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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... -
Aurora Burning by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsOur heroes are back… kind of. From the bestselling co-authors of the Illuminae Files comes the second book in the epic series about a squad of misfits, losers, and discipline cases who just might be the galaxy’s best hope for survival.First, the bad news: an ancient evil—you know, your standard consume-all-life-in-the-galaxy deal—is about to be unleashed... -
Lost Stars (Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens) by Claudia Gray
The reign of the Galactic Empire has reached the Outer Rim planet of Jelucan, where aristocratic Thane Kyrell and rural villager Ciena Ree bond over their love of flying. Enrolling at the Imperial Academy together to become fighter pilots for the glorious Empire is nothing less than a dream come true for the both of them... -
Chasing the Shadows by Maria V. Snyder
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsYear 2522. Lyra Daniels is dead.Okay, so I only died for sixty-six seconds. But when I came back to life, I got a brand new name and a snazzy new uniform. Go me! Seriously, though, it's very important that Lyra Daniels stays dead, at least as far as my ex-friend Jarren, the murdering looter, knows.While dying is the scariest thing that's happened to me, it morphed my worming skills... -
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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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Saving Runt by S.E. Smith
Amelia ‘Runt’ Thomas’ life revolves around a dangerous game of cat and mouse with the most ruthless criminals in the world. She follows two codes: the code of hackers and her personal code of honor to bring down anyone who thinks they’re untouchable. She is on target until one fateful night when the touch of a strange man sends an unexpected shock wave through her... -
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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The Touchstone Trilogy by Andrea K. Höst
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe complete Touchstone Trilogy, containing "Stray", "Lab Rat One" and "Caszandra". Rescue is only the beginning... On her last day of high school, Cassandra Devlin walked out of exams and into a forest. Surrounded by the wrong sort of trees, and animals never featured in any nature documentary, Cass is only sure of one thing: alone, she will be lucky to survive... -
The Awakening by S.L. Morgan, A.L. Baker
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsFrom Award Winning Author, S.L. Morgan, comes the HIGHLY anticipated third book in the Ancient Guardians Novel Series In the third book of the Ancient Guardians Series: The Awakening, EVERYTHING WILL CHANGE! Treaties will be broken...Mysteries will be exposed.. -
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... -
The Ship Who Searched by Anne McCaffrey, Mercedes Lackey
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsSpecial 20th Anniversary Edition, with a new introduction by Mercedes Lackey. A beloved classic of romantic space adventure returns. A novel of Anne McCaffrey’s Brainship series. A young woman becomes paralyzed and must become a brainship—and find her Brawn, her human soul mate, so that she can discover a cure for her illness... -
The Reckoning by S.L. Morgan
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBook 1 of the MULTI-AWARD and BEST SELLING new series that is captivating readers from around the world! “Storm?” Reece eyed every man in the room with a lethal expression, “I am the storm!” –Reece Oxley A menacing, dark force looms in the background, and he will stop at nothing until he possesses the one thing that will give him ultimate power: The Stone The greatest threat the... -
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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... -
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... -
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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Determinant by A.M. Hargrove
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNOTE: Though this is the 3rd installment of the Guardians of Vesturon, it can be read as a stand alone novel. January St. Davis, on her own since the age of sixteen and struggling to stay in college, thinks she’s scored in a major way when she lands a paid summer internship at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta... -
Rout of the Dem-Shyr by Raine Thomas
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTouted as the future ruler and savior of worlds, Ascendant KyrVawn is ready to put her growing power to good use. She intends to begin with her home planet of Alametria, where hints of corruption have infiltrated the highest levels of the palace. It’s a monumental task, but one she won’t undertake alone. By her side is her personal bodyguard and secret lover, Dem-Shyr TaeDane... -
Slip by David Estes
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsSomeone must die before another can be born...As sea levels rise and livable landmasses shrink, the Reorganized United States of America has instituted population control measures to ensure there are sufficient resources and food to sustain the growing population. Birth authorization must be paid for and obtained prior to having a child...Categorized as:
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The Land of the Shadow by Lissa Bryan
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsIn the highly anticipated stand-alone sequel to The End of All Things, Lissa Bryan returns readers to a world devastated by disease, and the breakdown of modern society. Two years after a horrific virus swept the globe, decimating the world’s population, Carly Daniels and her husband, Justin, have made a safe home in the isolated southern town of Colby... -
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... -
The Grief Keeper by Alexandra Villasante
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThis stunning YA debut is a timely and heartfelt speculative narrative about healing, faith, and freedom.Seventeen-year-old Marisol has always dreamed of being American, learning what Americans and the US are like from television and Mrs. Rosen, an elderly expat who had employed Marisol's mother as a maid... -
The Queen's Army by Marissa Meyer
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 52 ratingsIt is time. The boy must leave his family to serve in the Queen's army. To be chosen is an honor. To decline is impossible. The boy is modified. He is trained for several years, and learns to fight to the death. He proves to the Queen—and to himself—that he is capable of evil. He is just the kind of soldier the Queen wants: the alpha of his pack. http://www.wattpad...Categorized as:
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The Champion of Barésh by Susan Grant
RITA-winner Susan Grant is back with an all-new, stand-alone tale of two improbable lovers, their daring secret, and the gamble destined to alter the course of their worlds forever. A desperate woman in need of a miracle—A bad-boy prince in need of redemption She was playing with fire... Jemm Aves battles to keep her dreams alive on a dead-end world...Categorized as:
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The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey
After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. After the 2nd, only the lucky escape. And after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive. After the 4th wave, only one rule applies: trust no one.Now, it's the dawn of the 5th wave, and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them. The beings who only look human, who roam the countryside killing anyone they see... -
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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War Begins Book One by Odette C. Bell
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDiana had a troubled past. The kind where her family were brutally murdered right in front of her eyes. It’s changed the course of her future – but it will change more. An ancient race left a gift inside her mind, and it is time for it to rise. … Sampson is a psychic soldier – one of the Coalition’s best... -
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Ignite the Stars by Maura Milan
Everyone in the universe knows his name. Everyone in the universe fears him. But no one realizes that notorious outlaw Ia Cōcha is a seventeen-year-old girl.A criminal mastermind and unrivaled pilot, Ia has spent her life terrorizing the Olympus Commonwealth, the imperialist nation that destroyed her home...Categorized as:
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Shadows Have Gone by Lissa Bryan
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsCarly Daniels knows what it is to suffer loss. She knows what it is to sacrifice. In the two years since a pandemic virus—known only as the Infection—decimated humanity, she’s made choices she never could have imagined. She’s condoned violence in the name of peace and done the unthinkable in the name of mercy...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... -
Breaking Point by Kristen Simmons
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsThe second installment in Kristen Simmons's fast-paced, gripping YA dystopian series.After faking their deaths to escape from prison, Ember Miller and Chase Jennings have only one goal: to lay low until the Federal Bureau of Reformation forgets they ever existed... -
Treecat Wars by David Weber, Jane Lindskold
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsNew York Times and Publishers Weekly Best Selling Young Adult Series. Book Three by international writing phenomenon David Weber. Two young settlers on a pioneer planet seeks to stop a war and to save the intelligent alien treecats from exploitation by unscrupulous humans... -
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... -
Honor Among Thieves by Rachel Caine, Ann Aguirre
Petty criminal Zara Cole has a painful past that’s made her stronger than most, which is why she chose life in New Detroit instead of moving with her family to Mars. In her eyes, living inside a dome isn’t much better than a prison cell.Still, when Zara commits a crime that has her running scared, jail might be exactly where she’s headed... -
Beast Wars by Autumn Dawn
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDey has a taste for ancient treasure—Keg is the one assigned to guard it. Ancient ziggurats protected by forgotten technology are no match for Dey, but Keg is one challenge she can't dismiss. Sexy and irrepressible, Keg doesn't understand why the woman in the pink snakeskin jacket would swagger around with a gun... -
The Librarian: A First Contact Story by M.N. Arzu
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsFirst Contact has never been easy. Despite the rumors, the US Government has been able to deny First Contact with an alien race for decades for a good reason: it hasn't happened yet. When a strange signal comes from an isolated area in the woods of Washington State, they find that First Contact is not really done with big ships and grand world-wide messages... -
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... -
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Imminent Danger: And How to Fly Straight Into It by Michelle Proulx
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNOTE: This is not the most current edition. To check out the new, updated version of Imminent Danger, you want the edition with the purple cover that was published in 2015. Sorry for the confusion, and happy reading! High school junior Eris Miller thinks she's having a bad day when her roommate's boyfriend catches her stepping out of the shower wearing nothing but a towel... -
The Royals by J.C. Andrijeski
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLife as a slave in the Royal House of the Nirreth isn’t quite what 19-year-old Jet imagined when she grew up in the human skag pits outside Vancouver...Categorized as:
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Stitching Snow by R.C. Lewis
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsPrincess Snow is missing. Her home planet is filled with violence and corruption at the hands of King Matthias and his wife as they attempt to punish her captors. The king will stop at nothing to get his beloved daughter back—but that’s assuming she wants to return at all. Essie has grown used to being cold...Categorized as:
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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... -
Midnight City by J. Barton Mitchell
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsLord of the Flies meets War of the Worlds in J. Barton Mitchell's alien-invaded post-apocalyptic world where two teens and a young girl with amazing powers must stop the aliens’ mysterious plan Earth has been conquered by an alien race known as the Assembly... -
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...
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