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The Legend Trilogy Collection by Marie Lu
Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsThe complete collection of Marie Lu's bestselling Legend trilogy: Legend, Prodigy, and Champion. Additional bonus material also included: Marie Lu’s Life Before Legend, original short stories offering a sneak peek at the lives of Day and June before they met... -
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Island of Dragons by Lisa McMann
Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsHead mage Alexander Stowe and his friends successfully fended off the latest threat to their magical world of Artime with the help of a surprise ally. United at last, they re exploring exciting new territory. But old enemies have secretly been plotting against them, and danger strikes when they re most vulnerable... -
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![Island of Graves by Lisa McMann]()
Island of Graves by Lisa McMann
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsAlex and Aaron Stowe are at a crossroads.Everything Aaron has worked so hard to build in Quill has crumbled. Fallen from the height of power and influence and left for dead in a foreign place, Aaron has lost everything, and now he must humbly beg for food from those who saved his life... -
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Island of Legends by Lisa McMann
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsUncover adventure and dangerous secrets in book four of the New York Times bestselling Unwanteds series, which Kirkus Reviews called The Hunger Games meets Harry Potter.As Alex grows more confident in his role as the mage of Artime, he expands his skills and brings his first creature to life with results that are both painful and wonderful... -
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![Island of Shipwrecks by Lisa McMann]()
Island of Shipwrecks by Lisa McMann
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsAlex and his friends from Artimé are stranded on a newly discovered island after barely surviving a storm that destroys their ship. And it turns out they’re not alone…Back in Quill, Aaron’s power base grows as he aligns himself with an unlikely ally... -
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Through the Dark by Alexandra Bracken
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsDon't miss this breathtaking collection of stories set in the world of the New York Times best-selling Darkest Minds trilogy. Featuring ebook original novellas In Time and Sparks Rise, and a gripping, brand-new novella, Through the Dark is a must-have for fans of the Darkest Minds... -
![The Captured: A Young Adult Fantasy Romance by SK Horton]()
The Captured: A Young Adult Fantasy Romance by SK Horton
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe fate of the kingdoms is under lock and key.Lucas is missing. Heartbroken from losing Cate to Daniel, he sets out on a mission to rally the dragons of the north, only to be captured by the Embers. Finally, a message arrives in Caelum demanding a peace treaty in exchange for Lucas’s safety. But there’s a catch. King Aldridge must negotiate in person... -
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Lifebound by D.N. Hoxa
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNobody ever believed me. Not when I was five and told them about the boy with pointy ears who saved my life in the forest. Not during thirteen miserable years of bullying and being labeled the town weirdo.Until a guy with golden eyes and a royal guard escort shows up at my door to drop a bombshell.That little boy? Yeah, he’s real.And he’s a fae Prince... -
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Halo by Frankie Rose
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAlternative cover and new title for asin B00CKBJR2EShe has no name.She has her knives. Her training. Her halo.The first and second give her the ability to defeat the opponents she is pitted against each month. The third frees her from pain and fear. From any kind of emotion at all. Everything is as it should be. Everything is as it should be, until…Fear… Pain… Anger… Happiness… Desire… Guilt…Love... -
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The Unwanteds by Lisa McMann
Every year in Quill, thirteen-year-olds are sorted into the strong, intelligent Wanteds go to university, and the artistic Unwanteds are sent to their deaths.Thirteen-year-old Alex tries his hardest to be stoic when his fate is announced as Unwanted, even while leaving behind his twin, Aaron, a Wanted... -
![The Queen's Device by Brittany Mack]()
The Queen's Device by Brittany Mack
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFollowing the death of the country’s only heir, eighteen-year-old Corinn Januski is invited to fight for a crown she doesn’t deserve. The conditions are simple: win this tournament to rule the nation, or endure a lifelong punishment. All too eager to escape her place at society’s bottom, Corinn risks her future and accepts the improbable task... -
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Ghost Hunt, Vol. 1 by Shiho Inada, Fuyumi Ono
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsPARTNERS IN FEAR The decrepit building was condemned long ago, but every time the owners try to tear it down, “accidents” start to happen–people get hurt, sometimes even killed. Mai Taniyama and her classmates have heard the rumors that the creepy old high school is haunted–possibly by ghosts from the Second World War... -
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The Gala by Leigh Walker
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 24 ratings"You will not regret buying this book, it is perfection. GET IT NOW AND DON'T WAIT!" - Amazon ReviewerFOUR WEEKS. TWENTY CONTESTANTS. ONE PRINCE.The Pageant is almost over, and Gwyneth West knows she can win—except the prince is a vampire, and some of the other contestants are turning out to be quite beastly... -
![The Hands of Time by Michelle Madow]()
The Hands of Time by Michelle Madow
Time is running out. War will be waged. Sacrifices will be made.Months ago, Nicole Cassidy’s life was turned upside-down when she discovered that she was a witch descended from the Greek gods. She and the four other witches gifted with elemental powers fought all over the world—and in another dimension—to battle the supporters of the Titans and fight for the people they love... -
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![Legacy of Roses: A Beauty and the Beast Tale by Melanie Cellier]()
Legacy of Roses: A Beauty and the Beast Tale by Melanie Cellier
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsA returned royal with no interest in becoming an enchanted prince.A merchant’s daughter who knows better than to pick roses.A Legacy determined to force them into a story neither wants.Rosalie’s family has already lost everything, and she’s willing to do whatever it takes to protect them from further harm. Even if that means stopping ignorant newcomers from picking enchanted roses... -
![Shadowstone Academy, Book 1: Broken Trinity: A Young Adult Urban Fantasy Academy Novel by Barbara Hartzler]()
Shadowstone Academy, Book 1: Broken Trinity: A Young Adult Urban Fantasy Academy Novel by Barbara Hartzler
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsI'm back at the school I hate after my sister just took down the biggest, baddest secret society. At least I only have two secret societies to deal with now, and my sister close enough to begin my training.There's only one problem. The most popular guy in school has finally noticed me, but so has the biggest bully I’ve ever met... -
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Fall by Kimberly Stedronsky
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAfter learning that her life's purpose is to fulfill a prophecy to save our world, Roam finds that she is pregnant- and missing the love of her life with all of her heart. Logan, her best friend, stands by her, helping her to find a way back to West... despite his own love for her... -
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Born on the 4th of July by Heather Graham
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA long Krewe of Hunters short story, or a short novella—approximately 20,000 words—Born on the 4th of July takes place as the holiday nears and comes upon us.Angela and Jackson and their adopted son Corby have headed with Adam Harrison and the ghost of his son, Josh, to pay tribute at the graves of Adam’s family. But while they’re there, the ghost of an old serviceman beckons to Angela... -
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Luka by K.E. Ganshert, Katie Ganshert
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFans of the The Gifting series have long been asking for more and award-winning author K.E. Ganshert has delivered! Experience the intrigue, the romance, and the chilling world of The Gifting, where the mentally unstable are locked away and belief in the supernatural has been eradicated. This time, from Luka’s point of view with never-before-seen content!17-year-old Luka Williams has a secret... -
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Nil Unlocked by Lynne Matson
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsOn the island of Nil, the rules are set. You have exactly 365 days to escape—or you die. Rives is now the undisputed Leader of Nil City, but keeping the City united is tougher than ever.Raiders have grown bolder, supplies are dwindling, and non-human inhabitants have taken a turn toward the deadly... -
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The Moon and the Tide by Derrolyn Anderson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Moon and the Tide is book # 2 in the Marina's Tales series. Just when things seem to be all figured out, Marina discovers that there's a lot more going on behind the scenes than she ever imagined. When a terrible accident exposes her secret, she discovers that her whole life has been one big lie, and has to cope with more than one kind of betrayal... -
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The Echo Saga Books 1 & 2: Echo Across Time and Echo Into Darkness Book Bundle by Skye Genaro
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBook Bundle featuring the first two books in The Echo Echo Across Time "A fun, teen novel packed full of paranormal powers and a sprinkling of romance. A BRONZE medal winner and highly recommended." -The Wishing Shelf Book Awards, 2016 Fall in love with the achingly beautiful story of Echo and Connor, supernaturally gifted teens, as they fight to live out their destiny together... -
![To Shatter a Slipper by Abigail Manning]()
To Shatter a Slipper by Abigail Manning
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhat if the glass slipper fit the wrong girl?Kirsi Allerednic was never one to enjoy balls, corsets, or fake smiles. She would much rather chat with the charming servant, Caden, than catch the eye of a prince who is already far more interested in a girl with glass slippers... -
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The Fabrication of Eden Pruitt by K.E. Ganshert
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWHAT IF YOUR WHOLE LIFE WAS A LIE ...18-year-old Eden Pruitt stepped out of line just once. Unfortunately, that disastrous decision ended with an arrest, a mug shot, and two very concerned parents. Now they’re starting over. In Iowa, of all places. On the cusp of her senior year, of all times. The situation isn’t ideal but she’ll have to manage... -
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![Chaysing Dreams by Jalpa Williby]()
Chaysing Dreams by Jalpa Williby
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLIFE... SECRECY, DECEIT, DANGER... NO, NO! RUN, ESCAPE! As long as Tess can remember, she has always had the same nightmares, where the girl is running for her life with an unknown force chasing her. Each time, right before the girl is caught, Tess awakens, shaken with fear and confusion... -
![From the Earth by A.R. Colbert]()
From the Earth by A.R. Colbert
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat's a girl to do when her only option to live means destroying everyone she loves?Claren didn't ask to join her society's Leadership. She was forced into it. And under the watchful eyes of her superiors, she's left with no choice but to carry out a mission that will destroy everything and everyone she believes in, including the man who has her heart.The Leaders want her to kill the rebels... -
![The Titanic Test: A Love Story by Ann K. Simpson]()
The Titanic Test: A Love Story by Ann K. Simpson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTwo childhood best friends. One epic high school test. Will they change the Titanic's fate, or will it change theirs?Charlie is a seventeen-year-old Malibu surfer who lives in the moment and is so NOT into time travel. Now she’s facing Windline Academy’s dreaded Junior Year Test, a trip in time designed to mold her into the girl her parents and school want her to be...Categorized as:
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![Fit For A Prince by Abigail Manning]()
Fit For A Prince by Abigail Manning
The prince is dead.Diaspro Onelle would have made an excellent princess, if her betrothed hadn’t died in front of her. On a fateful night in the kingdom of Ivalon, Diaspro’s entire world burns as the king of Aemastia destroys everything in sight. Before she can escape, she’s taken captive and locked away…until another fateful day arrives, and she’s summoned before the enemy king... -
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Designed by Amy Patrick
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHow can you trust your heart… when you’re not even sure it’s real? Seventeen-year-old Mireya and her classmates are the youngest people alive on Earth in 2055, kept protected on a military base she’s never left. She’s never wanted to leave, never questioned why she’s been content to stay there her whole life—until she runs into Heath. Actually, he bumped into her with his Gideon Corp delivery van... -
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Seeker by Amy Reece
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAlly Moran has always just known about things—things she shouldn’t really be able to know… Suddenly when she starts having vivid visions about a former friend who is in desperate trouble, the adults in her life think she might hold the key to an ancient mystery... -
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Liam's Story by Alexandra Bracken
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsThis is a short story that you will receive after subscribing to Ms. Alexandra Bracken newsletter.It's told from Liam's POV and it takes place after the end of book 1... -
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The Awakened Prince by Alora Carter
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsA betrothed prince. A mysterious maiden. A s ecret that could destroy the kingdom.After failing in every attempt to prove his worth, Killian’s betrothal contract seems to be the only reason his father tolerates him. Uniting the kingdoms will save their struggling lands, but the princess he is supposed to marry has been in hiding from a wicked fairy for almost 18 years—or she’s missing for good... -
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Annabelle by Ruby Jean Jensen
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMake Believe TerrorJessica liked to play make believe in the old abandoned stone mansion. She liked to pretend that the beautiful golden haired woman in the portrait was her mother. And that the big dollhouse she had found upstairs was hers, along with the family of dolls who lived there. Sometimes she was sure the dolls moved all by themselves. Sometimes she even heard them whisper to her... -
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Demon Evolution by David Estes
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSpreading darkness...Guilty of treason for which the penalty is death, Taylor's angel boyfriend, Gabriel, has been captured.The fate of the world sits on a knife's edge with Taylor being the key to everything... -
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![Never Apart by Romily Bernard]()
Never Apart by Romily Bernard
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsHow many times would you die for love?What if you had to relive the same five days over and over?And what if at the end of it, your boyfriend is killed…And you have to watch. Every time.You don’t know why you’re stuck in this nightmare.But you do know that these are the rules you now live by:Wake Up.Run.Die.Repeat.Now, the only way to escape this loop is to attempt something crazy... -
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Pulled Back by Danielle Bannister
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat if love never died? What if it just got re-born? What would you do if that love found you again? Would you run from it, or allow yourself to get pulled back? Join Jada, Tobias and Hawk, the newborns from Pulled, as they discover how their souls are connected, for better or worse... -
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Resonant by Alexia Purdy
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSurviving is worse than death... As the first days of the end of humanity tumble across the city of Las Vegas in the form of an overwhelming viral infection, turning almost everyone into vampire-like creatures, April Tate will find out what it really means to survive... -
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The World Without a Future by Nazarea Andrews
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsShe was born the day the world ended… Nurrin has lived her entire life with zombies—trapped behind walls meant to keep them safe. She’s mostly happy there. But when a zombie horde breach the walls of her Haven, she has to trust her brother, Collin, and his best friend to keep her alive. He just wants his past to die… Finn O’Malley has given up on voicing warnings that are ignored... -
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Water Blessed by Leia Stone
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsOcean lives in a world where water is scarce. Her village names all of their females after water, in hopes of gaining favor with the Fates. For every 20 years a Water Blessed is chosen. Someone who can create water at will. Men take multiples water wives with the sole purpose of fetching water 10 miles away from the dangerous and crowded well... -
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Window by T.M. Franklin
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsChloe Blake has a unique gift, an odd connection to her house that results in glimpses of the past, present, and future via the picture window in her living room. Unfortunately, it’s a gift that sometimes proves to be more of a curse. Especially when she tries to help out Ethan Reynolds, the gorgeous boy who lives across the street – an endeavor that, for some reason, always seems to backfire... -
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The Vessel Games by E.J. Eden
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWelcome to the Vessel Games—where men fight to the death to claim a Vessel wife.After the Great War devastated the lands, birth rates sharply declined, and the world descended into anarchy. The Monarchy seized control, creating a stranglehold over the land and the few women left who can bear children... -
![Where She Fell by Kaitlin Ward]()
Where She Fell by Kaitlin Ward
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsWatch your step.Eliza knows the legends about the swamp near her house—that people have fallen into sinkholes, never to be seen again, maybe even falling to the center of the earth. As an aspiring geologist, she knows the last part is impossible. But when her best friends drag her onto the uneven ground anyway, Eliza knows to be worried... -
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Speechless by Madeline Freeman
Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsShe longs to be part of his world. He desires to be anywhere else.In a world where uncommon powers are feared by ordinary people, seventeen-year-old Aria must hide who she is or risk being shipped off to a detention facility for people with abilities—for aberrations like her.Enrique Martinez is tired of having every moment of his life live-streamed to eager viewers... -
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Little Knife by Leigh Bardugo
Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsIn this third Ravkan folk tale from Leigh Bardugo, a beautiful girl finds that what her father wants for her and what she wants for herself are two different things. It is a companion story to the third book of the Grisha Trilogy, Ruin and Rising, and the stories “The Witch of Duva” and “The Too-Clever Fox... -
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![Ritual & Legacy by Alex Duval]()
Ritual & Legacy by Alex Duval
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsJason's life in Malibu is looking up, especially now Sienna, the most beautiful girl in town, seems to be interested in him... -
![The Confession by R.L. Stine]()
The Confession by R.L. Stine
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsA group of teens protect the killer among them in this chilling young adult thriller from Goosebumps author R.L. Stine.When their classmate Al dies, Julie and her friends aren’t exactly broken up about it. They couldn’t stand him and even found themselves wishing he were dead more than once... -
![The City on the Sea by Heather Carson]()
The City on the Sea by Heather Carson
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBrooke knows the rules. Everyone in the city outside the wall does. If you never cause any trouble, you never disappear.Even after her father's mysterious death, she's always known she'll do whatever it takes to live a good life and earn her place on the land one day.But when the watchmen suddenly start following her every move, it doesn't matter if she's done anything wrong... -
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The Last She by H.J. Nelson
Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsAra . . . I made a mistake, we all did . . . go back to the beginning . . . it’s not too late.As the only female to survive the devastating virus, Ara hasn’t seen another human in months―not since her father disappeared. The plague has swept away humanity, and Ara’s world is desolate, haunted by the ghosts of her former life. Her mother. Her sister... -
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Blood Circus by Camila Victoire
Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars · 14 ratings“Destined to be a classic…An unforgettable character at the center of an unforgettable story.” --Danielle Paige, New York Times bestselling author of Dorothy Must Die In this lush and terrifying debut—perfect for readers of The Hunger Games and Children of Blood and Bone—Camila Victoire creates a future where cruelty and spectacle hold the keys to subjugating humans on a ravaged earth... -
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I Killed the King by Rebecca Mix, Andrea Hannah
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOne of Us Is Lying meets Knives Out—with beasts, murder, and magic—in this first book in a thrilling locked-room whodunnit YA fantasy duology by Andrea Hannah and New York Times bestseller Rebecca Mix.After a decade of war, the kingdoms of Avendell and Istellia have finally agreed to peace...
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