Showing results for "Hunger" in Literature & Fiction

The Hunger Games meets Lost in this spectacular new series. Now a major TV series on E4. No one has set foot on Earth in centuries - until now. Ever since a devastating nuclear war, humanity has lived on spaceships far above Earth's radioactive surface. Now, one hundred juvenile delinquents -...

Jake feels alone at school and alone at home. Some days it feels like the only people who understand him is the poet Emily Dickinson—and Jake's beloved grandma. But there is also the Voice inside him, louder than any other, who professes to know him best of all. The one that says "You have me." The Voice is loud enough to drown out everything else, even the hunger Jake feels, until his mom intervenes and sends him to Whispering Pines. Here Jake will learn how to confront the loneliness inside him, and find out who he is and what he has to live for.

Captain Rymer is planning to murder the passengers aboard his ship in order to steal their gold. Believing they are on the way to the New World, the passengers hope to get to land soon before they starve. After overhearing the Captain’s plan, James Little must find a way to save the others on board. What will he do before death comes to them all?

Thirteen-year-old Dirk has been the man of the house since his papa disappeared while fighting against the Nazis with the Dutch Resistance. When the Gestapo arrests Dirk's older sister, who is also a Resistance fighter, Dirk fears that he and his little sister, Anna, might be next. With only pockets full of food and his sister asleep in his arms, Dirk runs away to find his father. As Dirk leads Anna across the war-torn Netherlands, from farmyards to work camps, he must rely on his wits and his father's teaching to find his way.

The sequel to Bella James' The Girl Who Cried Wolf invites you to return to the story of Anna Winters, a young woman facing a portentous struggle through depression, disordered eating, and dependency. Terrified of emanating her violent father, Anna turns her back on all that has become most precious to her. She journeys the deep labyrinth of her soul, relentlessly shadowed by a black wolf. He is her deepest fears, the darkness within her, and the only one who can set her free.