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Library Wars: Love & War, Vol. 8 by Kiiro Yumi, Sean McCoy
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsIn the near future, the federal government creates a committee to rid society of books it deems unsuitable. The libraries vow to protect their collections, and with the help of local governments, form a military group to defend themselves--the Library Forces! The Media Betterment Committee’s inquiry into Iku’s role in the so-called book burning continues, and an evil conspiracy comes to light... -
![Library Wars: Love & War, Vol. 14 by Kiiro Yumi, Hiro Arikawa]()
Library Wars: Love & War, Vol. 14 by Kiiro Yumi, Hiro Arikawa
Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Library Forces have decided that a censored author, Toma, must defect. But as he and the LF attempt to leave the courthouse, the roads are blocked by Media Betterment Committee troops! Library Forces member Iku Kasahara and her sergeant (and secret crush) Dojo make off in another direction with Toma... -
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![The Girl Who Dared to Rise by Bella Forrest]()
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... -
![Library Wars: Love & War, Vol. 9 by Kiiro Yumi, Hiro Arikawa]()
Library Wars: Love & War, Vol. 9 by Kiiro Yumi, Hiro Arikawa
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn the near future, the federal government creates a committee to rid society of books it deems unsuitable. The libraries vow to protect their collections and, with the help of local governments, form a military group to defend themselves—the Library Forces!There's a groper in the library and Library Force members Iku and Shibazaki are sent in as bait! Iku's undercover outfit makes her vulnerable... -
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![The Girl Who Dared to Lead by Bella Forrest]()
The Girl Who Dared to Lead by Bella Forrest
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 28 ratings"Honorbound! Honorbound!" "Congratulations, Champion Castell..." Return to the Tower in the EPIC fifth book of The Girl Who Dared series, where the Champion has been chosen... and Liana's courage will be put to the test like never before... -
![Library Wars: Love & War, Vol. 7 by Kiiro Yumi, Sean McCoy]()
Library Wars: Love & War, Vol. 7 by Kiiro Yumi, Sean McCoy
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsIn the near future, the federal government creates a committee to rid society of books it deems unsuitable. The libraries vow to protect their collections, and with the help of local governments, form a military group to defend themselves--the Library Forces!Hikaru's big brother is working for the enemy, and he wants to reunite with Hikaru... -
![The Girl Who Dared to Descend by Bella Forrest]()
The Girl Who Dared to Descend by Bella Forrest
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsReturn to the Tower and reunite with Liana Castell in the breath-stealing third book of The Girl Who Dared to Think series... -
![Library Wars: Love & War, Vol. 5 by Kiiro Yumi, Sean McCoy]()
Library Wars: Love & War, Vol. 5 by Kiiro Yumi, Sean McCoy
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn the near future, the federal government creates a committee to rid society of books it deems unsuitable... -
![Vortex by S.J. Kincaid]()
Vortex by S.J. Kincaid
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsThe impossible was just the beginning. Now in their second year as superhuman government weapons-in-training at the Pentagonal Spire, Tom Raines and his friends are mid-level cadets in the elite combat corps known as the Intrasolar Forces. But as training intensifies and a moment arrives that could make or break his entire career, Tom’s loyalties are again put to the test... -
![Library Wars: Love & War, Vol. 13 by Kiiro Yumi, Hiro Arikawa]()
Library Wars: Love & War, Vol. 13 by Kiiro Yumi, Hiro Arikawa
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn the near future, the federal government creates a committee to rid society of books it deems unsuitable...Categorized as:
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![The Girl Who Dared to Fight by Bella Forrest]()
The Girl Who Dared to Fight by Bella Forrest
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsThe ELECTRIFYING GRAND FINALE of The Girl Who Dared series! Reunite with Liana one last time.. -
![The Eve Illusion by Giovanna Fletcher, Tom Fletcher]()
The Eve Illusion by Giovanna Fletcher, Tom Fletcher
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsTHE SECOND BOOK IN THE BESTSELLING EVE OF MAN TRILOGY BY TOM AND GIOVANNA FELTCHER Eve is the last girl on earth. For the last sixteen years, Eve has been a prisoner. Guarded by the Mothers. Trapped by her fate. Watched by the world. Until she took her chance, and escaped. Eve finally has the freedom she has wanted for so long, and with Bram she has the love. But both come at a price . . -
![Library Wars: Love & War, Vol. 6 by Kiiro Yumi, Sean McCoy]()
Library Wars: Love & War, Vol. 6 by Kiiro Yumi, Sean McCoy
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsIn the near future, the federal government creates a committee to rid society of books it deems unsuitable... -
![Middle Ground by Katie Kacvinsky]()
Middle Ground by Katie Kacvinsky
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsFor four weeks Maddie has been living in Los Angeles, trying to be good. But no matter how hard she tries, something inside her won't be sated. She can't live a life of half-truths and false pretenses. So one night, she says how she really feels. That's all it takes. One night... -
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![Immortal Rain, Vol. 6 by Kaori Ozaki]()
Immortal Rain, Vol. 6 by Kaori Ozaki
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsWhen Rain gets separated from Machika, he will need to battle the angels themselves before he can be reunited with her. But his greatest challenge may come from a deadly challenge announced on TV - issued by Methuselah himself, it will be the ultimate showdown against bounty hunters, assassins and those intent on capturing the secret of his immortality... -
![Immortal Rain, Vol. 3 by Kaori Ozaki]()
Immortal Rain, Vol. 3 by Kaori Ozaki
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsRain and Machika find themselves in the frigid wasteland of Angel's Graveyard. There they stumble upon a frozen woman who is strangely familiar to Rain. When Machika inquires about the woman's identity, Rain is silent ... and is forced to confront the chilling secrets that have been buried deep within him for what seems like an eternity... -
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The Survivor Chronicles: Book 4, The Risen by Erica Stevens
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 13 ratings*****This book is the final compilation and the conclusion to an ongoing serial story. This series must be read in order.***** With new challenges and threats arising every day, the survivors struggle to reach their destination in the hopes of finding somewhere safe to stay...Categorized as:
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![The Gender End by Bella Forrest]()
The Gender End by Bella Forrest
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsThe breathtaking, earth-shattering GRAND FINALE of the bestselling Gender Game series.Return to Matrus and Patrus one last time.. -
![Immortal Rain, Vol. 5 by Kaori Ozaki]()
Immortal Rain, Vol. 5 by Kaori Ozaki
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsIt's been a long and lonely road for Machika as she searches for Rain. Totally down on her luck and running out of options, friends pop up in the most unlikely of places. Her goal is to get to the city of Raimei, where she hopes to find Rain.. -
![The Wanted by Lauren Nicolle Taylor]()
The Wanted by Lauren Nicolle Taylor
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsWhat would you be willing to sacrifice to get what you Wanted? It’s the question facing both Rosa and Joseph as they are pushed and pulled in unimaginable directions. It’s the question Superior Grant answered with a resounding, “Anything and everything.” The only thing they want is to be back in each other’s arms... -
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Insignia by S.J. Kincaid
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsThe earth is in the middle of WWIII in Insignia , the first entry in S. J. Kincaid's fast-paced sci-fi adventure trilogy perfect for fans of Ender's Game . The planet's natural resources are almost gone, and war is being fought to control the assets of the solar system. The enemy is winning. The salvation may be Tom Raines. Tom doesn't seem like a hero... -
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Psyren #05: Visions 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. Visions A video recording shows a dark vision of the future, where many of Ageha’s friends are ruthlessly killed. To escape the danger posed by W.I.S... -
![Wired by G.P. Ching]()
Wired by G.P. Ching
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsFaith kept her plain. Science made her complicated. Lydia and Korwin are the Liberty Party’s only hope of stopping Dr. Konrad and the Green Republic from developing a new genetically engineered weapon. But the already high stakes become personal when Konrad turns his thirst for power and revenge on what Lydia holds most dear... -
![Het Gulden Vlies van Thule by Thea Beckman]()
Het Gulden Vlies van Thule by Thea Beckman
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsDe Badeners zijn er tenslotte in geslaagd de Thuleense hoofdstad Gothab en enkele andere kustplaatsen te veroveren. Elvira komt naar Thule als dochter van ondergouverneur Upernavik, een kustplaats in het noorden. 's Nachts worden de Badeners opgeschrikt door sabotagedaden van de Thulenen. De kolonosatie stagneert. Het lijkt Elvira verstandig Thuleens te leren... -
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![Out Of The Ashes by Lindsey Fairleigh, Lindsey Pogue]()
Out Of The Ashes by Lindsey Fairleigh, Lindsey Pogue
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsHope brought them together, but it's now fear that drives them...and threatens to tear them apart. Zoe and her companions succeeded in rescuing Dani from the Colony. But not without sacrifice. Beaten and broken, they head west, determined to leave behind the torment and horrors they experienced in Colorado... -
![Worlds Collide by S.M. McEachern]()
Worlds Collide by S.M. McEachern
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsCenturies old secrets and forbidden love collide in the action-packed sequel to Sunset Rising.In Worlds Collide, the second book of the Sunset Rising Trilogy, Sunny and Jack must continue a life of subterfuge in order to stay alive and find a way to free the Pit... -
![The Wounded by Lauren Nicolle Taylor]()
The Wounded by Lauren Nicolle Taylor
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsYou think you’re in control. That it’s your hands on the reins. But I’m starting to think either someone else is driving, or the reins are attached to nothing. Just flapping and snapping in the breeze. What could be simple, never is. Rosa doesn’t want to get used to being separated from Joseph, from Orry... -
![Ashen Winter by Mike Mullin]()
Ashen Winter by Mike Mullin
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsIt’s been over six months since the eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano. Alex and Darla have been staying with Alex’s relatives, trying to cope with the new reality of the primitive world so vividly portrayed in Ashfall, the first book in this series. It’s also been six months of waiting for Alex’s parents to return from Iowa...Categorized as:
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![Tegami Bachi, Vol. 18 by Hiroyuki Asada]()
Tegami Bachi, Vol. 18 by Hiroyuki Asada
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsA New York Times best-selling sci-fi fantasy series with heart.Amberground is locked in darkness. A man-made star casts only a dim light over the land. The pitch-black wilderness is infested with Gaichuu—colossal insects with metal exoskeletons. The Gaichuu make travel between the cities of Amberground extremely dangerous... -
![Recon by Tarah Benner]()
Recon by Tarah Benner
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsEli knows corruption runs deep within the compound. It's a reality he's forced to confront every year on Bid Day. But when your job is to go out into the radiation-soaked Fringe so that others can live in peace, you don’t ask too many questions. For Harper, the bid system works just fine...Categorized as:
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The Saints by Lex Thomas
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsA cross between the Gone series and Lord of the Flies, Quarantine #2: The Saints contunues this frenetically paced and scary young adult series that illustrates just how deadly high school can be. Nothing was worse than being locked in—until they opened the door... McKinley High has been a battle ground for eighteen months since a virus outbreak led to a military quarantine of the school... -
![Sky on Fire by Emmy Laybourne]()
Sky on Fire by Emmy Laybourne
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsTrapped in a superstore by a series of escalating disasters, including a monster hailstorm and terrifying chemical weapons spill, brothers Dean and Alex learned how to survive and worked together with twelve other kids to build a refuge from the chaos. But then strangers appeared, destroying their fragile peace, and bringing both fresh disaster and a glimmer of hope...Categorized as:
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![Savage Drift by Emmy Laybourne]()
Savage Drift by Emmy Laybourne
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsThe stunningly fierce conclusion to Emmy Laybourne's Monument 14 trilogy. The survivors of the Monument 14 have finally made it to the safety of a Canadian refugee camp. Dean and Alex are cautiously starting to hope that a happy ending might be possible. But for Josie, separated from the group and trapped in a brutal prison camp for exposed Type Os, things have gone from bad to worse...Categorized as:
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![Recoil by Joanne Macgregor]()
Recoil by Joanne Macgregor
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsWhen a skilled gamer gets recruited as a sniper in the war against a terrorist-produced pandemic, she discovers there’s more than one enemy and more than one war. The Game is real. Three years after a series of terrorist attacks flooded the US with a lethal plague, society has changed radically... -
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![The Returning by Rachelle Dekker]()
The Returning by Rachelle Dekker
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsTwenty years have passed since Carrington and Remko Brant's baby, Elise, was kidnapped and they were forced to leave her captive in the Authority City. Though they fled with the Seers far from Authority reach, they've never given up hope of rescuing their daughter from the man who betrayed them...Categorized as:
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Outcasts by Jill Williamson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSince entering the Safe Lands, Mason has focused on two things: finding a way to free his village from captivity and finding a cure for the disease that ravages many within the walls of the Safe Lands. After immune-suppressive drugs go missing in the clinic, Mason discovers his coworker, Ciddah, may know more about the Safe Lands than imagined...and may have an agenda of her own... -
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Reclaim by Casey L. Bond, Indie Books Gone Wild
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Greaters have ruled over the Lessers since The Fall. They’ve taken Abby’s family. They’ve taken her friends. They’ve taken her hostage and threatened the villages. Enough is enough. Freedom is worth fighting for. Love is worth dying for. And the Lessers are done taking orders from the Greaters. Reclaim…the epic conclusion of the award-winning Harvest Saga... -
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Refuse by Joanne Macgregor
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEveryone wants Jinxy, except the one she loves.In a near-future USA decimated by an incurable plague and tightly controlled by a repressive government, teenagers with special skills are recruited and trained to fight in the war against terror.Now a rebellion is brewing... -
![Rebel by Joanne Macgregor]()
Rebel by Joanne Macgregor
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCan you win a war without losing yourself? Sixteen year-old online gamer Jinxy James has been trained as an expert sniper in the war against a terrorist-spread plague which has decimated the USA. Now she’s a wanted fugitive, on the run with a rebel splinter group, risking everything to save and protect her loved ones... -
![Knife Edge by Malorie Blackman]()
Knife Edge by Malorie Blackman
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsWHEN TRUTH AND JUSTICE ARE NO LONGER BLACK AND WHITE ISSUES . . .Sephy is a Cross, one of the privileged in a society where the ruling Crosses treat the pale-skinned noughts as inferiors. But her baby daughter has a nought father . . . Jude is a Nought. Eaten up with bitterness, he blames Sephy for the terrible losses his family has suffered . . .Now Jude's life rests on a knife edge...Categorized as:
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Flame by Amy Kathleen Ryan
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsIn the thrilling conclusion to the Sky Chasers series Waverly, Kieran, and Seth struggle to survive on-board the New Horizon—and take down their enemies before it's too late. Waverly and the other members of the Empyrean have scattered, and their home ship has been destroyed... -
![Strange New World by Rachel Vincent]()
Strange New World by Rachel Vincent
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDahlia 16's life is a lie. The city of Lakeview isn't a utopia that raises individuals for the greater good; it is a clone farm that mass-produces servants for the elite. And because Dahlia breaks the rules, her sisters--the 4,999 girls who share her face--are destroyed. She and Trigger 17, the soldier who risked his life for hers, go on the run, escaping into the wild outside the city walls... -
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ISAN by Mary Ting
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"Captivating from the very beginning … this thrilling dystopian drama has a splash of romance and tons of action." ~ School Library Journal "Addictive and impossible to put it down!"~Addison Moore, New York Times Bestselling Author Meteors devastated the Earth. World governments developed plans to help surviving citizens... -
![No Plain Rebel by M.C. Frank]()
No Plain Rebel by M.C. Frank
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA soldier is summoned to the North Pole, days before the year changes, told to fix a the great Clock for a celebration. He has no idea what to do. A girl, hunted for the crime of being born, almost dies out on the ice. She is rescued by the last polar bear left alive. A library waits for them both, a library built over a span of a hundred years, forgotten in the basement of an ice shack... -
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![Irradiate by Sarah Addison-Fox]()
Irradiate by Sarah Addison-Fox
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFace what you fear the most....Discovering colour after a lifetime of grey has opened Mallory's eyes to the beauty of Irrelevance.But when she learns who Cristan is and what's he capable of, she'll be forced to question everything she feels for him...When Cristan found rebel Irrelevants in the wastelands, he finally had the proof he needed to take down the government who think they own him... -
![Alex + Ada, Vol. 1 by Jonathan Luna, Sarah Vaughn]()
Alex + Ada, Vol. 1 by Jonathan Luna, Sarah Vaughn
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsFrom JONATHAN LUNA (GIRLS, THE SWORD, ULTRA, Spider-Woman: Origin) and SARAH VAUGHN (Sparkshooter) comes ALEX + ADA, a sci-fi drama set in the near future. The last thing in the world Alex wanted was an X5, the latest in realistic androids. But after Ada is dropped into his life, he discovers she is more than just a robot.Collects ALEX + ADA #1-5... -
![The Mind Keepers by Lori Brighton]()
The Mind Keepers by Lori Brighton
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsCheck out the exciting conclusion to the Mind Readers series! It’s been months since everything familiar in Nora’s life vanished into the unforgiving waters off the Savannah coast, leaving her with nothing but her powers of mind reading. Although she’s lost her mother and her home, Nora has managed to move on, thanks in part to her sister Cameron, the only family she has left... -
![I Am Alive by Cameron Jace]()
I Am Alive by Cameron Jace
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsI am not my heart rate. I am not my skills. I am not my sleeping problems. I am not my stress. I am not my fears. I am not how I look like. I am the very essence of me. I am my will. I am my passion. I am my beliefs. I am how much I can give and receive love. I am infinite and possible. I am my soul. My name is Decca Tenderstone... -
![Ashfall by Mike Mullin]()
Ashfall by Mike Mullin
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 54 ratingsUnder the bubbling hot springs and geysers of Yellowstone National Park is a supervolcano. Most people don't know it's there. The caldera is so large that it can only be seen from a plane or satellite. It just could be overdue for an eruption, which would change the landscape and climate of our planet...Categorized as:
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![Independent Study by Joelle Charbonneau]()
Independent Study by Joelle Charbonneau
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 55 ratingsIn the series debut The Testing , sixteen-year-old Cia Vale was chosen by the United Commonwealth government as one of the best and brightest graduates of all the colonies . . . a promising leader in the effort to revitalize postwar civilization...
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