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The Lightning Dragon's Mate by Zoe Chant
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLightning dragon Apollo has always known he’s broken.On the surface, Apollo’s life is perfect: Great friends, great job, and a great life in Hideaway Cove, the secret town where shifters are safe to live as their true selves.Inside, Apollo lacks the one thing that matters the most: a mate, and the hoard he needs in order to claim her.When human Felicity comes to town, he knows she’s the one... -
![The Phoenix by Jillian Dodd]()
The Phoenix by Jillian Dodd
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsFrom USA Today bestselling author Jillian Dodd comes the sixth book in a sizzling series filled with action and adventure. Fans of The Selection and The Hunger Games will discover a heart-pounding thrill ride of espionage and suspense set in glittering high society.A single sentence is muttered from the lips of an assassin dangling from a four-story building, “It starts in Montrovia...Categorized as:
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![The Dauntless by Jillian Dodd]()
The Dauntless by Jillian Dodd
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsSave the Prince. Save the World. Spy Girl.Huntley Von Allister's cover is firmly in place.She's brilliantly completed her first four missions.But she is done.Done working for Black X.Done trying to untangle the mystery of what got her mother killed.And very, very done with love...Categorized as:
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![The Shadowlands: A Branches Book by Katrina Charman]()
The Shadowlands: A Branches Book by Katrina Charman
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPick a book. Grow a Reader!This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line, Branches, aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina...Categorized as:
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![Redwood Pack, Vol. 5 by Carrie Ann Ryan]()
Redwood Pack, Vol. 5 by Carrie Ann Ryan
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRedwood Pack Vol 5 contains the sixth book in the Redwood Pack series and a special novella in print and digital form.Hidden Destiny (Redwood Pack Book 6)North Jamenson has always held his wolf closer to the surface then others. He's the quiet one, the one no one really knows about yet he holds the darkest secret...Categorized as:
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![The Erevis Cale Trilogy by Paul S. Kemp]()
The Erevis Cale Trilogy by Paul S. Kemp
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom the mean streets of Sembia ...Erevis Cale might just seem like just another loyal butler for just another wealthy family in the merchant realm of Sembia, but he has always been a whole lot more than that. When the world itself is threatened, Erevis Cale takes it personally, and takes the fight all the way to the Plane of Shadow... -
![Ark Return of the Templars by Paul J. Humphreys]()
Ark Return of the Templars by Paul J. Humphreys
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn 2008, the murder of his sister and the loss of his faith started a priest’s search for answers. It puts him on a collision course with a ruthless, evil criminal, who seeks the Ark of the Covenant. From Washington D.C. to the depths of a Castle in Scotland, the priest’s quest to find justice will lead him to the most secret religious order in the World... -
![Blood Vengeance by David Leadbeater]()
Blood Vengeance by David Leadbeater
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn the pivotal novel of the Matt Drake series, everything changes. Matt Drake's team is torn apart around him. The President of the United States is abducted. America and the world sit before their TV screens, shuddering in disbelief as Washington DC itself comes under attack. The Blood King is back!The night has never been so dark, the dawn so far out of reach... -
![The Pillars of Enoch: Templars and the Melungeon Legacy by David S. Brody]()
The Pillars of Enoch: Templars and the Melungeon Legacy by David S. Brody
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn elderly recluse informs historian Cameron Thorne that he has discovered the secret at the core of Freemasonry. The next day, he is killed. Thorne quickly focuses on a mysterious stone tablet, given to Moses by God along with the Ten Commandments, purportedly passed down to the Freemasons by the medieval Knights Templar...Categorized as:
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![The Echelon by Jillian Dodd]()
The Echelon by Jillian Dodd
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsFrom USA Today bestselling author Jillian Dodd comes the seventh book in a sizzling series filled with action and adventure. Fans of The Selection and The Hunger Games will discover a heart-pounding thrill ride of espionage and suspense set in glittering high society. The Echelon’s plan to change the shape of the world is succeeding. The disease was released. People are dying... -
![The Valiant by Jillian Dodd]()
The Valiant by Jillian Dodd
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsFrom USA Today bestselling author Jillian Dodd comes the fourth book in a sizzling series filled with action and adventure. Fans of The Selection and The Hunger Games will discover a heart-pounding thrill ride of espionage and suspense set in glittering high society...Categorized as:
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![The Rise of the Red Shadow by Joseph R. Lallo]()
The Rise of the Red Shadow by Joseph R. Lallo
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsEvery story must begin somewhere. For the warrior who would come to be known as the fearsome Red Shadow, the story began in a forgotten glade deep in the land of Tressor. It was there that a pair of trackers, eager to retrieve a lost slave, instead found an orphaned malthrope... -
![Conash: Dead Son by T.C. Southwell]()
Conash: Dead Son by T.C. Southwell
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA humble goat herder’s son and kin of the wood cat, Conash bonds with his familiar when he is just six years old. The sickly boy teeters on the brink of death, so much so that he is given the Death Rites three times before he is ten years old.Against all odds, he grows up a happy, laughing child, the apple of his mother’s eye and his father’s most cherished son... -
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God Touched by T.C. Southwell
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Blade is beaten almost to death, a broken-nosed whore saves him and nurses him back to health, starting a strange relationship that will endure all through Blade’s career and beyond. Lilu loves the assassin despite his cold heart and scathing tongue, and her love and aid earn his protection, even though he will never admit to helping her... -
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![Volle by Kyell Gold]()
Volle by Kyell Gold
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsVolle thought life as a spy-in-training was pretty easy: do as little as possible, and spend all his free time sleeping with the other young males in Caril. He never expected to be the one chosen for a critical mission to impersonate a noble in the neighboring country of Tephos--and neither did his superiors... -
![Lesser Gods by Adrian Howell]()
Lesser Gods by Adrian Howell
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDespite his newfound standing in the Guardian faction, psionic destroyer Adrian Howell never imagined himself joining the Knights for actual combat missions. He would have preferred to live in peace, but the psionic war takes no one's preferences into account. And much to his own surprise, Adrian finds himself beginning to enjoy the thrill of the chase—until something goes drastically wrong... -
![The Nexus (Mystics) by Kim Richardson]()
The Nexus (Mystics) by Kim Richardson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings*** Coming Feb/March 2014...Categorized as:
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![Retribution by Jennifer Fallon]()
Retribution by Jennifer Fallon
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe thrilling sequel to THE LYRE THIEFSince fleeing Winternest to avoid King Hablet's wrath when he discovers the truth about her parentage, leaving her slave, Charisee, to take her place, Rakaia has been on quite an adventure... -
![The Illuminati Secret by Rob Jones]()
The Illuminati Secret by Rob Jones
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings***Don't miss the second high-octane, adrenaline-pumped, action-adventure quest in the Jed Mason thriller series!***Former British Army Boxing Champion and MI6 operative Jed Mason is enjoying an early retirement on his Portuguese farm when he receives a telephone call informing him of the kidnap of Dr Holly Hope, an academic he worked alongside in April to locate the Ark of the Covenant...Categorized as:
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![The Shadow Gypsy by C.R. Daems, J.R. Tomlin]()
The Shadow Gypsy by C.R. Daems, J.R. Tomlin
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Shadow Sister Ryana, the very Shadow of Death, is marrying her beloved and joining his gypsy clan. War took her innocence, and now she's determined to rebuild her life. But religious cults are springing up, and the gypsies come under attack. Ryana's best friend in the Sisters, Jelena, has fled to join one of the cults, and the senior Sister asks Ryana to find out why...Categorized as:
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![Always Forever by Maureen Driscoll]()
Always Forever by Maureen Driscoll
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom the author of the Kellington series of Regency romances, comes the fifth book in the Emerson saga. Lady Rose Emerson has been in love with Nate Gage, the Marquess of Grayson, for most of her life. She is determined to marry the man, but he's doing everything he can to keep her at arm's length for her own protection...Categorized as:
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![A Murder of Shadows by John Conroe]()
A Murder of Shadows by John Conroe
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAs the old saying goes: The First is the Heir, the Second is the Spare, and of the Rest – Beware!Savid DelaCrotia is the third born son of one of the Kingdom of Montshire’s oldest and most respected High families. Cast aside by his father at an early age, it’s up to him to make his own way and create his own honor... -
![Exiled by Sophie Davis, Tanya Eby]()
Exiled by Sophie Davis, Tanya Eby
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsKenly Baker is alone. TOXIC has been defeated. Her friends from the McDonough School for the Talented are scattered to the wind. Even Kenly’s only living family member cannot hide the scared teenager from those who wish to contain her. Because Kenly is one of the Created.For her, it’s a future worse than death.She travels across the Atlantic Ocean, to the slums of London...Categorized as:
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![The Prey by Joseph Delaney]()
The Prey by Joseph Delaney
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe second instalment of Joseph Delaney’s exhilarating new ARENA 13 series.Sixteen-year-old Leif continues on his quest to find out the truth about his legendary father...Categorized as:
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![Surviving Magic by Chloe Garner]()
Surviving Magic by Chloe Garner
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIf Valerie is going to learn how to use magic, she must first learn how to survive it.Valerie grew up a normal girl. In high school, she was popular, smart, happy.But all that changes when her mother's former life - a life kept hidden from Valerie - collides into Valerie's reality...Categorized as:
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![Wings of Dawn by Sigmund Brouwer]()
Wings of Dawn by Sigmund Brouwer
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThis wholesome, fascinating fictional work is clearly Christian, yet appropriate for seekers or nonbelievers. Join the fiery adventure as ancient secrets are unearthed, Thomas's fragile faith in God is tested, and as he faces a diabolic conspiracy that has ruled the land for centuries...Categorized as:
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![Leslie by Omar Tyree]()
Leslie by Omar Tyree
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe New York Times bestselling novel about a beautiful young woman with a dangerous secret At the historically black Dillard University in the lush city of New Orleans, Leslie Beaudet struggles with a dark secret of power in a world that is pulling her in many different directions... -
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Hunted by Sophie McKenzie
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe fourth title in a thrilling series about four teenagers with psychic abilities, from Red House award-winning author, Sophie McKenzie... -
![Seeds of Corruption by Jason Tesar]()
Seeds of Corruption by Jason Tesar
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThe All Powerful is dead, but the scars of his influence remain, haunting Kael’s memories and discoloring his outlook. Seeking closure, Kael retraces the steps of his past. When he discovers that his father may still be alive, the course of his life once again takes an unexpected turn... -
![Assassin's Creed: Revelations by Oliver Bowden]()
Assassin's Creed: Revelations by Oliver Bowden
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsOlder, wiser, and more deadly than ever, master assassin Ezio Auditore embarks on an epic journey to find the lost library of Altair—a library that may hold the key to defeating the templars. However, a shocking discovery awaits him...Categorized as:
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![A Witch Come True by James Nicol, Elizabeth Knowelden]()
A Witch Come True by James Nicol, Elizabeth Knowelden
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe war is done and Arianwyn has discovered the secret of the quiet glyphs at last, but her troubles are far from over.Her day-to-day work as Lull's witch is tricky enough: winter has set in, bringing endless rain, ice imps and some rather befuddling Yule traditions. But when enemies converge on Lull, stealing away someone very dear indeed, our witch faces her greatest challenge so far...Categorized as:
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![The New Recruit by Jill Williamson]()
The New Recruit by Jill Williamson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsForced to choose between military school and a Christian spy organization, skeptic Spencer Garmond signs on with the Bible geeks. But before he even boards the plane for Moscow, Spencer realizes this is no Bible club. These guys mean business...Categorized as:
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![A Heart of Midnight by Jenna Wolfhart]()
A Heart of Midnight by Jenna Wolfhart
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe deadly games are over, and the time has finally come for Taveon to take his rightful place as king. But nothing is ever simple in the Dark Fae realm.A strange and twisted curse befalls the court, assassins lurk behind every corner, and a dangerous new shapeshifter joins the academy, an alluring male who either wants me dead or in his bed.Maybe both... -
![The Arcane Ward by Jeffrey L. Kohanek]()
The Arcane Ward by Jeffrey L. Kohanek
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn enemy rises, driven by radical beliefs and armed with destructive weapons. The Wardens must respond.Urgency forces ICON to accelerate the training of their new recruits, for a new Empire has captured the eastern kingdoms and seeks to conquer all of Issalia. Although a raw and untested squad, the Wardens might be the only hope of stopping this imposing threat...Categorized as:
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![The Bonding Ritual by Spencer Baum]()
The Bonding Ritual by Spencer Baum
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt is a new semester at Thorndike Academy, and a time for new beginnings. For Daciana Samarin, it is a time to take control of the school after a lengthy absence. Eager to inject some excitement into a contest that has one girl far ahead of the others, Daciana rolls out a relic from her past, and invites the girls wearing black to explore its mysteries...Categorized as:
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![How to Win Friends and Influence People by olivieblake]()
How to Win Friends and Influence People by olivieblake
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Real heroes never quit. Real villains never die"After the war, Hermione discovered she liked to break things; bones, specifically. Similarly, Draco, whose life had crumbled to rubble, became fascinated with explosives. Dramione, post-war, espionage AU... -
![Supernatural Reform School by Sullivan Gray, E.C. Farrell]()
Supernatural Reform School by Sullivan Gray, E.C. Farrell
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI went from one of the most powerful supes in the world......to the bottom of my class at Supernatural Reform School.The academy is for the rejects: shifters who can’t shift, witches who can’t spell, and psychs like me, who are powerless. All I want is to get my powers back online. Not to make friends.Definitely not to fall for my dragon shifter instructor...Categorized as:
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![Dark Legacy by Margo Ryerkerk]()
Dark Legacy by Margo Ryerkerk
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Secret Circle meets Sookie Stackhouse in this pulse-pounding, fast-paced YA fantasy read. “I absolutely fell in love with this book. The world created is complex and engaging, the plot is dark and twisted. It's extremely fast paced and sucks you in right from the start. I loved the style of the author and read the book in one sitting. Fantastic start to the series...Categorized as:
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![Safe House by Diane Duane, Tom Clancy]()
Safe House by Diane Duane, Tom Clancy
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTo save a prominent scientist and his son from a corrupt government's agents, the Net Force Explorers embark on a terrifying virtual hunt for their enemies--before it's too late... -
![The Beast Awakens by Joseph Delaney]()
The Beast Awakens by Joseph Delaney
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCalling all budding Stephen King fans... this is the book for you! The first book in a horrifying new fantasy sequence from Joseph Delaney, the internationally multi-million-selling author of The Spook's Apprentice.They heard shouting, and cries of fear. Crafty looked down the slope and realised what had happened to cause so much panic. Without warning, the dark wall of the Shole had advanced... -
![A Boy Without Magic by Guy Antibes]()
A Boy Without Magic by Guy Antibes
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the world of Mariopa, everyone is a magician. Even animals and plants use the ever present magical stuff some of the inhabitants call pollen to enhance their lives. For fourteen-year-old Sam Smith, it is a huge problem. Lightning went through his five-year-old body nine years ago and burned out his ability to manipulate pollen...Categorized as:
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![Phoebe Pope and the Year of Four by Nya Jade]()
Phoebe Pope and the Year of Four by Nya Jade
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAlternate-cover edition can be found here The students of Green Lane Academy roam their halls unaware that below their manicured campus exists a prestigious school of an entirely different kind . . .Sixteen-year-old Phoebe Pope has enrolled at the Campus Below: a spy academy for shape-shifters hidden deep beneath the grounds of a boarding school whose humans unknowingly protect it... -
![Shadow's End by Moira Katson]()
Shadow's End by Moira Katson
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAt last, Catwin and Miriel have chosen their own path, escaping the Court and its machinations, and fleeing to the Norstrung Provinces, to aid the rebellion. As they shed the masks and deceptions of their former life, however, both must face the fact that the same dark forces they fled are at work even in the furthest reaches of Heddred... -
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The Flight of Mavin Manyshaped by Sheri S. Tepper
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThere were seven cities in the Chasm. built to cling to the great cliff wall, woven into the massive roots of the flattrees! Once there had been eight cities - but the eighth had disappeared one night, fallen into the chaem's mysterious depths. No one hadever ventured to the bottom of the chasm. No one had dared, in spite of tales of the lost city's treasure... -
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![Hidden From Men by Jason Tesar]()
Hidden From Men by Jason Tesar
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA powerful adversary is surfacing and Null’s covert battle is on the threshold of open war. Reunited with his father after twenty-two years, Kael must find the balance between protecting him and confronting the enemy who stands between them and their home world. The timelessness of the In-Between has stolen the years that separated Kael and Adair by age, leaving them as distant equals... -
![Foundations of the World by Jason Tesar]()
Foundations of the World by Jason Tesar
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsKael has seen into the mind of the enemy and witnessed an abomination beyond imagining. Thousands of years of collaboration have allowed the Myndarym to construct a vast and complex system for exploiting the earth and its inhabitants. It is an ancient legacy of evil, and for the remnants of Null to destroy it, they must capture the system’s last surviving creator... -
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The Evermores Chronicles Complete Series Boxed Set: An Oriceran Urban Cozy by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSay the right words in just the right way, and step through a mirror into Mana Valley. A pocket dimension hidden on Oriceran.Something dark is stirring under Mana Valley and what it wants could transform the world in terrible ways...Categorized as:
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![Double-Cross by Sophie McKenzie]()
Double-Cross by Sophie McKenzie
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe Medusa Project team have arrived in Sydney for another exciting mission. Here, they come face-to-face with two more Medusa teens: Cal, a boy who can fly, and Amy, a girl who can shapeshift...Categorized as:
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![Amnesty by Lara Elena Donnelly]()
Amnesty by Lara Elena Donnelly
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThe revolution has come and gone, with Amberlough City striving to rebuild itself from the ashes. The Ospies have been ousted, and the very face of the nation has been changed in the process.Now, a rising politician is determined to bring Amberlough’s traitors to justice.Including double agent Cyril DePaul.Everyone believes Cyril deserves to suffer for his crimes..Categorized as:
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![Assassin's Creed: Forsaken by Oliver Bowden]()
Assassin's Creed: Forsaken by Oliver Bowden
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAssassin's Creed: Forsaken is the latest thrilling novelization by Oliver Bowden based on the phenomenally successful game series. The new game, Assassin's Creed III, takes one of gaming's most popular franchises to new heights in its most realistic world yet and introduces a brand new Assassin, Connor...
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