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  • Edge of Valor by Kyla Stone

    Edge of Valor by Kyla Stone

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    The final battle for Fall Creek looms......and not everyone will make it out alive. With enemies closing in on every side, the survivors of Fall Creek find themselves facing impossible odds. Do they flee for their lives? Or do they defend their town and risk losing it all? Some things are worth fighting for, dying for. This may be their last stand...
  • Edge of Anarchy by Kyla Stone

    Edge of Anarchy by Kyla Stone

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    What lines will you cross to keep your loved ones safe?Three weeks after the nation's power grid goes down, chaos reigns. Food supplies have dried up. Fuel is running low. And the bleak, brutal winter is relentless.Fall Creek has forged a shaky peace, but the cost for safety proves higher than some are willing to pay. The town is a powder keg waiting to explode...
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  • Edge of Survival by Kyla Stone

    Edge of Survival by Kyla Stone

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    The nation is crumbling. The world is unraveling. The EMP is only the beginning... Three months after an EMP attack destroys the U.S. power grid, starvation, disease, and the brutal cold have killed millions. With the end of winter finally in sight, the town of Fall Creek, Michigan balances on the precipice of collapse. They have suffered and sacrificed...
  • Edge of Defiance by Kyla Stone

    Edge of Defiance by Kyla Stone

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Freedom demands a price...Weeks after an EMP attack devastates the United States, the country is falling apart.Hannah, Liam, and the others have survived the brutal cold and violent adversaries,but the threat has never been greater. Enemies from within have taken control of the town--including what little remains of the food...
  • Edge of Darkness by Kyla Stone

    Edge of Darkness by Kyla Stone

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    A world without power, lights, transportation... Liam and Hannah continue their dangerous journey home. But they're hunted by a deadly adversary. Back home, Noah fights to protect both his son and the town of Juniper Springs, though someone is sabotaging his efforts. Preorder the explosive third book in the Edge of Collapse series now...
  • No. 6: The Manga, Volume 02 by Atsuko Asano

    No. 6: The Manga, Volume 02 by Atsuko Asano

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    "I KNEW NOTHING BEFORE TODAY." With the help of the enigmatic Rat, Shion becomes a fugitive, escaping No. 6 and getting his first glimpse of the desperation and violence that are facts of life outside the city wall...
  • Edge of Madness by Kyla Stone

    Edge of Madness by Kyla Stone

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    A devastating EMP. No power. No communication. And no help...On the five-year anniversary of his wife Hannah's disappearance, small-town deputy Noah Sheridan takes his young son Milo to a local ski resort for some much needed father-son time. In a blink, the power grid goes out. So do the resort's brand new generators...
  • Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness

    Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 52 ratings
    In the riveting conclusion to the acclaimed dystopian series, a boy and girl caught in the chaos of war face devastating choices that will decide the fate of a world.As a world-ending war surges around them, Todd and Viola face monstrous decisions. The indigenous Spackle, thinking and acting as one, have mobilized to avenge their murdered people...
  • Chobits, Omnibus 2 by CLAMP

    Chobits, Omnibus 2 by CLAMP

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    The conclusion of the best-selling Chobits saga! In a world where people rely on computers to escape loneliness, the logical conclusion is the persocom - attractive robot companions that are becoming everyone's boyfriend and girlfriend. Chi is a persocom, but she is also one of the legendary "Chobits," experimental persocoms built to acquire full awareness and emotion...
  • Chobits, Omnibus 1 by CLAMP

    Chobits, Omnibus 1 by CLAMP

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Some people buy their personal computers based on style... and in near-future Japan, the hottest style for your "persocom" is shaped like an attractive android Poor student Hideki, fresh off the farm and trying to get into a Tokyo university, has neither money nor a girlfriend - then finds a persocom seemingly discarded in an alley...
  • Defending the Galaxy by Maria V. Snyder

    Defending the Galaxy by Maria V. Snyder

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Year 2522. Oh. My. Stars.Junior Officer Ara Lawrence here, reporting for duty. Again. It's situation critical for the security team and everyone in the base - including my parents - with a new attack from the looters imminent, a possible galaxy-wide crime conspiracy and an unstoppable alien threat. But this all pales in the face of my mind-blowing discovery about the Q-net...
  • Nyxia by Scott Reintgen

    Nyxia by Scott Reintgen

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    What would you be willing to risk for a lifetime of fortune? Emmett Atwater isn’t just leaving Detroit; he’s leaving Earth. Why the Babel Corporation recruited him is a mystery, but the number of zeroes on their contract has him boarding their lightship and hoping to return to Earth with enough money to take care of his family. Forever...
  • Underground by Chris Morphew

    Underground by Chris Morphew

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Luke thought he knew who is enemies were. The Shackleton Co-operative. Calvin, the head of security. The whole town of Phoenix. But then Luke wakes up strapped to a metal chair in an underground lab. There are more enemies - and they've been waiting his whole life to track him down. Meanwhile, up on the surface, the people of Phoenix are beginning to disappear...
  • Aurora Rising by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

    Aurora Rising by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 57 ratings
    From the New York Times and internationally bestselling authors of the Illuminae Files comes a new science fiction epic . . .The year is 2380, and the graduating cadets of Aurora Academy are being assigned their first missions. Star pupil Tyler Jones is ready to recruit the squad of his dreams, but his own boneheaded heroism sees him stuck with the dregs nobody else in the academy would touch .
  • Heading Home by Susan Kiernan-Lewis

    Heading Home by Susan Kiernan-Lewis

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    What happens when the one thing you’ve been praying for turns out to be the one thing that will destroy you and everything you love? After two years of living and adjusting to life after the bomb, Sarah and her son, John, have discovered that happiness can trump grief and loss...
  • The 100 Boxed Set by Kass Morgan

    The 100 Boxed Set by Kass Morgan

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    New York Times bestseller The 100 --now available in a paperback boxed set!For centuries after a nuclear war destroyed the Earth, the human race has lived on spaceships far above the radioactive surface. Now, for one hundred juvenile delinquents, it's time to return home. Their recolonize the savage land. The future of humanity rests in their hands.Read the series that inspired the hit TV show...
  • Marked by Bridget E. Baker

    Marked by Bridget E. Baker

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    alternate cover edition of ASIN B07GSRLWBDIf one touch can infect... then a kiss is deadly. All Ruby Behl wants for her seventeenth birthday is a good career path match, and to kiss her best friend and long time crush, Wesley Fairchild. Unfortunately, the simplicity of teenage wishes evaporated a decade ago when the Tercera virus nearly wiped out the human race...
  • The Seventh Hour by Tracey Ward

    The Seventh Hour by Tracey Ward

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    When the Earth's rotation slowed to a crawl mankind was plunged into a harsh world of burning hot days and endless, arctic nights. Some fled to the mountains for shelter. Others took to the seas, sailing forever in the perfect gold between the night and the day; a place known as the Seventh Hour.Liv was raised aboard a ship chasing the Seventh...
  • Ascension by Victor Dixen

    Ascension by Victor Dixen

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 21 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...
  • Fire Country by David Estes

    Fire Country by David Estes

    Rated: 4.05 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...
  • Message Not Found by Dante Medema

    Message Not Found by Dante Medema

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    An emotionally complex portrayal of secrets, loss, and grief from Dante Medema, Indies Introduce author of the Indie Next Pick title The Truth Project.Bailey and Vanessa shared everything: laughter, secrets, and packets of Pop Rocks to ward off bad days. But that all changed the night Vanessa left Bailey’s, headed for home, and ended up swerving off a cliff nowhere near her house...
  • The Towering Sky by Katharine McGee

    The Towering Sky by Katharine McGee

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Welcome back to New York, 2119. A skyscraper city, fueled by impossible dreams, where the lives of five teenagers have become intertwined in ways that no one could have imagined.Leda just wants to move on from what happened in Dubai. Until a new investigation forces her to seek help—from the person she’s spent all year trying to forget.Rylin is back in her old life, reunited with an old flame...
  • Soul of Stars by Ashley Poston

    Soul of Stars by Ashley Poston

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The highly awaited sequel to Heart of Iron, Soul of Stars is a thrilling sci-fi adventure packed with romance, shocking twists, and witty banter, perfect for fans of Six of Crows and Cinder.Once, Ana was an orphaned space outlaw. Then she was the Empress of the Iron Kingdom...
  • Youngbloods by Scott Westerfeld

    Youngbloods by Scott Westerfeld

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    IT'S TIME TOCOME OUT OF HIDINGFrey has spent her life in a family of deceivers, a stand-in for her sister, manipulated at her father's command. Free from them at last, she is finding her own voice -- and using it to question everything her family stood for.Tally was once the most famous rebel in the world...
  • The Orphan Factory by James Morcan, Lance Morcan

    The Orphan Factory by James Morcan, Lance Morcan

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An epic, atmospheric story that begins with twenty three genetically superior orphans being groomed to become elite spies in Chicago's Pedemont Orphanage and concludes with a political assassination deep in the Amazon jungle. The Orphan Factory, a coming-of-age spy thriller novel, is book two in The Orphan Trilogy and a prequel to The Ninth Orphan...
  • Beneath the Shine by Sarah Fine

    Beneath the Shine by Sarah Fine

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When a very few have everything worth living for, those beneath the shine will stop at nothing to burn it all down.In a future United States where those who control technology control the wealth, seventeen-year-old Marguerite’s viral video propels a populist candidate to presidential victory on a platform of “tech for all...
  • Nameless by Jessica Sorensen

    Nameless by Jessica Sorensen

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    I live in a world where freedom doesn't exist, and life is a battle for survival. Most people aren't even allowed to have names.But I had a name once. I was Allura until the Wardens captured me.They told me I was a Nameless. That I was no one, and my sole purpose was to obey them. And, for a while, I believed them...
  • Glory by Maureen McGowan

    Glory by Maureen McGowan

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Glory is a Deviant. That is what she was always taught, growing up in the domed city of Haven. She has the power to kill with her gaze, but she’s learned to control this power and use it only against the monstrous Shredders, who survive on the asteroid dust that mutated their DNA.Now living in a settlement Outside, Glory has the chance to embrace her “Gift” and reunite her remaining family...
  • Supernova by Kass Morgan

    Supernova by Kass Morgan

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    The 100 meets Ender's Game in the captivating and romantic sequel to Light Years from New York Times bestselling author Kass Morgan!With a galaxy on the brink of war and loyalties divided, the friendship of four Quatra Fleet cadets will be tested as their greatest enemy closes in.Arrested for espionage, Orelia's future is looking bleak . .
  • The Magic Wakes by Charity Bradford

    The Magic Wakes by Charity Bradford

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Since childhood, scientist Talia Zaryn has been haunted by recurring dreams, visions of an alien attack on her planet Sendek. Each time it ends abruptly with Talia’s death in the capital city Joharadin, a city that she has spent her life desperately avoiding. Talia keeps these dreams a secret, hoping they are nothing more than childish nightmares...
  • The Complex by C. Zaragoza

    The Complex by C. Zaragoza

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Complex - a young adult novelHelena Linx is dying. Isolated and quarantined for over a decade, sixteen-year-old Helena lives in a virtual utopia run by a council of doctors bent on saving the world from a fatal and almost incurable disease. The pandemic has been contained, but she and hundreds of others are still waiting to be cured...
  • The Stellow Project by Shari Becker

    The Stellow Project by Shari Becker

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    When a killer storm unexpectedly hits Manhattan, seventeen-year-old Lilah Stellow’s dad insists that she and her younger sister, Flori, take refuge at their cabin in the mountains. But instead of joining them with the experimental drug that keeps Lilah alive, he disappears just as news reports name him as a prime suspect in an act of ecoterrorism...
  • Elixir by Ted Galdi

    Elixir by Ted Galdi

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Meet 14-year-old Sean Malone. He has an IQ above 200, a full-ride scholarship to one of the country’s top universities, and more than one million dollars from his winning streak on Jeopardy. However, Sean wishes he could just be normal. But his life is anything but normal...
  • Defy the Fates by Claudia Gray

    Defy the Fates by Claudia Gray

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 19 ratings
    Hunted and desperate.Abel only has one mission left that matters: save the life of Noemi Vidal. To do that, he not only has to escape the Genesis authorities, he also must face the one person in the galaxy who still has the means to destroy him. Burton Mansfield's consciousness lives on, desperate for a home, and Abel's own body is his last bargaining chip. Alone in the universe...
  • Mind Games by Teri Terry

    Mind Games by Teri Terry

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Luna is a no-hoper with a secret: in a world of illusion, she can see what is real. But can she see the truth before it is too late? Luna has always been able to exist in virtual and real worlds at the same time, a secret she is warned to keep. She hides her ability by being a Refuser: excluded by choice from the virtual spheres others inhabit...
  • A Million Suns by Beth Revis

    A Million Suns by Beth Revis

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 57 ratings
    Godspeed was once 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. Everywhere she looks, she sees the walls of the spaceship Godspeed . But there may be hope: Elder has assumed leadership of the ship. He's finally free to act on his vision—no more Phydus, no more lies...
  • Mindwalker by A.J. Steiger

    Mindwalker by A.J. Steiger

    Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    At seventeen, Lain Fisher has already aced the Institute's elite training program for Mindwalkers, therapists who use a direct neural link to erase a patient's traumatic memories. A prodigy and the daughter of a renowned scientist-whose unexplained death left her alone in the world-Lain is driven by the need to save others...
  • The Pretenders by Rebecca Hanover

    The Pretenders by Rebecca Hanover

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In this conclusion to The Similars duology, Emma must figure out who she really is, decide between two boys with the same face, and stop a dangerous plan based on revenge.Emma is still reeling from the events of her junior year at Darkwood...
  • The Body Institute by Carol Riggs

    The Body Institute by Carol Riggs

    Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Are we our minds... or our bodies?Meet Morgan Dey, one of the top teen Reducers at The Body Institute.Thanks to cutting-edge technology, Morgan can temporarily take over another girl’s body, get her in shape, and then return to her own body—leaving her client slimmer, more toned, and feeling great. Only there are a few catches…For one, Morgan won’t remember what happens in her “Loaner” body...
  • In the After by Demitria Lunetta

    In the After by Demitria Lunetta

    Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    They hear the most silent of footsteps. They are faster than anything you've ever seen. And They won't stop chasing you...until you are dead. Amy is watching TV when it happens, when the world is attacked by Them. These vile creatures are rapidly devouring mankind. Most of the population is overtaken, but Amy manages to escape—and even rescue “Baby,” a toddler left behind in the chaos...
  • Outside In by Maria V. Snyder

    Outside In by Maria V. Snyder

    Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Me? A leader? Okay, I did prove that there's more to Inside than we knew. That a whole world exists beyond this cube we live in. And finding that led to a major rebellion—between worker scrubs like me and the snobby uppers who rule our world. Make that ruled. Because of me, we're free...
  • The Rule of Mirrors by Caragh M. O'Brien

    The Rule of Mirrors by Caragh M. O'Brien

    Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    At the remote, exclusive Chimera Centre, families of coma patients come from all over the world seeking miracles. When Althea Flores wakes up from a six-month coma, her recovery defies the limits of hope and science—except she can’t remember anything about her own life. Instead, she has all the memories of Rosie Sinclair, the missing Forge Show star, and she’s pregnant...
  • As They Slip Away by Beth Revis

    As They Slip Away by Beth Revis

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Taking place on the spaceship Godspeed before Amy Martin wakes up and Elder takes leadership, this novella describes life at the Hospital during Eldest's reign. Focusing primarily on background characters, readers will see fan-favorite characters Harley, Orion, Victria, and more. Selene is a singer on a spaceship that only values people who can provide important skills that enhance survival...
  • The Taking by Kimberly Derting

    The Taking by Kimberly Derting

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    A flash of white light . . . and then . . . nothing. When sixteen-year-old Kyra Agnew wakes up behind a Dumpster at the Gas ’n’ Sip, she has no memory of how she got there. With a terrible headache and a major case of déjà vu, she heads home only to discover that five years have passed . . . yet she hasn’t aged a day. Everything else about Kyra’s old life is different...
  • Toxic by Lydia Kang

    Toxic by Lydia Kang

    Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Hana isn't supposed to exist. She's grown up hidden by her mother in a secret room of the bioship Cyclo until the day her mother is simple gone - along with the entire crew. Cyclo tells her she was abandoned, but she's certain her mother wouldn't leave her there to die. And Hana isn't ready to die yet. She's never really had a chance to live.Fenn is supposed to die...
  • Scan by Walter Jury, Sarah Fine

    Scan by Walter Jury, Sarah Fine

    Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A riveting, fast-paced adventure, Scan is a clever alien thriller with muscle and heart. Tate and his father don’t exactly get along. As Tate sees it, his father has unreasonably high expectations for Tate to be the best—at everything...
  • Unearthed by Amie Kaufman, Meagan Spooner

    Unearthed by Amie Kaufman, Meagan Spooner

    Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    When Earth intercepts a message from a long-extinct alien race, it seems like the solution the planet has been waiting for. The Undying's advanced technology has the potential to undo environmental damage and turn lives around, and Gaia, their former home planet, is a treasure trove waiting to be uncovered...
  • Your One & Only by Adrianne Finlay

    Your One & Only by Adrianne Finlay

    Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Jack is a walking fossil. The only human among a sea of clones. It’s been hundreds of years since humanity died off in the slow plague, leaving the clones behind to carry on human existence. Over time they’ve perfected their genes, moving further away from the imperfections of humanity...
  • The Kingdom by Jess Rothenberg

    The Kingdom by Jess Rothenberg

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Welcome to the Kingdom... where 'Happily Ever After' isn't just a promise, but a rule. Glimmering like a jewel behind its gateway, The Kingdom is an immersive fantasy theme park where guests soar on virtual dragons, castles loom like giants, and bioengineered species--formerly extinct--roam free.Ana is one of seven Fantasists, beautiful "princesses" engineered to make dreams come true...
  • The Life Below by Alexandra Monir

    The Life Below by Alexandra Monir

    Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    As Naomi lifts off into space and away from a rapidly deteriorating Earth, she watches the world fade away, and along with it Leo, a Final Six contestant she grew close to during training. Leaving Earth behind is hard, but what’s ahead, on Europa, could be worse...
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