Fiction Survival Stories

Hansel et Gretel sont frère et sœur. Leur père est un modeste marchand de balais. Un jour, ils s'éloignent de la maison pour aller chercher des fraises dans la forêt. Mais ils sont surpris par la nuit. Ils finissent par s'endormir. Au petit matin, ils s'aperçoivent que tout près d'eux se dresse un château entièrement fait de nougat, de chocolat et autres sucreries.

Billy “Irish” O’Callahan had been a soldier all his adult life. Growing up he knew he wanted to help those who needed it. After returning home from war, his beloved nation falls into ruin from foreign invaders. Becoming a lawless wasteland filled with raiders and religious cults, Billy attempts to find his ex-best friend and fellow ex-soldier Greg “Devil Dog D.D.” Kruger after learning he killed his mother

Having crash-landed on a remote ice planet, Zelia Lor and her friends Talen, Mekki and the super-intelligent alien-ape Fleapit must do whatever they can to survive. A distress beacon offers some hope of rescue, but what else lurks in the ice and snow, watching them with hungry eyes?

Abandoned as a baby on the planet Remota, deep in the seventh solar system, Jake Cutler lives a sheltered life. But all that changes when his home is invaded by ruthless space pirates. Soon Jake is on the run with the suspicious-looking crew of a spaceship called the Dark Horse. Forced to contend with zero-gravity, shipwrecks and black holes, Jake must discover the truth about his past before he is hunted down and caught.

Before he became an archmage to topple an empire, before he met the legendary Eradicator Xal, Saghir was born a free ratkin, living on the streets of Gateway, a perilous desert city at the edge of the Blasted Lands. Each month, the free laborers must pay their tithe in coin, or blood. Every ratkin in Saghir's tribe searches for something of value, lest their whole people be enslaved. Ruthless Corax, carnivorous scarabs, and worse infest the city. There are countless ways for a rat to die, and all it takes is one mistake. There are no second chances.

In California, two children die of a disease thought to be nonexistent in the United States. Hours later, thoroughbreds at the Churchill Downs are dying of an unidentified virus. Called in to shed light on these enigmas, virologist Jack Bryne discovers that the two events are not only connected, they are deliberate acts of bioterrorism. Moreover, the deaths bear uncanny similarities to the Fifth and Sixth Plagues described in Exodus.

A boy lives in a remote, snow-bound village with his elderly grandmother. Their traditional way of life is threatened by the changing snow and ice: it melts faster every year. When the sea-ice collapses while he is out hunting, he only just escapes with his life and is left stranded in the Arctic tundra. Meanwhile a girl is trying to adapt to another new school. Her father promises his new job at an oil company will mean they never have to move again, but not long after he starts, his behaviour becomes odd and secretive.

Dave, Jimmy, and their friends are brought to a mysterious world against their will. Can they defeat the Glitch Queen and return home to their own universes, or will they be stranded in Glitch World forever? Listen to book one in the epic new duology from Dave Villager and Dr. Block.

Don't look back. That's where the danger lies. With Grace left reeling from choosing between Hayden and her family, she knows she needs to accept her decision. Meanwhile, as the youngest leader of Blackwing, Hayden is coping with the demands placed on him to keep the camp alive. Can he protect his friends from their violent rivals? And should he trust himself to do the right thing? Demand loyalty. Protect your family. Trust no one.

Jake Cutler is the 13-year-old ruler of the secret planet Altus, and he’s on the run from the Interstellar Navy. He and his crew are wanted over the disappearance of the ISS Colossus, the most powerful ship in the navy's fleet. But that's not the only reason Jake's being hunted. If he's found, he'll be forced to reveal the location of a fortune of crystals which the Interstellar Navy plans to start an intergalactic war with.... It’s up to Jake to stop them!

It will soon be another cold winter in the Ukraine. But it's 1941, and things are different this year. Max, the devoted caretaker of an animal preserve, must learn to live with the Nazis who have overtaken this precious land. He must also learn to keep secrets - for there is a girl, Kalinka, who is hiding in the park.

Betrayed and Imprisoned! Ripped from their home dimensions and tricked into retrieving the Staff of Dominion, Dave, Jimmy, and their friends are now imprisoned by the Glitch Queen. Unless they can find a way to defeat her, their home dimensions will soon fall to her tyranny. Can they escape and stop her in time?

It begins as a school trip to London. But with a sudden tidal surge and a dramatic thunderstorm that hurls rainwater down on the capital, it suddenly becomes something totally different: the site of a major disaster as the Thames Barrier is breached and London is flooded. With streets underwater, communications down, rats pouring up out of the sewers, and thousands of people in a state of panic, survival becomes a very key issue for Ben and his mates.

Felix and Zelda - they escaped from the Nazis, but how long can they now survive when there are so many people ready to hand them over for a reward? Thanks to the courage of a kind, brave woman they are able to hide for a time in the open, but Felix knows he has a distinguishing feature that identifies him as a Jew and that it is only a matter of time before he is discovered, which will mean death for them all. Even though he promised Zelda he would never leave her, he knows he has to, before it is too late....

മൗഗ്ലി എന്ന കഥാപാത്രത്തിലൂടെ ലോകം മുഴുവനുള്ള കുട്ടികളുടെ മനസ്സിൽ ഇടംപിടിച്ച കൃതിയായ ജംഗിൾ ബുക്കിന്റെ ഏറ്റവും ഹൃദ്യമായ പരിഭാഷ. കുട്ടികളുടെ ഉറ്റ ചങ്ങാതിയായ മൗഗ്ലിയുടെ കഥകളുൾപ്പെടെ 15 കഥകൾ.

Band 2 des rasanten Hightech-Fantasy-Epos ab 10 Jahren, das einem den Atem stocken lässt! An ihrem 13. Geburtstag erreicht Peregrine Quinn ein Notruf aus dem kosmischen Reich. Befindet sich unter den Teilnehmenden der legendären Kosmischen Spiele ein Maulwurf, der mit der Chaosgöttin Discordia zusammenarbeitet? Peregrine willigt ein, als Kandidatin anzutreten und sich unauffällig umzuschauen. Doch das Training ist härter als erwartet und auch sonst scheinen die Spiele unter keinem guten Stern zu stehen. Beeinflusst Discordia etwa immer noch das Geschehen?

The colony of Tellus was meant to be a beacon of progress on the rugged world of Val 4, a testament to humanity's ability to tame the wilds of space. Built on the bones of an abandoned settlement, it is a place of ambition and opportunity, where scientists, corporate interests, and frontier settlers carve out a living against an unforgiving landscape. But something is wrong beneath the surface.

After finding her fiancé in a compromising position, Jane heads to a private island resort in Key West to clear her head. There she meets Austin - six years younger than she is and the exact opposite of her fiancé in every way - he seems like the perfect prescription to cure her heartbreak. But everything changes when the virus that had previously only been a minor nuisance morphs into a full-blown epidemic. Three miles from the mainland and surrounded by ocean, Austin and Jane believe they’re safe from what’s happening in the world, but a virus knows no borders.

Una historia de acción, aventuras y lucha por la supervivencia. Únicamente los edificios más altos sobresalen aún del mar. Titanes de acero y cristal que siguen desafiando al océano y a las peligrosas criaturas que viven en él. En el interior de estas torres, en la ciudad ahora conocida como Nyork, siete grandes clanes se disputan la preciada «tierra seca»...y los recursos todavía más escasos. Una lucha a muerte. A la sombra de los siete grandes, sin embargo, existe otro clan. Uno al que todos creen exterminado, pero cuyos últimos miembros se resisten a morir.

Alex knows exactly how many steps it takes to get from his home to Mason Middle School. This is normal. Alex knows the answers in AP math before his teacher does, which is also normal. Alex knows that something bad is coming out of the big screen in his special needs class. It's pushing images into his head, hurting him, making him forget. Alex pushes back, the screen explodes, and nothing is normal any more. Giant screen televisions appear all over the city. The programming is addictive. People have to watch, but Alex cannot.