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  • Age of Deception by T.A. White

    Age of Deception by T.A. White

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    War hero and daughter to two Houses, Kira is just beginning to learn how deep the rabbit hole goes. Agreeing to accompany her father’s people back to their homeworld, Kira Forrest prepares for the fight of her life. She’s agreed to undertake the Trial of the Broken, a rite of passage every member of her father’s House must pass...
  • In the Afterlight by Alexandra Bracken

    In the Afterlight by Alexandra Bracken

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 54 ratings
    Ruby can't look back. Fractured by an unbearable loss, she and the kids who survived the government's attack on Los Angeles travel north to regroup. With them is a prisoner: Clancy Gray, son of the president, and one of the few people Ruby has encountered with abilities like hers. Only Ruby has any power over him, and just one slip could lead to Clancy wreaking havoc on their minds...
  • In the Requiem by Hailey Turner

    In the Requiem by Hailey Turner

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Never let go. Weighed down by scandal, Captain Jamie Callahan must choose between saving his family’s reputation and his father’s political aspirations, or taking down the enemy once and for all. Choosing one over the other will have lasting repercussions he can’t escape. Whatever path Jamie ultimately picks, Staff Sergeant Kyle Brannigan will be right by his side to face the consequences...
  • In the Blood by Hailey Turner

    In the Blood by Hailey Turner

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Running out of time. Captain Jamie Callahan is frustrated with his team constantly being at the mercy of the enemy in order to further the MDF’s goals. To make matters worse, his father’s political campaign is ramping up and Jamie’s every move is being watched by the media. He is acutely aware of all the eyes trained on him, his team, and Staff Sergeant Kyle Brannigan in particular...
  • Horde by Ann Aguirre

    Horde by Ann Aguirre

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    The epic conclusion to the USA Today bestselling trilogy.The horde is coming.Salvation is surrounded, monsters at the gates, and this time, they're not going away. When Deuce, Fade, Stalker and Tegan set out, the odds are against them. But the odds have been stacked against Deuce from the moment she was born. She might not be a Huntress anymore, but she doesn't run...
  • In the Shadows by Hailey Turner

    In the Shadows by Hailey Turner

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Take a chance. Staff Sergeant Alexei Dvorkin doesn’t trust easily, and he most certainly doesn’t trust spies. He’ll work with them if ordered to, but that doesn’t mean he has to like it. Except Agent Sean Delaney is proving to be the exception to the rule. There’s something about Sean that gets under Alexei’s skin and won’t let go...
  • Chasing the Shadows by Maria V. Snyder

    Chasing the Shadows by Maria V. Snyder

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Year 2522. Lyra Daniels is dead.Okay, so I only died for sixty-six seconds. But when I came back to life, I got a brand new name and a snazzy new uniform. Go me! Seriously, though, it's very important that Lyra Daniels stays dead, at least as far as my ex-friend Jarren, the murdering looter, knows.While dying is the scariest thing that's happened to me, it morphed my worming skills...
  • Restore Me by Tahereh Mafi

    Restore Me by Tahereh Mafi

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 59 ratings
    Juliette 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...
  • Out of the Ashes by Hailey Turner

    Out of the Ashes by Hailey Turner

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    War never leaves a soldier behind. Staff Sergeant Alexei Dvorkin is still healing from his brief stint as a prisoner of war. While his physical wounds have mended, the emotional scars left behind are slow to disappear...
  • In the Ruins by Hailey Turner

    In the Ruins by Hailey Turner

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Truth and lies. Captain Jamie Callahan knows the Metahuman Defense Force frowns on fraternization. For once in his life, he’s breaking all the rules. Having Staff Sergeant Kyle Brannigan on his team and in his bed is worth the risk of being found out. When a mission comes down requiring Alpha Team to go undercover in order to infiltrate a criminal alliance, Jamie knows it won’t be easy...
  • Unknown by Wendy Higgins

    Unknown by Wendy Higgins

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In this first installment of NY Times bestselling author, Wendy Higgins's debut New Adult series, a frighteningly realistic apocalyptic America is brought to life, entwined with searing romantic tension that will leave you eager for more. *** Amber Tate believes the worst thing she'll suffer in life is dealing with the unrequited love she feels for her brother's best friend, Rylen Fite...
  • Their Fractured Light by Amie Kaufman, Meagan Spooner

    Their Fractured Light by Amie Kaufman, Meagan Spooner

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    A year ago, Flynn Cormac and Jubilee Chase made the now infamous Avon Broadcast, calling on the galaxy to witness for their planet, and protect them from destruction. Some say Flynn’s a madman, others whisper about conspiracies. Nobody knows the truth...
  • Relentless by Lauren Dane

    Relentless by Lauren Dane

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In the erotic universe created by hot new talent Lauren Dane, passion knows no rank... Fifteen Families rule the Federated Universes-and Abbie Haws has spent her life battling the system. She's always been too driven to pay much attention to love. But when she meets Roman Lyons, Head of House Lyons, who stands for everything she hates, Abbie's attraction catches her off-guard..
  • Alien in the Family by Gini Koch, Daniel Dos Santos

    Alien in the Family by Gini Koch, Daniel Dos Santos

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Planning any wedding is hard enough, but Katherine "Kitty" Katt and Jeff Martini have a lot more to worry about than seating arrangements, because multiple inter-stellar invasions, Alpha Team in mortal peril, and inter-alien conspiracies are all on the guest list—and the gifts they've brought contain some explosive surprises...
  • The Diabolic by S.J. Kincaid

    The Diabolic by S.J. Kincaid

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    “The perfect kind of high-pressure adventure.” —TeenVogue.comA New York Times bestseller!Red Queen meets The Hunger Games in this epic novel about what happens when a senator’s daughter is summoned to the galactic court as a hostage, but she’s really the galaxy’s most dangerous weapon in disguise.A Diabolic is ruthless. A Diabolic is powerful...
  • Shades of Earth by Beth Revis

    Shades of Earth by Beth Revis

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Amy 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...
  • Aurora Rising by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

    Aurora Rising by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    From the internationally bestselling authors of THE ILLUMINAE FILES comes an epic new science fiction adventure.The year is 2380, and the graduating cadets of Aurora Academy are being assigned their first missions...
  • New Horizons by Hailey Turner

    New Horizons by Hailey Turner

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    First do no harm. Trevor Sanchez left behind a life of war with Alpha Team for a future in medicine. Pursuing his dream of becoming a doctor, Trevor doesn’t have much time for anything other than studying for the next exam in his accelerated medical school...
  • Killbox by Ann Aguirre

    Killbox by Ann Aguirre

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Talk is cheap when lives are in jeopardySirantha Jax is a “Jumper,” a woman who possesses the unique genetic makeup needed to navigate faster than light ships through grimspace. With no tolerance for political diplomacy, she quits her ambassador post so she can get back to saving the universe the way she does best—by mouthing off and kicking butt.And her tactics are needed more than ever...
  • Stung by Bethany Wiggins

    Stung by Bethany Wiggins

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    There is no cure for being stung.Fiona doesn’t remember going to sleep. But when she awakens, her world no longer exists. Her house is abandoned and broken. Her neighborhood is barren and dead. And there is a tattoo on her right hand. A tattoo Fiona doesn’t remember getting…but somehow she must conceal at any cost. Because humanity has been divided...
  • In the Wreckage by Hailey Turner

    In the Wreckage by Hailey Turner

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A Marine with honor.After surviving a horrific chemical attack that turned him into a metahuman, Captain Jamie Callahan got a second lease on life. For three years he’s been working for the Metahuman Defense Force and leading Alpha Team—all against the wishes of his family. The job requires his full dedication, so it’s no surprise Jamie doesn’t have time for a relationship...
  • The Rift Walker by Clay Griffith, Susan Griffith

    The Rift Walker by Clay Griffith, Susan Griffith

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Princess Adele struggles with a life of marriage and obligation as her Equatorian Empire and their American Republic allies stand on the brink of war against the vampire clans of the north. However, the alliance's horrific strategy for total victory drives Adele to abandon her duty and embark on a desperate quest to keep her nation from staining its hands with genocide...
  • Hover by Melissa West

    Hover by Melissa West

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    On Earth, seventeen-year-old Ari Alexander was taught to never peek, but if she hopes to survive life on her new planet, Loge, her eyes must never shut. Because Zeus will do anything to save the Ancients from their dying planet, and he has a plan. Thousands of humans crossed over to Loge after a poisonous neurotoxin released into Earth's atmosphere, nearly killing them...
  • The Tower and the Hive by Anne McCaffrey

    The Tower and the Hive by Anne McCaffrey

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Much had been done to limit and destroy the powers of the terrible Hivers, who had torn through space, annihilating every living thing that stood in their way. But still the Alliance had to discover the whereabouts of every last Hiver world and stop the Queens from further colonization...
  • The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey

    The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 78 ratings
    After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. After the 2nd, only the lucky escape. And after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive. After the 4th wave, only one rule applies: trust no one.Now, it's the dawn of the 5th wave, and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them. The beings who only look human, who roam the countryside killing anyone they see...
  • Heaven's Queen by Rachel Bach

    Heaven's Queen by Rachel Bach

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    From the moment she took a job on Captain Caldswell's doomed ship, Devi Morris' life has been one disaster after another: government conspiracies, two alien races out for her blood, an incurable virus that's eating her alive. Now, with the captain missing and everyone -- even her own government -- determined to hunt her down, things are going from bad to impossible...
  • Taurus by K.D. Jones

    Taurus by K.D. Jones

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Warning: For Mature Adult Audiences. Contains language and actions some may deem offensive. M/FMaya is looking for a change of pace. Being a full blood Arian, she is sheltered against the human elements. She is tired of being kept in the dark and wants to know what the real world is like. She takes a job as a ring girl for the GCFA...
  • Ravenous by Erica Stevens

    Ravenous by Erica Stevens

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The world didn’t end with a bang, it didn’t go out in a ball of fire and fury, nor did it end in ice. But in some strange way, ice was the end; or maybe it was the beginning of something more.Bethany is stunned and horrified when she finds herself suddenly alone in a world that was alive only moments before...
  • Sanctuary by Caryn Lix

    Sanctuary by Caryn Lix

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Kenzie holds one truth above all: the company is everything.As a citizen of Omnistellar Concepts, the most powerful corporation in the solar system, Kenzie has trained her entire life for one goal: to become an elite guard on Sanctuary, Omnistellar’s space prison for superpowered teens too dangerous for Earth...
  • Partials by Dan Wells

    Partials by Dan Wells

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Humanity is all but extinguished after a war with Partials—engineered organic beings identical to humans—has decimated the population. Reduced to only tens of thousands by a weaponized virus to which only a fraction of humanity is immune, the survivors in North America have huddled together on Long Island. But sixteen-year-old Kira is determined to find a solution...
  • This Shattered World by Amie Kaufman, Meagan Spooner

    This Shattered World by Amie Kaufman, Meagan Spooner

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    The second installment in the epic Starbound trilogy introduces a new pair of star-crossed lovers on two sides of a bloody war.Jubilee Chase and Flynn Cormac should never have met.Lee is captain of the forces sent to Avon to crush the terraformed planet's rebellious colonists, but she has her own reasons for hating the insurgents.Rebellion is in Flynn's blood...
  • Hollowland by Amanda Hocking

    Hollowland by Amanda Hocking

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    This is the way the world ends - not with a bang or a whimper, but with zombies breaking down the back door.Nineteen-year-old Remy King is on a mission to get across the wasteland left of America, and nothing will stand in her way - not violent marauders, a spoiled rock star, or an army of flesh-eating zombies...
  • Once by Anna Carey

    Once by Anna Carey

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    When you're being hunted, who can you trust?For the first time since she escaped from her school many months ago, Eve can sleep soundly. She's living in Califia, a haven for women, protected from the terrifying fate that awaits orphaned girls in The New America.But her safety came at a price: She was forced to abandon Caleb, the boy she loves, wounded and alone at the city gates...
  • Rebel Heart by Moira Young

    Rebel Heart by Moira Young

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Saba thought her world would return to normal after they defeated the Tonton and rescued her kidnapped brother Lugh. The family head west for a better life and a longed-for reunion with Jack. But a formidable enemy is on the rise...
  • Enclave by Ann Aguirre

    Enclave by Ann Aguirre

    Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars
    · 53 ratings
    New York City has been decimated by war and plague, and most of civilization has migrated to underground enclaves, where life expectancy is no more than the early 20's. When Deuce turns 15, she takes on her role as a Huntress, and is paired with Fade, a teenage Hunter who lived Topside as a young boy...
  • Reboot by Amy Tintera

    Reboot by Amy Tintera

    Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    Five years ago, Wren Connolly was shot three times in the chest. After 178 minutes she came back as a Reboot: stronger, faster, able to heal, and less emotional. The longer Reboots are dead, the less human they are when they return. Wren 178 is the deadliest Reboot in the Republic of Texas. Now seventeen years old, she serves as a soldier for HARC (Human Advancement and Repopulation Corporation)...
  • Dead Zone by Robison Wells

    Dead Zone by Robison Wells

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Homeland meets Marie Lu’s Legend in the explosive sequel to Blackout, which #1 New York Times bestselling author Ally Condie called “a thrilling combination of Wells’s trademark twists and terror. Fantastic!”America is at war—and five teens are caught in the crossfire. It began with a virus. Then a series of attacks erupted across the nation...
  • False Sight by Dan Krokos

    False Sight by Dan Krokos

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    All Miranda wants is a normal life. She's determined to move past the horrible truth of her origin as a clone so she can enjoy time with her boyfriend, Peter, and the rest of her friends at school. But Miranda quickly learns that there's no such thing as normal - not for a girl who was raised to be a weapon. When one of her teammates turns rogue, it begins a war that puts the world in jeopardy...
  • Fluency by Jennifer Foehner Wells

    Fluency by Jennifer Foehner Wells

    Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    NASA discovered the alien ship lurking in the asteroid belt in the 1960s. They kept the Target under intense surveillance for decades, letting the public believe they were exploring the solar system, while they worked feverishly to refine the technology needed to reach it. The ship itself remained silent, drifting. Dr...
  • Io Deceneus: Journal of a Time Traveler by Florian Armas

    Io Deceneus: Journal of a Time Traveler by Florian Armas

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    ASIN B008EJTPHI moved to the most recent edition hereThe Universe is conscious, discreet, has many avatars, and likes to experiment on … us. Powerful Factions, the supreme form of social evolution in a galaxy where all civilizations are human-like, interfere for their own mysterious ends...
  • The Infinite Sea by Rick Yancey

    The Infinite Sea by Rick Yancey

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 65 ratings
    How do you rid the Earth of seven billion humans? Rid the humans of their humanity.Surviving the first four waves was nearly impossible. Now Cassie Sullivan finds herself in a new world, a world in which the fundamental trust that binds us together is gone...
  • Gravity by Melissa West

    Gravity by Melissa West

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    In the future, only one rule will matter:Don’t. Ever. Peek.Seventeen-year-old Ari Alexander just broke that rule and saw the last person she expected hovering above her bed — arrogant Jackson Locke, the most popular boy in her school. She expects instant execution or some kind of freak alien punishment, but instead, Jackson issues a challenge: help him, or everyone on Earth will die...
  • The Pledge by Kimberly Derting

    The Pledge by Kimberly Derting

    Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    In the violent country of Ludania, the classes are strictly divided by the language they speak. The smallest transgression, like looking a member of a higher class in the eye while they are speaking their native tongue, results in immediate execution. Seventeen-year-old Charlaina has always been able to understand the languages of all classes, and she's spent her life trying to hide her secret...
  • Wanderlust by Ann Aguirre

    Wanderlust by Ann Aguirre

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Sirantha Jax doesn’t take chances… she jumps at them…Sirantha Jax is a “Jumper,” a woman who possesses the unique genetic makeup needed to navigate faster than light ships through grimspace. Jax has worked for the Farwan Corporation her entire career...
  • Black City by Elizabeth Richards

    Black City by Elizabeth Richards

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    A dark and tender post-apocalyptic love story set in the aftermath of a bloody war.In a city where humans and Darklings are now separated by a high wall and tensions between the two races still simmer after a terrible war, sixteen-year-old Ash Fisher, a half-blood Darkling, and Natalie Buchanan, a human and the daughter of the Emissary, meet and do the unthinkable—they fall in love...
  • Altered by Gennifer Albin

    Altered by Gennifer Albin

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    After a daring escape to Earth from Arras, sixteen-year-old Adelice Lewys thought she would finally be in control of her own destiny. But Earth is not abandoned, as she'd always been taught it was. It's inhabited by survivors waging a war against Arras, and Adelice is being called upon to harness her phenomenal power and help win a deadly war. But nothing on Earth is as it seems...
  • Pure by Julianna Baggott

    Pure by Julianna Baggott

    Rated: 3.73 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    We know you are here, our brothers and sisters . . . Pressia barely remembers the Detonations or much about life during the Before. In her sleeping cabinet behind the rubble of an old barbershop where she lives with her grandfather, she thinks about what is lost-how the world went from amusement parks, movie theaters, birthday parties, fathers and mothers . .
  • The Cage by Megan Shepherd

    The Cage by Megan Shepherd

    Rated: 3.61 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    When Cora Mason wakes in a desert, she doesn’t know where she is or who put her there. As she explores, she finds an impossible mix of environments—tundra next to desert, farm next to jungle, and a strangely empty town cobbled together from different cultures, all watched over by eerie black windows. And she isn’t alone...
  • Specials by Scott Westerfeld

    Specials by Scott Westerfeld

    Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars
    · 69 ratings
    "Special Circumstances": The words have sent chills down Tally's spine since her days as a repellent, rebellious ugly. Back then Specials were a sinister rumor -- frighteningly beautiful, dangerously strong, breathtakingly fast. Ordinary pretties might live their whole lives without meeting a Special. But Tally's never been ordinary...
  • Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi

    Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi

    Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars
    · 101 ratings
    I have a curseI have a giftI am a monsterI'm more than humanMy touch is lethalMy touch is powerI am their weaponI will fight backJuliette hasn't touched anyone in exactly 264 days.The last time she did, it was an accident, but The Reestablishment locked her up for murder. No one knows why Juliette's touch is fatal. As long as she doesn't hurt anyone else, no one really cares...
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