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Après la fuite qui les a menés à l'autre bout du pays, Jo et Edgar sont sauvés in extremis par les Cariatides. Mais Kosmos est partout et la répression de plus en plus violente. Les rebelles arriveront-ils à lui échapper ?

Beatrice Prior está a punto de tomar una decisión a la que todos los habitantes de su mundo deben enfrentarse: cinco facciones. Cinco futuros. Cinco vidas. Su plan: escoger la opción más arriesgada y abandonar Abnegación para unirse a Osadía, aunque eso signifique dejas atrás a su familia. Pero, cuando su Ceremonia de Elección se ve marcada por la tragedia, todo cambia: su mundo, sus planes e incluso ella misma. Y, por ello, Beatrice escoge un camino que la situará en el punto de mira de una rebelión clandestina… y la hará cruzarse con un chico cuyos secretos son tan peligrosos como los suyos.

There’s only one rule in Gehenna: survive—or die trying. No one has ever left alive. Acadia’s life has hit rock bottom. Once the darling of Beulah’s social elite, betrayal landed her in Gehenna—the notorious debtors' prison. Now every day is a battle just to stay breathing. To live, she must become as ruthless as the monsters around her. So Acadia hardens her heart, sealing off the emotions that could get her killed. She won’t care. She won’t trust. She won’t break. Then he arrives. A stranger—scarred, smiling, and maddeningly kind. He insists he’s not a prisoner, just a visitor in rags.

Mindwalker is an action-packed YA sci-fi novel with one central question at its core: would you ever surrender control of your mind? DO NOT SURRENDER CONTROL. Eighteen-year-old Sil Sarrah is determined to die a legend. But with only twelve months left before the supercomputer grafted to her...

One curious tortoise. One forbidden legend. One journey that could change the desert forever. Raised beneath the unyielding sun of the Mojave Desert, young tortoise Tyler has always been taught to live by a simple code: stay hidden, trust no one beyond your shell, and never question the ancient teachings of Stoneshell. Those rules have guided tortoises for generations—and kept them alive.

When Rebecca and her husband inherit a stately old home, they imagine it as the perfect place to build their family. But as the seasons turn, shadowy visitors begin to arrive—children who are not what they seem, guests with appetites beyond bread. Bound by ancestral debts and ancient instructions, Rebecca and her descendants are drawn into a chilling cycle of desire, duty, and haunting.

“They show you fear so you’ll mistake it for truth.” Because sometimes the greatest danger isn’t the monsters beyond the walls,it’s the truths we were never meant to question. Inside Haven Spire, humanity survives within carefully controlled walls built by the Continuum, an organization devoted to preserving life through order, structure, and absolute stability. Every citizen has a role. Every action is measured. Every truth is defined by the promise of survival. Io Kepler has grown up believing the rules exist to keep everyone safe.

What would you do if you discovered you could shapeshift into a dragon? Luna and Phoenix, an ocean apart, have a similar startling experience. A vacation unites the strangers, allowing them to discover the unexpected and magnificent powers within them together. Guided by the nature deity Pan and Phoenix's grandfather, they grow out of their depths and learn that there is more to the world than what meets the eye.

Avalon, city of kings, boasts a skyline adorned with sky towers and airships, while its parklands are inhabited by roaming dinosaurs. But darkness hides in the shadows. After Arthur united the realm, Avalon is poised for peace. The newlywed king is eager to build a bright future for the kingdom. But peace is fleeting. The sorted histories of Arthur’s knights resurface, and trouble is brewing with Berry, a neighboring kingdom. The scars of previous conflicts have yet to heal, and both sides are facing a crisis.

Teenage Werewolf Grazi Kelly must end the Curse of Natalis once and for all. With the help of Ronan and some unlikely allies she finds herself in a situation she could've never predicted. Will she be strong enough to fight both the Dark Witches and the High Council? Find out what fate has in store for Grazi this last installment of the Grazi Kelly Novel Series.

I survived the Trials. I even survived my nightmares. Now, I’m ready to move on and live a quiet life. But skeletons the size of dangerous government secrets rarely stay hidden. When those secrets are leaked, it’s my job to handle the public backlash. So much for any chance at a quiet, normal life. Instead, I have to make a choice— maintain the peace and innocence of our people or share the dark truth and shake the very foundations of our society.

It's supposed to be a treat for Kit, a winter holiday by the coast with her sister Libby and their mum. But when Libby vanishes into thin air, and no one else remembers her, Kit is faced with a new reality – one in which her sister never existed. Then she meets Story, a local boy who remembers Libby perfectly.

This 18th entry into the Rick Brant series finds Rick and Scotty on vacation with Rick’s new houseboat, visiting government agent Steve Ames down in Chesapeake Bay. Their plan is to meet Mr. and Mrs. Brant, Barby Brant, and Jan Miller at Steve’s vacation house and float languidly back to...

Set in the same world as the extraordinary Mindwalker, Mindbreaker is an action packed young adult science fiction novel asking: what would you sacrifice to survive? They saved her life. But at what cost? Born into a religious, anti-tech cult, seventeen-year-old Indra lives a simple, mod-free...

Following a devastating betrayal, Beth Bradley, a sixteen-year-old graffiti artist, is suspended from school. Running from a home that she shares with her father who has never recovered after Beth's mother's death, Beth stumbles into the hidden city and meets Filius Viae, London's asphalt-hued crown prince. And her timing couldn't have been more perfect.

Space Girl Green was the least confident member of her legendary Space Girl Unit right out of the academy. Of course the universe charged her with saving not just her father’s home world, but a whole pocket universe. Space Girl HQ gave her a flying saucer with a melodious personality, powerful rayguns and told her to go change the galaxy. Perhaps it was a bad idea to visit the destroyed world of Gamalon right off the bat, because a pair of mysterious scientists gave her an epic quest, putting Gamalon’s destiny in her untried hands.

The gods are back, and they are tearing this world apart. Zeus, Dagon, Loki, Lugh and countless other deities have come back to this Earth and rule over their individual districts with no goal other than satiating their own petty desires. The sole remaining functional province, Hellenica, decides to act. The deities build the Academy and are about to recruit 16 young gods with the hopes of training them to police this world.

A teen who is The Chosen One in a fantasy realms finds himself a nobody back home—that is, until magic appears in the real world and he must re-enter the portal to save a doomed realm. Months after entering a portal, becoming a powerful mage, and saving a distant realm, disgruntled Asian...

After the cataclysmic world event known as The Fallout, society regresses into city-states and mobs of marauders. Dust covers the now lifeless world. A thick haze hangs over skyscrapers, fading into an abyss of smoke. Since The Fallout, a systematized group known as Congress has taken over. They enforce strict laws, oppressive regimes, and strike down any rebellion that dares stand in the way of their perverted nationalism. They patrol the barren streets at dusk and annihilate anyone they deem a threat to their crooked ideals or their sociopolitical power.

As much as Anna would like to live in harmony, a new danger looms in her second year at the Quentin Academy. Lorenzo, Anna's new classmate and friend, recently arrived from Italy with his grandmother. But, Lorenzo's older twin brothers are also studying at the academy, and something about their strange behavior puts Anna on alert. Soon, the inexplicable death of a harmless creature destroys the balance in Anna's peaceful world.