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  • Divergent Series Four-Book Anniversary Collection by Veronica Roth

    Divergent Series Four-Book Anniversary Collection by Veronica Roth

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    The internationally bestselling Divergent series that inspired major motion pictures starring Shailene Woodley. These special 10th anniversary editions features exclusive content from Veronica Roth and a beautiful reimagined cover art from award-winning illustrator Victo Ngai. DIVERGENT For sixteen-year-old Tris, the world changes in a heartbeat when she is forced to make a terrible choice...
  • 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...
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  • Between Burning Worlds by Jessica Brody, Joanne Rendell

    Between Burning Worlds by Jessica Brody, Joanne Rendell

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    A thief.An officer.A guardian. All from different backgrounds, but sharing one same destiny…The planet Laterre is in turmoil. A new militant revolutionary group has emerged calling themselves “The Red Scar” and claiming responsibility for a spate of recent bombings...
  • Battle Angel Alita, Volume 02: Tears of an Angel by Yukito Kishiro

    Battle Angel Alita, Volume 02: Tears of an Angel by Yukito Kishiro

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Alita's mastery of the lethal Panzer Kunst technique may not help her in volume 2 of this popular series. Her worst enemy may be herself...
  • 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...
  • The Girl Who Dared to Stand by Bella Forrest

    The Girl Who Dared to Stand by Bella Forrest

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Liana Castell's journey continues in the breathtaking second book of the bestselling The Girl Who Dared to Think series.After stumbling upon an ancient, dusty office sealed away from the rest of the Tower, Liana makes a shocking discovery. Her first instinct is to flee - until she realizes all is not what it seems. The room has been hidden for a reason...
  • 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...
  • 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 Earth Dwellers by David Estes

    The Earth Dwellers by David Estes

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The Earth Dwellers is the 4th book in BOTH The Dwellers Saga and The Country Saga. The author recommends that BOTH series are read in their entirety before reading this book (The Moon Dwellers, The Star Dwellers, The Sun Dwellers, Fire Country, Ice Country, Water & Storm Country)...
  • The Dividing Sky by Jill Tew

    The Dividing Sky by Jill Tew

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 9 ratings
    Serpent & Dove meets Arcane in this dystopian romance debut that follows a cunning memory merchant who deals a little extra happiness on the side and the handsome rookie officer on her tail!In 2460, eighteen-year-old Liv Newman dreams of a future beyond her lower-class life in the Metro. As a Proxy, she uses the neurochip in her brain to sell memories to wealthy clients...
  • 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...
  • Carrier by Anne Tibbets

    Carrier by Anne Tibbets

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Twenty-two -year-old Naya has spent nearly half her life as a sex slave in a government institution called The Line. When she’s kicked out after getting pregnant with twins, she’s got no way to earn a living and a horrifying choice to make: find someone to replace her, or have her babies taken in her stead. A doctor with a history of aiding ex-Line girls, Ric Bennett, wants to help...
  • 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...
  • Mirror's Edge by Scott Westerfeld

    Mirror's Edge by Scott Westerfeld

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    The danger rises and the deception grows in the heart-stopping third book in the New York Times bestselling Impostors series!Frey's return to the city of her birth isn't going to be an easy one. She and her love Col must surge on new faces and bodies in order to infiltrate Shreve by dropping from the sky and landing undetected...
  • Charged by G. P. Ching

    Charged by G. P. Ching

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Faith kept her plain. Science made her complicated. After her harrowing experience at the hands of Dr. Konrad and the Green Republic, the plain and simple life of Hemlock Hollow is a relief to Lydia Troyer. Her focus now is on helping Korwin to fit in and preparing for their upcoming marriage...
  • 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...
  • Slip by David Estes

    Slip by David Estes

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Someone must die before another can be born...As sea levels rise and livable landmasses shrink, the Reorganized United States of America has instituted population control measures to ensure there are sufficient resources and food to sustain the growing population. Birth authorization must be paid for and obtained prior to having a child...
  • Mars Rising by Cidney Swanson

    Mars Rising by Cidney Swanson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    New Release Sale! 3.99/list 4.99 Also Save $1 each: Book 4 Mars Burning 3.99/list 4.99 amazon.com/dp/B00EBZADMABook 5 Striking Mars 3.99/list 499 amazon.com/dp/B00HCZV4QKIn the breathtaking conclusion to The Saving Mars Series, Jessamyn prepares to sacrifice her future with Pavel when Lucca invites her to Budapest to prove she's from Mars...
  • Under Ground by Alice Rachel

    Under Ground by Alice Rachel

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This is a REGULAR EDITION of "Under Ground." It does not include the additional short story only available in the SPECIAL EDITION paper copy. Love is a taboo, a mere fantasy— foreign, unreachable, and dangerous. Raised in a society where women have no rights, seventeen-year-old Thia Clay holds little hope for a bright future...
  • Earth Star by Janet Edwards

    Earth Star by Janet Edwards

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Sequel to Earth Girl . 18-year-old Jarra has a lot to prove. After being awarded one of the military’s highest honours for her role in a daring rescue attempt, Jarra finds herself – and her Ape status – in the spotlight. Jarra is one of the unlucky few born with an immune system that cannot survive on other planets...
  • 7SEEDS 2 by Yumi Tamura, 田村由美

    7SEEDS 2 by Yumi Tamura, 田村由美

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
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  • Shatter City by Scott Westerfeld

    Shatter City by Scott Westerfeld

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Cities at war. Identities stolen or hidden away. A love built on lies. In the second book of the New York Times bestselling Impostors, nothing is certain and anything can be taken away.When the world sees Frey, they think they see her twin sister, Rafi. Frey was raised to be Rafi's double, and now she's taken on the role . . . without anyone else knowing...
  • Fire Country by David Estes

    Fire Country by David Estes

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    In a changed world where the sky bleeds red, winter is hotter than hell and full of sandstorms, and summer's even hotter with raging fires that roam the desert-like country, the Heaters manage to survive, barely. Due to toxic air, life expectancies are so low the only way the tribe can survive is by forcing women to procreate when they turn sixteen and every three years thereafter...
  • The Last Mission of the Living by Rhiannon Frater

    The Last Mission of the Living by Rhiannon Frater

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Humanity teeters on the brink of extinction...Vanguard Lindsay Rooney has faced the undead hordes of Inferi Scourge and lived to tell the tale, but she has also suffered horrible losses. Like millions of other civilians, she had hoped that The Bastion would recover after a team of modified soldiers eradicated the undead hordes of Inferi Scourge that infested their valley...
  • The Dwellers Saga Boxed Set by David Estes

    The Dwellers Saga Boxed Set by David Estes

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    One of "15 Series to Read if You Enjoyed The Hunger Games"--Buzzfeed.com Get the first THREE books of the Amazon bestselling The Dwellers Saga for more than 20% off the normal price! This boxed set includes The Moon Dwellers, The Star Dwellers, The Sun Dwellers, and a bonus Dwellers story; that's more than 1,100 pages of dystopian action and twists...
  • The Freezer by David Kersten

    The Freezer by David Kersten

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    1966 was a bad year for retired Army officer Jack Taggart. Still reeling from the loss of his wife and daughter, a visit to his doctor reveals the worst possible news: cancer. Going in for his first surgery, he is uncertain if he can, or even should, face the challenges ahead. When he wakes up to find over three hundred years have passed, an entirely new set of challenges lay before him...
  • Skin Hunter by Tania Hutley

    Skin Hunter by Tania Hutley

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "The best YA Dystopian I've read in years. The Hunger Games meets Avatar." - Netgalley Review Desperate to escape the dangerous streets of Old Triton, the buried city, Milla takes the ultimate risk.Could a dead girl's identity be her way out? A ticket to a richer, brighter world?Now she's part of a high tech contest, with a prize beyond money, fame and everything she has ever known...
  • Shadows Have Gone by Lissa Bryan

    Shadows Have Gone by Lissa Bryan

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Carly Daniels knows what it is to suffer loss. She knows what it is to sacrifice. In the two years since a pandemic virus—known only as the Infection—decimated humanity, she’s made choices she never could have imagined. She’s condoned violence in the name of peace and done the unthinkable in the name of mercy...
  • Ghost of Mind #1 by Odette C. Bell

    Ghost of Mind #1 by Odette C. Bell

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Would you run? If you were the last of your kind, if you knew getting caught could thrust the universe into war, wouldn’t you slip into the shadows and disappear too?Hiding is Alice’s only option. It always has been.Then he comes along. Commander John Doe, the head of a new mission into one of the most dangerous areas of space...
  • Breaking Point by Kristen Simmons

    Breaking Point by Kristen Simmons

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    The second installment in Kristen Simmons's fast-paced, gripping YA dystopian series.After faking their deaths to escape from prison, Ember Miller and Chase Jennings have only one goal: to lay low until the Federal Bureau of Reformation forgets they ever existed...
  • 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...
  • Equinox by Lara Morgan

    Equinox by Lara Morgan

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    It’s Rosie’s seventeenth year and she’s starting her first year at Orbitcorp Academy, but it’s not going to be all parties and pilot training. Helios hasn’t forgotten her – and she certainly hasn’t forgotten them. Bent on revenge Rosie is still working in secret to try to take them down...
  • Part of the Sky by J.W. Lynne, Jenny Lynne

    Part of the Sky by J.W. Lynne, Jenny Lynne

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Part 1 of Book #3 in the gripping new suspense series filled with twists and turns!From the author of the suspense thriller ABOVE THE SKY and its riveting sequel, RETURN TO THE SKY, comes the mind-blowing third book in the series. In PART OF THE SKY, nineteen-year-old Seven is forced to risk her life to save those she loves in a dangerous world full of more secrets than she ever imagined...
  • Life by Rebecca Belliston

    Life by Rebecca Belliston

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    The economy crashed, the country is floundering, and Carrie Ashworth struggles to keep her brother and sister alive. She has two jobs in her newly-formed, newly-outlawed clan: grow crops to feed thirty-six people and maintain contact with Oliver Simmons, their local patrolman. Carrie's life is almost content when Greg Pierce shows up. A man with the ambition to help them survive...
  • Impostors by Scott Westerfeld

    Impostors by Scott Westerfeld

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    Frey and Rafi are inseparable . . . but very few people have ever seen them together. This is because Frey is Rafi’s double, raised in the shadows of their rich father’s fortress. While Rafi has been taught to charm, Frey has been taught to kill. Frey only exists to protect her sister. There is no other part of her life...
  • The Towering Sky by Katharine McGee

    The Towering Sky by Katharine McGee

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    Welcome back to New York, 2119. A skyscraper city, fueled by impossible dreams, where the lives of five teenagers have become intertwined in ways that no one could have imagined.Leda just wants to move on from what happened in Dubai. Until a new investigation forces her to seek help—from the person she’s spent all year trying to forget.Rylin is back in her old life, reunited with an old flame...
  • Starstruck by Brenda Hiatt

    Starstruck by Brenda Hiatt

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Nerdy astronomy geek Marsha, M to her few friends, has never been anybody special. Orphaned as an infant and reluctantly raised by an overly-strict “aunt,” she’s not even sure who she is. M’s dream of someday escaping tiny Jewel, Indiana and making her mark in the world seems impossibly distant until hot new quarterback Rigel inexplicably befriends her...
  • The Child Thief by Bella Forrest

    The Child Thief by Bella Forrest

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    In a world where we have government of the rich by the rich for the rich… America in 2105 is beset with mass inequality, poverty and increasingly large numbers of the poor. This, combined with the breakdown of families and marriages has led to huge economic and societal burdens...
  • Zombie Island by Samantha Hoffman

    Zombie Island by Samantha Hoffman

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Samantha is holed up all alone in her apartment, trying to outlast the zombie apocalypse. During a routine trip into town for supplies, she is chased through the city by vicious Warriors, men that kill zombies, and make women wish they were dead. After being trapped on a roof at gunpoint, she is saved by the brothers Ryder and Reese, and she decides they might be her best chance for survival...
  • Awaken by Katie Kacvinsky, Ulrike Nolte

    Awaken by Katie Kacvinsky, Ulrike Nolte

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Maddie lives in a world where everything is done on the computer. Whether it’s to go to school or on a date, people don’t venture out of their home. There’s really no need. For the most part, Maddie’s okay with the solitary, digital life—until she meets Justin. Justin likes being with people. He enjoys the physical closeness of face-to-face interactions...
  • Rebel Seoul by Axie Oh

    Rebel Seoul by Axie Oh

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    EAST ASIA, 2199. After a great war, the East Pacific is in ruins. In brutal Neo Seoul, where status comes from success in combat, ex-gang member Lee Jaewon is a talented pilot rising in the academy's ranks. Abandoned as a child in the slums of Old Seoul by his rebel father, Jaewon desires only to escape his past...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Genesis Girl by Jennifer Bardsley

    Genesis Girl by Jennifer Bardsley

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Eighteen-year-old Blanca has lived a sheltered life. Her entire childhood has been spent at Tabula Rasa School where she’s been protected from the Internet. Blanca has never been online and doesn’t even know how to text. Her lack of a virtual footprint makes her extremely valuable, and upon graduation, Blanca and those like her are sold to the highest bidders...
  • 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 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...
  • Mothership by Martin Leicht, Isla Neal

    Mothership by Martin Leicht, Isla Neal

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Teen pregnancy is never easy—especially not when extraterrestrials are involved. The first in a new trilogy. Elvie Nara was doing just fine in the year 2074. She had a great best friend, a dad she adored, and bright future working on the Ares Project on Mars. But then she had to get involved with sweet, gorgeous, dumb-as-a-brick Cole--and now she’s pregnant...
  • The Eden Project: Humanity's Last Chance by D.P. Fitzsimons

    The Eden Project: Humanity's Last Chance by D.P. Fitzsimons

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    There was only one rule: NEVER LEAVE THE DOME. Inside the dome, 117 tube-born kids lived free of contamination. Trained since birth, they were almost ready to launch their ships and leave the dying planet behind. They were humanity's final hope against extinction. Their mission would be to explore the farthest reaches of the galaxy seeking out a habitable world free of the C-1 virus...
  • Legacy by Ellery A. Kane

    Legacy by Ellery A. Kane

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    How do you want to feel today? In 2041, the choice is yours. San Francisco is deserted, the Bay Bridge bombed, and the BART subway trains grounded. The Guardians, members of an elite and mysterious government-appointed military police force, are maintaining order at all costs—thanks to emotion-altering drugs like Emovere that suppress fear and anxiety...
  • Start by Odette C. Bell

    Start by Odette C. Bell

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    No one is born equal. Some exceed every expectation and excel in every task. Some can’t get out of bed in the morning.Meet Cadet Nida Harper – the worst recruit in the Academy. She tries; she's just cursed. Every accident that can happen, does happen.When she’s found unconscious on a field mission, it’s not surprising. But it sure is surprising when wild dreams start...
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