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The Hunger Games Trilogy Boxset by Suzanne Collins
The extraordinary, ground breaking New York Times bestsellers The Hunger Games and Catching Fire, along with the third book in The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay, are available for the first time ever in a beautiful boxset edition. Stunning, gripping, and powerful... -
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Starsight by Brandon Sanderson
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Reckoners series, Words of Radiance, the Mistborn trilogy, and the Stormlight Archive comes the second book in an epic series about a girl with a secret in a dangerous world at war for humanity's future.All her life, Spensa has dreamed of becoming a pilot. Of proving she's a hero like her father... -
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![Evershore by Brandon Sanderson, Janci Patterson]()
Evershore by Brandon Sanderson, Janci Patterson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 45 ratingsFrom #1 bestselling author Brandon Sanderson and Janci Patterson comes the final of three Skyward series novellas, each told from the perspective of a different member of the team back on Detritus. Listen to Jorgen's story along with Cytonic... -
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Compete by Vera Nazarian
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 34 ratingsIt's one thing to Qualify…But do you have what it takes to Compete?With Earth about to be destroyed by an extinction level asteroid, teenage nerd, geek, and awkward smart girl Gwen Lark, and a few of her friends and loved ones, barely Qualified for rescue onboard one of the thousands of ark-ships headed to the ancient colony planet Atlantis...Categorized as:
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The Harper Hall of Pern by Anne McCaffrey
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsOmnibus of DragonSong, DragonSinger, and... -
![Shatter Me Series Box Set: Shatter Me, Unravel Me, Ignite Me by Tahereh Mafi]()
Shatter Me Series Box Set: Shatter Me, Unravel Me, Ignite Me by Tahereh Mafi
My touch is power.Tahereh Mafi's New York Times bestselling Shatter Me trilogy (Shatter Me, Unravel Me, and Ignite Me) is available together for the first time in this complete box set collection!No one knows why Juliette's touch is fatal, but The Reestablishment has plans for her. Plans to use her as a weapon. But Juliette has plans of her own...Categorized as:
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![Aurora's End by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff]()
Aurora's End by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff
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... -
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ReDawn by Brandon Sanderson, Janci Patterson
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 44 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... -
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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... -
![Into the Still Blue by Veronica Rossi]()
Into the Still Blue by Veronica Rossi
The race to the Still Blue has reached a stalemate. Aria and Perry are determined to find this last safe haven from the Aether storms before Sable and Hess do— and they are just as determined to stay together...Categorized as:
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Sunreach by Brandon Sanderson, Janci Patterson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 48 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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Defending Elysium by Brandon Sanderson
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 38 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... -
![The Transall Saga by Gary Paulsen]()
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...Categorized as:
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Guardians of Time by Sarah Woodbury
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsChristmas 1292. Time travel has meant many things to Meg, David, and Anna over the years. But regardless of the circumstances, it has always been about saving lives: their own, their family members’, their friends’. This time, it’s a combination of all three. Guardians of Time is the ninth book in the After Cilmeri series... -
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![Into The Fire by Lindsey Fairleigh, Lindsey Pogue]()
Into The Fire by Lindsey Fairleigh, Lindsey Pogue
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsThe Virus changed them, but that was only the beginning… …death…mutation…insanity…corruption…terror… …all that remains is hope. In the wake of destruction left behind by the Virus, it took Dani and Zoe months to find each other. But their reunion was short-lived. Dani has been taken, and though little distance separates them, they might as well be worlds apart... -
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House of Deception by Brandi Elledge
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsCivil war, genetically mutated super soldiers, all humans almost eradicated …The world as we know it was destroyed a long time ago, and a powerful group of beings were created …The unrivaled.Nineteen-year-old Thorn is nothing but a human worker, an orphan slave, who has seen nothing of the world but the small area of Old Florida in which she is employed... -
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The Sun Dwellers by David Estes
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsIncludes a bonus Dwellers Short Story (Anna's Story) and a sneak peek at David Estes' follow up YA dystopian series, Fire Country! With those she's closest to dying around her, Adele embarks on a secret mission to the Sun Realm to assassinate the President. Along the way she'll uncover secrets about her relationship with Tristan that she might not be ready to face...Categorized as:
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![The Star Dwellers by David Estes]()
The Star Dwellers by David Estes
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsAfter rescuing her father and younger sister, Adele is forced to leave her family and Tristan behind to find her mother in the cruel and dangerous realm of the star dwellers...Categorized as:
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DEV1AT3 by Jay Kristoff
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 33 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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TRUEL1F3 by Jay Kristoff
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsFrom the bestselling co-author of the Illuminae Files comes the thrilling finale in the LIFEL1K3 trilogy--hailed by Marie Lu as "a breathless, action-packed exploration of what humanity really means." Best friends have become enemies. Lovers have become strangers. And deciding whose side you're on could be the difference between life and death... -
![Winter's Wrath: Sacrifice by Karen Luellen]()
Winter's Wrath: Sacrifice by Karen Luellen
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTormented by evil. Haunted by choice. Searching for redemption. ****** Lines between good and evil blur as the Winter family fight for survival in Winter’s Wrath: Sacrifice. Book #3 in Winter’s Saga delves into the choices we make and the butterfly effect on the world around us. Meg Winter must cope with the caveats of her evolved gift or be consumed by them... -
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Tested by Janelle Stalder
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. Faced with the scariest decision of her life, Missy is going behind enemy lines to save the rebel that seems to haunt her every dream. Finding courage is one of the hardest things she’s ever done, especially when she comes face-to-face with a terrifying reality. The green eyes that have fascinated her, no longer gleam with recognition...Categorized as:
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![The Sowing by Steven dos Santos]()
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...Categorized as:
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Fractured by Alexandra Moody
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsElle Winters should never have escaped the ARC, but when she wakes up in a hospital bed she’s unable to remember why. Her memories are gone and she has no idea how she came to be connected to a drip in a windowless, white room that’s hauntingly familiar. The doctors say she is sick, and that they are her only chance at survival... -
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![Gambit by C.L. Denault]()
Gambit by C.L. Denault
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn Earth’s battle-ridden future, humans have evolved. Those with extraordinary skills rise to power and fame. Those without live in poverty.Sixteen-year-old Willow Kent believed she was normal. But when a genetically-advanced military officer shows up in her village and questions her identity, long-buried secrets begin to emerge...Categorized as:
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![The Chosen Ones (The Beautiful Ones) by Lori Brighton]()
The Chosen Ones (The Beautiful Ones) by Lori Brighton
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsI have known nothing but fear and death since the truth was revealed: I am a chosen one. For centuries we have been raised as food for those who need our life’s blood in order to survive. But I’m done being a pawn in the sick and twisted lives of the beautiful blood drinkers. Determined, I will do whatever it takes to end the reign of the beautiful ones...Categorized as:
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Sleepless by Tracey Ward
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsMy name is Alex Mills and I have a superpower. Don't be jealous, it sucks. I can't control it. My mind is a mutinous SOB that takes over when I go to sleep. I'm just a girl trying to get some shut eye while it decides to throw a rager that can land me just about anywhere in the world. The base of the Eiffel Tower. The shore on the coast of Ireland. The third baseline at Wrigley Field... -
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Earth's Warrior by Kelly St. Clare
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsGlobal warning left the world uninhabitable one hundred and fifty years ago, and humans—even those genetically enhanced like me—couldn’t survive on the surface.I long to exist outside the walls of this space station. I dream of the wind on my face and the ocean’s roar.Daydreams become cold reality when I crash land on Earth...Categorized as:
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The Return by Kelly St. Clare
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThree months ago, Romy emerged from the cultivation tanks after a year floating inside. Body intact. Mind broken. Memory gone. Now she undergoes regular testing as doctors work to find out ... well, she’s not exactly sure what. The tests must have something to do with the reason she can’t remember her knot—the single lucid memory the other insane soldiers on Orbito Four still possess...Categorized as:
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![Touching Fire by Airicka Phoenix]()
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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Masked by Janelle Stalder
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHatred paralyzes life; love releases it. New Berlin, 2040. Rebels prepare to fight against the New World Order, bent on bringing down the world’s greatest tyrant. One girl wanted nothing to do with it, content to keep her head down and make the best of this new world. That is, until she has no choice but to work with the rebels and infiltrate the NWO headquarters... -
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The Trap by Andrew Fukuda
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFrom author Andrew Fukuda comes The Trap, the explosive finale to The Hunt trilogy—perfect for fans of The Hunger Games ! After barely escaping the Mission alive, Gene and Sissy face an impossible task: staying alive long enough to stop an entire world bent on their destruction... -
![Firebirds: An Anthology of Original Fantasy and Science Fiction by Sharyn November]()
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... -
![The Retreat by Kelly St. Clare]()
The Retreat by Kelly St. Clare
Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsEarth is ruined. Humankind destroyed. And it’s old news. Romy’s life is simple—for a genetically enhanced space soldier; pick up space junk with her four friends, and stave off the invaders fixated on stealing Planet Earth. It isn’t much. But it’s temporary—only another 850 years to go, give or take...Categorized as:
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![Shutdown by Heather Anastasiu]()
Shutdown by Heather Anastasiu
The battle is all but over, and hope seems to be lost. Zoe and her fellow Resistance fighters are on the run, having lost their home, their protection, and their leader. They are outnumbered and outmatched by the powerful corporation that controls the world, and the cruel Chancellor is inches away from completing a scheme that would kill most of humanity... -
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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... -
![All Our Yesterdays by Cristin Terrill]()
All Our Yesterdays by Cristin Terrill
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 47 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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![A Spark of White Fire by Sangu Mandanna]()
A Spark of White Fire by Sangu Mandanna
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsNamed one of the best 25 space opera books by BookRiot!The first book in a scifi retelling of the Mahabrahata. When Esmae wins a contest of skill, she sets off events that trigger an inevitable and unwinnable war that pits her against the family she would give anything to return to...Categorized as:
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The Star Host by F.T. Lukens
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsRen grew up listening to his mother tell stories about the Star Hosts – a mythical group of people possessed by the power of the stars. The stories were the most exciting part of Ren’s life, and he often dreamed about leaving his backwater planet and finding his place among the neighboring drifts. When Ren is captured by soldiers and taken from his home, his dream slips further out of his grasp... -
![Praying For Rain by Jay Kristoff]()
Praying For Rain by Jay Kristoff
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPraying For Rain is a free-to-read pdf short story, a prequel to Jay Kristoff's The Lotus War series, which tells the tale of Miho and the city of Kigen... -
![The Last Stormdancer by Jay Kristoff]()
The Last Stormdancer by Jay Kristoff
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsYour blood-red skies are filled with smoke. Your bleach-white histories with lies. You walk sleeping. Wake senseless. Breathing deep of toxic blooms and forgetting all that has gone before. But I remember. I remember when two brothers waged bloody war over the right to sit in their father’s empty chair... -
![Spark Rising by Kate Corcino]()
Spark Rising by Kate Corcino
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAll that’s required to ignite a revolution is a single spark rising. Two hundred years after the cataclysm that annihilated fossil fuels, Sparks keep electricity flowing through their control of energy-giving Dust...Categorized as:
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![The Lifesaving Power: Goldenfields and Stronghold by Jeffrey Quyle]()
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... -
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Shadowlark by Meagan Spooner
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsEver since she escaped the city within the Wall, Lark Ainsley's wanted one thing: to find her brother Basil. She's always believed he would be the one to put an end to the constant fear and flight. And now, hidden underground in the chaotically magical city of Lethe, Lark feels closer to him than ever... -
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![External Forces by Deborah Rix]()
External Forces by Deborah Rix
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWINNER-YA Next Generation Indie Book Award. FINALIST-Science Fiction ForeWord Reviews Book Of The Year 2013 It’s 100 years since the Genetic Integrity Act was passed and America closed its borders to prevent genetic contamination. Now only the enemy, dysgenic Deviants, remain beyond the heavily guarded border... -
![The Orphan Queen by Jodi Meadows]()
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... -
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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...Categorized as:
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![The Forgetting by Sharon Cameron]()
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... -
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Tremor by Patrick Carman
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsIn the year 2051, some people have a second pulse… Like all who have “the pulse,” Faith Daniels and Dylan Gilmore have telekinetic powers—they can move objects with their minds. But there are five “second pulses” in the world who have an even greater power: Almost nothing can harm them. They are virtually indestructible. Both Faith and Dylan have the second pulse... -
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Secondborn by Amy A. Bartol
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsFirstborns rule society. Secondborns are the property of the government. Thirdborns are not tolerated. Long live the Fates Republic. On Transition Day, the second child in every family is taken by the government and forced into servitude. Roselle St...Categorized as:
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