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Seventeen-year-old coder Jinx Marshall grew up spending weekends drilling with her paranoid dad for a doomsday she's sure will never come. She's an expert on self-heating meal rations, Krav Maga and extracting water from a barrel cactus. Now that her parents are divorced, she's ready to relax. Her big plans include making it to level 99 in her favorite MMORPG and spending the weekend with her new hunky stepbrother, Toby.  

Kenji's only dream in life is to become a great rebirther like his father. But with no talent for the mystic arts, the age-old tradition of cultivating essence by returning things to their newborn state, to grow a second and third time, is far beyond his grasp. Worse still, he is yet to be rebirthed himself and stands a dullard of a giant among his diminutive peers. Relegated to working the orchards as a common laborer, Kenji settles into a life of lowered expectations; with no chance for advancement and no chance of pursuing the woman he loves.

The invaders came down to Earth in their ships and multi-legged battle armor, and we had no way to stop them from taking the water. The war was over in days. Sixteen-year-old Yasmine Whitten, born into this world, not only survives, but thrives. She's got a secret: her mother's old cell phone. Kept intact for 13 years of alien invasion and kept charged by a tiny solar panel, these two relics of a dead world give her sanity and a host of tools that allow her to stay ahead of the scavengers. he's doing well enough, for a teenager on her own in a ravaged world. Until the phone rings.

The future world has been divided into sectors - each the same as the other. Surrounded by thick steel fences, there is no way in and no way out. Yet a cyborg army penetrates each sector, picking off its citizens one by one, until no one is left. Behind the sectors’ thick walls, the citizens wait to die. Few will be chosen to survive what’s coming; the rest will be left behind to suffer. A new world has been created, and its rulers are incredibly selective on who will become a citizen. They want only those with important roles in society to help create a more perfect future.

"The Return of Tarzan" is a novel written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the second in his series of books about the title character Tarzan. It was first published in the pulp magazine New Story Magazine in the issues for June through December 1913; the first book edition was published in 1915 by A. C. McClurg.

Hazel is alone in a crowd. No one understands her, not even her father. The only people that ever really understood her were Steve, David and Jane. But they're dead. If they're not dead, they're dying stranded outside the compound. Hazel can't accept the bitter reality of life in the zombie apocalypse, she can't accept that her friends are probably dead. She has to find them.

Ten teenagers broke behavioral law. Sentenced to be reeducated on the moon of Jerem, they were placed in stasis on the automated ship Phetteron for their six day journey. They never reached their destination. Thrown off course by a computer malfunction, the Phetteron is damaged in an asteroid belt and crash lands on the uninhabited ice planet of Valkrys.

It has been two years since the Shift - when most technology stopped working, and the laws of physics changed. Humanity has been brought to its knees. Like other survivors, Noah Henson has heard rumors of the Aelves. Among other guesses, predatory aliens seem as good as any other theory for what caused the Shift. But for Noah, everything else takes second place to survival, sometimes even self-respect... or any sort of decency. Lawless, post-apocalypse America had forced Noah to make many difficult decisions, and he has never seemed to choose correctly.

Pawns in a millennia-old struggle, the young people known only as the Birthday Children were genetically engineered to survive on the planet Omeyocan - but they were never meant to live there. They were made to be “overwritten”, their minds wiped and replaced by the consciousnesses of the monsters who created them. Em changed all of that.

Die Nacht war dunkel und sternenklar. Bis auf das bläuliche Licht, dass durch die dichten Bäume schimmerte...

Nach ihrer Gefangennahme auf Albion werden Kim und Moon nach Daedalus gebracht, wo sie als Verräter exekutiert werden sollen...

All over the country, a strange phenomenon is happening. Some teenagers who die aren't staying dead. They are coming back to life, but they are no longer the same - they stutter, and their reactions to everything are slower. Termed "living impaired" or "differently biotic," they are doing their best to fit into a society that doesn't want them. Fitting in is hard enough when you don't have the look or attitude, but when almost everyone else is alive and you're not, it's close to impossible.

Henrich Kramer steckt in einer Sackgasse. Alle Ermittlungen, die das Geheimnis von Kassandras Kindern entschlüsseln sollten, sind im Nichts verlaufen. Noch immer hat er nicht den Hauch einer Ahnung, wer hinter den unheimlichen Treffen steckt, auf denen Geschichten erzählt werden. Geschichten, die wahr werden, wenn man sie verschweigt. Doch da hat er auf einmal Glück. Jemand, der eine Einladung zu einem Treffen bekommen hat, meldet sich bei ihm.

All we ever did was try to help the angel world and humanity like we were raised to. But some of you paras plot to destroy us for no other reason than how powerful we will become. And now the days of playing nice with the paras are over....

Die Meuterei auf der Nautilus ist beendet, doch ihr Hintermann, der geheimnisvolle Robur, ist noch immer auf freiem Fuß. Mitten in seiner Suche nach dem Unbekannten erreicht Phileas Fogg eine Einladung eines alten Bekannten: Der Ingenieur Phil Evans bittet ihn ans Whedon-Institut in den Vereinigten Staaten. Doch bei ihrer Ankunft stellt sich die vermeintliche Einladung als Falle heraus. Der Fallensteller: Robur!

Ein neues Abenteuer verschlägt Phileas Fogg und seine Begleiter nach Indien. Dort hat der britische Ingenieur Banks im Auftrag des Maharadschas ein mechanisches Meisterwerk geschaffen: eine mächtige Dampfmaschine in Form eines lebensgroßen Elefanten. Von diesem beeindruckenden Automaten befördert, machen sich unsere Helden zu einer Reise durch die Tiefen des indischen Dschungels auf.

Auf der Spur des geheimnisvollen Kapitän Grant erreichen Phileas Fogg und seine Mitstreiter endlich Patagonien. Doch das Telegramm, das sie auf Grants Spur brachte, gibt noch immer Rätsel auf. Zum Glück geraten die Abenteurer an den kundigen Führer Ayrton, der ihnen eine sichere Reise durch die raue südamerikanische Landschaft verspricht. Doch kaum am Ziel angekommen, überschlagen sich die Ereignisse.

Still grieving the death of her guardian and dangerously self-medicating with alcohol, Bleak is snatched from her home by the Commander of the King's Army and summoned to the capital. But the king isn't the only one interested in Bleak's powers. The leader of an infamous society of warriors, the Valia Kindred, lays claim to her as well, and Bleak finds herself in the middle of a much bigger battle than she anticipated.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Wizards and Robots by will.i.am and Brian David Johnson, read by Daniel Weyman, Ray Panthaki, Iwan Rheon, Becca Stewart and Brian David Johnson. When a young man breaks into her home claiming her life is in danger, Ada Luring's world changes forever...

The Raven has hidden among them all their lives, waiting to attack; now she is at full strength. Her darkness and brutality are unmatched. And before the battle is over, Noru blood will spill....