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Champion by Marie Lu
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 74 ratingsHe is a Legend.She is a Prodigy.Who will be Champion? June and Day have sacrificed so much for the people of the Republic—and each other—and now their country is on the brink of a new existence. June is back in the good graces of the Republic, working within the government’s elite circles as Princeps-Elect, while Day has been assigned a high-level military position...Categorized as:
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Light by Michael Grant
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 43 ratingsIt's been over a year since all the adults disappeared. Gone.In the time since every person over the age of fourteen disappeared from the town of Perdido Beach, California, countless battles have been fought: battles against hunger and lies and plague, and epic battles of good against evil...Categorized as:
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Prodigy by Marie Lu
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 73 ratingsInjured and on the run, it has been seven days since June and Day barely escaped Los Angeles and the Republic with their lives. Day is believed dead having lost his own brother to an execution squad who thought they were assassinating him. June is now the Republic's most wanted traitor. Desperate for help, they turn to the Patriots - a vigilante rebel group sworn to bring down the Republic...Categorized as:
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Affliction by Adrienne Lecter
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSomething is rotten in the state of California… The dawning civil war has ended in a truce. Scavengers and traders all over the country are settling down for the long, hard winter to come. With their new camp outside the maze of New Angeles at the coast growing every day, Bree, Nate, and the gang have their hands full—yet something is not quite right... -
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The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 70 ratingsWhen Ruby woke up on her tenth birthday, something about her had changed. Something alarming enough to make her parents lock her in the garage and call the police. Something that gets her sent to Thurmond, a brutal government “rehabilitation camp...Categorized as:
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The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 62 ratingsWe were in the square, in the square where I'd run, holding her, carrying her, telling her to stay alive, stay alive till we got safe, till we got to Haven so I could save her - But there weren't no safety, no safety at all, there was just him and his men...Fleeing before a relentless army, Todd has carried a desperately wounded Viola right into the hands of their worst enemy, Mayor Prentiss...Categorized as:
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Perfect by Cecelia Ahern
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsCelestine North is Flawed.Ever since Judge Crevan declared her the number one threat to the public, she has been a ghost, on the run with Carrick, the only person she can trust. But Celestine has a secret—one that could bring the entire Flawed system crumbling to the ground. A secret that has already caused countless people to go missing... -
Tempest by Miranda Bridges, Kyra Snow
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsI’m in my birthday suit, but I’m not ready to party.When I wake up on a strange planet, my first thought is not to go streaking. Actually, it’s to find some clothes and avoid the local natives.Too bad they find me first.Instead of probing me like a normal alien, they make me their prized possession. Yay, right? Nope... -
Fear by Michael Grant
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 47 ratingsIt's been one year since all the adults disappeared. Gone.Despite the hunger and the lies, even despite the plague, the kids of Perdido Beach are determined to survive. Creeping into the tenuous new world they've built, though, is perhaps the worst incarnation yet of the enemy known as the Darkness: fear...Categorized as:
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Raksha by Frankie Rose
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratings** Please note: The title of Raksha has been changed to Halo **She has no name. She has her knives; her training; her halo. The first and second give her the tools and the skill to defeat the opponents she is pitched against each month. The third frees her from pain and fear. From any kind of emotion at all. Everything is as it should be...Categorized as:
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Earth Star by Janet Edwards
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsSequel to Earth Girl.18-year-old Jarra has a lot to prove. After being awarded one of the military’s highest honours for her role in a daring rescue attempt, Jarra finds herself – and her Ape status – in the spotlight. Jarra is one of the unlucky few born with an immune system that cannot survive on other planets...Categorized as:
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Plague by Michael Grant
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 50 ratingsIt's been eight months since all the adults disappeared. GONE.They've survived hunger. They've survived lies. But the stakes keep rising, and the dystopian horror keeps building. Yet despite the simmering unrest left behind by so many battles, power struggles, and angry divides, there is a momentary calm in Perdido Beach...Categorized as:
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Restore Me by Tahereh Mafi
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 59 ratingsJuliette Ferrars thought she'd won. She took over Sector 45, was named the new Supreme Commander, and now has Warner by her side. But she's still the girl with the ability to kill with a single touch—and now she's got the whole world in the palm of her hand...Categorized as:
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Cured by Bethany Wiggins
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsNow that Fiona Tarsis and her twin brother, Jonah, are no longer beasts, they set out to find their mother, with the help of Bowen and a former neighbor, Jacqui. Heading for a safe settlement rumored to be in Wyoming, they plan to spread the cure along the way--until they are attacked by raiders...Categorized as:
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Crashed on an Ice World by Anna Hackett
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHe’s her boss. She’s his best friend. These two deep-space convoy security specialists are fighting their simmering attraction…until a starship crash on a deadly ice world changes everything.Elana Korra loves her security job as a medic on the convoy ship, the Sky Nomad…except for the fact that she’s in love with her boss... -
Middle Ground by Katie Kacvinsky, Katie Ray
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsFor four weeks Maddie has been living in Los Angeles, trying to be good. But no matter how hard she tries, something inside her won't be sated. She can't live a life of half-truths and false pretenses. So one night, she says how she really feels.That's all it takes. One night...Categorized as:
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Disruption by Jessica Shirvington
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWhat if a microchip could identify your perfect match? What if it could be used against you and the ones you love?Eight years ago, Mercer Corporation’s M-Bands became mandatory. An evolution of the smartphone, the bracelets promised an easier life. Instead, they have come to control it...Categorized as:
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Fragments by Dan Wells
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsAuthor Dan Wells is back with the sequel to the sci-fi blockbuster Partials, which Pittacus Lore called a "thrilling sci-fi adrenaline rush, with one of the most compelling and frightening visions of Earth's future I've seen yet...Categorized as:
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Divergent by Veronica Roth
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 101 ratingsIn Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue—Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives...Categorized as:
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The Darkest Legacy by Alexandra Bracken
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsFive years after the destruction of the so-called rehabilitation camps that imprisoned her and countless other Psi kids, seventeen-year-old Suzume "Zu" Kimura has assumed the role of spokesperson for the interim government, fighting for the rights of Psi kids against a growing tide of misinformation and prejudice...Categorized as:
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The Program by Suzanne Young
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsIn Sloane’s world, true feelings are forbidden, teen suicide is an epidemic, and the only solution is The Program.Sloane knows better than to cry in front of anyone. With suicide now an international epidemic, one outburst could land her in The Program, the only proven course of treatment. Sloane’s parents have already lost one child; Sloane knows they’ll do anything to keep her alive...Categorized as:
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The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau, Amélie Hesnard
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsKeep your friends close and your enemies closer. Isn't that what they say? But how close is too close when they may be one and the same?The Seven Stages War left much of the planet a charred wasteland. The future belongs to the next generation's chosen few who must rebuild it...Categorized as:
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Reckless by Cari Z.
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsRefugees have been streaming into the city of Forge from around the country. Monsters are coming down from the mountains and staking out new hunting grounds. Even as the dragons of Forge grow stronger and more numerous, the challenges they and their riders are facing are only increasing, and there's only one place to look for answers... -
When You Were Pixels by Julio Alexi Genao
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA standalone short story in the Syntax universe.An assassin has come to Tower 072, and no one can keep him from his target.Only minutes from escape, he suffers a violent seizure, collapsing in a service corridor.A lonely surveillance operator becomes the only person in the building to see him fall...Categorized as:
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The Keeper: A Brilliant Darkness Story by A.G. Henley
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsPeree knows what he’s doing as the new Keeper of the Water Bearer, Fennel. He knows Fennel’s Sightless. He knows that means the Scourge can’t hurt her when she gathers fresh water for her people. He knows how to wield his bow and arrow to kill piles of the revolting flesh-eaters as they swarm around her. He’ll motivate her, distract her, do anything he can to keep her working...Categorized as:
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Shatter City by Scott Westerfeld
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsCities at war. Identities stolen or hidden away. A love built on lies. In the second book of the New York Times bestselling Impostors, nothing is certain and anything can be taken away.When the world sees Frey, they think they see her twin sister, Rafi. Frey was raised to be Rafi's double, and now she's taken on the role . . . without anyone else knowing...Categorized as:
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Fractured by Teri Terry
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsPerfect 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. Kyla has been Slated—her personality wiped blank, her memories lost to her forever. Or so she thought...Categorized as:
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All Our Yesterdays by Cristin Terrill
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsEm is locked in a bare, cold cell with no comforts. Finn is in the cell next door. The Doctor is keeping them there until they tell him what he wants to know. Trouble is, what he wants to know hasn't happened yet. Em and Finn have a shared past, but no future unless they can find a way out...Categorized as:
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The Dark and Hollow Places by Carrie Ryan
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsThere are many things that Annah would like to forget: the look on her sister's face before Annah left her behind in the Forest of Hands and Teeth, her first glimpse of the Horde as they swarmed the Dark City, the sear of the barbed wire that would scar her for life. But most of all, Annah would like to forget the morning Elias left her for the Recruiters...Categorized as:
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Shades of Earth by Beth Revis
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsAmy and Elder have finally left the oppressive walls of the spaceship Godspeed behind. They're ready to start life afresh--to build a home--on Centauri-Earth, the planet that Amy has traveled 25 trillion miles across the universe to experience. But this new Earth isn't the paradise that Amy had been hoping for...Categorized as:
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This Cruel Design by Emily Suvada
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 29 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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Ice Country by David Estes
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsDazz, a hard-edged, fun-loving Icer, likes fighting, particularly while at his favorite watering hole. However, while recovering from a particularly bad break up, his decision to engage in a brutal pubroom brawl leads to a series of events that thrust him into a dark and mysterious scandal involving King Goff, the ice country ruler...Categorized as:
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A Million Suns by Beth Revis
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsGodspeed was fueled by lies. Now it is ruled by chaos. It's been three months since Amy was unplugged. The life she always knew is over. And everywhere she looks, she sees the walls of the spaceship Godspeed. But there may just be hope: Elder has assumed leadership of the ship. He's finally free to enact his vision - no more Phydus, no more lies...Categorized as:
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Hunger by Michael Grant
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 64 ratingsIt's been three months since everyone under the age of fifteen became trapped in the bubble known as the FAYZ.Three months since all the adults disappeared. GONE.Food ran out weeks ago. Everyone is starving, but no one wants to figure out a solution. And each day, more and more kids are evolving, developing supernatural abilities that set them apart from the kids without powers...Categorized as:
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Slated by Teri Terry
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 44 ratingsA riveting psychological thrillerKYLA HAS BEEN SLATED - her memory erased, her personality wiped blank. This is the government's way of dealing with teen terrorists: give them a fresh start as a new person. They teach Kyla how to walk and talk again, give her a new identity and a new family, and tell her to be grateful for this second chance...Categorized as:
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Prized by Caragh M. O'Brien
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsStriking out into the wasteland with nothing but her baby sister, a handful of supplies, and a rumor to guide her, sixteen-year-old midwife Gaia Stone survives, only to be captured by the people of Sylum, a dystopian society where women rule the men who drastically outnumber them, and a kiss is a crime...Categorized as:
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Sky on Fire by Emmy Laybourne
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsTrapped in a superstore by a series of escalating disasters, including a monster hailstorm and terrifying chemical weapons spill, brothers Dean and Alex learned how to survive and worked together with twelve other kids to build a refuge from the chaos. But then strangers appeared, destroying their fragile peace, and bringing both fresh disaster and a glimmer of hope...Categorized as:
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Savage Drift by Emmy Laybourne
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe stunningly fierce conclusion to Emmy Laybourne's Monument 14 trilogy.The survivors of the Monument 14 have finally made it to the safety of a Canadian refugee camp. Dean and Alex are cautiously starting to hope that a happy ending might be possible.But for Josie, separated from the group and trapped in a brutal prison camp for exposed Type Os, things have gone from bad to worse...Categorized as:
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The Scourge by A.G. Henley
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsSeventeen-year-old Groundling, Fennel, is Sightless. She's never been able to see her lush forest home, but she knows its secrets. She knows how the shadows shift when she passes under a canopy of trees. She knows how to hide in the cool, damp caves when the Scourge comes. She knows how devious and arrogant the Groundlings' tree-dwelling neighbors, the Lofties, can be...Categorized as:
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Flame by Amy Kathleen Ryan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn the thrilling conclusion to the Sky Chasers series Waverly, Kieran, and Seth struggle to survive on-board the New Horizon—and take down their enemies before it's too late.Waverly and the other members of the Empyrean have scattered, and their home ship has been destroyed...Categorized as:
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Earth's Warrior by Kelly St. Clare
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsGlobal warning left the world uninhabitable one hundred and fifty years ago, and humans—even those genetically enhanced like me—couldn’t survive on the surface.I long to exist outside the walls of this space station. I dream of the wind on my face and the ocean’s roar.Daydreams become cold reality when I crash land on Earth...Categorized as:
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Undone by Elizabeth Norris
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBefore the accident. Before their universes collided. Before they fell in love.Riveting and romantic, Undone: An Unraveling Novella contains three short stories set in the world of Unraveling, the first book in the gripping sci-fi duology by Elizabeth Norris...Categorized as:
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Strain of Resistance by Michelle Bryan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsI was 12 years old when the world ended. For eight years I've survived in this craphole once known as earth. Fighting the alien parasite that mutated most of the population into blood-thirsty freaks, while the rest of us became the lunch special on their alien menu.Now things are changing, and not for the better. The parasite is evolving. Becoming smarter, stronger and deadlier...Categorized as:
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The Prey by Andrew Fukuda
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsFor Gene and the remaining humans—or hepers—death is just a heartbeat away. On the run and hunted by society, they must find a way to survive in The Vast... and avoid the hungry predators tracking them in the dark. But they’re not the only things following Gene. He’s haunted by the girl he left behind and his burgeoning feelings for Sissy, the human girl at his side... -
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The Last City by H.J. Nelson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsThe highly anticipated sequel to The Last She, which Goodreads has included in its Most Anticipated Young Adult Novels of December 2021The first rule of living through the apocalypse. Trust no one.AraIs desperate to reunite with her father and put the events that happened in Boise behind her... -
Twist by Karen Akins
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBree Bennis finally has it all - a non-comatose mother, an über-hot (albeit anachronistic) boyfriend named Finn, and a newfound mission to protect the timeline from those who would skew it for their own gain. But when she leans over one day to kiss said boyfriend, her lips meet those of her arch-nemesis, Wyck, instead. The timeline has been altered, and Bree is caught in the crosshairs... -
The Treatment by Suzanne Young
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsCan Sloane and James survive the lies and secrets surrounding them, or will The Program claim them in the end? Find out in this sequel to The Program, which Publishers Weekly called “chilling and suspenseful.”How do you stop an epidemic?Sloane and James are on the run after barely surviving the suicide epidemic and The Program. But they’re not out of danger...Categorized as:
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Jaci's Experiment by Bianca D'Arc
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsLove.the grandest experiment of all. Resonance Mates, Book 3.As a young Alvian lab tech, Jaci knows her place in the orderly, emotionless society her race has established on the planet Earth. While preparing a batch of experimental skin patches, she is accidentally exposed to a gene-altering agent... -
Free to Fall by Lauren Miller
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhat if there was an app that told you what song to listen to, what coffee to order, who to date, even what to do with your life—an app that could ensure your complete and utter happiness? What if you never had to fail or make a wrong choice?What if you never had to fall?Fast-forward to a time when Apple and Google have been replaced by Gnosis, a monolith corporation that has developed the most...Categorized as:
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Delirium by Lauren Oliver
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 53 ratingsThere is an alternate cover edition for this ISBN13 here.In an alternate United States, love has been declared a dangerous disease, and the government forces everyone who reaches eighteen to have a procedure called the Cure. Living with her aunt, uncle, and cousins in Portland, Maine, Lena Haloway is very much looking forward to being cured and living a safe, predictable life...Categorized as:
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