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Series
Time shift trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The timeline is burning. No one knows why.
Teenage twins Malcolm and Valentine Gilbert have defeated doomsday machines, ice monsters, and time-traveling supervillains. Yet their full potential remains out of reach. The Chrona is elusive, and without her guidance they struggle to grow in their abilities and to choose the course of their lives.
When an enemy invades from the future, he brands the twins as war criminals. Amidst a war between ages,...
2) Amanojaku
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Andre Cross keeps his volatile temper on a sturdy leash—an implant auto-medicating him to subdue his violent impulses. Dreaming of leaving his dark past behind, he slaves away on Brulle’s perilous vertical farms, and peddles the drug Neura, to fund his escape to a distant ocean city called Anchora. But when he meets the beautiful, self-aware android Mo Da, he discovers the implant not only sedates his aggression, it also subdues his ability to...
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Series
Skyship Academy volume 3
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Two brothers battle for one planet’s fate. As the alien Authority’s invasion begins, mankind stands on the brink of annihilation. Cassius Stevenson and his brother Jesse Fisher—descendants of the planet Haven’s resistance forces—must forge alliances with the embittered factions on Earth to defend against the brutal attack. But the Authority has only begun to fight. When their terrible new weapon sends Earth’s fragile coalition into turmoil,...
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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
H.A.L.F. 9 has taken his first breath of desert air and his first steps in the human world. Created to be a weapon, he proved too powerful for his makers, hidden from humans and sedated. But H.A.L.F. 9 has escaped the underground lab he called home, and the sedation has worn off. He has never been more alive. More powerful. Or more deadly. Erika Holt longs to ride her motorcycle east until pavement gives way to shore. She bides her time until graduation...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A life without feelings, a life without decisions; that’s the only life Evangeline knows. Because of the manufacturing of Remedy, her community of Impetus has discovered a way to survive and prevent the self-destructing mistakes of The Before by inhibiting feelings, creating a society that relies wholly on logic and entrusts Impetus to make all the decisions for its people. A chance encounter results in a friendship between Evangeline and a boy...
6) The Others
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A dangerous adventure to save a distant world. Ryen is just a normal guy trying to do his job. Unfortunately, that job includes trying to save his distant world on the brink of disaster. Ryen is on a mission to Earth to find the answers to his distant world’s most critical questions. While searching the Yucatan Peninsula for a mythic figure—a savior—who would live a perfect life and ultimately die to save their souls, Ryen meets Savannah, a...
Author
Series
Seeds trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The Resistance Has Begun. Remy Alexander wants vengeance. When she and her friends discover a clue that could help reveal the truth behind the massacre that claimed her sister's life, she may finally get her chance. Valerian Orlean wants answers. Why the girl he was in love with disappeared three years ago. Why she joined the Resistance—a covert organization sworn to destroy everything he believes in. When he is appointed to lead a government program...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In this sequel to The Remedy Files: Illusion, Evangeline finds herself a prisoner in a new community called Revival after her abduction from Rebirth. Equally cold and filled with unfeeling people who don't know life in any other way, Revival sets the direction for The New World. Evangeline's brief encounter with the very-much-alive Gavin has her questioning his integrity and true role in their history together. In Revival, Evangeline learns The New...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The year is 2036. Honeybees are nearly extinct. The world's crops are disappearing and a young boy's life hangs in the balance. When Melissa Bùi's origami opens a time portal to Ancient Crete and connects her to a young athlete named Amethea, she has a chance to save both bees and boy. But she may risk blinking out of existence like the quarks her scientist father studies.
10) Greysuits
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Decades ago, Greysuit technology was banned across the Hundred Worlds. Now, as a dangerous terrorist organization attempts to develop an army of Greysuit super soldiers, the fragile peace of those same worlds hangs in the balance. Because of their genetic heritage, Aera and a handful of misfits have a chance to fight back before it’s too late. But to do it they’ll have to risk their lives, become outlaws, and possibly give up everything they...
11) Blue Karma
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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Water. It covers almost three-quarters of the planet, comprises more than half the human body, and has become the most coveted resource on Earth. Amaya de los Santos survived the typhoon that left her an orphan. Now she scrapes by as an ice poacher, illegally harvesting fresh water for an always-thirsty market. But when she rescues an injured enemy soldier, she's pulled into a storm of events more dangerous than any iceberg. After years of relying...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Knowledge comes with a price. Tommy and Careen no longer believe the Office of Civilian Safety and Defense's miracle antidote can protect them from a terrorist's chemical weapons. After accidentally discovering the antidote's real purpose, they've join the fight to undermine the OCSD's bid for total control of the population. Being part of the Resistance brings with it a whole new set of challenges. Not everyone working for change proves trustworthy,...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Roswell. Area 51. The X-Files. You've seen the aliens known as 'the Greys' in movies and on T.V. You may think you know all about the Greys. But what if everything you think you know is wrong? And what if the Greys are only the beginning? Even though the galaxy is vast, resources are precious. Gold, oil and minerals are rare. But rarer still? Life. Uktah is a planet on the far side of the galaxy away from Earth. No larger than Mars, the M'Uktah...
14) Zeroboxer
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A rising star in the weightless combat sport of zeroboxing, Carr “the Raptor” Luka dreams of winning the championship title. Recognizing his talent, the Zero Gravity Fighting Association assigns Risha, an ambitious and beautiful Martian colonist, to be his brandhelm––a personal marketing strategist. It isn’t long before she’s made Carr into a popular celebrity and stolen his heart along the way. As his fame grows, Carr becomes an inspirational...
Author
Series
Cassaforte chronicles volume 3
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Volume III in the acclaimed Cassaforte Chronicles Petro Divetri—younger brother of famed sorceress Risa Divetri—just wants to be left alone. His status as one of the seven ruling families in Cassaforte has saddled him with unwanted attention, from bullies as well as from those seeking favors. So when Petro and his best friend Adrio are sent to far-off Nascenza for the Midsummer High Rites, they swap identities. Their prank goes awry when Adrio,...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A remote corner of a bleak system. A broken-down gunboat, stuck in space. An incompetent captain and a misfit crew. A pirate ship, a silent target, and a whole bunch of secrets. So how's YOUR day going? There have to be easier ways to make a living—easier than dying slowly in an obsolete boat, as its power drains out and life support fails. Forget the job; forget the pirate problem: there's only time for a desperate jury-rig, and maybe a little...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Silence is safe. Fate is not. When Sovern Briggs survives a car crash, she stops talking in order to seal in the memory of the final sounds of her mother’s life. As conflict with her father builds and failure in school looms, Sovern seeks relief in a dangerous boyfriend and in speed’s adrenaline edge. These needs collide, leading Sovern to a snowboarding accident that changes her future . . . and perhaps that of our universe. Life at the Speed...
18) Consider
Author
Series
Holo volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
As if 17-year-old Alexandra Lucas' anxiety disorder isn't enough, mysterious holograms suddenly appear, heralding the end of the world. They bring an ultimatum: heed the warning and step through a portal-like vertex to safety, or stay and be destroyed by a comet that is on a collision course with Earth. The holograms,claiming to be humans from the future, bring the promise of safety. But without the ability to verify their story, Alex is forced to...
19) Contribute
Author
Series
Holo volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The holograms lied to everyone on Earth and only Alexandra Lucas knows the truth. Now she's trapped in the year 2359 without family or friends—worse, without her anxiety medication. Alex attempts to reconcile the marvelous scenery, technological advances, and luxurious living with the knowledge that the holograms weren't being completely honest—what else are they lying about? With a secret that could shatter her society, Alex tries to find her...
20) Surfacing
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In a postapocalyptic world, two students discover that the worst thing about searching for the truth is actually finding it. After a nuclear war has ravaged the planet, children of the few survivors are sent to renowned scientist Dr. Parkman and his underground facility, Parkman Institute of Science and Solutions, to learn, create, and test the latest technologies until they turn 18 and are sent back to the surface to help rebuild society. Balt and...
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