Adult Dystopian

A new drug is on the street. Everyone's buzzing about it. Take the hit. Live the most intense week of your life. Then die. It's the ultimate high at the ultimate price. Adam thinks it over. He's poor, and doesn't see that changing. Lizzie, his girlfriend, can't make up her mind about sleeping with him, so he can't get laid. His brother Jess is missing. And Manchester is in chaos, controlled by drug dealers and besieged by a group of homegrown terrorists who call themselves the Zealots. Wouldn't one amazing week be better than this endless, penniless misery?

Elaines Welt wurde von Vortexen erschaffen. Sie formten Städte aus Bäumen, Lagunen aus Licht – und Menschen, die mit Feuer, Luft, Wasser und Erde vermengt wurden. Elaine dachte, sie hätte diese Welt gerettet. Was ein Sieg für die Freiheit sein sollte, droht jedoch, zu einem furchtbaren Krieg zu werden. Als ihr Widersacher Varus Hawthorne seine Vortexläufer zurück in die Vergangenheit schickt, bleibt Elaine und Bale keine Wahl: Sie müssen ihnen folgen. Doch jede Zeit, in der sie landen, offenbart neue Geheimnisse.

A bold new dystopian thriller about an experimental mental health retreat center for young adults where everything is not what it seems—and one boy who will risk everything to escape. Seb has been selected for a new experimental mental health center called HappyHead, designed to solve the...

Rook lives in the structured community of ArHK, where she struggles to find meaning in her appointed role as the Apprentice Keeper. Gage is part of a nomadic society and has just joined the Scouts on the frontier line, a life of constant danger. Can Gage and Rook find a way to save themselves, as well as each others' very different worlds?

Once in a generation, the young women of the Unified Territories of Palias are given the opportunity of a lifetime: the chance to become a princess. It’s an honor Kaia Luvaryan has no interest in competing for. In the aftermath of the Great War, huge swaths of what was once the United States of America are uninhabitable. Every day is a struggle to survive. But Kaia doesn’t want to leave her family or her best friend Finn behind. Life in her home territory of Hilora is hard, but at least it’s hers. Her life. Her choice. Until, suddenly, it’s not anymore.

Realm hopes that with each past he helps to recover, he’ll be able to reclaim a small bit of his own in this spinoff story to Suzanne Young’s bestselling duology, The Program and The Treatment. Six months after the fall of The Program, ex-handler Michael Realm is struggling with his guilt...

***LONG-LISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD*** From the author of Silence Once Begun, a beguiling new novel about a man starting over at the most basic level, and the strange woman who insinuates herself into his life and memory. A man and a woman have moved into a small house in a small village...

Wie der Rest der Menschheit lebt Khalani Kanes in einer unterirdischen Stadt, da die Erdoberfläche nicht länger bewohnbar ist. Doch ihre Träume werden mit einem Schlag zerstört, als sie wegen eines Diebstahls, den sie nicht begangen hat, ins Gefängnis geworfen wird. Dort ist jede Sekunde ein Kampf ums Überleben: Kriminelle wollen ihren Tod und Takeshi Steele, dem Aufseher ihres Zellenblocks, eilt sein gnadenloser Ruf voraus. Schnell wird klar: Wenn sie entkommen will, muss sie sich auf Takeshi einlassen und auf die Hilfe ihrer neuen Freunde hoffen.

Sixteen-year-old Glenn Morgan has lived next to the Rift her entire life and has no idea of what might be on the other side of it. Glenn's only friend, Kevin, insists the fence holds back a world of monsters and witchcraft, but magic isn't for Glenn. She has enough problems with reality: Glenn's mother disappeared when she was six, and soon after, she lost her scientist father to his all-consuming work on his mysterious Project. Glenn buries herself in her studies and dreams about the day she can escape.

A devastated Earth's last hope is found in Pearls: small, mysterious orbs that fall from space and are capable of supplying enough energy to power entire cities. Battling to control the Pearls are the Skyship dwellers -political dissidents who live in massive ships in the Earth's stratosphere - and the corrupt Surface government.

The riveting conclusion to the international bestselling sci-fi thriller STARTERS! Would you rent out your body to the elderly so they could be young again? Someone is after Starters like Callie and Michael—teens with chips in their brains. They want to experiment on anyone left over from...

Parvin Blackwater wanted to die, but now she's being called to be a leader. The only problem is no one wants to follow. The Council uses Jude's Clock-matching invention to force "new-and-improved" Clocks on the public. Those who can't afford one are packed into boxcars like cattle and used for the Council's purposes. Parvin and Hawke find themselves on a cargo ship of Radicals headed out to sea. What will the Council do to them? And why are people suddenly dying before their Clocks have zeroed-out?

Sie haben einen Ausweg aus dem tödlichen Labyrinth gefunden und geglaubt, damit wäre alles vorbei. Dass sie frei sein werden und nie mehr um ihr Leben rennen müssen. Doch auf Thomas und seine Freunde wartet das Grauen: sengende Hitze, verbranntes Land und Menschen, die von einem tödlichen Virus befallen sind. Und die undurchsichtigen Schöpfer halten noch immer die Fäden in der Hand. Damit steht den Jungen die nächste Prüfung bevor. Sie müssen innerhalb von zwei Wochen die Brandwüste durchqueren, sonst sind sie verloren. Und dabei wird ihnen alles abverlangt, sogar ihre Menschlichkeit. Doch dazu ist Thomas nicht bereit.

In the near-future United States, a one-child policy is ruthlessly enforced. Everyone follows the Rule of One. But Ava Goodwin, daughter of the head of the Texas Family Planning Division, has a secret - one her mother died to keep and her father has helped to hide for her entire life. She has an identical twin sister, Mira.

In the model community of Candor, Florida, every teen wants to be like Oscar Banks. The son of the town's founder, Oscar earns straight A's, is student-body president, and is in demand for every club and cause.But Oscar has a secret. He knows that parents bring their teens to Candor to make them respectful, compliant - perfect - through subliminal Messages that carefully correct and control their behavior.

We'd done it. After tackling her first mission and coming to terms with her power of empathy, Andriana discovers her first battles were only a taste of what is to come. She and her knight Ronan have admitted their feelings for each other, but their bonds are tested when Dri is captured by their mortal and spiritual enemy - Sethos - and his master Keallach, emperor of Pacifica.

Eight kids, ages nine to 17, awaken to find that almost everything they have ever known has been stolen from them. They were ripped from their beds in the middle of the night and transported to an unfamiliar and unforgiving new world where there are strict rules, and they are punished if they refuse to obey. As the kids grapple with their mysterious new reality, they struggle with disconcerting questions. Where in the world are they? Why were they taken away from their families? Will they ever get to go back home? And will this be the place where they die?

Protect the weak. Safety for all. Power without virtue is tyranny. Nedé has a new Apprentice, and now Reina Pierce must come to grips with what she sacrificed to secure Matriarch Teera’s favor. As secrets unfold and danger mounts, Reina will test the bounds of trust and be forced to answer the question that has haunted her since her first night in the jungle: Which is better - Gentle or Brute? And how far will she go to ensure tyranny is eradicated from Nedé?

The beautiful saga about surviving the zombie apocalypse that David Simpson created continues. This book focuses on the relationship between Jessie, the disfigured road angel, and Scarlet, the daughter of the high priest of the Anubis cult. They are both damaged and young and have to bear a heavy burden for their age. Both have powers beyond human capacity. Both are the children and heirs to their fathers' legacies and empires, and they should be mortal enemies, not working together. They should be trying to kill each other, not trying to save what's left of the world.

The city of Ark is no longer safe. Before the rebellion, everyone could only speak List, a language of just 500 words. But when Letta became the Wordsmith, the keeper of all the words that have ever existed, she learned that being able to express yourself is what makes you human. Now, the new ruler has wicked plans to eliminate language once and for all: If a baby never hears a single word, they will never speak. Letta and the other rebels must find a way to defeat evil for good before they lose the very thing that can set them free.