Set in a future where big corporations have taken over everything – even schools and the police force – Nike comes up with a marketing ploy to kill teens wearing expensive new sneakers. (They figure this will somehow sell more shoes.) Enter Jennifer Government, a wisecracking agent who’s determined to get the bad guys. A bleak yet very humorous vision of the future.  (A/YA)

Between the seemingly impossible tasks of living up to his warrior-father's legend and surmounting his own physical limitations, Miles Vorkosigan faces some truly daunting challenges. Shortly after his arrival on Beta Colony, Miles unexpectedly finds himself the owner of an obsolete freighter and in more debt than he ever thought possible. Propelled by his manic "forward momentum," the ever-inventive Miles creates a new identity for himself as the commander of his own mercenary fleet to obtain a lucrative cargo: a shipment of weapons destined for a dangerous war zone.  (A/YA)

The alien Buggers threaten humanity with extinction, and Earth's ultimate savior may be a young boy named Andrew "Ender" Wiggins - who thinks he is only playing a game.  (A/YA)

The events of Ender's Game are retold from the point of view of Bean, a member of Ender's team with a mysterious past on Earth.  (A/YA)

Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from the influences of the city. Its students are well-tended, trained in art and literature, and become just the sort of people the world wants them to be. But, curiously, they are taught nothing of the outside world and are allowed little contact with it. It's only when Kathy and her friends leave the safe grounds of the school that they realize the full truth of what Hailsham is.  (A/YA)

Jane Charlotte has been arrested for murder. She tells police that she is a member of a secret organization devoted to fighting evil; her division is called the Department for the Final Disposition of Irredeemable Persons - "Bad Monkeys" for short. This confession earns Jane a trip to the jail's psychiatric wing, where a doctor attempts to determine whether she is lying, crazy — or playing a different game altogether.  (A/YA)

In 2019, humanity finally finds proof of extraterrestrial life when a listening post in Puerto Rico picks up exquisite singing from a planet which will come to be known as Rakhat. While United Nations diplomats endlessly debate a possible first contact mission, the Society of Jesus quietly organizes an eight-person scientific expedition of its own. What the Jesuits find is a world so beyond comprehension that it will lead them to question the meaning of being "human."  (A/YA)

For Kivrin, preparing an on-site study of one of the deadliest eras in humanity's history is as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the fourteenth century and inventing an alibi for a woman traveling alone. For her twenty-first century instructors, it means painstaking calculations and careful monitoring of Kivrin's location. But a crisis strangely linking past and future strands Kivrin in the past as her fellows try desperately to rescue her. In a time of superstition and fear, Kivrin finds she has become an unlikely angel of hope during one of history's darkest hours.  (A/YA)