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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... -
The Winner's Kiss by Marie Rutkoski
Some kisses come at a price. War has begun. Arin is in the thick of it with untrustworthy new allies and the empire as his enemy. Though he has convinced himself that he no longer loves Kestrel, Arin hasn’t forgotten her, or how she became exactly the kind of person he has always despised...Categorized as:
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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... -
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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The Gender Plan by Bella Forrest
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 27 ratings"I just had to believe we'd dealt a death blow of our own. That today would be the beginning of the end..." Ready for the explosive PENULTIMATE BOOK in The Gender Game series? (As we move toward the grand finale in Book 7: The Gender End)... -
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 Gender Lie by Bella Forrest
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 35 ratings"I'd want you to help me win a war..." After discovering the shocking secret buried deep within The Green, Violet has a grave decision to make. Trust the woman who saved her, or not? So far, everything about the woman has taken Violet by surprise. Her behavior has been honest and upfront - a refreshing change for Violet...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... -
Corruption by Jessica Shirvington
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 22 ratingsHow do you live with yourself when you’ve deceived the one you love? How do you move on when the person you’ve been fighting to save betrays you? Two years ago, Maggie Stevens began the hunt. Four weeks ago, Maggie’s world fell apart, when she finally found what she’d been looking for. And when Quentin, who had blindly trusted her, unravelled her web of lies... -
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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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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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... -
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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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Free to Fall by Lauren Miller
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsWhat if there was an app that told you what song to listen to, what coffee to order, who to date, even what to do with your life—an app that could ensure your complete and utter happiness? What if you never had to fail or make a wrong choice?What if you never had to fall? Fast-forward to a time when Apple and Google have been replaced by Gnosis, a monolith corporation that has developed the...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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Third Daughter by Susan Kaye Quinn
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsSkyships, saber duels, and lots of royal intrigue... and, of course, kissing. The Third Daughter of the Queen wants her birthday to arrive so she'll be free to marry for love, but rumors of a new flying weapon may force her to accept a barbarian prince's proposal for a peace-brokering marriage...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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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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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... -
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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The Queen by Kiera Cass
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 66 ratingsBefore America Singer's story began, another girl came to the palace to compete for the hand of a different prince….Don't miss this digital original novella set in the captivating world of Kiera Cass's #1 New York Times bestselling Selection series. This prequel story takes place before the events of The Selection and is told from the point of view of Prince Maxon's mother, Amberly... -
Grace and Fury by Tracy Banghart
Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsIn a world where women have no rights, sisters Serina and Nomi Tessaro face two very different fates: one in the palace, the other in prison.Serina has been groomed her whole life to become a Grace - someone to stand by the heir to the throne as a shining, subjugated example of the perfect woman...Categorized as:
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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... -
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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Coda by Emma Trevayne
Ever since he was a young boy, music has coursed through the veins of eighteen-year-old Anthem—the Corp has certainly seen to that. By encoding music with addictive and mind-altering elements, the Corp holds control over all citizens, particularly conduits like Anthem, whose life energy feeds the main power in the Grid...Categorized as:
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Arena by Holly Jennings
Rated: 3.62 of 5 stars · 16 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... -
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Elusion by Claudia Gabel, Cheryl Klam
Rated: 3.62 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsSoon, Elusion® will change the world and life as we know it. A new technology called Elusion is sweeping the country. An app, visor and wristband will virtually transport you to an exotic destination where adventure can be pursued without the complications—or consequences—of real life. Regan is an Elusion insider. Or at least she used to be...Categorized as:
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The Stars We Steal by Alexa Donne
Rated: 3.51 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsEngagement season is in the air. Eighteen-year-old Princess Leonie “Leo” Kolburg, heir to a faded European spaceship, only has one thing on her mind: which lucky bachelor can save her family from financial ruin? But when Leo’s childhood friend and first love Elliot returns as the captain of a successful whiskey ship, everything changes...Categorized as:
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Landry Park by Bethany Hagen
Downton Abbey meets The Selection in this dystopian tale of love and betrayal In a fragmented future United States ruled by the lavish gentry, seventeen-year-old Madeline Landry dreams of going to the university. Unfortunately, gentry decorum and her domineering father won't allow that. Madeline must marry, like a good Landry woman, and run the family estate... -
Glow by Amy Kathleen Ryan
Rated: 3.55 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsWhat if you were bound for a new world, about to pledge your life to someone you'd been promised to since birth, and one unexpected violent attack made survival—not love—the issue? Out in the murky nebula lurks an unseen enemy: the New Horizon...Categorized as:
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The Elite by Kiera Cass
The Selection began with thirty-five girls. Now with the group narrowed down to the six Elite, the competition to win Prince Maxon's heart is fiercer than ever—and America is still struggling to decide where her heart truly lies. Is it with Maxon, who could make her life a fairy tale? Or with her first love, Aspen? America is desperate for more time... -
The Heir by Kiera Cass
Princess Eadlyn has grown up hearing endless stories about how her mother and father met. Twenty years ago, America Singer entered the Selection and won the heart of Prince Maxon—and they lived happily ever after. Eadlyn has always found their fairy-tale story romantic, but she has no interest in trying to repeat it. If it were up to her, she'd put off marriage for as long as possible...Categorized as:
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The Scorpion Rules by Erin Bow
Rated: 3.41 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsThe world is at peace, said the Utterances. And really, if the odd princess has a hard day, is that too much to ask? Greta is a duchess and crown princess—and a hostage to peace. This is how the game is played: if you want to rule, you must give one of your children as a hostage. Go to war and your hostage dies. Greta will be free if she can survive until her eighteenth birthday...Categorized as:
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The 100 by Kass Morgan
Rated: 3.45 of 5 stars · 65 ratingsIn the future, humans live in city-like spaceships orbiting far above Earth's toxic atmosphere. No one knows when, or even if, the long-abandoned planet will be habitable again. But faced with dwindling resources and a growing populace, government leaders know they must reclaim their homeland... before it's too late...Categorized as:
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