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  • Win by Vera Nazarian

    Win by Vera Nazarian

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    The Games are Forever! It’s one thing to Qualify and Compete… Now she must Win. Gwen Lark, nerd, geek, and awkward smart girl, is among the lucky ones. She’s one of several million teenage refugees to escape the extinction-level asteroid barreling towards Earth and reach the ancient colony planet of Atlantis...
  • Saving Runt by S.E. Smith

    Saving Runt by S.E. Smith

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 10 ratings
    Amelia ‘Runt’ Thomas’ life revolves around a dangerous game of cat and mouse with the most ruthless criminals in the world. She follows two codes: the code of hackers and her personal code of honor to bring down anyone who thinks they’re untouchable. She is on target until one fateful night when the touch of a strange man sends an unexpected shock wave through her...
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  • 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 [?] · 81 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 Touchstone Trilogy by Andrea K. Höst

    The Touchstone Trilogy by Andrea K. Höst

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The complete Touchstone Trilogy, containing "Stray", "Lab Rat One" and "Caszandra". Rescue is only the beginning... On her last day of high school, Cassandra Devlin walked out of exams and into a forest. Surrounded by the wrong sort of trees, and animals never featured in any nature documentary, Cass is only sure of one thing: alone, she will be lucky to survive...
  • Chasing the Shadows by Maria V. Snyder

    Chasing the Shadows by Maria V. Snyder

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Year 2522. Lyra Daniels is dead.Okay, so I only died for sixty-six seconds. But when I came back to life, I got a brand new name and a snazzy new uniform. Go me! Seriously, though, it's very important that Lyra Daniels stays dead, at least as far as my ex-friend Jarren, the murdering looter, knows.While dying is the scariest thing that's happened to me, it morphed my worming skills...
  • Aurora's End by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

    Aurora's End by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 49 ratings
    The squad you love is out of time. Prepare for the thrilling finale in the epic, best-selling Aurora Cycle series about a band of unlikely heroes who just might be the galaxy's last hope for survival.Is this the end? What happens when you ask a bunch of losers, discipline cases, and misfits to save the galaxy from an ancient evil? The ancient evil wins, of course. Wait. . . . Not. So. Fast...
  • Starfall: A Starstruck Novel by Brenda Hiatt

    Starfall: A Starstruck Novel by Brenda Hiatt

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    The electrifying conclusion to the Starstruck series! M, no longer a nerdy nobody, has finally been acclaimed Sovereign Emileia, ruler of the Martian colony Nuath. But at what cost? Without her soulmate Rigel, life seems pointless but she's expected to shake off her heartbreak and assume her responsibilities...
  • The Awakening by S.L. Morgan, A.L. Baker

    The Awakening by S.L. Morgan, A.L. Baker

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    From Award Winning Author, S.L. Morgan, comes the HIGHLY anticipated third book in the Ancient Guardians Novel Series In the third book of the Ancient Guardians Series: The Awakening, EVERYTHING WILL CHANGE! Treaties will be broken...Mysteries will be exposed..
  • Earth Flight by Janet Edwards

    Earth Flight by Janet Edwards

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    It's time to risk it all! The thrilling conclusion to Janet Edward’s sensational debut YA sci-fi trilogy. Jarra never wanted to be a celebrity. All she ever wanted was to gain some respect for the people left on Earth: the unlucky few whose immune system prevents them from portalling to other planets...
  • Defending the Galaxy by Maria V. Snyder

    Defending the Galaxy by Maria V. Snyder

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Year 2522. Oh. My. Stars.Junior Officer Ara Lawrence here, reporting for duty. Again. It's situation critical for the security team and everyone in the base - including my parents - with a new attack from the looters imminent, a possible galaxy-wide crime conspiracy and an unstoppable alien threat. But this all pales in the face of my mind-blowing discovery about the Q-net...
  • Nyxia Unleashed by Scott Reintgen

    Nyxia Unleashed by Scott Reintgen

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Getting to Eden brought Emmett and his crewmates one step closer to their promised fortune. But surviving Eden may be the biggest reward of all.Emmett Atwater thought Babel’s game sounded easy. Get points. Get paid. Go home. But it didn’t take long for him to learn that Babel’s competition was full of broken promises, none darker or more damaging than the last one...
  • Nyxia by Scott Reintgen

    Nyxia by Scott Reintgen

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    What would you be willing to risk for a lifetime of fortune? Emmett Atwater isn’t just leaving Detroit; he’s leaving Earth. Why the Babel Corporation recruited him is a mystery, but the number of zeroes on their contract has him boarding their lightship and hoping to return to Earth with enough money to take care of his family. Forever...
  • Rebel Wing by Tracy Banghart

    Rebel Wing by Tracy Banghart

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Alternate cover edition for ASIN: B00LXCMU8O The Dominion of Atalanta is at war. But for eighteen-year-old Aris, the fighting is nothing more than a distant nightmare, something she watches on news vids from the safety of her idyllic seaside town. Then her boyfriend, Calix, is drafted into the Military, and the nightmare becomes a dangerous reality...
  • Aurora Rising by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

    Aurora Rising by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 88 ratings
    From the New York Times and internationally bestselling authors of the Illuminae Files comes a new science fiction epic . . .The year is 2380, and the graduating cadets of Aurora Academy are being assigned their first missions. Star pupil Tyler Jones is ready to recruit the squad of his dreams, but his own boneheaded heroism sees him stuck with the dregs nobody else in the academy would touch .
  • The Ship Who Searched by Anne McCaffrey, Mercedes Lackey

    The Ship Who Searched by Anne McCaffrey, Mercedes Lackey

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Special 20th Anniversary Edition, with a new introduction by Mercedes Lackey. A beloved classic of romantic space adventure returns. A novel of Anne McCaffrey’s Brainship series. A young woman becomes paralyzed and must become a brainship—and find her Brawn, her human soul mate, so that she can discover a cure for her illness...
  • Heading Home by Susan Kiernan-Lewis

    Heading Home by Susan Kiernan-Lewis

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    What happens when the one thing you’ve been praying for turns out to be the one thing that will destroy you and everything you love? After two years of living and adjusting to life after the bomb, Sarah and her son, John, have discovered that happiness can trump grief and loss...
  • Storm Fall by Tracy Banghart

    Storm Fall by Tracy Banghart

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In the action-packed sequel to Rebel Wing, Aris battles for life and love . . . and not everyone will survive. Aris Haan gave up everything to join the Atalantan Military: her family, her boyfriend, even her identity. In the end, though, it didn’t matter that she was a war hero. When the all-male Military discovered that she was actually a woman, she was sent home and erased from history...
  • Defy the Worlds by Claudia Gray

    Defy the Worlds by Claudia Gray

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 34 ratings
    This is the thrilling and romantic sequel to Defy the Stars from the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Lost Stars and Bloodline.An outcast from her home -- Shunned after a trip through the galaxy with Abel, the most advanced cybernetic man ever created, Noemi Vidal dreams of traveling through the stars one more time. And when a deadly plague arrives on Genesis, Noemi gets her chance...
  • Alight by Scott Sigler

    Alight by Scott Sigler

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 27 ratings
    In Alive, Scott Sigler introduced readers to an unforgettable young heroine and a mysterious new world reminiscent of those of The Hunger Games, Divergent, and Red Rising. Now he expands his singular vision in the next thrilling novel of this powerful sci-fi adventure series.“If it’s war they want, they messed with the wrong girl.” M...
  • Push by Eve Silver

    Push by Eve Silver

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    It’s either break the rules or die. Miki Jones lives her life by her own strict set of rules, to keep control, to keep the gray fog of grief at bay. Then she’s pulled into the Game, where she—and her team—will die unless she follows a new set of rules: those set by the mysterious Committee. But rules don’t mean answers, and without answers, it’s hard to trust. People are dying...
  • Navigating the Stars by Maria V. Snyder

    Navigating the Stars by Maria V. Snyder

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Terra Cotta Warriors have been discovered on other planets in the Milky Way Galaxy. And Lyra Daniels' parents are the archaeological Experts (yes with a capital E) on the Warriors and have dragged her to the various planets to study them despite the time dilation causing havoc with her social life...
  • Shades of Earth by Beth Revis

    Shades of Earth by Beth Revis

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 62 ratings
    Amy and Elder have finally left the oppressive walls of the spaceship Godspeed behind. They're ready to start life afresh--to build a home--on Centauri-Earth, the planet that Amy has traveled 25 trillion miles across the universe to experience. But this new Earth isn't the paradise Amy had been hoping for...
  • The Hunt by Stacey Kade

    The Hunt by Stacey Kade

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 22 ratings
    Ariane Tucker has finally escaped GTX, the research facility that created her. While on the run, Zane Bradshaw is the only person she can trust. He knows who-and what-she is and still wants to be part of her life. But accepting Zane's help means putting him in danger. Dr. Jacobs, head of GTX, is not the only one hunting for Ariane...
  • The Orphan Factory by James Morcan, Lance Morcan

    The Orphan Factory by James Morcan, Lance Morcan

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    An epic, atmospheric story that begins with twenty three genetically superior orphans being groomed to become elite spies in Chicago's Pedemont Orphanage and concludes with a political assassination deep in the Amazon jungle. The Orphan Factory, a coming-of-age spy thriller novel, is book two in The Orphan Trilogy and a prequel to The Ninth Orphan...
  • Beast Wars by Autumn Dawn

    Beast Wars by Autumn Dawn

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Dey has a taste for ancient treasure—Keg is the one assigned to guard it. Ancient ziggurats protected by forgotten technology are no match for Dey, but Keg is one challenge she can't dismiss. Sexy and irrepressible, Keg doesn't understand why the woman in the pink snakeskin jacket would swagger around with a gun...
  • True Light by G. Bailey

    True Light by G. Bailey

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    With sharing the true light, there is always a cost. Moving is crap. My new neighbor is an arrogant jerk. Oh, he's also an alien who claims we share a soul, and he wants me as far away from him as possible... Ura didn’t want to move, but her father didn’t give her a choice when he wanted an escape after the car accident that nearly killed them both...
  • War Begins Book One by Odette C. Bell

    War Begins Book One by Odette C. Bell

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Diana had a troubled past. The kind where her family were brutally murdered right in front of her eyes. It’s changed the course of her future – but it will change more. An ancient race left a gift inside her mind, and it is time for it to rise. … Sampson is a psychic soldier – one of the Coalition’s best...
  • Treecat Wars by David Weber, Jane Lindskold

    Treecat Wars by David Weber, Jane Lindskold

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    New York Times and Publishers Weekly Best Selling Young Adult Series. Book Three by international writing phenomenon David Weber. Two young settlers on a pioneer planet seeks to stop a war and to save the intelligent alien treecats from exploitation by unscrupulous humans...
  • Zero Repeat Forever by Gabrielle S. Prendergast

    Zero Repeat Forever by Gabrielle S. Prendergast

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    He has no voice, or name, only a rank, Eighth. He doesn’t know the details of the mission, only the directives that hum in his mind. Dart the humans. Leave them where they fall. His job is to protect his Offside. Let her do the shooting...
  • Amid Stars and Darkness by Chani Lynn Feener

    Amid Stars and Darkness by Chani Lynn Feener

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 23 ratings
    Delaney’s entire world is thrown into chaos after she is mistaken for Lissa Olena, an alien princess hiding out on Earth in order to escape an arranged marriage.Kidnapped by the princess’s head bodyguard, Ruckus, and imprisoned in an alien palace, Delaney is forced to impersonate the princess until Olena can be found...
  • Return of the Ascendant by Raine Thomas

    Return of the Ascendant by Raine Thomas

    Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This is a New Adult novel recommended for ages 17+. Expecting to enjoy another typical college night at a frat party with friends, Kyra Vaughn’s plans derail when she’s almost killed…twice. Her savior, a tall, sexy stranger who calls himself TaeDane, claims that he’s the personal bodyguard for the Ascendant of Alametria. She’s convinced he’s crazy...
  • Nova by Margaret Fortune

    Nova by Margaret Fortune

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    *36:00:00* The clock activates so suddenly in my mind, my head involuntarily jerks a bit to the side. The fog vanishes, dissipated in an instant as though it never was. Memories come slotting into place, their edges sharp enough to leave furrows, and suddenly I know. I know exactly who I am.My name is Lia Johansen, and I was named for a prisoner of war...
  • The Magic Wakes by Charity Bradford

    The Magic Wakes by Charity Bradford

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Since childhood, scientist Talia Zaryn has been haunted by recurring dreams, visions of an alien attack on her planet Sendek. Each time it ends abruptly with Talia’s death in the capital city Joharadin, a city that she has spent her life desperately avoiding. Talia keeps these dreams a secret, hoping they are nothing more than childish nightmares...
  • The Rule of Mirrors by Caragh M. O'Brien

    The Rule of Mirrors by Caragh M. O'Brien

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    At the remote, exclusive Chimera Centre, families of coma patients come from all over the world seeking miracles. When Althea Flores wakes up from a six-month coma, her recovery defies the limits of hope and science—except she can’t remember anything about her own life. Instead, she has all the memories of Rosie Sinclair, the missing Forge Show star, and she’s pregnant...
  • Survival by A.M. Hargrove

    Survival by A.M. Hargrove

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    "Maybe I was caught between the two worlds. I was having serious trouble distinguishing fantasy from reality." While on a backpacking trip in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park, nineteen-year-old Maddie Pearce finds her world has been thrown into a vortex and is madly spinning toward the impossible. Abducted by a mad psychopath, Maddie narrowly escapes with her life...
  • The Pretenders by Rebecca Hanover

    The Pretenders by Rebecca Hanover

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    In this conclusion to The Similars duology, Emma must figure out who she really is, decide between two boys with the same face, and stop a dangerous plan based on revenge.Emma is still reeling from the events of her junior year at Darkwood...
  • A Million Suns by Beth Revis

    A Million Suns by Beth Revis

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 77 ratings
    Godspeed was once fueled by lies. Now it is ruled by chaos. It’s been three months since Amy was unplugged. The life she always knew is over. Everywhere she looks, she sees the walls of the spaceship Godspeed . But there may be hope: Elder has assumed leadership of the ship. He's finally free to act on his vision—no more Phydus, no more lies...
  • Outside In by Maria V. Snyder

    Outside In by Maria V. Snyder

    Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    Me? A leader? Okay, I did prove that there's more to Inside than we knew. That a whole world exists beyond this cube we live in. And finding that led to a major rebellion—between worker scrubs like me and the snobby uppers who rule our world. Make that ruled. Because of me, we're free...
  • The Body Institute by Carol Riggs

    The Body Institute by Carol Riggs

    Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Are we our minds... or our bodies?Meet Morgan Dey, one of the top teen Reducers at The Body Institute.Thanks to cutting-edge technology, Morgan can temporarily take over another girl’s body, get her in shape, and then return to her own body—leaving her client slimmer, more toned, and feeling great. Only there are a few catches…For one, Morgan won’t remember what happens in her “Loaner” body...
  • A Long, Long Sleep by Anna Sheehan

    A Long, Long Sleep by Anna Sheehan

    Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    It should have been a short suspended-animation sleep. But this time Rose wakes up to find her past is long gone-- and her future full of peril. Rosalinda Fitzroy has been asleep for sixty-two years when she is woken by a kiss...
  • Fire in The Woods by Jennifer M. Eaton

    Fire in The Woods by Jennifer M. Eaton

    Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    When a plane crashes in the woods near Jess’s home, the boy of her dreams falls out of the sky—literally. But David’s not here to find a girlfriend. He’s from another planet, and if Jess can’t help him get back to his ship, he’ll be stuck on Earth with nothing to look forward to but the pointy end of a dissection scalpel. But her father runs their house like an army barracks...
  • Spinning Starlight by R.C. Lewis

    Spinning Starlight by R.C. Lewis

    Rated: 3.73 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Sixteen-year-old heiress and paparazzi darling Liddi Jantzen hates the spotlight. But as the only daughter in the most powerful tech family in the galaxy, it’s hard to escape it. So when a group of men shows up at her house uninvited, she assumes it’s just the usual media-grubs. That is, until shots are fired...
  • As They Slip Away by Beth Revis

    As They Slip Away by Beth Revis

    Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Taking place on the spaceship Godspeed before Amy Martin wakes up and Elder takes leadership, this novella describes life at the Hospital during Eldest's reign. Focusing primarily on background characters, readers will see fan-favorite characters Harley, Orion, Victria, and more. Selene is a singer on a spaceship that only values people who can provide important skills that enhance survival...
  • Last of Her Name by Jessica Khoury

    Last of Her Name by Jessica Khoury

    Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    From Jessica Khoury, author of the Corpus Trilogy, comes a gripping story of royalty and rebellion, coursing across a faraway star system like a trail of jewels.Sixteen years ago, rebellion swept the galaxy known as the Belt of Jewels.Every member of the Leonov royal family was murdered--down to their youngest child, Princess Anya--making way for the Union government to seize power...
  • The Taking by Kimberly Derting

    The Taking by Kimberly Derting

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    A flash of white light . . . and then . . . nothing. When sixteen-year-old Kyra Agnew wakes up behind a Dumpster at the Gas ’n’ Sip, she has no memory of how she got there. With a terrible headache and a major case of déjà vu, she heads home only to discover that five years have passed . . . yet she hasn’t aged a day. Everything else about Kyra’s old life is different...
  • In the After by Demitria Lunetta

    In the After by Demitria Lunetta

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    They hear the most silent of footsteps. They are faster than anything you've ever seen. And They won't stop chasing you...until you are dead. Amy is watching TV when it happens, when the world is attacked by Them. These vile creatures are rapidly devouring mankind. Most of the population is overtaken, but Amy manages to escape—and even rescue “Baby,” a toddler left behind in the chaos...
  • Unearthed by Amie Kaufman, Meagan Spooner

    Unearthed by Amie Kaufman, Meagan Spooner

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    When Earth intercepts a message from a long-extinct alien race, it seems like the solution the planet has been waiting for. The Undying's advanced technology has the potential to undo environmental damage and turn lives around, and Gaia, their former home planet, is a treasure trove waiting to be uncovered...
  • The Final Six by Alexandra Monir

    The Final Six by Alexandra Monir

    Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    When Leo, an Italian championship swimmer, and Naomi, a science genius from California, are two of the twenty-four teens drafted into the International Space Training Camp, their lives are forever altered. After erratic climate change has made Earth a dangerous place to live, the fate of the population rests on the shoulders of the final six who will be scouting a new planet...
  • The Life Below by Alexandra Monir

    The Life Below by Alexandra Monir

    Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    As Naomi lifts off into space and away from a rapidly deteriorating Earth, she watches the world fade away, and along with it Leo, a Final Six contestant she grew close to during training. Leaving Earth behind is hard, but what’s ahead, on Europa, could be worse...
  • Sanctuary by Caryn Lix

    Sanctuary by Caryn Lix

    Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Alien meets Alexandra Bracken’s The Darkest Minds in this thrilling debut novel about prison-guard-in-training, Kenzie, who is taken hostage by the superpowered criminal teens of the Sanctuary space station—only to have to band together with them when the station is attacked by mysterious creatures.Kenzie holds one truth above all: the company is everything...
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