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In a radiant world of endless summer, the Intercept keeps the peace. Violet Crowley, the 16-year-old daughter of New Earth’s Founding Father, has spent her life in comfort and safety. Her days are easy thanks to the Intercept, a crime-prevention device that monitors emotion. But when her long-time crush, Danny Mayhew, gets into a dangerous altercation on Old Earth, Violet launches a secret investigation to find out what he's hiding. An investigation that will lead her to question everything she's ever known about Danny, her father, and the power of the Intercept.

Gefährliches Spiel mit dem Feuer! Obwohl Malias Feuerelement immer deutlichere Formen annimmt, ist die 17-jährige Elite-Soldatin immer noch nicht von ihren Fähigkeiten überzeugt. Doch die Lage in den obersten politischen Rängen spitzt sich zu und als sich die Situation plötzlich gegen sie wendet, kann nur noch ihr Mentor Chris sie vor dem sicheren Tod bewahren. Dabei kommen sich die beiden wieder einmal näher und Malia erfährt etwas über Chris, das alles, was sie je über den attraktiven High-Society-Boy erfahren hat, in ein anderes Licht rückt...

Dans une galaxie dominée par une fédération de neuf planètes, certains êtres possèdent un "don", un pouvoir unique. Akos, de la pacifique nation de Thuvhé, et Cyra, sœur du tyran qui gouverne les Shotet, sont de ceux-là. Mais leurs dons les rendent, eux plus que tout autre, à la fois puissants et vulnérables. Tout dans leurs origines les oppose. Les obstacles entre leurs peuples, entre leurs familles, sont dangereux et insurmontables. Pourtant, pour survivre, ils doivent s'aider... ou décider de se détruire.

Londres es una ciudad sobre ruedas: una ciudad como nunca habías visto. Tras la terrible Guerra de los Sesenta Minutos, las ciudades que sobrevivieron al apocalipsis se convirtieron en depredadoras, persiguiendo a ciudades menores y alimentándose de ellas. Londres es una de ellas y se encuentra a la caza de una pequeña urbe, cuando Tom se topa con una joven asesina. Ambos acabarán en la Región Exterior, un páramo desolador marcado por las huellas de las ciudades ambulantes.

Fin has never stepped foot on the surface of the Earth. Working the mines, deep below, has been the only life she's ever known. Two hundred years after the planet's magnetic poles began to flip, Earth's surface has become irradiated and unsustainable. As the land, water, and even the air grew toxic, the underprivileged were doomed to a life of hard labor underground, while the Enhanced Human Coalition on the surface enjoy their spoils. But now, Fin and her friends discover a stolen piece of EHC tech that modifies genetics.

SETI has received a signal from an alien civilization. Is there time to save the world? In the aftermath of SETI’s receiving the signal, 13-year-old Kevin realizes he is the only one who can save the world. But is there time? What must he do? And what do the aliens plan next?

The Yellowstone super-volcano nearly wiped out the human race. Now, almost a year after the eruption, the survivors seem determined to finish the job. Communities wage war on each other, gangs of cannibals roam the countryside, and what little government survived the eruption has collapsed completely. The ham radio has gone silent. Sickness, cold, and starvation are the survivors' constant companions. When it becomes apparent that their home is no longer safe and adults are not facing the stark realities, Alex and Darla must create a community that can survive the ongoing disaster....

"Dieses wilde, wilde Lied: Monsters of Verity" ist der Auftakt einer neuen Urban Fantasy-Reihe, in der die Grenzen zwischen Moral und Sünde verschwimmen. Auf mitreißende Weise erzählt New York Times-Bestsellerautorin Victoria Schwab von einer düsteren Zukunft, in der Monster aus uns Menschen entstehen und uns die eigenen Abgründe aufzeigen. Die perfekte Lektüre für Fans von Cassandra Clare und Maggie Stiefvater! In der geteilten Metropole Verity City herrscht ein erbitterter Kampf ums Überleben. Denn jede neue Gewalttat der Menschen bringt leibhaftige Monster hervor, welche nachts den Bewohnern der Stadt auflauern.

Dahlia 16 sees her face in every crowd. She's nothing special - just one of 5,000 girls created from a single genome to work for the greater good of the city. Meeting Trigger 17 changes everything. He thinks she's interesting. Beautiful. Unique. Which means he must be flawed. When Dahlia can't stop thinking about him - when she can't resist looking for him, even though that means breaking the rules - she realizes she's flawed, too. But if she's flawed, then so are all her identicals. And any genome found to be flawed will be recalled.

Piper’s world is dying. Each day brings hotter temperatures and heat bubbles which threaten to destroy the Earth. Amid this Global Heating Crisis, Piper lives under the oppressive rule of her mother, who suffocates her even more than the weather does. Everything changes on her eighteenth birthday, when her mother is called away on a mysterious errand and Piper seizes her first opportunity for freedom. Piper discovers a universe she never knew existed—a sphere of gods and monsters—and realizes that her world is not the only one in crisis.

If the melt-down, flood, plague, the third World War, new Ice Age, Rapture, alien invasion, clamp-down, meteor, or something else entirely hit today, what would tomorrow look like? Some of the biggest names in YA and adult literature answer that very question in this short story anthology, each story exploring the lives of teen protagonists raised in catastrophe's wake - whether set in the years soon after the change, or in decades far in the future.

Leilani and her family on the Big Island of Hawai'i face the challenge of survival in the world of the Emerald Orchid: a green presence that appeared in the sky after a global blackout. As the Hawaiian Islands go back to traditional ways of living, people must grow their own food and ration everything from gas to bullets.

Six months ago Aether Corporation sent Elena, Adam, and three other recruits on a trip to the future, from where they brought back secret information - but not everyone made it back to the present alive. Now Elena's dealing with her survivor's guilt and trying to make her relationship with Adam work. All she knows for sure is that she's done with time travel and Aether Corporation.

Avie Reveare has the normal life of a privileged teen growing up in LA, at least as normal as any girl's life is these days. After a synthetic hormone in beef killed 50 million American women 10 years ago, only young girls, old women, men, and boys are left to pick up the pieces. The death threat is past, but fathers still fear for their daughters' safety, and the Paternalist Movement, begun to "protect" young women, is taking over the choices they make.

I thought I loved Sam.He betrayed me. Now he's gone. I thought I loved my uncle. He doesn't know what love is. He only wants to use me. Who's left?

From the Renaissance master Andrea del Sarto who faked a Raphael masterpiece at the request of his Medici patrons, to the Vermeer counterfeiter Han van Meegeren who duped the avaricious Hermann Goering, to the frustrated British artist Eric Hebborn, who began forging to expose the ignorance of experts, art forgers have challenged "legitimate" art in their own time, breaching accepted practices and upsetting the status quo.

It's been more than two years since Jon Evans and his family left Pennsylvania, hoping to find a safe place to live, yet Jon remains haunted by the deaths of those he loved. His prowess on a soccer field has guaranteed him a home in a well-protected enclave. But Jon is painfully aware that a missed goal, a careless word, even falling in love, can put his life and the lives of his mother, his sister Miranda, and her husband, Alex, in jeopardy. Can Jon risk doing what is right in a world gone so terribly wrong?

Katie is on the verge of her Rumspringa, the time in Amish life when teenagers can get a taste of the real world. But the real world comes to her in this dystopian tale with a philosophical bent. Rumors of massive unrest on the “Outside” abound. Something murderous is out there. Amish elders make a rule: No one goes outside, and no outsiders come in. But when Katie finds a gravely injured young man, she can’t leave him to die. She smuggles him into her family’s barn—at what cost to her community? The suspense of this vividly told, truly horrific thriller will keep the pages turning.

Alenna escaped. It was expected that she would die on the wheel, the island where would-be criminals are sent as directed by the UNA - the totalitarian supercountry that was once the United States, Mexico, and Canada. But Alenna and her boyfriend, Liam, made it to safety. Except safety, they will soon learn, is relative.In order to bring down the UNA, they must first gain control of the wheel. If the mission succeeds, the wheel will become a base of revolution. But between betrayals, a new Monk leading a more organized army of Drones, and the discovery of a previously unknown contingent, Alenna, Liam, and their allies might be in over their heads.

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.