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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...
  • 11/22/63 by Stephen King

    11/22/63 by Stephen King

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 79 ratings
    On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? Stephen King’s heart-stoppingly dramatic new novel is about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination—a thousand page tour de force...
  • Shadows of Self by Brandon Sanderson

    Shadows of Self by Brandon Sanderson

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 69 ratings
    Shadows of Self shows Mistborn’s society evolving as technology and magic mix, the economy grows, democracy contends with corruption, and religion becomes a growing cultural force, with four faiths competing for converts.This bustling, optimistic, but still shaky society now faces its first instance of terrorism, crimes intended to stir up labor strife and religious conflict...
  • Kaleidoscope by Dean Koontz

    Kaleidoscope by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Nameless is wrestling with more violent visions of the future when his next mission comes with the assurance, This one will be easy. It’s a promise that leaves Nameless dangerously unprepared.It seems straightforward enough: Get a foot in the door by posing as a potential investor in a lucrative underground business—then bring the place down from the inside. There’s more here than meets the eye...
  • Terminal by Kathy Reichs, Brendan Reichs

    Terminal by Kathy Reichs, Brendan Reichs

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    The thrilling finale to Kathy and Brendan Reichs’ New York Times bestselling VIRALS seriesThe Virals are back—but they’re not the only pack in town anymore. Terminal finds Tory Brennan—grandniece of the famous forensic anthropologist (star of the hit show Bones)—and the rest of the Morris Island gang tracking a pack of rogue Virals who call themselves the Trinity...
  • The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken

    The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 70 ratings
    When 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...
  • Exposure by Kathy Reichs, Brendan Reichs

    Exposure by Kathy Reichs, Brendan Reichs

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    When twin classmates are abducted from Bolton Prep, Tory and the Virals decide there’s no one better equipped than them to investigate. But the gang has other problems to face. Their powers are growing wilder, and becoming harder to control. Chance Claybourne is investigating the disastrous medical experiment that twisted their DNA...
  • Code by Kathy Reichs, Brendan Reichs

    Code by Kathy Reichs, Brendan Reichs

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    The Virals are put to the ultimate test when they find a geocache containing an ornate puzzle box. Shelton decodes the cipher inside, only to find more tantalizing clues left by "The Gamemaster." A second, greater geocache is within reach—if the Virals are up to the challenge...
  • Dire Wolf Stakes by Ramy Vance, Michael Anderle

    Dire Wolf Stakes by Ramy Vance, Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Love kills. So do bow-wielding assassins.Maine’s troubles are only just beginning. The Mantle is still catnip to assassins. News of her victory is out and another liqudator of the living is after her. That would be enough trouble, if her ex wasn’t also in town, proclaiming his undying love for her...
  • Activated by Ell Leigh Clarke, Michael Anderle

    Activated by Ell Leigh Clarke, Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In the Future, Even the Broken Can Make a Change... When Molly gets called onto a case that she is uniquely qualified for, the team discovers a little more about her past.In the race against the clock to prevent the city of Spire from being subjected to a deadly toxin, it takes both new team members and new allies working together in order to save the millions of lives...
  • The Prisoner of Cell 25 by Richard Paul Evans

    The Prisoner of Cell 25 by Richard Paul Evans

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 44 ratings
    My name is Michael Vey, and the story I’m about to tell you is strange. Very strange. It’s my story.To everyone at Meridian High School, Michael Vey is an ordinary fourteen-year-old. In fact, the only thing that seems to set him apart is the fact that he has Tourette’s syndrome. But Michael is anything but ordinary. Michael has special powers. Electric powers...
  • The Black Lung Captain by Chris Wooding

    The Black Lung Captain by Chris Wooding

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Darian Frey is down on his luck. He can barely keep his squabbling crew fed and his rickety aircraft in the sky. Even the simplest robberies seem to go wrong. It's getting so a man can't make a dishonest living any more.Enter Captain Grist. He's heard about a crashed aircraft laden with the treasures of a lost civilisation, and he needs Frey's help to get it. There's only one problem...
  • Fear by Michael Grant

    Fear by Michael Grant

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 47 ratings
    It'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...
  • 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...
  • Nyxia Unleashed by Scott Reintgen

    Nyxia Unleashed by Scott Reintgen

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Getting to Eden brought Emmett and his crewmates one step closer to their promised fortune. But surviving Eden may be the biggest reward of all.Emmett Atwater thought Babel’s game sounded easy. Get points. Get paid. Go home. But it didn’t take long for him to learn that Babel’s competition was full of broken promises, none darker or more damaging than the last one...
  • Defender by Janet Edwards

    Defender by Janet Edwards

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Becoming a telepath was hard. Being a telepath is harder. Eighteen-year-old Amber is the youngest of the five telepaths who protect the hundred million citizens of one of the great hive cities of twenty-sixth century Earth. Her job is hunting down criminals before they commit their crimes, but this time her team arrive too late. Someone is already dead. Someone that Amber knows...
  • Violent Demand by Ariana Nash

    Violent Demand by Ariana Nash

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Cast out and hunted by the Brotherhood, Octavius is on borrowed time. He has one chance to prove his innocence, one chance to put things right, before Mikalis hunts him down and executes him.He must find Saint.But the Brotherhood member-turned-nyk whom they all seem to fear, is unlikely to make it easy. Still, Octavius has nothing left to lose. He will recapture Saint, or die trying...
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  • Junkyard by Lindsay Buroker

    Junkyard by Lindsay Buroker

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    McCall Richter works as a skip tracer, tracking down criminals, con men, and people who stop making payments on their fancy new spaceships. Her job description says nothing about locating vast quantities of stolen maple syrup, but thanks to her helpful new android employee, she finds herself tramping through a “sugar house” on a frosty moon full of suspicious characters...
  • Hail the Hero by Timothy Ellis

    Hail the Hero by Timothy Ellis

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This is an alternate cover edition for ASIN: B015AYA7CGAs the war comes to an end, Jonathon Hunter sees the good and bad sides to being considered the hero, but which is which? All he wants to do is go home, but home isn’t any closer than it was a month ago, and this time, he's going the long way around...
  • A Better World by Marcus Sakey

    A Better World by Marcus Sakey

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    The brilliants changed everything.Since 1980, 1% of the world has been born with gifts we’d only dreamed of. The ability to sense a person’s most intimate secrets, or predict the stock market, or move virtually unseen. For thirty years the world has struggled with a growing divide between the exceptional...and the rest of us.Now a terrorist network led by brilliants has crippled three cities...
  • Mind Bullet by Jeremy Robinson

    Mind Bullet by Jeremy Robinson

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A telekinetic assassin’s quest to avenge his parents’ murders triggers an all-out war between an eccentric cast of killers, from the New York Times bestselling author of INFINITE and THE DARK.Jonas kills people…with his mind. He reaches out, focuses for a moment, and feels a snap of pain between his eyes. Then his target falls over dead, a hole in the center of their brains...
  • Elsewhere by Dean Koontz

    Elsewhere by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The fate of the world is in the hands of a father and daughter in an epic novel of wonder and terror by Dean Koontz, the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense.Since his wife, Michelle, left seven years ago, Jeffy Coltrane has worked to maintain a normal life for himself and his eleven-year-old daughter, Amity, in Suavidad Beach...
  • Hurricane by Janet Edwards

    Hurricane by Janet Edwards

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Being a telepath means there is always a new challenge. Eighteen-year-old Amber is the youngest of the five telepaths who protect the hundred million citizens of one of the great hive cities of twenty-sixth century Earth. Her job is hunting down criminals before they commit their crimes, but this time a simple case leads on to something far bigger...
  • Shadow Unit 6 by Emma Bull, Elizabeth Bear

    Shadow Unit 6 by Emma Bull, Elizabeth Bear

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit hunts humanity's worst nightmares. But there are nightmares humanity doesn't dream are real. The BAU sends those cases down the hall. Welcome to Shadow Unit.     The Shadow Unit series was created by award-winning authors Emma Bull and Elizabeth Bear...
  • Raymond by Eve Langlais

    Raymond by Eve Langlais

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This avid gamer is about to discover love doesn't mean game over. As a hacker who rarely leaves the basement, Raymond's chances of meeting Mrs. Right are slim to none until his hermit-lifestyle is jolted. A warning to stop poking into his past comes with consequences--and intrigues this curious cat. Raymond's only recently discovered he can shift into a lynx...
  • Tainted Trail by Wen Spencer

    Tainted Trail by Wen Spencer

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Ukiah Oregon, half-man and half-alien raised by wolves, is hired to track a missing hiker. When her trail grows cold, Ukiah discovers the woman has actually been kidnapped. He then stumbles upon another mystery related to the unsolved disappearance in 1933 of a legendary wolf boy. The hiker's abduction may hold the key to Ukiah's past...
  • 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...
  • Swipe by Kathy Reichs

    Swipe by Kathy Reichs

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Tory Brennan and her great aunt Tempe join forces to investigate a crime at Comic-Con in this exclusive direct-to-digital short story from Kathy Reichs, author of Bones of the Lost and Virals. A valuable Terminator replica disappears from the nerd nirvana of Comic-Con. Tory Brennan and her great aunt Tempe are on the scene, and join forces to investigate...
  • Shift by Kathy Reichs, Brendan Reichs

    Shift by Kathy Reichs, Brendan Reichs

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Tory's great aunt, Temperance Brennan, visits just in time to investigate a robbery at the Loggerhead Island Research Institute. As a renowned forensic anthropologist, Tempe is obviously qualified to figure out whodunit, but Tory and her Virals pack want to crack the case on their own. Yet the crime is puzzling...
  • Impulse by Steven Gould

    Impulse by Steven Gould

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Cent is the teenaged daughter of two very special people, Davy and Millie, the world's only teleports, but her life is far from ideal. Kept in isolation to protect her from her parents' enemies, she wants a normal life, a life with friends and, perhaps, romance. She wants to go to school like any other normal child.If only she were normal..
  • Thin Air by Richard K. Morgan

    Thin Air by Richard K. Morgan

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Richard Morgan has always been one of our most successful SF authors with his fast-moving and brutal storylines, blistering plots and a powerful social conscience behind his work.And now he's back, with his first SF novel for eight years . . . and it promises to be a publication to remember...
  • Seizure by Kathy Reichs, Brendan Reichs

    Seizure by Kathy Reichs, Brendan Reichs

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Ever since Tory Brennan and her friends rescued Cooper, a kidnapped wolf pup with a rare strain of canine parvovirus, they've turned from regular kids into a crime-solving pack. But now the very place that brought them together - the Loggerhead Island Research Institute - is out of funding and will have to shut down. That is, unless the Virals can figure out a way to save it...
  • 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...
  • A Million Suns by Beth Revis

    A Million Suns by Beth Revis

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Godspeed 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...
  • Hunger by Michael Grant

    Hunger by Michael Grant

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 64 ratings
    It'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...
  • 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...
  • Unbreakable by Elizabeth Norris

    Unbreakable by Elizabeth Norris

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Four months after Ben disappeared through the portal to his home universe, Janelle believes she’ll never see him again. Her world is still devastated, but life is finally starting to resume some kind of normalcy. Until Interverse Agent Taylor Barclay shows up...
  • The Fractal Prince by Hannu Rajaniemi

    The Fractal Prince by Hannu Rajaniemi

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    “The good thing is, no one will ever die again. The bad thing is, everyone will want to.”A physicist receives a mysterious paper. The ideas in it are far, far ahead of current thinking and quite, quite terrifying. In a city of “fast ones,” shadow players, and jinni, two sisters contemplate a revolution...
  • Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes

    Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Titanic meets The Shining in S.A. Barnes’ Dead Silence, a SF horror novel in which a woman and her crew board a decades-lost luxury cruiser and find the wreckage of a nightmare that hasn't yet ended.A GHOST SHIP.A SALVAGE CREW.UNSPEAKABLE HORRORS.Claire Kovalik is days away from being unemployed—made obsolete—when her beacon repair crew picks up a strange distress signal...
  • Caught in Time by Julie McElwain

    Caught in Time by Julie McElwain

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    October 1815: There is only one place Kendra Donovan wants to travel—back to her own time period in the twenty-first century. But since that’s not happening, she agrees instead to travel with her new guardian, the Duke of Aldridge, to one of his smaller estates in Lancashire...
  • Betrayal in Time by Julie McElwain

    Betrayal in Time by Julie McElwain

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    February 1816: A race through the icy, twisting cobblestone streets of London ends inside an abandoned church—and a horrific discovery. Bow Street Runner Sam Kelly is called to investigate the grisly murder of Sir Giles Holbrooke, who was left naked and garroted, with his tongue cut out...
  • Mad Powers by Mark Wayne McGinnis

    Mad Powers by Mark Wayne McGinnis

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Rob Chandler, regaining consciousness, realizes he's somehow been involved in a horrendous car accident. In pain and unable to move, he has no memory of his identity, or how the hell he'd gotten on that deserted desert road in the middle of nowhere. He has little time to contemplate his situation when he sees an 18-wheeler barreling down on him...
  • Sketches by Teyla Branton

    Sketches by Teyla Branton

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Someone will do anything to stop them from learning the truth.Eighty years after Breakdown, Detective Reese Parker has pulled herself up from the dregs of society in Welfare Colony 6 to become a sketch artist and enforcer for the CORE (Commonwealth Objective for Reform and Efficiency)...
  • Brilliance by Marcus Sakey

    Brilliance by Marcus Sakey

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    In Wyoming, a little girl reads people’s darkest secrets by the way they fold their arms. In New York, a man sensing patterns in the stock market racks up $300 billion. In Chicago, a woman can go invisible by being where no one is looking. They’re called "brilliants," and since 1980, one percent of people have been born this way...
  • The Last Town by Blake Crouch

    The Last Town by Blake Crouch

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Welcome to Wayward Pines, the last town.Secret Service agent Ethan Burke arrived in Wayward Pines, Idaho, three weeks ago. In this town, people are told who to marry, where to live, where to work. Their children are taught that David Pilcher, the town’s creator, is god. No one is allowed to leave; even asking questions can get you killed...
  • Reflex by Steven Gould

    Reflex by Steven Gould

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Davy has always been alone. He believes that he's the only person in the world who can teleport. But what if he isn't?A mysterious group of people has taken Davy captive. They don't want to hire him, and they don't have any hope of appealing to him to help them. What they want is to own him. They want to use his abilities for their own purposes, whether Davy agrees to it or not...
  • Son of the Morning by Linda Howard

    Son of the Morning by Linda Howard

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    All of Linda Howard's novels are wonderful but this exceptional time-travel is her first foray into paranormal romance--and it's not to be missed.Grace St. John, a scholar, unwittingly discovers the Knights of Templar's secret treasure. Suddenly, her life is upturned when she spies her boss murdering her husband and brother...
  • The Girl with the Windup Heart by Kady Cross

    The Girl with the Windup Heart by Kady Cross

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In 1897 London, a final showdown is about to begin.London's underworld is no place for a young woman, even one who is strong, smart and part-automaton like Mila. But when master criminal Jack Dandy inadvertently breaks her heart, she takes off, determined to find an independent life, one entirely her own. Her search takes her to the spangled shadows of the West End's most dazzling circus...
  • Truth by Robin Wasserman

    Truth by Robin Wasserman

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Some things are too painful to remember--and too deadly to forget.Found: One girl, age 13. Unconscious. Unharmed. Unclaimed. Unidentified.Lost: Everything.J.D. can't run from her past any longer. She knows the truth now: that she's dangerous, a weapon. If she can't learn to control her powers, there's no telling what...or who...she'll destroy next...
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