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From number-one worldwide best-selling fantasy author Morgan Rice comes a long-anticipated science-fiction series debut. When SETI finally receives a signal from an alien civilization, what will happen next? A 13-year-old boy, dying of a rare brain disease, is the only one able to hear and decode signals from outer space. SETI confirms it is a real signal. What is the message? How will the world react? And most of all: are the aliens coming?

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.

★著書累計145万部 喜多川泰のデビュー作が待望のジュニア版になって新登場！★幸せと成功を導く【9つの教え】を手に入れろ！世界一わかりやすく「人生を学べる」ファンタジー！14歳の誕生日。おじいちゃんから不思議な本を渡されたサイードは、9人の賢者を探す冒険に出る――【ジュニア版だけの特別なポイント】・著者書き下ろしの「あとがき」を収録！これからの未来をつくる読者の皆さまへ向けて、喜多川泰氏が特別なメッセージを書き下ろし。

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...

Wem gehört ihr Herz? Von den 35 Mädchen, die um die Gunst von Prinz Maxon und die Krone von Illeá kämpfen, sind mittlerweile nur noch sechs übrig. America ist eine von ihnen, und sie ist hin- und hergerissen: Gehört ihr Herz nicht immer noch ihrer großen Liebe Aspen? Aber warum hat sich dann der charmante, gefühlvolle Prinz hineingeschlichen? America muss die schwerste Entscheidung ihres Lebens treffen. Doch dann kommt es zu einem schrecklichen Vorfall, der alles ändert. Endlich ungekürzt! Leonie Landa spricht die romantisch-dystopische Reihe mit Liebe zum Detail.

Neste manifesto inovador, Attia revela como a sua jornada pessoal o fez repensar a abordagem da medicina com a qual ele e tantos outros colegas e pacientes estavam acostumados. Afinal, apesar de todos os seus sucessos, a medicina tradicional parece ter falhado no que diz respeito às doenças relacionadas ao envelhecimento.

Ein SciFi-Thriller über Menschen, KIs und den Sinn des Lebens. »Finger weg, der gehört mir!« ist wohl so alt wie die Menschheit. Wenn das aber eine taktische Einsatz-KI sagt, hat es eine ganz andere Dimension. Was das bedeutet, muss Agent Elmar Rauk bei seinem neuen Auftrag feststellen. Er ahnt aber nicht, wie weit die KI gehen wird, um ihr Ziel zu erreichen. – Das Ziel ist er. 2055 steht die alles dominierende Supermacht China möglicherweise vor der Entdeckung außerirdischer Technologie, was ihre Vormachtstellung noch weiter ausbauen würde.

His real name is Christmas. It’s embarrassing. He’s been accepted into the Institute of Creative Mind, a prestigious institute for eccentrics, outliers, and gifted students. Christmas trees, ornaments, and lights decorate the castles. Presents are given out every month, and students are pitted against each other in creative challenges. Chris soon finds out, however, the stakes are high. The losers are expelled. This place is more than a demanding school for gifted students. Chris finds a clue in a textbook his first night, written in code. Run, run as fast as you can....

Le couronnement de Roiben approche, et Kaye est sûre d'une chose : elle est amoureuse. L'intrépide pixie se déclare devant toute la cour des Termites, contraignant Roiben à l'envoyer loin de lui. Il lui confie une quête, apparemment impossible : elle doit trouver une Fæ capable de mentir. L'aventure de Kaye prend un tour dangereux lorsqu'elle se retrouve aux prises avec la Cour des Seelie.

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...

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...

One can read minds, another can shape dreams, and still another can heal battle wounds. The list goes on. Join Jillian and her siblings as they navigate the dangers of living life as genetically Gifted people. Some, like Danielle, want to help them. Some, like Devya, want to control them. And many others just want to own them.

One courageous young girl, one impossible choice. Book One of the Izzy Chronicles. On the distant planet Mirron, eye color determines everything. Topaz eyes sit at the top of society. Pearl eyes sit at the bottom. And no one is allowed to forget it. Twelve-year-old Izzy Ashford is the only Pearl in an all-Topaz town. Adopted and deeply loved by her Topaz parents, but increasingly aware of what her color means to the world around her. When subtle prejudice turns into open bullying just before sixth-grade graduation, Izzy can no longer pretend the color system doesn't affect her.

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.

In this 17th science adventure, Rick and Scotty and the Spindrift Science Foundation staff (including Hartson Brant, Hobart Zircon, and Julius Weiss) join forces with South American geoscientists on the resort island of San Luz, off the coast of South America. There, they are faced with the ancient volcano of El Viejo, which shows every sign of getting ready to erupt and consume the entire island in a devastating disaster, like the one that obliterated the island of Krakatoa in 1883.

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.

Although the New World Federation’s music-powered engines allow them to traverse and mine the mazelike nebula known as Caerdroia, the colony space stations are dying, with no actual new world in sight. But Jude Aberdeen is more than just a Federation guitarist; he’s a believer. Like his grandfather before him, Jude sees visions of a Green Place when he resonates with his music, a New Earth somewhere out beyond Caerdroia’s coils.

All the Spindrifters want to do is to locate, quietly dig up and study some ancient native artifacts, including a full-sized, solid-gold skull that is sacred to the Filipino natives. Unfortunately, corrupt government officials want to steal it to sell on the black market, and head-hunting natives want to stop them because unearthing it will desecrate their lands.

Uvula Publishing presents the tenth volume in the Rick Brant Science-Adventure stories-- The Golden Skull. Here Rick Brant and Don Scott leave New Jersey to join Dr. Tony Briotti on an Indiana Jones-style archeological expedition in the Philippines. All the Spindrifters want to do is to quietly dig up and study some ancient native artifacts, including a full-sized, solid-gold skull that is sacred to the Filipino natives.