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Traitor Born by Amy A. Bartol
Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsRebel warrior Roselle St. Sismode returns in the second book of the epic Secondborn series by USA Today bestselling author Amy A. Bartol. In the Fates Republic… Firstborns reign supreme. Secondborns kneel in servitude. Thirdborns face death. And Census shadows them all. Secondborn Roselle St...Categorized as:
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Always Human by Ari North
First serialized on the popular app and website WebToon, Always Human ran from 2015-2017 and amassed over 76,000 unique subscribers during its run. Now reformatted for a print edition in sponsorship with GLAAD, Always Human is a beautifully drawn graphic novel about a developing relationship between two young women in a near-future, soft sci-fi setting...Categorized as:
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The Winner's Kiss by Marie Rutkoski
Some kisses come at a price. War has begun. Arin is in the thick of it with untrustworthy new allies and the empire as his enemy. Though he has convinced himself that he no longer loves Kestrel, Arin hasn’t forgotten her, or how she became exactly the kind of person he has always despised... -
Black Widow: The Name of the Rose by Marjorie M. Liu, Daniel Acuña
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsThe deadly super-spy from IRON MAN 2, INVINCIBLE IRON MAN and CAPTAIN AMERICA in her own action-packed tale! Natasha Romanoff is not a super hero. And yet as the Black Widow, she manages to hold her own against a world of incredibly powerful enemies and allies. But now someone has tried to kill Natasha and almost succeeded. Now she sets out to find her attacker with no suspects and no leads... -
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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... -
The Gender Secret by Bella Forrest
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 34 ratingsThe pulse-pounding second book in The Gender Game series. Gliding over the treacherous Green in a shaky aircraft that she has no idea how to land, Violet Bates is still in shock. The harrowing events of the previous night play over in her mind as she asks herself question after question... -
The Gender Lie by Bella Forrest
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 35 ratings"I'd want you to help me win a war..." After discovering the shocking secret buried deep within The Green, Violet has a grave decision to make. Trust the woman who saved her, or not? So far, everything about the woman has taken Violet by surprise. Her behavior has been honest and upfront - a refreshing change for Violet...Categorized as:
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Reign by K.A. Gandy
Kidnapped from their honeymoon resort, nothing is as it seems. Betrayal, intrigue, and secrets abound as Sadie works to free the captive women. But will she end up the savior, or the next captive?★★★★★With Patrick as the only solid ground in a sea of uncertainty, the two of them must work to come together, or they’ll fall apart...Categorized as:
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Sanctuary: Among Monsters by Alan Janney
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLos Angeles smolders within the clutches of The Chemist, a madman determined to harness and control the ancient Infected. Around his besieged Sanctuary, powerful allies and enemies gather and clash and rage, and the mighty American military can only lick its wounds. Against the maelstrom stands the Outlaw, fuming and waiting for the right moment to counter-strike... -
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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Evolution: SAGE by Starla Huchton
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDevastated by her choices, Candace Bristol is on the brink of losing it all: her mind, her hope, everything she thought she was. But from the ruins rises new purpose. An enemy has emerged and it will take everything to combat this new threat. Broken as she is, picking up the pieces and carrying on might be the hardest battle to win, but it's either fight, or lose what little she has left... -
The Assassin's Salvation by Ruby Lionsdrake
When Jamie Flipkens signed on as a pilot and engineer for a small medical research company, she never expected to end up on a mercenary ship full of hulking soldiers who want to make her their latest conquest. The captain has been good to her--it doesn't hurt that he's her boss's new beau--but she's on the verge of quitting when a strange man shows up at her shuttle door...Categorized as:
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LIFEL1K3 by Jay Kristoff
From the coauthor of the New York Times bestselling Illuminae Files comes the first book in a new series that's part Romeo and Juliet, part Terminator, and all adrenaline.On an island junkyard beneath a sky that glows with radiation, a deadly secret lies buried in the scrap. Seventeen-year-old Eve isn't looking for trouble--she's too busy looking over her shoulder... -
Astra 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...Categorized as:
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Untitled Beauty: Episode One in the Somewhere In-Between Series: by C.E. Wilson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEleven. A name. A title. A sentence passed. If you aren’t a Beauty, you’re less than a person. You’re a commodity known as a Potential… and you only have so many chances to qualify as a human being. In her seventeen years, Eleven has seen the best and worst in humanity. She’s been passed around and abused by the bad. She’s hoped and dreamed for the good... -
Sowing by Angie Grigaliunas
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 7 ratings**Revised June 2019 in response to reviewer concerns**They can take your house, your daughter, whatever they want.For Ariliah, life under the militarized Hulcondans is one of order and safety. Despite the soldiers’ ruthless policies, she trusts their judgment. They alone provide protection from the enemies lurking beyond the city wall... -
Sand by Liz Shipton
It is not the Salt we conquer. It is ourselves.Bird's life takes a heart-wrenching turn when she learns that Sargo has been abducted to a city eight thousand miles across the Salt. She faces a daunting realization – if she ever wants to see him again, she must embark on a treacherous voyage to get him back......alone... -
House of Glass by Lyn Forester
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAfter Caitlyn's life falls apart, can she trust her old racing competitors to help her build a new future? On a poisonous planet, humans and halions coexist in stacked city structures with only a high wall to push back the toxic jungle. But not all poison comes from outside... -
Behind the Scenes!!, Vol. 3 by Bisco Hatori
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsRyuji Goda, Art Squad president and sterling example of self-confidence, has become anxiety-ridden Ranmaru’s greatest role model. Surely under the guidance of such a genius, Ranmaru will come into his own? But now a film camp at a remote mansion is putting Goda’s assurance to the test...Categorized as:
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Failstate by John W. Otte
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRobin Laughlin (aka. Failstate) is a contestant in a reality TV show called America’s Next Superhero. His goal? To become an official, licensed superhero. It doesn’t help matters that his powers are often out of control, that his handsome big brother is wining the hearts of the voters, or that Robin can’t even remove his mask or viewers would shriek from fright... -
Sugar Skulls by Lisa Mantchev, Glenn Dallas
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWelcome to Cyrene, a city where energy is currency and music is the lifeblood of its young citizens. Everyone lives on the grid, and the residents of the world’s largest playground are encouraged to pursue every physical and emotional pleasure imaginable. Vee is the lead singer of the Sugar Skulls, an all-girl band that is Corporate’s newest pet project... -
Irrelevant by Sarah Addison-Fox
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMallory's been hiding who she is for 18 years...But now her terrible secret has been exposed.Branded Irrelevant, Mallory is cut off from everything she knows. Irrelevants are criminals, banished to live in the old city. But in the wasteland between the new city and the old, she stumbles on Cristan.He's bitter, paranoid, and possibly crazy...He may also be right about everything...Categorized as:
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The First Sister by Linden A. Lewis
First Sister has no name and no voice. As a priestess of the Sisterhood, she travels the stars alongside the soldiers of Earth and Mars—the same ones who own the rights to her body and soul. When her former captain abandons her, First Sister’s hopes for freedom are dashed when she is forced to stay on her ship with no friends, no power, and a new captain—Saito Ren—whom she knows nothing about... -
Behind the Scenes!!, Vol. 2 by Bisco Hatori
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsWhen the Art Squad is assigned to dress a set, Ranmaru is shocked at how seriously Goda takes the job. Every action figure and empty soda can is placed with utmost care to tell the story of the character who lives there, every sock and towel artfully be-grunged with coffee grounds and fuller’s earth to support the narrative...Categorized as:
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Rebel Born by Amy A. Bartol
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsRoselle faces a mind-reeling showdown with the deep state agent controlling her psyche in the conclusion to the Wall Street Journal bestselling Secondborn series. Roselle St. Sismode is many things: victim of a conspiracy, unwilling host of an ever-evolving mind algorithm, spy for a rebel army, and heir to the Fate of Swords... -
Princess of Tyrone: Fairytale Galaxy Chronicles, Book One by Katie Hamstead
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsApolline is happy hunting magical creatures on her pirate infested outer-perimeter planet. She is a fantastic shot, and doesn't flinch at the blood and guts of her kills. Never once did she consider she could be the missing Princess of Tyrone. All her life, she has heard the story of the Princess, cursed to sleep for eternity, unless her betrothed, the Prince of Oran, gave her true love's kiss...Categorized as:
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Libra Ascending by Tamar Sloan, Tricia Barr
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsTwelve teens. One Task. Save the universe.Brielle has never been normal - she sees things no-one else does. But as it looks like she’s about to be adopted after growing up in an orphanage, she’s the closest she’s ever come. All she has to do is act...well, normal.The new guy in town, Tristan, is anything but that... -
Behind the Scenes!!, Vol. 1 by Bisco Hatori
Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIt’s two months into Ranmaru’s college career, and if he’s learned one thing, it’s that he’s really uncomfortable around other people...Categorized as:
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The Apollo Academy by Kimberly P. Chase
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTake off with this dynamic, thrill-seeking, sexy New Adult Science Fiction series debut. Welcome to the exclusive Apollo Academy, where Aurora is about to discover that achieving her dream is only the first step towards her future. As the heiress to Titon Technologies, eighteen-year-old Aurora Titon can have whatever she wants—clothes, expensive gadgets, anything money can buy... -
Oasis by Dima Zales
Rated: 3.66 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA new dystopian/post-apocalyptic series from a New York Times bestselling author My name is Theo, and I'm a resident of Oasis, the last habitable area on Earth. It's meant to be a paradise, a place where we are all content. Vulgarity, violence, insanity, and other ills are but a distant memory, and even death no longer plagues us. I was once content too, but now I'm different...Categorized as:
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Grace and Fury by Tracy Banghart
Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsIn a world where women have no rights, sisters Serina and Nomi Tessaro face two very different fates: one in the palace, the other in prison.Serina has been groomed her whole life to become a Grace - someone to stand by the heir to the throne as a shining, subjugated example of the perfect woman...Categorized as:
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Meritropolis by Joel Ohman
Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn Meritropolis everyone is assigned a numerical Score that decides their worth to society and whether they live or die. After a young boy is killed because of a low Score, his brother plots to take down the System. “ The Hunger Games meets The Village with a young Jack Reacher as a protagonist...Categorized as:
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The Phoenix King by Aparna Verma
In a kingdom where flames hold magic and the desert hides secrets, an ancient prophecy comes for an assassin, a princess, and a king. But none are ready to face destiny—and the choices they make could burn the world. “If we carry the burdens of our fathers, we’ll never know what it means to be free.” For Elena Aadya Ravence, fire is yearning... -
Arena by Holly Jennings
Rated: 3.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA fast-paced and gripping near-future science fiction debut about the gritty world of competitive gaming... Every week, Kali Ling fights to the death on national TV. She’s died hundreds of times. And it never gets easier... The RAGE tournaments—the Virtual Gaming League’s elite competition where the best gamers in the world compete in a no-holds-barred fight to the digital death... -
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Geekerella by Ashley Poston
Cinderella goes to the con in this fandom-fueled twist on the classic fairy tale.Part romance, part love letter to nerd culture, and all totally adorbs, Geekerella is a fairy tale for anyone who believes in the magic of fandom. Geek girl Elle Wittimer lives and breathes Starfield, the classic sci-fi series she grew up watching with her late father...Categorized as:
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Arena by Holly Jennings
Rated: 3.62 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA fast-paced and gripping near-future science fiction debut about the gritty world of competitive gaming... Every week, Kali Ling fights to the death on national TV. She’s died hundreds of times. And it never gets easier... The RAGE tournaments—the Virtual Gaming League’s elite competition where the best gamers in the world compete in a no-holds-barred fight to the digital death...Categorized as:
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Ensnared by Rita Stradling
Rated: 3.41 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsA Near-Future Retelling of Beauty and the Beast Alainn’s father is not a bad man. He’s a genius and an inventor. When he’s hired to create the robot Rose, Alainn knows taking the money is a mistake. Rose acts like a human. She looks exactly like Alainn. But, something in her comes out wrong. To save her father from a five year prison sentence, Alainn takes Rose’s place... -
Starfall by Melissa Landers
Rated: 3.52 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsWhen Princess Cassia Rose fled her home world of Eturia to escape an arranged marriage, she had no idea her sudden departure would spark a war. Now after two years hiding as a ship hand, she is finally returning to her beloved home, but not in the way she imagined. Shackled by bounty hunters, she is violently dragged back to account for her crimes... -
The Heir by Kiera Cass
Princess Eadlyn has grown up hearing endless stories about how her mother and father met. Twenty years ago, America Singer entered the Selection and won the heart of Prince Maxon—and they lived happily ever after. Eadlyn has always found their fairy-tale story romantic, but she has no interest in trying to repeat it. If it were up to her, she'd put off marriage for as long as possible...
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