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The Clan War has ended in an uneasy peace. Sporadic Clan incursions into Inner Sphere territory supply mercenaries like the Kell Hounds with more work than they can handle... border raids sharply divide the Federated Commonwealth's political factions, bringing further instability to the realm standing between Clan's goals and anarchy. And while secret ambitions drive plans to rip the Commonwealth apart, Khan Phelan Ward and Prince Victor Davion—cousins, rulers, and enemies—must decide if maintaining the peace justifies the actions they will take to preserve it.

In Belle and Joni's world, there are two options for girls: One, follow the rules of the Doctrine like Belle: apply your Mask, work hard to be crowned at the Ceremony, be a Pretty. Or two, fight the rules like Joni: leave your face bare, work hard to escape to the Education, be an Objectionable.

Bloomsbury presents Briefly Very Beautiful by Roz Dineen, read by Kristin Atherton. A startlingly beautiful story of a family's survival, and an unforgettable dystopian vision of a familiar world in flames Shortlisted for the Climate Fiction Prize 2024 A Spectator Book of the Year 2024...

Callie: Two years ago, the elite "golden children" of the world fled to Zion Island. While the rest of us watched the world burn, they built a new society. Now, Zion is a myth—a gilded paradise of luxury and dark secrets. With my family gone, a one-way ticket to the island is my only hope for a fresh start.

Kaiden mag ein Genie sein, wenn es um Zerstörung geht, aber die andere Seite hat das größte Kriegsschiff der Welt. Die Chancen stehen also gleich. Kaiden und der Rest der Studierenden und des Lehrkörpers der Akademie arbeiten daran, die größte Bedrohung der Vermittler-Organisation auszuschalten. Den Stadtkiller. Wird es ihnen gelingen, das Schiff zu zerstören, das sie aus ihrer Heimat vertrieben hat? Und wenn sie es schaffen, was wird der Preis dafür sein? Du wirst nicht der Beste der Besten, wenn du am Leben bleibst.

In this dystopian romance about a city ruled by bloodthirsty vampires, the monster she was taught to fear may be her only chance at freedom. In a utopian society ruled by the Twelve Guardians, twenty-three-year-old Saskia has been taught to never question those who protect her city, Xantera...

Six years after the events of The Poison Maker, the oppressive government maintains its totalitarian control across The Raft, and Professor savannah Selbourne is now their pawn. Despite her humble beginnings, she has become an essential voice in the regime. Yet she yearns to break free.

I was nineteen when the world fell apart with news of an impending planet-altering disaster. To make the most of the time we had left, my high school boyfriend and I ran away to elope. We moved to a camper deep in the woods to escape the chaotic panic and violent struggle for food and supplies...

An algorithm can predict tomorrow, but it can never understand the strength of the human spirit. In the quiet, pine-scented woods of Wisconsin, the Carter family is fighting to keep their heritage and community alive. Sawyer’s Reach may feel like a fading town, but it holds something the modern world is rapidly losing: genuine human connection, a deep bond with nature, and a refusal to be managed by a machine. When ZevraCorp arrives, they promise a utopia.

The collapse didn’t come with a warning. It came with silence, hunger, and the slow realization that no one was coming to help. In the aftermath of America’s fall, small communities have begun to claw their way back from the edge—governed not by ideology, but by necessity. For Andi and the people, she leads, survival has become more than endurance. It has become responsibility.

Dans une société assujettie au bonheur infaillible et obligatoire, alors que la « dernière » de toutes les révolutions possibles a eu lieu, les hommes, enfermés sous une cité de verre, sont devenus des « Numéros ». Ceux-ci paient de leur vie le moindre écart à l'ordre établi contre lequel, malgré tout, une poignée de dissidents va s'insurger.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. El aire comienza a arder. El calor ya no es clima – es un estado. Y en medio de ello: personas tratando de respirar, de quedarse, de sobrevivir. Este audiolibro no cuenta un futuro que llegará algún día. Ya está aquí. Experimentas cómo las...

Wenn das Licht erlischt, zählt nur noch eines: Überleben.Jake ist spurlos verschwunden. Pete ist schwer verletzt. Sarah und die gesamte Gruppe sind am absoluten Ende ihrer Kräfte. Nach Tagen der Flucht durch die totale Dunkelheit stoßen sie auf ein abgelegenes Bauernhaus. Es wirkt wie ein medizinisches Wunder – eine friedliche Zuflucht vor dem brutalen Chaos der neuen Welt.

For fans of American War and Cloud Atlas, a hauntingly beautiful and prescient debut novel set in a future where a renamed China is the sole global superpower and citizens can record and transfer memories between minds. When I was a boy, my mother used to tell me stories of a world before...

On a small isolated island, there's a community that lives by its own rules. Boys grow up knowing they will one day reign inside and outside the home while girls know they will be married and pregnant within moments of hitting womanhood. But before that time comes, there is an island ritual that offers children an exhilarating reprieve. Every summer they are turned out onto their doorsteps to roam wild: they run, they fight, they sleep on the beach and build camps in trees. They are free.

In the rugged, snow-capped mountains of Colorado, a new dawn breaks over a world reshaped by the apocalypse. This first book in the Dark Road spin-off series follows Ben and his family after returning to the heart of the San Juan Mountain range in Durango, Colorado to rebuild their lives after a harrowing cross-country journey. But survival in this new reality is anything but simple.

A fresh-faced newcomer arrives in an isolated, gang-run town and soon finds herself taking a job nobody else wants: bodyguard to a ghoul. Not just your average mindless, half-rotted shuffler, though. Lucille is a dancer who can still put on her own lipstick and whose shows are half burlesque, half gladiator match. But the stranger is no stranger to this particular ghoul. Both women are undercover in their own way. And both have something to lose if their connection comes to light.

They harvest us. They breed us. They feed from us… There is no hope… Not until one fateful moment when my eyes open and I see something streaking across the skies.

The highly anticipated new novel from New York Times number one bestselling author of RED QUEEN. Mare Barrow is a prisoner, powerless without her lightning, tormented by her mistakes. She lives at the mercy of a boy she once loved, a boy made of lies and betrayal. Now a king, Maven continues...

Across the world, the United States recalls troops to combat civil unrest after the biggest economic meltdown in history. Marine Sergeant Ronaldo Salvatore’s platoon comes home to a powder keg that could ignite a civil war. While some see the coming collapse as the end, others see opportunity. Fleeing Naples after rival crime lords decimated his family, Don Antonio Moretti settles in Los Angeles to rebuild his criminal empire. But he is far from alone in his ambitions.