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A forgotten prophecy. A 300-year-old curse. And two people bound by a goddess to break it . . . if the bond doesn't break them first. In Lunaris, everyone trades their memories for asylum. No one remembers their past, their homeland, or the curse that trapped them behind a wall of darkness...

Ciencia y fantasía, horror y belleza, misterio, amenaza, locura, magnificencia, significado... por una vez en la vida todos esos elementos se combinaron mágicamente para crear el clásico imaginativo, la obra suprema: Metrópolis. Éste es el libro que ha sido definido como una obra genial. "Este libro no es de hoy ni del futuro. No habla de un lugar. No sirve a ninguna causa, partido o clase. Tiene una moraleja que se desprende de una verdad fundamental: "Entre el cerebro y el músculo debe mediar el corazón"" Thea von Harbou

In a world upended by the whims of the [Admin], all of humanity has been forced into a brutal game of survival. Nick is more than just another man: he's a man who saw the ending and used a wish to travel back in time. His story has started over. Following his escape from the Manhattan Rooftops, he must next fight against the Ancient Mariner of Central Island and the hoard of undead that the Ancient Mariner commands. The survivors are under attack, and all eyes are on Nick to make sure they survive to see the next challenge.

When she fell asleep, the world was doomed. When she awoke, it was dead. In the wake of a fever that decimated the earth's population - killing women and children and making childbirth deadly for the mother and infant - the midwife must pick her way through the bones of the world she once knew to find her place in this dangerous new one. Gone are the pillars of civilization. All that remains is power - and the strong who possess it.

Während das elektrische Licht Tag und Nacht verschwimmen lässt, sitzt ein junges Mädchen – die vierzigste Gefangene – allein und ausgestoßen in der Ecke. In einem unterirdischen Gefängnis sitzen neununddreißig Frauen. Was übertage geschehen ist, wissen sie nicht: Wurde die Welt verlassen, von einem Virus verwüstet? Die Frauen können sich nicht erinnern, wie sie in den Käfig gelangt sind, haben jegliches Zeitgefühl verloren und nur eine vage Ahnung von ihrem alten Leben.

Könntest du deine Liebsten beschützen? Jüngste EMP-Angriffe haben das Land in einen Zustand des Chaos und Aufruhrs versetzt. Mit zwei seiner Kinder an der Ostküste hat Ben Davis Colorado hinter sich gelassen und sich mit seinem ältesten Sohn Joel, einer von Joels Klassenkameradinnen, Allie, und dem Familienhund Gunner auf eine Reise quer durch das Land begeben. Nur noch sehr wenige moderne Fahrzeuge sind funktionsfähig, aber dank Joels 1972er Chevy Blazer sind Ben und seine Crew mobil und in der Lage, Vorräte zu transportieren.

Brought to you by Penguin. The electrifying follow-up to Dave Eggers' New York Times Bestseller The Circle When the world's largest search engine / social media company merges with the planet's dominant e-commerce site, it creates the richest and most dangerous-and, oddly enough, most...

Noch Monate später verfolgen Coco die Erinnerungen an den furchtbaren Hexensabbat, und der Hüter des Hauses gilt ihr als mahnendes Beispiel, sich niemals wieder gegen ihre eigene Familie zu stellen. Doch dann werden eines Tages plötzlich einzelne Mitglieder der Zamis-Sippe von einem unheimlichen Gegner attackiert, und Coco muss sich entscheiden – für oder gegen ihre Familie ...

The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.

A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver's enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 - "Q" is for "question mark". A world that bears a question....

Un viaje onírico salido de las alucinaciones más salvajes de Jodorowski o David Lynch. En un país distópico enfermo de peste, nuestro protagonista escapa del ala de paliativos donde lo han encerrado y se embarca en un viaje través del desierto acompañado de un curioso personaje. Juntos atravesarán ensoñaciones, visiones, fantasías sexuales y sueños de muerte.

It's Carnival time and the Caribbean-colonized planet of Toussaint is celebrating with music, dance, and pageantry. Masked "Midnight Robbers" waylay revelers with brandished weapons and spellbinding words. To young Tan-Tan, the Robber Queen is simply a favorite costume to wear at the festival - until her power-corrupted father commits an unforgiveable crime. Suddenly, both father and daughter are thrust into the brutal world of New Half-Way Tree....

The year is 2084, and that famous Margaret Thatcher quote has become a reality: There really is no such thing as society. No one speaks to anyone else. No one looks at anyone else. People don’t collaborate, they only compete...It all sounds rather morbid, does it not? But please don’t despair, there is hope, and it comes in the form of our hero: Renee Ann Blanca. Wishing to fill the society-shaped hole in her life, our Renee does the unthinkable: She goes in search of human company!

Ravaged by the Change, an island nation in a time very like our own has built the Wall - an enormous concrete barrier around its entire coastline. Joseph Kavanagh, a new Defender, has one task: to protect his section of the Wall from the Others, the desperate souls who are trapped amid the rising seas outside and are a constant threat. Failure will result in death or a fate perhaps worse: being put to sea and made an Other himself. 

Quando Katniss urla "Mi offro volontaria, mi offro volontaria come tributo!" sa di aver appena firmato la sua condanna a morte. È il giorno dell'estrazione dei partecipanti agli Hunger Games, un reality show organizzato ogni anno da Capitol City con una sola regola: uccidi o muori. Ognuno dei Distretti deve sorteggiare un ragazzo e una ragazza tra i 12 e i 18 anni che verrà gettato nell'Arena a combattere fino alla morte. Ne sopravvive uno solo, il più bravo, il più forte, ma anche quello che si conquista il pubblico, gli sponsor, l'audience.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. George Orwell once wrote of a world where abuse of power begins with an abuse of language and a bastardization of truth. Some of today's most exciting voices in speculative fiction explore the ramifications of those ideas in Ignorance Is Strength.

Former RDD scientist Antosha Zereoue has returned to Beimeni from the Lower Level, while Captain Broden Barão is challenged by the Liberation Front. As the commonwealth prepares to honor 200 years of Chancellor Atticus Massimovian's rule, disparate sides will reconcile differences and form an accord with consequences that shake the underground.

The future is divided by Perimeters: high-security gated communities where life goes on as normal. If you're inside, you're lucky. If you're outside, life expectancy takes a nose dive. Riley is fortunate to have been born on the right side of the fence. But her life of privilege comes crashing down when someone breaks through and murders her sister. She forsakes her own safety to go in search of the killer. Luc decides to go with her; otherwise she'll be dead before she's past the security gate. But what awaits her outside is more unbelievable than she ever imagined.

In the wake of the apocalypse, Flora has come of age in a highly gendered post-plague society where females have become a precious, coveted, hunted, and endangered commodity. But Flora does not participate in the economy that trades in bodies. An anathema in a world that prizes procreation above all else, she is an outsider everywhere she goes, including the thriving all-female city of Shy. Now navigating a blighted landscape, Flora, her friends, and a sullen young slave she adopts as her own child leave their oppressive pasts behind to find their place in the world.

Etta comes from Nowhere, a village of survivors of the great plague that wiped away the world that was. In the world that is, women are scarce and childbearing is dangerous...yet desperately necessary for humankind's future. Mothers and midwives are sacred, but Etta has a different calling.

An act of terrorism unleashed an unspeakable biological weapon…and hell on earth. But as the masses felled by a hideous virus rose from the dead to prey on the living, a small band of survivors defied death and its ghastly spawn - determined to outrun the world’s end, and somehow begin again.