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In a world where corporate empires work in tandem with governments and surveillance masquerades as healthcare, Abigail Warren faces an impossible choice: watch her dying father slip away or compromise her integrity to save him. When tech mogul Nathan Bell offers to rescue her family's failing bookstore and fund her father's life-saving treatments in exchange for marriage, twenty-two-year-old Abigail believes she's found a way to serve both love and conscience.

Thirteen years ago, Otta escaped the small town of Steels, intent upon becoming a marine biologist. Now she's returned, having failed to achieve her dream, and carrying the guilt of a friend's death during a deep-sea dive. She thinks she may never dive again, but then a stranger appears at her door. This stranger, May, says that her daughter has run away, and insists that she's under a nearby lake—alive. Because it turns out the small-town legend of "the underlake" is true.

Недалекое будущее. Земля объята арктической чумой, вырвавшейся из заточения ледников. Центры по разработке вакцины, полеты к новым планетам, отели смерти и парки аттракционов, провожающие детей в последний путь, – каждому аспекту этого нового человечества посвящена отдельная новелла, тесно связанная с другими историями, из которых сплетена эта книга. В центре этого романа мир, изменившийся как будто до неузнаваемости, но на самом деле – едва уловимо.

У древнего зла нет имени. Оно вырывается из недр горы, чтобы уничтожить человечество, и насылает на землю драконье воинство. Говорят, что люди могут спать спокойно, пока не прервется тысячелетний род правителей Иниса, ибо Безымянный скован их священной кровью и заточен в гробнице под морским дном.

Впервые на русском — роман современного ирландского классика Пола Линча, лауреата Букеровской премии 2023 года за роман «Песнь пророка», который уже называют «ирландским "1984"» и «новым "Рассказом служанки"». От «одного из величайших писателей современности» (Marianne) — «эпическая фреска, плутовской роман и захватывающая история взросления одновременно» (La Vie). Итак, познакомьтесь с четырнадцатилетней Грейс.

Revolution machen kann (fast) jeder. Eine neue Gesellschaftsordnung aufbauen: das schaffen nur ein paar Nerds. Und Sibylle Berg. Nach einer gelungenen Revolution, die das Finanz- und Gesellschaftssystem sanft beseitigt hat, wird sie endlich errichtet: die schöne neue Welt nach dem Kapitalismus. In dieser Welt ist alles verschwunden, woran die Menschen zu glauben gelernt hatten, in der jeder erstaunt bemerkt – dass es möglich ist, ohne Angst zu existieren und ohne sein Leben an einen Arbeitgeber zu verkaufen.

In the concluding volume of the Project Equilibrium series, the stakes have never been higher. With the government’s resurrection program exposed as a tool of absolute control, families, rebels, and the resurrected themselves stand on the precipice of revolt. Amid the sterile corridors of a government facility and the covert resistance in abandoned safe houses, a group of unlikely heroes races against time. Their mission: to hack the system, reveal the damning secrets buried in encrypted files, and reclaim the power to choose who lives and who dies.

Остров Проспера — один из трех островов небольшого архипелага, затерянного в океанских просторах и изолированного от остального мира и человечества — или того, что от него осталось. Население острова живет в привилегированном положении. За ним присматривает вспомогательный персонал, живущий в тесноте на соседнем острове, и когда к жителям Просперы приходит старость, их отправляют на третий остров — Питомник, где их тела возрождаются заново, воспоминания о прошлой жизни стираются, и помолодевшие старики снова возвращаются на Просперу.

Wren Darlington has spent her whole life in hiding, honing her psychic abilities and aiding the rebel Uprising in small ways. On the Continent, being Modified means certain death—and Wren is one of the most powerful Mods in existence. When one careless mistake places her in the hands of the enemy and she’s forced to join their most elite training program, she’s finally handed the perfect opportunity to strike a devastating blow from inside their ranks.

Peace and order are now figments of the past. Corruption, deception, and insurgency hum within the once steadfast leadership of the Hives, nations without fixed location. The heartbreaking truth is that for decades, even centuries, the leaders of the great Hives bought the world’s stability with a trickle of secret murders, mathematically planned. So that no faction could ever dominate. So that the balance held. The Hives’ façade of solidity is the only hope they have for maintaining a semblance of order, for preventing the public from succumbing to the savagery and bloodlust of wars past.

In a post-apocalyptic nation where the land of the free is now run under a dictatorship, there is one factor that holds the key to keeping world order—love. The new Regime controls the emotions of the heart. It’s their most vital law. At the age of twenty-one, every citizen is forced into an arranged marriage. The only way to escape the arrangement is to enter the Temptation Trials—a government-sponsored reality TV show where the loyalties of the contestants are tested by Tempters and Temptresses who are impossible to resist.

Nat's a scientist, determined to be in control of her own destiny. Not so easy when her twin, Raya, can predict the future. As word gets out, people turn to Raya for answers, camping out in the grounds of the family summer house. As the group becomes volatile, she uses research-backed and increasingly coercive tactics to keep the peace, enjoying leadership more than she likes to admit.

Febbraio 1962. Berlino è il cuore di un impero monumentale e inflessibile, ma la morte improvvisa di Adolf Hitler sconvolge il fragile equilibrio del Reich. Edda Göring, giovane e risoluta, si trova coinvolta in un intrigo che metterà alla prova la sua lealtà familiare e la sua sete di verità.

Man sagt, der Maurianengraben sei ein dunkles Loch, das jeden verschlingt und aus dessen Untiefen gefährliche Kreaturen steigen, bereit uns auszulöschen. Doch ich habe ihn durchquert und bin auf die Phantominsel Bermeja gestoßen, deren Seele nur durch die Kraft des Mondes gerettet werden kann. Und ich soll die Kriegerin sein, die alle befreit.

What if the price of peace was the very essence of your soul? In a future scarred by catastrophe, humanity found solace in a seductive promise: eternal serenity. Emotions, deemed too volatile, too painful, were meticulously managed by OmniCorp and its ubiquitous Infostream. The world became a haven of engineered calm, where comfort was paramount and discomfort a distant, impossible memory. But beneath the placid surface, a profound truth lay buried, waiting to resurface. Meet Elara Vance, a brilliant bio-engineer who uncovers the chilling reality behind this manufactured tranquility.

The characters in My Dear You find themselves facing extraordinary choices in scenarios that range from the everyday to the absurd: The U.S. government injects all citizens with a drug that makes them see everyone else as members of their own race and gender. God does away with humans in favor of something much better. A woman adopts a cat who conjures the ghosts of her ex-loves. A factory worker decides to liberate a sex doll she is tasked with selling.

As long as she can remember, ten-year-old Kate has felt like someone was watching her. She has been orphaned since the pandemic, her foster parents find her eccentric and off-putting, and her legal guardian is nowhere to be seen. Now, an algorithm has predicted the very worst—​within thirty days, Kate will either be killed, or become a killer. When two police officers arrive at her home in Maine intending to implant her with a tracking device, Kate is urged by her trusted AI Interactive Toy (a talking stuffed seal named Zeno) to make an immediate escape.

Two weeks after the mysterious "Scratch 'n Sniff" outbreak began in Boston, the world has descended into darkness. Nick Ritter, an expert crisis consultant, shelters with his newfound family at a camp near the Canadian border. A harsh winter is coming, and time is running out to reach his survival ranch in New Zealand. But Nick holds the key to stopping the pandemic: a stolen vial of Dr. Teddy Monroe's vaccine. Now the group faces a life-or-death decision: save themselves or save the world.

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.

Japan, after suffering from a massive irreparable disaster, cuts itself off from the world. Children are so weak they can barely stand or walk: the only people with any get-go are the elderly. Mumei lives with his grandfather Yoshiro, who worries about him constantly. They carry on a day-to-day routine in what could be viewed as a post-Fukushima time, with all the children born ancient - frail and gray-haired, yet incredibly compassionate and wise. Mumei may be enfeebled and feverish, but he is a beacon of hope, full of wit and free of self-pity and pessimism.