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Shadow Fall is a book about a girl named Maia who is chosen to save her world and continue the race after Pandora (an asteroid) will make Earth uninhabitable. After many traumatic experiences, which she doesn't let define her, Maia makes it her mission to save the only thing left in her life that matters—her little brother. Bravery, guilt, grief, and even a little bit of romance all guide Maia to the only way she can save her brother and the world—kill the Emperor.

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In How to Date An Alien: My Alien Romance, Alex is a high school student. The story takes place in the summer before her senior year. During an interview with a Columbia college recruiter, she says she has an internship at Circe, the Air Force base where her dad works. The story takes place during this internship at Circe that her father gets her. When Alex arrives, she discovers that Circe is in fact an alien operations center. She is attacked by an alien, but is saved by another alien, who she later learns to be Ace.

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Just as every Eyloni before her, Kidahin becomes an adult when she takes part in the adulthood ceremony. Soon after this important event, she is put to work on the ship Hunter’s Moon. But things do not go as planned and the ship is forced to land on a nearby moon to make repairs. This is where Kidahin meets Chief Warrant Officer Del Marsch. But unlike any other Eyloni before her, she forms a relationship with this human once he offers to train her. This comes as a surprise to both the humans and Eyloni, as they are two very different species.

As a prequel to the Jacmuir series by Angeline M. Bishop, “Jacmuir: Gestation,” takes place while three characters, Xavor, Natro, and Resna, are college students at Jacmuir University.

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Shadow Fall is the gripping tale of Maia Graystone, a disgraced Bronze-class girl. She is given a chance to partake in the Shadow Trials, a series of tasks given to Golds who have fallen from the elite Gold court. The winner earns a spot on the Hyperion, a spaceship waiting to save the Chosen from the firey wrath of the asteroid Pandora. Maia will have to choose her alliances carefully and the prince she is paired with will make her question everything, including the life and love she had in the Gold court. Maia must trust someone to survive, the question is who?

Welcome to Wonderland: Home Sweet Motel is an adventure about middle school student Phineas Taylor Willkie, who prefers to be called P.T. Willkie.  P.T. learns that his nutty grandpa (founder of the Wonderland) took a big loan from the bank to help his motel, where P.T. lives.  He also learns that Wonderland has to pay it all back within a month.  To save his home, P.T. opens family attractions to boost the money they get. Next he teams up with a girl his age named Gloria, who is a total business whiz.

When an inexperienced Eylonian is assigned her first mission, she unexpectedly encounters a human veteran.

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In the book Fair to Hope, Velma, a foster child, joins a group called the Taram. When she finds herself a new title, that of Kachina, she must kill a loved one to save the world, but she doesn't want to follow through with that. If she doesn't, she will die and so will the world. All she wants is to save the world, so she decides to run from her fate. She runs to a town called Fair Hope to escape her past, but it's bound to haunt her.

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