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Universal Alien by Gini Koch
10 ratingsBeing the wife of the Vice President isn’t easy. Especially when your talents lie in kicking butt and rocking out . . .Jeff and Kitty Katt-Martini find out just how easy it is for the wife of the Vice President of the United States to unintentionally insult an ally... -
Generation One by Pittacus Lore
18 ratingsThe first book in a pulse-pounding new series that's set in the world of the #1 New York Times bestselling I Am Number Four series. The war may be over—but for the next generation, the battle has just begun!It has been over a year since the invasion of Earth was thwarted in Pittacus Lore's United as One... -
Madas’s Falling Star / Madas’s Unexpected Gift by S.E. Smith
6 ratingsMadas’s Unexpected GiftCan a small reptile from another world save the Princess he has adopted?L’eon, a Chameleon Lightning Lizard, awakens to find that his planet was destroyed by an unidentified force... -
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Loved and Lost: Author's Edition by Stephanie E. Kusiak
8 ratingsBlake 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... -
Pancakes by Manna Francis
8 ratingsAnother short story based on The Administration series. Warrick's and Toreth's relationship goes to the next level but it frightens Toreth off... -
Gentlemen Prefer Villains by C. Rochelle
8 ratingsSimonI needed to get the hell out of Big City.The only reason I was living in this American wasteland was because my mother insisted I reconcile with my estranged father. That the idea came to her while drunk on the French bubbly should have been my sign to stay right where I belonged.Anywhere but here. Certainly somewhere more fabulous... -
Nowhere Near You by Leah Thomas
12 ratingsFollowing up her acclaimed debut, Because You'll Never Meet Me, Leah Thomas continues the stories of Ollie and Moritz in another heart-warming story of unique friendship.Ollie and Moritz might never meet, but their friendship knows no bounds... -
Luna 174 by Clara Duarte
6 ratingsLuna Hatton tiene veinte años y vive en un pueblucho de Australia.Su vida parece normal, incluso aburrida: trabaja en una cafetería, toca la batería en un grupo. No es nadie importante. Aun así, Luna tiene un secreto que la persigue desde que era una niña: es capaz de ver el color del alma de las personas. Casi todas son grises. El gris es el color que cubre el mundo, y eso siempre ha sido así... -
Deacon by Kit Rocha
10 ratingsBook #2 in explosive new series from bestselling author Kit Rocha...Ana has trained most of her life to achieve one goal: to prove that anything men can do, she can do better. Now she’s Sector One’s first female Rider, and being the best is the only way to ensure she won’t be its last... -
Seized by Tana Stone
12 ratingsHow unlucky do you have to be to get abducted by aliens. . . twice? Snatched from Earth to be a bride for a bad-ass race of warriors, Bridget has barely gotten used to her new life on the high-tech Drexian space station when she’s abducted again. This time the aliens are vicious and bloodthirsty, and they have very different plans for the pretty human... -
The Navigator by Pittacus Lore
14 ratingsIn this astonishing one-hundred-page companion novella to the New York Times bestselling I Am Number Four series, meet Lexa, a Loric hacker whose unrivaled skills helped her narrowly escape her doomed planet, and who's been hiding on Earth ever since.Lexa was never part of the Elders' plan. She had no idea the Garde children were being evacuated to our planet...Categorized as:
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Bear the Burn by Anya Nowlan
6 ratingsThe burn might be hotter than either of them could handle... Tiana Rossum's mad. Really mad. The owner of a successful bakery in Dallas, she's learned to not trust those around her the hard way... -
Ada Twist and the Perilous Pants by Andrea Beaty, Bahni Turpin
8 ratingsAda Twist is full of questions. A scientist to her very core, Ada asks why again and again. One question always leads to another until she’s off on a journey of discovery! When Rosie Revere’s Uncle Ned gets a little carried away wearing his famous helium pants, it’s up to Ada and friends to chase him down... -
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Active Memory by Dan Wells
8 ratingsFrom Dan Wells, author of the New York Times bestselling Partials Sequence and the John Cleaver series, comes the third and final book in the dark, pulse-pounding, sci-fi neo-noir series that began with the acclaimed novel Bluescreen... -
Uncanny Magazine Issue 15: March/April 2017 by Lynne M. Thomas, Michael Damian Thomas
10 ratingsThe March/April 2017 issue of Uncanny Magazine.Featuring new fiction by Beth Cato, Stephen Graham Jones, JY Yang, Sarah Pinsker, and S. Qiouyi Lu, reprinted fiction by Kameron Hurley, essays by Sam J. Miller, Elsa Sjunneson-Henry, Shveta Thakrar, Dawn Xiana Moon, and Paul Booth, poetry by Cassandra Khaw, Brandon O’Brien, Bogi Takács, and Lisa M... -
Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology by Ann VanderMeer, Eleanor Arnason
12 ratingsSisters of the Revolution gathers a highly curated selection of feminist speculative fiction (science fiction, fantasy, horror and more) chosen by one of the most respected editorial teams in speculative literature today, the award-winning Ann and Jeff VanderMeer... -
The Cybernetic Tea Shop by Meredith Katz
14 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... -
The Grief Keeper by Alexandra Villasante
14 ratingsThis 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... -
The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On by Franny Choi
14 ratingsFrom acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds--past, present, and future. Choi's third book features poems about historical and impending apocalypses, alongside musings on our responsibilities to each other and visions for our collective survival.Many have called our time dystopian... -
The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez
18 ratingsA mysterious child lands in the care of a solitary woman, changing both of their lives forever in this captivating debut of connection across space and time."This is when your life begins."Nia Imani is a woman out of place and outside of time... -
Soft Science by Franny Choi
14 ratingsSoft Science explores queer, Asian American femininity. A series of Turing Test-inspired poems grounds its exploration of questions not just of identity, but of consciousness―how to be tender and feeling and still survive a violent world filled with artificial intelligence and automation... -
Blood by Francine Pascal
12 ratingsGaia Moore is genetically incapable of feeling fear. Following the death of a friend, for which she holds herself responsible, Gaia is in the grip of depression. She spends her days looking for fear, and it's becoming a death wish... -
Grievers by Adrienne Maree Brown
12 ratingsA tale of what happens when we can no longer ignore what has been lost in this world.Grievers is the story of a city so plagued by grief that it can no longer function. Dune’s mother is patient zero of a mysterious illness that stops people in their tracks—in mid-sentence, mid-action, mid-life—casting them into a nonresponsive state from which no one recovers... -
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Prime Meridian by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
10 ratingsLove, life, dreams, and a world beyond reach.Amelia dreams of Mars. The Mars of the movies and the imagination, an endless bastion of opportunities for a colonist with some guts... -
Bug Week by Airini Beautrais
6 ratingsA science educator in domestic chaos fetishises Scandinavian furniture and champagne flutes. A group of white-collar deadbeats attend a swinger’s party in the era of drunk Muldoon. A pervasive smell seeps through the walls of a German housing block. A seabird performs at an open-mic night... -
Portable Curiosities by Julie Koh
6 ratingsA biting collection of stories from a bold new voice. A young girl sees ghosts from her third eye, located where her belly button should be. A corporate lawyer feels increasingly disconnected from his job in a soulless 1200-storey skyscraper... -
Clip by Charity Parkerson
6 ratingsLuka was nothing more than a job to Brady… until he wasn’t. When the owner of the Phoenix Ice Rays starts receiving death threats, the first thing he does is hire Brady to protect his son, Luka. It’s a move that leaves Luka less than thrilled. Ever since moving out on his own six years earlier, he’s come to embrace the silence of his workaholic ways... -
Cool. Awkward. Black. by Amerie, Kalynn Bayron
6 ratingsA multi-genre YA anthology of bestselling, critically acclaimed Black authors challenging the concept of the geek, featuring contributions from Amerie, Kalynn Bayron, Terry J. Benton-Walker, Roseanne A. Brown, Elise Bryant, Tracy Deonn, Desiree S. Evans, Isaac Fitzsimons, Lamar Giles, Jordan Ifueko, Leah Johnson, Amanda Joy, Kwame Mbalia, Tochi Onyebuchi, Shari B. Pennant, K... -
Heat by Francine Pascal
12 ratingsNow Gaia has told her secret to a true friend she begins to soften a little. There is a even a hint of happiness as she, Mary and Ed become inseparable. But heartache and danger are just around the corner...Categorized as:
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Gonzalez & Daughter Trucking Co.: A Road Novel with Literary License by María Amparo Escandón
12 ratingsFrom the author of L.A. Weather comes “a whimsical, humorous, and passionate mystery that explores the love and hurt of a father and daughter on the run” (Jorge Ramos, News Anchor for Univision).“1,001 nights in a Mexicali women’s prison . . . González and Daughter Trucking Co. is about our compulsion to make events into stories and stories into bridges of understanding... -
Everything But by Jade C. Jamison
10 ratingsHigh school English teacher Erin Lancaster is stuck with the unwelcome job of filling in for the injured cheerleading coach, but she wants to back out when she discovers she has to be auctioned as a date during the annual spring fundraiser... -
Superior by Jessica Lack
10 ratingsA superhero's intern falls in love with a supervillain's apprentice in this star-crossed LGBT YA story from The Book Smugglers. Here's the thing about being a superhero intern: there's a lot less crime fighting than you think there will be, what with the whole liability issue and the administrative headache of constantly monitoring the Heroic Help Hotline... -
Secrets of the Henna Girl by Sufiya Ahmed
10 ratingsLife as Zeba knows it could be over for good . . .Zeba Khan is like any other sixteen-year-old girl: enjoying herself, waiting for exam results . . . and dreaming of the day she'll meet her one true love.Except her parents have other plans.In Pakistan for the summer, Zeba's world is shattered. Her future is threatened by an unthinkable - and forced - duty to protect her father's honour...Categorized as:
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Silk Sisters: Pink Chameleon by Fiona Dunbar
8 ratingsIn the not too distant future, Rorie and Elsie's parents have disappeared. Just like that. And with only their cruel uncle to look after them, the girls are swept off to his miserable boarding school. But the sisters are determined to escape their uncle's grip - and discover the truth behind their parents' disappearance.. -
Daredreamers: A Start-up of Superheroes by Kartik Sharma, Ravi Nirmal Sharma
8 ratingsIndia’s first start-up of superheroes with a mission of saving lives is here to kick ass. Rasiq is riding the highs of life thanks to his successes as an investment banker. But his arrogance soon gets the better of him and he ends up losing everything he holds dear... -
Event Factory by Renee Gladman
8 ratingsA “linguist-traveler” arrives by plane to Ravicka, a city of yellow air in which an undefined crisis is causing the inhabitants to flee. Although fluent in the native language, she quickly finds herself on the outside of every experience. Things happen to her, events transpire, but it is as if the city itself, the performance of life there, eludes her... -
Bending The Landscape: Science Fiction by Nicola Griffith, J.K. Potter
6 ratingsEdited by world-renowned lesbian fantasy author Nicola Griffith and fantasy publisher Stephen Pagel, this groundbreaking anthology of all-original science fiction stories brings together some of mainstream's and science fiction's most notable writers -- gay and straight -- creating worlds where time and place and sexuality are alternative to the empirical environment... -
Love at First Hate by J.L. Merrow
6 ratingsFirst impressions can doom second chances.Bran Roscarrock has been living in the closet all his life. As heir to an expansive family legacy in the town of Porthkennack, old-fashioned ideals of respectability and duty were drummed into him since childhood, and he’s never dared to live—or love—openly... -
Shaken and Stirred by Aiden Bates
6 ratingsOmega Sam Marlowe hasn’t always had an easy life, but he’s got everything he needs now. He co-owns a biker bar with his brother, Silas. They live upstairs, and they rent out the other apartments upstairs. He’s got his bike, and he doesn’t have much else that he could ask for. He doesn’t have a steady alpha, but he doesn’t need that. It’s just him and Silas, and they’re happy with that... -
Wanted: Sweet Daddy by Sammi Cee
6 ratingsWanted: Sweet DaddyA Love On Tap Prequel NovellaAfter watching his parents’ unhappy marriage, and living through a hellish relationship of his own, all Timothy wants is a Daddy to be sweet to him. When he runs into Jackson, the epitome of everything he’s always wanted, he has to decide if he’s willing to take a chance.Jackson’s adored Timothy from afar since the minute they met... -
The Barbarian's Treasure by Eva O'Hare
6 ratingsA group of friends get together for a once-in-a-lifetime vacation on a chartered cruise only to find themselves lost at sea, at least so they think. They come upon an island full of mystery, wonder, and love... -
Heat and Light by Ellen Van Neerven
10 ratingsIn ‘Heat’, we meet several generations of the Kresinger family and the legacy left by the mysterious Pearl. In ‘Water’, a futuristic world is imagined and the fate of a people threatened. In ‘Light’, familial ties are challenged and characters are caught between a desire for freedom and a sense of belonging... -
Ink by Sabrina Vourvoulias
8 ratingsWhat happens when rhetoric about immigrants escalates to an institutionalized population control system? The near-future, dark speculative novel INK opens as a biometric tattoo is approved for use to mark temporary workers, permanent residents and citizens with recent immigration history - collectively known as inks. Set in a fictional city and small, rural town in the U.S... -
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Meet Us by the Roaring Sea by Akil Kumarasamy
8 ratingsIn the near future, a young woman finds her mother's body starfished on the kitchen floor in Queens and sets on a journey through language, archives, artificial intelligence, and TV for a way back into herself...Categorized as:
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Girls with Razor Hearts by Suzanne Young
16 ratingsIt’s time to fight back in this second novel in a thrilling, subversive near future series from New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Young about a girls-only private high school that is far more than it appears to be.Make me a girl with a razor heart…It’s been weeks since Mena and the other girls of Innovations Academy escaped their elite boarding school... -
Ayrie by Lisa Lace
6 ratingsan alternate edition can be found hereWelcome to my life as an Intergalactic Mail Order Bride.Welcome to Hell.I just traveled halfway across the galaxy to meet my new husband.With no women left on Auxem, the aliens turned to Earth for their brides.But nothing's happened the way I imagined.He hardly speaks to me... -
Half Life by Lillian Clark
6 ratingsAn overachiever enrolls in an experimental clone study to prove that two (of her own) heads are better than one in this fast-paced, near-future adventure that's Black Mirror meets Becky Albertalli... -
The Untimely Deaths of Alex Wayfare by M.G. Buehrlen
6 ratingsAs Alex's sister loses the fight against cancer, a race for a cure sends Alex traveling back and forth through time, dodging enemy Descenders who seem to know Alex's every move before she does. Realizing her enemies have privileged information, Alex fears there is a traitor hiding within the small band of allies she's grown to trust. A traitor who might bring Gesh straight to Alex's front door... -
Mimi Lee Cracks the Code by Jennifer J. Chow
6 ratingsWhen murder follows Mimi Lee to her romantic island getaway, she puts on her best sleuthing hat with her sassy cat in tow in this adventurous cozy mystery by Jennifer J. Chow...
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