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Adult Books for YA - Fantasy & Science Fiction Fantasy and science fiction books from the adult collection with stories and characters older teens may enjoy.
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The age of miracles : a novel
by Karen Thompson Walker
A painstakingly researched debut imagines the coming-of-age story of young Julia, whose world is thrown into upheaval when it is discovered that the Earth's rotation has suddenly begun to slow, posing a catastrophic threat to all life.
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On such a full sea
by Chang-rae Lee
A tale set in a class-divided future America where urban neighborhoods function as labor colonies for elite charter villages, Fan, a female fish-tank diver, embarks on what becomes a legendary quest to find the man she loves in a region overcome by anarchic forces.
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Miss Peregrine's home for peculiar children
by Ransom Riggs
After a family tragedy, Jacob feels compelled to explore an abandoned orphanage on an island off the coast of Wales, discovering disturbing facts about the children who were kept there.
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Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour bookstore
by Robin Sloan
After a layoff during the Great Recession sidelines his tech career, Clay Jannon takes a job at the titular bookstore in San Francisco, and soon realizes that the establishment is a facade for a strange secret.
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Ready player one
by Ernest Cline
Immersing himself in a mid-21st-century technological virtual utopia to escape an ugly real world of famine, poverty and disease, Wade Watts joins an increasingly violent effort to solve a series of puzzles by the virtual world's super-wealthy creator, who has promised that the winner will be his heir.
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Dragons wild
by Robert Asprin
Con artist, poker player, and recent college graduate Griffen "Grifter" McCandles is stunned to discover that he and his sister Valerie are actually dragons and heads for New Orleans with Valerie to make a living in the city's dangerous criminal underworld.
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Sphere : a novel
by Michael Crichton
When a huge spaceship is discovered resting on the floor of the ocean, a group of American scientists race to the scene and are shocked by what they learn from the vessel, which apparently crashed some three hundred years earlier.
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The Radleys : A Novel
by Matt Haig
Struggling with overwork and parenting angst, English village doctor Peter endeavors to hide his family's vampire nature until their daughter's oddly satisfying act of violence reveals the truth, an event that is complicated by the arrival of a practicing vampire family member.
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Soulless
by Gail Carriger
When Alexia Tarabotti, a soulless spinster with the ability to negate supernatural powers, accidentally kills a vampire, her life goes from bad to worse when the appalling Lord Maccon, a gorgeous werewolf, is sent by Queen Victoria to investigate.
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The poison throne
by Celine Kiernan
Fifteen-year-old Wynter Moorehawke faces a terrible choice: bow to the king's will while tending to her ailing father; or risk assassination, torture and imprisonment to join her friend Razi and the mysterious Christopher Garron in their efforts to restore the kingdom to its former stability.
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Old man's war
by John Scalzi
Enlisting in the army on his seventy-fifth birthday, John Perry joins an interstellar war between Earth and alien enemies who would stake claims on the few existing inhabitable planets, unaware that the conflict involves much more than he understands.
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The night circus : a novel
by Erin Morgenstern
Waging a fierce competition for which they have trained since childhood, circus magicians Celia and Marco unexpectedly fall in love with each other and share a fantastical romance that manifests in fateful ways.
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Joust
by Mercedes Lackey
Vetch, a brutally abused Atlan slave whose people are under the rule of the Tians, a race that controls the dragons, finds salvation in a Jouster and his dragon, who train him to become a "dragon boy"--a coveted position that allows him to learn the secret of dragon-taming, which will help him save his homeland.
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Insatiable
by Meg Cabot
In a modern-day sequel to Dracula, Meena Harper has the ability to foresee how people are going die, but this precognition only works on other people, not Meena herself, leaving her vulnerable once she begins to fall in love with a vampire.
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Guardians of the west
by David Eddings
Garion, the King of Riva, finds himself caught between the Dark Prophecy and the Prophecy of Light when he searches a previously obscure part of the Mrin Codex to identify someone or something called Zandramas
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Going postal : a novel of Discworld
by Terry Pratchett
Sentenced to death for forgery and swindling, Moist von Lipwig accepts an offer of a pardon in exchange for revamping an ancient post office, but his efforts are thwarted by tons of undelivered mail, an 18,000-year-old ghost postman, his shoe-wielding new girlfriend, and murderous characters who want the post office shut down.
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Dune
by Frank Herbert
A new edition of the award-winning science-fiction classic follows the adventures of Paul Atreides, the son of a betrayed duke, who is given up for dead on a treacherous desert planet and adopted by its fierce, nomadic people, who help him unravel his most unexpected destiny.
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First strike
by Eric S. Nylund
With the destruction of Halo, the human-Covenant war rages on as the SPARTAN super soldier Master Chief, aided by the artificial intelligence Cortana, race against time to rescue survivors of the disaster and evade Covenant warships that still patrol much of space
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