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The Harper Hall of Pern by Anne McCaffrey
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsOmnibus of DragonSong, DragonSinger, and... -
Cascade by Lisa Tawn Bergren
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsMom touched my underdress—a gown made six hundred years before—and her eyes widened as she rubbed the raw silk between thumb and forefinger. She turned and touched Lia’s gown. “Where did you get these clothes?” Gabi knows she’s left her heart in the fourteenth century and she persuades Lia to help her to return, even though they know doing so will risk their very lives... -
Torrent by Lisa Tawn Bergren
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsWhen Gabi and Lia finally learn to surf the river of time, they realize they must make hard choices about life and love in the third and final book in the River of Time series. Gabi and Lia Betarrini have learned to control their time travel, and they return from medieval Italy to save their father from his tragic death in modern times... -
Sunreach by Brandon Sanderson, Janci Patterson
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsFrom #1 bestselling author Brandon Sanderson and Janci Patterson comes the first of three Skyward series novellas, each told from the perspective of a different member of the team back on Detritus. Read FM's story between Starsight and Cytonic.When a planet-destroying Delver suddenly appears in the sky of Detritus and vanishes just as suddenly, FM knows that the last free human society got lucky... -
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ReDawn by Brandon Sanderson, Janci Patterson
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsFrom #1 bestselling author Brandon Sanderson and Janci Patterson comes the second of three Skyward series novellas, each told from the perspective of a different member of the team back on Detritus. Read Alanik’s story between Starsight and Cytonic.“Don’t trust their lies. Don’t trust their false peace... -
Risked by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsJonah thought that after his last adventure in 1903, he and his sister Katherine would have a break from time travel for a while. For the first time, he’s willing to look into his own identity in the past, and he thinks this is his chance... -
Cytonic by Brandon Sanderson
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Reckoners series, the Mistborn trilogy, and the Stormlight Archive comes the third book in an epic series about a girl who will travel beyond the stars to save the world she loves from destruction.Spensa’s life as a Defiant Defense Force pilot has been far from ordinary... -
The Transall Saga by Gary Paulsen
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsMark's solo camping trip in the desert turns into a terrifying and thrilling odyssey when a mysterious beam of light transports him to another time on what appears to be another planet. As Mark searches for a pathway back to his own time on Earth, he must make a new life in a new world... -
Roots of Insight by Breeana Puttroff
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe second book in the beloved Dusk Gate series reconnects Quinn with the charming princes and the pristine world of Eirentheos. From a beautiful royal wedding to a dangerous rescue mission, her adventures are about to take her life on a course that will change it forever... -
Defending Elysium by Brandon Sanderson
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsThis story originally appeared in the October/November 2008 Asimov’s Science Fiction (in the US) and the UPC Science Fiction collection (in Europe)."An image came to him. An image of humankind escaping into space. An image of human merchants trading and cheating, of human tyrants capturing the Varvax, Tenasi, and Hommar. Images of wars, of fighting, of a paradise destroyed... -
Expel by Addison Moore
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsSeventeen year-old Skyla Messenger discovers love is stronger than death and deception. In an effort to rectify those horrible truths Skyla’s life changes forever. Love and heartbreak become obstacles that overshadow the faction war and in the end may cost her everything...Categorized as:
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DEV1AT3 by Jay Kristoff
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsLemon Fresh has seen better days.After the climactic battle in Babel, she finds herself separated from Ezekiel and Cricket in the wastelands. Lemon’s abilities to manipulate electricity mark her as a deviate, and deadly corporate operatives are hunting her to use as a weapon in the war between BioMaas Incorporated and Daedelus Technologies...Categorized as:
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Reactive by Becky Moynihan
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsAN INESCAPABLE CITY. THREE DEADLY TRIALS. ONE WAY OUT.Lune Tatum, adopted daughter of the Supreme Elite, has lived within her father's walled city for eleven years.But she wants out. Except she can't leave, and not because of the clans and mutated beasts that roam beyond the impenetrable, electrified walls protecting her life...Categorized as:
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Nero's Fiddle by A.W. Exley
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOne... death by spontaneous human combustion is a rare act of God Two... is surely a freakish coincidence Three... well, that’s starting to look deliberate. Cara has a new role as Queen Victoria’s artifact hunter, she’s adapting to married life and living in a country manor that more closely resembles a mausoleum... -
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Hour of Need by Michael Pryor
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the earth-shattering final book of the Laws of Magic series, Aubrey goes deep into the lair of his enemy in an attempt to save the world Aubrey Fitzwilliam, renegade and traitor. Instead of clearing his name in Albion, Aubrey has chosen to pursue his enemy, Dr. Mordecai Tremaine, deep into the heart of enemy territory. What he uncovers in Dr... -
The Sowing by Steven dos Santos
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis time, there are no choices. Lucian “Lucky” Spark leads a double life. By day, he trains to become one of the Establishment elite. At night, he sabotages his oppressors from within, seeking to avenge the murder of his love, Digory Tycho, and rescue his imprisoned brother... -
Heartblaze: Secret Soul by Shay Roberts
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn your past life you were a legendary figure in a passionate relationship with a vampire. Now your enemies from that past have found you, determined to make you pay a terrible price for a life you lived more than 200 years ago! EMMA RUE is an eager college freshman. For reasons she cannot understand, she attacks her professor in front of her stunned classmates... -
This Mortal Coil by Emily Suvada
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsWhen a lone soldier, Cole, arrives with news of Lachlan Agatta's death, all hope seems lost for Catarina. Her father was the world's leading geneticist, and humanity's best hope of beating a devastating virus. Then, hidden beneath Cole's genehacked enhancements she finds a message of hope: Lachlan created a vaccine.Only she can find and decrypt it, if she can unravel the clues he left for her...Categorized as:
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The Angel of Death by Alane Ferguson
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsAs assistant to her father, the county coroner of Silverton, Colorado, Cameryn Mahoney has seen more gore than the average seventeen-yearold. But even Cameryn is shocked when Kyle O'Neil, the most popular guy in school, discovers the gruesome corpse of their English teacher murdered in his own bed...Categorized as:
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Unhappenings by Edward Aubry
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWhen Nigel Walden is fourteen, the UNHAPPENINGS begin. His first girlfriend disappears the day after their first kiss with no indication she ever existed. This retroactive change is the first of many only he seems to notice. Several years later, when Nigel is visited by two people from his future, he hopes they can explain why the past keeps rewriting itself around him...Categorized as:
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Touching Fire by Airicka Phoenix
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFinding her past was supposed to end the nightmare. Only it was just the beginning. Entrusting the fate of the world, not to mention her and Isaiah’s life to a father she’s never met is a big leap of faith on Fallon’s part. But it’s a necessary risk. Ashton is the key to protecting Isaiah and keeping her out of Garrison’s clutches...Categorized as:
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Firebirds: An Anthology of Original Fantasy and Science Fiction by Sharyn November
Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsFirebirds is more than simply an anthology -- it is a celebration of wonderful writing. It gathers together sixteen original stories by some of today's finest writers of fantasy and science fiction. Together, they have won virtually every major prize -- from the National Book Award to the World Fantasy Award to the Newbery Medal -- and have made best-seller lists worldwide... -
All Our Yesterdays by Cristin Terrill
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 44 ratingsWhat would you change? Imprisoned in the heart of a secret military base, Em has nothing except the voice of the boy in the cell next door and the list of instructions she finds taped inside the drain. Only Em can complete the final instruction. She’s tried everything to prevent the creation of a time machine that will tear the world apart...Categorized as:
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Tokyo Mew Mew, Vol. 5 by Mia Ikumi, Reiko Yoshida
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsFinally, Ayoma and Ichigo are a genuine couple ... and life is wonderful. But things don't stay too smooth for long. Suddenly, a Blue Knight appears and threatens to cause trouble for everyone... -
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Haunted by Melinda Metz
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis power that I have -- this ability to reach inside people's minds and know their thoughts...Anthony says it's a gift.But ever since this gift started, my life has been in danger.And now someone I care about is in trouble because of me.I have to help him -- if I can find him... -
The Lifesaving Power: Goldenfields and Stronghold by Jeffrey Quyle
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA deadly set of expectations await Alec the Healer, the former carnival hand who is now the Protector of the Crown. He is under a compulsion to travel to the City of Stronghold, a powerful trading base for the Locksfort clan. He must attempt to use his ingenaire healing powers there to resurrect his former companion, Noranda, who is a pawn in the deadly games of politics and finances... -
The Orphan Queen by Jodi Meadows
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsWilhelmina has a hundred identities. She is a princess. When the Indigo Kingdom conquered her homeland, Wilhelmina and other orphaned children of nobility were taken to Skyvale, the Indigo Kingdom’s capital. Ten years later, they are the Ospreys, experts at stealth and theft. With them, Wilhelmina means to take back her throne. She is a spy... -
The Far Side of Evil by Sylvia Engdahl
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsElana, a newly graduated agent of the Federation Anthropological Service, is sent to observe Toris, a Youngling planet poised on the brink of nuclear war. Her primary directive is merely to observe. She cannot reveal her alien origin or interfere in any way with the planet's natural course of evolution... -
The Forgetting by Sharon Cameron
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsWhat isn't written, isn't remembered. Even your crimes.Nadia lives in the city of Canaan, where life is safe and structured, hemmed in by white stone walls and no memory of what came before. But every twelve years the city descends into the bloody chaos of the Forgetting, a day of no remorse, when each person's memories – of parents, children, love, life, and self – are lost... -
Marionette by Anya Allyn
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMARIONETTE is Book 3 of the Dollhouse Books. The final book (Book 4. is coming soon in 2013) In the third book of The Dollhouse Books, Cassie must fight to keep from losing the world she knows, and from losing herself – beyond the mirrors... -
The Knowing by Sharon Cameron
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsSamara doesn't forget. And she isn't the only one. Safe underground in the city of New Canaan, she lives in a privileged world free from the Forgetting. Yet she wonders if she really is free, with the memories that plague her and secrets that surround her. Samara is determined to unearth the answers, even if she must escape to the old, cursed city of Canaan to find them... -
For All Time by Caroline B. Cooney
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsAnnie Lockwood is testing Time. She’s traveled through it before, but always at Time’s bidding. Now she is asking Time to take her to the year 1899, when Strat is in Cairo. But Time doesn’t like to be tested. In what feels like a cruel joke, Annie is transported to ancient Egypt, thousands of years before Strat was born — to a world far removed from the one she knows...Categorized as:
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Every Never After by Lesley Livingston
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIt's happening again! Despite their vow to each other at the end of Once Every Never , best friends Clare and Allie once more find themselves in trouble—and travelling in time... -
Wordless by AdriAnne Strickland
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratings“The Gods made their Words into flesh, giving privileged individuals the powers of creation...” In Eden City, a member of the illiterate wordless class would never dream of meeting the all-powerful Words ... much less of running away with one...Categorized as:
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Claire Gets Caught by Katherine Applegate
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsClaire just can't mind her own business. It may be meddling, but she knows deep down inside, her friends desperately need her guidance. How would they every get by without her? The gang is going on a ski trip to Killington and everyone is sure they'll have a fantastic time. But with Claire along, there may be more trouble than fun... -
The Magic Wakes by Charity Bradford
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTalia has a secret that will save her world or rip it apart. Scientist Talia Zaryn has always dreamt of an alien invasion and her own death. She's kept it secret, hoping it is nothing more than childish nightmares. However, when the face in the mirror matches that of her dreams, she fears she's out of time...Categorized as:
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The Dark Shore by Kevin Emerson
Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBEWARE THE GODS AND THEIR HORRORS. Owen and Lilly have escaped Camp Eden, but the next step on their journey to find Atlantis and protect it from Paul and Project Elysium involves crossing the perilous wastelands of a wrecked planet. And unlike in EdenWest, where bloody truths were kept hidden beneath the surface, out here the horrors live bright beneath the poisonous sun...Categorized as:
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Return Once More by Trisha Leigh, Casey Turner
If you could learn the identity of your one true love—even though you will never meet— would you?Years have passed since refugees from a ruined earth took to space, eventually settling a new system of planets. Science has not only made the leaps necessary to allow time travel, but the process engineered a strange side effect—predicting your one true love... -
The Originals by Cat Patrick
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsLizzie, Ella, and Betsey Best grew up believing they were identical triplets. Then they learned the truth... and no one else can know. Now, to the outside world, the Best family appears to consist of a single mother with one seventeen-year-old daughter named Elizabeth. Lizzie, Ella, and Betsey take turns going to school, pursuing extracurriculars, and even dating... -
The Clearing by Heather Davis
Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsIn this bittersweet romance, two teens living decades apart form a bond that will change their lives forever. Amy is drawn to the misty, mysterious clearing behind her Aunt Mae’s place because it looks like the perfect place to hide from life...Categorized as:
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Imhotep by Jerry Dubs
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsStumbling in the dark of an unfinished tomb beneath the sands of Saqqara, Tim Hope discovers a doorway that opens into ancient Egypt, a time before the Sphinx, before the great pyramids of Giza, and long before the loss of his beloved Addy. Hoping to forget his past, Tim immerses himself in the ancient world and soon learns that two other Americans have preceded him through the time portal...Categorized as:
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Dead Girl in Love by Linda Joy Singleton
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsOh, wow--I'm my own best friend. Or at least, I'm in her body! Okay, this assignment will be quick and easy. Thanks, Grammy! See, my dead grandmother keeps finding people who have big problems and then I have the freaky experience of stepping into their life--and their body!--to provide help. This time, I'm in the body of my BFF, Alyce...Categorized as:
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Fox Forever by Mary E. Pearson
Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsLocke Jenkins has some catching up to do. After spending 260 years as a disembodied mind in a little black box, he has a perfect new body. But before he can move on with his unexpected new life, he’ll have to return the Favor he accepted from the shadowy resistance group known as the Network... -
Hollow by Richard Denney
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis book is no longer going to be published and the unfinished manuscript is available free for your viewing from the author himself. Click 'download ebook' to read. Please refer to the blog post made by the author. blog post by author: http://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_... Welcome to the house of Hollow...Categorized as:
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Chasing Before by Lenore Appelhans
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“I’m a ticking time bomb. And one day soon everything is going to explode.” Felicia and Neil have arrived in Level 3 and are supposed to prepare for their divine vocations. But during Felicia and Neil's training period, a series of explosions rips through Level 3. Tension is high, and casualties are mounting...Categorized as:
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Starters by Lissa Price
Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars · 56 ratingsHER WORLD IS CHANGED FOREVER Callie lost her parents when the Spore Wars wiped out everyone between the ages of twenty and sixty. She and her little brother, Tyler, go on the run, living as squatters with their friend Michael and fighting off renegades who would kill them for a cookie... -
Impostor by Jill Hathaway
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhat if a killer took control of you? Vee Bell’s gift (or curse) of “sliding”—slipping into the mind of another person and experiencing life, briefly, through his or her eyes—has been somewhat under control since she unwillingly witnessed the horrific deaths of her classmates six months ago... -
Eyeliner of the Gods by Katie Maxwell
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOne of two books in which two girls discover an Egyptian archaeological dig is a lot more than surviving blistering heat and scorpions-hot guys, a cursed bracelet, and ancient tombs make it the adventure of a lifetime. Chloe, Queen of Denial by Naomi Nash is the second book in this series... -
The Bar Code Rebellion by Suzanne Weyn
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsThey want your identity. They want your freedom. They can't have them. The bar code rebellion. Kayla has resisted getting the bar code tattoo, even though it's meant forfeiting a "normal" life. Without the tattoo, she's an exile. But she can't stay an exile for long... -
So Close to You by Rachel Carter
Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsLydia Bentley has heard stories about the Montauk Project all her life: stories about the strange things that took place at the abandoned military base near her home and people who've disappeared over the years. Stories about people like her own great-grandfather...
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