Showing titles in Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic

Le WICKED a tout volé à Thomas : sa vie, sa mémoire et maintenant ses seuls amis. Mais l'épreuve touche à sa fin. Ne reste qu'un dernier test... Terrifiant. Cependant, Thomas a retrouvé assez de souvenirs pour ne plus faire confiance à l'Organisation. Il a triomphé du labyrinthe. Il a survécu sur la terre brûlée. Il fera tout pour sauver ses amis, même si la vérité risque de provoquer la fin de tout.

Eighth-grader Lucy Sandoval has no hope of reaching high school. Blindsided by a terminal cancer diagnosis, she resolves to spend her last moments with the father she never knew. But he disappeared years ago, and Lucy’s mother is tight-lipped about him and their shared past beyond his vague whereabouts. With no help and little to no leads, Lucy’s loses faith, when tragedy strikes and brings her cross-country flight down mid-air.

Enora Byrnes lives in the aftermath - a barren world where water has become the global currency. In a life dominated by duty to family and community, Enora is offered a role within an entity that controls everything, from water credits to borders. But it becomes clear that not all is as it seems. From the wasted confines of her small town to the bowels of a hidden city, Enora will uncover buried secrets that hide an unthinkable reality.

Partying too much, picking fights with her Mom...Holly's senior year of high school has become a bit of a mess. She has no idea what she wants to do next year, and she's sick of the pressure to have a plan. When she's shipped off to spend some time in Chicago with her Aunt Miranda, she starts to feel more like herself. But, Holly's about to have bigger problems. The world is on the brink of a viral outbreak that will change the way humans live for years to come. It begins in all the major cities. People are changing into crazed animals, impervious to pain. Nobody knows why.

When the first manned mission to Mars makes an unexpected return in 2037 with a dead crew, a terrible contaminant is unleashed that turns the skies purple and threatens humanity's survival. It brings with it a frightening new apex predator that bumps the surviving humans down the food chain. In this new world, the unflappable 16-year-old Zach Granger rides his dirt bike across the scorching Arizona desert.

Weeks after a failed climate change experiment triggers a new Ice Age, a dangerous resistance is growing at Liberty, the Mars prototype biodome settlement in Rhode Island, after Graysen Marx is removed from power. Trying to cope with the reality of the icy new world, August and a group of survivors are forced to make a perilous journey to Boston in search of biofuel, but the lawless landscape and killing cold are more than just a breeding ground for deadly scavengers foraging for food.

Twenty-one-year-old Aurora Reynolds is an artist in the canvas of the mind. Rory is a lobe-tech, one of the chosen few who can navigate another's memories to find their most guarded secrets and exploit the intel they're hiding. She’s the best chance the country has at stopping the Seers—the terrorist organization using the weather as a weapon. January 13, 2042 should be just another day of pillaging minds and gathering secrets for Rory. But when she turns down the normally sterile hallways to her office, she finds them covered in blood.

The population was growing too fast. Death by starvation was more common than murder or accident. Changes had to be made. An initial strategy to decrease the population was used, but the outcry against it was too massive to dismiss. Thus, The 12 Mile Course was created. The course boasts a 36 percent success rate of a child finishing it alive. Chris, a boy on the cusp of turning 16, is about to find out just how effective the new system is at making sure only the strong survive.

La sedicenne Malencia Vale e il suo ragazzo Tomas frequentano il primo anno all'università di Tosu City. Scelta dal governo come una delle migliori menti della nuova generazione, Cia è una leader promettente, destinata a guidare la civilizzazione del dopoguerra. E anche se il governo ha cercato di cancellare dai suoi ricordi i brutali orrori della Prova, lei ne serba intatta la memoria.

Clean water is a luxury most can no longer afford. Rationing, sequestering, and patrolling have become routine at a time when there are too many people and not enough resources. While the world around them disintegrates into chaos, Zach and Vivienne hope that their life in a government-run complex will retain some semblance of normalcy. But when attacks on their water supplies bring war to their sheltered community, they must accept their new fate. Will they choose what’s safe? Or will they choose to survive?

The price of a lie will be paid in blood. Nightland’s attack shattered the safety of the domes, leaving dead to be burned and debts to be settled. As the Domers struggle to rebuild, Nola tries to forget everything she learned beyond the glass walls. The people on the outside aren’t hers to save. There is nothing left for them but pain and death. Nola’s life will continue trapped in the domes, Jeremy by her side. When the chaos of the city reaches the glass, the line between murder and protection blurs, leaving Nola with only one terrible chance for survival.

The world is ending. The fight for survival has only begun. Good and evil have vanished, leaving only power and death in the outside world. As fire and blood rain down on the city, a new foe appears amongst the flames. One who will stop at nothing to create the future the domes have dreamt of. Those who have managed to survive beyond the reach of the domes are left with a terrible choice: To hide in safety, or fight against the monsters who slaughter without mercy.

The 3:15 bell used to mean the end of class. Now, it means the end of everything. The Purple War is raging outside the protective walls of Aegis Academy. The infected, murderous Virulents are getting more aggressive on the inside.

Doctor Larson is a maniacal genius bent on harnessing the parapsychic powers of Thomas, a 12-year-old boy. Using a "thought terminating process", Larson employs trigger words that catalyze Thomas' abilities so he can use them for his own evil purposes. But as those powers grow, Thomas finds himself slowly stripped of choice and all self-control while treading a path of total annihilation. Will Larson succeed, or will he be forced to watch as the boy is fully consumed by his own conflagration?

England has been radically changed by a series of catastrophes - large cities have disappeared, and London has been replaced by a lagoon. The surviving population exists in fortified towns where they cling to traditional ways, while strangely evolved beasts prowl the wilderness beyond. Conformity is rigidly enforced, and those who fall foul of the rules are persecuted: some are killed; others are driven out into the wilds. Only a few fight back - and two of these outlaws, Scarlett McCain and Albert Browne, display an audacity and talent that makes them legends.

THE END OF THE WORLD HAS BEGUN. WHAT DO YOU DO? Steve Symonds is just a typical 13-year old boy living in London. His main interests revolve around videogames, the internet, inline skating, and annoying his friends and family. But when the ancient gods of myth and legend suddenly appear out of nowhere and begin to cause havoc all over the world, Steve must find the strength and courage within himself in order to survive and ultimately prevail against a monstrous, supernatural tide of chaos that threatens all of humanity.

The only thing anyone wants to talk about lately is the stupid virus that’s making people sick around the globe. But 13-year-old Lizzy Tilbrook has bigger things on her mind, like winning her class presidency. It’s the first stepping stone in her plan to get into Yale. Then she’ll capture the title of Atlanta’s top lawyer. Lizzy doesn’t need friends to do that—she needs voters. She’ll do anything to win them over and take down her rival. The new pandemic is just a speed bump along the way. Or so she thinks.

When strangers come to an encampment with the promise of travel to a thriving society, a curious boy, who is an outsider among his people, has to be ready to leave behind the life he has made to go to a place he hopes exists. Very few in the worn encampment even notice the boy they have known since birth. With feelings of not being liked or cared for, Edan spends his days exploring and only returns for meager shelter during the night. Believing he is fine on his own, the quiet boy has adapted to rely only on himself.

Nueva York. 2120. Estados Unidos ha sido diezmado, exterminado por la Segunda Guerra Civil. En este mundo post apocalíptico, los sobrevivientes son escasos. Y la mayoría de ellos son miembros de una pandilla violenta de predadores que vive en las grandes ciudades. Ellos patrullan la campiña buscando esclavos, nuevas víctimas para llevar a la ciudad, para su deporte mortal favorito: la Arena Uno. El estadio de la muerte, donde los adversarios son obligados a pelear hasta la muerte, de manera salvaje. Sólo hay una regla en la Arena: nadie sobrevive. Nunca.

Cassandra stands silent upon a ravaged battlefield, watching as the druids prepare the dead for the pyres, embers drifting up into the still winter darkness. She can barely breathe through the agony of her grief, but she cannot waste another second on tears. Because Londinium, the Caesar, the empire…all of it is still out there. The empire whose code she had followed, whose prince she had promised to marry, whose schemes she had been swept up in since birth. They tried to use her magic against her. To silence her. So she will use her magic against them. To silence them. Forever.