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With These Wings by Wendy Knight

With These Wings by Wendy Knight

Seventeen-year-old Phoenyx was taken by the aliens who were supposed to save humanity. But Phoenyx didn’t die. She escaped. Changed, different. Terrifying. Now she protects the people she used to call neighbors and friends, despite the fact that they don’t trust her. She looks like the aliens—beautiful, strong, and winged. And that’s why those she protects want her dead. She doesn’t blame them. All the […]

June 21, 2017 / 0 Comments
The Darklights by Michaelbrent Collings

The Darklights by Michaelbrent Collings

I am a FixIt. When the Company has a problem—a factory gone under, books that need auditing, or a rebellious planet to be destroyed—I’m there, and I take care of it. I’m the most successful FixIt in Company history, and I have NEVER failed to punch a ticket. TF-653 is different. The staff and crew of a terraforming installation on a planet so strange it […]

June 5, 2017 / 0 Comments
I Am Sleepless: The Huntress by Johan Twiss

I Am Sleepless: The Huntress by Johan Twiss

The plan was simple—escape, join the rebellion, find the Reader. But nothing is simple when Director Tuskin sends his Huntress after you. Aidan and his coterie are put to the test after discovering the secrets of Sim 299. When Director Tuskin destroys the sim system, Aidan, Fig, Palamos, and Masay are forced to escape the Mount Fegorio training complex and enter the outside world for […]

February 28, 2017 / 0 Comments
The Alien that Ate My Socks by Brandon Dorman

The Alien that Ate My Socks by Brandon Dorman

Hank, Hector, and Henry Hooligan are fun-loving, go-cart racing, up-for-anything boys. When the school bully, Rock, challenges the Hooligans to a go-cart race down Deadman’s Hill, the last thing anyone expects to see is a huge, blobby, purple alien in the middle of the road. Luckily Hoolie isn’t a dangerous alien. He’s friendly (if a bit smelly), and he eats clothes (particularly socks). He even […]

September 10, 2016 / 0 Comments
Empyriad: Shadows of Empyriad by Josi Russell

Empyriad: Shadows of Empyriad by Josi Russell

Aliens are coming to Yellowstone Global Park. In order to protect its delicate ecosystem, the park has been closed to the public for a quarter of a century. But the fortifications that keep the public away from the bison and the geysers are perfect for keeping the arriving aliens—the Stracahn–away from humanity. Solomon Brooks lives on the edge of the park, but he has never […]

August 15, 2016 / 0 Comments
The Swarm by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston

The Swarm by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston

The first invasion of Earth was beaten back by a coalition of corporate and international military forces, and the Chinese army. China has been devastated by the Formic’s initial efforts to eradicate Earth life forms and prepare the ground for their own settlement. The Scouring of China struck fear into the other nations of the planet; that fear blossomed into drastic action when scientists determined […]

August 12, 2016 / 0 Comments
The Creation: Let There Be Death by The Behrg

The Creation: Let There Be Death by The Behrg

And God said, ‘Let There Be Death.’ And He saw that it was Good. As the second day in The Creation begins, the world continues to be transformed. Day has arrived, but this is no ordinary light. And it is but the precursor for something far more terrifying. With the dawn, Faye Moanna finds herself a prisoner in one of the darkest dungeons created for […]

April 20, 2016 / 0 Comments
Dark Energy by Robison Wells

Dark Energy by Robison Wells

We are not alone. Five days ago, a massive UFO crashed in the Midwest, killing thousands of people. Since then, nothing–or no one–has come out. They have arrived. If it were up to Alice, she’d be watching all of this on the news from Miami, Florida. Instead, she’s the newest student at a boarding school not far from the crash site–because her dad is the […]

March 29, 2016 / 0 Comments
Dangerous by Shannon Hale

Dangerous by Shannon Hale

How far would you go to save the world? When Maisie Danger Brown nabbed a spot at a NASA-like summer boot camp, she never expected to uncover a conspiracy that would change her life forever. And she definitely didn’t plan to fall in love. But now there’s no going back—Maisie’s the only thing standing between the Earth and annihilation. She must become the hero the […]

March 13, 2014 / 2 Comments
The Host by Stephenie Meyer

The Host by Stephenie Meyer

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 invading “soul” who has been given Melanie’s body, knew about the challenges of living inside a human: the overwhelming emotions, the too vivid memories. But there was one difficulty […]

May 6, 2008 / 8 Comments