Apocalyptic Child

The earth has died many times, and it always comes back looking different. In an exhilarating, surprising exploration of our planet, Craig Childs takes listeners on a firsthand journey through apocalypse, touching the truth behind the speculation. Apocalyptic Planet is a combination of science and adventure that reveals the ways in which our world is constantly moving toward its end and how we can change our place within the cycles and episodes that rule it.

Frank had one rule for the end of the world: stay fed, stay moving, and stay out of other people’s business. At sixty-five, with failing knees and a lifetime of regrets, he’s long given up on heroics. But when he stumbles across fifteen-year-old Maisie and her asthmatic little sister, Zoe—two kids trying to outrun a world where a single cough can wake the dead—Frank breaks his own rule. He doesn’t want to lead. They don’t want to trust him. But danger forces them together, and the road ahead doesn’t care about age, fear, or good intentions. Now Frank is guiding the girls ...

Children of Light is a six-book Christian end-times saga that follows ordinary believers after the Rapture as they learn that obedience to God is not safe, not celebrated, and not always understood, but it is always worth the cost, Blending speculative fiction with Scripture, testimony, and spiritual formation, the series traces how faith matures under pressure, how darkness normalizes itself through systems and power, and how God’s Light is carried forward by those willing to surrender control and remain faithful without certainty. Book One of the Children of Light Series A Christian ...

The lights went out and never came back on. Every engine, every phone, every machine, dead in a single silent instant. The quiet was the part nobody was ready for. Eleven days later, Chris Mathers walks into the mountains to die. A former Ranger with stage four cancer and twenty years of ghosts behind his eyes, Chris has lost every reason to take the next step. He has it all planned out: walk far, find a quiet place under the spruce, and let go on his own terms before the worst of it comes. Then he hears a child scream. What he finds is a woman standing alone against three armed men, ...

Frank had finally built a life that worked—and didn’t trust it. Five months in Green Mountain have given him steady work, hot meals, and two people who now shape every call he makes. Maisie watches everything and keeps a bag half-packed. Eight-year-old Zoe trusts the rules, the school bell, the promise that adults mean what they say. Frank’s seen places flip overnight. He tries to stay ready without scaring them, to keep this life intact without pretending it can’t break. When the outside world shows up at the fence, Frank has to decide how much he’s willing to trust the gates—...

In the ruins of civilization, a young girl's kindness and capacity for love will either save humanity—or wipe it out in this USA Today bestselling thriller. "Heartfelt, remorseless, and painfully human." —Josh Whedon, creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Melanie is a very special girl. Dr...

The world has gone to hell and it isn't coming back. It happened in a year: starvation, gangs of kids with guns, and every adult in the world dead from the sickness. Houses are now mausoleums. Civilization lies in the hands of children who've never had to feed themselves or survive a winter without gas or electricity. Most will die. Others - a bare few - will tread a different path.

The last satisfying sunset of the old world went completely unnoticed. Rush hour traffic on Interstate 95 is sluggish but normal. Then the sky tears open. Vehicles die instantly. Cell phones turn into useless glass bricks. The power grid completely vanishes in a fraction of a second. Matt is stranded sixty miles from his family. His daughter is waiting for him. His wife is terrified. He knows that staying on the highway means certain death as panic quickly overtakes the trapped commuters. He grabs what little he has and starts walking. The journey north through Connecticut becomes a brutal ...

From the acclaimed author of The One, now available in an expanded edition, The Family Experiment is a dark and brilliant speculative thriller about families: real and virtual. Some families are virtually perfect… The world's population is soaring, creating overcrowded cities and an economic...

Alex Romero is only eleven years old, but he's already been staring into the face of death for years. In a Central Texas hollowed out by economic collapse and the lingering rot of the SK disease, survival isn't a choice, it's a trade. With a father a thousand unreachable miles away and a mother spiraling into addiction, Alex spends his days stealing and bartering just to keep his seven-year-old sister, Anjie, from going hungry. Paying little attention to the Exanimate—the vacant, brain-damaged shells of the dead kept in the shadows of unmarked Holding Centers. Alex thought he knew how to ...

Master storyteller Stephen King presents the classic, terrifying New York Times bestseller about those caught between the surreal forces of good versus evil in a Midwestern horror setting—a suburban nightmare story in the fictional town of Wentworth, Ohio. The red van rolls past…humming and...

Amanda is heartbroken as she watches them drive her beloved twins away. She’s resolved to hope and fight for them until her last breath. Kara and Lizzie are heiresses to one of the largest fortunes in the country. But when their father dies suddenly, the toddlers are taken from the arms of...

The year is 2021. No child has been born for twenty-five years. The human race faces extinction. Under the despotic rule of Xan Lyppiat, the Warden of England, the old are despairing and the young cruel. Theo Faren, a cousin of the Warden, lives a solitary life in this ominous atmosphere. That...

In the aftermath of a cataclysmic nuclear winter, Eryn, a boy with special abilities, wanders across the ice, where he discovers the last vestige of human civilization in Antarctica. The abduction of the first extracorporeal birthed twins born into this all-male society leads to a fast-paced rescue mission that uncovers millennia-old secrets and the true origin of humans.

From molecular biologist turned Anthony Award-winning author of The Killing Kind comes a fact-based thriller in the vein of Michael Crichton about our species’ next great existential threat. It began four years ago with a worldwide uptick of bacterial infections: meningitis in Frankfurt...

Navigate a post-apocalyptic world and experience a thrilling finale with the ultimate Maximum Ride novel the world’s #1 bestselling author. “One of the best storytellers of our time.” ―Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson, the world's most popular YouTuber Discover the ninth and ultimate...

Beneath the surface of Triune lies the Middle, an immense, hidden world where every child of Triune is raised in secret for twenty‑three years. In this subterranean cradle of stone and starlight, they train relentlessly, sharpening their crafts, gifts, and strengths under the watchful guidance of Mother, their half‑human, half‑android caretaker. Each year, the children undergo The Binding, a brutal, sacred procedure that tears them open so their emerging gifts can bloom. And with every Binding, the pain grows sharper, the transformations more powerful, and the children more prepared ...

In this dark dystopian tale, 17-year-old Hawk is growing up hard and fast in post-apocalyptic New York City—until a perilous destiny forces her to take flight and protect her home. Where is Maximum Ride? Ten years ago a girl with wings fought to save the world. But then she disappeared. Now...

It is the 147th century. In the radically advanced post-human worlds of the Amaranthine Firmament, there is a contender to the Immortal throne: Aaron the Long-Life, the Pretender, a man who is not quite a man. In the barbarous hominid kingdoms of the Prism Investiture, where life is short, cheap, and dangerous, an invention is born that will become the Firmament's most closely kept secret.

Meredith Gale has to make contact with the Architect before the Adversary’s agent, the transformed Abernathy, reaches her and ruins the millennia of planning designed to save the Earth. In order to accomplish this, she and her ragtag band of friends have to unify the scattered survivors of the multiverse to oppose the Adversary. Along the way, new allies will be made while new opponents do their best to stop her. If she fails, not only will the last of humanity be wiped away, but the Earth won't survive the collapse of the universe.