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Starsight by Brandon Sanderson
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Reckoners series, Words of Radiance, the Mistborn trilogy, and the Stormlight Archive comes the second book in an epic series about a girl with a secret in a dangerous world at war for humanity's future.All her life, Spensa has dreamed of becoming a pilot. Of proving she's a hero like her father... -
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Evershore by Brandon Sanderson, Janci Patterson
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsFrom #1 bestselling author Brandon Sanderson and Janci Patterson comes the final of three Skyward series novellas, each told from the perspective of a different member of the team back on Detritus. Listen to Jorgen's story along with Cytonic... -
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![Compete by Vera Nazarian]()
Compete by Vera Nazarian
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsIt's one thing to Qualify…But do you have what it takes to Compete?With Earth about to be destroyed by an extinction level asteroid, teenage nerd, geek, and awkward smart girl Gwen Lark, and a few of her friends and loved ones, barely Qualified for rescue onboard one of the thousands of ark-ships headed to the ancient colony planet Atlantis...Categorized as:
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orange: The Complete Collection 1 by Ichigo Takano, Jason DeAngelis
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsEveryone has regrets in life. So who wouldn't take the chance to change the past if given the opportunity? When sixteen-year-old Takamiya Naho receives a mysterious letter, claiming to be from her twenty-seven-year-old self, her life is suddenly thrown into flux. The letter informs her that a new transfer student by the name of Naruse Kakeru will be joining her class, and to keep her eye on him...Categorized as:
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Shattered by Teri Terry
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsThis is the UK, Australia & New Zealand edition, released on March 6. The release date for US and Canada is May 1...Categorized as:
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Sunreach by Brandon Sanderson, Janci Patterson
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsFrom #1 bestselling author Brandon Sanderson and Janci Patterson comes the first of three Skyward series novellas, each told from the perspective of a different member of the team back on Detritus. Read FM's story between Starsight and Cytonic.When a planet-destroying Delver suddenly appears in the sky of Detritus and vanishes just as suddenly, FM knows that the last free human society got lucky... -
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ReDawn by Brandon Sanderson, Janci Patterson
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsFrom #1 bestselling author Brandon Sanderson and Janci Patterson comes the second of three Skyward series novellas, each told from the perspective of a different member of the team back on Detritus. Read Alanik’s story between Starsight and Cytonic.“Don’t trust their lies. Don’t trust their false peace... -
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Fractured by Teri Terry
Perfect for fans of the dystopian settings of The Hunger Games and Divergent, the gripping second installment of the Slated trilogy is a riveting psychological thriller set in a future where violent teens have their memory erased as an alternative to jail. When Kyla was slated, her memory was erased for good. Except it wasn’t. Not completely...Categorized as:
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The Gender War by Bella Forrest
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 29 ratings"For the sake of Viggo, my brother, my family in Patrus, and every single citizen of our God-forsaken nations, I had to stop the war... -
![The Rogue Prince by Lindsay Buroker]()
The Rogue Prince by Lindsay Buroker
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsStarseer, pilot, and animal lover Jelena Marchenko wants to prove to her parents that she’s ready to captain her own freighter and help run the family business. When she finally talks them into getting a second ship and letting her fly it, it doesn’t faze her that the craft is decades old and looks like a turtle. This is the chance she’s craved for years... -
![Toxic Part One by Addison Moore]()
Toxic Part One by Addison Moore
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsSkyla Messenger’s days are numbered. With an angelic Faction War riding on her shoulders, and her mother’s newfound need to cozy with the enemy, Skyla also has to deal with the fact someone close to her has openly deceived her. Skyla learns that sometimes in life, and in love, things aren’t always what they seem...Categorized as:
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Qualify by Vera Nazarian
The Atlantis Grail has been optioned for development as a feature film series and/or TV series. You have two options. You die, or you Qualify. The year is 2047. An extinction-level asteroid is hurtling toward Earth, and the descendents of ancient Atlantis have returned from the stars in their silver ships to offer humanity help.But there’s a catch...Categorized as:
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Cytonic by Brandon Sanderson
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Reckoners series, the Mistborn trilogy, and the Stormlight Archive comes the third book in an epic series about a girl who will travel beyond the stars to save the world she loves from destruction.Spensa’s life as a Defiant Defense Force pilot has been far from ordinary... -
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Outpost by Ann Aguirre
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsDeuce’s whole world has changed.Down below, she was considered an adult. Now, topside in a town called Salvation, she’s a brat in need of training in the eyes of the townsfolk. She doesn't fit in with the other girls: Deuce only knows how to fight.To make matters worse, her Hunter partner, Fade, keeps Deuce at a distance...Categorized as:
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![Defending Elysium by Brandon Sanderson]()
Defending Elysium by Brandon Sanderson
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsThis story originally appeared in the October/November 2008 Asimov’s Science Fiction (in the US) and the UPC Science Fiction collection (in Europe)."An image came to him. An image of humankind escaping into space. An image of human merchants trading and cheating, of human tyrants capturing the Varvax, Tenasi, and Hommar. Images of wars, of fighting, of a paradise destroyed...Categorized as:
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![Into The Fire by Lindsey Fairleigh, Lindsey Pogue]()
Into The Fire by Lindsey Fairleigh, Lindsey Pogue
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsThe Virus changed them, but that was only the beginning… …death…mutation…insanity…corruption…terror… …all that remains is hope. In the wake of destruction left behind by the Virus, it took Dani and Zoe months to find each other. But their reunion was short-lived. Dani has been taken, and though little distance separates them, they might as well be worlds apart... -
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Rage Within by Jeyn Roberts
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsIn this apocalyptic sequel to Dark Inside’s “well-balanced, realistic suspense” (Kirkus Reviews), four teens continue the struggle for survival as they face a world gone mad. Aries, Clementine, Mason and Michael have survived the first wave of the apocalypse that wiped out most of the world’s population, and turned many of the rest into murderous Baggers...Categorized as:
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Galdoni Book Three: Out of Darkness by Cheree Alsop
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGaldoni Book Three: Out of Darkness is about Reece, one of the first Galdoni allowed to go to school as part of the integration program. He combats hostility, hypocrisy, and his own instincts to fight until the day Ava walks into the classroom. Reece is torn by the way he is drawn to the female Galdoni and what she believes about him...Categorized as:
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Wings by Elizabeth Richards
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsFollowing the cliffhanger ending of Phoenix, Natalie finds herself separated from Ash and unexpectedly reunited with her parents, including the father she thought was dead. But she can only think of Ash. She hasn't heard a word of him since she and Elijah were brought to the underground headquarters of the Sentry Rebellion. But she vows to find him... -
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Between Frost and Fury by Chani Lynn Feener
Delaney has been kidnapped by aliens. Again. After only a month back on Earth with her hotnew alien boyfriend Ruckus, the deadly and devastatingly handsome prince Trystan has dragged her right back to his planet. While some girls may dream of winning a prince’s heart, Delaney just wishes this one would leave her alone... -
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Reactive by Becky Moynihan
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsAN INESCAPABLE CITY. THREE DEADLY TRIALS. ONE WAY OUT.Lune Tatum, adopted daughter of the Supreme Elite, has lived within her father's walled city for eleven years.But she wants out. Except she can't leave, and not because of the clans and mutated beasts that roam beyond the impenetrable, electrified walls protecting her life...Categorized as:
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![The Last Hope by Krista Ritchie, Becca Ritchie]()
The Last Hope by Krista Ritchie, Becca Ritchie
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsA stunning conclusion to the sci-fi romance duology by writing duo Krista & Becca Ritchie, The Last Hope is filled with twists and turns you'll never see coming.Sacrifice all you have to survive.Imprisoned for weeks on an enemy starcraft, Franny, Court, and Mykal have sat with an unfathomable revelation...Categorized as:
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Cross Fire by Fonda Lee
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEarth's century of peace as a colony of an alien race has been shattered. As the alien-run government navigates peace talks with the human terrorist group Sapience, Donovan tries to put his life back together and return to his duty as a member of the security forces. But a new order comes from the alien home planet: withdraw...Categorized as:
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Fragments by Dan Wells
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 46 ratingsAuthor Dan Wells is back with the sequel to the sci-fi blockbuster Partials, which Pittacus Lore called a "thrilling sci-fi adrenaline rush, with one of the most compelling and frightening visions of Earth's future I've seen yet...Categorized as:
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![Tested by Janelle Stalder]()
Tested by Janelle Stalder
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. Faced with the scariest decision of her life, Missy is going behind enemy lines to save the rebel that seems to haunt her every dream. Finding courage is one of the hardest things she’s ever done, especially when she comes face-to-face with a terrifying reality. The green eyes that have fascinated her, no longer gleam with recognition...Categorized as:
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History by C.L. Lynch
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSequel to the award-winning Chemistry. Foul-mouthed, plus-sized Stella Blunt is back, and so is her undead admirer, Howie Mullins. On the surface, Howie seems to have it all - eternal life, the ability to sense brain waves, and the love of his perfect woman. But there's a dark side to being a half-zombie, and it's starting to catch up to him...Categorized as:
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![All Our Yesterdays by Cristin Terrill]()
All Our Yesterdays by Cristin Terrill
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsOutside the secret military base where Em is imprisoned, war rages. The world has been coming apart at the seams ever since the U.S. government cracked the code of time travel and built a machine to weaponize time. The only chance Em and the body in the cell next door have to change this terrible present is to escape to the past and stop the man who created the machine...Categorized as:
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![This Mortal Coil by Emily Suvada]()
This Mortal Coil by Emily Suvada
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsWhen a lone soldier, Cole, arrives with news of Lachlan Agatta's death, all hope seems lost for Catarina. Her father was the world's leading geneticist, and humanity's best hope of beating a devastating virus. Then, hidden beneath Cole's genehacked enhancements she finds a message of hope: Lachlan created a vaccine.Only she can find and decrypt it, if she can unravel the clues he left for her...Categorized as:
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Time's Divide by Rysa Walker
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsThe Cyrists are swiftly moving into position to begin the Culling, and Kate’s options are dwindling. With each jump to the past or the future, Kate may trigger a new timeline shift. Worse, the loyalties of those around her—including the allegiances of Kiernan and the Fifth Column, the shadowy group working with Kate—are increasingly unclear...Categorized as:
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![The Warning by Kristy Acevedo]()
The Warning by Kristy Acevedo
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsThe end is coming. There's no escape...or is there? The first in a compelling YA dystopian series for anyone who's ever felt like their life-their world-is on the brink of destruction.Alexandra Lucas' anxiety disorder was enough to deal with before then mysterious holographic doors suddenly appeared throughout the world, heralding the end of the earth...Categorized as:
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Consider by Kristy Acevedo
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAs if Alexandra Lucas’ anxiety disorder isn’t enough, mysterious holograms suddenly appear from the sky, heralding the end of the world. They bring an ultimatum: heed the warning and step through a portal-like vertex to safety, or stay and be destroyed by a comet they say is on a collision course with earth...Categorized as:
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The Return by Kelly St. Clare
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThree months ago, Romy emerged from the cultivation tanks after a year floating inside. Body intact. Mind broken. Memory gone. Now she undergoes regular testing as doctors work to find out ... well, she’s not exactly sure what. The tests must have something to do with the reason she can’t remember her knot—the single lucid memory the other insane soldiers on Orbito Four still possess...Categorized as:
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Crash by Eve Silver
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsFans of the 5th Wave series will devour the pulse-pounding conclusion to The Game trilogy, by bestselling author Eve Silver, about teens pulled in and out of an alternate reality where battling aliens is more than a game—it's life and death.As her dad and best friend lie dying in the hospital, Miki is almost certain the Committee is trying to sabotage her life. The Game is glitching...Categorized as:
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![All Our Yesterdays by Cristin Terrill]()
All Our Yesterdays by Cristin Terrill
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 44 ratingsWhat would you change? Imprisoned in the heart of a secret military base, Em has nothing except the voice of the boy in the cell next door and the list of instructions she finds taped inside the drain. Only Em can complete the final instruction. She’s tried everything to prevent the creation of a time machine that will tear the world apart...Categorized as:
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![Shutdown by Heather Anastasiu]()
Shutdown by Heather Anastasiu
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsThe battle is all but over, and hope seems to be lost. Zoe and her fellow Resistance fighters are on the run, having lost their home, their protection, and their leader. They are outnumbered and outmatched by the powerful corporation that controls the world, and the cruel Chancellor is inches away from completing a scheme that would kill most of humanity...Categorized as:
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Deceptive by Emily Lloyd-Jones
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsYou don’t belong with us. These are the words that echo through the minds of all immune Americans—those suffering the so-called adverse effects of an experimental vaccine, including perfect recall, body manipulation, telepathy, precognition, levitation, mind-control, and the ability to change one’s appearance at will...Categorized as:
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Psion by Joan D. Vinge
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsCat is the ultimate half-human future punk. Tough, cool, solitary. And a telepath. He uses his psionic talent to evade the labor gangs and security police. But now he is swept into the midst of an interstellar power struggle. Both sides want to use his mind as a weapon. Cat owes no loyalty to anyone--but there is no middle zone in this fight...Categorized as:
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![Spark Rising by Kate Corcino]()
Spark Rising by Kate Corcino
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAll that’s required to ignite a revolution is a single spark rising. Two hundred years after the cataclysm that annihilated fossil fuels, Sparks keep electricity flowing through their control of energy-giving Dust...Categorized as:
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Twist by Karen Akins
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBree Bennis finally has it all - a non-comatose mother, an über-hot (albeit anachronistic) boyfriend named Finn, and a newfound mission to protect the timeline from those who would skew it for their own gain. But when she leans over one day to kiss said boyfriend, her lips meet those of her arch-nemesis, Wyck, instead. The timeline has been altered, and Bree is caught in the crosshairs...Categorized as:
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Secondborn by Amy A. Bartol
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsFirstborns rule society. Secondborns are the property of the government. Thirdborns are not tolerated. Long live the Fates Republic. On Transition Day, the second child in every family is taken by the government and forced into servitude. Roselle St... -
![The Last Humans: The Complete Trilogy by Dima Zales]()
The Last Humans: The Complete Trilogy by Dima Zales
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the New York Times bestseller Dima Zales comes an action-packed sci-fi adventure set in a post-singularity future. For a limited time, get all 3 full-length novels (1000+ pages) in one convenient, discounted bundle...Categorized as:
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![The Dazzling Heights by Katharine McGee]()
The Dazzling Heights by Katharine McGee
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsNew York City, 2118. A glittering vision of the future, where anything is possible – if you want it enough.Manhattan is home to a thousand-story supertower, a beacon of futuristic glamour and high-tech luxury… and to millions of people living scandalous, secretive lives.Leda is haunted by nightmares of what happened on the worst night of her life...Categorized as:
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![The Forgetting by Sharon Cameron]()
The Forgetting by Sharon Cameron
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsWhat isn't written, isn't remembered. Even your crimes.Nadia lives in the city of Canaan, where life is safe and structured, hemmed in by white stone walls and no memory of what came before. But every twelve years the city descends into the bloody chaos of the Forgetting, a day of no remorse, when each person's memories – of parents, children, love, life, and self – are lost... -
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Heir of Skies by Rachel Higginson
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsStella is a Star, sent by a Council of Elders to live on Earth and protect the planet from the Darkness, a terrifying evil that would suck the good from every living thing and leave the planet empty and desolate. She has until her twenty-fifth birthday before the Protectorship becomes hers and Earth is left solely her responsibility...Categorized as:
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![The Beauty of Darkness by Mary E. Pearson]()
The Beauty of Darkness by Mary E. Pearson
The third and final book in the New York Times-bestselling Remnant Chronicles. Lia has survived Venda—but so has a great evil bent on the destruction of Morrighan. And only Lia can stop it. With war on the horizon, Lia has no choice but to assume her role as First Daughter, as soldier—as leader...Categorized as:
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![The Star Host by F.T. Lukens]()
The Star Host by F.T. Lukens
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsRen grew up listening to his mother tell stories about the Star Hosts – a mythical group of people possessed by the power of the stars. The stories were the most exciting part of Ren’s life, and he often dreamed about leaving his backwater planet and finding his place among the neighboring drifts. When Ren is captured by soldiers and taken from his home, his dream slips further out of his grasp... -
![Haven by Dima Zales]()
Haven by Dima Zales
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom a New York Times bestselling author comes the mind-blowing conclusion of The Last Humans trilogyWhat does it mean to be human? What does it mean to be real?I thought we were out of danger. I thought we’d outwitted our enemies. I was wrong.As my world is torn apart, survival may not be what I expected... -
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Destiny's Fire by Trisha Wolfe
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsIt's the year 2040, and sixteen-year-old Dez Harkly is one of the last of her kind-part of a nearly extinct race of shape-shifters descended from guardians to the Egyptian pharaohs. Her home and her secret are threatened when the Council lowers the barrier, allowing the enemy race to enter the Shythe haven... -
![Override by Heather Anastasiu]()
Override by Heather Anastasiu
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsZoe is free. She has escaped the enslavement of the Community, disconnected from the hardware that had controlled her every thought and emotion, and evaded capture by the Chancellor intent on killing her. She is finally free, but she is far from safe. Zoe and Adrien hide themselves from detection at the Foundation, an academy that trains teen glitchers to fight in the Resistance movement...Categorized as:
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![Return Once More by Trisha Leigh, Casey Turner]()
Return Once More by Trisha Leigh, Casey Turner
If you could learn the identity of your one true love—even though you will never meet— would you?Years have passed since refugees from a ruined earth took to space, eventually settling a new system of planets. Science has not only made the leaps necessary to allow time travel, but the process engineered a strange side effect—predicting your one true love...Categorized as:
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