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  • Blaze Erupting by Rebecca Zanetti

    Blaze Erupting by Rebecca Zanetti

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author, Rebecca Zanetti, comes a new Scorpius Syndrome/A Brigade Novella… Hugh Johnson is nobody’s hero, and the idea of being in the limelight makes him want to growl. He takes care of his brothers, does his job, and enjoys a mellow evening hanging with his hound dog and watching the sports channel...
  • The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson

    The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 49 ratings
    An epic novel and a thrilling literary discovery, The Orphan Master’s Son follows a young man’s journey through the icy waters, dark tunnels, and eerie spy chambers of the world’s most mysterious dictatorship, North Korea. Pak Jun Do is the haunted son of a lost mother—a singer “stolen” to Pyongyang—and an influential father who runs Long Tomorrows, a work camp for orphans...
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  • Sovereign by E.R. Arroyo

    Sovereign by E.R. Arroyo

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Chemical warfare has obliterated most of the world, including America, and the survivors have turned into feral beasts, save one colony, Antius, the last remnant of civilization. Seventeen-year-old Cori (aka Citizen 1206) only longs for wide open spaces and freedom. But Antius has no use for such things, just mindless drones to serve in a place with walls, fences, and laws...
  • The Andalite Chronicles by Katherine Applegate

    The Andalite Chronicles by Katherine Applegate

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Elfangor-Sirinial-Shamtul is an Andalite war prince--the one who gave the Animorphs the power to morph. "The Andalite Chronicles" is the story of how this warrior-cadet ended up on planet Earth Ages 9-12. Pub: 12/97.
  • Blood Ties by Sophie McKenzie

    Blood Ties by Sophie McKenzie

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    A gripping thriller from the Richard and Judy award-winning author of Girl, Missing, Sophie McKenzie. When Theo discovers the father he thought died when he was a baby is still alive, he's determined to find him. The clues lead him to the lonely Rachel, who has problems of her own, including parents who compare her unfavourably to her long-dead sister...
  • State of Chaos by Summer Lane

    State of Chaos by Summer Lane

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Cassidy Hart has had better days. Her dad is missing. Her friends have been captured. And modern society is pretty much gone, thanks to an EMP that destroyed the technological infrastructure of the United States. Surviving in the foothills of California is a challenge, but with the help of former Navy SEAL Chris Young, Cassidy's been able to stay alive. Until now...
  • Gratuitous Epilogue by Andrea K. Höst

    Gratuitous Epilogue by Andrea K. Höst

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    What happens when the plot ends? A relentless barrage of weddings, babies, and planetary colonisation! Meandering through the two years following the conclusion of the Touchstone Trilogy, this self-indulgent collection of family reminiscence is more saccharine than dramatic, with the most action to be found in snowball fights...
  • He, She and It by Marge Piercy

    He, She and It by Marge Piercy

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    "A triumph of the imagination. Rich, complex, impossible to put down." Alice Hoffman In the middle of the twenty-first century, life as we know it has changed for all time. Shira Shipman's marriage has broken up, and her young son has been taken from her by the corporation that runs her zone, so she has returned to Tikva, the Jewish free town where she grew up...
  • Split Second by Sophie McKenzie

    Split Second by Sophie McKenzie

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    2:02...2:01...2:00What the hell was this? I stared at the numbers, numb with horror. The box was a bomb. And it was going to go off in two minutes. Charlie's life is torn apart by a terrorist bomb in a London market. Months later she meets Nat, whose family has been left devastated by the same explosion...
  • Moirai by Ruth Silver

    Moirai by Ruth Silver

    Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Olivia has been on the run from the government of Cabal since the marriage ceremony. Finally settling in and finding herself a place to call home, in Shadow, Olivia and Joshua are preparing for the uprising that they and the rebel alliance have been planning for months...
  • Tent City by Kelly Van Hull

    Tent City by Kelly Van Hull

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    After a devastating plague, introverted 17-year-old Dani Campbell and her family find themselves living in a very different America, one run by a cult-like leader, who forces children to move to "safety camps" designed to protect the human race. Encouraged to flee by her parents, Dani and her five-year-old brother seek refuge in the Black Hills of South Dakota...
  • The Worlds We Make by Megan Crewe

    The Worlds We Make by Megan Crewe

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The virus has taken away Kaelyn’s friends, her family, her home.And now a deadly enemy threatens to take the one hope she has left: THE CURE.When Kaelyn and her friends reached Toronto with a vaccine for the virus that has ravaged the population, they thought their journey was over...
  • The Fall by Claire Merle

    The Fall by Claire Merle

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    London, in the not-so-distant future. Society has been divided into Pures and Crazies according to the results of a DNA test. But seventeen-year-old Ana, whose father invented the Pure test, has uncovered a recording with dangerous evidence that the tests are fake. Ana has escaped her father and made it to the Enlightenment Project - a secluded protest group living on the outskirts of the City...
  • Chasing Stars by Helen Douglas

    Chasing Stars by Helen Douglas

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The boy Eden loves just saved her life. Now she must save his. To do so she must make a huge sacrifice. Eden can never see her friends or family again, as she travels a hundred years into the future. But the dangerous risk Ryan took to rescue Eden has been uncovered, and now Ryan faces an exile ..
  • Isaura by Ruth Silver

    Isaura by Ruth Silver

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    With Joshua’s recent disappearance, Olivia has little choice but to head into the dangerous Gravelands as the new government wrestles with fixing the damage to society. Joining forces with her estranged father and a girl from Haven, they go on a search-and-rescue mission to find Joshua and bring him back alive...
  • The Name on Your Wrist by Helen Hiorns

    The Name on Your Wrist by Helen Hiorns

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It's the first thing they teach you when you start school. But they don't need to; your parents tell you when you're first learning how to say your name. It's drummed into you whilst you're taking your first stumbling steps. It's your lullaby. From the moment it first appears, you don't tell anyone the name on your wrist...
  • The Headhunters Race by Kimberly Afe

    The Headhunters Race by Kimberly Afe

    Rated: 3.53 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sixteen-year-old Avene was sentenced to prison at thirteen for a crime she didn't commit. Now she has a chance to win her freedom back – if she enters the Headhunters Race. Second prize isn't so bad either, an upgrade to the Leisure Prison if you make it to the finish line...
  • Enslaved by a Warrior by Anitra Lynn McLeod

    Enslaved by a Warrior by Anitra Lynn McLeod

    Rated: 3.44 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 9 ratings
    [Siren Everlasting Classic ManLove: Erotic Alternative Sci-Fi Romance, M/M, public exhibition, sex toys, HEA] Krase warriors have a unique form of punishment… Plucked from his planet and sold to the highest bidder, Tyler Stewart thinks it’s all a dream until he realizes his new owner is an eight-foot-tall, maroon-colored alien who expects him to follow his every command...
  • Daz 4 Zoe by Robert Swindells

    Daz 4 Zoe by Robert Swindells

    Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It is the year 2051 and Britain is a divided country, deliberately divided by economic and education strategies. Half the population shelters in fortified suburbs (Newtown); the other half resentfully smoulders in sealed-off ghettoes. This is the story of privileged Zoe and Daz, the semi-literate ghetto dweller, whose brother was executed for raiding with the underground resistance movement...
  • Consequences: Opal & Origin by Jennifer L. Armentrout

    Consequences: Opal & Origin by Jennifer L. Armentrout

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Now available together for the first time, don't miss Opal and Origin, the third and fourth books in Jennifer L. Armentrout's bestselling Lux series. Also includes bonus content exclusive to the print edition! "A thrilling ride from start to finish," says RT Book Reviews.OpalAfter everything, I’m no longer the same Katy. I’m different…and I’m not sure what that will mean in the end...
  • Lab Rat One by Andrea K. Höst

    Lab Rat One by Andrea K. Höst

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 26 ratings
    In the months since Cassandra Devlin walked onto another planet, she has grappled with everything from making blankets to helping psychics battle the memories of monsters. Not able to find a way home, she has instead gained friends and a purpose...
  • Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness

    Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 82 ratings
    In the riveting conclusion to the acclaimed dystopian series, a boy and girl caught in the chaos of war face devastating choices that will decide the fate of a world.As a world-ending war surges around them, Todd and Viola face monstrous decisions. The indigenous Spackle, thinking and acting as one, have mobilized to avenge their murdered people...
  • The Only Alien on the Planet by Kristen D. Randle

    The Only Alien on the Planet by Kristen D. Randle

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    New town, new school, new friends. It was difficult for Ginny at first, but her senior year is finally starting to feel kind of normal. That is, until she sees him--the beautiful mystery in her English class. He has never spoken a word to anyone. He moves through each day at school without making eye contact. His name is Smitty Tibbs, but everyone calls him the Alien...
  • The Fall of Five by Pittacus Lore

    The Fall of Five by Pittacus Lore

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 53 ratings
    I thought things would change when I found the others. We would stop running. We would fight the Mogadorians. And we would win. But I was wrong. Though we came together, we barely escaped with out lives. And now we hide. The six of us are powerful - but not strong enough to take on an army. We haven't discovered our full Legacies. We haven't learned to work together...
  • The Epilogue by Kiera Cass

    The Epilogue by Kiera Cass

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    The Epilogue - An epilogue to The One, which takes place two years later on Maxon's birthday...
  • The Selection Kindle sample by Kiera Cass

    The Selection Kindle sample by Kiera Cass

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    35 girls. 1 crown. The competition of a lifetime...
  • Catalyst by Shelly Crane

    Catalyst by Shelly Crane

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    In the third installment of the Collide series, we start off with Sherry, taken prisoner in the enforcement facility. The little bunker family must now decide whether it's worth the risk to try to save her or if it would bring doom to them all. Lily has started showing signs of her gift progressing, which may not be a desirable thing...
  • The Revenge of Seven by Pittacus Lore

    The Revenge of Seven by Pittacus Lore

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 51 ratings
    The Garde have suffered an unbearable loss. Number Five has betrayed them. Eight is gone forever. Ella has been kidnapped. The others are now scattered.In Chicago, John makes the unlikeliest of allies: Adam, a Mogadorian who turned his back on his people. He has invaluable information about Mog technology, battle strategies, and weaknesses...
  • My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong, As I Expected, Vol. 6 by Wataru Watari

    My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong, As I Expected, Vol. 6 by Wataru Watari

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Ah, culture festivals. The best way to survive such a troublesome chore is...don't answer when someone talks to you, and act obviously annoyed. Employing his loner skills to the fullest, Hachiman is ready and willing to run at the first sign of responsibility. Unfortunately, while he's busy skipping homeroom, he ends up being chosen for the culture festival committee..
  • Galactic Gladiators Set: Books 4-6 by Anna Hackett

    Galactic Gladiators Set: Books 4-6 by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Fighting for love, honor, and freedom on the galaxy’s lawless outer rim…When several women from Earth find themselves abducted from a space station by alien slavers, life becomes a battle for survival on a dangerous desert planet...
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