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Until the End of the World by Sarah Lyons Fleming
Cassie Forrest isn't surprised to learn that the day she’s decided to get her life together is also the day the world ends. After all, she’s been on a self-imposed losing streak since her survivalist parents died: she’s stopped painting, broken off her engagement to Adrian and dated a real jerk...Categorized as:
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Believe Me by Tahereh Mafi
The devastatingly romantic fifth novella in the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Shatter Me series, chronicling the events after Imagine Me, the explosive sixth novel.Juliette and Warner fought hard to take down the Reestablishment once and for all. Life in the aftermath isn’t easy, as they and their friends at the Sanctuary work with their limited resources to stabilize the world...Categorized as:
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Triple Threat by Gwenda Bond
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsShe's cracked down on a mind-melding gang of bullies and saved the ex-mayor of Metropolis from the double who framed him. But now, Lois Lane embarks on a case even she isn't sure she can solve . .Categorized as:
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Double Down by Gwenda Bond
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsLois Lane has settled in to her new school. She has friends, for maybe the first time in her life. She has a job that challenges her. And her friendship is growing with SmallvilleGuy, her online maybe-more-than-a-friend...Categorized as:
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Spark by Rachael Craw
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsEvie doesn’t have a choice. One day she’s an ordinary seventeen year old, grieving for her mother. The next, she’s a Shield, the result of a decades-old experiment gone wrong, bound by DNA to defend her best friend from an unknown killer. The threat could come at home, at school, anywhere. All Evie knows is that it will be a fight to the death. And then there’s Jamie. irresistible...Categorized as:
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The Defiance by A.G. Henley
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIt hasn't been long since Fennel, a Sightless Groundling, and Peree, her Lofty Keeper, fell in love and learned the truth: the Scourge, and their world, are not what they seem. Fenn and Peree are determined to guide their people to the protected village of Koolkuna, but first they must convince them that everything they believe is a lie...Categorized as:
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The Future Without Hope by Nazarea Andrews
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSeparated from Finn, captive of the Order, Nurrin has no hope left. But she has survived twenty years of zombies--and she has the unshakable faith that Finn will find her. But Finn is a long way away. The Order's influence runs deeper than was ever suspected, and politics are shifting--and zombies may not be the most dangerous thing she's facing...Categorized as:
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Under This Forgetful Sky by Lauren Yero
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis “heartbreaking and heartfelt” ( Kirkus Reviews , starred review) star-crossed love story follows two teens in a starkly unequal future world who are struggling to find their places.Sixteen-year-old Rumi Sabzwari has spent his entire life behind the armored walls of St. Iago, which protect citizens of the Union of Upper Cities from the outside world’s environmental devastation...Categorized as:
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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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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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The Half-Life of Love by Brianna Bourne
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFlint Larsen has 41 days, 9 hours, and 42 minutes to live.He’s known exactly when he’s going to die since he was eight years old and half-lifed, a small twinge that tells a person when they’ve lived half their life. From that moment, Flint’s done everything he can to make his death more bearable... -
All Our Yesterdays by Cristin Terrill
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 47 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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An Anatomy of Beasts by Olivia A. Cole
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsIn the forty years since the Vagantur landed on Faloiv, the planet has existed in a tenuous peace between the humans who live in the enclosed community of N’Terra and the Faloii, the indigenous population. But after uncovering the shadowy secrets of the Council’s newly elected leader and helping a kidnapped Faloii man escape, sixteen-year-old Octavia knows that conflict is looming... -
Initiation by Rebecca Royce
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMy name is Rachel Clancy. Thirty years before I was born, the world ended. Today is my sixteenth birthday. Today I will go Upwards to fight the monsters and, statistically speaking, I won’t be coming back—at least not still living...Categorized as:
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The Do-Over by Lynn Painter
In this “unequivocally hilarious and delightful” (Kirkus Reviews) young adult romp for fans of Recommended for You and A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow, a teen girl has the worst Valentine’s Day ever—only to relive it over and over again...Categorized as:
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Undead by Kirsty McKay
Out of sight, out of their minds: It's a school-trip splatter fest and completely not cool when the other kids in her class go all braindead on new girl Bobby. The day of the ski trip, when the bus comes to a stop at a roadside restaurant, everyone gets off and heads in for lunch. Everyone, that is, except Bobby, the new girl, who stays behind with rebel-without-a-clue Smitty. Then hours pass...Categorized as:
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You and Me at the End of the World by Brianna Bourne
This is no ordinary apocalypse...Hannah Ashton wakes up to silence. The entire city around her is empty, except for one other person: Leo Sterling. Leo might be hottest boy ever (and not just because he's the only one left), but he's also too charming, too selfish, and too devastating for his own good, let alone Hannah's...Categorized as:
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Reborn by Jennifer Rush
The Branch is in shambles, but Anna, Sam, Cas, and Nick can't rest easy. Remnants of the organization lurk unseen, and the flashbacks of their old lives are only getting stronger--especially Nick's.Following scattered memories and clues from his Branch file, Nick sets off alone in search of answers--and the girl who haunts his dreams... -
See You Yesterday by Rachel Lynn Solomon
Barrett Bloom is hoping college will be a fresh start after a messy high school experience. But when school begins on September 21st, everything goes wrong. She’s humiliated by the know-it-all in her physics class, she botches her interview for the college paper, and at a party that night, she accidentally sets a frat on fire...Categorized as:
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Betrayed: An Altered Saga Novella by Jennifer Rush
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsAfter leaving Anna, Sam, Cas, and Nick behind, Trev is on his own and under the watchful eye of the Branch once more. But where do Trev's loyalties really lie? Riley, Trev's overseer, is determined to find out.On Riley's command, Trev sets off on a mission to a small Wisconsin suburb. His locate and kill a seemingly innocent teen named Charlie...Categorized as:
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United by Melissa Landers
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsAfter thwarting a deadly coup and saving the alliance between their worlds, Cara and Aelyx have finally earned a break. Their tiny island colony is everything they dreamed it would be―days spent gathering shells on the beach and nights in each other’s arms.But the vacation is short-lived.The treaty between Earth and L’eihr has awakened an ancient force that threatens to destroy them all...Categorized as:
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The Similars by Rebecca Hanover
Junior year gets cutthroat when clones roam the halls... Similar teens: This fall, six new students are joining the junior class at the elite Darkwood Academy. But they aren't your regular over-achieving teens. They're clones. And the "similar" teens are joining the class alongside their originals...Categorized as:
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Echoes by Alice Reeds
Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsThey wake on a deserted island. Fiona and Miles, high school enemies now stranded together. No memory of how they got there. No plan to follow, no hope to hold on to.Each step forward reveals the mystery behind the forces that brought them here. And soon, the most chilling discovery: something else is on the island with them.Something that won't let them leave alive...Categorized as:
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Echoes of Us by Kat Zhang
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsTo change the world, I may lose everything All Eva ever wanted was the chance to be herself. But in the Americas, to be hybrid—to share your body with a second soul—is not tolerated past childhood. Now Eva and Addie, her sister soul, are constantly on the move, hiding from the officials who seek to capture them. But the tide is changing...Categorized as:
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Origin by Jessica Khoury
Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsPia has grown up in a secret laboratory hidden deep in the Amazon rainforest. She was raised by a team of scientists who have created her to be the start of a new immortal race. But on the night of her seventeenth birthday, Pia discovers a hole in the electric fence that surrounds her sterile home―and sneaks outside the compound for the first time in her life...Categorized as:
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Malice by Pintip Dunn
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhat I know: a boy in my school will one day wipe out two-thirds of the population with a virus. What I don’t know: who he is. In a race against the clock, I not only have to figure out his identity, but I’ll have to outwit a voice from the future telling me to kill him. Because I’m starting to realize no one is telling the truth...Categorized as:
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A Conspiracy of Stars by Olivia A. Cole
Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsOlivia A. Cole blends a richly imagined world, fantastical creatures, family secrets, and a simmering romance in her cinematic sci-fi/fantasy YA debut, perfect for fans of Amie Kaufman and Pierce Brown.Octavia has only ever had one goal: to follow in the footsteps of her parents and become a prestigious whitecoat, one of the scientists who study the natural wonders of Faloiv...Categorized as:
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The Stranded by Sarah Daniels
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsA gripping, near-future thriller - The Hunger Games meets Station Eleven, for fans of pacey, disruptive TV, such as the Noughts and Crosses adaptationWelcome to the Arcadia.Once a luxurious cruise ship, it became a refugee camp after being driven from Europe by an apocalyptic war. Now it floats near the coastline of the Federated States - a leftover piece of a fractured USA...Categorized as:
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The Conspiracy of Us by Maggie Hall
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 44 ratingsAvery West's newfound family can shut down Prada when they want to shop in peace, and can just as easily order a bombing when they want to start a war. Part of a powerful and dangerous secret society called the Circle, they believe Avery is the key to an ancient prophecy. Some want to use her as a pawn. Some want her dead...Categorized as:
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The Other Side of Infinity by Joan F. Smith
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThey Both Die at the End meets The Butterfly Effect in this YA novel by Joan F. Smith, where a teen uses her gift of foreknowledge to help a lifeguard save a drowning man―only to discover that her actions have suddenly put his life at risk...Categorized as:
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Under the Milky Way by Vanessa Barneveld
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNothing ever happens in Dawson, Colorado.Until high school senior Cassidy Roekiem’s mom checks into a “wellness center,” but nothing is wrong with her.Then people start seeing lights in the sky and missing chunks of time, but the town insists nothing is going on...Categorized as:
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Spliced by Jon McGoran
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsIn this gripping sci-fi thriller, genetically altered teens fight for survival in a near-future society that is redefining what it means to be human.Sixteen-year-old Jimi knows people change, but nothing could prepare her for what’s about to happen to her best friend, Del...Categorized as:
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Tabula Rasa by Kristen Lippert-Martin
Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe Bourne Identity meets Divergent in this heart-pounding debut. Sixteen-year-old Sarah has a rare chance at a new life. Or so the doctors tell her. She’s been undergoing a cutting-edge procedure that will render her a tabula rasa—a blank slate. Memory by memory her troubled past is being taken away...Categorized as:
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Death by Ploot Ploot by Dara Joy
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhat happens when Deana decides to introduce the concept of Valentine's Day to Aviara? Yep, that is pretty insane. What are you thinking, Deanna?! How will the fearsome Charl knights react to the concept of a day of romance? Sexy time for wizards. With sparks. Welcome, traveler! Time to rejoin old friends and come back to where it all started: Aviara...Categorized as:
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Allusive Aftershock by Susan Griscom
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhat happens when a major earthquake changes life as you know it and the boy you thought you hated ends up saving you? Three times! Courtland Reese is the guy everyone hates and makes fun of because … well, he is weird. He communicates with animals...Categorized as:
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Sanctuary Bay by Laura J. Burns, Melinda Metz
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsWhen Sarah Merson receives the opportunity of a lifetime to attend the most elite prep school in the country-Sanctuary Bay Academy-it seems almost too good to be true. But, after years of bouncing from foster home to foster home, escaping to its tranquil setting, nestled deep in Swans Island, couldn't sound more appealing... -
More of Me by Kathryn Evans
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTeva goes to school, studies for her exams, and spends time with her friends. To the rest of the world, she’s a normal teenager. But when she goes home, she’s anything but normal. Due to a genetic abnormality, Teva unwillingly clones herself every year. And lately, home has become a battleground...Categorized as:
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The Body Electric by Beth Revis
Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsThe future world is at peace. Ella Shepherd has dedicated her life to using her unique gift—the ability to enter people’s dreams and memories using technology developed by her mother—to help others relive their happy memories. But not all is at it seems. Ella starts seeing impossible things—images of her dead father, warnings of who she cannot trust...Categorized as:
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Infinity by Jus Accardo
Rated: 3.56 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsFrom Book 1: There are three things Kori knows for sure about her life: One: Her army general dad is insanely overprotective.Two: The guy he sent to watch her, Cade, is way too good-looking.Three: Everything she knew was a lie. Now there are three things Kori never knew about her life: One: There’s a device that allows her to jump dimensions.Two: Cade’s got a lethal secret...Categorized as:
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Axiom's End by Lindsay Ellis
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe alternate history first contact adventure Axiom's End is an extraordinary debut from Hugo finalist and video essayist Lindsay Ellis.Truth is a human right.It’s fall 2007. A well-timed leak has revealed that the US government might have engaged in first contact... -
Time Travel for Love and Profit by Sarah Lariviere
Rated: 3.49 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsWhen Nephele has a terrible freshman year, she does the only logical thing for a math prodigy like herself: she invents a time travel app so she can go back and do it again (and again, and again).Fourteen-year-old Nephele used to have friends. Well, she had a friend. That friend made the adjustment to high school easily, leaving Nephele behind in the process...Categorized as:
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The Atlantis Gene by A.G. Riddle
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 62 ratingsThe greatest mystery of all time...the history of human origins...will be revealed.In Antarctica, researchers discover a mysterious structure, buried in ice.In a lab in Jakarta, an autism researcher identifies a revolutionary treatment that could change everything.But these two incredible discoveries aren't what they seem...Categorized as:
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The Unimaginable by Dina Silver
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsFrom the author of One Pink Line comes a story about letting go of the past and finding bravery in the depths of fear. Set on the sun-soaked beaches of Thailand and the rough waters of the Indian Ocean, The Unimaginable paints a vivid portrait of a young woman on a journey to find herself—and her harrowing fight for survival...Categorized as:
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The Evaporation of Sofi Snow by Mary Weber
Rated: 3.53 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsEver since the Delonese ice-planet arrived eleven years ago, Sofi's dreams have been vivid. Alien. In a system where Earth's corporations rule in place of governments and the humanoid race orbiting the moon are allies, her only constant has been her younger brother, Shilo...Categorized as:
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Captive by Leigh Talbert Moore
Rated: 3.43 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsRed Dawn meets LOST in this New Adult action-adventure romance. Prentiss Puckett is certain of three things: -Graduation is two weeks away. -Summer only gets hotter in south Mississippi. -She's getting a job with air-conditioning. She did not expect to be kidnapped walking to work. And she never expected to become a hero...Categorized as:
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Sweet by Emmy Laybourne
Rated: 3.62 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsPEOPLE WOULD KILL TO BE THIN.Solu's luxurious celebrity-filled Cruise to Lose is billed as "the best cruise since the Titanic," and if the new diet sweetener works as promised - dropping five percent of a person's body weight in just days - it really could be the answer to the world's obesity problem. But Laurel is starting to regret accepting her friend Viv’s invitation...Categorized as:
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The Kiss of Deception by Mary E. Pearson
In a society steeped in tradition, Princess Lia's life follows a preordained course. As First Daughter, she is expected to have the revered gift of sight—but she doesn't—and she knows her parents are perpetrating a sham when they arrange her marriage to secure an alliance with a neighboring kingdom—to a prince she has never met. On the morning of her wedding, Lia flees to a distant village...Categorized as:
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The Thousandth Floor by Katharine McGee
NEW YORK CITY AS YOU'VE NEVER SEEN IT BEFORE.A thousand-story tower stretching into the sky. A glittering vision of the future where anything is possible—if you want it enough.WELCOME TO MANHATTAN, 2118.A hundred years in the future, New York is a city of innovation and dreams. Everyone there wants something…and everyone has something to lose...Categorized as:
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Her Wolves by G. Bailey
I knew nothing about mates until the alpha rejected me...Growing up in one of the biggest packs in the world, my life is planned out from the second I turn eighteen and find my true mate in the moon ceremony.Finding your true mate gives you the power to share the shifter energy they have, given to the males of the pack by the moon goddess herself. The power to shift into a wolf... -
Opposite of Always by Justin A. Reynolds
Debut author Justin A. Reynolds delivers a hilarious and heartfelt novel about the choices we make, the people we choose, and the moments that make a life worth reliving.When Jack and Kate meet at a party, bonding until sunrise over their mutual love of Froot Loops and their favorite flicks, Jack knows he’s falling—hard...Categorized as:
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