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  • SAMPLER ONLY: Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

    SAMPLER ONLY: Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the annual Hunger Games with fellow district tribute Peeta Mellark. But it was a victory won by defiance of the Capitol and their harsh rules. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. Suzanne Collins continues the amazing story of Katniss Everdeen in Catching Fire, the second novel of the phenomenal Hunger Games trilogy...
  • Champion by Marie Lu

    Champion by Marie Lu

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 74 ratings
    He 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...
  • 薄雾 Mist by 微风几许, 微風幾許

    薄雾 Mist by 微风几许, 微風幾許

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Hyperthymesia. Those with this condition can remember every detail of their lives from something as significant as the world’s turning point to something as small and as insignificant as a minor fleeting thought. They cannot forget and their thirst for knowledge allows them to be considered a genius in some senses.Legend has it that Ji Yushi was this kind of genius...
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  • Prodigy by Marie Lu

    Prodigy by Marie Lu

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 73 ratings
    Injured 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...
  • Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness

    Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 59 ratings
    As a world-ending war surges to life around them, Todd and Viola face monstrous decisions. The indigenous Spackle, thinking and acting as one, have mobilized to avenge their murdered people. Ruthless human leaders prepare to defend their factions at all costs, even as a convoy of new settlers approaches...
  • 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...
  • Never Fade by Alexandra Bracken

    Never Fade by Alexandra Bracken

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 68 ratings
    Ruby never asked for the abilities that almost cost her her life. Now she must call upon them on a daily basis, leading dangerous missions to bring down a corrupt government and breaking into the minds of her enemies. Other kids in the Children’s League call Ruby “Leader”, but she knows what she really is: a monster...
  • 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...
  • The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness

    The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 62 ratings
    We 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...
  • 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...
  • Perfect by Cecelia Ahern

    Perfect by Cecelia Ahern

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Celestine 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...
  • Raksha by Frankie Rose

    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...
  • This Mortal Coil by Emily Suvada

    This Mortal Coil by Emily Suvada

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    When a lone soldier, Cole, arrives with news of Lachlan Agatta's death, all hope seems lost for Catarina. Her father was the world's leading geneticist, and humanity's best hope of beating a devastating virus. Then, hidden beneath Cole's genehacked enhancements she finds a message of hope: Lachlan created a vaccine.Only she can find and decrypt it, if she can unravel the clues he left for her...
  • Rebel by Joanne Macgregor

    Rebel by Joanne Macgregor

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Can you win a war without losing yourself? Sixteen year-old online gamer Jinxy James has been trained as an expert sniper in the war against a terrorist-spread plague which has decimated the USA. Now she’s a wanted fugitive, on the run with a rebel splinter group, risking everything to save and protect her loved ones...
  • Remember Yesterday by Pintip Dunn

    Remember Yesterday by Pintip Dunn

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Follow-up to the New York Times bestselling novel, Forget Tomorrow!Would you change the past to protect your future?Sixteen-year-old Jessa Stone is the most valuable citizen in Eden City. Her psychic abilities could lead to significant scientific discoveries, if only she’d let TechRA study her...
  • Fallout by Chris Morphew

    Fallout by Chris Morphew

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The time for pretending is over. The Shackleton Building has been turned into a concentration camp, and the last free people in Phoenix are forced into hiding. The fight is over unless Jordan and Luke can figure out where the Co-operative is hiding Tobias. And Jordan has to find a way to protect Luke before Peter rages out of control … or else history is doomed to repeat itself...
  • Fortune Falls by Lou Vane

    Fortune Falls by Lou Vane

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A deadly virus. A group of students trapped in the mountains. Their survival depends on each other. Seventeen-year-old Jess Maddox leaves home excited and hopeful, certain the leadership camp she’s about to join will change her life forever. And she’s right. When a deadly virus outbreak makes the world too dangerous to return to, Jess and the other students are forced to flee to the mountains...
  • Alone by Scott Sigler

    Alone by Scott Sigler

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In the final installment of an exhilarating sci-fi adventure trilogy in the vein of The Hunger Games, Divergent, and Red Rising, Scott Sigler’s unforgettable heroine, Em Savage, must come to grips once and for all with the perilous mysteries of her own existence.“We thought this place was our destiny—not our doom...
  • Alight by Scott Sigler

    Alight by Scott Sigler

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    “If it’s war they want, they messed with the wrong girl.”M. Savage—or Em, as she is called—has made a bewildering and ominous discovery. She and the other young people she was chosen to lead awoke in strange coffins with no memory of their names or their pasts. They faced an empty, unknown place of twisting tunnels and human bones...
  • Inhuman by Kat Falls

    Inhuman by Kat Falls

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    In a world ravaged by mutation, a teenage girl must travel into the forbidden Savage Zone to recover lost artifacts or her father’s life is forfeit.America has been ravaged by a war that has left the eastern half of the country riddled with mutation. Many of the people there exhibit varying degrees of animal traits. Even the plantlife has gone feral...
  • Lost Time by Nathan Hystad

    Lost Time by Nathan Hystad

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    The Bridge was opened.The promised land is real.A seventh Token is needed.The Bridge has been triggered, but the surprises don’t end there. What Rex found on the other side was unsettling, and with fresh information, he must race against time with his new allies as they search for their salvation...
  • Lost Time by Nathan Hystad

    Lost Time by Nathan Hystad

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    The Bridge was opened.The promised land is real.A seventh Token is needed.The Bridge has been triggered, but the surprises don’t end there. What Rex found on the other side was unsettling, and with fresh information, he must race against time with his new allies as they search for their salvation...
  • Shattered by Teri Terry

    Shattered by Teri Terry

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    The riveting finale ofthe Slated trilogy—a thought-provoking psychological thriller set in a disturbingly plausible future where the government and its enemies compete to control the minds of the young Kyla is in danger from both the government Lorders who erased her memory and the terrorists who tried to use her. So now she’s on the run...
  • Lost Time by Nathan Hystad

    Lost Time by Nathan Hystad

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The Bridge was opened.The promised land is real.A seventh Token is needed.The Bridge has been triggered, but the surprises don’t end there. What Rex found on the other side was unsettling, and with fresh information, he must race against time with his new allies as they search for their salvation...
  • Warriors by Sarah Noffke

    Warriors by Sarah Noffke

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Austin Valley appears as it always has, but Em Fuller knows that appearances aren’t what they seem. She knows under the surface, that cracks are starting to form in this seemingly well-manicured society. She’s responsible for creating these cracks and for planting a slow dissension among many of the residents of this once happy city...
  • Torn Sky by Tracy Banghart

    Torn Sky by Tracy Banghart

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The end is near . . . When Aris Haan brought down Safara’s biggest war criminal, she’d thought it was a turning point in the war. Victory was on the horizon, as was a peaceful future with her Promised, Milek. But a deadly new threat has emerged: a Safaran bomb that could wipe out all of Atalanta in one catastrophic blast...
  • Vanquished by S.E. Green

    Vanquished by S.E. Green

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    One island. Seven deadly sins.*Abducted from their life in Miami, Valerie and her sister wake up in a secret society run by the world's most powerful people. Now "property" of a sadistic tyrant, Valerie joins other captives who are forced to compete in gladiator style fights and to participate in the elite's deviant fantasies...
  • Buried Flames by Kennedy Layne

    Buried Flames by Kennedy Layne

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Mason Sykes had served many years in the Marine Corps for his country. His loyalty and sacrifice had left him disfigured—inside and out. He didn’t harbor regrets, especially since he’d finally found the peace and quiet he’d always desired on a Nebraska farm. Brenna Helm was a country girl through and through, right down to her cowgirl boots...
  • The Benders by Katie French

    The Benders by Katie French

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The third book in the award-winning, best-selling dystopian series. They’ve escaped the Breeders. They’ve broken out of the Citadel. Now, after all they’ve been through, Riley, Clay, and Ethan know one thing for sure: nothing tastes sweeter than freedom. And no one can rest easy with Auntie Bell in bondage. The group journeys home to rescue her and liberate Clay’s town from the cruel Warden...
  • Grave Cargo by Jami Gray

    Grave Cargo by Jami Gray

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A dead mage, a missing friend, and an unpredictable alliance merge into a volatile package sending Rory careening through the Arcane elite’s deadly secrets. Rory Costas, Arcane Transporter, is finally out from under the Guild’s thumb and ready to jumpstart her career as an independent contractor...
  • Fire Country by David Estes

    Fire Country by David Estes

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In a changed world where the sky bleeds red, winter is hotter than hell and full of sandstorms, and summer's even hotter with raging fires that roam the desert-like country, the Heaters manage to survive, barely. Due to toxic air, life expectancies are so low the only way the tribe can survive is by forcing women to procreate when they turn sixteen and every three years thereafter...
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    Spark by Rachael Craw

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Evie doesn’t have a choice.One day she’s an ordinary seventeen year old, grieving for her mother. The next, she’s a Shield, the result of a decades-old experiment gone wrong, bound by DNA to defend her best friend from an unknown killer.The threat could come at home, at school, anywhere. All Evie knows is that it will be a fight to the death.And then there’s Jamie. irresistible. off-limits...
  • Shatter City by Scott Westerfeld

    Shatter City by Scott Westerfeld

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Cities 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...
  • Time's Divide by Rysa Walker

    Time's Divide by Rysa Walker

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The Cyrists are swiftly moving into position to begin the Culling, and Kate’s options are dwindling. With each jump to the past or the future, Kate may trigger a new timeline shift. Worse, the loyalties of those around her—including the allegiances of Kiernan and the Fifth Column, the shadowy group working with Kate—are increasingly unclear...
  • Ruins by Dan Wells

    Ruins by Dan Wells

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Kira, Samm, and Marcus fight to prevent a final war between Partials and humans in the gripping final installment in the Partials Sequence, a series that combines the thrilling action of The Hunger Games with the provocative themes of Blade Runner and The Stand.There is no avoiding it—the war to decide the fate of both humans and Partials is at hand...
  • Time's Edge by Rysa Walker

    Time's Edge by Rysa Walker

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    To stop her sadistic grandfather, Saul, and his band of time travelers from rewriting history, Kate must race to retrieve the CHRONOS keys before they fall into the Cyrists' hands. If she jumps back in time and pulls the wrong key--one that might tip off the Cyrists to her strategy--her whole plan could come crashing down, jeopardizing the future of millions of innocent people...
  • Fractured by Teri Terry

    Fractured by Teri Terry

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Perfect 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...
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    Ten Thousand Skies Above You by Claudia Gray

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Ever 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...
  • All Our Yesterdays by Cristin Terrill

    All Our Yesterdays by Cristin Terrill

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Em 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...
  • 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...
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    Season of Fire by Lisa Tawn Bergren

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    After tackling her first mission and coming to terms with her power of empathy, Andriana discovers her first battles were only a taste of what is to come. She and her knight, Ronan, have admitted their feelings for each other, but their bonds are tested when Dri is captured by their mortal and spiritual enemy—Sethos—and his master, Keallach, emperor of Pacifica...
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    Slated by Teri Terry

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 44 ratings
    A 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...
  • Prized by Caragh M. O'Brien

    Prized by Caragh M. O'Brien

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Striking 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...
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    Sky on Fire by Emmy Laybourne

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Trapped 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...
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    Limited Wish by Mark Lawrence

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    One choice. Two possible timelines. And a world hanging in the balance.It’s the summer of 1986 and reluctant prodigy Nick Hayes is a student at Cambridge University, working with world-renowned mathematician Professor Halligan. He just wants to be a regular student, but regular isn’t really an option for a boy-genius cancer survivor who’s already dabbled in time travel...
  • Ascension by Victor Dixen

    Ascension by Victor Dixen

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    'This thrilling space odyssey will keep you turning pages late into the night.'C. J. Daugherty, author of NIGHT SCHOOLSix girls, six boys. Each in the two separate bays of a single spaceship. They have six minutes each week to seduce and to make their choices, under the unblinking eye of the on-board cameras...
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    The Treemakers by Christina L. Rozelle

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This is a previously-published alternate cover edition of ASIN B00P49KVKG. Sixteen-year-old Joy Montgomery, daughter of Zephyr the Magnificent, the great magician, can only reminisce of better times. Before the Superiors. Before the uprisings. Long ago. Before the dying Earth ripped the family she loved away from her...
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    In the Age of Love and Chocolate by Gabrielle Zevin

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    All These Things I’ve Done, the first novel in the Birthright series, introduced us to timeless heroine Anya Balanchine, a plucky sixteen year old with the heart of a girl and the responsibilities of a grown woman. Now eighteen, life has been more bitter than sweet for Anya...
  • The Choosing by Rachelle Dekker

    The Choosing by Rachelle Dekker

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    “Not to be Chosen would yield a cruel fate of my own making.”Like all citizens since the Ruining, Carrington Hale knows the importance of this day. But she never expected the moment she’d spent a lifetime preparing for—her Choosing ceremony—would end in disaster. Ripped from her family, she’ll spend her days serving as a Lint, the lowest level of society...
  • Flame by Amy Kathleen Ryan

    Flame by Amy Kathleen Ryan

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In 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...
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