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Set in a world where every comfort and convenience comes at a staggering cost, the story follows Carrin, an ordinary man crushed beneath the weight of debt in a society obsessed with technological luxury. As he reflects on the tragic suicide of a neighbor and prepares for a visit from a relentless finance agent, Carrin confronts the unsettling truth about consumerism, inherited debt, and the price of happiness.

The virus is quick. Deadly. Unstoppable. The country is left in tatters. For Isaac Race, it’s especially bitter. After the death of his parents and sister, he was just getting his life back on track—the weaponized virus changes all that. Battered by the fresh deaths of his foster parents, but hardened by the year he’s endured, he emerges from the temporary safety of his home to seek out other survivors during the most vicious winter on record. With the help of his friend Luke, he soon discovers that 250 perilous miles stand between them and the only possible haven.

A final stand. A gathering storm. Freedom’s last breath. The grid is down. America is splintering. And the real invasion has just begun. On Mount Desert Island, Michael Shepherd fights to hold the line as alliances fracture. Boone’s grip over Bar Harbor tightens. The Sovereign Sons regroup in the hills. And somewhere in the shadows, Cole Garrison waits, wielding truth as his weapon. Far to the west, Erika Blake leads a high-risk mission to Cold Ridge, a secret uplink base buried in the Vermont mountains.

תום גלות של עשרים שנה חוזרת נוריאה חזן לעיירת הולדתה, במטרה לפגוש את אמה ואת אחותה, אולם בבית ילדותה גרה משפחה אחרת, ואיש אינו מזהה אותה. יתר על כן, היא מגלה שגופתה...

When a sudden EMP strikes, Katy Sheets’ plane crashes in rural Tennessee, leaving her world in ruins. With her husband fatally injured and society in chaos, Katy must lead her daughter and her daughter’s friend on a desperate journey home to St. Louis. Towns are collapsing, danger lurks at every turn, and the rules of survival have changed. In a powerless world, Katy will do whatever it takes to protect her family.

A genetically engineered colony on a new world. A baby born different than everyone else. A mother who will do anything to save him. On planet Eamine, twenty-one-year-old Alina must protect her baby when Mandin is born with a remarkable DNA anomaly. Mandin's uniqueness makes him as a target for exploitation. Trained by the Expeditionary Academy, Alina knows how to survive Eamine’s harsh environment and seeks to keep Mandin safe.

Meses después de que la pandemia del Diluvio Seco haya borrado a casi toda la humanidad de la faz de la Tierra, Toby y Ren han rescatado a su amiga Amanda de las garras de los despiadados paintbalistas. Juntas, regresan a la cabaña de los locoadánidas, cuyo reticente profeta, Jimmy -Hombre de las Nieves-, debilitado a causa de la fiebre, hace que Toby tenga que predicar la teología de los crackers.

Anfangs galten die Kaninchen mit den messerscharfen Zähnen rund um das Dorf als der größte Feind für die Bewohner. Aber dann kreuzten die Eichhörnchen auf… Letztendlich wurden die Menschen auch mit ihnen fertig und alles schien gut zu laufen, bis - Überraschung! - die Wölfe auftauchten. Während die Anzahl der Feinde immer weiter zunimmt, offenbart sich endlich ein Licht am Ende des Tunnels. Eine andere vernunftbegabte Spezies! Möglicherweise können sich die Menschen mit den Goblins zusammenschließen und gemeinsam an ihrer Zukunft arbeiten.

Julian Mehne ist ein Meister des ruhigen Erzähltons, dem man stundenlang lauschen möchte. Klug und versiert macht er aus Shustermans neuester Dystopie ein akustisches Meisterwerk. Gefährlich, ansteckend und voller Glück. Ein beispielloses Virus breitet sich auf dem Planeten aus. Diejenigen aber, die überleben, sind … glücklich. Stress, Depression, Einsamkeit – alle negativen Gefühle sind plötzlich verschwunden. Immer mehr Genesene genießen das neue Glücksgefühl. Doch längst nicht alle, denn innere Zufriedenheit ist schlecht fürs Geschäft.

הספר מתרחש בלילה אחד בעתיד הלא-רחוק בעוד כנראה שתים-עשרה שנה, באסדת-אשפה על שפך נהר ההדסון, בין ניו-ג'רזי לניו-יורק, שעליה עובדים חמישה גברים ישראלים, פליטים מישראל...

השנה היא 2064. רות בת החמש־עשרה אוהבת לצאת לשטח הפתוח עם החבר שלה, תום, כדי לחפש מזון ולהתחמק ולו לרגע מהצפיפות, הסירחון והלחץ שבתוך גדרות מחנה כרמל, שבו היא חיה עם...

Cînd animalele de la fermă îşi alungă stăpînul beţiv, toate sînt cuprinse de un zel colectiv. Fiecare munceşte peste program, astfel productivitatea creşte şi, pentru moment, gurile sînt sătule. Regulile de aur ale colectivităţii vor fi înscrise cu litere uriaşe pe un hambar...

The Tucker clan teeters on the brink of annihilation. The hand of friendship extended by the Americans concealed a dagger, and now Ella Holland languishes in captivity, separated from her homeland, knowing the true extent of the Americans' wicked intentions and powerless to stop them. While the Americans' iron-fisted control of the Tuckers nears its apogee, the Pied Piper waits in the wings. Against their multitudinous enemies, the Tuckers must use every ally and resource they can and resort to every tactic, no matter how savage.

The bestselling author of The Long Emergency returns with a gripping, darkly amusing sequel to his novel World Made by Hand, which Alan Cheuse of NPR called “brilliant.” In the tiny hamlet of Union Grove, New York, the electricity has flickered off, the internet is a distant memory, and the...

“What’s after Armageddon? No government, no laws, no infrastructure, no oil, no industry…and sometimes a sense of relief. In Kunstler’s richly imagined World Made by Hand, the bone-weary denizens of Union Grove…manage to plant a few seeds of human decency that bear fruit.”...

In a grim, not-so-distant future, humanity is in crisis. A deadly pandemic has confined billions to their homes, leaving society completely isolated in their homes and utterly dependent on the mega-global Chum Corporation. For some lucky beta testers, the only escape is to log into New Arcadia—a real-as-life role-playing game set in a gleaming 1990s-inspired city. There, they can enjoy the freedoms denied to them in the real world—like Prime Beta Tester John Chambers, who has reinvented himself in New Arcadia as street-fighting hero Blaze.

In the twenty-second century, the City of Angels is a tragic shell of its former self, having long ago been ruined and reshaped by nuclear disaster. Before he was in a band in Ellay, Gregorio Rivas was a redeemer, rescuing lost souls trapped in the Jaybirds cult of the powerful maniac Norton Jaybush. Rivas had hoped those days were behind him, but a desperate entreaty from a powerful official is pulling him back into the game. The rewards will be plentiful if he can wrest Urania, the official's daughter and Gregorio's first love, from Jaybush's sinister clutches.

Mount St. Helens erupts without warning unleashing a VEI 6 explosion of ash, fire, and fury. It cripples the Pacific Northwest, choking cities, burying highways, and raining destruction upon the land. For the Mercer family, the eruption strikes terrifyingly close to home. Their sanctuary becomes a battleground as seismic chaos tears through the Columbia River Gorge.

The world has fallen into darkness. The infection has spread like wildfire, turning cities into graveyards and people into monsters. In the heart of this chaos, Dutch and Echo Team, once elite soldiers, now transformed into something more, must fight to survive. Their glowing white eyes mark them as beings beyond human. As Echo Team makes their way back from mainland Europe, there are no shortcuts on this journey.

A sixteen year old boy awakens in a dark forest with no memory of how he got there. When he finally begins to come to terms that he is no longer at home, he begins to realize that he is not only in a different environment, but he's in a different time period! To make matters more trivial, all the townspeople, also known as "Locksmiths," have these "Keys" that allows them to emit different colored energies or, "HUEs," at will. It just so happens the dark HUE that emits from him is the most powerful in this futuristic world of "Aether." Is it a simulation? Is it a dream?