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It's been four months since runaway heiress Asa crash-landed on the matriarchal outlaw colony Requiem, bringing a nasty AI and a host of deadly secrets with her. Now, she runs with her almost-girlfriend Riven's smuggler crew, stealing kisses between gunfights and heists. But when a mysterious hacker sabotages their latest job, other gangs turn against them, blaming them for the destruction the rogue AI caused. Nowhere in the city is safe.

As an expert thief from a minor moon, Cass knows a good mark when she sees one. The emperor’s ball is her chance to steal a fortune for herself, her ailing father, and her scrappy crew of thieves and market vendors. Her plan is simple: 1. Hitch a ride to the planet of Ouris, the dazzling heart of the empire. 2. Sneak onto the imperial palace station to attend the emperor’s ball. 3. Steal from the rich, the royal, and the insufferable. But on the station, things quickly go awry. When the emperor is found dead, everyone in the palace is a suspect—and someone is setting Cass up to take the fall.

Che cosa chiederesti, se potessi esprimere un solo desiderio? E a che cosa rinunceresti, per pagarne il prezzo? 2038. Sono passati ormai quindici anni da quando la AWEN è entrata sul mercato, promettendo la realizzazione di qualunque desiderio. Il paradiso che offrono, però, non è a buon mercato, e ormai il mondo è spaccato tra chi può permetterselo e chi è condannato a una vita di povertà assoluta e scarsa assistenza sanitaria.

Dylan was six when The End came, back in 2018; when the electricity went off for good, and the 'normal' twenty-first century world he knew disappeared. Now he's 14 and he and his mam have survived in their isolated hilltop house above the village of Nebo in north-west Wales. Despite their close relationship, each has their own secrets, thoughts and memories, when emerge as, in turn, they write in a found notebook - the Blue Book of Nebo.

Unravelling the truth, one loop at a time. When Spence witnesses his classmate, Clara, die in what looks like a tragic accident at a house party, he is caught in a flicker in the fabric of time. Waking up to relive the same day again and seeing Clara alive and well, Spence realizes he has been granted a second chance and is determined to prevent the terrible events of the party. To escape the time loop, he has to re-evaluate everything he previously took for granted and find the courage to call out his own and others' complicity in events that marked the life and death of Clara Hart.

Sono passati tre anni da quando un virus ha sterminato gli adulti di Berlino, lasciando ragazzi e bambini allo sbando, divisi in bande rivali. Tre anni di amicizie fraterne e tradimenti, di amori sbocciati e sfioriti, e soprattutto tre anni di lotte e scontri. Tra le spire di ghiaccio e neve del dicembre 1978, alcune figure misteriose, con indosso inquietanti tute bianche, hanno rapito Nina.

Cuando el transbordador espacial Sila V despega hacia los confines del sistema solar, lo hace con la tripulación equivocada: doce niños. Los chicos y chicas, seleccionados por la WASA (la NASA del futuro) para promocionar la misión Lunae 2, proceden de doce países diferentes y tienen orígenes sociales muy distintos.

My name is Eve Hamilton. I spent my entire life in Compound Eleven as a fighter. Surviving in an underground city filled with violence, oppression, and tyranny. We were told the world above was scorched, an immediate death sentence. I should have died never knowing the truth. Instead, when I fought Wren—a boy from the top floor, a Preme—I fell for him. And eventually learned that my reality was an insidious lie. Escaping Compound Eleven nearly killed me and Wren. Now we’re aboveground, where the world is anything but a toxic, burning wasteland.

Die 14-jährige Ophelia Scale ist neu in Brighton. Sie hat durch die staatliche Abkehr von jeder Technologie alles verloren: ihre Zukunftsaussichten, ihre Familie und ihr Zuhause. Als jedoch die Widerstandsgruppe ReVerse an sie herantritt, eröffnet sich ihr eine neue Welt. Dort kann sie gegen all das aufbegehren, neue Freunde finden - und ihre erste große Liebe: Knox. Doch was sich zunächst wie ein einziges grandioses Abenteuer anfühlt, ist hochgefährlich und wird Ophelias Leben auf immer verändern.

Girls in New America must have a chaperone with them at all times. Because of this, Stella is never alone. She can't go out by herself or learn about the world. She can't even spend time with boys except at formal Visitations. Still, Stella feels lucky that her chaperone, Sister Helen, is like a friend to her. And then the unthinkable happens. Sister Helen dies suddenly, and Stella feels lost. Especially when she's assigned a new chaperone just days later.

In a world gone wrong, heroes and villains are not always easy to distinguish and every individual has the ability to contribute something powerful. In this stunning collection of original and rediscovered stories of tragedy and hope, the stars are a diverse group of students, street kids, good girls, kidnappers, and child laborers pitted against their environments, their governments, differing cultures, and sometimes one another as they seek answers in their dystopian worlds.

"Spillets by" er en foruroligende og nervepirrende fremtidsfortælling om reality shows og social ulighed. Kimo bor sammen med sin familie i Urban Vertikali, en verden, hvor indbyggerne har været tvunget til at bygge vertikalt op i luften. De fattigste bor nederst, de rigeste øverst, og der er ingen kontakt mellem de forskellige niveauer. Da det årlige realityshow, Rangstigen, skydes i gang, opdager Kimo til sin forfærdelse, at hun er en af deltagerne.

Years ago, seventeen-year-old Apache hunter Lozen and her family lived in a world of haves and have-nots. There were the Ones—people so augmented with technology and genetic enhancements that they were barely human—and there was everyone else who served them. Then the Cloud came, and everything changed. Tech stopped working. The world plunged back into a new steam age. The Ones’ pets—genetically engineered monsters—turned on them and are now loose on the world.

London, 1816: Zoe, Zeitreisende und Zofe von Miss Lucie, und Hayden, gutaussehender Lord und ebenfalls Zeitreisender, nehmen am legendären Winterball teil. Doch statt eine rauschende Ballnacht zu verbringen, wird Zoe von der Verborgenen Gesellschaft auf ein einsames Landgut entführt. Ausgerechnet dort findet sie heraus, dass der Splitter für Haydens und ihre Rückreise in die Gegenwart Teil der Dekoration bei einer Soiree ist.

The future has amazing technology. Our alien allies have magic. Together, we are building a training system to teach the best of humanity to go to the stars. But the training is monumentally expensive. Stephanie Morgana is a genius, she just doesn't know it. Join her on the first half of her adventure with this collected edition, including the first three megabooks in the Federal Histories series.

Cora und King haben bewiesen, dass sie die mächtigsten Studentinnen an der Academy of Cosmic Power sind, doch ihnen ist kein Durchatmen vergönnt. Es droht, ein Krieg zwischen Cosmics und Menschen auszubrechen und der Politiker Jax, der einst Coras Leben gerettet hat, steckt dahinter. Die Spur führt nach Berlin, wo sich eines der Quellfragmente befinden soll – doch als Cora, King und ihre Freunde dort ankommen, ist es nicht mehr da. Längst hat es Jax an sich genommen und plant einen größenwahnsinnigen Coup, der das Ende der Menschheit zur Folge haben könnte.

Alliances are made and lines are drawn as Maddie and her group come face to face with General Dempsey’s forces.

Nada más recibir un golpe en la cabeza, la realidad de Ash cambia. Por imposible que parezca, ha llegado a una especie de mundo paralelo en el que su vida es similar, pero al mismo tiempo muy diferente. A medida que se desliza en bucle de un universo a otro, Ash empieza a ver las cosas desde nuevas perspectivas: algunas en las que tiene todo lo que siempre ha deseado y otras en las que ha perdido hasta el menor de sus privilegios, algunas en las que la sociedad se ha anclado al pasado y otras en las que el futuro está a punto de desintegrarse.

Months after Jess escaped from the set of Stuck in the '90s, the nostalgic reality show she believed was her real life, the teen star is getting to know the outside world for the first time. But she can't outrun her fictional life forever—or the media empire that owns it. After Like-Life Productions tracks her down and forces her boyfriend to return to the show, Jess teams up with an underground network fighting to uncover Like-Life's schemes. To expose the truth, Jess must go back to the set and take Like-Life down from the inside . . . but getting revenge might just cost her everything.

Neo Beijing, 2201. Two years after the Battle of Neo Seoul, eighteen-year-old telepath Ama works in a cafe by day and moonlights as a lounge singer in a smoky bar at night. She’s anonymous, she’s safe from the seemingly never-ending war, and that’s how she’d like to stay. But then PHNX, a resistance group specializing in espionage, approaches her with an offer to expose a government experiment exactly like the one she fled. Soon, Ama is traveling with PHNX on a series of dangerous assignments, using her telepathic powers to bring down the authoritarian Alliance.