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Kamisama Kiss, Vol. 3 by Julietta Suzuki
Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsWhen Nanami inherits a shrine, it comes with divine powers and a hot fox spirit!Nanami Momozono is alone and homeless after her dad skips town to evade his gambling debts and the debt collectors kick her out of her apartment. So when a man she's just saved from a dog offers her his home, she jumps at the opportunity... -
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Kamisama Kiss, Vol. 8 by Julietta Suzuki
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsWhen Nanami inherits a shrine, it comes with divine powers and a hot fox spirit!Nanami Momozono is alone and homeless after her dad skips town to evade his gambling debts and the debt collectors kick her out of her apartment. So when a man she's just saved from a dog offers her his home, she jumps at the opportunity... -
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![Kamisama Kiss, Vol. 19 by Julietta Suzuki]()
Kamisama Kiss, Vol. 19 by Julietta Suzuki
Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsThe school trip to Okinawa is turning out to be the opposite of a good time for Nanami and her friends. A terrible storm has shut down the island, and it turns out the bad weather is being caused by an enraged mermaid who won't rest until her stolen robe of feathers is returned... -
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Kamisama Kiss, Vol. 2 by Julietta Suzuki
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsWhen Nanami inherits a shrine, it comes with divine powers and a hot fox spirit!Nanami Momozono is alone and homeless after her dad skips town to evade his gambling debts and the debt collectors kick her out of her apartment. So when a man she's just saved from a dog offers her his home, she jumps at the opportunity... -
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![Kamisama Kiss, Vol. 5 by Julietta Suzuki]()
Kamisama Kiss, Vol. 5 by Julietta Suzuki
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 34 ratingsWhen Nanami inherits a shrine, it comes with divine powers and a hot fox spirit!Nanami Momozono is alone and homeless after her dad skips town to evade his gambling debts and the debt collectors kick her out of her apartment. So when a man she's just saved from a dog offers her his home, she jumps at the opportunity... -
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Kamisama Kiss, Vol. 6 by Julietta Suzuki
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 34 ratingsA divine comedy!Reads R to L (Japanese Style). Every year, kami from all over Japan gather in Izumo for a sort of divine convention. One of Mikage's friends comes to the shrine to invite Nanami to the retreat, but it turns out most of the other kami and Tomoe don't want her to go... -
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Kamisama Kiss, Vol. 4 by Julietta Suzuki
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 34 ratingsWhen Nanami inherits a shrine, it comes with divine powers and a hot fox spirit!Nanami Momozono is alone and homeless after her dad skips town to evade his gambling debts and the debt collectors kick her out of her apartment. So when a man she's just saved from a dog offers her his home, she jumps at the opportunity... -
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![Kamisama Kiss, Vol. 18 by Julietta Suzuki]()
Kamisama Kiss, Vol. 18 by Julietta Suzuki
Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsWhen Nanami inherits a shrine, it comes with divine powers and a hot fox spirit!Nanami Momozono is alone and homeless after her dad skips town to evade his gambling debts and the debt collectors kick her out of her apartment. So when a man she's just saved from a dog offers her his home, she jumps at the opportunity... -
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orange Vol. 4 by Ichigo Takano, 高野苺
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsOn the day that Naho begins 11th grade, she receives a letter from herself ten years in the future. At first, she writes it off as a prank, but as the letter's predictions come true one by one, Naho realizes that the letter might be the real deal. Her future self tells Naho that a new transfer student, a boy named Kakeru, will soon join her class...Categorized as:
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![Kamisama Kiss, Vol. 23 by Julietta Suzuki]()
Kamisama Kiss, Vol. 23 by Julietta Suzuki
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsAkura-oh’s body was entombed centuries ago in the Mountain of Flames, where the preternaturally hot fire continuously consumes him before his regenerative powers can resurrect him... -
![Kamisama Kiss, Vol. 7 by Julietta Suzuki]()
Kamisama Kiss, Vol. 7 by Julietta Suzuki
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsWhen Nanami inherits a shrine, it comes with divine powers and a hot fox spirit!Nanami Momozono is alone and homeless after her dad skips town to evade his gambling debts and the debt collectors kick her out of her apartment. So when a man she's just saved from a dog offers her his home, she jumps at the opportunity... -
![Kamisama Kiss, Vol. 21 by Julietta Suzuki]()
Kamisama Kiss, Vol. 21 by Julietta Suzuki
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsNanami Momozono is alone and homeless after her dad skips town to evade his gambling debts and the debt collectors kick her out of her apartment. So whena man she's just saved from a dog offers her his home, she jumps at the opportunity... -
![Shatter Me Series Box Set: Shatter Me, Unravel Me, Ignite Me by Tahereh Mafi]()
Shatter Me Series Box Set: Shatter Me, Unravel Me, Ignite Me by Tahereh Mafi
My touch is power.Tahereh Mafi's New York Times bestselling Shatter Me trilogy (Shatter Me, Unravel Me, and Ignite Me) is available together for the first time in this complete box set collection!No one knows why Juliette's touch is fatal, but The Reestablishment has plans for her. Plans to use her as a weapon. But Juliette has plans of her own...Categorized as:
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![Kamisama Kiss, Vol. 22 by Julietta Suzuki]()
Kamisama Kiss, Vol. 22 by Julietta Suzuki
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsWhen Nanami inherits a shrine, a hot fox spirit and divine powers, she discovers that becoming a literal goddess of relationships doesn’t make her own love life any easier!Nanami Momozono is alone and homeless after her dad skips town to evade his gambling debts and the debt collectors kick her out of her apartment... -
![The Gathering by K.E. Ganshert]()
The Gathering by K.E. Ganshert
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsDarkness is a tricky thing. Especially when it cloaks itself in light. Luka isn't dead. He's not beyond saving. Tess knows because she saw him with her own eyes. After what she saw, she's sure of one thing: If they don't rescue him soon, Luka won't be Luka anymore.If only she could convince the other members of the hub. They're not sure Tess saw what she claims she saw...Categorized as:
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![Divergent Series Complete Box Set by Veronica Roth]()
Divergent Series Complete Box Set by Veronica Roth
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 51 ratingsAll three books in the #1 New York Times bestselling Divergent trilogy are available boxed together for the first time! Perfect for gift givers, collectors, and fans new to the series, the box set includes: A specially designed slipcase Hardcover editions of Divergent, Insurgent, and Divergent #3 Bonus booklet! "The World of Veronica Roth's Divergent Series," a forty-eight-page booklet including...Categorized as:
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![The Last Kids on Earth by Max Brallier]()
The Last Kids on Earth by Max Brallier
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsEver since the monster apocalypse hit town, average thirteen year old Jack Sullivan has been living in his tree house, which he's armed to the teeth with catapults and a moat, not to mention video games and an endless supply of Oreos and Mountain Dew scavenged from abandoned stores...Categorized as:
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![The Gender War by Bella Forrest]()
The Gender War by Bella Forrest
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 29 ratings"For the sake of Viggo, my brother, my family in Patrus, and every single citizen of our God-forsaken nations, I had to stop the war... -
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Fractured by Teri Terry
Perfect for fans of the dystopian settings of The Hunger Games and Divergent, the gripping second installment of the Slated trilogy is a riveting psychological thriller set in a future where violent teens have their memory erased as an alternative to jail. When Kyla was slated, her memory was erased for good. Except it wasn’t. Not completely...Categorized as:
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Sacrifice by K.A. Riley
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsCaptured by the group of rogue Emergents known as “Hypnagogics,” Kress and her Conspiracy search desperately for a way out of their confinement in a stadium-sized prison-lab called the Mill. There, they find themselves subjected to a bombardment of psychological manipulations, physical challenges, and cruel techno-genetic experiments...Categorized as:
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![Throwback by Maurene Goo]()
Throwback by Maurene Goo
Back to the Future meets The Joy Luck Club in this YA contemporary romance about a Korean American girl sent back to the ’90s to (reluctantly) help her teenage mom win Homecoming Queen.Being a first-generation Asian American immigrant is hard. You know what’s harder? Being the daughter of one...Categorized as:
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![Synthesis by K.A. Riley]()
Synthesis by K.A. Riley
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEncouraged by happy reunions, shocked by terrifying discoveries, and with the lives of millions and the fate of the nation hanging in the balance, Kress and her Conspiracy—along with their new legions of allies, the Survivalists and the Unkindness—prepare for their final, all-or-nothing war against Krug and the assembled might of his Patriot Army...Categorized as:
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![Run from the Dead: Book 1: A Zombie Apocalypse by Joanne Nundy]()
Run from the Dead: Book 1: A Zombie Apocalypse by Joanne Nundy
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCan’t fight the dead? Then RUN…The dead are rising and violently attacking people on the streets of the UK. Driven by an insatiable hunger for flesh, they attack anyone who dares to go out.Anna is trapped as the zombie apocalypse rages outside her front door. Desperate and alone, she must find a way to get to her children who are with her Ex-partner...Categorized as:
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![DEV1AT3 by Jay Kristoff]()
DEV1AT3 by Jay Kristoff
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsLemon Fresh has seen better days.After the climactic battle in Babel, she finds herself separated from Ezekiel and Cricket in the wastelands. Lemon’s abilities to manipulate electricity mark her as a deviate, and deadly corporate operatives are hunting her to use as a weapon in the war between BioMaas Incorporated and Daedelus Technologies...Categorized as:
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Empire by Michael R. Hicks
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsIn the first book of an epic futuristic fantasy trilogy, this is the coming-of-age story of Reza Gard, a young boy of the Human Confederation who is swept up in the century-long war with the alien Kreelan Empire... -
![This Cruel Design by Emily Suvada]()
This Cruel Design by Emily Suvada
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsCat thought the Hydra epidemic was over, but when new cases pop up, Cat must team up with an enemy to fix the vaccine before the virus spirals out of control.The nightmare of the outbreak is finally over, but Cat’s fight has only just begun. Exhausted, wounded, and reeling from revelations that have shaken her to her core, Cat is at a breaking point...Categorized as:
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![Find Me by Tahereh Mafi]()
Find Me by Tahereh Mafi
Calling all fans of Tahereh Mafi’s New York Times bestselling Shatter Me series! This gorgeous paperback bind-up includes Shadow Me and the fourth novella in the series, both in print for the first time ever...Categorized as:
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![Into The Fire by Lindsey Fairleigh, Lindsey Pogue]()
Into The Fire by Lindsey Fairleigh, Lindsey Pogue
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsThe Virus changed them, but that was only the beginning… …death…mutation…insanity…corruption…terror… …all that remains is hope. In the wake of destruction left behind by the Virus, it took Dani and Zoe months to find each other. But their reunion was short-lived. Dani has been taken, and though little distance separates them, they might as well be worlds apart... -
![Rage Within by Jeyn Roberts]()
Rage Within by Jeyn Roberts
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsIn this apocalyptic sequel to Dark Inside’s “well-balanced, realistic suspense” (Kirkus Reviews), four teens continue the struggle for survival as they face a world gone mad. Aries, Clementine, Mason and Michael have survived the first wave of the apocalypse that wiped out most of the world’s population, and turned many of the rest into murderous Baggers...Categorized as:
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![Oblivion by Jessica Sorensen]()
Oblivion by Jessica Sorensen
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 15 ratings...Categorized as:
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Zenith Dream by F.T. Lukens
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsWhen Ren wakes from his life-threatening injury on the Star Stream, he learns that Asher has left with the Phoenix Corps and that the Corps believes Ren to be dead. Despite the opportunity to disappear, Ren is determined to fix his mistakes. He convinces the crew to join him for one last mission—find Asher, free Liam, and escape from the Corps’ reach... -
![A Time to Die by Nadine Brandes]()
A Time to Die by Nadine Brandes
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 22 ratingsHow would you live if you knew the day you'd die?Three hundred sixty-four days, seven hours, and sixteen—no, fifteen—seconds left to live. Like everyone else on the east side of the Wall, Parvin Blackwater has a clock counting down the days until her death. At only seventeen, she has only one year left...Categorized as:
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![Galdoni Book Three: Out of Darkness by Cheree Alsop]()
Galdoni Book Three: Out of Darkness by Cheree Alsop
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGaldoni Book Three: Out of Darkness is about Reece, one of the first Galdoni allowed to go to school as part of the integration program. He combats hostility, hypocrisy, and his own instincts to fight until the day Ava walks into the classroom. Reece is torn by the way he is drawn to the female Galdoni and what she believes about him...Categorized as:
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![The Sun Dwellers by David Estes]()
The Sun Dwellers by David Estes
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsIncludes a bonus Dwellers Short Story (Anna's Story) and a sneak peek at David Estes' follow up YA dystopian series, Fire Country! With those she's closest to dying around her, Adele embarks on a secret mission to the Sun Realm to assassinate the President. Along the way she'll uncover secrets about her relationship with Tristan that she might not be ready to face...Categorized as:
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![The Star Dwellers by David Estes]()
The Star Dwellers by David Estes
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsAfter rescuing her father and younger sister, Adele is forced to leave her family and Tristan behind to find her mother in the cruel and dangerous realm of the star dwellers...Categorized as:
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![The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez]()
The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsA mysterious child lands in the care of a solitary woman, changing both of their lives forever in this captivating debut of connection across space and time."This is when your life begins."Nia Imani is a woman out of place and outside of time...Categorized as:
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![Remember Yesterday by Pintip Dunn]()
Remember Yesterday by Pintip Dunn
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFollow-up to the New York Times bestselling novel, Forget Tomorrow!Would you change the past to protect your future?Sixteen-year-old Jessa Stone is the most valuable citizen in Eden City. Her psychic abilities could lead to significant scientific discoveries, if only she’d let TechRA study her...Categorized as:
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![Roar and Liv by Veronica Rossi]()
Roar and Liv by Veronica Rossi
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsBefore Perry and Aria, there was Roar and Liv. After a childhood spent wandering the borderlands, Roar finally feels like he has a home with the Tides. His best friend Perry is like a brother to him, and Perry's sister, Liv, is the love of his life. But Perry and Liv's unpredictable older brother, Vale, is the Blood Lord of the Tides, and he has never looked kindly on Roar and Liv's union...Categorized as:
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Wings by Elizabeth Richards
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsFollowing the cliffhanger ending of Phoenix, Natalie finds herself separated from Ash and unexpectedly reunited with her parents, including the father she thought was dead. But she can only think of Ash. She hasn't heard a word of him since she and Elijah were brought to the underground headquarters of the Sentry Rebellion. But she vows to find him... -
![This Mortal Coil by Emily Suvada]()
This Mortal Coil by Emily Suvada
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsWhen a lone soldier, Cole, arrives with news of Lachlan Agatta's death, all hope seems lost for Catarina. Her father was the world's leading geneticist, and humanity's best hope of beating a devastating virus. Then, hidden beneath Cole's genehacked enhancements she finds a message of hope: Lachlan created a vaccine.Only she can find and decrypt it, if she can unravel the clues he left for her...Categorized as:
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![The Treemakers by Christina L. Rozelle]()
The Treemakers by Christina L. Rozelle
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsStay on guard. Be aware of your surroundings. Notice the nuances. Cover your tracks. Always be prepared. Question everything. This is how you stay alive, Joy. And this is how you keep the ones you love alive.Sixteen-year-old Joy Montgomery, daughter of Zephyr the Magnificent, the great magician, can only reminisce of better times. Before the Superiors. Before the uprisings. Long ago... -
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Reactive by Becky Moynihan
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsAN INESCAPABLE CITY. THREE DEADLY TRIALS. ONE WAY OUT.Lune Tatum, adopted daughter of the Supreme Elite, has lived within her father's walled city for eleven years.But she wants out. Except she can't leave, and not because of the clans and mutated beasts that roam beyond the impenetrable, electrified walls protecting her life...Categorized as:
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![TRUEL1F3 by Jay Kristoff]()
TRUEL1F3 by Jay Kristoff
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsFrom the bestselling co-author of the Illuminae Files comes the thrilling finale in the LIFEL1K3 trilogy--hailed by Marie Lu as "a breathless, action-packed exploration of what humanity really means." Best friends have become enemies. Lovers have become strangers. And deciding whose side you're on could be the difference between life and death... -
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![The Last Hope by Krista Ritchie, Becca Ritchie]()
The Last Hope by Krista Ritchie, Becca Ritchie
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsA stunning conclusion to the sci-fi romance duology by writing duo Krista & Becca Ritchie, The Last Hope is filled with twists and turns you'll never see coming.Sacrifice all you have to survive.Imprisoned for weeks on an enemy starcraft, Franny, Court, and Mykal have sat with an unfathomable revelation...Categorized as:
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![The Elements of the Crown by Kay L. Moody]()
The Elements of the Crown by Kay L. Moody
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsTalise has a gift that could save her life.In an empire divided into three rings, seventeen-year-old Talise is from the outer ring. This dangerous and crime-laden land has one constant… death.Her only chance for escape is to become Master Shaper—an honored position in the palace court and military. Each year, the emperor chooses one student to receive the title...Categorized as:
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![Cross Fire by Fonda Lee]()
Cross Fire by Fonda Lee
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEarth's century of peace as a colony of an alien race has been shattered. As the alien-run government navigates peace talks with the human terrorist group Sapience, Donovan tries to put his life back together and return to his duty as a member of the security forces. But a new order comes from the alien home planet: withdraw...Categorized as:
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![Winter's Wrath: Sacrifice by Karen Luellen]()
Winter's Wrath: Sacrifice by Karen Luellen
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTormented by evil. Haunted by choice. Searching for redemption. ****** Lines between good and evil blur as the Winter family fight for survival in Winter’s Wrath: Sacrifice. Book #3 in Winter’s Saga delves into the choices we make and the butterfly effect on the world around us. Meg Winter must cope with the caveats of her evolved gift or be consumed by them... -
![Tested by Janelle Stalder]()
Tested by Janelle Stalder
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. Faced with the scariest decision of her life, Missy is going behind enemy lines to save the rebel that seems to haunt her every dream. Finding courage is one of the hardest things she’s ever done, especially when she comes face-to-face with a terrifying reality. The green eyes that have fascinated her, no longer gleam with recognition...Categorized as:
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![The Future Without Hope by Nazarea Andrews]()
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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