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THE EPIC CONCLUSION TO THE STYLISH TALE OF A WORLD BEREFT OF COLOR! The first Mercy Pulse robbed the world of color, leaving humanity mutated in its wake. Now, using the power of their "Divine Chroma," the Iodopsy Order are on the verge of engineering a second Mercy Pulse. Driven by the madness of their faith, they don't care what the consequences might be for the human race. Avidia narrowly prevailed against the Order's sapphire-tinted god, but now he's grievously wounded and cut off from all his friends. To rescue Chie, he's ready to launch an all-out war against the Order, before calamity descends upon the world! The final volume!

CodeBlade is a small-scale tabletop brawler miniature wargame set in a near-future cyberpunk version of our world. Even with a small setup, It challenges players to use all of their strategic ability.

"... [a] harrowing dystopian novel about the downward spiral of a seaside town that becomes infected by a mysterious ocean-borne contagion."--Provided by publisher.

Charity Anthology on sale for a limited time only!In the bleak expanse of a dystopian Earth, where the sky is permanently smudged with industrial grime and the metallic taste of the air settles on tongues like radioactive snowflakes, Symador's towering walls stand sentry, protecting the inhabitants from the ever-increasing radiation beyond.From compulsory tests of magical ability to secret watchers keeping record, terrorist threats to acts of redemption, 11 authors offer their interpretations of life in the sand-covered city.Featuring Stories by:J.P McDonald, Kate Schumacher, Liv Evans, Kristen Dovnik, G.R. Thomas, Judy Liu, Danielle Hughes, Emmie Hamilton, EA Robins, Katie Civitelli, Victoria Jade MossProudly SupportingMiracle Babies FoundationMiracle Babies Foundation is Australia's leading organisation supporting premature and sick newborns, their families and the hospitals that care for them. Every year in Australia around 48,000 newborn babies require the help of a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) or Special Care Nursery (SCN). 27,000 of these babies are born premature and up to 1,000 babies lose their fight for life. For families, the experience of having a baby come into the world not as expected or planned is life-changing. Without support, this overwhelming and traumatic experience can have lifelong effects on the emotional well-being of these miracle families. It affects the entire family unit. That is why we have decided to donate all online proceeds to The Miracle Babies Foundation.Miracle Babies provides support to families of premature and sick newborns through our NurtureProgram, including our NurtureLine (24 Hour Family Support Line 1300 622 243), NurtureTime (in-hospital emotional support) and NurtureGroups (community play and support groups, for after discharge). Your support will also help the continued distribution of our family NurtureProgram Resources, via hospitals.

The chilling story humanity hopes never actually happensSixty tons of cosmic dust fall on the earth every dayWhat would happen if some of it was sentient?What if it wanted to live, even if you were dying?Jed, Ezake, Cheri, Samir, Marilyn, Barry, Joshua & BrianEight people connected by a unique eventWhat would you do if you were them?

Ein neuartiger, psychologischer Roman mit dem richtigen Mix von Abenteuer- und Detektivcharakteristik. Endge - Der Weg in die Freiheit fordert den Leser heraus, gewisse Weltansichten für möglich zu halten und fördert einen wertschätzenden Umgang zwischen Andersdenkenden.Ella und ihr Sohn Leon werden auf geheimnisvolle Weise zu einer Expedition eingeladen. Doch schon bei der Vorbereitung zu dieser besonderen Reise, die beweisen soll, dass die Erde flach ist, scheint ein Saboteur am Werk. So wird das Training im Eis zur ersten Herausforderung für das gesamte Team. Und die Expedition selber wird ganz anders als alle es sich vorgestellt haben.

Hides is a novel of family and politics that distinguishes itself through its careful intermingling of seriousness and comedy, and its surreal but eerily plausible setting. As wildfires rage across the country and another federal election looms, four friends convene for a wilderness hunting trip in northwestern Newfoundland to commemorate the death of one of their sons, killed in a mass shooting in Calgary the year before. Hides traces the emotional ruptures following this violent, untimely death, along with the tensions of old friendships and father-son relationships marred by loss, betrayal, and a pervasive political and environmental disenchantment.

A hundred teens. A thousand broken promises. A future built on lies. Fyve and Halo passed The Oasis Trials and boarded the promised ship, alongside a hundred teens carefully chosen by the mythical force known as Terra. They expect to sail to Tomorrow Land-a place where food is plentiful and opportunities abound. What they don't expect is to meet Terra herself... As danger winds its way through the decaying ship, Fyve and Halo must try to put together the pieces of the most complex puzzle they've encountered yet. How is Terra managing to control things that can't possibly be controlled? Why are people disappearing, and where are they being taken? And what's in the secret section of the ship that Fyve and Halo were never meant to discover? As the search for tomorrow becomes a quest to make sense of today, Fyve and Halo will need to draw on their strengths to get one step ahead of a power who's been manipulating them all along. From the best-selling authors of The Thaw Chronicles, get ready to be blown away by a breathtaking new series for lovers of Divergent and The Hunger Games Scroll up and one-click your copy now! What readers said about The Thaw Chronicles: ★★★★★ "Without doubt the best dystopian series I have ever read."★★★★★ "It's understandable why this is compared to the Hunger Games...the writing is top notch and on the same level as those books."★★★★★ "Oh my. I couldn't put this book down. I can't wait for more!"★★★★★ "Great beginning to a new dystopian world! If you love dystopian, futuristic, or climatic fiction you need to start reading this series now!"★★★★★ "I didn't think it possible for another story to rival the likes of The Hunger Games and Divergent, but if Burning is an indicator, After The Thaw is going to be THE series to slake dystopian fans' thirst."

Gemeinsam brausen Erzähler und Leser in der Gondel - einem magischen Gefährt aus Satzfragmenten und schwarzem Eisen - durch die Stationen eines ausufernd surrealen Vergnügungsparksim Kopf des Autors. Bis etwas gehörig schief geht ...Das Buch erzählt von der Rolle des Menschen in seiner immer mehr Probleme aufwerfenden Existenz, seinem Hang zu großen Emotionen und seinem Verlangen nach einfachen Antworten ineiner komplizierten Welt und einem frei drehenden Kapitalismus.Eine spannende, überaus skurrile Geschichte, die keine Zustände beschreibt und Positionen anbietet, sondern mitreißt und lachen, trauern und wüten lässt.

"Following a wave of immigration, Japan has became a volatile mix of people and cultures, rocked by the protests of xenophobic extremists unhappy with the new status quo. A brash, job-hopping young woman named Riko is driving her scooter through one such protest when she sees a boy about to get run over by a truck. Riko just manages to shove him out of the way, and, in the hours that follow, she finds herself looking after the boy, named Eito. Riko takes Eito out for a bowl of ramen, but just as they're about to dig in, Eito is fired upon by a distant army sniper. As the bullet pierces the restaurant window and comes whizzing toward Eito, plant-like tendrils snake out from his arm and stop it in mid-flight. Who in the world is this boy, and why is the army after him?!"--

"Civilization has been rebuilt after an unspoken "Something that Happened" five hundred years ago. Society is now color vision-segregated, professions, marriages, and leisure activities all dictated by an individual's visual ability, and everything run by the shadowy National Color in far-off Emerald City. Out on the fringes of Red Sector West, twenty-year-old Eddie Russett is being bullied into an arranged marriage with the powerful DeMauve family, purples who hope to redden up their progeny's color-viewing potential with Eddie's gene stock. Their obnoxious daughter Violet is confident the marriage won't hamper her style for too long because Eddie is about to go on trial for a murder he didn't commit, and he's pretty sure to be sent on a one-way trip to the Green Room for execution by soporific color exposure. Meanwhile, Eddie is engaged in an illegal relationship with his co-defendant, a Green, the charismatic, unpredictable, and occasionally deadly Jane Grey. Time is running out for Eddie and Jane to figure out how to save themselves. Negotiating the narrow boundaries of the Rules within their society, they search for a loophole-some truth of their world that has been hidden from its hyper-policed citizens. As they unpeel the lies that cloak their existence they come to the worrying conclusion that they may not be alone: That there might be a Somewhere Else beyond the sea, and more, Someone Else living there-and observing them all, purposefully unseen"--

Bist du bereit für die Zukunft? 2078. Felix, ein junger Mann aus der Unterschicht, möchte es in seiner Heimatstadt Olympolis zu etwas bringen. Doch das ist gar nicht so einfach. Als er eines Tages in seinem Keller alte Bücher entdeckt, findet er heraus, dass er einen berühmten Urgroßvater hat. Nun steht seinem Aufstieg zum Oberbürger nichts mehr im Weg. Opa Freddy war ein Vordenker der Megastädte, die nach den katastrophalen Auswirkungen der Dunkelzeit in ganz Deutschland entstanden und für politische Stabilität sorgten. Je mehr Felix als Oberbürger vorankommt, desto klarer wird ihm, dass er mit den starren und autoritären Verhältnissen alles andere als einverstanden ist. Im Zwiespalt zwischen Widerspruch und Anpassung begehrt er auf...

Zwei Liebende im übervölkerten London des 22. Jahrhunderts Elizabeth, eine reiche Erbin, verliebt sich in Denton, einen Arbeiter der Mittelschicht. Der Vater ist strikt gegen die Verbindung und setzt alles daran, die beiden zu entzweien. Das Paar sieht sich zur Flucht gezwungen - eine Flucht, die einen enormen sozialen Abstieg mit sich bringt und sie in den Teil Londons bringt, wo die Allerärmsten leben. Mit beunruhigender Vorstellungskraft untersucht H. G. Wells in seiner Novelle, erstmals 1899 veröffentlicht, die Auswirkungen von Klassenkampf, der zunehmenden Urbanisierung, Überbevölkerung und des ungebremsten gesellschaftlichen Fortschritts und schildert dabei eine Zukunft, die unserer Gegenwart nicht allzu fern scheint. dtv zweisprachig - Die Vielfalt der Sprachen auf einen Blick Die Reihe umfasst drei Sprach-Niveaus - Einsteiger, Fortgeschrittene und Könner - und mittlerweile über 130 Titel in vielen Sprachen. Landeskunde, Kulturgeschichte und Redewendungen, zeitgenössische und klassische Texte in unterschiedlichen Formen und Genres - von der Kurzgeschichte bis zum Krimi - für jeden Lesegeschmack ist etwas dabei. Einzigartig ist die konsequente Zeilengleichheit zwischen Originaltext und Übersetzung, damit man vom ersten bis zum letzten Wort in zwei Sprachwelten zuhause ist.

"From the award-winning and bestselling author of Black Buck: A speculative novel about a young woman--invisible by birth and relegated to second-class citizenship--who sets off on a mission to find her older brother, whom she had presumed dead but who is now the primary suspect in a high-profile political murder"--

What would you do if you woke up in the center of a violent psychological experiment? For Maxwell Hopper, this question has become a matter of reality. Living in the picturesque city of Avalon, Max has become both the most renowned and notorious member of his society. He lives a life of psychological warfare with his greatest enemy, the mayor of the beautiful city, Kellen Weathers. Every year, the battle of wits and violence intensifies and grows. Soon it will reach a climax. Could this be that year? Or will things suddenly turn in an unexpected way?

Dive feet-first into the world of devil-fighting firefighters with this FINAL omnibus edition of the hit manga from the creator of Soul Eater! Blaze past the anime, hundreds of large-sized pages at a time. Includes Vol. 31-32 of the Fire Force manga. In the year 198 of the Age of the Sun, Tokyo is a crowded cosmopolis. But the world's most populous city is threatened by devils that cause people to burst into flame at random! The only ones who can stop it are the Fire Force, a team of specialized firefighters. The young Shinra, blessed with the ability to ignite his feet and travel at the speed of a rocket, wants nothing more than to be a hero, and knows that this is the place for him! But he's not the best at following orders...

Love is nothing more than a fragment, a memory of the past.Ten years later, the Anti-Establishment fights to destroy the new way of life. Corruption has infiltrated the government and the people are at war.No one is safe.Women are dragged out of their homes, forced into reeducation camps.Mindonsiphan has been outlawed.Marriage is illegal.Conceiving children through natural methods is illegal.The world is in terror.Ripped from her home, Adelaide is forced to face the world without her abilities and learn whom she can trust.This dystopian adventure is intended to be read in order.

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In the not-so-distant future, life as we know it will disappear. In a few decades humans will be responsible for the decimation of most of the Earth's natural resources. Greed and entitlement plague humanity and devastate the natural evolution of the Earth. Instead of conserving the remaining resources, humans use them to make weaponry and defend the remaining scarcities. Individualism replaces community. The scarcity of resources turns one against another, friend against friend, and family against family, state by state, territory by territory, and country by country. Wars rage, loyalties fade, armies implode, and basic social structures collapse. A dramatic shift in the Earth's atmosphere creates devastating seasonal changes. Hurricanes and monsoons flood coastal cities and towns. Tornadoes rip up crops and level homes across the prairies and inlands. Earthquakes demolish entire cities. Volcanos fill the skies with toxic gases and cloud the sun. It is as if the planet is just as angry with humanity as humanity is with itself. Seasons change; spring and fall all but disappear. Winter and summer become extremely polarized, with temperatures too intense to sustain life. The climate on the surface of the planet becomes too unstable and harsh. People have no choice but to go underground.

The Slow Plague, a gender-targeting infection with no cure, killed billions of women and girls worldwide and created a dystopian society in which the survivors are treated as highly valuable commodities.

After the fascist takeover of his homeland and the murder of his parents, Jewish architecture student Samuel Zelnik thinks that he and his friends are bound for the gulag--or worse. Instead, he receives an unexpected offer of freedom working in the experimental utopian city of Duma. Awed by the city's dramatic architecture but confused by the other residents' strange behavior, Zelnik searches for his long-lost uncle who emigrated to Duma before him. His wanderings reunite him with Miriana Grannoff, an exiled avant-garde artist who was once his teacher. Her memorial installations hidden around the city equally enchant and repel him. And gradually, they begin to reveal a truth: Duma is not the workers' paradise it pretends to be.

"A young man named Kaina ekes out an existence high atop the canopy that spreads from the titanic orbital spire trees. He and the handful of aging fellow villagers who remain believe they are the last humans in the world--after all, no one could survive amid the great snow sea that blankets the surface below. But they're about to learn how wrong they are..."--from back cover

What would you do if your whole world was turned upside down?If all around you, people were dying... and coming back to take you down with them?A fever like no one has seen before is ravaging New Zealand. There is no hope in sight.The fate of the nation rests in the hands of a group of teenagers.When they find their only real lead, disaster strikes, and it becomes a race against time to find a cure.*Originally released as Fear the Fever and Fight the Fever. Now rewritten with new locations and present day.*