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Earth Star

Janet Edwards · 384 pages

"Romance, science fiction, action, and a look at the false assumptions we make about others combine in this light-hearted, fun, and well-conceived science fiction future. Only She Can Save the World. Eighteen-year-old Jarra has a lot to prove. After being awarded one of the military's highest honors for her role in a daring rescue attempt, she finds herself--and her Ape status--in the spotlight. J

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Cinder

Marissa Meyer · 448 pages

Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth's fate hinges on one girl. . . . Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She's a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister's illness. But when

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Things Not Seen

Andrew Clements · 251 pages

Bobby Phillips is an average fifteen-year-old-boy. Until the morning he wakes up and can't see himself in the mirror. Not blind, not dreaming-Bobby is just plain invisible. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to Bobby's new condition; even his dad the physicist can't figure it out. For Bobby that means no school, no friends, no life. He's a missing person. Then he meets Alicia. She's blin

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Formerly Shark Girl

Kelly Bingham

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The Scourge

A.G. Henley · 268 pages

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Otherbound

Corinne Duyvis · 403 pages

A seventeen-year-old boy finds that every time he closes his eyes, he's drawn into the body of a mute servant girl from another world--a world that's growing increasingly more dangerous, and where many things are not as they seem. A 17-year-old boy finds that every time he closes his eyes, he is drawn into the body of a mute servant girl from another world, a world that is growing increasingly

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Storm and Fury

Jennifer L. Armentrout · 512 pages

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The Islands at the End of the World

Austin Aslan · 371 pages

Stranded in Honolulu when a strange cloud causes a worldwide electronics failure, sixteen-year-old Leilani and her father must make their way home to Hilo amid escalating perils, including her severe epilepsy.

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Lock In

John Scalzi · 336 pages

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Dangerous

Shannon Hale · 410 pages

When aspiring astronaut Maisie Danger Brown, who was born without a right hand, and the other space camp students get the opportunity to do something amazing in space, Maisie must prove how dangerous she can be and how far she is willing to go to protect everything she has ever loved.

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Reign of Shadows

Sophie Jordan · 320 pages

Seventeen years ago, an eclipse cloaked the kingdom of Relhok in perpetual darkness. In the chaos, an evil chancellor murdered the king and queen and seized their throne. Luna, Relhok’s lost princess, has been hiding in a tower ever since. Luna’s survival depends on the world believing she is dead. But that doesn’t stop Luna from wanting more. When she meets Fowler, a mysterious archer braving

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Light

Michael Grant · 432 pages

"Answers to every mystery of the FAYZ are revealed, unexpected heroes emerge as sacrifices are made, and the Darkness is finally conquered by a force even more powerful than itself in this conclusion to the Gone series"--

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The War that Saved My Life

Kimberly Brubaker Bradley · 349 pages

Nine-year-old Ada has never left her one-room apartment. Her mother is too humiliated by Ada’s twisted foot to let her outside. So when her little brother Jamie is shipped out of London to escape the war, Ada doesn’t waste a minute—she sneaks out to join him. So begins a new adventure of Ada, and for Susan Smith, the woman who is forced to take the two kids in. As Ada teaches herself to ride a

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The Ship Who Sang

Anne McCaffrey · 248 pages

From back cover of Del Rey paperback 1979: HELVA HAD BEEN BORN HUMAN ... but only her brain had been saved -- saved to be schooled, programmed and implanted in the sleek, titanium body of an intergalactic scout ship. But first she had to choose a human partner -- male or female -- to share her exhilarating escapades in space! Her life was to be rich and rewarding -- resplendent with dari

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Ten Tiny Breaths

K.A. Tucker · 262 pages

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Because You'll Never Meet Me

Leah Thomas · 352 pages

Ollie and Moritz are two teenagers who will never meet. Each of them lives with a life-affecting illness. Contact with electricity sends Ollie into debilitating seizures. Moritz has a heart defect and is kept alive by an electronic pacemaker. If they did meet, Ollie would seize. But turning off the pacemaker would kill Moritz. Through an exchange of letters, the two boys develop a strong bond of f

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The Six

Mark Alpert · 373 pages

Adam's muscular dystrophy has stolen his motility, his friends, and in a few short years, it will take his life. Virtual reality games are Adam's only escape from his wheelchair. In his alternate world, he can defeat anyone. Running, jumping, scoring touchdowns: Adam is always the hero. Then an artificial intelligence program, Sigma, hacks into Adam's game. Created by Adam's computer-genius father

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WWW: Watch

Robert J. Sawyer · 352 pages

Blind from birth, Caitlin Decter received the gift of sight from a signal-processing retinal implant. But she can also "see" the digital data streams of the World Wide Web and a presence that lives within it. As Webmind works with Caitlin to understand her world, a secret government agency becomes aware of this new "intruder."

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World After

Susan Ee · 336 pages

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The Rapture

Liz Jensen

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Lair of Dreams

Libba Bray · 592 pages

The longing of dreams draws the dead, and this city holds many dreams. After a supernatural showdown with a serial killer, Evie O'Neill has outed herself as a Diviner. With her uncanny ability to read people's secrets, she's become a media darling, and earned the title "America's Sweetheart Seer." Everyone's in love with the city's newest It Girl...everyone except the other Diviners. Piano-p

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A Silent Voice, Vol. 5

Yoshitoki Oima · 192 pages

Despite their tense pasts, Shoya begins to embrace the friend group that used to terrorize Shoko because she couldn’t hear. Now that summer vacation is in full swing, the crew can work together to film Tomohiro’s eccentric movie. Each fun-filled day lazily passes by, but doubt tugs at Shoya’s heavy heart and he is desperate to cling on to meaningful moments before they are gone…

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Vorkosigan's Game

Lois McMaster Bujold · 492 pages

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