]()
Second Daughter by Susan Kaye Quinn
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe sequel to the steampunk fantasy romance Third Daughter (The Dharian Affairs #1) is here! Assassins, skyships, and royal intrigue... With plans for a second skyship exposed, Third Daughter Aniri fears her sister, Seledri, will be caught in a war between the three Queendoms...Categorized as:
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![Reclaim by Casey L. Bond, Indie Books Gone Wild]()
Reclaim by Casey L. Bond, Indie Books Gone Wild
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Greaters have ruled over the Lessers since The Fall. They’ve taken Abby’s family. They’ve taken her friends. They’ve taken her hostage and threatened the villages. Enough is enough. Freedom is worth fighting for. Love is worth dying for. And the Lessers are done taking orders from the Greaters. Reclaim…the epic conclusion of the award-winning Harvest Saga... -
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Refuse by Joanne Macgregor
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEveryone wants Jinxy, except the one she loves.In a near-future USA decimated by an incurable plague and tightly controlled by a repressive government, teenagers with special skills are recruited and trained to fight in the war against terror.Now a rebellion is brewing... -
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Three by Kristen Simmons
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsEmber Miller and Chase Jennings are ready to stop running. After weeks spent in hiding as two of the Bureau of Reformation’s most wanted criminals, they have finally arrived at the safe house, where they hope to live a safe and quiet existence. And all that’s left is smoking ruins... -
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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... -
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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]()
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... -
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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... -
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Breaking Point by Kristen Simmons
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsThe second installment in Kristen Simmons's fast-paced, gripping YA dystopian series. After faking their deaths to escape from prison, Ember Miller and Chase Jennings have only one goal: to lay low until the Federal Bureau of Reformation forgets they ever existed... -
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Guardian by Alex London
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThe pulse-pounding sequel to Proxy! Inspired by The Whipping Boy and Feed, this adrenaline-fueled thriller will appeal to fans of The Hunger Games and Divergent. In the new world led by the Rebooters, former Proxy Syd is the figurehead of the Revolution, beloved by some and hated by others. Liam, a seventeen-year-old Rebooter, is Syd’s bodyguard and must protect him with his life... -
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![Echo in Time by C.J. Hill, Janette Rallison]()
Echo in Time by C.J. Hill, Janette Rallison
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsAfter being pulled 400 years into the future, twins Taylor and Sheridan have found some refuge from the government of Traventon, which used the dangerous Time Strainer to yank the girls from the past. Yet the threat of the dangerous technology still looms. Taylor and an ally, Joseph, are selected to go on a mission to destroy the time machine and weapon... -
![LIFEL1K3 by Jay Kristoff]()
LIFEL1K3 by Jay Kristoff
From the coauthor of the New York Times bestselling Illuminae Files comes the first book in a new series that's part Romeo and Juliet, part Terminator, and all adrenaline.On an island junkyard beneath a sky that glows with radiation, a deadly secret lies buried in the scrap. Seventeen-year-old Eve isn't looking for trouble--she's too busy looking over her shoulder...Categorized as:
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The Severed Tower by J. Barton Mitchell
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHolt, Mira, and Max have fled Midnight City with Zoey after watching her repel an entire Assembly army. Zoey's powers are unlocked, but who and what she is remains a mystery. All she knows is that she must reach the Severed Tower, an infamous location in the middle of the world's most dangerous landscape: The Strange Lands, a place where the laws of physics have completely broken down... -
![Fuse by Julianna Baggott]()
Fuse by Julianna Baggott
We want our son returned. This girl is proof that we can save you all. If you ignore our plea, we will kill our hostages one at a time. To be a Pure is to be perfect, untouched by Detonations that scarred the earth and sheltered inside the paradise that is the Dome. But Partridge escaped to the outside world, where Wretches struggle to survive amid smoke and ash... -
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Rising: After the Thaw by Tamar Sloan, Heidi Catherine
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFour tests. Seven days. Nine teens. Only the chosen shall breed.Humans now live in a super greenhouse. Seas have risen. Oceans have acidified. And the fight for resources is deadly. To ensure nothing of this magnitude ever happens again, only those with enough intelligence and heart will earn the right to bear children and heal the earth... -
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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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![The Mind Keepers by Lori Brighton]()
The Mind Keepers by Lori Brighton
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsCheck out the exciting conclusion to the Mind Readers series! It’s been months since everything familiar in Nora’s life vanished into the unforgiving waters off the Savannah coast, leaving her with nothing but her powers of mind reading. Although she’s lost her mother and her home, Nora has managed to move on, thanks in part to her sister Cameron, the only family she has left... -
![I Am Alive by Cameron Jace]()
I Am Alive by Cameron Jace
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsI am not my heart rate. I am not my skills. I am not my sleeping problems. I am not my stress. I am not my fears. I am not how I look like. I am the very essence of me. I am my will. I am my passion. I am my beliefs. I am how much I can give and receive love. I am infinite and possible. I am my soul. My name is Decca Tenderstone... -
![The Sowing by K. Makansi]()
The Sowing by K. Makansi
Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThe Famine may be over, but the Resistance has just begun. When Remy Alexander is fifteen, her older sister is murdered in a cold-blooded classroom massacre. When the Okarian Sector hides the truth behind the attack, Remy's family goes underground to join the clandestine and growing Resistance movement. Now, three years later, Remy is beginning to find clues about why her sister was murdered... -
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Captives by Jill Williamson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn a dystopian future, eighteen-year-old Levi returns from Denver City with his latest scavenged treasures and finds his village of Glenrock decimated, loved ones killed, and many--including his fiancée, Jem--taken captive. Now alone, Levi is determined to rescue what remains of his people, even if it means entering the Safe Lands, a walled city that seems anything but safe... -
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![The Program by Suzanne Young]()
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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![Brewer by Kate Avery Ellison]()
Brewer by Kate Avery Ellison
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratings*This novella takes place during Bluewing, #4 in The Frost Chronicles series* Adam Brewer has a past, and he doesn't like to speak about it. Few know his journey from refugee to Thorns agent. Even fewer know the extent of his feelings for a certain fierce young woman. Stuck in a prison cell, he must stay sane...and hold on to hope that he'll see her again... -
![Blightborn by Chuck Wendig]()
Blightborn by Chuck Wendig
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsCael McAvoy is on the run. He’s heading toward the Empyrean to rescue his sister, Merelda, and to find Gwennie before she’s lost to Cael forever. With his pals, Lane and Rigo, Cael journeys across the Heartland to catch a ride into the sky. But with Boyland and others after them, Cael and his friends won’t make it through unchanged... -
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Delirium Stories: Hana, Annabel, and Raven by Lauren Oliver
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsFor the first time, Lauren Oliver's short stories about characters in the Delirium world appear in print. Originally published as digital novellas, Hana, Annabel, and Raven each center around a fascinating and complex character who adds important information to the series and gives it greater depth... -
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Quanta Reset by Lola Dodge
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsQuanta has escaped her laboratory prison, but that’s where the good news ends. Life at the Shadow Ravens’ compound is a disaster. She’s drowning in visions of the dark pasts and darker futures of her fellow Ravens and is plagued by her own panic-inducing memories, but Lady Eva still expects her to “train” and “participate in missions.” Plus, the food tastes like burnt plastic... -
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Creators by Tiffany Truitt
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsThe dramatic conclusion to the Lost Souls trilogy, which answers readers’ questions and finally pits natural Tess against the true enemies of Templeton, the creators Heartbroken but more determined than ever after a tense showdown in the woods, sixteen-year-old Tess once again returns to the safety of her community of Isolationists...
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