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  • Honor Bound by Rachel Caine, Ann Aguirre

    Honor Bound by Rachel Caine, Ann Aguirre

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 21 ratings
    Zara Cole was a thief back on Earth, but she’s been recently upgraded to intergalactic fugitive. On the run after a bloody battle in a covert war that she never expected to be fighting, Zara, her co-pilot Beatriz, and their Leviathan ship Nadim barely escaped the carnage with their lives. Now Zara and her crew of Honors need a safe haven, far from the creatures who want to annihilate them...
  • The Grief Keeper by Alexandra Villasante

    The Grief Keeper by Alexandra Villasante

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    This stunning YA debut is a timely and heartfelt speculative narrative about healing, faith, and freedom.Seventeen-year-old Marisol has always dreamed of being American, learning what Americans and the US are like from television and Mrs. Rosen, an elderly expat who had employed Marisol's mother as a maid...
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  • Honor Among Thieves by Rachel Caine, Ann Aguirre

    Honor Among Thieves by Rachel Caine, Ann Aguirre

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 30 ratings
    Petty criminal Zara Cole has a painful past that’s made her stronger than most, which is why she chose life in New Detroit instead of moving with her family to Mars. In her eyes, living inside a dome isn’t much better than a prison cell.Still, when Zara commits a crime that has her running scared, jail might be exactly where she’s headed...
  • Stars, Hide Your Fires by Jessica Mary Best

    Stars, Hide Your Fires by Jessica Mary Best

    Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 12 ratings
    “A delightfully mischievous adventure full of intrigue, betrayal, and a touch of romance. Get ready to join your new favorite rebel crew.”—Dahlia Adler, author of Cool for the SummerA wanted thief. A murdered emperor. A killer loose on the station.Knives Out goes sci-fi in this gripping YA mystery set in space.As an expert thief from a minor moon, Cass knows a good mark when she sees one...
  • Adaptation by Malinda Lo

    Adaptation by Malinda Lo

    Rated: 3.65 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    Reese can’t remember anything from the time between the accident and the day she woke up almost a month later. She only knows one thing: She’s different now. Across North America, flocks of birds hurl themselves into airplanes, causing at least a dozen to crash. Thousands of people die. Fearing terrorism, the United States government grounds all flights, and millions of travelers are stranded...
  • 27 Hours by Tristina Wright

    27 Hours by Tristina Wright

    Rated: 3.31 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Rumor Mora fears two things: hellhounds too strong for him to kill, and failure. Jude Welton has two dreams: for humans to stop killing monsters, and for his strange abilities to vanish.But in no reality should a boy raised to love monsters fall for a boy raised to kill them.Nyx Llorca keeps two secrets: the moon speaks to her, and she’s in love with Dahlia, her best friend...
  • The City in the Middle of the Night (The City in the Middle of the Night) by Charlie Jane Anders

    The City in the Middle of the Night (The City in the Middle of the Night) by Charlie Jane Anders

    Rated: 3.54 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    LOCUS AWARD FINALIST!“This generation’s Le Guin.” —Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of LessCharlie Jane Anders, the nationally bestselling author of All the Birds in the Sky delivers a brilliant new novel set in a hauntingly strange future with #10 LA Times bestseller The City in the Middle of the Night."If you control our sleep, then you can own our dreams..
  • Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

    Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 162 ratings
    The Emperor needs necromancers.The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman.Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead nonsense.Tamsyn Muir’s Gideon the Ninth, first in The Locked Tomb Trilogy, unveils a solar system of swordplay, cut-throat politics, and lesbian necromancers. Her characters leap off the page, as skillfully animated as arcane revenants...
  • Always Human by Ari North

    Always Human by Ari North

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 30 ratings
    First serialized on the popular app and website WebToon, Always Human ran from 2015-2017 and amassed over 76,000 unique subscribers during its run. Now reformatted for a print edition in sponsorship with GLAAD, Always Human is a beautifully drawn graphic novel about a developing relationship between two young women in a near-future, soft sci-fi setting...
  • Crier's War by Nina Varela

    Crier's War by Nina Varela

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 58 ratings
    Impossible love between two girls —one human, one Made. A love that could birth a revolution.After the War of Kinds ravaged the kingdom of Rabu, the Automae, Designed to be the playthings of royals, took over the estates of their owners and bent the human race to their will...
  • Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh

    Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    A thrillingly told queer space opera about the wreckage of war, the family you find, and who you must become when every choice is stripped from you, Some Desperate Glory is Astounding Award Winner Emily Tesh’s highly anticipated debut novel. While we live, the enemy shall fear us. Since she was born, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth...
  • The Cybernetic Tea Shop by Meredith Katz

    The Cybernetic Tea Shop by Meredith Katz

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 26 ratings
    Clara Gutierrez is an AI repair technician and a wanderer. Her childhood with her migrant worker family has left her uncomfortable with lingering for too long, so she moves from place to place across retro-futuristic America. Sal is a fully autonomous robot. Older than the law declaring her kind illegal due to ethical concerns, she is at best out of place in society and at worst vilified...
  • Broken Throne by Victoria Aveyard

    Broken Throne by Victoria Aveyard

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 38 ratings
    Return once more to the deadly and dazzling world of Red Queen in Broken Throne, a beautifully designed, must-have companion to the chart-topping series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Victoria Aveyard...
  • Competence by Gail Carriger

    Competence by Gail Carriger

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 29 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Gail Carriger comes the delightful sequel to Imprudence. Accidentally abandoned! All alone in Singapore, proper Miss Primrose Tunstell must steal helium to save her airship, the Spotted Custard , in a scheme involving a lovesick werecat and a fake fish tail...
  • Girls at the Edge of the World by Laura Brooke Robson

    Girls at the Edge of the World by Laura Brooke Robson

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Set in a world on the edge of an apocryphal flood, this heart-stoppingly romantic fantasy debut is perfect for fans of Rachel Hartman and Rae Carson.In a world bound for an epic flood, only a chosen few are guaranteed safe passage into the new world once the waters recede. The Kostrovian royal court will be saved, of course, along with their guards...
  • The Weight of the Stars by K. Ancrum

    The Weight of the Stars by K. Ancrum

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Ryann Bird dreams of traveling across the stars. But a career in space isn’t an option for a girl who lives in a trailer park on the wrong side of town. So Ryann becomes her circumstances and settles for acting out and skipping school to hang out with her delinquent friends. One day she meets Alexandria: a furious loner who spurns Ryann’s offer of friendship...
  • The First Sister by Linden A. Lewis

    The First Sister by Linden A. Lewis

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 39 ratings
    First Sister has no name and no voice. As a priestess of the Sisterhood, she travels the stars alongside the soldiers of Earth and Mars—the same ones who own the rights to her body and soul. When her former captain abandons her, First Sister’s hopes for freedom are dashed when she is forced to stay on her ship with no friends, no power, and a new captain—Saito Ren—whom she knows nothing about...
  • Gearbreakers by Zoe Hana Mikuta

    Gearbreakers by Zoe Hana Mikuta

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 33 ratings
    Two girls on opposite sides of a war discover they're fighting for a common purpose--and falling for each other--in Zoe Hana Mikuta's high-octane debut Gearbreakers, perfect for fans of Pacific Rim, Pierce Brown's Red Rising Saga, and Marie Lu's Legend series.We went past praying to deities and started to build them instead..
  • Not Your Villain by C.B. Lee

    Not Your Villain by C.B. Lee

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Bells Broussard thought he had it made when his superpowers manifested early. Being a shapeshifter is awesome. He can change his hair whenever he wants, and if putting on a binder for the day is too much, he’s got it covered. But that was before he became the country’s most-wanted villain...
  • Not Your Sidekick by C.B. Lee

    Not Your Sidekick by C.B. Lee

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Welcome to Andover… where superpowers are common, but internships are complicated. Just ask high school nobody, Jessica Tran. Despite her heroic lineage, Jess is resigned to a life without superpowers and is merely looking to beef-up her college applications when she stumbles upon the perfect (paid!) internship—only it turns out to be for the town’s most heinous supervillain...
  • Elysium Girls by Kate Pentecost

    Elysium Girls by Kate Pentecost

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    In this sweeping Dust Bowl-inspired fantasy, a ten-year game between Life and Death pits the walled Oklahoma city of Elysium-including a girl gang of witches and a demon who longs for humanity-against the supernatural in order to judge mankind.When Sal is named Successor to Mother Morevna, a powerful witch and leader of Elysium, she jumps at the chance to prove herself to the town...
  • Alien: Echo by Mira Grant

    Alien: Echo by Mira Grant

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    An original young adult novel of the Alien universeOlivia and her twin sister Viola have been dragged around the universe for as long as they can remember. Their parents, both xenobiologists, are always in high demand for their research into obscure alien biology.Just settled on a new colony world, they discover an alien threat unlike anything they’ve ever seen...
  • Cinderella Is Dead by Kalynn Bayron

    Cinderella Is Dead by Kalynn Bayron

    Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 58 ratings
    It’s 200 years after Cinderella found her prince, but the fairy tale is over. Teen girls are now required to appear at the Annual Ball, where the men of the kingdom select wives based on a girl’s display of finery. If a suitable match is not found, the girls not chosen are never heard from again...
  • The Circus Rose by Betsy Cornwell

    The Circus Rose by Betsy Cornwell

    Rated: 3.40 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A queer retelling of “Snow White and Rose Red” in which teenage twins battle evil religious extremists to save their loves and their circus family. Twins Rosie and Ivory have grown up at their ringmaster mother’s knee, and after years on the road, they’re returning to Port End, the closest place to home they know...
  • The Scorpion Rules by Erin Bow

    The Scorpion Rules by Erin Bow

    Rated: 3.41 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    The 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...
  • That Inevitable Victorian Thing by E.K. Johnston

    That Inevitable Victorian Thing by E.K. Johnston

    Rated: 3.11 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 34 ratings
    Set in a near-future world where the British Empire was preserved, not by the cost of blood and theft but by effort of repatriation and promises kept, That Inevitable Victorian Thing is a novel of love, duty, and the small moments that can change people and the world...
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