Six years after a global pandemic wiped out most of the planet's population, the survivors are rebuilding the country, split between self-governing cities, hippie communes and wasteland gangs. Krista, Moira, Rob and Sunny are brought together by circumstance, and their lives begin to twine together. But when reports of another outbreak throw the fragile society into panic, the friends are forced to finally face everything that came before--and everything...

Two years ago, a misunderstanding between the leaders of Earth and the invading Ilori resulted in the deaths of one-third of the world's population. Seventeen-year-old Janelle "Ellie" Baker survives in an Ilori-controlled center in New York City. With humans deemed dangerously volatile because of their initial reaction to the invasion, emotional expression can be grounds for execution. Music, art and books are illegal, but Ellie breaks the rules by...

"When machines rule Earth, after the extinction of humans, twelve-year-old robot XR 935 gradually confronts its prejudices about humans and begins to reconsider its own existence within robot society after discovering and befriending a twelve-year-old human girl"--Title verso page.

"Now that Maddie has been kidnapped, Rosie, Louisa, and the boys are paying more attention to Evelyn's theories. As the group make their way toward war-torn Chicago, they're under constant threat of capture. Danger and dark surprises lurk around every twist of the road. Evelyn knows they need a strategy to find Maddie. But what the group comes up with may be their riskiest plan yet: infiltrating the Alliance itself"--P. [4] of cover.

In Fourteen Short Stories, Sean Patrick. Durham brings you observation of life. We walk past a group of people, we sit in a cafe unaware of a single woman who sits and yearns for the old days when she had an acting career. A gangster who doesn't know that his coffee is his last, and snooping neighbour who oversteps the line. With the many more characters and stories wrapped up in this collection, you are bound to find the story that you have waited for....

Six unforgettable kids -- with no families, no homes -- are running for their lives. Max Ride and her best friends have the ability to fly. And that's just the beginning of their amazing powers. But they don't know where they come from, who's hunting them, why they are different from all other humans...and if they're meant to save mankind -- or destroy it.

Scarlett would never kill her best friend, perhaps a Citizen if the situation called for it, but never Rhys. There are quite a few rules in the training center, but a few are the kind that are never broken. 1. Greens are not sent into Cities without officially being promoted to Blue. 2. Blues don't kill each other. So why is Scarlett being sent into a City without the proper training? And why does a bizarre, elderly male say Scarlett will kill...

In a world where dreambenders manipulate dreams in order to remove emotions both negative and positive, Jeremy, an apprentice dreambender, discovers Callie's dreams of singing and wonders if there is more to life than security at any cost.

Mr Andrew and his wife Angela were married for 6 years but could not have children because Angela was barren and they were also very poor. They had little, save a small piece of land and an old barn which Mr Andrew inherited from his late father. Mr Andrew faced the threat of losing his inheritance to a local bank over a debt owed by his late father but inorder to prevent that, Mr Andrew and his wife did menial jobs to raise money to repay the debt...

A devastating tsunami is heading towards the Cornish coast. With no early warning and limited means of escape, many people won't get away in time. While the terrifying reality of the news hits home, one young woman posts a message on Facebook, 'With nowhere to run to, I'm heading to my favourite beach to watch the sunset, who wants to join me?' A small group of people follow her lead and head towards the beach; each of them are harbouring their own...