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  • Perilous Waif by E. William Brown

    Perilous Waif by E. William Brown

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    My name is Alice Long, and I’ve always known I was different. When I was little I used to climb up to the highest branches of the housetree at night, and watch the starships docking at the orbital stations high above. Forty meters off the ground, watching ships thirty thousand kilometers overhead, with senses that could pick out radar pings and comm chatter as easily as the ships themselves...
  • Win by Vera Nazarian

    Win by Vera Nazarian

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    The 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...
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  • No. 6: The Manga, Volume 02 by Atsuko Asano

    No. 6: The Manga, Volume 02 by Atsuko Asano

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    "I KNEW NOTHING BEFORE TODAY." With the help of the enigmatic Rat, Shion becomes a fugitive, escaping No. 6 and getting his first glimpse of the desperation and violence that are facts of life outside the city wall...
  • Into the Fire by Kyla Stone

    Into the Fire by Kyla Stone

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    How far will you go to save your family?Thirteen American cities devastated by nuclear bombs. Hundreds of thousands of people dead. And a nation descending into chaos.After fleeing the radioactive ruins of Miami, Dakota and Logan finally reach their destination--a cabin deep in the Everglades, surrounded by a million acres of sawgrass rivers, cypress forests, and gator-infested swampland...
  • Nyxia Unleashed by Scott Reintgen

    Nyxia Unleashed by Scott Reintgen

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Getting 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...
  • Chobits, Omnibus 1 by CLAMP

    Chobits, Omnibus 1 by CLAMP

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Some people buy their personal computers based on style... and in near-future Japan, the hottest style for your "persocom" is shaped like an attractive android Poor student Hideki, fresh off the farm and trying to get into a Tokyo university, has neither money nor a girlfriend - then finds a persocom seemingly discarded in an alley...
  • Chobits, Omnibus 2 by CLAMP

    Chobits, Omnibus 2 by CLAMP

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    The conclusion of the best-selling Chobits saga! In a world where people rely on computers to escape loneliness, the logical conclusion is the persocom - attractive robot companions that are becoming everyone's boyfriend and girlfriend. Chi is a persocom, but she is also one of the legendary "Chobits," experimental persocoms built to acquire full awareness and emotion...
  • Earth Flight by Janet Edwards

    Earth Flight by Janet Edwards

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    It'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...
  • From the Ashes by Kyla Stone

    From the Ashes by Kyla Stone

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    From the ashes, heroes will rise....In an instant, Miami was devastated by a nuclear bomb. Millions fled the destruction as the lethal fallout descended.Now, the entire city is a hot zone. Hundreds of thousands of citizens are homeless, hungry, and growing more desperate with every passing hour...
  • Nyxia by Scott Reintgen

    Nyxia by Scott Reintgen

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    What 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...
  • Starfall: A Starstruck Novel by Brenda Hiatt

    Starfall: A Starstruck Novel by Brenda Hiatt

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    The 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...
  • Marked by Bridget E. Baker

    Marked by Bridget E. Baker

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    alternate cover edition of ASIN B07GSRLWBDIf one touch can infect... then a kiss is deadly. All Ruby Behl wants for her seventeenth birthday is a good career path match, and to kiss her best friend and long time crush, Wesley Fairchild. Unfortunately, the simplicity of teenage wishes evaporated a decade ago when the Tercera virus nearly wiped out the human race...
  • Kowloon Generic Romance, Vol. 3 by Jun Mayuzuki, Abigail Blackman

    Kowloon Generic Romance, Vol. 3 by Jun Mayuzuki, Abigail Blackman

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    “I don’t remember my past.” In the nostalgia-abundant dystopia of Kowloon Walled City, Reiko is now aware that many mysteries surround her very being. With life turned upside down, she confides in her friend Yaomay about her feelings for Kudou and more. But it’s not only Reiko who has secrets: what of the opportunistic Dr...
  • Kowloon Generic Romance, Vol. 2 by Jun Mayuzuki

    Kowloon Generic Romance, Vol. 2 by Jun Mayuzuki

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    “I love him.” In a room lit by the setting sun, Kujirai discovers her feelings for her coworker Kudou. With a secret love comes unspoken desires and shocking truths brought to light in this dreamlike romance, brought to life by elegant brushstrokes...
  • Alight by Scott Sigler

    Alight by Scott Sigler

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 27 ratings
    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...
  • Arena by Karen Hancock

    Arena by Karen Hancock

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    A Journey She Did Not Choose Will Change Her Life Forever Transported surreptitiously to a terrifying alien world, with limited resources and only a few cryptic words to guide her, Callie Hayes finds herself engulfed in a perilous battle for freedom – for her very life...
  • Underground by Chris Morphew

    Underground by Chris Morphew

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Luke thought he knew who is enemies were. The Shackleton Co-operative. Calvin, the head of security. The whole town of Phoenix. But then Luke wakes up strapped to a metal chair in an underground lab. There are more enemies - and they've been waiting his whole life to track him down. Meanwhile, up on the surface, the people of Phoenix are beginning to disappear...
  • The 100 Boxed Set by Kass Morgan

    The 100 Boxed Set by Kass Morgan

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    New York Times bestseller The 100 --now available in a paperback boxed set!For centuries after a nuclear war destroyed the Earth, the human race has lived on spaceships far above the radioactive surface. Now, for one hundred juvenile delinquents, it's time to return home. Their recolonize the savage land. The future of humanity rests in their hands.Read the series that inspired the hit TV show...
  • Fear the Fallout by Kyla Stone

    Fear the Fallout by Kyla Stone

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    If the radiation doesn't kill you, the survivors will... Dakota and Logan continue their treacherous journey to escape the city, but danger threatens at every turn. They must avoid uncontrollable fires, unstable buildings, and deadly fallout contamination. Dakota knows of a place to ride out the coming chaos--a safe house deep in the Everglades...
  • The Wide, Wide Sea by Patrick Ness

    The Wide, Wide Sea by Patrick Ness

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    The Wide, Wide Sea is set in the past, at a time before the Spackle War, and we get a first look at the fishing village on the sea where some very important things happen at the end of Monsters of Men.Best read after The Ask and the Answer but before Monsters...
  • Push by Eve Silver

    Push by Eve Silver

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    It’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...
  • Molly Fyde and the Land of Light by Hugh Howey

    Molly Fyde and the Land of Light by Hugh Howey

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    "I need you to help me rescue your father_" With those words, Molly Fyde-and the rest of the known universe-will never be the same. What began as a simple task to retrieve her father's spaceship, has turned into more than Molly bargained for. Setting off to reconnect with her past, she is about to meet it in a way she never expected: Head-on. Her father is alive...
  • Beyond Reach by Siobhan Davis

    Beyond Reach by Siobhan Davis

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    SOME SECRETS ARE WORTH FIGHTING FORBack on Earth, Ariana is caught in a dangerous crossfire between clandestine rebel organization Clementia and the power-hungry government. Refusing to divulge the location of the secret information entrusted to her by her late father, she desperately tries to bargain for her Mom, Lily, and Cal’s rescue. She’s fighting a losing battle, and the clock is ticking...
  • 7Seeds, Volume 5 by Yumi Tamura

    7Seeds, Volume 5 by Yumi Tamura

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    7SEEDS (Seven...
  • The Seventh Hour by Tracey Ward

    The Seventh Hour by Tracey Ward

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    When the Earth's rotation slowed to a crawl mankind was plunged into a harsh world of burning hot days and endless, arctic nights. Some fled to the mountains for shelter. Others took to the seas, sailing forever in the perfect gold between the night and the day; a place known as the Seventh Hour.Liv was raised aboard a ship chasing the Seventh...
  • Mars Rising by Cidney Swanson

    Mars Rising by Cidney Swanson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    New 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...
  • Point of Impact by Kyla Stone

    Point of Impact by Kyla Stone

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Surviving the blast is only the beginning... Dakota Sloane, a tough-as-nails former foster kid, has spent her life running from the past. Logan Garcia, a man haunted by secrets, has only one to drink himself into oblivion. They're two strangers in a bar--until the news reports nuclear bombs in New York City and Washington, D.C...
  • Storm Fall by Tracy Banghart

    Storm Fall by Tracy Banghart

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In 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

    Earth Star by Janet Edwards

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Sequel 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...
  • Gantz 6 by Hiroya Oku

    Gantz 6 by Hiroya Oku

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Rare...
  • Soul of Stars by Ashley Poston

    Soul of Stars by Ashley Poston

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    The highly awaited sequel to Heart of Iron, Soul of Stars is a thrilling sci-fi adventure packed with romance, shocking twists, and witty banter, perfect for fans of Six of Crows and Cinder.Once, Ana was an orphaned space outlaw. Then she was the Empress of the Iron Kingdom...
  • Molly Fyde and the Blood of Billions by Hugh Howey

    Molly Fyde and the Blood of Billions by Hugh Howey

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    It's been ten years since Molly last set foot on her birth planet, and this isn't how she'd imagined her homecoming. The sky is full of an invading fleet, one powerful enough to threaten the entire galaxy. The new family she has come to rely on -- her crew of alien misfits and runaways -- are scattered in three directions...
  • Fire Country by David Estes

    Fire Country by David Estes

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    In 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...
  • The Last Mission of the Living by Rhiannon Frater

    The Last Mission of the Living by Rhiannon Frater

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Humanity teeters on the brink of extinction...Vanguard Lindsay Rooney has faced the undead hordes of Inferi Scourge and lived to tell the tale, but she has also suffered horrible losses. Like millions of other civilians, she had hoped that The Bastion would recover after a team of modified soldiers eradicated the undead hordes of Inferi Scourge that infested their valley...
  • Jupiter Winds by C.J. Darlington

    Jupiter Winds by C.J. Darlington

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Ever since Grey Alexander’s parents disappeared five years ago, she’s had one goal—to keep herself and her younger sister Rin alive. But surviving in the North American Wildlife Preserve isn’t easy, especially for the unconnected who can be shot on sight by border patrol robot drones. Through the guidance of their eccentric old neighbor Mrs...
  • Vanguard by Ann Aguirre

    Vanguard by Ann Aguirre

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Ann Aguirre's dystopian YA saga continues with this companion fourth volume in the Razorland seriesSince the war ended, Tegan has dreamed of an epic journey, so when she has the opportunity to sign on as ship's doctor, she can't wait. It's past time to chart her course...
  • Mindbreaker by Kate Dylan

    Mindbreaker by Kate Dylan

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    They saved her life. But at what cost?Born into a religious cult on the fringe of society, Indra Dyer lives a simple, tech-free existence. But when an illicit trip to the city leaves her with a debilitating – and terminal – condition, Indra must make a choice: die faithful or betray her Order and accept the cure Glindell Technologies is offering...
  • Ghost of Mind #1 by Odette C. Bell

    Ghost of Mind #1 by Odette C. Bell

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Would 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...
  • Zero Repeat Forever by Gabrielle S. Prendergast

    Zero Repeat Forever by Gabrielle S. Prendergast

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    He 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...
  • Zero Repeat Forever by Gabrielle S. Prendergast

    Zero Repeat Forever by Gabrielle S. Prendergast

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    He 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.Until a human kills her…Sixteen-year-old Raven is at summer camp when the terrifying, armored Nahx invade...
  • Light Years by Kass Morgan

    Light Years by Kass Morgan

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Reeling from the latest attack by a mysterious enemy, the Quatra Fleet Academy is finally admitting students from every planet in the solar system after centuries of exclusivity...
  • A Complicated Love Story Set in Space by Shaun David Hutchinson

    A Complicated Love Story Set in Space by Shaun David Hutchinson

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Black Mirror meets What If It’s Us in this gripping, romantic, and wildly surprising novel about two boys lost in space trying to find their way home—while falling in love—from the critically acclaimed author of We Are the Ants.When Noa closes his eyes on Earth and wakes up on a spaceship called Qriosity just as it’s about to explode, he’s pretty sure things can’t get much weirder.Boy is he wrong...
  • Starswept by Mary Fan

    Starswept by Mary Fan

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    "The best science fiction novel I have read in a long time. I was absolutely captivated from the first page." — Lyssa Chiavari, author of the Iamos Trilogy "A dark and dangerous tale of secrets and intrigue brightened by one young woman’s passion for music... Romance, music, and intergalactic conspiracies make this a fascinating coming-of-age story quite unlike anything I’ve ever read...
  • A Song of Salvation by Alechia Dow

    A Song of Salvation by Alechia Dow

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From the author of The Sound of Stars and The Kindred comes a YA space opera about a reincarnated god and a grumpy pilot on a mission to save a beloved space DJ and stop an intergalactic war. Zaira Citlali is supposed to die. After all, she’s the god Indigo reborn. Indigo, whose song created the universe and unified people across galaxies to banish Ozvios, the god of destruction...
  • Meet Me at Blue Hour by Sarah Suk

    Meet Me at Blue Hour by Sarah Suk

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind meets Past Lives in this gripping, emotional story of two childhood friends navigating the fallout of one erasing their memory of the other, from acclaimed author Sarah Suk.Seventeen-year-old Yena Bae is spending the summer in Busan, South Korea, working at her mom’s memory-erasing clinic...
  • Youngbloods by Scott Westerfeld

    Youngbloods by Scott Westerfeld

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    IT'S TIME TOCOME OUT OF HIDINGFrey has spent her life in a family of deceivers, a stand-in for her sister, manipulated at her father's command. Free from them at last, she is finding her own voice -- and using it to question everything her family stood for.Tally was once the most famous rebel in the world...
  • Cicada by Belle Whittington

    Cicada by Belle Whittington

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Blair 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...
  • Emerge by Heather Sunseri

    Emerge by Heather Sunseri

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Six years ago, a highly contagious virus wiped out more than ninety-nine percent of the country’s population. The only person to contract the virus and survive, Cricket fled her identity and the safety of New Caelum, an airtight city. Now eighteen, she watches the city where the wealthy cocooned from the devastating outbreak...
  • The Towering Sky by Katharine McGee

    The Towering Sky by Katharine McGee

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    Welcome 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

    Molly Fyde and the Parsona Rescue by Hugh Howey

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    When 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...
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