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Full of friendship and revenge, each story and setting is more strange and wonderful than the last, brimming with new technologies and beings. And yet, in these futuristic lands, the people must still confront deeply human emotions and dilemmas. Veronica Roth reaches into the unknown and immerses listeners into six short stories that feel startlingly familiar and profoundly beautiful. With two new stories from the Carve the Mark universe, this collection has something for everyone.

Creativity is a crime. Arts are atrocities. Disobedience means death. Dreams, creativity, and magic are all gone under a single order. Banned from the things that make you different, people must conform to a dull and practical lifestyle. The daughter of the Regime's head executioner is expected to follow in his footsteps, but 14-year-old Calista Knight is curious about creativity and dreams. When the new boy, Wes, encourages Calista to stop taking the medicine preventing dreams and introduces her to creativity, a new life opens up to her.

In this dystopian middle grade novel Digger: Dig or Die!, a climate change disaster forces humanity to search for safety as Earth's atmosphere escapes into space. Narrated by siblings Nick and Lily, the story follows their resourcefulness in aiding neighbors.

While the underground frantically works to mount a resistance against Pandora and the World Alliance, the potentate’s evil grows. She stages withering chemical attacks wherever the underground may survive. She passes more laws to hamper their movements. And new inventions to control their minds. And as Nia grows heavy with the potentate's child, her desperation to escape before the birth turns to panic. Get ready for hours of entertainment, from the busy pens of Carol Marrs Phipps and Tom Phipps.

After the Final World War, the Hawaiian Federation stands alone as the world's last sovereign nation. Surrounded by deadly waters, its continued existence relies heavily on the Indigo vaccine, an injection given to children at the age of 15 to stave off horrifying effects induced by poisonous nuclear fallout particles called carcinogens.

Introducing "NON" - the blockbuster young adult dystopian sensation of the year! Brace yourself for a whirlwind adventure that will have you on the edge of your seat, craving more! Meet Tea, a young woman who believed she had it all: a promising scholarship to an elite university, and the prospect of a fairytale romance with the most sought-after bachelor in town. But on her 18th birthday, her world shatters when a long-forgotten contract, signed by her mother during pregnancy, thrusts her into a chilling existence as a non-entity. Stripped of her very humanity, Tea is dragged into a ...

In a city overrun by war, Luka doesn’t have time for games. So when his little sister asks him to care for her faeries as she’s sent away to escape the air raids, he dismisses her childishness. But it’s already more than he can bear to see her go, so he promises to do as she asks. A promise that Luka quickly breaks. Instead of leaving an offering for the faeries, he flings their saucer of milk as far out the window as he can. Big mistake. The faeries are not only very real, but they’re more terrifying than he could have ever imagined.

What will happen when we reach the highest level of technological sophistication in such a warlike world? Apocalypse programmed more than a science fiction story seems a premonition, a forecast of something that could be that is already predestined to occur given our vast capacity to destroy us.

Dark Space #8 The game knew Olivia before she even put on the headset. Olivia didn’t expect much from the strange, unmarked device her great-aunt left behind—until it powered on by itself and whispered, Welcome back. Inside the game, Olivia finds a world built from her own memories—twisted, glitchy, and way too real. When her best friend Maya gets pulled into the system too, things go from creepy to dangerous fast. The girls uncover a forgotten experiment, an AI designed to preserve minds by trapping them inside puzzles. And the worst part? The Machine was built around Olivia. To shut...

Dark Space #10 No one in Crofton Hollow can die, but someone is trying to delete Rina anyway. When Rina Avery’s missing cat returns with glowing eyes and a strange silence, she follows him into the woods—and discovers a hidden hatch beneath an ancient tree. What she finds underground isn’t just tech. It’s a system. One that’s been rewriting her town, erasing people who don’t “fit,” and replacing them with cleaner, quieter versions. Including her. With the help of her best friend Luis and a glitchy memory tether, Rina must dive deep into a secret archive, confront the eerie ...

Our world isn't ours any more. It's theirs. The human survivors lead a hardscrabble life, scavenging what they can from the dead city, waiting and watching. Cedes isn't like Matthew and his regulars. She dreams. She talks. She questions. She wonders why Luke disappeared, where Luke disappeared to. She wants to know what we are to the machines. This is her story. This is our story. This is the story of us, the humans who survive. In the ruins of our world, a new order arose, an order controlled by the very machines humankind created. The end for us came not from a massive global war but from...

In book one, Tea's life is turned upside-down when she is thrust into the life of a non-entity. Now her training is complete, and she has been sold to a retailer in one of the richest cities in the world. Will she find a way to help the resistance or will she find something else along the way?

This is Catalyst: Book 3 of the Non-Entity Series. Tea has been set free and now is on the front lines with the resistance. Will the resistance be able to take down the Foundation? Will Tea find love amidst the fight for her life? Find out in book 3 of the Non-Entity Book Series.

Deep within the darkest corners of distant worlds there are rumblings of an uprising. With the small secret gatherings growing in number, it seems once more evil has a reason to unite. There is a toxic energy in the air. Slowly the haunting whisper from this darkness is spreading, bringing with it a sense of fear and danger. The Oranthium must stand together and strike as one. However there is unrest at the Oranthium as a new arrival causes a divide within the group. Zachary needs to conquer his own demons and lead them. This is no time for weakness. Dhoranka is back.

Dark Space #6 The pressure suit doesn’t just send him back in time, it pulls him apart. Milo wakes up in a room with no windows, no way out, and no idea who he really is. Each time he’s locked into the mysterious pressure suit, he’s launched into another life—running through ancient forests, sailing pirate ships, even fighting battles that feel too real to forget. But with every jump, he loses a little more of himself. When Milo discovers the lab is part of a looping experiment to harvest memories from kids like him, he knows escaping isn’t enough, he has to break the loop from ...

We see a bright blue cloud-filled sky. Then we are zooming down, revealing what appears to be a swirling dust funnel in a clearing, surrounded by forest. Zooming farther down we see a young boy playing near it. Finally, we see him get swallowed up into a cosmic portal. We now zoom out, farther and farther until we see a large man dressed in regal garb, he is a wizard, searching desperately through a forest for his son. As he penetrates the trees he sees an ominous portal in the open field. A shoe lies on the ground near the swirling mass. He charges forward.

A devastating apocalypse has left the world in ruins with entire regions choked by a deadly sickness. There is no form of communication and no central government, just a loose alliance of towns and warbands under the banner of the League. This loose alliance fights a desperate struggle against the raiders and marauders that snap at their borders. Life has returned to a preindustrial time with technology but a distant memory. Survival in this desperate time depends just as much on farming and industry as it does martial skill with the sword or spear. Synne, the young daughter of Galan, the ...

Charlie has made his way to Kiloreen, ancestral home of the elves, in his quest to find the Silver Catacombs and the lost magic that lies hidden within. Instead, he finds a branch of the Elven Resistance Movement, a secret underground organization of elves bent on retaking Kiloreen and freeing their people. If they are willing to stand alongside humans, the elves will be a great help in the struggle against King Richard, but there is still the matter of the lost magic. For if Charlie cannot find it, the war may be lost before ever it has begun.

Thirteen-year-old Kai Montgomery thought the biggest challenge he'd face would be his next martial arts tournament on the colony planet Kalifornia. That was until a cryptic alien crashed near his home, thrusting him into a fight far beyond his wildest daydreams. Armed with only his quick wit and a strange device handed to him by the dying alien, Kai finds himself drafted into the Galaxy Gladiators-a high-stakes interstellar melee where the price of defeat is death. Trapped on a space station with no way back to Earth, Kai must use his martial arts prowess to survive the brutal games. With ...

Un muchacho a quien conocen como Rana nos cuenta la extraña historia de su vida, que comenzó a cambiar cuando conoció a su nuevo compañero de habitación, Ander. No se trata de dos estudiantes, sino de dos aprendices de asesinos. Ambos están siendo adiestrados en un planeta de condiciones extremas cuyo único fin es formar al ejército de asesinos más eficiente que haya existido jamás. Su adiestramiento se basa en la selección natural, en que los más fuertes sobreviven. Sin embargo, aunque en este lugar nadie les enseña la amistad, ni el amor, estos sentimientos terminarán ...