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  • Dark Voyage Matters of the Mind by I.T. Lucas

    Dark Voyage Matters of the Mind by I.T. Lucas

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    As conflicting expectations strain Dagor and Frankie’s budding relationship, they join a shore excursion to the ruins of Tehuacalo, where an ancient map of dubious origins claims a powerful amulet is buried...
  • Muted by L.H. Owens, Leanne Owens

    Muted by L.H. Owens, Leanne Owens

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Outback horseman Lane Dimity is one of the most powerful social media personalities on the planet. Although unable to speak since the tragedy that took place on his eighth birthday, his words reach out across the world, changing lives. When he learns that more than a thousand stallions have been bred by the U.S. pharmaceutical company Pilatos, he is determined to free them...
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    sports  realistic  romance  animals  horses  mystery  fiction  sci-fi
  • Bonded in Death by J.D. Robb

    Bonded in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    The #1 New York Times bestselling author spins an epic tale of loyalty, treachery, murder, and the long shadow of war…His passport read Giovanni Rossi. But decades ago, during the Urban Wars, he was part of a small, secret organization called The Twelve. Responding to an urgent summons from an old compatriot, he landed in New York and eased into the waiting car...
  • Divided in Death by J.D. Robb, Nora Roberts

    Divided in Death by J.D. Robb, Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Reva Ewing, a former member of the Secret Service and a security specialist for Roarke Enterprises, is a prime suspect in a double homicide. She had every reason to want to kill her husband, the renowned artist Blair Bissel. Not only was he having an affair, he was having it with her best friend.But Lieutenant Eve Dallas, who's on the case, believes Reva is innocent...
  • Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman

    Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    Two 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...
  • Three in Death by J.D. Robb

    Three in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    #1 New York Times bestselling author J. D. Robb delivers a potent combination of futuristic suspense, thrills, and passion in these three favorite In Death stories—together in one volume for the first time.INTERLUDE IN DEATHLieutenant Eve Dallas is resigned to the fact that she’s been ordered to give a seminar at a police conference—and that she’ll have to leave Earth to do it...
  • Fractured Angel by L. Ann

    Fractured Angel by L. Ann

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She’s a disgraced pop star. He’s the frontman of Black Rosary.Their worlds are about to collide and nothing will ever be the same again.Ten years ago, I fell in loveThe pop princess and the rock star.On paper, we should never have worked. In public she was a sweet girl-next-door bubble-gum pop singer.But when we were together, her passion matched mine...
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    sad  realistic  romance  contemporary  abuse  fiction  dark  age-gap
  • The One by Kiera Cass

    The One by Kiera Cass

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 91 ratings
    The time has come for one winner to be crowned.When she was chosen to compete in the Selection, America never dreamed she would find herself anywhere close to the crown—or to Prince Maxon's heart...
  • Eternity in Death by J.D. Robb

    Eternity in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    When club-hopping bad girl Tiara Kent is found dead in her plush Manhattan apartment, the killing has all the earmarks of a vampire attack. The ever-practical Lieutenant Eve Dallas has to deal with superstitious cops carrying garlic and stakes, as well as the ever-hysterical press. None of the wealthy young victim’s friends seem to know much about the Dark Prince she has been secretly seeing...
  • The Selection Kindle sample by Kiera Cass

    The Selection Kindle sample by Kiera Cass

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
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  • Interlude in Death by J.D. Robb

    Interlude in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    In early spring of 2059, Lieutenant Eve Dallas is called off planet to face a grueling ordeal - giving a seminar at the largest police conference of the year, to be held in a swanky resort. A resort which just happens to be owned by her husband, Roarke, of course. Even though Eve can't quite see it that way, it's supposed to be at least partly a vacation...
  • Diamond in the Dust by Peggy L. Henderson

    Diamond in the Dust by Peggy L. Henderson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Book 3 in the Second Chances Time Travel Romance Series Reverend Johnson is in the business of granting second chances to those deserving a new start, even if it means bending the rules of time travel on occasion. In Gabe McFarlain’s case, he may have gone too far . . . Abandoned by his father, and raised in a whorehouse, Gabe has grown bitter to the world...
  • Fumble. Pass. Repeat. by T'Lyn

    Fumble. Pass. Repeat. by T'Lyn

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Kyce Jefferson understood change. His life had been a continuous reminder that nothing last for ever. However, his one constant had always been football. Women come and go but the Chicago Bears was his team, his home and his life. Being traded was the last thing he expected or wanted.Iyoni Nixon lived and breathed for her son. He was her reason...
  • Loved and Lost: Author's Edition by Stephanie E. Kusiak

    Loved and Lost: Author's Edition by Stephanie E. Kusiak

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Blake Fortier and Rachel Kaplan are the perfect couple. Driven and successful in their own pursuits, they're fifteen years into a marriage that will seemingly last forever. When a tragic accident tears them apart, Blake is left with nothing but the harsh light of hindsight and the bitterness of regret...
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    drama  female-mc  adult  angst  book  contemporary  fiction  lesbian-mc
  • Winter's Burn by Elena Aitken

    Winter's Burn by Elena Aitken

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Single mom, Beth Martin is doing her best raising her daughter Jules on her own after moving back to the small town she grew up in. She's been welcomed back by old friends and a decent job at the Springs resort. Things are going well, but something—or someone—is missing. When sexy rock star, Slade Black comes to town, it just might be what Beth is looking for...
  • We Are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson

    We Are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    From the author of The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley comes a brand-new novel about a teenage boy who must decide whether or not the world is worth saving.Henry Denton has spent years being periodically abducted by aliens. Then the aliens give him an ultimatum: The world will end in 144 days, and all Henry has to do to stop it is push a big red button.Only he isn’t sure he wants to...
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    drama  realistic  sad  abuse  aliens  audiobook  book  bullying
  • Star's Storm by S.E. Smith

    Star's Storm by S.E. Smith

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Star Strauss has always been a fighter. From the time she was born prematurely to her life on the road as a circus performer. She has never let her small stature keep her from achieving her dreams. She is one of the best aerial performers in the world. Her love of being up high and flying free has helped her overcome the challenges she faces when she is on the ground...
  • At the Edge of the Universe by Shaun David Hutchinson

    At the Edge of the Universe by Shaun David Hutchinson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From the author of We Are the Ants comes “another winner” (Booklist, starred review) about a boy who believes the universe is slowly shrinking as the things he remembers are being erased from others’ memories.Tommy and Ozzie have been best friends since the second grade, and boyfriends since eighth. They spent countless days dreaming of escaping their small town—and then Tommy vanished...
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    drama  realistic  sad  abuse  angst  audiobook  book  coming-of-age
  • Cottonwood by R. Lee Smith

    Cottonwood by R. Lee Smith

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    They never meant to come to Earth. They were never allowed to leave...Welcome to Cottonwood...
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    drama  female-mc  sad  abuse  action-adventure  adult  aliens  alpha-mc
  • Happily Ever After by Kiera Cass

    Happily Ever After by Kiera Cass

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    The contents of Happily Ever After are as follows:-The Prince (with the two bonus chapters), Maxon’s novella-The Guard, Aspen’s novella-The Queen, Amberly’s novella-The Favorite, Marlee’s novella-Three scenes from Celeste’s POV-Lucy’s scene (bonus scene from The One)-The bonus epilogue-Where are they now?-A map-Various...
  • Flawed by Cecelia Ahern

    Flawed by Cecelia Ahern

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    You will be punished…Celestine North lives a perfect life. She’s a model daughter and sister, she’s well-liked by her classmates and teachers, and she’s dating the impossibly charming Art Crevan.But then Celestine encounters a situation where she makes an instinctive decision. She breaks a rule and now faces life-changing repercussions. She could be imprisoned. She could be branded...
  • Every Soul a Star by Wendy Mass

    Every Soul a Star by Wendy Mass

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    And as streams of light fan out behind the darkened sun like the wings of a butterfly, I realize that I never saw real beauty until now.At Moon Shadow, an isolated campground, thousands have gathered to catch a glimpse of a rare and extraordinary total eclipse of the sun...
  • Dawn of Eve by Pam Godwin

    Dawn of Eve by Pam Godwin

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Daughter of Eve. Leader of the Resistance. Mankind’s savior. Dawn is supposed to be the ultimate weapon against the bloodthirsty hybrids that control the desolate planet.But she didn’t inherit superhuman speed or virus-curing blood.She’s just a human...
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    drama  female-mc  sad  adult  alpha-mc  angst  apocalyptic  book
  • Retreat to the Spanish Sun by Jo Thomas

    Retreat to the Spanish Sun by Jo Thomas

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From the bestselling author of Escape to the French Farmhouse comes a deliciously feel-good new story...Eliza has a full house! When her three children grew up and moved out, she downsized to a smaller property... but now they're all back. Every room in the house is taken and Eliza finds herself sharing her bed with her eldest daughter and her daughter's pug...
  • Middle Ground by Katie Kacvinsky, Katie Ray

    Middle Ground by Katie Kacvinsky, Katie Ray

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    For four weeks Maddie has been living in Los Angeles, trying to be good. But no matter how hard she tries, something inside her won't be sated. She can't live a life of half-truths and false pretenses. So one night, she says how she really feels.That's all it takes. One night...
  • Hope by Marc Levy

    Hope by Marc Levy

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    For anyone who’s dreamed of immortality comes a twice-in-a-lifetime love story by Marc Levy, the phenomenal, internationally bestselling French author of P.S. from Paris and The Last of the Stanfields.In Massachusetts, neuroscience students Luke, Josh, and Hope have formed an unbreakable and unconditional friendship...
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    drama  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  fiction  humor  medical
  • Ashen Winter by Mike Mullin

    Ashen Winter by Mike Mullin

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    It's been over six months since the eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano. Alex and Darla have been staying with Alex’s relatives, trying to cope with the new reality of the primitive world so vividly portrayed in Ashfall, the first book in this series. It's also been six months of waiting for Alex's parents to return from Iowa...
  • The Program by Suzanne Young

    The Program by Suzanne Young

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    In Sloane’s world, true feelings are forbidden, teen suicide is an epidemic, and the only solution is The Program.Sloane knows better than to cry in front of anyone. With suicide now an international epidemic, one outburst could land her in The Program, the only proven course of treatment. Sloane’s parents have already lost one child; Sloane knows they’ll do anything to keep her alive...
  • Recoil by Joanne Macgregor

    Recoil by Joanne Macgregor

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When a skilled gamer gets recruited as a sniper in the war against a terrorist-produced pandemic, she discovers there’s more than one enemy and more than one war. The Game is real.Three years after a series of terrorist attacks flooded the US with a lethal plague, society has changed radically...
  • The Best Christmas Surprise by Brenda Novak

    The Best Christmas Surprise by Brenda Novak

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Your Christmas wish come true! Enjoy this touching classic by New York Times bestselling author Brenda Novak, originally published under the title Just Like the Ones We Used to Know in the 2006 anthology Once Upon a Christmas. Angela Forrester’s foster child Kayla has just one wish for Christmas…to meet her real dad...
  • The Savage Wild by Roxie Noir

    The Savage Wild by Roxie Noir

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    I spent ten years forgetting Wilder Flint, and it took every minute. I should have known better than to fall for his shallow charms and deep blue eyes, but I was good at calculus and bad at understanding people. He shredded my heart to pieces, but I moved away, grew up, and got over him. At least, I thought I did. Of course he shows up again in my new life...
  • The Grief Keeper by Alexandra Villasante

    The Grief Keeper by Alexandra Villasante

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    This stunning YA debut is a timely and heartfelt speculative narrative about healing, faith, and freedom.Seventeen-year-old Marisol has always dreamed of being American, learning what Americans and the US are like from television and Mrs. Rosen, an elderly expat who had employed Marisol's mother as a maid...
  • Constellations by Nick Payne

    Constellations by Nick Payne

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    One relationship. Infinite possibilities. 'Let's go for a drink. I don't know what I'm doing here anyway. One drink. And if you never want to see me again you never have to see me again'. Nick Payne's "Constellations" is a play about free will and friendship; it's about quantum multiverse theory, love and honey...
  • 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...
  • Murder on an Irish Farm by Carlene O'Connor

    Murder on an Irish Farm by Carlene O'Connor

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    In this enchanting new read in the fan-favorite series from a USA Today bestselling author, garda of County Cork, Ireland, Siobhán O’Sullivan and Macdaras Flannery, are about to get married at last...
    Categorized as:
    realistic  female-mc  romance  mystery  cozy  fiction  audiobook  crime
  • Erased by Jennifer Rush

    Erased by Jennifer Rush

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    They thought they had escaped. They were wrong.After fleeing the Branch with Sam, Cas, and Nick, Anna is learning how to survive in hiding, following Sam's rules:Don't draw attention to yourself.Always carry a weapon.Know your surroundings.Watch your back.When memories from Anna's old life begin to resurface—and a figure from her childhood reappears—Anna's loyalties are tested...
  • In the Age of Love and Chocolate by Gabrielle Zevin

    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 Weight of the Stars by K. Ancrum

    The Weight of the Stars by K. Ancrum

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Ryann Bird dreams of traveling across the stars. But a career in space isn’t an option for a girl who lives in a trailer park on the wrong side of town. So Ryann becomes her circumstances and settles for acting out and skipping school to hang out with her delinquent friends. One day she meets Alexandria: a furious loner who spurns Ryann’s offer of friendship...
  • Skye Fall by Paige Edwards

    Skye Fall by Paige Edwards

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Isla Montjoy has it all, a new career in nursing and a police officer boyfriend she adores―until she stumbles across proof of her boyfriend’s corruption. Determined to protect his secrets, he attacks her and leaves her for dead. But against all odds, she lives...
  • Synnr's Saint by Kate Rudolph

    Synnr's Saint by Kate Rudolph

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Taken from Earth and used like a lab rat…Emily was a normal law student until she was abducted by aliens. Forced to perform death defying feats by night and undergoing medical tests by day, she doesn’t know how much longer she can take it. When one alien takes particular interest in her she’s afraid things have gone from bad to worse. He’s got wings and fangs, and he makes her heart pound...
  • Fury: Book One of The Cure by Charlotte McConaghy

    Fury: Book One of The Cure by Charlotte McConaghy

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When emotions are erased from the world, creating a civilization of mindless drones, only those with fury can survive. On the same day each year Josephine Luquet wakes naked, shivering and covered in blood that is not her own. Under the cold gaze of the blood moon she is someone else entirely, but when dawn breaks her memories vanish and she is left with only an icy horror, a burning fury...
  • Lose You to Find Me by Erik J. Brown

    Lose You to Find Me by Erik J. Brown

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A romantic, heartfelt, and hilarious queer coming-of-age story from All That's Left in the World author Erik J. Brown, perfect for fans of What If It’s Us and If This Gets Out.Tommy Dees is in the weeds—restaurant speak for beyond overwhelmed. He’s been working as a server at Sunset Estates retirement community to get the experience he needs to attend one of the best culinary schools in the world...
    Categorized as:
    realistic  sad  romance  contemporary  young-adult  lgbtq  fiction  mlm
  • The Treatment by Suzanne Young

    The Treatment by Suzanne Young

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Can Sloane and James survive the lies and secrets surrounding them, or will The Program claim them in the end? Find out in this sequel to The Program, which Publishers Weekly called “chilling and suspenseful.”How do you stop an epidemic?Sloane and James are on the run after barely surviving the suicide epidemic and The Program. But they’re not out of danger...
  • Free to Fall by Lauren Miller

    Free to Fall by Lauren Miller

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    What if there was an app that told you what song to listen to, what coffee to order, who to date, even what to do with your life—an app that could ensure your complete and utter happiness? What if you never had to fail or make a wrong choice?What if you never had to fall?Fast-forward to a time when Apple and Google have been replaced by Gnosis, a monolith corporation that has developed the most...
  • Hold Me by L.J. Baker

    Hold Me by L.J. Baker

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Nothing comes easy in a post-zombie-apocalyptic world and Andi is used to losing the people she cares about. But when Will gets infected so soon after getting him back, she can't accept the possibility that her life may have to go on without him...
  • Early Departures by Justin A. Reynolds

    Early Departures by Justin A. Reynolds

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Justin A. Reynolds, author of Opposite of Always, delivers another smart, funny, and powerful stand-alone YA contemporary novel, with a speculative twist in which Jamal’s best friend is brought back to life after a freak accident . . . but they only have a short time together before he will die again.Jamal’s best friend, Q, doesn’t know he’s about to die . . . again...
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    drama  realistic  sad  audiobook  book  contemporary  death  family
  • Belle of the Brawl by Lisi Harrison

    Belle of the Brawl by Lisi Harrison

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Eccentric billionaire Shira Brazille founded the super-exclusive Alpha Academy to nurture the next generation of exceptional dancers, writers, musicians, and inventors. It's a dream come true for one hundred lucky girls, but those not measuring up will be sent home at any time, for any reason. The one left standing will win worldwide fame...
  • Losing Me Finding You by Natalie Ward

    Losing Me Finding You by Natalie Ward

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The 29th of February, the day I was born.When I wake up on this day, I’m in a different city, with a different life and no memory of the lives I had before this one. Today is the tenth time this has happened to me. The tenth time I’ve had to figure out where the hell I am. The tenth time I’ve had to try and work out who the hell I am. This is the tenth alteration of the person I am...
    Categorized as:
    drama  female-mc  realistic  sad  angst  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Stilts by Tim O'Rourke

    Stilts by Tim O'Rourke

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From Tim O’Rourke, the #1 bestselling author of the Kiera Hudson series, comes Stilts, the first book in a new dystopian trilogy. While eighteen-year-old, Tessa Dark was serving her prison sentence for murder, the world beyond her cell walls changed forever. The thunder came and destroyed the world she had once known...
  • Escape from Eden by Elisa Nader

    Escape from Eden by Elisa Nader

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Since the age of ten, Mia has lived under the iron fist of the fundamentalist preacher who lured her mother away to join his fanatical family of followers. In Edenton, a supposed “Garden of Eden” deep in the South American jungle, everyone follows the Reverend’s strict but arbitrary rules—even the mandate of whom they can marry...
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