Young Survival

It's no one’s fault that Hallie Jacob is alone. That her grandpa got sick half a world away and so her parents yanked her to Colorado the last semester of her senior year. That career-wise, she’s specialized in fighting fire, and now she’s surrounded by ice, snow, and a thousand cousins she’s half-banned from hanging around with. But that’s what's happened. That's what her December looks like.

This is more than an audiobook about survival. Andre and Leila, teenagers of the future and their young sister, Bonnie are thrust into a life of chaos after an enemy strike on their home city of Morwena. They are forced to combat the deadly GRIM and others with their own dark agendas but the will to be reunited, to find love, joy, and to create a common life is strong. Above all, Children of Morwena is about the many sides of love and the need to belong.

Jack Hunter's greatest adversary, the man who pushed him to his limits, was a terrorist who brought a city to its knees. It took everything Jack had to capture him the last time, and now, that man is loose again. But Leo isn't interested in simply killing Jack. No, what he really wants is to make Jack suffer. To break his spirit. Keli Armana wishes to return to her people, to a world where she can use her telepathic skills without restrictions, and she tries to persuade Ben Loranai into leaving with her. But is Ben willing to betray his own government?

It should be easy to step into the position her mother left for her, since everyone thought she died the day her kingdom was destroyed. But staying hidden - remaining 'nobody' - is simpler than accepting her dark past, enduring her harrowing fate, and claiming her broken crown. This series is a detailed world full of legends and myths given flesh, and a princess chosen to save them all.

Though Meadowcity is besieged by Skycity's army, Sylvia Thorne manages to escape to seek help from the only people untouched by the war: the long-hidden city of Seascape. Can she convince them to interfere with a war between the cities they hid from for so long? When their leader challenges Sylvia to a set of ancient tests, Sylvia accepts without understanding the possibility that there might be more to the people of Seascape than she realizes.

Die Menschheit scheint verloren - ganze Städte wurden von der Erde getilgt und Pflanzen erobern sich ihren Lebensraum zurück. Obwohl Terra Maters Ziel zum Greifen nahe ist, lässt ihre Rache nicht nach. Younes' Körper wird von einem hasserfüllten Meliad kontrolliert, der ihn, seine kleine Schwester und Chloe zu entzweien droht. Und noch mehr steht auf dem Spiel: Wenn er und die anderen Jugendlichen aus seinen Visionen Terra Mater nicht bald aufhalten, wird es die Welt, wie die Menschen sie kennen, nicht mehr geben.

I ruinerne af det gamle Nordamerika ligger nu landet Panem, som består af tolv distrikter. Hvert år tvinger magthaverne i Panem hvert distrikt til at udvælge en pige og en dreng, som skal deltage i Dødsspillet - den årlige kamp om liv og død på direkte TV. 16-årige Kattua bor sammen med sin mor og lillesøster i det fattigste af alle distrikterne. Den dag hun står frem og frivilligt tager sin lillesøsters plads i Dødsspillet, betragter hun det som en dødsdom. Men Kattua har før haft døden tæt på, og hun er klar til at kæmpe for sit liv.

Chaos regiert die Welt, Terras verheerende Naturkatastrophen haben Millionen von Menschen in den Tod geschickt und die Grenzen zwischen den einzelnen Existenzebenen aufgesprengt. Naturgeister und andere Wesen gelangen in die Menschenwelt und werden zu einer weiteren Bedrohung für die Überlebenden. In Tokio gibt es nur einen Menschen, der die Zerstörungswut der Erdmutter überlebt hat, doch Ayumi ist längst nicht sicher. Verfolgt von dämonischen Wesen, würde sie die zerstörte Stadt am liebsten verlassen.

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.

It’s a worldwide test that everyone’s agreed upon. Its main purpose? Thinning out the human herd. The population was growing too fast. Death by starvation was more common than murder or accident. Changes had to be made. An initial strategy to decrease the population was used, but the outcry against it was too massive to dismiss.

Renata was only a child when she was kidnapped by the King's Justice and brought to the luxurious palace of Andalucia. As a memory thief, the rarest and most feared of the magical Moria, Renata was used by the crown to carry out the King's Wrath, a siege that resulted in the deaths of thousands of her own people. Now Renata is one of the Whispers, rebel spies working against the crown. The Whispers may have rescued Renata years ago, but she cannot escape their mistrust and hatred - or the overpowering memories of the hundreds of souls she drained during her time in the palace.

La sedicenne Malencia Vale e il suo ragazzo Tomas frequentano il primo anno all'università di Tosu City. Scelta dal governo come una delle migliori menti della nuova generazione, Cia è una leader promettente, destinata a guidare la civilizzazione del dopoguerra. E anche se il governo ha cercato di cancellare dai suoi ricordi i brutali orrori della Prova, lei ne serba intatta la memoria.

The ancient land of Eirinn is mired in war. Ciara, princess of Mide, has never known a time when Eirinn's kingdoms were not battling for power or Northmen were not plundering their shores. The people of Mide have always been safe because of Ciara's unearthly ability to control her enemies' minds and actions. But lately a mysterious crow has been appearing to Ciara, whispering warnings of an even darker threat. Although her clansmen dismiss her visions as pagan nonsense, Ciara fears this coming evil will destroy not just Eirinn but the entire world.

For as long as Emmeline can remember, she’s longed to leave the isolated world of the settlement and explore the wilderness that calls to her in her dreams. And now that the Council has fallen, she will finally get that chance. With First Peoples guide Matisa at her side, Emmeline rallies a brave group to join her on her quest into the unknown, including her beloved Kane and his two younger brothers. But the journey soon proves far more dangerous than Emmeline anticipated. After putting so many lives in danger, she starts to doubt everything she once knew.

Adam's muscular dystrophy has stolen his mobility, his friends, and in less than a year, it will take his life. Virtual reality games are Adam's only escape from his wheelchair. In his alternate world, he can defeat anyone. Running, jumping, scoring touchdowns: Adam is always the hero. Then, an artificial intelligence program hacks into Adam's game. Created by Adam's computer-genius father, Sigma has gone rogue, threatening to kill Adam - and the entire human race. Their one chance to stop Sigma is using the technology Adam's dad developed to digitally preserve the mind of his son.

Blue skies. Green grass. Clear ocean water. An island paradise like the ones that existed before the Melt. A lucky 500 lottery winners will be the first to go, the first to leave their polluted, dilapidated homes behind and start a new life. It sounds perfect. Like a dream. The only problem? Marin Carey spent her childhood on those seas and knows there's no island paradise out there. She's corsario royalty, a pirate like her father and his father before him, and she knows a con when she sees one. So where are the First Five Hundred really going?

Fourteen-year-old Charlie Law has lived in Little Town, on the border with Old Country, all his life. He knows the rules: no going out after dark; no drinking; no litter; no fighting. You don't want to get on the wrong side of the people who run Little Town. When he meets Pavel Duda, a refugee from Old Country, the rules start to get broken. Then the bombs come and the soldiers from Old Country, and Little Town changes forever.

Shorty is a Haitian boy trapped in the rubble of a hospital when an earthquake shatters the world around him. Surrounded by lifeless bodies and growing desperately weak from lack of food and water, death seems imminent. Yet as Shorty waits for a rescue that may never come, he becomes aware of another presence, one reaching out to him across two hundred years of history.

Dem geschickten Jungen Huck gelingt es, sich von seinem Vater zu lösen und gemeinsam mit dem Sklaven Jim aus dem Haus der Schwestern Douglas und Watson zu fliehen. Ganz auf sich allein gestellt, fahren die beiden auf einem Floß den Mississippi hinunter. Auf ihrer Floßfahrt erleben die beiden Abenteuer, die sie sich niemals hätten träumen lassen.

Der Lausbube Tom Sawyer schwänzt die Schule, prügelt sich und treibt sich nachts gern mit seinem besten Freund Huckleberry Finn, der in einer Tonne am Waldrand haust, herum. Aber man kann nun mal nicht immer ein Musterschüler sein. Vor allem dann nicht, wenn man ein Pirat werden will und einen echten Schatz finden möchte! Das wirkliche Abenteuer beginnt für die beiden Jungen allerdings erst dann, als eines Nachts auf dem Friedhof ein Mord passiert. Einzig Tom und Huck kennen die wahre Identität des Mörders.