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The Hammer of Thor by Rick Riordan
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 69 ratings"Magnus Chase, you nearly started Ragnarok. What are you going to do next?"It's been six weeks since Magnus and his friends returned from defeating Fenris Wolf and the fire giants. Magnus has adjusted to life at the Hotel Valhalla—as much as a once-homeless and previously alive kid can... -
![The Segonian by Dianne Duvall]()
The Segonian by Dianne Duvall
Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsNew York Times bestselling author Dianne Duvall brings readers the second stand-alone novel in a thrilling new sci-fi romance series full of action, humor, and happily-ever-afters.Eliana's life has never been what one might term ordinary. At least, it hasn't been for a very long time... -
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The Sword of Summer by Rick Riordan
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 74 ratingsMagnus Chase has seen his share of trouble. Ever since that terrible night two years ago when his mother told him to run, he has lived alone on the streets of Boston, surviving by his wits, staying one step ahead of the police and the truant officers.One day, Magnus learns that someone else is trying to track him down—his uncle Randolph, a man his mother had always warned him about... -
![The Final Storm by Wayne Thomas Batson]()
The Final Storm by Wayne Thomas Batson
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsNow includes THE LOST CHAPTERS, four previously unpublished chapters with author commentary and editor notes! Still staggering under Paragor's relentless attacks, Alleble's remaining allies flee from the four corners of The Realm to safety within the Kingdom's walls...Categorized as:
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![Nevrik by Regine Abel]()
Nevrik by Regine Abel
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShe is all he’s ever wanted.With the threat of the rebels’ looming war, romance is the last thing on Tyonna’s mind. But as she prepares to set off on a mission, the new member to join her crew leaves her breathless. Nevrik is the most imposing and intimidating Scelk she has ever seen... -
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![Ascension Saga: 9 - Destiny, Part 3 by Grace Goodwin]()
Ascension Saga: 9 - Destiny, Part 3 by Grace Goodwin
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDestiny is doing everything she can to find her mother and stop the evil traitors from taking over her planet. But explosions, murder plots and chaos are just the beginning. And now she has more on the line than ever before. Now, she's in love. And Nix isn't the sit-by-and-watch kind of guy. He's right there next to her, risking everything. For her... -
![Luna of Earth by Laura Jo Phillips]()
Luna of Earth by Laura Jo Phillips
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThere are lots of great ways for a beautiful, wealthy, brilliant young woman to meet a suitable romantic partner. Through the Internet, Church, volunteer groups, or even singles bars. Or, you can do it the way Luna Meadows did--by rescuing an alien from his crashed intergalactic spaceship on the side of a remote mountain in the Rockies just ahead of a three day blizzard... -
![Luna of Kyun by Laura Jo Phillips]()
Luna of Kyun by Laura Jo Phillips
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLuna Meadows spent her entire childhood hiking around the world with her father, and learning how to hide a number of unusual abilities she was born with. And wishing she had answers to an ever growing list of questions that her father refused to answer... -
![Ascension Saga: 6 - Faith, Part 3 by Grace Goodwin]()
Ascension Saga: 6 - Faith, Part 3 by Grace Goodwin
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe traitor within the Jax household has been found, and the repercussions are staggering, with Faith barely surviving and their mating destroyed. But Faith has always been unpredictable—just ask her sisters— and nothing will stop her from getting what she wants…and she wants Thor. Even if it kills her... -
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Ascension Saga: 8 - Destiny, Part 2 by Grace Goodwin
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDestiny has a problem—a six-foot-three, stubborn, gorgeous, deadly, sex-on-a-stick—kind of problem. While her brain might want to kick his ass across the galaxy, the rest of her wants to jump him like a bouncy house. Ardor or not, she’s hunting a killer. Nix is going all protective, alpha male, claiming she’s his mate just because she had a few mind-blowing moments in his bed... -
![The Rise of the Wyrm Lord by Wayne Thomas Batson]()
The Rise of the Wyrm Lord by Wayne Thomas Batson
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsThe next exciting adventure in "The Door Within" Trilogy. Separated from his friend by a thousand miles and unable to return to The Realm of Glimpses himself, Aidan Thomas needs a way to reach Robby with the message of King Eliam, the one true King.Enter Antoinette Lynn Reed, a bright but headstrong young lady who believes in the Scrolls of Alleble and has a passion for full-contact Kendo...Categorized as:
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Ambushing Ariel by S.E. Smith
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsAriel Hamm has always had a tender heart. Her love for her sister, Carmen, and her best friend, Trisha, has always been a priority in her life. But at twenty-eight, she is ready to start focusing on what she wants. After her fiancée unexpectedly ends their engagement, she is searching to redefine who she really is. A pilot for Boswell International, she knows flying is not her first love... -
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Ansel's Game by Selena Scott
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis is the first book in the "Shifter Fever" series.She only wanted to find her brother. Finding a true mate definitely wasn't part of the plan!Ruby didn‘t care. She cared about nothing. Her brother was gone. Just like her parents were gone. And she definitely didn't need a man, let alone an alpha bear shifter. But Ruby felt the strangest feeling rise up within her... -
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![Earth Dragon's Baby by Scarlett Grove]()
Earth Dragon's Baby by Scarlett Grove
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWill their fated love prove strong enough to end an ancient war? Agricultural analyst Cora Brighton has worked hard to help reconstruct Earth after the Mulgor invasion decades ago. But now, facing another lonely Christmas, she realizes life has passed her by and signs up for the Draconian Mating Lottery... -
![Children of God by Mary Doria Russell]()
Children of God by Mary Doria Russell
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsMary Doria Russell's debut novel, The Sparrow, took us on a journey to a distant planet and into the center of the human soul. A critically acclaimed bestseller, The Sparrow was chosen as one of Entertainment Weekly's Ten Best Books of the Year, a finalist for the Book-of-the-Month Club's First Fiction Prize and the winner of the James M. Tiptree Memorial Award...Categorized as:
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![The Cybernetic Tea Shop by Meredith Katz]()
The Cybernetic Tea Shop by Meredith Katz
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 22 ratingsClara Gutierrez is a highly-skilled technician specializing in the popular 'Raise' AI companions. Her childhood in a migrant worker family has left her uncomfortable with lingering in any one place, so she sticks around just long enough to replenish her funds before she moves on, her only constant companion Joanie, a fierce, energetic Raise hummingbird... -
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The Telling by Ursula K. Le Guin
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsOnce a culturally rich world, the planet Aka has been utterly transformed by technology. Records of the past have been destroyed, and citizens are strictly monitored. But an official observer from Earth named Sutty has learned of a group of outcasts who live in the wilderness. They still believe in the ancient ways and still practice its lost religion - the Telling... -
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Last First Snow by Max Gladstone
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsThe fourth novel set in the compellingly modern fantasy world of the Craft Sequence Forty years after the God Wars, Dresediel Lex bears the scars of liberation—especially in the Skittersill, a poor district still bound by the fallen gods' decaying edicts. As long as the gods' wards last, they strangle development; when they fail, demons will be loosed upon the city... -
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Quicksilver by R.J. Anderson
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBack in her hometown, Tori Beaugrand had everything a teenaged girl could want—popularity, money, beauty. But she also had a secret. A secret that could change her life in an instant, or destroy it.Now she’s left everything from her old life behind, including her real name and Alison, the one friend who truly understood her. She can’t escape who and what she is... -
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One by Richard Bach
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsUnder the spell of quantum physics, Bach and his wife Leslie are catapulted into an alternate world, one in which they exist simultaneously in many different incarnations. First they encounter themselves as they were 16 years ago on the day they first met. In this version of their lives, they do not marry, and never achieve the happiness Bach assures us that their real union has produced...Categorized as:
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![Aliens' Babies by Juno Wells, Aurelia Skye]()
Aliens' Babies by Juno Wells, Aurelia Skye
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEach book in the Dazon Agenda series focuses on a different couple while expanding the overarching plot. It is recommended to read the books in order. Jessminda Patel was one of four hundred Earth women kidnapped by a rogue Dazon scientist who used her and the others for his breeding experiments. She’s devastated to learn she’s pregnant with an alien’s babies, and the father is equally surprised... -
![Brynjar; Drogon King - Bonus: Dream Alien by T.J. Quinn, Clarissa Lake]()
Brynjar; Drogon King - Bonus: Dream Alien by T.J. Quinn, Clarissa Lake
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBrynjar, King of the Drogon Empire is pleased that Asgar has brought a new group of female humans to help them save their dying race. But he is also disappointed there is no soulmate for him. Or is there? That scent, he would know it anywhere? Is his mind playing tricks on him or is Asgar holding out on him? The Slythonians never intended to take Eleanor confined to a wheel chair since childhood... -
![Stranded by Harmony Raines]()
Stranded by Harmony Raines
Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDaily lotteries take females from the dying Earth, to the planet of Karal. Their sole purpose has been to breed with the Karal to make their next generation. Until now. Seven lottery winners are chosen to compete, to go on the first deep space mission, to find a new planet for the humans to call home. Only one gets to go. The rest will be sent to the farming belt... -
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![Otherland: The City of Golden Shadow by Tad Williams]()
Otherland: The City of Golden Shadow by Tad Williams
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsRenie Sulaweyo, a teacher in the South Africa of tomorrow, realizes something is wrong on the network. Kids, including her brother Stephen, have logged into the net, and cannot escape. Clues point to a mysterious golden city called Otherland, but investigators all end up dead...Categorized as:
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![New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color by Nisi Shawl, Rebecca Roanhorse]()
New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color by Nisi Shawl, Rebecca Roanhorse
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsNew Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color showcases emerging and seasoned writers of many races telling stories filled with shocking delights, powerful visions of the familiar made strange. Between this book’s covers burn tales of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and their indefinable overlappings...Categorized as:
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![High Moon by Kati Wilde]()
High Moon by Kati Wilde
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHer mother always told her not to feed stray wolves...Running a ranch is hard enough, so Makena Laine doesn't need any complications in her life. But the development company that's determined to take her land isn't giving her much choice. They've run off her help, pulled down her fences...and she's afraid they've only just begun... -
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Popisho by Leone Ross
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsA sensual novel, Popisho conjures a world where magic is everywhere, food is fate, politics are broken, and love awaits. Everyone in Popisho was born with a little something… The local name for it was cors. Magic, but more than magic. A gift, nah? Yes. From the gods: a thing that felt so inexpressibly your own.Somewhere far away-- or maybe right nearby-- lies an archipelago called Popisho... -
![Goddess in the Middle by Stephanie Julian]()
Goddess in the Middle by Stephanie Julian
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Incredibly erotic, unconventional, romantic love story"TOGETHER. THEY CREATE THE MOST POWERFUL MAGIC OF ALL ...Romulus and Remus are sexy werewolf cousins with an unbreakable bond. When they meet beautiful goddess Amity and save her from an encroaching demon, they discover that the three of them together are way more powerful than any of them could ever have imagined... -
![Otherbound by Corinne Duyvis]()
Otherbound by Corinne Duyvis
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAmara is never alone. Not when she's protecting the cursed princess she unwillingly serves. Not when they're fleeing across dunes and islands and seas to stay alive. Not when she's punished, ordered around, or neglected.She can't be alone, because a boy from another world experiences all that alongside her, looking through her eyes.Nolan longs for a life uninterrupted... -
![Alien Commander's Bride by Scarlett Grove, Juno Wells]()
Alien Commander's Bride by Scarlett Grove, Juno Wells
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsShe’ll do anything to protect her family … even mate with the sexiest alien she ever hated. Lexi Garcia is fed up with Draconians. The dragon shifters have ruined her life! They came to Earth asking human women to sign up for their mating lottery. In exchange, they've offered to share advanced technology with humanity... -
![Forbidden Mind by Karpov Kinrade]()
Forbidden Mind by Karpov Kinrade
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsShe reads minds.He controls minds.Together, they might get out alive.I've seen into the minds of killers and have crawled into the darkest mental corners of humanity, but even I wasn’t prepared for this.I thought that when I turned 18 I would be released from my secret school of paranormal spies and free to follow my dreams and make my own life. That's what we all thought. Until I met Drake... -
![Islands of Space by John W. Campbell Jr.]()
Islands of Space by John W. Campbell Jr.
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratings'John Campbell’s book was written as a sequel to ‘The Black Star Passes… and believe me, it was a world-beater in those days.‘Arcot, Wade, Morey and their computer, Fuller, put together a ship which will travel faster than light… they give us what may have been the first space-warp drive. The concept was simple; to make it plausible wasn’t – unless you were John Campbell... -
![Jane Carver of Waar by Nathan Long]()
Jane Carver of Waar by Nathan Long
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJane Carver is nobody's idea of a space princess.A hard-ridin', hard-lovin' biker chick and ex-Airborne Ranger, Jane is as surprised as anyone else when, on the run from the law, she ducks into the wrong cave at the wrong time-and wakes up butt-naked on an exotic alien planet light-years away from everything she's ever known... -
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![The Girl of Ink & Stars by Kiran Millwood Hargrave]()
The Girl of Ink & Stars by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA beautifully written story of friendship, discovery, myths, and magic that the London Times called "reminiscent of fantasy greats such as Philip Pullman and Neil Gaiman." Legends say that the island of Joya was once a place where songbirds sang in every tree and the islanders were free to come and go as they pleased...Categorized as:
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![The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier]()
The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsFrom Kevin Brockmeier, one of this generation's most inventive young writers, comes a striking new novel about death, life, and the mysterious place in between. The City is inhabited by those who have departed Earth but are still remembered by the living. They will reside in this afterlife until they are completely forgotten. But the City is shrinking, and the residents clearing out...Categorized as:
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![The Game of Triumphs by Laura Powell]()
The Game of Triumphs by Laura Powell
Rated: 3.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Tarot comes alive in this cleverly conceived thriller that delivers action, humor, and mystery in spades." — The Bulletin At an exclusive Soho party one rainy night, Cat stumbles into an ancient and dangerous game of fortune. A mysterious quartet of game masters deal out challenges—moves that unfold in the Arcanum, a dream-scape version of our world...Categorized as:
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![All Stories Are Love Stories: A Novel by Elizabeth Percer]()
All Stories Are Love Stories: A Novel by Elizabeth Percer
Rated: 3.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn this thoughtful, mesmerizing tale with echoes of Station Eleven, the author of An Uncommon Education follows a group of survivors thrown together in the aftermath of two major earthquakes that strike San Francisco within an hour of each other—an achingly beautiful and lyrical novel about the power of nature, the resilience of the human spirit, and the enduring strength of love...Categorized as:
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![The Best of All Possible Worlds by Karen Lord]()
The Best of All Possible Worlds by Karen Lord
Rated: 3.52 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsA proud and reserved alien society finds its homeland destroyed in an unprovoked act of aggression, and the survivors have no choice but to reach out to the indigenous humanoids of their adopted world, to whom they are distantly related. They wish to preserve their cherished way of life but come to discover that in order to preserve their culture, they may have to change it forever...Categorized as:
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![In the Quick by Kate Hope Day]()
In the Quick by Kate Hope Day
Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsGOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK • A young, ambitious female astronaut’s life is upended by a love affair that threatens the rescue of a lost crew in this brilliantly imagined novel “with echoes of Station Eleven, The Martian, and, yes, Jane Eyre” (Observer).“The female astronaut novel we never knew we needed...Categorized as:
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