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A man who hates children is the only one who can save them... “A fantastic and original premise…flashes of Stephen King and MR Carey.” Tom Witcomb “Kirwan lights the fuse on a new SF series…action-adventure and dark-edged SF that will enthrall readers.” – Kirkus Reviews Nathan, emotionally scarred after three tours in Afghanistan, lives alone in Manhattan until New Year’s Eve, when he meets Lara. The next morning, he notices that something odd is going on – a terrified kid is being pursued by his father. A young girl, Sally, pleads with Nathan to hide her from her parents....

A surreal and timely novel about the effects of isolation and what it means to be connected to the world from the Printz Award-winning author of Dig. Time has stopped. It's been June 23, 2020 for nearly a year as far as anyone can tell. Frantic adults demand teenagers focus on finding...

The hardest battle is the one you fight against yourself. Ida thought defeating Vance Drem would free Spark City. Instead, a darker force has taken hold. The voice in her head won't stop. She finally has a family of sorts. Lucy, fierce and loyal. Gatz, who loves her. But how do you let anyone close when you're afraid of what you might become? The military wants to weaponize her. The city is under siege. Ida's spent her life running—from her past, from connection, from anyone who might see her broken pieces. This time, running means abandoning the only family she's ever had. To save them, ...

Two months have passed since Patch Collins narrowly escaped the Board, leaving her loved ones behind to navigate the escalating tensions in America. Patch finds herself in an unfamiliar world, struggling with her mental health, and surrounded by those who abandoned the very idea of American diplomacy long ago. When a familiar enemy resurfaces and she learns the previously unknown fate of a loved one, Patch must make a choice: stay and live a life of relative safety, or risk everything to expose the Board’s actions to the world.

They thought escaping the undead hordes was their ticket to freedom. They couldn't have been more wrong. Now Wren and Robyn must face a new enemy and a kind of danger like no other they have encountered. Their success means a chance of survival for everyone they care about. Their failure means the end of everything they have fought for. For these two sisters time is running out fast and the sun is setting on the longest day of their lives. Just one question still remains, will they get to see the dawn?

When the Earth's rotation slowed to a crawl, mankind was plunged into a harsh world of burning hot days and endless, arctic nights. Some fled to the mountains for shelter. Others took to the seas, sailing forever in the perfect gold between the night and the day - a place known as the Seventh Hour. Liv was raised aboard a ship chasing the Seventh. She's never seen the night, never known true cold, and when a storm destroys her home, she’s on land for the first time in her life. Her only chance at survival is Grayson.

Ida doesn't do attachments. Attachments get you killed. Fresh from the war, the ex-Marine medic wants to disappear into Spark City's shadows. Keep moving. Trust no one. Then she saves a dying teenager, and everything unravels. A wolf hybrid named Gatz won't stop trailing her. A lonely girl named Lucy won't stop needing her. And Mayor Vance Drem—the city's most dangerous man—learns her secret: Ida’s touch can heal. He's dying. He wants what’s in her blood. He’ll burn the city to get it. For the first time in her life, Ida has people who won’t abandon her. A makeshift family that ...

Tom y Hester están en un vertedero helado esperando a la muerte tras un fallo en los motores de la Jenny Haniver. Pero, en el último momento, los dos darán con Anchorage, una ciudad de hielo que habría sucumbido tiempo atrás.

He made her a weapon. She’s coming to collect. Ida Sarek's touch can kill. Once a healer, now a weapon—courtesy of Dr. Kenmore, the man who kidnapped her and rewrote her DNA. When a lead surfaces on Kenmore's location, Ida walks away from the fragile life she’s built and follows the trail underground—to a city ruled by his lies. To stop him, she must face the rage and guilt that threaten to consume her. Along the way she’ll learn which bonds break…and which refuse to. SALVAGE is a fierce, hopeful dystopian thriller about revenge, forgiveness, and the family you choose. Series ...

Matthew Wong and his little brother, Oakley Wong, are excited to leave the cramped living quarters of humanity's last bastion of civilization, the floating domed city of Sojourn. Matt thought the most annoying thing about his mission would be caring for his little brother. Making sure Oakley wouldn't obsess over studying something off mission and talking Matt's ears off.

How does one survive the zombie apocalypse? Seventeen-year-old Ian Ward couldn't tell you because he is dying in one. From a closet in a second floor bedroom of an abandoned house, he recounts his tale of "survival" in a backwards journey through the choices that put him there. When the world ends, Mistakes I Made During the Zombie Apocalypse is the anti-survival guide that just might keep you alive.

Deep Blue: A city hidden beneath the ocean, built to escape a dying world. But under the surface, nothing is as it seems. When Ryler’s grandmother—the city’s President—is murdered, his quiet life shatters. Plunged into a sea of lies, Ryler uncovers a secret that could either shatter or protect Deep Blue. But secrets run deep, and the closer Ryler gets to the truth, the more dangerous things become. With Anna, his loyal best friend, and Red, the reckless troublemaker, Ryler races against time to expose a traitor in their midst. But trust is in short supply, and the deeper they dig, ...

A natural disaster was only the beginning. What comes next will test who they are—and who they’re willing to become. Seventeen-year-old Anneliese Morgan was living a normal life—4-H, softball, a future she could almost taste. Then the sky cracked open. A chain of catastrophic disasters shatters the Midwest, leaving cities in ruins and order in freefall. Her older brother, Caleb, is suddenly the only person she can count on, back from a year off-grid with their survivalist father. Alongside him is Evie, the girl he left behind—the girl Annie never expected to rely on. With home ...

Seventeen-year-old coder Jinx Marshall grew up spending weekends drilling with her paranoid dad for a doomsday she's sure will never come. She's an expert on self-heating meal rations, Krav Maga and extracting water from a barrel cactus. Now that her parents are divorced, she's ready to relax. Her big plans include making it to level 99 in her favorite MMORPG and spending the weekend with her new hunky stepbrother, Toby.

When Rachel crosses "The Line", she leaves behind everything she has ever known and enters a strange new world: Away. Life there is hard, and survival is never guaranteed. The rules are different away, and Rachel has a lot to learn. The people of Away - the same people she's always been told are dangerous and untrustworthy - have gifts she's never thought possible.

Cassandra stands silent upon a ravaged battlefield, watching as the druids prepare the dead for the pyres, embers drifting up into the still winter darkness. She can barely breathe through the agony of her grief, but she cannot waste another second on tears. Because Londinium, the Caesar, the empire…all of it is still out there. The empire whose code she had followed, whose prince she had promised to marry, whose schemes she had been swept up in since birth. They tried to use her magic against her. To silence her. So she will use her magic against them. To silence them. Forever.

The creatures arrived on June 6th, 2026, by the hundreds of thousands, silently drifting down out of the sky, hovering at a geostationary orbit for three months all over the planet, taking up positions. No one knew what they wanted...why they came...or why they wouldn't just go away. And then, three months later, the unthinkable happened. They suddenly came to life, hunting us down. We called them gorgons—after the mythical creature Medusa—because their eyes had the power to paralyze us with just one look.

This Home Wants to Change You Ida Sarek has survived the streets, the orphanages, and the endless shuffle between systems that never wanted her. She's learned not to hope. A smiling couple offers her what she's never had: a family. She wakes under bright lights, confined to a cell. Frontier Medical isn’t a home. It’s a lab. The doors lock from the outside. Cameras track her moves. And the guards? Their eyes are predator-gold. They don’t want to help her. They want to remake her. In the cells nearby are other stolen kids—some broken, some furious, some still themselves. To stay means...

Mary Beth Johnson has never felt at home-not in the settlement, not with the guards, and not even in her own skin. Since the bombs fell and left strange mutations behind, she's been marked–literally. The turquoise bumps that appeared after puberty set her apart, making her an outcast and a target.

New Caelum is virus-free, and its citizens are eager to venture outside for the first time in nearly seven years. But when an outsider shows up with a near-fatal dog bite along with a harsh message from Governor Jackson, it becomes clear: the elite people of New Caelum are not welcome outside the gates of New Caelum and new dangers lurk in the outside world.