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Empress of a Thousand Skies

Rhoda Belleza - Razorbill
Format: Print book

For fans of Pierce Brown and Firefly comes an epic sci-fi fantasy that Kiersten White, author of And I Darken, calls "dazzling--an adventure as sweeping in scope as the galaxies it spans!"Empress Rhee, also known as Crown Princess Rhiannon Ta'an, is the sole surviving...
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Contagion

ERIN BOWMAN - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

Edgar Award Nominee for Best Young Adult MysteryPerfect for fans of Madeleine Roux, Jonathan Maberry, and horror films like 28 Days Later and Resident Evil, this pulse-pounding, hair-raising, utterly terrifying novel is the first in a duology from the critically acclaimed author of the Taken...
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A Conspiracy of Stars

OLIVIA A COLE - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Hardcover

Enter the vivid and cinematic world of Faloiv in the first book of this dazzling YA sci-fi/fantasy duology, perfect for fans of Carve the Mark, Red Rising, and These Broken Stars. Octavia has always dreamed of becoming a whitecoat, one of the prestigious N'Terra scientists who study the natural...
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On the Edge of Gone

Corinne Duyvis - Harry N. Abrams
Format: Paperback

A thrilling, thought-provoking novel from one of young-adult literatures boldest new talents. January 29, 2035. Thats the day the comet is scheduled to hit - the big one. Denise and her mother and sister, Iris, have been assigned to a temporary shelter outside their hometown of Amsterdam...
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A Thousand Pieces of You (Firebird, 1)

Claudia Gray - HarperTeen
Format: Paperback

Cloud Atlas meets Orphan Black in this epic dimension-bending trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Claudia Gray about a girl who must chase her fathers killer through multiple dimensions.Marguerite Caines physicist parents are known for their groundbreaking achievements. Their most...
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The Obsidian Blade

Pete Hautman - Candlewick; First Edition edition
Format: Book

Kicking off a riveting sci-fi trilogy, National Book Award winner Pete Hautman plunges us into a world where time is a tool - and the question is, who will control it?The first time his father disappeared, Tucker Feye had just turned thirteen. The Reverend Feye simply climbed on the roof...
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The Rains: A Novel

Gregg Hurwitz - Tor Teen
Format: Print book

In the tradition of Rick Yancey's "The 5th Wave, " the first YA page-turner from "New York Times "bestselling author Gregg Hurwitz. In one terrifying night, the peaceful community of Creek's Cause turns into a war zone. No one under the age of eighteen is safe. Chance...
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Walter Jury - Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format: Hardcover

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. Tate finally learns what he's being prepared for when he steals one of his dad's odd tech inventions and mercenaries ambush his school,...
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Illuminae

Amie Kaufman - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Marie Lu comes the first book in an epic series that bends the sci-fi genre into a new dimension. "A truly beautiful novel that redefines the form." - Victoria Aveyard, bestselling author of Red Queen This morning, Kady thought breaking up with Ezra was the hardest...
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What Goes Up

Katie Kennedy - Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Format: Hardcover

Rosa and Eddie are among hundreds of teens applying to NASA's mysterious Interworlds Agency. They're not exactly sure what the top-secret program entails, but they know they want in. Rosa has her brilliant parents' legacies to live up to, and Eddie has nowhere else to go--he's certainly...
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Insignia (Insignia, 1)

S J Kincaid - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Paperback

"Insignia expertly combines humor with a disarming and highly realistic view of the future. The characters are real, funny, and memorable. You wont be able to put this book down." - Veronica Roth, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Divergent and InsurgentThe earth is in the middle...
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Illusive (Illusive, 1)

Emily Lloyd-Jones - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

The X-Men meets Oceans Eleven in this edge-of-your-seat sci-fi adventure about a band of "super" criminals.. When the deadly MK virus swept across the planet, a vaccine was created to stop the epidemic, but it came with some unexpected side effects. A small percentage of the population...
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I Am Number Four

Pittacus Lore - Harper
Format: Hardcover

Nine of us came here. We look like you. We talk like you. We live among you. But we are not you. We can do things you dream of doing. We have powers you dream of having. We are stronger and faster than anything you have ever seen. We are the superheroes you worship in movies and comic books...
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Breaking Sky

Cori McCarthy - Sourcebooks Media Fusion
Format: Print book

In this high-flying, adrenaline-fueled thriller, America's best hope is the elite teen fighter pilots of the United Star Academy. "BREAKING SKY is an action-packed thrill ride that smashes through all kinds of barriers at a Mach 5 pace." -- Carrie Jones, New York Times bestselling...
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Ashfall

Mike Mullin - Tanglewood
Format: Book

Many visitors to Yellowstone National Park don't realize that the boiling hot springs and spraying geysers are caused by an underlying supervolcano. It has erupted three times in the last 2.1 million years, and it will erupt again, changing the Earth forever.

Fifteen-year-old...
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The Knife of Never Letting Go: Chaos Walking: Book One

Patrick Ness - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

A dystopian thriller follows a boy and girl on the run from a town where all thoughts can be heard - and the passage to manhood embodies a horrible secret.Todd Hewitt is the only boy in a town of men. Ever since the settlers were infected with the Noise germ, Todd can hear everything...
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Now That You're Here

Amy K. Nichols - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Hardcover

"When street smart graffiti artist, Danny, is jolted into a parallel world, only Eevee, an alluring science geek has the know-how to get him home, but as he falls for her, his motives grow foggy"--
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The Last 8

Laura Pohl - Sourcebooks Fire
Format: Hardcover

Extinction was just the beginning in this thrilling, post-apocalyptic debut, perfect for fans of The 5th Wave seriesClover Martinez has always been a survivor, which is the reason she isn't among the dead when aliens invade and destroy Earth as she knows it. Clover is convinced she's the only...
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Railhead

Philip Reeve - Switch Press
Format: Hardcover

The Great Network is an ancient web of routes and gates, where sentient trains can take you anywhere in the galaxy in the blink of an eye. Zen Starling is a nobody. A petty thief from the filthy streets of Thunder City who aimlessly rides the rails of the Network. So when the mysterious...
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Nemesis

Brendan Reichs - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Orphan Black meets Lord of the Flies in this riveting new thriller from the co-author of the Virals series. It's been happening since Min was eight. Every two years, on her birthday, a strange man finds her and murders her in cold blood. But hours later, she wakes up in a clearing...
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Nyxia

Scott Reintgen - Crown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

"A high-octane thriller . . . Nyxia grabs you from the first line and never lets go." - Marie Lu, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Warcross Every life has a price in this sci-fi thriller - the first in a trilogy - that has the nonstop action of The Maze...
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Across the Universe

Beth Revis - Razorbill
Format: Paperback

Book 1 in the New York Times bestselling trilogy, perfect for fans of Battlestar Gallactica and Prometheus!

WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO SURVIVE ABOARD A SPACESHIP FUELED BY LIES?

Amy is a cryogenically frozen passenger aboard the spaceship...
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Steelheart

Brandon Sanderson - Delacorte Press
Format: Book

The #1 New York Times bestseller that James Dashner called "fantastic," with "relentless" suspense and an "explosive" climax. And don't miss the rest of the Reckoners series, including Firefight - now a #1 New York Times bestseller...
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Fire & Flood

Victoria Scott - Scholastic Press, 2014.
Format: Book

What would you do to save someone you love?Time is slipping away. . . .Tella Holloway is losing it. Her brother is sick, and when a dozen doctors can't determine what's wrong, her parents decide to move to the middle of nowhere for the fresh air. She's lost her friends, her parents...
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Scythe

Neal Shusterman - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback

Two teens must learn the "art of killing" in this Printz Honor-winning book, the first in a chilling new series from Neal Shusterman, author of the New York Times bestselling Unwind dystology.A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery: humanity has conquered...
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Icons

Margaret Stohl - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Ro murmurs into my ear. "Don't be afraid, Dol. They're not coming for us." Still, he slips his arm around me and we wait until the sky is clear. Because he doesn't know. Not really.Everything changed on The Day. The day the Icon appeared in Los Angeles. The day the power...
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All Our Yesterdays

Cristin Terrill - Tantor Audio
Format: Audiobook

Thriller Award Winner, Best Young Adult Novel, 2014 "You have to kill him." Imprisoned in the heart of a secret military base, Em has nothing except the voice of the boy in the cell next door and the list of instructions she finds taped inside the drain. Only Em can complete...
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The Time Machine

H G Wells
Format: Paperback

When the Time Traveller courageously stepped out of his machine for the first time, he found himself in the year 802,700--and everything has changed. In another, more utopian age, creatures seemed to dwell together in perfect harmony. The Time Traveller thought he could study th
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The 5th Wave

Richard Yancey - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

"Remarkable, not-to-be-missed-under-any-circumstances." - Entertainment Weekly (Grade A) The Passage meets Ender's Game in an epic new series from award-winning author Rick Yancey.After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. After the 2nd, only the lucky...
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Alien Invasion and Other Inconveniences

Brian Yansky - Candlewick; 1 edition
Format: Print book

A polite race of telepathic killer aliens, a ten-second world conquest, and one teenage boy collide in this wry, gutsy adventure.Jesse is in history class when a formidable, efficient race of aliens quietly takes over the earth in less time than it takes him to brush his teeth. Most humans...
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