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The climate has changed. Pollution has sterilized the human race. Few stragglers remain.
From the top of the tallest skyscraper in Denver, Colorado, a lonely girl named Juno watches the sun and sand torment the Rocky Mountains day in and day out. She wonders why she was abandoned so suddenly, wonders if she will ever see her mother again, and wonders why, on her thirteenth birthday, a mysteriously scarred woman has just shown up to kidnap her.
But...
4002) Whisper
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IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
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Sixteen-year-old Whisper, who has a cleft palate, lives in an encampment with three other young rejects and their caregiver, Nathanael. They are outcasts from a society (in the not-too-distant future) that kills or abandons anyone with a physical or mental disability. Whisper's mother visits once a year. When she dies, she leaves Whisper a violin, which Nathanael teaches her to play. Whisper's father comes to claim her, and she becomes his house slave,...
4003) Terminal Combustion
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The end is just the beginning.
"It had become the story of Cooper's life, finding safe places to stow Nori Chisholm, and then abandoning his resolve to leave her."
Nori and Cooper's dark adventure continues in Terminal Combustion, the explosive sequel to Sunscorched, Subterranean series book one. Against all odds, Nori made it back to the safety of the 25th Parallel, but her heart is still somewhere below the Surface. She longs for the dark freedom...
4004) The Harvest
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Ever since WWIII devastated the surface of the Earth, emotions have been strictly forbidden. Childhood friends, Eve and Hana, have grown up in an underground compound, their emotional control monitored at all times.
But the harvest is approaching . . .
In two days, the low-ranked students will be culled and the worthy assigned to their permanent positions in society.
Eve is a high-ranked student, but harbours secret concerns about her brother leaving-feelings...
4005) Briskwood Blood Rain
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When Miles Parker walks into one of his final classes of high school, the only thing on his mind is how poorly he is about to do on a Literature quiz he didn't study for. Then, his teacher dies, and vanishes, in front of him. He thinks his, day can't get any stranger.
He's wrong.
When severe weather roars into the small city of Briskwood and school is, canceled for the rest of the day, Miles thinks nothing of it. Then, the rain suddenly turns red...
4006) Eclipse the Flame
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In the new world of The Takeover, nothing and no one is safe.IgNiTe doesn't trust me anymore. They are trying to keep me away from the fight, but they won't succeed. One night, I secretly follow my boyfriend, Xave, to a club and discover him and other members of IgNiTe hanging out with our enemies. A bloody ambush follows, and the chaos that unfolds wrecks my life, destroying everything I hold dear.Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious attacks....
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What happens when you release the hero within-and she's a stranger?
When a series of eerily haunting dreams drives Cole back into battle too soon, the power she's only just learned to wield fails to show up for the fight. Dreamwalker and childhood friend Ash claims a trip to her long-forgotten homeland in the mountains will help her reclaim her missing magic-and hard-won sense of purpose. Too bad it can only be reached by a perilous voyage across...
4008) The Cyclopes' Eye
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First, they came for his sister's eye. Now they're coming for his-and what's even worse is he deserves it. Henry has never had anything good happen to him, period. That's why, after school, he's going to put on his big-boy pants and confess his love to his best friend-because the universe owes him one, dammit, and he needs a win. But maybe it wasn't the best idea to do it on Drill Day-the one day a month that healthcare conglomerate Axiom infiltrates...
4009) Arcade Manna
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What if your next meal, drink of water, or lumber for your house was dependent on the success of someone else's gaming skills? For Bastian, Callum, and Odette and everyone else in the concrete city of 55178, it is.
The more skilled the gamer is, the more commodities your town receives. Unfortunately, in twenty-four hours, tools will rust, water becomes tainted, and food turns rancid. Every day is a fight for resources, becoming captive to the...
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ResumenExpress.com presenta y analiza en esta guía de lectura El señor de las moscas de William Golding, superventas imprescindible de la literatura inglesa que cuenta la historia de un grupo de niños que se quedan solos en una isla desierta y tratan de organizarse. Las discusiones no tardan en llegar, y tampoco la reflexión implícita sobre la fragilidad de la civilización y la crueldad.
¡Ya no tienes que leer y resumir todo el libro, nosotros...
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Can a Teenage Boy Save America from Trumptocracy?
The year is 2059 - 24 years after the Second American Civil War.
Donald Trump is long gone, but his followers have seized power and have abolished voting rights and civil liberties. Schools have
purged pro-democratic ideas from their curriculums. Protestors are executed, jailed, or forced to live in Partition 3 with the Dregs.
Like most teenagers, Bere Baudin embraces Trumptocracy and...
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Ils attendaient sur la plage le meilleur moment pour photographier le coucher du soleil mais celui-ci reste obstinément immobile...
Phénomène magnétique ou vengeance d'un dieu inca ? Qu'importe! L'humanité doit s'adapter. Nous suivons Frédérique et Guillaume dans leur périple à travers un monde en ruines pour sauver leur communauté de la famine. Un monde o les vestiges de la civilisation consumériste refusent de disparaître.
4013) La quête du codex
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En 2075, la société MaxOmni domine le monde et a instauré à son profit un régime totalitaire. Une grande partie de l'humanité est sous surveillance constante et a oublié ses valeurs et son histoire. Seule compte désormais « l'Harmonie », nouvelle morale universelle obligatoire. Cette domination a été rendue possible par un traité secret, le Codex, unissant une grande partie des États de la planète. Élaboré au départ dans le but légitime...
4014) Thompson's Cat
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The weird, invisible insect depopulated an entire planet. Now it was felling Thompson's crew as his ship hurtled toward the sun...certain death for all, including the disease carrier. Forgotten in the panic was Buster, Thompson's wise cat.
4015) The Lonely Ones
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The line between noble dreams and madness is thin, and loneliness can push men past it . . . .
4016) Hold On
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A travel log of disaster and disease…as the world descends into madness and death. Margie's survival is hampered by her husband's health while Beth's survival depends on her willingness to let go. Scott's survival hangs in the balance as his fever spikes. Cady watches helplessly as those she loves face the hardest of trials and there's nothing she can do to save them. As each person in Cady's life heads toward her, the deadliest of them all works...
4017) A Preppers Perspective
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This book combines the four books of the series and tells a tale about survivors of a Nuclear EMP watching the world around them spin out of control. The grocery store shelves are empty with no resupply in sight. Societal breakdown and food riots are inevitable. The preppers have to now rely upon all their wisdom and supplies alone in order to survive possibly a few more days or meager months. Force multipliers in the form of state sponsored and radical...
4018) Stealing Silence
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Orphaned. Alone. Starving. The land is dying. As resources dwindle, the population is placed at the mercy of a secretive government, which operates on its own agenda. Critical top-level scientists researching the ecological disaster have gone missing, their disappearance a cold case file that haunts the local constabulary. Desperate for answers, the police captain hatches a plan to recover a critical key to the land's survival. What they need is an...
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Distant future. Max Stranger is a teenage actor in the Emperial Metropolis. It might seem that his life has played out perfectly; he signed a movie contract and has a girlfriend. And that would be true if it weren't for the fact that he is starring in film productions in which everything happens for real.Like the other Actors, he is sedated before every scene so that the film coordinators can turn on an artificial consciousness hidden in a special...
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When chemical weapons are set off deliberately by a US Senator within the country's borders, a chemistry teacher and his students are set on a race with time to find a cure before the disease, which resembles vampirism, swallows the country's population. The Senator, in an attempt to stop them, convinces the President and all of Congress to bomb every major city in an attempt to stop them. what results is apocalyptic chaos where vampids, zombies,...
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