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  • Scout's Progress by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller

    Scout's Progress by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    In the second novel of the Liaden Universe, Aelliana Caylon is a brilliant mathematician, but is convinced by her brother she has no worth beyond what value she might have in an arranged marriage. Then on a dare, she plays a game of chance and wins a starship. Now she must learn to fly if she is to escape her dastardly brother. Appeared in the omnibus "Pilot's Choice...
  • Plan B by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller

    Plan B by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Clan Korval searches for Val Con, a fugitive, and Mira after they commandeer Vandar's only spaceship to go to Mira's home on Lytaxin, while Shan yos'Galan, Val Con's cousin, unleashes Plan B, a series of events that could destroy the entire galaxy. Reprint...
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  • The Light We Seek by Katie May

    The Light We Seek by Katie May

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Now that I survived the initial storm, I find myself back where I once was: under the control of my dickish parents (if dickish even is a word). Day by day, the world gets worse. Storms brew on the east coast, volcanos erupt on the west, and zombie-like creatures continue to attack the cities. Where does that leave me? Hopefully not dead...at least, not yet...
  • Auroras & Ashes: A Ravaged Skies Novel by Boyd Craven III

    Auroras & Ashes: A Ravaged Skies Novel by Boyd Craven III

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Faith, Family, and FishingTrapped. Attacked from all directions. Jordan Daniels felt the pressure long before the world ended. He was just trying to keep a promise to his late live a good life, maintain the family cabin Up North. But peace was a luxury he couldn't afford.The cabin was meant to be his sanctuary, the place he pursued his love of fishing after his parents passed...
  • Annihilation by Adrienne Lecter

    Annihilation by Adrienne Lecter

    Rated: 4.68 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The end is nigh.They have survived the outbreak of the deadliest virus known to mankind. They have made it through the zombie apocalypse. They have triumphed over cannibals, assassins, kidnappers, and have faced their own mortality a million times over. Now all that’s left to do is take out the man responsible for it all...
  • Conflict of Honors by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller

    Conflict of Honors by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Sixteen-year-old Priscilla Delacroix was declared legally dead by her mother, High Priestess of the Goddess. Banished to survive on her own, Priscilla has roamed the galaxy for ten years as an outcast—to become a woman of extraordinary skill. . . .An experienced officer assigned to the Liaden vessel Daxflan, she's been abandoned yet again...
  • Resilience by Fletcher DeLancey

    Resilience by Fletcher DeLancey

    Rated: 4.74 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    As the first Alsean to serve aboard a Protectorate warship, Rahel Sayana thought her empathic sense would be an advantage. She never imagined it could be a weakness.Captain Ekatya Serrado has her hands full with a new empathic officer, an attempted murder, and a missing cargo ship. Finding the lost ship only adds to her problems: its crew lies dead amid signs of alien predators...
  • The Gathering Edge by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller

    The Gathering Edge by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    A series milestone as we welcome the twentieth amazing entry in the nationally best-selling Liaden Universe® series. The luck runs rough around Theo Waitley...
  • Salvation for the Alien Mercenary by Mina Carter

    Salvation for the Alien Mercenary by Mina Carter

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 7 ratings
    GAMER. SURVIVOR. HERO?After escaping her abusive ex, Mira is abducted by alien mercenaries. Now she's the newest member of the Reapers, on a ship full of misfits and killers where she has exactly zero useful skills. Well, except she's a hell of a gamer.When she rescues a damaged battle robot, she finds an unexpected ally...
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  • Interlude by Lexie Winston

    Interlude by Lexie Winston

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 21 ratings
    It’s go day! Time for Lila to rescue her grandmother from a planet that is so inhospitable no one goes there. No one but the hard-as-nails Halla harvesters, but it turns out they have a secret weapon. And it’s that secret weapon that Lila needs to convince to help them...
  • Backwater Justice by Fern Michaels

    Backwater Justice by Fern Michaels

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    An action-packed, ripped-from-the-headlines story of smalltown secrets from the #1 bestselling author, the latest in the long-running fan-favorite Sisterhood series.The Sisterhood: a group of women from all walks of life bound by friendship and years of adventure...
  • The Birthday of the World and Other Stories by Ursula K. Le Guin

    The Birthday of the World and Other Stories by Ursula K. Le Guin

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, five Hugo Awards and five Nebula Awards, the renowned writer Ursula K. Le Guin has, in each story and novel, created a provocative, ever-evolving universe filled with diverse worlds and rich characters reminiscent of our earthly selves...
  • Bedlam: Book One of the Prison Ship Sheol Saga by Nicholas Gaumer

    Bedlam: Book One of the Prison Ship Sheol Saga by Nicholas Gaumer

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    The Bedlam Galaxy lies at the heart of the Laniakea Supercluster and is a focal point for all of the wormhole transits spanning that great expanse. Among the many races drawn to and inhabiting its 10,000+ stars, humanity is one of the most recent and longest anticipated additions...
  • Dressed to Drill by Kate Carlisle

    Dressed to Drill by Kate Carlisle

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Contractor Shannon Hammer’s new project, renovating an old church, reveals some old sins when a body is found on the premises in the latest Fixer-Upper Mystery from the New York Times author Kate Carlisle...
  • Conqueror by Richard F. Weyand

    Conqueror by Richard F. Weyand

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    ANOTHER INTERSTELLAR WAR!The Empire has won the war against the Alliance. But at the close of that war, an invasion fleet from the Democracy of Planets sought to annex Jasmine. So Jasmine annexed to Sintar, and Sintar destroyed that fleet, causing resentment that is driving the Democracy of Planets to go to war with Sintar.The Democracy of Planets is a much more deadly enemy than the Alliance...
  • A Redemption for Ulrek by Lynnea Lee

    A Redemption for Ulrek by Lynnea Lee

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Refuge in the Arms of a Monster This job on board The New Horizon is supposed to be my fresh start, a fail proof plan to escape my poor excuse for a husband and his dangerous friends.But my white horse quickly turns into a nightmare when I discover that my new boss is none other than Ulrek the Horrible, my sworn enemy...
  • Ghost Ship by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller

    Ghost Ship by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    The new novel in the Liaden Universe® series. Over a quarter million copies sold in this series to-date! Space ships, action, adventure—all tied together with a strong dollop of romance and family saga—make this a compelling series for a wide range of readers, from romance to military SF lovers alike.Theo Waitley is an ace starship pilot—and pure maverick...
  • Halo by Frankie Rose

    Halo by Frankie Rose

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Alternative cover and new title for asin B00CKBJR2E She 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...
  • Cajole by Jenny Schwartz

    Cajole by Jenny Schwartz

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    If life on the border was complicated, life on Capitoline is insane. Nora and Liam struggle to reconcile her abilities and his duty, while caught up in the dangerous games of the powerful.Political intrigue, family drama, and ancient alien technology combine in the fourth novel of the Human Sector...
  • Love and Decay, Vol. Three by Rachel Higginson

    Love and Decay, Vol. Three by Rachel Higginson

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Zombies- as if that wasn’t enough to ruin any girl’s dream of a happily ever after. After a cataclysmic battle with Kane several months ago, Reagan is trying to move on. She might wake up screaming in terror from his starring role in her ever present nightmares and Miller is definitely still trapped at the Colony, but Reagan’s life is free of Kane Allen. Or so she thought...
  • Never Bound: A Dark Dystopian Forbidden Romance by Everly Claire

    Never Bound: A Dark Dystopian Forbidden Romance by Everly Claire

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    773496S6In an alternate 2025 where anyone poor or unlucky can be enslaved, Louisa, the daughter of the enemy who owns me, was forbidden from touching or even looking at me. She had no name to call me, since I only had a number. But when we were forced to share space, I opened her eyes to the horror of her world, and there’s no going back...
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    length-medium  science fiction
  • Ahdan by Nikki Clarke, L.M. Byfield

    Ahdan by Nikki Clarke, L.M. Byfield

    Rated: 5.00 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Left by his soulmate and forced to watch his brothers build lives with their true loves, Ah'dan finds new promise in the beautiful eyes of a human woman, Niya. Still bound to his lehti for life, Ah'dan hopes he isn't too broken for another kind of happiness...
  • Raise the Stakes by O.E. Tearmann

    Raise the Stakes by O.E. Tearmann

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 6 ratings
    It starts when you're always afraid. Seven Corporations run the former United States on the codes of conduct their founders set down. You're signed into a Corporate contract the day you're born. And the fear of dropping in the Citizen Standing Scores keeps people in line...
  • ICE REVELATION: The ICE Trilogy Book 3 by Kevin Tinto

    ICE REVELATION: The ICE Trilogy Book 3 by Kevin Tinto

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Leah Andrews is on the Antarctic Continent, her single-minded goal, return the Ancients to their destiny while at the same time, hoping that will stop the increasingly powerful and destructive Anomaly, that threatens a planet-wide extinction event should it continue to widen its grasp.She is far from the only interested party in finding the source of the extraterrestrial Anomaly...
  • Dinosaur World 8 by Logan Jacobs

    Dinosaur World 8 by Logan Jacobs

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Humanity has run out of time. The alien fleet is set to arrive any day, and there’s only one way Jason and his women can save the world now.They have to figure out how to get into space and onto the mothership before life as we know it is wiped out...
  • Going Ballistic by Dorothy Grant

    Going Ballistic by Dorothy Grant

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When her plane tries to come apart at apogee during a hijack, ballistic airline pilot Michelle Lauden handles the worst day she could imagine. After getting down without losing any passengers or crew, though, she finds her troubles have just begun!The country she's landed in has just declared independence from the Federation...
  • Warlord by Richard F. Weyand

    Warlord by Richard F. Weyand

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    INTERSTELLAR WAR!Their resentment of Sintar’s success fanned by the Democracy of Planets, the Alliance has voted to wage war on Sintar. They are mustering their fleets and gathering their strength to take on the Imperial Navy. Over three million warships are gathering to deliver the blow that will bring the Empire to its knees, with seven million additional warships in reserve...
  • Tyrant by Richard F. Weyand

    Tyrant by Richard F. Weyand

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Council Revolt has started. The Council has struck at the Throne.As the Council plots to place their own candidate on the Throne, a single survivor is dragged out of the fires burning in the Imperial Residence.Hoping to take advantage of the capital’s chaos, enemies internal and external move against the Empire...
  • True Allegiance by John Spearman

    True Allegiance by John Spearman

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The third installment of the adventures of Captain Jonah Halberd, Royal Navy of the Interplanetary Commonwealth. Join Captain Halberd in the Commonwealth's fight against a new enemy...
  • The Artist by Elin Peer

    The Artist by Elin Peer

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 9 ratings
    For more than four hundred years, women have ruled the world, but things are finally shifting.My father Magni always despised the Motherlands, and I’m no fan either, but I still go to the yearly summer gatherings that started when I was sixteen. The Northlands, Motherlands, and Old Europe each sends five future leaders...
  • Alien Protector’s Mate by Mina Carter

    Alien Protector’s Mate by Mina Carter

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 9 ratings
    Her survival depends on invisibility. Her heart has other plans.Desperate to escape her abusive foster family, Jade disguises herself as a boy and stows away on a ship bound for Devan station, knowing her only hope of survival is to remain undetected...
  • Stephanie's Challenge by M.K. Eidem

    Stephanie's Challenge by M.K. Eidem

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Stephanie Michelakakis worked and sacrificed for her position as a Lieutenant in the Coalition. She was on track to become the first woman ever accepted into a Royal Guard, specifically King Jotham's Royal Guard. Then a life-altering injury shattered her dreams. Now she must figure out how to move on with her life...
  • For Batter or Worse by Jenn McKinlay

    For Batter or Worse by Jenn McKinlay

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    The Fairy Tale Cupcake crew must discover the truth behind a death sprinkled with suspicion before Mel and Joe can say I do", in the thirteenth Cupcake Bakery Mystery from New York Times bestselling author Jenn McKinlay.Life is sweet and business is booming at the Fairy Tale Cupcakes bakery--and the fact that Mel and Joe are getting married is the icing on the cake...
  • Murder on an Irish Farm by Carlene O'Connor

    Murder on an Irish Farm by Carlene O'Connor

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    In this enchanting new read in the fan-favorite series from a USA Today bestselling author, garda of County Cork, Ireland, Siobhán O’Sullivan and Macdaras Flannery, are about to get married at last...
  • Zakota by Ruby Lionsdrake

    Zakota by Ruby Lionsdrake

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Katie Saunders isn’t used to sitting on her butt, but she’s been stuck doing exactly that as the Star Guardians fly all over the galaxy, trying to get her and the other kidnapped women back home. Now it looks like they have to engage in a battle against evil aliens before making the final flight to Earth. Since they’ve captured an extra ship and are short on pilots, Katie wants to help...
  • Mutineers' Moon by David Weber

    Mutineers' Moon by David Weber

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    For Lt. Commander Colin Maclntyre, it began as a routine training flight over the Moon. For Dahak, a self-aware Imperial battleship, it began millennia ago when that powerful artificial intelligence underwent a mutiny in the face of the enemy. The mutiny was never resolved--Dahak was forced to maroon not just the mutineers but the entire crew on prehistoric Earth...
  • Biting the Sun by Tanith Lee

    Biting the Sun by Tanith Lee

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Published for the first time in a single volume, this duet of novels is set in a hedonistic Utopia where no pleasure is off-limits. Ravenous for true adventures of the mind and body, desperate to find some meaning, one restless spirit finally bucks the system and strikes at the very heart of a soulless society...
  • Broken World by Grace Hamilton

    Broken World by Grace Hamilton

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    No power. No law & order. No safety net. The world as everyone knows it is over.Laurel is stabilizing a patient in the ER when the power goes out. As she struggles to keep her patients alive, she faces an ugly truth—the world as everyone knew it is over. The smart thing to do is run and try to survive, but Laurel refuses to leave her patients behind—least of all her sick mother...
  • Holdouts by Thomas J. Doscher

    Holdouts by Thomas J. Doscher

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It just got awkward... With the Va'Shen villagers home safe, Army Ranger Captain Ben Gibson is ready to settle in for an easy deployment overseeing a sleepy refueling base on the occupied enemy homeworld and its small contingent of soldiers and sailors...
  • Uncivil Affairs by Thomas J. Doscher

    Uncivil Affairs by Thomas J. Doscher

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Happy… Arbor Day?As Captain Ben Gibson and his Army Rangers continue to improve relations between the humans and the Va’Shen villagers of Pelle, Gibson is invited to participate in the village’s ruling council...
  • Breathing Space by Kristen Painter

    Breathing Space by Kristen Painter

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 10 ratings
    Step into the enigmatic world of the Athos—a vessel that blends the luxury of a cruise ship, the intrigue of a scientific research station, and the might of a military starship. Here, amidst the stars, you'll find Ellis McFadden, the ship’s head librarian, embarking on adventures she never anticipated this late in her career...
  • Arena 4 by Logan Jacobs

    Arena 4 by Logan Jacobs

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Tremendous. Tremendously tremendous. Tremendous in its tremendocity. That is how I would describe book four in the Arena series. I say so. Everyone says so. But mostly, I say so. My best friend, Marc Havak, who I hand picked to represent the planet Earth in an interstellar gladiatorial competition, has kicked-butt and taken names, as I knew he would. Everyone I pick wins. And they win bigly...
  • Callahan's Lady by Spider Robinson

    Callahan's Lady by Spider Robinson

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    A HOUSE OF "HEALTHY" REPUTE...Welcome to Lady Sally's, the House that "is" a home -- the internationally (hell, interplanetarily) notorious bordello. At Lady Sally's House, the customer doesn't necessarily come first: even the staff are genuinely enjoying themselves...
  • Ritual in Death / Missing in Death by J.D. Robb

    Ritual in Death / Missing in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Dark, mystifying and powerful forces are at work in these two superb J.D. Robb short stories.Ritual in DeathWhen a naked, knife-wielding man who thinks he has killed someone crashes a glamorous ball she's attending, Lieutenant Eve Dallas is almost relieved. The clues point towards ritual murder, but Eve knows there is nothing supernatural about a deadly lust for power..
  • Necessity's Child by Sharon Lee

    Necessity's Child by Sharon Lee

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Stirring SF adventure from master storytellers Sharon Lee and Steve Miller—#16 in the award-winning Liaden Universe® saga. Space ships, action, adventure—all tied together with a strong dollop of romance and clan intrigue—make this a compelling series for a wide range of readers, from romance to military SF lovers. The kompani see none as an enemy, and yet few as friend...
  • Bathsheba by Jill Eileen Smith

    Bathsheba by Jill Eileen Smith

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Bathsheba is a woman who longs for love. With her devout husband away fighting the king's wars for many months at a time, discontent and loneliness dog her steps--and make it frighteningly easy to succumb to King David's charm and attention. Though she immediately regrets her involvement with the powerful king, the pieces are set in motion that will destroy everything she holds dear...
  • Calling Major Tom by David M. Barnett

    Calling Major Tom by David M. Barnett

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    'I loved everything about it.' Goodreads 'This book made me laugh, cry, giggle and gasp.' Goodreads'One of my favourite books of the year. Charming and very sweet.' Goodreads ********************** Heartwarming eBook bestseller - the perfect read for anyone who enjoyed Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, Together, A Man Called Ove and Matt Haig...
  • Warrior 3.0 by Natalie Debrabandere

    Warrior 3.0 by Natalie Debrabandere

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    CAN LOVE TRANSCEND TIME AND SPACE? Following victory on Earth, Commander Al’eesya Y Shar is once again fighting on behalf of the Confederation of Planets. The fierce, handsome soldier has put the past, and especially one particular human, behind her for good. Dr Kelsey Gray is a survivor. Although her own memories may be lost to her, her passion for saving lives is intact...
  • Far from Dead by Kate L. Mary

    Far from Dead by Kate L. Mary

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    After making it through winter, Rowan, Devon, and Kiaya have settled into a routine and are looking forward to creating a future full of hope, new relationships, and even a brand new life. Too bad it’s impossible to escape trouble completely during a zombie apocalypse...
  • Timeless by Nicole Pyland

    Timeless by Nicole Pyland

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Quinn has no idea why a short trip to a small town turned into her moving there and buying an antique shop, but after five years of waiting, her answer walks right through the shop’s door...
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