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Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 34 ratingsTwo young people are forced to make a stand in this thought-provoking look at racism and prejudice in an alternate society.Sephy is a Cross -- a member of the dark-skinned ruling class. Callum is a Nought -- a “colourless” member of the underclass who were once slaves to the Crosses. The two have been friends since early childhood, but that’s as far as it can go...Categorized as:
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Checkmate by Malorie Blackman
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe dramatic conclusion to the award-winning Noughts and Crosses trilogy.Can the future ever erase the past? Rose has a Cross mother and a Nought father in a society where the pale-skinned noughts are treated as inferiors and those with dual heritage face a life-long battle against deep-rooted prejudices...Categorized as:
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Savage Mate by Delta James
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA Small Town Grumpy Shifter RomanceThe first time she saw him he was coming out of the river... Oh! what a view.Jackson Miller (Jax) left the SEALs to return to his small hometown, Mystic River, Alaska where all the residents are shifters. He’s a grumpy bear shifter and the sheriff.Autumn Bradley was hiking with her fiancé for a birthday weekend... -
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Saving Runt by S.E. Smith
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAmelia ‘Runt’ Thomas’ life revolves around a dangerous game of cat and mouse with the most ruthless criminals in the world. She follows two codes: the code of hackers and her personal code of honor to bring down anyone who thinks they’re untouchable. She is on target until one fateful night when the touch of a strange man sends an unexpected shock wave through her... -
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Cosmos' Promise by S.E. Smith
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsCosmos Raines is considered to be one of the most brilliant inventors in the world. A prodigy, he is a self-made billionaire who would rather be in his lab than jet-setting around the world. Things change when his latest experiment literally opens a Gateway into a whole new world... -
![Double Cross by Malorie Blackman, Amélie Sarn]()
Double Cross by Malorie Blackman, Amélie Sarn
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsTobey wants a better life - for him and his girlfriend Callie Rose. He wants nothing to do with the gangs that rule the world he lives in. But when he's offered the chance to earn some money just for making a few 'deliveries', just this once, would it hurt to say 'yes'?The captivating conclusion/companion Novel of the Noughts and Crosses series...Categorized as:
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Unawakened by R.J. Blain, Trillian Anderson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsUpon discovering the unawakened are a primary source of sustenance for dae without a bonded human, Alexa must come to terms with her status as Rob’s lover and provider. To complicate matters, Kenneth and his dae are convinced she belongs only to them. Unless she can rise up from her station and become a player in the games the dae play, she will remain a pawn and a victim...Categorized as:
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Replay by Ken Grimwood
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsAt forty-three Jeff Winston is tired of his low-paid, unrewarding job, tired of the long silences at the breakfast table with his wife, saddened by the thought of no children to comfort his old age. But he hopes for better things, for happiness, maybe tomorrow ...But a sudden, fatal heart attack puts paid to that...Categorized as:
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A Million Worlds with You by Claudia Gray
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsA million universes. A million dangers. One destiny.The fate of the multiverse rests in Marguerite Caine’s hands. Marguerite has been at the center of a cross-dimensional feud since she first traveled to another universe using her parents’ invention, the Firebird... -
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Core’s Attack by S.E. Smith
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThrust into a deadly game…. Avery Lennox has been called many names, but bond mate was never one of them...Categorized as:
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Found by Imogen Keeper
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsKILLING A PERSON changes you. Killing your little brother destroys you. I should know. His name was Carl. When he was a kid, he always ate the blue M&Ms first and then the green. He dreamed of going to go to the moon. I didn't hesitate. I didn’t even blink...Categorized as:
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Broken by Imogen Keeper
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEveryone is going to die.Soon.The whole of humanity sits on the precipice of total annihilation.That’s some heavy sh*t right there.And the worst part is ... there will be survivors. I'm just not sure I want to be one of them.We'll be broken, lost, grieving, plunged into a world without order, and no one to enforce it anyway.At least, no one but him.Before the apocalypse, we were strangers...Categorized as:
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Dawn of Dae by Trillian Anderson, R.J. Blain
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis is a republishing of an older work, and it has undergone substantial editing and rewriting, including the addition of new scenes. The morning Alexa Daegberht’s macaroni and cheese develops sentience, the world changes. She thought escaping poverty and moving up in the world would be the challenge of her life, but the new arrivals, who call themselves the dae, waste no time proving her wrong... -
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Knife Edge by Malorie Blackman
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsWHEN TRUTH AND JUSTICE ARE NO LONGER BLACK AND WHITE ISSUES . . .Sephy is a Cross, one of the privileged in a society where the ruling Crosses treat the pale-skinned noughts as inferiors. But her baby daughter has a nought father . . . Jude is a Nought. Eaten up with bitterness, he blames Sephy for the terrible losses his family has suffered . . .Now Jude's life rests on a knife edge...Categorized as:
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![Ten Thousand Skies Above You by Claudia Gray]()
Ten Thousand Skies Above You by Claudia Gray
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsEver since she used the Firebird, her parents' invention, to cross into alternate dimensions, Marguerite has caught the attention of enemies who will do anything to force her into helping them dominate the multiverse—even hurting the people she loves. She resists until her boyfriend, Paul, is attacked and his consciousness scattered across multiple dimensions... -
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Endgame by Malorie Blackman
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIt is 20 years in 2021 since Malorie Blackman's groundbreaking series began with Noughts & Crosses , which charted the deeply forbidden romance between Sephy (a Cross) and Callum (a nought) - a love affair which had repercussions for their families for generations... -
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A Thousand Pieces of You by Claudia Gray
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 34 ratingsMarguerite Caine's physicist parents are known for their groundbreaking achievements. Their most astonishing invention, called the Firebird, allows users to jump into multiple universes—and promises to revolutionize science forever. But then Marguerite's father is murdered, and the killer—her parent's handsome, enigmatic assistant Paul— escapes into another dimension before the law can touch him... -
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Last Another Day by Baileigh Higgins
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHumanity falls...Trapped in the shower by her undead husband, Morgan prays for rescue but quickly realizes she's on her own. She escapes, only to find that the horror has spread and now threatens everything she holds dear. With each passing moment, death becomes more certain.Logan returns to his childhood home and teams up with Max, an army deserter racing against the clock to save his family...Categorized as:
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An Eye for an Eye by Malorie Blackman
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn a world where the two classes are divided by colour and never treated as equals, Sephy - a Cross and daughter of a top politician - is six months pregnant. The child's father, Callum, is a Nought, but worse, he is dead and Callum's brother is out for revenge... -
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Emma: Part One by Lolita Lopez
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEmma Ramirez has her hands full just trying to hack out a living in the desolated Outlands of a post-apocalyptic Texas. Zombies, cyborgs and skin traders all threaten the small, isolated farm where she’s lived alone since her father’s death. Sporadic radio traffic and infrequent visits from trusted family friends provide her only contact with the outside world... -
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Clean Slate Complex by Megan Thomason
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMeet The Second Chance Institute (SCI): Worldwide non-profit and do-gooder organization. Their motto: Because Everyone Deserves a Second Chance at Life(TM). Reality: hidden behind every kind act is a dark agenda designed to gain control and force societal and moral extremes... -
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This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 81 ratingsAmong the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, grows into something more. Something epic. Something romantic...Categorized as:
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Saved by Violet Fox
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAlone, frightened, and exiled.That’s what I get for trusting the Hart Pack. I was a fool to think we could ever be happy—that they would ever want me.But it turns out that I’m destined to walk this earth alone. Forsaken and forgotten. Never anyone’s first choice.And if Gryphon, Oliver, Barret, and Lachlan don’t want me, then no pack ever will... -
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Now That You're Here by Amy K. Nichols
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn a parallel universe, the classic bad boy falls for the class science geek. One minute Danny was running from the cops, and the next, he jolted awake in an unfamiliar body - his own, but different. Somehow, he's crossed into a parallel universe. Now his friends are his enemies, his parents are long dead, and studious Eevee is not the mysterious femme fatale he once kissed back home...Categorized as:
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Plus One by Elizabeth Fama
Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA dying wish. A family divided. A love that defies the law.Sol Le Coeur is a Smudge--a night dweller in an America rigidly divided between people who wake, live, and work during the hours of darkness and those known as Rays, who live and work during daylight...Categorized as:
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Once We Were by Kat Zhang
Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"I'm lucky just to be alive."Eva was never supposed to have survived this long. As the recessive soul, she should have faded away years ago. Instead, she lingers in the body she shares with her sister soul, Addie. When the government discovered the truth, they tried to “cure” the girls, but Eva and Addie escaped before the doctors could strip Eva’s soul away...Categorized as:
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18% Gray by Anne Tenino
Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn a future where the United States has split along party lines, Agent Matt Tennimore’s job is to get people out of the Confederated Red States, whether they’re captured special ops agents from his own country or gay CRS citizens who’ve petitioned for asylum. He never expected to have to retrieve his high school crush, aka the guy who ostracized him for being gay...Categorized as:
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Radio Silence by Alyssa Cole
Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratings“Rich in atmospheric details and rife with unexpected dangers…[a] refreshingly diverse cast of characters possess strong, sympathetic and magnetic personalities, ensuring that readers will be engaged with each step of their journey...Categorized as:
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Outcast by Lexi Ray
Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe first time we met was a nightmare. The second time… Well, the world was already hell.While a hundred elite students partied on Zion Island during spring break, the rest of the world was ravaged by war.Now, two years later, the stories about Zion are dark and mysterious. Some say Zion is paradise, run by those same students. But the few who came back don’t talk about it at all...Categorized as:
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![What's Left of Me by Kat Zhang]()
What's Left of Me by Kat Zhang
Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsI should not exist. But I do.Eva and Addie started out the same way as everyone else—two souls woven together in one body, taking turns controlling their movements as they learned how to walk, how to sing, how to dance. But as they grew, so did the worried whispers...Categorized as:
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Girl in the Arena by Lise Haines
Rated: 3.00 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsIt’s a fight to the death—on live TV—when a gladiator’s daughter steps into the arenaLyn is a neo-gladiator’s daughter, through and through. Her mother has made a career out of marrying into the high-profile world of televised blood sport, and the rules of the Gladiator Sports Association are second nature to their family. Always lend ineffable confidence to the gladiator...Categorized as:
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