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Alienated

Melissa Landers · 346 pages

High school senior Cara Sweeney gets more than she bargained for when she agrees to participate in Earth's first intergalactic high school exchange program. High-school senior Cara Sweeney gets more than she bargained for when she agrees to participate in Earth's first intergalactic high-school exchange program. The plot contains profanity, sexual situations, and violence. Book #1

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Grimspace

Ann Aguirre · 316 pages

As the carrier of a rare gene, Sirantha Jax has the ability to jump ships through grimspace-a talent which makes her a highly prized navigator for the Corp. Then a crash landing kills everyone on board, leaving Jax in a jail cell with no memory of the crash. But her fun's not over. A group of rogue fighters frees her...for a price: her help in overthrowing the established order.

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Wandering Star

Romina Russell · 349 pages

Orphaned, disgraced, and stripped of her title, Rho is ready to live life quietly, as an aid worker in the Cancrian refugee camp on House Capricorn. But news has spread that the Marad--an unbalanced terrorist group determined to overturn harmony in the Galaxy--could strike any House at any moment. Then, unwelcome nightmare that he is, Ochus appears to Rho, bearing a cryptic message that leaves her

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Obsidian

Jennifer L. Armentrout · 335 pages

When seventeen-year-old Katy Swartz moved to West Virginia right before her senior year, she'd pretty much resigned herself to thick accents, dodgy internet access, and a whole lot of boring, but then she spotted her hot neighbor, with his looming height and eerie green eyes.

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Fluency

Jennifer Foehner Wells · 364 pages

NASA discovered the alien ship lurking in the asteroid belt in the 1960s. They kept the Target under intense surveillance for decades, letting the public believe they were exploring the solar system, while they worked feverishly to refine the technology needed to reach it.

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The Host

Stephenie Meyer · 648 pages

The author of the Twilight series of # 1 bestsellers delivers her brilliant first novel for adults: a gripping story of love and betrayal in a future with the fate of humanity at stake. Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. The earth has been invaded by a species that take over the minds of their human hosts while leaving their bodies intact, and most of humanity has succumbed.Wanderer, the invadi

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Endurance

S.L. Viehl · 408 pages

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Broken Skies

Theresa Kay · 291 pages

"Thirty years ago, civilization collapsed. Few survived. Ten years ago, the aliens arrived and stayed. One year ago, I killed two men and went a little crazy. Today, the aliens took my brother and I will do anything to get him back' -- Provided by publisher.

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Turning Point

Lisanne Norman · 267 pages

Here is the memorable tale of a human colony world cut off from Earth by alien conquerors. It is the story, too, of a young woman gifted with mind powers who forms a telepathic bond with a catlike humanoid from a crashed starship--a first contact which may prove key to the survival of both races.

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The Diabolic

S.J. Kincaid · 416 pages

Nemesis is a Diabolic, a humanoid teenager and the galaxy's most deadly weapon, who masquerades as Sidonia, a senator's daughter, and becomes a hostage of the galactic court.

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Born of Fire

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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The Star King

Susan Grant

Careening out of control in her fighter jet was only the start of the wildest ride of Jasmine's life; it was nothing like her loss of equilibrium when she landed. There, in a half dream Jas saw him, a man more powerfully compelling than any she'd ever encountered.

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Carve the Mark

Veronica Roth · 512 pages

On a planet where violence and vengeance rule, in a galaxy where some are favored by fate, everyone develops a currentgift, a unique power meant to shape the future. While most benefit from their currentgifts, Akos and Cyra do not -- their gifts make them vulnerable to others’ control. Can they reclaim their gifts, their fates, and their lives, and reset the balance of power in this world? Cyra is

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Dark Minds

Michelle Diener · 286 pages

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Saga, Vol. 1

Brian K. Vaughan · 160 pages

From New York Times bestselling writer BRIAN K.VAUGHAN (Y: THE LAST MAN, EX MACHINA) and critically acclaimed artist FIONA STAPLES (MYSTERY SOCIETY, NORTH 40), SAGA is the sweeping tale of one young family fighting to find their place in the worlds. When two soldiers from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war fall in love, they risk everything to bring a fragile new life into a dangerous o

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Defiant

Brandon Sanderson · 433 pages

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson comes the final book in an epic series about a girl who will travel beyond the stars to save the world she loves from destruction. Spensa made it out of the Nowhere, but what she saw in the space between the stars has changed her forever. She came face to face with the Delvers, and finally got answers to the questions she's had about

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The Rules

Stacey Kade

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Saven Deception

Siobhan Davis

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Hover

Melissa West · 352 pages

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Defy the Stars

Claudia Gray · 528 pages

*She's a soldier.* Noemi Vidal is seventeen years old and sworn to protect her planet, Genesis. She's willing to risk anything--including her own life. To their enemies on Earth, she's a rebel. *He's a machine.* Abandoned in space for years, utterly alone, Abel has advanced programming that's begun to evolve. He wants only to protect his creator, and to be free. To the people of Genesis,

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Gabriel's Ghost

Linnea Sinclair, Megan Sybil Baker · 463 pages

Award-winning author Linnea Sinclair brings her special sizzle to science fiction with this action-packed blend of otherworldly adventure and sexy stellar romance....After a decade of piloting interstellar patrol ships, former captain Chasidah Bergren, onetime pride of the Sixth Fleet, finds herself court-martialed for a crime she didn't commit--and shipped off to a remote prison planet from which

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Heaven's Queen

Rachel Bach · 394 pages

"From the moment she took a job on Captain Caldswell's doomed ship, Devi Morris' life has been one disaster after another: government conspiracies, two alien races out for her blood, an incurable virus that's eating her alive. Now, with the captain missing and everyone -- even her own government -- determined to hunt her down, things are going from bad to impossible. The sensible plan would be to

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Alien Conquest

Tracy St. John

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