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Return to Dark Earth by Anna Hackett
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBook Seven of the award-winning series, THE PHOENIX ADVENTURES. His career plan never included becoming one of the galaxy's most infamous treasure hunters. And it certainly never included his one weakness: Nera Darc. Astro-archeologist Niklas Phoenix loved his job studying and safeguarding artifacts at the Institute of Historical Preservation...until he learned that it was all a lie... -
Dark Demise by Rebecca Royce
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsTime isn’t kind… Waverly Sandler is nothing like her mad father. She’s a nurse. She takes care of people. She is fighting to live down her name. She’s also a sister, a friend, and someday, if the universe is kind, she hopes to be a lover and a wife. Life at The Farm is one of constant activity, because freedom exacts a high price... -
Before The Dawn by Lindsey Fairleigh, Lindsey Pogue
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTHE FOURTH AND FINAL BOOK IN THE ENDING SERIES. A year ago, the Virus killed off most people in the world. A year ago, strange things started happening to those who survived. Some of them transformed into something dark and sinister, while others evolved, becoming something more, something beyond human. A year ago, Dani and Zoe were lost... -
Heart of the Walker by Coralee June
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIts been a month since Josiah took what was left of our dying relationship and extinguished its embers. I’ve settled into my job at the Bakery in Dormas, and when I’m not avoiding Jules, I’m stealing moments with Maverick, Cyler, Jacob, Huxley, Patrick, and Kemper... -
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Psyren #06: Flame by Toshiaki Iwashiro
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsReads R to L (Japanese Style), for audiences rated teen. Ageha Yoshina just got transported to a warped alternate dimension where you've got to fight your way back to our world--or die trying... -
Kieli, Volume 2: White Wake on the Sand (Kieli Novels (キーリ ライトノベル) #2) by Yukako Kabei
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsKieli, the girl who sees ghosts, and her Undying companion, Harvey, return in their second adventure - this time on the high seas of the Sand Ocean! Things are far from ship-shape, though, aboard the vessel carrying these two unusual travelers... -
Breeder by Casey Hays, Spring Lea Henry
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBeyond the Village, nothing exists ... except devastation. A war waged by men and their hateful weapons long ago made it so, and my people--the women of the Village--are the only survivors. This is what our history lessons teach us, and this is what we are to believe. But I am sixteen now ... and I question everything. The Archer has spoken, but I have no desire to heed his command... -
Deep Shadows by Vannetta Chapman
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAll It Takes Is One Night to Plunge the World into Darkness Life in Abney, Texas, is predictable and safe—until the night a massive solar flare wipes out all modern technology. Shelby Sparks, novelist and single mom, had one goal: to provide for her diabetic son. In the wake of this global disaster, her mission hasn't changed... -
Population by Elizabeth Stephens
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 11 ratings*Set in a post-apocalyptic Pacific Northwest, Population is a SciFi thriller and romantic suspense mashup with a strong black female lead alongside a dark, possessive Alpha. This full-length novel contains steamy sex and some violent elements and finds its HEA in book #2, Saltlands.* Lawlessness, violence and desperation are all that is left of the world following the coming of the Others... -
Safe Haven by Angela White
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 14 ratings*This is the Large Print (18 Pt. font) Edition.Safe Haven: A place of safety and of light, of duty and honor: A Refuge for survivors.Also: A place of death and darkness, where magic and murder go hand in hand.After months of carrying the burdens alone, Adrian finally has the help he needs. Five of the six have come and he can't wait to get things started... -
Against Time by Dean Wesley Smith
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsPaleontologist Callie Sheridan spent a few days deep in the Oregon Caves on a dig with three students from the University of Oregon. When they emerged, they found almost everyone in the world dead. Survival became her only thought. Mathematician and galactic explorer Vardis Fisher dropped into orbit over a planet where almost all of the human life had been recently killed for no obvious reason... -
Rebel's Honor by Gwynn White
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAN OPPRESSIVE FAMILY OF TYRANTS… AND A WARRIOR PRINCESS TO DESTROY THEM ALL. Hidden deep in their Dragon’s lair, the Avanovs sole fear is the curse on their bloodline, one promising a warrior will destroy them and the Dragon deity that defends them...Categorized as:
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The Immorality Engine by George Mann
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsOn the surface, life is going well for Victorian special agent Sir Maurice Newbury, who has brilliantly solved several nigh-impossible cases for Queen Victoria with his indomitable assistant, Miss Veronica Hobbes, by his side. But these facts haven’t stopped Newbury from succumbing increasingly frequently to his dire flirtation with the lure of opium... -
Odium by Claire C. Riley
Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIt's better to die by the gun than die by the dead. Nina’s life was irrevocably changed when humanity’s dead began to rise. Now, she lives behind the walls. The barricaded cities, erected by the government to protect the remnants of civilization, have become a brutal dictatorship- causing the inhabitants within to starve, steal and claw for survival...Categorized as:
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The Lightest Object in the Universe by Kimi Eisele
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIf the grid went down, how would you find someone on the other side of the country? How would you find hope? After a global economic collapse and failure of the electrical grid, amid escalating chaos, Carson, a high school teacher of history who sees history bearing out its lessons all around him, heads west on foot toward Beatrix, a woman he met and fell hard for during a chance visit to his... -
His Broken Human : A Dark Alien Romance (Alien Overlords) by Loki Renard
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA royal alien tyrant has captured me.He plans to make me pay for the sins of my species.Humans must obey their korabi overlords, but my family crossed this cruel alien king.Krush believes I am a stupid, broken human good only for receiving his wrath. He thinks my pain will absolve his. He is wrong. I am smarter than he imagines. I am stronger than he expects... -
H10N1 by Marsha Cornelius
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsA deadly influenza virus rages out of control. There is no easy-fix vaccine. No eleventh-hour containment. Only death. With no workforce, power plants have been shut down, police and fire departments have collapsed, crops lie unpicked in the fields. When Dr... -
2287 A.D.: A POST-APOCALYPTIC NOVEL by R. Brown
Rated: 3.34 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsBOOK DETAILS: 2287 A.D. is a 552 page MEGA novel. (Audio Book in production.) It is packed full of adventure, action and likable characters with a strong female lead. It contains little if any filler. Personally, I hate a 3 page description of how a star-drive engine operates (or even 3 paragraphs)... -
Life Ever After by Carla Grauls
Rated: 3.12 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsTech City: Society is obsessed with relentless progress and the possibility of eternal life. A woman and a man meet in waiting room, anticipating a procedure that will incorporate the latest science and technology into their minds and bodies, heightening their awareness and increasing their productivity... -
J by Howard Jacobson
Rated: 2.92 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsSet in the future - a world where the past is a dangerous country, not to be talked about or visited - J is a love story of incomparable strangeness, both tender and terrifying. Two people fall in love, not yet knowing where they have come from or where they are going. Kevern doesn't know why his father always drew two fingers across his lips when he said a world starting with a J... -
All the Stars in the Sky by Sarah Lyons Fleming
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsAll the Stars in the Sky: Cassie Forrest has sworn she’ll never let the world get the best of her again. She’s chosen to believe everything will be all right. But on a journey filled with heartbreak and madness and zombies, Cassie and her friends must struggle to stay alive—and it’s hard to believe in a future when survival seems unlikely... -
The Ghost and the Darkness Volume 2 by Quil Carter
The Ghost and the Darkness Vol. 2 continues with Reaver and Elish desperately trying to find Killian and Jade. Forced to work together, they scour the northern greywastes for clues of their whereabouts. Though finding the two boys isn't as simple as following a trail. Something happened to them that no one expected... -
Inside Divergent: The Initiate's World by Cecilia Bernard, Veronica Roth
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsVeronica Roth's #1 New York Times bestselling novel Divergent is now a major motion picture starring Shailene Woodley, Theo James, and Kate Winslet! This eye-catching volume takes you inside the film version of Divergent...Categorized as:
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The Girl Who Dared to Rise by Bella Forrest
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe stakes grow ever higher for Liana Castell... and she must rise to meet them.Return to the Tower in the gripping fourth book of The Girl Who Dared series, where Liana will face her greatest challenge yet:Become Ambrose's replacement, or die trying.Pre-order now... -
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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... -
Love and Decay, Volume Two by Rachel Higginson
Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsZombies- as if that wasn’t enough to ruin any girl’s dream of a happily ever after. A lot has changed for Reagan in the few months since she stumbled upon the Parker family. She has given up her isolated vagabond lifestyle and along with her best friend Haley, made a permanent home with the brothers and their sweet, little sister...Categorized as:
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The Ghost and the Darkness Volume 1 by Quil Carter
I would say that my life changed as soon as those gunshots went off, but in reality everything changed the moment Leo and Greyson loaded that decapitated body into the truck back in Donnely. Now I am in a place I do not recognize, with people I had once seen as enemies... -
Kings of Carrion by Keri Lake
The World Doesn't Give Without Taking ... Decades have passed since our world was decimated by the Dredge. Some say it was an act of God. Others believe the devil himself breached the gates of hell and turned the masses into the mindless infected with an appetite for carnage...Categorized as:
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The Girl Who Dared to Think by Bella Forrest
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsHow do you fight an enemy when they're inside your mind? A gargantuan glass-walled tower looms over a deadly wilderness. They say it's all that's left. The Tower's survival is humanity's survival, and each must serve it faithfully... Twenty-year-old Liana Castell must be careful what she thinks... -
Deathly Contagious by Emily Goodwin
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsDeathly Contagious: Book Two in the Contagium Trilogy After the discovery of a zombie-proof safe house, things are finally looking up for Orissa Penwell. But her chance at happiness is shattered when someone she cares about is shot. Hell bent on revenge, Orissa will do whatever it takes to seek vengeance and get even...Categorized as:
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