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Gemina // Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff !!Spoiler Free!! Series ~ Illuminae Files #2 Genre ~ Sci-Fi, Romance, YA Page # ~ 659 ISBN ~   0553499165 Published ~ 10/18/2016 Rating ~   ★  ★  ★  ★  ★   Synopsis ~       Moving to a space station at the edge of the galaxy was always going to be the death of Hanna’s social life. Nobody said it might actually get her killed.      The sci-fi saga that began with the breakout bestseller  Illuminae  continues on board the Jump Station  Heimdall , where two new characters will confront the next wave of the BeiTech assault.      Hanna is the station captain’s pampered daughter; Nik the reluctant member of a notorious crime family. But while the pair are struggling with the realities of life aboard the galaxy’s most boring space station, little do they know that Kady Grant and the  Hypatia  are headed right toward  Heimdall , carrying news of the Kerenza invasion.      When an elite BeiTech strike team invades the station, Hanna and Nik are thrown t

Between Shades of Gray // Ruta Sepytys !!Spoiler Free!! Genre ~ Historical, YA, Fiction Page # ~ 344 ISBN ~  0399254129 Published ~ 03/22/2011 Rating ~    ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ Synopsis ~         Lina is just like any other fifteen-year-old Lithuanian girl in 1941. She paints, she draws, she gets crushes on boys. Until one night when Soviet officers barge into her home, tearing her family from the comfortable life they've known. Separated from her father, forced onto a crowded and dirty train car, Lina, her mother, and her young brother slowly make their way north, crossing the Arctic Circle, to a work camp in the coldest reaches of Siberia. Here they are forced, under Stalin's orders, to dig for beets and fight for their lives under the cruelest of conditions.       Lina finds solace in her art, meticulously—and at great risk—documenting events by drawing, hoping these messages will make their way to her father's prison camp to let him know they are still alive. It is a long and harro

  Illuminae // Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff !!Spoiler Free!! Series ~  Illuminae Files #1 Genre ~ Sci-Fi, Romance, YA Page # ~ 608 ISBN ~   0553499114 Published ~ 08/20/2015 Rating ~   ★  ★  ★  ★  ★   Synopsis ~        This morning, Kady thought breaking up with Ezra was the hardest thing she’d have to do. This afternoon, her planet was invaded.      The year is 2575, and two rival mega-corporations are at war over a planet that’s little more than a speck at the edge of the universe. Now with enemy fire raining down on them, Kady and Ezra — who are barely even talking to each other—are forced to evacuate with a hostile warship in hot pursuit.      But their problems are just getting started. A plague has broken out and is mutating with terrifying results; the fleet’s AI may actually be their enemy; and nobody in charge will say what’s really going on. As Kady hacks into a web of data to find the truth, it’s clear the only person who can help her is the ex-boyfriend she swore she’d n