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Win by Vera Nazarian
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThe 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... -
Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness
In the riveting conclusion to the acclaimed dystopian series, a boy and girl caught in the chaos of war face devastating choices that will decide the fate of a world.As a world-ending war surges around them, Todd and Viola face monstrous decisions. The indigenous Spackle, thinking and acting as one, have mobilized to avenge their murdered people... -
Defending the Galaxy by Maria V. Snyder
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 22 ratingsYear 2522. Oh. My. Stars.Junior Officer Ara Lawrence here, reporting for duty. Again. It's situation critical for the security team and everyone in the base - including my parents - with a new attack from the looters imminent, a possible galaxy-wide crime conspiracy and an unstoppable alien threat. But this all pales in the face of my mind-blowing discovery about the Q-net...Categorized as:
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Nyxia Unleashed by Scott Reintgen
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsGetting to Eden brought Emmett and his crewmates one step closer to their promised fortune. But surviving Eden may be the biggest reward of all.Emmett Atwater thought Babel’s game sounded easy. Get points. Get paid. Go home. But it didn’t take long for him to learn that Babel’s competition was full of broken promises, none darker or more damaging than the last one...Categorized as:
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Earth Flight by Janet Edwards
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIt'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... -
Nyxia by Scott Reintgen
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsWhat 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...Categorized as:
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Starfall: A Starstruck Novel by Brenda Hiatt
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsThe 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... -
Alight by Scott Sigler
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... -
Rebel Wing by Tracy Banghart
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAlternate cover edition for ASIN: B00LXCMU8O The Dominion of Atalanta is at war. But for eighteen-year-old Aris, the fighting is nothing more than a distant nightmare, something she watches on news vids from the safety of her idyllic seaside town. Then her boyfriend, Calix, is drafted into the Military, and the nightmare becomes a dangerous reality...Categorized as:
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Navigating the Stars by Maria V. Snyder
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsTerra Cotta Warriors have been discovered on other planets in the Milky Way Galaxy. And Lyra Daniels' parents are the archaeological Experts (yes with a capital E) on the Warriors and have dragged her to the various planets to study them despite the time dilation causing havoc with her social life...Categorized as:
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Carswell's Guide to Being Lucky by Marissa Meyer
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsA short story that appeared in Target exclusive copies of... -
Push by Eve Silver
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsIt’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... -
Their Fractured Light by Amie Kaufman, Meagan Spooner
A year ago, Flynn Cormac and Jubilee Chase made the now infamous Avon Broadcast, calling on the galaxy to witness for their planet, and protect them from destruction. Some say Flynn’s a madman, others whisper about conspiracies. Nobody knows the truth... -
Shades of Earth by Beth Revis
Amy and Elder have finally left the oppressive walls of the spaceship Godspeed behind. They're ready to start life afresh--to build a home--on Centauri-Earth, the planet that Amy has traveled 25 trillion miles across the universe to experience. But this new Earth isn't the paradise Amy had been hoping for...Categorized as:
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Ruins by Dan Wells
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsKira, Samm, and Marcus fight to prevent a final war between Partials and humans in the gripping final installment in the Partials Sequence, a series that combines the thrilling action of The Hunger Games with the provocative themes of Blade Runner and The Stand.There is no avoiding it—the war to decide the fate of both humans and Partials is at hand...Categorized as:
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Destiny Rising by Siobhan Davis
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEVERY CHOICE HAS A CONSEQUENCEThe final book in the captivating True Calling series.Once again, the world is on the brink of momentous change. As revolutionary organization Saoirse prepares to battle the government for control of Earth and Novo, Ariana and those she loves must join humanity’s fight for justice and freedom...Categorized as:
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Fear Me Not by Sara Wolf
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe aliens crash-landed on Earth eleven years ago. And now, sixteen-year-old Victoria Hale feeds them. With her emotions. Victoria is an EVE - an Emotion Vesicle Engraft - and one of few humans who are genetically capable of producing emotions for the Gutters to feed on. She's doing it for the money - her sister Alisa needs a good doctor, and fast...Categorized as:
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Mars Rising by Cidney Swanson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNew 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... -
Storm Fall by Tracy Banghart
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn the action-packed sequel to Rebel Wing, Aris battles for life and love . . . and not everyone will survive. Aris Haan gave up everything to join the Atalantan Military: her family, her boyfriend, even her identity. In the end, though, it didn’t matter that she was a war hero. When the all-male Military discovered that she was actually a woman, she was sent home and erased from history... -
Earth Star by Janet Edwards
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsSequel 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... -
Fire Country by David Estes
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsIn 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... -
Until Midnight by Melissa Landers
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsDon't miss the *free* romantic holiday story that connects ALIENATED and INVADED! Cara and Aelyx only have one day to spend together before he returns to earth and she travels to Aelyx's home planet, L'eihr. Homesick and worried about the upcoming year apart, Cara is desperate to make these final hours count. Worst of all, Cara is missing Christmas, stuck on board an alien spaceship...Categorized as:
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Shattered Veil by Tracy Banghart
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen everything that defines you is stripped away, who do you become? War has come to Atalanta, infecting its quiet villages and lush woodlands, igniting whispered worries in its glittering capital. All across the dominion, young men are being Selected for Military and sent to the front lines...and eighteen-year-old Aris Haan's childhood sweetheart is one of them...Categorized as:
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Ghost of Mind #1 by Odette C. Bell
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsWould 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... -
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Zero Repeat Forever by Gabrielle S. Prendergast
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsHe 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... -
Missing Pieces by Meredith Tate
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsYour family is the most important part of your life. Your families are the people you love, and love is what separates us from scoundrels and criminals. It maintains order. Your parents, your sibling, and your Partner, are the ones you love. There should never, ever, be anyone else who comes close to that bond. You have only one best friend, and that is the person you’ll be marrying someday...Categorized as:
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Melophobia by James Morris
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMelophobia: fear or hatred of music. The time—now; the place—America, but in a world where the government controls all forms of art and creativity. Any music sowing the seeds of anarchy is banned—destroyed if found—its creators and listeners harshly punished...Categorized as:
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Cicada by Belle Whittington
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBlair Reynolds was born to rule. Worlds, that is. Destined to reign over an ancient intergalactic race, it may seem her fate is written in the stars. But she’s willing to risk it all for another chance to spend forever with her true love – even if it means traveling through time and space to the other side of the universe... -
Amid Stars and Darkness by Chani Lynn Feener
Delaney’s entire world is thrown into chaos after she is mistaken for Lissa Olena, an alien princess hiding out on Earth in order to escape an arranged marriage.Kidnapped by the princess’s head bodyguard, Ruckus, and imprisoned in an alien palace, Delaney is forced to impersonate the princess until Olena can be found...Categorized as:
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The Towering Sky by Katharine McGee
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsWelcome 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... -
Molly Fyde and the Parsona Rescue by Hugh Howey
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsWhen Molly gets kicked out of the Naval Academy, she loses more than just another home, she loses the only two things that truly matter: flying in space and her training partner, Cole. A dull future seems to await, until a marvelous discovery changes everything. Her father's old starship, missing for a decade, turns up halfway across the galaxy... -
Within Ash and Stardust by Chani Lynn Feener
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHaving gone from kidnapped faux princess to the legitimate heir to an intergalactic throne, an impulsive, sarcastic teen must take charge of her own destiny in this epic YA novel.On Earth, Delaney is a normal teenager who recently graduated high school with a fantastic best friend and a loving boyfriend.But Delaney isn’t on Earth. She’s on Xenith, a war-torn planet half a galaxy away... -
Starstruck by Brenda Hiatt
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsNerdy 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... -
A Million Suns by Beth Revis
Godspeed was once fueled by lies. Now it is ruled by chaos. It’s been three months since Amy was unplugged. The life she always knew is over. Everywhere she looks, she sees the walls of the spaceship Godspeed . But there may be hope: Elder has assumed leadership of the ship. He's finally free to act on his vision—no more Phydus, no more lies... -
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In the After by Demitria Lunetta
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsThey hear the most silent of footsteps. They are faster than anything you've ever seen. And They won't stop chasing you...until you are dead. Amy is watching TV when it happens, when the world is attacked by Them. These vile creatures are rapidly devouring mankind. Most of the population is overtaken, but Amy manages to escape—and even rescue “Baby,” a toddler left behind in the chaos...Categorized as:
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The Rule of Mirrors by Caragh M. O'Brien
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsAt 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
Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsMe? 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... -
The Pretenders by Rebecca Hanover
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsIn this conclusion to The Similars duology, Emma must figure out who she really is, decide between two boys with the same face, and stop a dangerous plan based on revenge.Emma is still reeling from the events of her junior year at Darkwood...Categorized as:
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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
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsAre 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
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsTeen 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... -
A Long, Long Sleep by Anna Sheehan
Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsIt should have been a short suspended-animation sleep. But this time Rose wakes up to find her past is long gone-- and her future full of peril. Rosalinda Fitzroy has been asleep for sixty-two years when she is woken by a kiss...Categorized as:
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Survival by A.M. Hargrove
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 22 ratings"Maybe I was caught between the two worlds. I was having serious trouble distinguishing fantasy from reality." While on a backpacking trip in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park, nineteen-year-old Maddie Pearce finds her world has been thrown into a vortex and is madly spinning toward the impossible. Abducted by a mad psychopath, Maddie narrowly escapes with her life... -
Sanctuary by Caryn Lix
Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsAlien meets Alexandra Bracken’s The Darkest Minds in this thrilling debut novel about prison-guard-in-training, Kenzie, who is taken hostage by the superpowered criminal teens of the Sanctuary space station—only to have to band together with them when the station is attacked by mysterious creatures.Kenzie holds one truth above all: the company is everything...Categorized as:
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The Taking by Kimberly Derting
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsA flash of white light . . . and then . . . nothing. When sixteen-year-old Kyra Agnew wakes up behind a Dumpster at the Gas ’n’ Sip, she has no memory of how she got there. With a terrible headache and a major case of déjà vu, she heads home only to discover that five years have passed . . . yet she hasn’t aged a day. Everything else about Kyra’s old life is different...Categorized as:
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As They Slip Away by Beth Revis
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsTaking place on the spaceship Godspeed before Amy Martin wakes up and Elder takes leadership, this novella describes life at the Hospital during Eldest's reign. Focusing primarily on background characters, readers will see fan-favorite characters Harley, Orion, Victria, and more. Selene is a singer on a spaceship that only values people who can provide important skills that enhance survival... -
The Final Six by Alexandra Monir
Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsWhen Leo, an Italian championship swimmer, and Naomi, a science genius from California, are two of the twenty-four teens drafted into the International Space Training Camp, their lives are forever altered. After erratic climate change has made Earth a dangerous place to live, the fate of the population rests on the shoulders of the final six who will be scouting a new planet...Categorized as:
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Unearthed by Amie Kaufman, Meagan Spooner
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsWhen Earth intercepts a message from a long-extinct alien race, it seems like the solution the planet has been waiting for. The Undying's advanced technology has the potential to undo environmental damage and turn lives around, and Gaia, their former home planet, is a treasure trove waiting to be uncovered...Categorized as:
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Last of Her Name by Jessica Khoury
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 22 ratingsFrom Jessica Khoury, author of the Corpus Trilogy, comes a gripping story of royalty and rebellion, coursing across a faraway star system like a trail of jewels.Sixteen years ago, rebellion swept the galaxy known as the Belt of Jewels.Every member of the Leonov royal family was murdered--down to their youngest child, Princess Anya--making way for the Union government to seize power... -
In the End by Demitria Lunetta
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsShe thought it was the end of the world... But it was only the beginning of the end. It's been three months since Amy escaped New Hope. Since she's seen Baby, or Kay, or Rice. And she's been surviving on her own, like she did before she was "rescued" and taken to what she thought was a safe haven...Categorized as:
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