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Orange 5 by Ichigo Takano
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 33 ratings...Categorized as:
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![Kamisama Kiss, Vol. 20 by Julietta Suzuki]()
Kamisama Kiss, Vol. 20 by Julietta Suzuki
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsNanami Momozono is alone and homeless after her dad skips town to evade his gambling debts and the debt collectors kick her out of her apartment. So when a man she's just saved from a dog offers her his home, she jumps at the opportunity... -
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orange Vol. 4 by Ichigo Takano, 高野苺
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsOn the day that Naho begins 11th grade, she receives a letter from herself ten years in the future. At first, she writes it off as a prank, but as the letter's predictions come true one by one, Naho realizes that the letter might be the real deal. Her future self tells Naho that a new transfer student, a boy named Kakeru, will soon join her class...Categorized as:
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![The Remedy by Suzanne Young]()
The Remedy by Suzanne Young
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsIn a world before The Program…Quinlan McKee is a closer. Since the age of seven, Quinn has held the responsibility of providing closure to grieving families with a special skill—she can “become” anyone.Recommended by grief counselors, Quinn is hired by families to take on the short-term role of a deceased loved one between the ages of fifteen and twenty...Categorized as:
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Recursion by Blake Crouch
A thriller about time, identity, and memory...Reality is broken. At first, it looks like a disease. An epidemic that spreads through no known means, driving its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived. But the force that’s sweeping the world is no pathogen...Categorized as:
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![Life Is Strange: Dust by Emma Vieceli]()
Life Is Strange: Dust by Emma Vieceli
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsThe story fans never thought they’d see, continuing the acclaimed story of Life is Strange, one of the hit game’s two shocking endings.One year after the storm destroyed Arcadia Bay, fan-favourite characters Max and Chloe have a new life together… but timelines are starting to tangle...Categorized as:
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![Triple Threat by Gwenda Bond]()
Triple Threat by Gwenda Bond
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsShe's cracked down on a mind-melding gang of bullies and saved the ex-mayor of Metropolis from the double who framed him. But now, Lois Lane embarks on a case even she isn't sure she can solve . .Categorized as:
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Spike by Kathy Reichs, Brendan Reichs
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsThe pack is back on the prowl in this Virals adventure set after the events of Terminal. Tory and the Virals have untangled the most twisted mysteries and proven no crime is too complex for them to solve…now they just need to make it through Kit and Whitney’s wedding day. As the daughter of the groom and maid-of-honor it’s up to Tory to make sure everything goes off without a hitch... -
![Gathering Darkness by Morgan Rhodes, Michelle Rowen]()
Gathering Darkness by Morgan Rhodes, Michelle Rowen
In GATHERING DARKNESS, book three of the New York Times bestselling Falling Kingdoms series, the stakes have never been higher as three teams push forward on a race to find the Kindred, the four elemental crystals possessing ancient all-powerful magic, first: Prince Magnus has just witnessed torture, death, and miracles during the bloody confrontation that decimated the rebel forces... -
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Double Down by Gwenda Bond
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsLois Lane has settled in to her new school. She has friends, for maybe the first time in her life. She has a job that challenges her. And her friendship is growing with SmallvilleGuy, her online maybe-more-than-a-friend...Categorized as:
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![Shift: A Virals Adventure by Kathy Reichs, Brendan Reichs]()
Shift: A Virals Adventure by Kathy Reichs, Brendan Reichs
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsTory's great aunt, Temperance Brennan, visits just in time to investigate a robbery at the Loggerhead Island Research Institute. As a renowned forensic anthropologist, Tempe is obviously qualified to figure out whodunit, but Tory and her Virals pack want to crack the case on their own. Yet the crime is puzzling... -
![Saint: A Paradise Novel by Ted Dekker]()
Saint: A Paradise Novel by Ted Dekker
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 36 ratings"We call you Saint."The name ignited a light in Carl's mind. Saint. He'd been covertly recruited for Black Ops and given his life to the most brutal kind of training any man or woman could endure. He was here because he belonged here. To the X Group.An assassin. The most effective killer in the world. And yet . . -
![The Future Without Hope by Nazarea Andrews]()
The Future Without Hope by Nazarea Andrews
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSeparated from Finn, captive of the Order, Nurrin has no hope left. But she has survived twenty years of zombies--and she has the unshakable faith that Finn will find her. But Finn is a long way away. The Order's influence runs deeper than was ever suspected, and politics are shifting--and zombies may not be the most dangerous thing she's facing...Categorized as:
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![Under This Forgetful Sky by Lauren Yero]()
Under This Forgetful Sky by Lauren Yero
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis “heartbreaking and heartfelt” ( Kirkus Reviews , starred review) star-crossed love story follows two teens in a starkly unequal future world who are struggling to find their places.Sixteen-year-old Rumi Sabzwari has spent his entire life behind the armored walls of St. Iago, which protect citizens of the Union of Upper Cities from the outside world’s environmental devastation...Categorized as:
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![All Our Yesterdays by Cristin Terrill]()
All Our Yesterdays by Cristin Terrill
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsOutside the secret military base where Em is imprisoned, war rages. The world has been coming apart at the seams ever since the U.S. government cracked the code of time travel and built a machine to weaponize time. The only chance Em and the body in the cell next door have to change this terrible present is to escape to the past and stop the man who created the machine...Categorized as:
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Deception by Teri Terry
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsAn epidemic is sweeping the country.You are among the infected. There is no cure, and you cannot be permitted to infect others. You are now under quarantine. The 5% of the infected who survive are dangerous and will be taken into the custody of the army.As the epidemic spreads, survivors are being hunted like witches, for the authorities fear their strange new powers...Categorized as:
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![The Warning by Kristy Acevedo]()
The Warning by Kristy Acevedo
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsThe end is coming. There's no escape...or is there? The first in a compelling YA dystopian series for anyone who's ever felt like their life-their world-is on the brink of destruction.Alexandra Lucas' anxiety disorder was enough to deal with before then mysterious holographic doors suddenly appeared throughout the world, heralding the end of the earth...Categorized as:
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Consider by Kristy Acevedo
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAs if Alexandra Lucas’ anxiety disorder isn’t enough, mysterious holograms suddenly appear from the sky, heralding the end of the world. They bring an ultimatum: heed the warning and step through a portal-like vertex to safety, or stay and be destroyed by a comet they say is on a collision course with earth...Categorized as:
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![The Progeny by Tosca Lee]()
The Progeny by Tosca Lee
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsNew York Times bestselling author Tosca Lee brings a modern twist to an ancient mystery surrounding the most notorious female serial killer of all time. A fast-paced thriller for fans of Ted Dekker’s The Books of Mortals , Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code , and BBC America’s hit series Orphan Black . Emily Jacobs is the descendant of a serial killer. Now, she’s become the hunted...Categorized as:
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Crash by Eve Silver
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsFans of the 5th Wave series will devour the pulse-pounding conclusion to The Game trilogy, by bestselling author Eve Silver, about teens pulled in and out of an alternate reality where battling aliens is more than a game—it's life and death.As her dad and best friend lie dying in the hospital, Miki is almost certain the Committee is trying to sabotage her life. The Game is glitching...Categorized as:
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![The Half-Life of Love by Brianna Bourne]()
The Half-Life of Love by Brianna Bourne
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFlint Larsen has 41 days, 9 hours, and 42 minutes to live.He’s known exactly when he’s going to die since he was eight years old and half-lifed, a small twinge that tells a person when they’ve lived half their life. From that moment, Flint’s done everything he can to make his death more bearable... -
![All Our Yesterdays by Cristin Terrill]()
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... -
![The Summer of Impossible Things by Rowan Coleman]()
The Summer of Impossible Things by Rowan Coleman
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsIf you could change the past, would you? How far would you go to save the person you love?Luna is about to do everything she can to save her mother's life.Even if it means sacrificing her own...Categorized as:
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![An Anatomy of Beasts by Olivia A. Cole]()
An Anatomy of Beasts by Olivia A. Cole
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsIn the forty years since the Vagantur landed on Faloiv, the planet has existed in a tenuous peace between the humans who live in the enclosed community of N’Terra and the Faloii, the indigenous population. But after uncovering the shadowy secrets of the Council’s newly elected leader and helping a kidnapped Faloii man escape, sixteen-year-old Octavia knows that conflict is looming... -
![Undead by Kirsty McKay]()
Undead by Kirsty McKay
Out of sight, out of their minds: It's a school-trip splatter fest and completely not cool when the other kids in her class go all braindead on new girl Bobby. The day of the ski trip, when the bus comes to a stop at a roadside restaurant, everyone gets off and heads in for lunch. Everyone, that is, except Bobby, the new girl, who stays behind with rebel-without-a-clue Smitty. Then hours pass... -
![The Dazzling Heights by Katharine McGee]()
The Dazzling Heights by Katharine McGee
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsNew York City, 2118. A glittering vision of the future, where anything is possible – if you want it enough.Manhattan is home to a thousand-story supertower, a beacon of futuristic glamour and high-tech luxury… and to millions of people living scandalous, secretive lives.Leda is haunted by nightmares of what happened on the worst night of her life...Categorized as:
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![Waking Romeo by Kathryn Barker]()
Waking Romeo by Kathryn Barker
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsKathryn Barker's Waking Romeo is a spectacularly genre-bending retelling of Romeo & Juliet asking the big questions about true love, fate, and time travel 2083. London. Wake Romeo.It’s the end of the world. Literally. Time travel is possible, but only forward. And only a handful of families choose to remain in the “now,” living off of the scraps left behind...Categorized as:
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Reborn by Jennifer Rush
The Branch is in shambles, but Anna, Sam, Cas, and Nick can't rest easy. Remnants of the organization lurk unseen, and the flashbacks of their old lives are only getting stronger--especially Nick's.Following scattered memories and clues from his Branch file, Nick sets off alone in search of answers--and the girl who haunts his dreams...Categorized as:
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![Never Forgotten by Kelly Risser]()
Never Forgotten by Kelly Risser
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsRisser keeps her focus on the little details of Meara’s everyday life, lending the book a nice, homey charm. The real heart of the book is Meara’s emotional struggle with her mother’s illness and her first romance...Categorized as:
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![Betrayed: An Altered Saga Novella by Jennifer Rush]()
Betrayed: An Altered Saga Novella by Jennifer Rush
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsAfter leaving Anna, Sam, Cas, and Nick behind, Trev is on his own and under the watchful eye of the Branch once more. But where do Trev's loyalties really lie? Riley, Trev's overseer, is determined to find out.On Riley's command, Trev sets off on a mission to a small Wisconsin suburb. His locate and kill a seemingly innocent teen named Charlie...Categorized as:
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![The Similars by Rebecca Hanover]()
The Similars by Rebecca Hanover
Junior year gets cutthroat when clones roam the halls... Similar teens: This fall, six new students are joining the junior class at the elite Darkwood Academy. But they aren't your regular over-achieving teens. They're clones. And the "similar" teens are joining the class alongside their originals...Categorized as:
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![The Delphi Effect by Rysa Walker]()
The Delphi Effect by Rysa Walker
Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsIt’s never wise to talk to strangers…and that goes double when they’re dead. Unfortunately, seventeen-year-old Anna Morgan has no choice. Resting on a park bench, touching the turnstile at the Metro station—she never knows where she’ll encounter a ghost. These mental hitchhikers are the reason Anna has been tossed from one foster home and psychiatric institution to the next for most of her life...Categorized as:
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![Echoes by Alice Reeds]()
Echoes by Alice Reeds
Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsThey wake on a deserted island. Fiona and Miles, high school enemies now stranded together. No memory of how they got there. No plan to follow, no hope to hold on to.Each step forward reveals the mystery behind the forces that brought them here. And soon, the most chilling discovery: something else is on the island with them.Something that won't let them leave alive...Categorized as:
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![Catfish Rolling by Clara Kumagai]()
Catfish Rolling by Clara Kumagai
Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA wholly original and mind-bending debut YA novel about memory, family, and an earthquake that breaks apart time There’s a catfish under Japan and when it rolls the land rises and falls. At least, that’s what Sora was told after she lost her mother to an earthquake so powerful that it cracked time itself... -
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Ashfall Legacy by Pittacus Lore
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsPittacus Lore finished telling the story of the Lorien Nine. Now, he’s back to recount an all-new adventure rooted in the real mysteries surrounding Roswell, New Mexico, that will enthrall fans of Jay Kristoff, Amie Kaufman, and Brandon Sanderson.We have waited generations for you…Syd Chambers knows that there’s life on other planets because he’s descended from it...Categorized as:
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Echoes of Us by Kat Zhang
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsTo change the world, I may lose everything All Eva ever wanted was the chance to be herself. But in the Americas, to be hybrid—to share your body with a second soul—is not tolerated past childhood. Now Eva and Addie, her sister soul, are constantly on the move, hiding from the officials who seek to capture them. But the tide is changing...Categorized as:
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Origin by Jessica Khoury
Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsPia has grown up in a secret laboratory hidden deep in the Amazon rainforest. She was raised by a team of scientists who have created her to be the start of a new immortal race. But on the night of her seventeenth birthday, Pia discovers a hole in the electric fence that surrounds her sterile home―and sneaks outside the compound for the first time in her life...Categorized as:
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![Malice by Pintip Dunn]()
Malice by Pintip Dunn
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhat I know: a boy in my school will one day wipe out two-thirds of the population with a virus. What I don’t know: who he is. In a race against the clock, I not only have to figure out his identity, but I’ll have to outwit a voice from the future telling me to kill him. Because I’m starting to realize no one is telling the truth...Categorized as:
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![A Conspiracy of Stars by Olivia A. Cole]()
A Conspiracy of Stars by Olivia A. Cole
Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsOlivia A. Cole blends a richly imagined world, fantastical creatures, family secrets, and a simmering romance in her cinematic sci-fi/fantasy YA debut, perfect for fans of Amie Kaufman and Pierce Brown.Octavia has only ever had one goal: to follow in the footsteps of her parents and become a prestigious whitecoat, one of the scientists who study the natural wonders of Faloiv...Categorized as:
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![Undying by Amie Kaufman, Meagan Spooner]()
Undying by Amie Kaufman, Meagan Spooner
Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsTrapped aboard the Undying's ancient spaceship and reeling from what they've learned there, scavenger Mia and academic Jules are plunged into a desperate race to warn their home planet of the danger humanity's greed has unleashed...Categorized as:
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![Forget This Ever Happened by Cassandra Rose Clarke]()
Forget This Ever Happened by Cassandra Rose Clarke
Sometimes there's a town called Indianola. And sometimes there isn't.Summer, 1993. Claire has been dumped in rural Indianola, Texas, to spend her whole vacation taking care of mean, sickly Grammy. There's nothing too remarkable about Indianola: it's run-down, shabby, and stifling hot, a pin-dot on the Gulf Coast.Well, there is one remarkable thing, she discovers. Something otherworldly...Categorized as:
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![The Bodies We Wear by Jeyn Roberts]()
The Bodies We Wear by Jeyn Roberts
Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA streetwise girl trains to take on a gang of drug dealers and avenge her best friend’s death in this thriller for fans of Scott Westerfeld and Robin Wasserman. People say when you take Heam, your body momentarily dies and you catch a glimpse of heaven. Faye was only eleven when dealers forced Heam on her and her best friend, Christian. But Faye didn’t glimpse heaven—she saw hell... -
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The Stranded by Sarah Daniels
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsA gripping, near-future thriller - The Hunger Games meets Station Eleven, for fans of pacey, disruptive TV, such as the Noughts and Crosses adaptationWelcome to the Arcadia.Once a luxurious cruise ship, it became a refugee camp after being driven from Europe by an apocalyptic war. Now it floats near the coastline of the Federated States - a leftover piece of a fractured USA...Categorized as:
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United by Melissa Landers
Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAfter thwarting a deadly coup and saving the alliance between their worlds, Cara and Aelyx have finally earned a break. Their tiny island colony is everything they dreamed it would be―days spent gathering shells on the beach and nights in each other’s arms.But the vacation is short-lived.The treaty between Earth and L’eihr has awakened an ancient force that threatens to destroy them all...Categorized as:
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![The Other Side of Infinity by Joan F. Smith]()
The Other Side of Infinity by Joan F. Smith
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThey Both Die at the End meets The Butterfly Effect in this YA novel by Joan F. Smith, where a teen uses her gift of foreknowledge to help a lifeguard save a drowning man―only to discover that her actions have suddenly put his life at risk...Categorized as:
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![Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland]()
Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA Mexican American teen discovers profound connections between immigration, folklore, and alien life.It’s been three years since ICE raids and phone calls from Mexico and an ill-fated walk across the Sonoran. Three years since Sia Martinez’s mom disappeared. Sia wants to move on, but it’s hard in her tiny Arizona town where people refer to her mom’s deportation as “an unfortunate incident...Categorized as:
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![The Replaced by Kimberly Derting]()
The Replaced by Kimberly Derting
Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsRomantic and action-packed, The Replaced is the gripping second installment in the Taking trilogy.Kyra hasn't been the same since she returned from her mysterious five-year disappearance. Now, on the run from the NSA, Kyra is forced to hide out with others who, like her, have been Returned. Yet she is determined to find Tyler, the boy she loves who was also abducted—all because of her...Categorized as:
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Spliced by Jon McGoran
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsIn this gripping sci-fi thriller, genetically altered teens fight for survival in a near-future society that is redefining what it means to be human.Sixteen-year-old Jimi knows people change, but nothing could prepare her for what’s about to happen to her best friend, Del...Categorized as:
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![Tabula Rasa by Kristen Lippert-Martin]()
Tabula Rasa by Kristen Lippert-Martin
Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe Bourne Identity meets Divergent in this heart-pounding debut. Sixteen-year-old Sarah has a rare chance at a new life. Or so the doctors tell her. She’s been undergoing a cutting-edge procedure that will render her a tabula rasa—a blank slate. Memory by memory her troubled past is being taken away...Categorized as:
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