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Ascending by Meg Pechenick
Twenty-five years ago the Vardeshi came to Earth. Then they vanished without a trace. Graduate student Avery Alcott always knew they would return. When they do, she’s the only one who can speak their language. She’s quickly recruited to join the crew of an 11-man starship on a one-year mission into the depths of space. Avery leaps at the chance to leave behind everything she’s ever known...Categorized as:
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World Undone by Sarah Lyons Fleming
Even the best plans come undone.With their supplies reclaimed and food enough for the future, the group at Barry’s cabin can do more than just scrape by. Between fruitful gardens, great friends, and sturdy fences—not to mention karaoke—life in the zompoc is better than ever.Nothing is perfect, however...Categorized as:
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![World Without by Sarah Lyons Fleming]()
World Without by Sarah Lyons Fleming
In a world without, hunger may be as deadly as zombiesWith their Safe Zone overrun by the undead, taking refuge in the mountains seems like the safest bet for Rose, Tom, and the other survivors. There’s one catch, however—between last spring’s human exodus and a neighboring group’s stockpiles, there’s no food left to scavenge... -
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Mordacious by Sarah Lyons Fleming
From the universe of the Until the End of the World series Sylvie Rossi has the loner thing down pat, with the exception of her best friend, Grace. But when the two are trapped in a hospital during the last gasp of a dying city, alone time is no longer an option...Categorized as:
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![Buried Too Deep by Karen Rose]()
Buried Too Deep by Karen Rose
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsFrom New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Karen Rose comes another explosive novel in the New Orleans series, where some secrets are worth dying for—or killing to keep. Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead... -
![Peripeteia by Sarah Lyons Fleming]()
Peripeteia by Sarah Lyons Fleming
Book two of The City Series is here! Months into the apocalypse, the zombies show no signs of dying, but it’s clear everyone in Sunset Park will die without enough food to outlast the undead. Add in the less-than-sociable new neighbors only blocks away, and the hunt for sustenance has come to feel more like a race than a ramble...Categorized as:
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![Galactic Gladiators Set: Books 4-6 by Anna Hackett]()
Galactic Gladiators Set: Books 4-6 by Anna Hackett
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFighting for love, honor, and freedom on the galaxy’s lawless outer rim…When several women from Earth find themselves abducted from a space station by alien slavers, life becomes a battle for survival on a dangerous desert planet... -
![Maria's Journey by Karen Clow]()
Maria's Journey by Karen Clow
Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsCompelling, Brutal and stretching every boundary of Love and loyalty to its limits; Maria’s Journey will leave you wondering how she ever survived and remained the lady she is.Continuing to chart the turbulent lives of Jimmy, Maria and Mickey, once again it delves into London’s violent, depraved, criminal underworld... -
![Seven Surrenders by Ada Palmer]()
Seven Surrenders by Ada Palmer
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 32 ratings*2018 LOCUS AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL CATEGORY*In a future of near-instantaneous global travel, of abundant provision for the needs of all, a future in which no one living can remember an actual war…a long era of stability threatens to come to an abrupt end... -
![Luna of Kyun by Laura Jo Phillips]()
Luna of Kyun by Laura Jo Phillips
Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsLuna Meadows spent her entire childhood hiking around the world with her father, and learning how to hide a number of unusual abilities she was born with. And wishing she had answers to an ever growing list of questions that her father refused to answer... -
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Implode by E. K Hunter
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsRileyI didn’t need friends, but I found a family.I didn’t need a man, but I fell head over heels for the devil.All I needed was to keep my little sister safe, but all I ended up doing was putting her in harm's way. Kai made a promise to bring her home to me, and I knew that once he did, I had to get her far, far away from Hollows Bay...Categorized as:
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Hunted by Lisa Harris
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsHe promised to protect her.But what happens when the hunter becomes the prey?Welcome to Shadow Ridge, where LONGMIRE meets JERICHO.From USA Today Best-selling author Lisa Harris comes an epic series where the survival of Shadow Ridge depends on learning how to fight crime all over again...Categorized as:
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The Eve by Keary Taylor
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA plan was laid out as the Evolution crushed mankind, a plan that was right under Eden’s nose all along. And Eve is the key to everything. New Eden—mankind—they have a small chance at fixing their dismembered planet. But it will be a reckless sprint against time and the coming Bane to retrieve the final piece to the plot. New Eden’s worst fears have become reality... -
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Teran by Ava Ross
The alien she's hot for seems to hate her. But when they touch, sparks fly. Will their growing love survive a dangerous quest?Emma: I’m pretty sure Teran hates me... -
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Frequency by Lisa Harris
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSHE TRUSTED THE WRONG PERSON.Four deaths, most likely tied to arsenic-tainted water, leave the town of Shadow Ridge frantic for answers before someone else dies. But that isn’t the only nightmare Tess McQuaid is facing. She has proof someone attempted to cover up a murder as another arsenic death.HER LIFE DEPENDS ON FINDING OUT THE TRUTH... -
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Sakar by Ella Blake
My two girls and I are going to be snowed in for Christmas and that’s fine with us, until an alien spacecraft crashes behind our wooded Maine home. I take the gorgeous Virilian, Prince Sakar, home with me. He’s injured and tracking an endangered alien dog with a taste for my neighbor’s goats...Categorized as:
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![Love And Other Human Errors by Bethany Clift]()
Love And Other Human Errors by Bethany Clift
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsThe convention of a book synopsis is fundamentally ridiculous...Categorized as:
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Survival by Lisa Harris
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWelcome to Shadow Ridge, where Longmire meets Jericho.A dead body. A missing suspect. A town fighting for survival. In today’s world, law enforcement agencies across the country rely on forensic tools, DNA testing, and crime labs...Categorized as:
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![April's Fools by Ivy Asher, Raven Kennedy]()
April's Fools by Ivy Asher, Raven Kennedy
We were Army Rangers, the best of the best. And then one day, everything that we worked so hard to become was ripped away. Now, we’re in some podunk town, trying to find a sense of normal amongst the crazy, and learn how to live again. That gets a hell of a lot harder to do when a virus spreads mercilessly across the country, killing 85% of the people who contract it... -
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Tempt Me Eternally by Gena Showalter
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsNew York Times bestselling author Gena Showalter's Tempt Me Eternally is now available from S&S Audio for the first time! Gena Showalter puts a daring spin on a tale of huntress and hunted…and concocts a sensual chemistry that is positively explosive. Aleaha Love can be anyone—literally. With only skin-to-skin contact, she can change her appearance and assume any identity... -
![Chieftain by Annie Lucas]()
Chieftain by Annie Lucas
One would assume that turning sixty would protect a woman from certain things; cat calls, being propositioned every time you sat at a bar by yourself, the monthly menace, being kidnapped by aliens, the office letch, and a plethora of other annoyances weathered in her youth.Did I mention being kidnapped by aliens?Yeah, I was wrong about that one...Categorized as:
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![Head Over Feet by Ever-so-reylo]()
Head Over Feet by Ever-so-reylo
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsFandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Sequel TrilogyRelationships: Kylo Ren/Rey, Rey/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren, Rey/Ben Solo--------------------------------------------------“Is it working, for you?” Maybe it comes out a little needy, but Rey tells herself that it’s only because of how low she has to pitch her voice to talk to him... -
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Detroit by J.N. Smith
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBetween her first cup of coffee and her daily dose of Xanax, Jane receives a cryptic warning from a trusted friend.Get out of the city. Now!Narrowly escaping with her children, she watches in horror as Detroit, along with dozens of cities across the globe, becomes trapped behind “Veils”.As Jane navigates the modern-day dystopia, she meets Army veteran Matt Patterson...Categorized as:
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![State of Pursuit by Summer Lane]()
State of Pursuit by Summer Lane
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsABSOLUTELY HEART-STOPPING!" - Leti Del Mar, author of Land of the Unaltered "[Summer Lane] IS QUITE A TALENTED WRITER WITH AN AMAZING GIFT FOR NARRATION." - Janice White, Editor & Author of Clarity: A Text on Writing Cassidy Hart is alone. Her Commander and the love of her life, Chris Young, has gone missing in action... -
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Embers by Claire Kent
I never thought I'd live through an apocalypse, but I guess no one ever does. Now my family's gone, and the only person who can keep me safe in a violent, chaotic world is my dead boyfriend's rough, uncivilized father. I don't like him. At all. Cal's the last person I want to rely on, but for now he's all I've got...Categorized as:
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![Burning Bridges by Nadège Richards]()
Burning Bridges by Nadège Richards
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"It's do or die..." The year is 2065. In a world that has been divided amongst the Hunter race and the Warrior, prisoners who have fallen prey to King Cyrus' decrees are forced into the arena to fight until death. Winner is granted mercy and privilege to see another sunrise. Death unto the weak... -
![Palm Meridian by Grace Flahive]()
Palm Meridian by Grace Flahive
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA rollicking, big-hearted story of long-lost love, friendship, and a life well-lived, set at a Florida retirement resort for queer women, on the last day of resident Hannah Cardin’s life—for readers of Less and The Wedding People... -
![The Buff Beast by Honey Phillips]()
The Buff Beast by Honey Phillips
Can Mina survive the icy cold of an alien winter? And melt the heart of the hardened alien warrior who rescues her?Her home. Her job. In a few short months, Mina has lost everything, including hope. Freezing and alone on a winter night, she isn't sure if she will make it to the next day. Or even if it matters.She wakes up to find herself naked and freezing, but no longer alone...Categorized as:
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![The Warchief's Bride by Ivy McAdams]()
The Warchief's Bride by Ivy McAdams
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWho invited the aliens? The weekend was supposed to be one last epic ladies’ night before my best friend’s wedding. A bachelorette party in Vegas that would rock our socks off. As it turns out, what happens in Vegas doesn’t stay in Vegas…it gets teleported to a mysterious deadly planet full of monsters and alien savages.As if that’s not bad enough, the alien barbarian chief claims me as his wife...Categorized as:
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![Wreck of the Nebula Dream by Veronica Scott]()
Wreck of the Nebula Dream by Veronica Scott
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 7 ratings2013 SFR Galaxy Award Winner "Titanic in Space" A reimagining of the Titanic disaster set in the far future among the stars… Traveling unexpectedly aboard the luxury liner Nebula Dream on its maiden voyage across the galaxy, Sectors Special Forces Captain Nick Jameson is ready for ten relaxing days, and hoping to forget his last disastrous mission behind enemy lines... -
![OffSet: A Dystopian Climate Fiction by Anna Trompetas]()
OffSet: A Dystopian Climate Fiction by Anna Trompetas
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Anna Trompetas’s debut novel is beautifully written, funny, poignant, and terrifying all at once." "Gripping, insightful, couldn’t put it down... A thrilling exploration of what society is frighteningly close to becoming" A stunning dystopian science fiction novel, exploring a future London reeling from the impacts of climate change.You pay people to serve you food... -
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Starved by Violet Fox
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMy whole life, I have been starved.Starved of love and starved of affection.My caretaker, Francis, refuses to touch me, and he makes me feel as worthless as dirt.The only love and affection I've ever found are inside the pages of the books he gives me. At least those books make me feel less alone—less starved.They give me hope that I'll find love of my very own one day...Categorized as:
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![The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger]()
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
This is the extraordinary love story of Clare and Henry, who met when Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-two and Henry was thirty. Impossible but true, because Henry suffers from a rare condition where his genetic clock periodically resets and he finds himself pulled suddenly into his past or future...Categorized as:
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![Bloody Sunrise by Gwendolyn Harper]()
Bloody Sunrise by Gwendolyn Harper
Caitlin Meadows thought the worst part of her business trip would be the airport hassles and her overly chatty seatmate. However, when her plane is shot down, and she finds herself in the middle of a zombie virus outbreak, she realizes she was never prepared for terrors like these. Lost, alone, and afraid, Caitlin can only focus on one thing-- survival...Categorized as:
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![So Many Ways to Sleep Badly by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore]()
So Many Ways to Sleep Badly by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“Sycamore kicks mainstream literature in the teeth... -
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Cassandra's Challenge by M.K. Eidem
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsCassandra Chamberlain has always stood out. It's hard not to at 6’1” and 165 pounds with jet black hair and sapphire blue eyes. And if that wasn’t enough she is also brilliant, graduating from Harvard at fifteen, teaching at MIT at nineteen and up for the prestigious Magellan Award at twenty five. But she’s never really fit in. Not with her peers, not with her contemporaries, only with her family...Categorized as:
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![Set My Heart to Five by Simon Stephenson]()
Set My Heart to Five by Simon Stephenson
Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsA delightfully entertaining, deceptively poignant debut novel about a humanlike bot named Jared, whose emotional awakening leads him on an unforgettable quest for connection, belonging and possibly even true loveJared works as a dentist in small-town Michigan. His life is totally normal, except for one thing. He is a bot engineered with human DNA to look and act like a real person... -
![Shades of Dark by Linnea Sinclair]()
Shades of Dark by Linnea Sinclair
Can love alone save the day? Award-winning author Linnea Sinclair returns with a vibrant interstellar thriller of romance and adventure in which two lovers are tested in the crucible of deep space, where there are only ¦ Before her court-martial, Captain Chasidah -Chaz- Bergren was the pride of the Sixth Fleet. Now she's a fugitive from the -justice- of a corrupt Empire...Categorized as:
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![Lonely Beard by Cassie Mint]()
Lonely Beard by Cassie Mint
I came to this mountain for market research. Now I’m sheltering from a storm with a bearded grump. Aiden McCrae has an attitude problem. Hey, maybe that’s why he can’t keep a mail order bride—but when I lose my cool and suggest that to him, waving my clipboard on his deck, he sends me away without another word.I don’t get far, though... -
![How to Break Up with an Alien by Magan Vernon]()
How to Break Up with an Alien by Magan Vernon
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsFace it, long distance relationships in high school are hard, especially when the other one in the relationship is an alien. Alex Bianchi may have survived an intergalactic battle, but that still doesn't excuse her from her senior year of high school, or qualify her for any sort of scholarship. To make up for college tuition costs, she takes a job at a local coffee shop... -
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Arctos by Jordan Summers
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsPhotographer Caitlin Kelly thinks she’s on a mission to save her friend, but when she gets to the wilds of Alaska, it turns out she’ll be the one that needs rescuing. Caitlin doesn’t hear the polar bear approach until it’s too late. Her only regret is that she never fell in love. Arctos has come to Earth in search of a bride... -
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No Words Alone by Autumn Dawn
Sometimes, love shines like a billion stars. As the only woman in a team of marooned explorers, whom do you trust--your friends...or your enemy? When Xera is stranded on a desert planet with a hostile crew and a cadre of murdering aliens, her friends aren't who she thinks they are. As the translator, she's the only one who can forge a truce... -
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Princess by Claire Kent
I guess I'm one of the lucky ones.When the asteroid hits and the world falls apart, I'm seventeen, and my dad buys us a place in an underground bunker. We're supposed to be safe down there, but we're not. Gradually, I lose everything until all I have left is a bewildering relationship with a stoic, unknowable man...Categorized as:
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![How to Marry an Alien by Magan Vernon]()
How to Marry an Alien by Magan Vernon
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsAlex’s interstellar relationship has finally been sealed in the eyes of the human world, so now she can move on to her next step: college. With Ace by her side and a new piece of jewelry on her finger, she thinks she is ready for anything. Well, almost anything. Her new roommate holds a dangerous link to her past that Alex isn't sure if she can handle... -
![The Usual Family Mayhem by HelenKay Dimon]()
The Usual Family Mayhem by HelenKay Dimon
Rated: 3.57 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRevenge is a dish best served cold—especially when it comes in the form of one of Grandma’s “special” pies. Get the best of family hijinks, girl power, and hilariously justifiable crime in the latest novel from award-winning author HelenKay Dimon.Kasey Nottingham needs a splashy idea at her company where they find and develop the next big thing for investors—her job depends on it... -
![After Sundown by Linda Howard, Linda Jones]()
After Sundown by Linda Howard, Linda Jones
From New York Times bestselling authors Linda Howard and Linda Jones, danger unites two guarded hearts as they struggle for survival... Sela Gordon, shy owner of a Tennessee general store, prefers solitude. If anyone can chip away at her protective shell it’s the handsome, mysterious, ex-military man who’s been hiding for two years in the wilds of Cove Mountain...Categorized as:
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![Desert World Allegiances by Lyn Gala]()
Desert World Allegiances by Lyn Gala
Being condemned to slavery is a common enough occurrence on the desert planet of Livre, but this time, priest Shan Polli is determined to prevent the corrupt, soul-eating system from destroying one more life. Temar Grazer was sentenced for what amounted to a criminal prank—but Shan soon finds that the dangers extend far beyond Temar’s crime...Categorized as:
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![Beyond the Rain by Jess Granger]()
Beyond the Rain by Jess Granger
Rated: 3.59 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsIn a universe torn apart by civil war, a warrior and a slave must fight for their lives and a love that may destroy them both. After five years behind enemy lines, Captain Cyani has to complete one final mission before she can return to Azra-a planet ruled by a sisterhood of celibate warriors...Categorized as:
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