Showing results for "Echoes" in Literature & Fiction

As a poor teenager living in the Dregs, Dash Keane can only escape his dismal reality by competing in illegal rooftop races and staying up late to watch the timenet with his younger brother. When there is an opportunity to participate in a competition set thousands of years in the past, he uses his rooftop racer skills to catch the eye of Mr. Myrtrym, head of entertainment for the massive Dominus Corporation. It is the chance of a lifetime when Dominus Corp. hires Dash to be a timestar—the focus of his own series in which he must survive some of the most dangerous periods in history.

They wake on a deserted island. Fiona and Miles, high school enemies, now stranded together. No memory of how they got there. No plan to follow, no hope to hold on to. Each step forward reveals the mystery behind the forces that brought them here. And soon, the most chilling discovery: something else is on the island with them. Something that won't let them leave alive.

In this “beautifully haunting” (Kirkus Reviews) supernatural thriller, a young girl’s hunt for the truth about her mother’s disappearance leads her Bitter Rock, an island that has more ghosts than residents. “Offers teen readers an engrossing journey that will appeal to fans of body...

Two sisters travel to an isolated Arizona town to investigate its connection to their mother’s death, but uncover more than they bargained for in this supernatural thriller from the author of The Dead and the Dark. Beck Birsching has been adrift since the death of her mother, a brilliant but...

I NEVER ASKED TO BE THE SOLE BEARER OF THE ENTIRE KNOWLEDGE OF YOUR CIVILIZATION. 2022 Readers' Favorite Book Awards - SILVER MEDAL 2021 Wishing Shelf Book Awards - FINALIST Yet, here I am, barely sixteen-years-old, and it has fallen upon my shoulders to save what remains of humanity from a...

The much-anticipated sequel to the book Danielle Page, author of Dorothy Must Die, says is "inventive, gorgeous, and epic--Grey dazzles." Everything in Echo's life changed in a blinding flash when she learned the startling truth: she is the firebird, the creature of light that is said to bring...

From Abdi Nazemian, the award-winning author of Like a Love Story and Only This Beautiful Moment, comes a suspenseful contemporary YA novel about loss and love. Fifteen-year-old Kam is head over heels for Ash, the boy who swept him off his feet. But his family and best friend, Bodie, are worried...

Echo Alkaev's safe and carefully structured world falls apart when her father leaves for the city and mysteriously disappears. Believing he is lost forever, Echo is shocked to find him half-frozen in the winter forest six months later, guarded by a strange talking wolf - the same creature who attacked her as a child. The wolf presents Echo with an ultimatum: if she lives with him for one year, he will ensure her father makes it home safely. But there is more to the wolf than Echo realizes.

In order to stay human, Audrey has built a moat around herself; a moat of books, music and dreams. It makes her different from the echoes: the sophisticated, emotionless machines, built to resemble and work for the humans. Daniel is an echo - but he's not like the others. He has feelings he was...

In the final installment in the Hybrid Chronicles—bound to captivate fans of Ally Condie, Lauren Oliver, and Scott Westerfeld—Addie and Eva must come to terms with sharing a body as they fight for lasting change and hybrid freedom. Addie and Eva barely survived the explosion at the Powatt...

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Falling Kingdoms series comes the first book in a brand-new duology about forbidden magic and dangerous secrets, for readers of Victoria Aveyard and Margaret Rogerson. Josslyn Drake knows only three things about magic: it’s rare, illegal, and...

In the end, all that's left is an Echo. Before, Violet's morbid ability to sense the dead led her to uncover dark murders and long-buried secrets in her small town. Now that she's workingwith a special investigative team, Violet hopes she can help even more people - whether by saving a life or catching a killer. Although she's relieved to finally be honest about what she can do, her instant connection with her mysterious partner, Rafe, is both confusing and unsettling, and their unique bond creates tension with her boyfriend, Jay. When she discovers the body of a college student murdered by "the collector," Violet refuses to give upon the case.

When four recent high school graduates return home from a weekend of camping, they expect to go back to life as usual. Instead, the boys discover empty streets, abandoned cars, and utter silence—everyone has disappeared. As the friends attempt to solve the mystery, they stumble upon more...

Clara visits her old family ancestral home. Intrigued by her families interesting and adventurous past. She accidently stumbles across a strange looking key. A relic from a time gone by. Unlocking a doorway, opening a time portal, to a forgotten bygone age. Where gentlemen and chivalry are still a part of everyday life. Little did she know, that adventure awaits, and, that she would meet a mysterious man, creating Echoes’ Across Time!

Echoes Between Us is bestselling author Katie McGarry’s breakout teen contemporary novel about a girl with everything to lose and the boy who will do anything to save her. Veronica sees ghosts—more specifically, her mother’s ghost, thanks to the blinding migraines that consume her whole...

Maine 1934. Frei und inmitten der wilden Schönheit der Natur - Ellie liebt das Leben am Echo Mountain. Zwischen Balsamtannen, Wildbienen und Bergbächen finden sie und ihre Familie ein Zuhause, müssen dafür aber auch hart arbeiten. Als ein schrecklicher Unfall geschieht und der Vater ins Koma fällt, begibt sich Ellie auf die Suche nach einer Heilmethode. Eine Suche, die die Geschichten des Berges und seiner Bewohner zum Vorschein bringt und die sie bis zur alten Cate führt.

This program is read by the author "Just brilliant."—Kirkus Reviews Heavily autobiographical and infused with magical realism, Black Girl Unlimited fearlessly explores the intersections of poverty, sexual violence, depression, racism, and sexism—all through the arc of a transcendent...

One minute they're in Poland, subjected to gruesome tests they keep failing. No friends to support them. No family to claim them. No hope of ever living a normal life again. Then suddenly, they're trapped on an abandoned freighter in the middle of the ocean and forced to fight for survival. No food. No drinkable water. No way to get home. And strange memories of another life they don't understand. 

La nouvelle année scolaire démarre en fanfare au prestigieux collège Sainte-Hubertine! Emerson, Jordan, Alexie, Véronika et Willem, forts de leurs exploits de l’année passée, sont plus déterminés que jamais. Leur mission : découvrir l’emplacement du portail menant au monde obscur, le sceller une fois pour toutes, et enfin retrouver une vie normale. Armés de leurs reliques, ils se sentent invincibles ... jusqu’à ce que de nouvelles créatures, mystérieusement apparues dans leur réalité, brouillent les pistes. Bientôt, la bande se retrouve plongée au cœur d’énigmes inquiétantes.

But once a year, the skies burn red. Upon this day, the Fire Kingdom’s priests perform their ritual: each newborn’s palm is lacerated, opened with a sacred sword, for Firia’s next ruler will be seen to shed no blood. Long ago, Noakhail had been driven from the Fire Kingdom as an infant—forced to escape with his noble father. They’d wanted to kill him simply because he was next in line for the crown . . . Now, Noakhail has grown, and the swordsman won’t give up until he claims the throne and his birthright. But pure resolve may not be enough.