Young Adult Dystopian

* Standalone or Sequel - The Determined Series stories can be read in any order. * In 2076, seventeen-year-old Nina Perry's world is turned upside down by the sudden loss of her father. Several days later, a mysterious event causes millions to die, leaving her afraid and alone. Nina finds the courage to continue and encounters a few other survivors, including her brother, Thomas. She discovers her great-grandfather Albert Perry's journals, which offer a possible solution to this dystopian nightmare—time travel. Before Nina can explore this possibility, she and her companions must escape ...

From USA Today Bestselling Author Liz Long comes a new duology that “…belongs on the shelf with The Hunger Games and the Divergent Series.” When seventeen-year-old Reina is accepted to KEY, the King's Education for Youth, she knows she’ll have to hide her true identity, as same-sex relationships are strictly illegal under President-turned-King Magnus Brighton’s rule. What she couldn’t have anticipated was the King taking a personal interest in her, and his plan to have her marry his cruel son. When Reina discovers refusing the marriage means a punishment far worse than death, ...

Enne Salta was raised as a proper young lady, and no lady would willingly visit New Reynes, the so-called City of Sin. But when her mother goes missing, Enne must leave her finishing school - and her reputation - behind to follow her mother's trail to the city where no one survives uncorrupted.

From birth to death, The War is all the citizens of Dystance know. As children it is drilled into their heads that war is the purpose behind all existence. Winter doesn't agree. She's stumbled across remnants of life the way it was before The War began, and now she longs to be as free as her ancestors. With help from her best friend Cedar and the boy she is forbidden to love, Tallow. She believes she can do it. Winter can see a life beyond the Pickets, beyond the constant hunger and the threat of death, beyond the war machine.

Humiliating haircuts and a life of oppression have been Bryssa's fate ever since her father died when she was nine. Dubbed Bristles by her stepmother, she's determined to escape from the city-state of Erba, where a wealthy few subjugate the vast, impoverished working class. Now sixteen, Bryssa's goal is to reach the forbidden Far-Land Forest-- her late mother's ancestral home. It's a place dominated by gigantic trees that somehow bestow unexplainable powers on some of those who dwell there. But fleeing Erba means leaving behind the boy who loves her, bristles and all. And returning means ...

In the former United States, sixteen-year-old Noam Álvaro wakes up in a hospital bed, the sole survivor of the viral magic that killed his family and made him a technopath. His ability to control technology attracts the attention of the minister of defense and thrusts him into the magical elite of the nation of Carolinia. The son of undocumented immigrants, Noam has spent his life fighting for the rights of refugees fleeing magical outbreaks. Sensing a way to make change, Noam accepts the minister’s offer to teach him the science behind his magic.

Regret was for people with nothing to defend, people who had no water. Lynn knows every threat to her pond: drought, a snowless winter, coyotes, and, most important, people looking for a drink. She makes sure anyone who comes near the pond leaves thirsty or doesn't leave at all. Confident in her own abilities, Lynn has no use for the world beyond the nearby fields and forest. Hving a pond requires the fortitude to protect it, something Mother taught her well during their quiet hours on the rooftop, rifles in hand.

What would you sacrifice to keep a secret? Sage Indarra’s third year at the Institution is off to a rough start. She’s still horrified by what she had to do to protect herself at the end of last year, and she’s pretty sure one of her instructors hates her. Her former mentors are giving her the cold shoulder, leaving her unexpectedly isolated, and she’s not sure whether or not she can trust her newest friend. Despite these challenges, she’s determined to uncover the secrets Eprah doesn’t want her to know. But when Sage finds some unusual artifacts at the Archives, she makes a ...

One virus. Two outcomes. Fly or Die. A fatal virus that kills children when they turn thirteen has swept the globe. A distant planet holds the cure, but few children are selected to travel. Teenagers fly or die. Death or Kronnus 13. Zak Connors is about to become a teenager and is selected to fly to Kronnus 13. During his first night on 'new Earth', he has a vision of his mother who disappeared without a trace when he was five-years-old. He awakes the next day and discovers he has special powers and uses them to uncover the secrets of his mysterious new world - Kronnus 13. The first book in...

The first medical ship in any Oison fleet and it was his. It was both exciting beyond words and terrifying with all its responsibility. Razar decided and he knew a medical ship was needed. He got this one ready and stocked just in time. Their ship would not be broken into within The Empire. They would be going just beyond and assisting an unknown race that asked for help. That race called themselves the Omgoddy. They were like the Mazlans and humans which would help in finding a cure for what they were calling a plague. How they had known about the Mazlans without being known themselves, no...

It’s been thirty-seven years since the Republic was destroyed. Now two settlements—the five clans and the Kingsland—fight for control of the untainted land. Though the five clans are outnumbered, they’ve finally struck, killing Kingsland’s brutal leader. In the war that follows, Isadora, an eighteen-year-old healer, risks her life to help injured soldiers. But when she stops an attack from Tristan, a Kingsland assassin, his soldiers shoot her with a poisoned arrow. As Isadora lies dying, Tristan does the unimaginable: He offers to save her life using a rare magic.

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Katniss Everdeen ha sobrevivido dos veces a los Juegos del Hambre, pero no está a salvo. La revolución se extiende y, al parecer, todos han tenido algo que ver en el meticuloso plan, todos excepto Katniss. Aun así su papel en la batalla final es el más importante de todos. Katniss debe convertirse en el Sinsajo, en el símbolo de la rebelión... a cualquier precio.

She wants to put an end to the Testing, but she can't do it alone. This is the chance to lead that Cia has trained for—but who will follow? Plunging through layers of danger and deception, Cia must risk the lives of those she loves—and gamble on the loyalty of her lethal classmates. Who can Cia trust? The stakes are higher than ever—lives of promise cut short or fulfilled; a future ruled by fear or hope--in the electrifying conclusion to Joelle Charbonneau's epic Testing trilogy. Ready or not…it’s Graduation Day.

"Sheltered: Pursuit of Molly" They thought leaving the shelter would offer freedom. They were wrong. After escaping the underground shelter, Molly and Lucas face an unforgiving post-apocalyptic landscape filled with unseen dangers and haunting secrets. Survival depends on vigilance, trust, and Molly's mysterious powers, which grow stronger yet increasingly uncontrollable. Days stretch into uncertainty, and safety proves elusive. Threats emerge from every direction—some hidden, others painfully familiar. Molly struggles with questions about her own nature, haunted by whispers calling her ...

Fighting the undead comes naturally to Sarina, like breathing. A fiery sense of justice, and a longing for fermented dairy products, drives the ex-cop to take on an oppressive overlord, fight his gang of insane misfits, and wrangle the devious plots of the very townsfolk she's set out to save. With Sook, her telepathic feline companion at her side, will her determination free the town? Or will it cost Sarina everything she holds dear? Set in the post apocalyptic jungles of Australia this zombie apocalypse meets spaghetti Western is sure to be food for thought. This is a book for those that ...

When seven-year-old Callen is chased beyond his city's gated walls, and onto the land of the savages beyond, he uncovers a riddle that will take him twelve years to unravel. When he retraces his steps as a nineteen-year-old, he'll discover true love and adventure beyond his wildest dreams. He'll also be forced to choose between self-preservation and the greater good. The riddle Callen fought to solve, may end up costing his life. Reviews: 5.0 out of 5 stars “I recommend reading this book not just for the page-turning adventure but for what it can reveal to the reader about living one's ...

Mercy Dawes is angry, this is personal. The phage virus is mutating, the infected are leaving the cities. Mercy awakes to a world full of danger and loss, comforted by powerful enemies. They call her “The New Messiah”; she has the cure for the plague. Her life is forfeit to Cobalt Biotech and the New State Army who control her. But what if she fights back from within? What if she gambles with the lives of her friends? What if she embraces the darkness? Sometimes there is only one path to take.

Thomas lies on the battlefield of Kreshe, left for dead, his memory in tatters. In plague ridden New York City, Jack Spence clings to life, surrounded by the horror of a different apocalypse. A blind girl, Raven, summons Jack to New Haven; Erthe’s city state. Eastern Necromancers re-animate the dead; their attack on the Erthe is an attack on life itself. New Haven’s dusk-thief Sabine, will guide Jack through the Erthe’s heartland… to his decision; kill or be killed. To bring ghosts back from the past, to melt the present with an ancient weapon… to survive. Dare you join the race? ...

Enclosed under a vast dome, Snowglobe is the last place on Earth that’s warm. Outside Snowglobe is a frozen wasteland, and every day, citizens face the icy world to get to their jobs at the power plant, where they produce the energy Snowglobe needs. Their only solace comes in the form of twenty-four-hour television programming streamed directly from the domed city.