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After: Jess is alone. Her cabin has burned to the ground. She knows if she doesn't act fast, the cold will kill her before she has time to worry about food. But she is still alive - for now. Before: Jess hadn't seen her survivalist, off-the-grid dad in more than a decade. But after a car crash killed her mother and left her injured, she was forced to move to his cabin in the remote Canadian wilderness. Just as Jess was beginning to get to know him, a secret from his past paid them a visit, leaving her father dead and Jess stranded.

Teen rebel and social-media star Robin Hood is in exile in Holland, limited to public campaigning for the rebel cause. In the meantime, the Sherwood Forest rebels have been waging a long bitter war against President Marjorie Kovacevic's troops. And hundreds of thousands of civilians, women and children, have been locked up in squalid open-air prisons. But if the President wants to remain in power, she must do whatever it takes to completely destroy the rebels in Sherwood Forest.

Ed and Jean Jackson survived the early days of the apocalypse with the help of their close friends, Chief Barnes and Kathy McGinley. Over the years since the infection began, they chose to step back from the battle against the infected dead and remain within the safety of the shelter hidden in Green Cavern. Now, they have embarked on a perilous mission of their own to attempt the rescue of a group of survivors who are clinging to life near Niagara Falls and the Finger Lakes of New York.

Harper and her two sisters face extreme danger and unexpected natural disasters while hiking in the Cascades of Oregon. Nonstop action, survival, high school science, and sibling rivalry are the hallmarks of this contemporary realistic survival story by the acclaimed author of Black Hole Sun...

Der zwölfjährige Pierce und seine Freunde Bennie und Thomas verbringen ihre Ferien damit, den im Hafen ankommenden Fischern beim Sortieren ihres schwindenden Fangs zu helfen. Bis sie erfahren, dass ein Mädchen von der Insel vermisst wird: ausgerechnet Anna, die in geheimer Verbundenheit zu Pierce stand und als Einzige von seiner Angst vor dem offenen Wasser wusste, die ihn quält, seit sein Vater auf See verschwand. Zusammen mit Bennies New Yorker Cousine Emily setzen die Freunde alles daran, Anna zu finden.

In a world devastated by climate change and overconsumption, sixteen-year-old Joe's survival hangs by a thread. Living in a shack beneath towering piles of waste with his father and grandfather, the town's revered storyteller, their community faces constant danger. After a deadly avalanche of rubbish, six-year-old Lily is left deathly ill, and Joe sets out on a quest for help. As Joe journeys towards the city of Madera, the lines between reality and the magical stories his grandfather passed down begin to blur.

"Full of compelling twists and high-stakes magic . . . a captivating romantic fantasy that had me rooting for the protagonists from the very [beginning]." —Kelly Andrew, New York Times-bestselling author of Your Blood, My Bones on The Beasts We Bury Marry her enemy. Save her realm. Forsake her...

'Eleanor Bennett’s crisp British accents bring listeners into the intriguing world of Feather, a small creature who lives in a crumbling wall next to a large, encroaching forest.' – AudioFile Costa Award-winning Frances Hardinge's gripping story of a young girl's daring mission through a...

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of The Rose Society by Marie Lu, read by Carla Corvo and Lannon Killea. Adelina Amouteru's heart is set on revenge. Now known and feared as the White Wolf, she and her sister flee Kenettra to find other Young Elites in the hopes of...

Josef Matt, the only man to ever try to conquer this last summit of the Alps, met his end in the pursuit. Now his son, Rudi, dares to complete the same task in memory of his father. Setting off with his father's red shirt, Rudi must courageously pass through the same chasm that took his father's life and finish the challenging climb in order to plant the shirt at the peak.

Figlia del più potente trafficante dello Stretto, la giovane Fable ha conosciuto un solo luogo che possa chiamare "casa": una nave ormai colata a picco. Quattro anni prima ha visto la madre annegare durante una terribile tempesta; il giorno seguente il padre l'ha abbandonata su un'isola covo di furfanti. Per sopravvivere Fable ha dovuto imparare a badare a se stessa, senza fidarsi di nessuno e contando solo su ciò che sua madre le ha insegnato. A tenerla viva è il desiderio di lasciare l'isola, ritrovare il padre e rivendicare il proprio posto al suo fianco.

The first book in a pulse-pounding new series that’s set in the world of the #1 New York Times bestselling I Am Number Four series. The war may be over—but for the next generation, the battle has just begun! It has been over a year since the invasion of Earth was thwarted in Pittacus...

Zacharie, Mya et Ko Than sont en route vers le Myanmar lorsque les moteurs de leur avion tombent en panne. Le pilote n’a pas le choix : il doit faire un amerrissage forcé, en plein coeur de la mer d’Andaman.

The apocalypse continues! And Trace Taylor doesn't know what she should do. A war between worlds seems inevitable, and Liberapolis is not prepared to fend off monster attacks, let alone the end of the world. With Ex just as clueless as she is, the redhead decides to confide with her best friend, Elizabeth Evergreen. Will the two young women be enough to stave off an alien invasion?

Tous les cinq ans, le peuple de Kathalea attend qu'un volontaire se sacrifie pour le bien de la communauté au cours de la grande fête de l'éclipse. Dans un clivage entre violence et paix, Noa de Kathalea doit décider comment elle peut faire sortir son pays d'une tradition sanglante et le ramener à la raison. Cependant, une personne fera tout pour que cette année, un sacrifice bien particulier soit demandé. Entre peur et aventure, haine et amour, chasser et être chassée, elle doit découvrir la vérité. Dans cette vie ou la suivante.

Die dreizehnjährige Ivy ist alles andere als begeistert, als sie auf den englischen Landsitz zu ihrem kauzigen Großvater ziehen soll. Richard Carlton redet nicht viel, hat nur seinen verwunschenen Garten im Kopf und verbietet Ivy sogar, einen Teil davon zu betreten: den sogenannten Poison Garden, der mit schmiedeeisernen Toren vom Rest des Anwesens getrennt ist. Doch dann schneit es auf einmal mitten im Spätsommer, Ivy hört seltsame Gesänge und sieht unheimliche Gestalten. Kurz darauf ist ihr Großvater wie vom Erdboden verschluckt. Seine Spur führt geradewegs in den Giftgarten.

On a sunny September morning, the creatures first appear. Shur sees one of them hovering outside the window in history class: it looks like a giant butterfly, at first too beautiful and strange to seem like a threat. But when emergency alerts light up everyone’s phones around her, she realizes something very, very wrong is happening outside. These … things are everywhere. By the time Shur makes it back to her house with her brother, Keene, and their two best friends, it’s clear they must face whatever comes next on their own.

I en förort till Stockholm lever 11-åriga Mik tillsammans med sin storebror Tony och deras pappa. Med en bortgången mamma och en pappa som tillbringar mer tid i baren än hemma är Tony den enda han har att luta sig mot. Men när socialnämnden ringer på dörren splittras den dysfunktionella familjen. Mik sätts ensam på en buss som för honom från storstaden till hans faster uppe i Norrland. Vädret är kallare än vad han är van vid, alla i staden verkar känna varandra och det finns en hund som vill äta upp honom. Men just när Mik börjar lätta på garden mot folket i byn rycks han iväg.

Joel Walker wakes up to a world suddenly and frighteningly changed. In the wake of a massive power outage, an otherworldly siren begins to blare, changing all that listen to it for too long in frightening ways. Desperate to find his mother and little sister, Joel will have to survive in a world that is coming apart at its seams.

Alle fünf Jahre verlangen die Menschen von Kathalea, dass sich ein Freiwilliger zum Wohle des Volkes beim großen Fest zur Sonnenfinsternis opfert. Inmitten einer Spaltung von Gewalt und Frieden muss sich Noa von Kathalea entscheiden, wie sie das Land aus einer blutigen Tradition zurück in die Vernunft führen kann. Doch einer setzt alles daran, dass in diesem Jahr ein ganz besonderes Opfer verlangt wird. Zwischen Angst und Abenteuer, Hass und Liebe, jagen und gejagt werden - sie muss die Wahrheit erfahren. In diesem Leben oder im nächsten.