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Books has settled the Smoky Mountains following the events of the Territory Wars. His freehold doesn't have much worth trading that neighboring settlements need, but he and many other inhabitants don't necessarily consider this a bad thing. The low economic desirability of their freehold is what has allowed them to avoid fighting.

To be a Docile is to be kept, body and soul, for the uses of the owner of your contract. To be a Docile is to forget, to disappear, to hide inside your body from the horrors of your service. To be a Docile is to sell yourself to pay your parents' debts and buy your children's future. Elisha Wilder’s family has been ruined by debt, handed down to them from previous generations. His mother never recovered from the Dociline she took during her term as a Docile, so when Elisha decides to try and erase the family’s debt himself, he swears he will never take the drug.

The world has turned. Plague-infected, flesh-eating zombies now infest the earth. Black ops agent Chad Halverson of the CIA's top secret National Clandestine Service and a motley band of survivors must do everything they can to survive one more day, even as they try to find out what caused the pandemic.

Cuando Matt se conectó a Zombie Wars Online, esperaba pasar otra noche llena de diversión matando zombis en compañía de sus mejores amigos en línea. Mediante el Felote, un aparato de videojuegos que induce al jugador a un sueño MOR controlado, la realidad desapareció y una nueva vida comenzó dentro del juego. Era el escape perfecto de la dureza de la vida; pero cuando un malintencionado hacker toma el control del juego, una nueva pesadilla, peor de lo que Matt y sus amigos hubieran podido imaginar, comienza.

Set in the present, American Z is centered around a deeply rooted and disturbing evolution of the zombie in America, and the scientific T.S.O.M.B.I.E. [zom-bie] program. A powerful group of elitists, known as The Society, has been secretly controlling governments for years, and are now on the brink of being able to control humanity itself. One man believes he is destined to stop them and is willing to do whatever it takes, including betraying those closest to him. American Z is sure to slowly eat away at your conscious, long after putting it down.

Una planta conectada con la psiquis humana se revela en distintos momentos cruciales de la humanidad: la colonización de América, el siglo XIX en Londres con Jack el Destripador, 1945 y la Segunda Guerra Mundial, con las bombas atómicas…Hay algo vivo e inclasificable que recorre el planeta Tierra desde su creación y parece capaz de sobrevivirlo. Se extiende bajo la superficie y emerge como una planta fantástica, en múltiples sentidos. De ella darán testimonio los distintos narradores de la novela.

A riveting dystopian nightmare that’s Blake Crouch meets Silent Hill, in which a woman finds herself jailed in a subterranean fortress, and must fight for her sanity and survival. ****Goodreads Choice Award Finalist**** Buried deep below the everyday life of our society lives an underground...

Language is no longer learned, but streamed to neural implants regulated by lang-laws. Those who can't afford language streaming services are feral, living on the fringes of society. Big tech corporations control language, the world’s most valuable commodity. But when a massive cyberattack causes a global language outage, catastrophe looms.

""A love story spanning multiple millenniums, life-forms and variations on immortality, the book posits Victorian poetry as a weapon of empire, insists on nature's resilience in the face of genocide, and manipulates prose into something like a new language....Toward Eternity recognizes both the...

In a harsh world where survivors live off the scraps of the fallen civilization, Yun-mi had worked her ass off for two years, honing her scavenger skills. She is on the cusp of fulfilling her dreams of becoming the finest Rat the City has seen. Yun-mi's plans crumble when her mentor is murdered, and she is about to be sold to slavers. In the no-holds-barred game, she's got only one rule: not to give up, and woe to those facing a cornered Rat. Navigating alone between major powers, arrogant clans, and fake friends, she may lack knowledge and finesse, but has determination to spare.

My life ended the moment the X-Clan found me. Bitten. Turned. And claimed by him. My genetic markers label me as a rare Omega. But inside, I'm all female alpha. And I will not heel. Not even to the Alpha of Andorra Sector. Ander Cain promises me protection. A new world of pleasure and pain. But he wants all of me in return. Even if it means taking me by force. I'll be damned if I give up my inner fight. I spent the last 21 years battling the walking dead. These wolves won't know what hit them when I'm through.

2033. Une guerre a décimé la planète. La surface, inhabitable, est désormais livrée à des monstruosités mutantes. Moscou est une ville abandonnée. Les survivants se sont réfugiés dans les profondeurs du métropolitain, où ils ont tant bien que mal organisé des microsociétés de la pénurie.

The Divided, the sixth book of The Orphans series, picks up directly where Civil War, the fifth book, left off. The action and speed of this will leave your heart pounding.

The battle for Orenda Academy has begun. The Elders have spoken, and the tribe is divided. The only way to reverse what’s happened is to take a stand. We’ve started a smuggling operation to help students escape the castle, but it could cost us our lives. The prophecy is about to come true, and we’re desperate to change the course of this war. The Air piece of the prophecy is our last hope. If we don’t find it, we won’t know what’s coming— or how to prevent the end.

A Longa Marcha é uma narrativa distópica sobre uma competição em que os participantes não têm mais nada a perder, além da própria vida. O romance inaugura a nova coleção da Suma que reúne os livros de Richard Bachman, pseudônimo que Stephen King usou para assinar histórias angustiantes e surpreendentes.

En hôte dévoué, Steve Driese prête son timbre caverneux à ce conte philosophique envoûtant. Bienvenue à Termush : une station balnéaire de luxe pas comme les autres ! Tous ses pensionnaires fortunés sont des survivants avertis, qui ont réservé des chambres bien avant la catastrophe nucléaire. Dans l'hôtel, ils occupent des abris anti-radiations privatifs avec une musique d'ambiance intégrée. Les provisions sont nombreuses et somptueuses. Dehors, de la poussière radioactive tombe sur le parc et les sculptures.

Longlisted for the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD for Translated Literature Named a BEST BOOK of 2024 by NPR, Esquire, Publishers Weekly, and ScreenRant “The disconcerting familiarity of this strange, windswept world will haunt you.” —Esquire A hair-raising, poetic novel about a woman and the...

« J'aurais pu vivre en paix. Mes ennemis m'ont jeté dans la guerre. » Darrow n'est pas un héros. Tout ce qu'il souhaite, c'est vivre heureux. Mais les Ors, les dirigeants de la Société, en ont décidé autrement. Ils lui ont tout enlevé : sa raison d'être, ses certitudes, jusqu'à son reflet dans le miroir. Darrow n'a plus d'autre choix que de devenir comme ceux qui l'écrasent. Pour mieux les détruire. Il va être accepté au légendaire Institut, y être formé avec l'élite des Ors, dans un terrain d'entraînement grandeur nature.

They stole Carcer’s technology. But to use it, Moss will need to get the team back together.

Ambre Caldero vit dans un mobil-home au milieu des bois. Sa mère n'est jamais là, préférant fuir. Son beau-père ne s'intéresse qu'au bowling. Mais elle a la lecture. Chaque page est une petite victoire sur la réalité, chaque roman, une nouvelle vie qui lui redonne de l'espoir. Lorsque Ambre comprend qu'elle est la seule à s'intéresser aux étranges disparitions qui frappent Carson Mills, son meilleur allié devient son pire ennemi.