Survival Teens

Pawns in a millennia-old struggle, the young people known only as the Birthday Children were genetically engineered to survive on the planet Omeyocan - but they were never meant to live there. They were made to be “overwritten”, their minds wiped and replaced by the consciousnesses of the monsters who created them. Em changed all of that.

Eine Familie – unzählige Geheimnisse – ein Spiel um Millionen. Das Spiel geht in die nächste Runde: Nachdem Avery Grambs das milliardenschwere Erbe der Familie Hawthorne angetreten hatte, rief sie einen jährlichen Wettbewerb der besonderen Art aus. Jeder der geladenen Teilnehmer soll die Chance bekommen, Millionen zu gewinnen. Von Millionen Fans weltweit atemlos erwartet: ser zweite Band der Spin-off-Serie der Thriller-Bestsellersensation The Inheritance Games.

London, 1820: Isambard is just like any other 16-year-old engineering genius, until he stumbles across a radical plot to kill the Prime Minister. Things get complicated when he discovers that the conspiracy is being led a French revolutionary supposedly executed 25 years earlier.

Von Millionen Fans weltweit atemlos erwartet: Die Fortsetzung der Bestsellersensation The Inheritance Games als Hörbuch. Nachdem Avery Grambs das milliardenschwere Erbe der Familie Hawthorne angetreten hat, ruft sie einen jährlichen Wettbewerb der besonderen Art auf. Jeder der geladenen zehn Teilnehmer soll die Chance bekommen, Millionen zu gewinnen. Abgeschieden auf einer Privatinsel der Hawthornes stellen sie sich dem exklusiven Wettbewerb. Doch die Geheimnisse, die dabei ans Licht kommen, erschüttern nicht nur das Leben der Mitspieler, sondern auch das der Hawthorne-Brüder und Averys.

Auf seinem Blog bewertet Hugh beliebte Filme, Serien und Bücher danach, wie sie ausgehen. Schlechte Enden hasst er auf der Leinwand nämlich genauso wie im echten Leben. Auch Veränderungen meidet er. Als Hugh Olivia trifft - Mitschülerin, Außenseiterin und allem Anschein nach unsterblich -, werden die Dinge kompliziert. Denn um mehr über sie zu erfahren, muss er Olivia einen Gefallen tun. Er soll helfen, eine Kiste mit ihren wertvollsten Besitztümern zurückzuholen. Und so fahren Hugh und Olivia in einem gestohlenen Eis-Van nach New York.

Tous les cinq ans, le peuple de Kathalea attend qu'un volontaire se sacrifie pour le bien de la communauté au cours de la grande fête de l'éclipse. Dans un clivage entre violence et paix, Noa de Kathalea doit décider comment elle peut faire sortir son pays d'une tradition sanglante et le ramener à la raison. Cependant, une personne fera tout pour que cette année, un sacrifice bien particulier soit demandé. Entre peur et aventure, haine et amour, chasser et être chassée, elle doit découvrir la vérité. Dans cette vie ou la suivante.

A plague has devastated the land. Bloodthirsty creatures stalk the night. A loose band of survivors fight for their lives. Can they make it through? And what will become of them if they do?

This powerful Cold War novel tells the story of two cousins, one German and the other an American Army brat, as they navigate the political and social turmoil that threatens their friendship and ends in the abrupt rise of the Berlin Wall–which may separate them forever. Drew is an army brat, a...

Set against the breathtaking yet rugged peaks of Colorado’s mountain ranges, a setting that adds a unique dimension to the story, Where Mountains Meet follows seventeen-year-old Emma Mitchell after a devastating car accident shatters her world. With physical and emotional scars, Emma moves to a close-knit mountain community to start over, where she forges an unexpected bond with Jake Harrison, a courageous teen mountain rescue volunteer. As they navigate grief, fear, and the challenges of wilderness survival, Emma and Jake discover that trust and love can grow even in the most broken places.

Rosa and Eddie are among hundreds of teens applying to NASA's mysterious Interworlds Agency. They're not exactly sure what the top-secret program entails, but they know they want in. Even if they are selected, they have no idea what lies in store. But first they have to make it through round after round of crazy-competitive testing. And then something happens that even NASA's scientists couldn't predict....

Ein Kampf auf Liebe, Leben und Tod - Die Hungerspiele gehen weiter. "Gefährliche Liebe" ist der zweite Band aus der "Tribute von Panem"-Trilogie. Die Geschichte der Hungerspiele ist noch nicht vorbei: Zwar sind Katniss und Peeta dank ihrer erfundenen Liebesgeschichte dem Tod entronnen, doch nun müssen sie sich als Liebespaar ausgeben. Der Grund: Katniss ist zur Symbolfigur einer Widerstandsbewegung geworden.

Leon and his younger sister, Grace, have recently moved to London from New York and are struggling to settle into their new school when rumours of an unidentified virus in Africa begin to fill the news. Within a week the virus hits London. The siblings witness people turning to liquid before their eyes, and they run for their lives. A month after touching Earth's atmosphere the virus has assimilated the world's biomass. But the virus isn't their only enemy, and survival is just the first step....

Magic, adventure, and danger collide in an unsuspecting small town. Sixteen-year-old Mia Kish's small town of Fenton, Colorado, is known for three things: being home to the world's tallest sycamore tree, the national chicken thigh - eating contest, and one of the ritziest boarding schools in the country, Westbrook Academy. But when emergency sirens start blaring and Westbrook is put on lockdown, quarantined and surrounded by soldiers who shoot first and ask questions later, Mia realizes she's only just beginning to discover what makes Fenton special.

Der Kaufmann und Seefahrer Robinson Crusoe wird nach einem Schiffbruch als einziger Überlebender auf eine unbewohnte Insel verschlagen. Er schildert, wie er sein Leben auf der Insel meistert - vom Errichten seiner Hütte bis zu seinem Zusammentreffen mit einem Eingeborenen, den er Freitag nennt und zu seinem Diener erzieht. Doch wird er die Insel wieder verlassen können?

Schwer verletzt wurde Katniss von den Rebellen befreit und in Distrikt 13 gebracht. Doch ihre einzige Sorge gilt Peeta, der dem Kapitol in die Hände gefallen ist. Die Regierung setzt alles daran, seinen Willen zu brechen. Gale hingegen kämpft weiterhin an Katniss' Seite - ohne Rücksicht auf Verluste, wie Katniss erschreckt feststellt. Als sie merkt, dass die Rebellen versuchen, sie für ihre Ziele zu missbrauchen, wird ihr klar, dass sie alle nur Figuren in einem perfiden Spiel sind.

Every day Zoe struggles to keep going. The cruel winter took her father's life and left her angry and broken-hearted. As she carries her little brother through a snowstorm that could kill him in minutes, her only thought is finding shelter. The cabin beyond the woods is far from the place of safety she hoped it would be, but it is there that she meets a man whose muscular body marked with strange and primitive tattoos hints at an extraordinary story. He has the power to light up the lake, and with it Zoe's world.

It's a typical night for high-school senior Jack Danielson. A star football player, he just broke the league rushing record, celebrated at the local diner, and got shot down (again) by his girlfriend. Jack feels he's having "the most normal senior year a guy could have" in "the most normal little town in America". He couldn't be more wrong.

Most people want to save the world; 17-year-old Tora Reynolds just wants to get the hell off of it. One of the last survivors in Earth's final years, Tora yearns to escape the wasteland her planet has become after the sun turns "red giant," but discovers her fellow survivors are even more deadly than the hostile environment. Holed up in an underground shelter, Tora is alone - her brilliant scientist father murdered, her mother and sister burned to death. She dreams of living on a planet with oceans, plants, and animals.

Emily Bell believes in destiny. To her, being forced to sing a solo in the church choir - despite her average voice - is fate: because it's while she's singing that she first sees Sam. At first sight they are connected. Sam Border wishes he could escape, but there's nowhere for him to run. He and his little brother, Riddle, have spent their entire lives constantly uprooted by their unstable father. As Sam and Riddle are welcomed into the Bells' lives, they witness the warmth and protection of a family for the first time.

Emily Bell has it all - or so she thinks. She's in love with a boy named Sam, and this summer is destined to be the best they've ever known. No one suspects that Sam's violent father, who blames the Bell family for his incarceration, is planning a jailbreak. Meanwhile Sam and Emily's idyllic romance is under fire from a charismatic new girl in town, and Emily begins to question the loyalty of the person she thought she could trust most.