Tomb of the Khan (Assassin's Creed: Last Descendants, #2)
by Matthew J. Kirby
Official fiction based on the Assassin's Creed game! As the second book in the Last Descendants trilogy begins, Owen and his friends have lost. When they located the first piece of an ancient and powerful relic long considered a legend —the Trident of Eden—it seemed little could stop them. This piece was sought by the Brotherhood of Assassins and the Templar Order, but before either organization could take the piece, it was stolen by an unknown third party. The relationship between the teens...
Girls with Sharp Sticks (Girls with Sharp Sticks, #1)
by Suzanne Young
“Enough plot twists to give a reader whiplash.” —Cosmopolitan From New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Young comes the start of a thrilling, subversive new series about a girls-only boarding school with a terrifying secret and the friends who will stop at nothing to protect each other. Some of the prettiest flowers have the sharpest thorns. The Girls of Innovations Academy are beautiful and well-behaved—it says so on their report cards. Under the watchful gaze of their Guardian, they...
Centuries ago, the people of Earth sent Ship into space. Deep within its core, it carried the seed of humankind...More than twenty years have passed since Ship left its children, the seed of humanity, on an uninhabited, earth like planet - a planet they named Home. Zoheret and her companions have started settlements and had children of their own. But, as on board Ship, there was conflict, and soon after their arrival, Zoheret's old nemesis, Ho, left the original settlement to establish his own s...
La teoria de los muchos mundos / The Many Worlds of Albie Bright
by Christopher Edge
Cuando la madre de Albie muere, es natural que se pregunte a dónde se fue. Sus padres son científicos y generalmente tienen todas las respuestas. Papá murmura algo acerca de que la madre de Albie esté viva y con ellos en un universo paralelo. Así que Albie encuentra una caja, la computadora de su madre y un plátano descompuesto, y se envía a través del tiempo y el espacio para encontrarla. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION When Albie's mum dies, it's natural he should wonder where she's gone. Dad mutters so...
Training with a secret branch of the FBI, Tessa uses her shape-shifting ability to pose as a dead girl to catch a serial killer in a small Oregon town.
Of The Curatrix Code (Book Two Of The Unanswered Questions Series)
by Lauren D Fulter
THE ALIEN SKILL SERIES (BOOKS 1-3) IN A SINGLE VOLUME A BOY WITH AN ALIEN POWER. "The thing is, it wasn't meteors that fell into the woods that night. It was alien spacecraft." The destinies of a twelve-year-old boy and an alien man become inextricably linked as they go on the run from government agents and a shapeshifting enemy. However, one question hovers above their unlikely friendship: why did the aliens come to Earth in the first place? The Alien Skill Series is a science-fiction adve...
The epic conclusion in the mind-blowing supernatural thriller from bestselling author DEREK LANDY, creator of international sensation Skulduggery Pleasant. Bigger, meaner, stronger, Amber closes in on her murderous parents as they make one last desperate play for power. Her own last hopes of salvation, however, rest beyond vengeance, beyond the abominable killers - living and dead - that she and Milo will have to face. For Amber's future lies in her family's past, in the brot...
Recruitment Day is here...if you fail, a loved one will die For Lucian "Lucky" Spark, Recruitment Day means the Establishment, a totalitarian government, will force him to become one of five Recruits competing to join the ruthless Imposer task force. Each Recruit participates in increasingly difficult and violent military training for a chance to advance to the next level. Those who fail must choose an "Incentive"--a family member--to be brutally killed. If Lucky fails, he'll have to choose deat...
The epic conclusion to Ann Aguirre's USA Today bestselling trilogy. The horde is coming. Salvation is surrounded, monsters at the gates, and this time, they're not going away. When Deuce, Fade, Stalker and Tegan set out, the odds are against them. But the odds have been stacked against Deuce from the moment she was born. She might not be a Huntress anymore, but she doesn't run. With her knives in hand and her companions at her side, she will not falter, whether fighting for her life or Fade's...
"Instantly engaging, constantly suspenseful, ultimately poignant and satisfying. Loved it!"--Diana Gabaldon, author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Outlander series When fragile, sixteen-year-old Hope Walton loses her mom to an earthquake overseas, her secluded world crumbles. Agreeing to spend the summer in Scotland, Hope discovers that her mother was more than a brilliant academic, but also a member of a secret society of time travelers. And she's alive, though currently trapped in the t...
The Complete Zero Line Chronicles (Incite, Feed, Reap) (Endgame: The Zero Line Chronicles)
by James Frey
A companion to the New York Times bestselling Endgame series, The Complete Zero Line Chronicles is a collection of prequel novellas that follows the Zero Line, an underground group of conspiracy theorists determined to put a stop to Endgame - and save the world. Several decades before the Players of Endgame meet at the Calling, an earlier generation of Players is learning the rules. Each has been chosen as the one to save their ancient bloodline-and win Endgame. But not everyone wants...
An instant New York Times bestseller!"Will keep you guessing until the last page." -Cinda Williams Chima, New York Times bestselling authorA girl travels back in time to find a mysterious book that could save her future in Lisa Maxwell's "splendid series opener" (Kirkus Reviews).Stop the Magician.Steal the book.Save the future.In modern-day New York, magic is all but extinct. The remaining few who have an affinity for magic-the Mageus-live in the shadows, hiding who they are. Any Mageus who ente...
Narrated by an Archaeon, a 3.8 billion year old species, the oldest on earth, Downdrift is a work of speculative eco-fiction that describes the impact of ecological pressures on animals that are adopting human behaviors, with droll and sometimes alarming, results. The book follows a year of changes and the travels of a housecat and a lion who are inexplicably driven towards a rendezvous. At first, a few isolated harbingers of change appear, but they quickly escalate. Squirrels take up manic knit...
Skandor Dusselhoff uses his ability to vanish purely to make mischief. After he takes a security job with Geneses, however, he meets other ripplers—including one very beautiful girl held prisoner by Fritz. Now it’s time for Skandor to decide what he’ll risk to free her.
I never imagined I’d see them fall.After attempting to negotiate peace only to be betrayed by the one woman who promised me everything, Asha, myself, and Commander Dubois’ daughter Mary-Anne are on the run. With nowhere to go but the outskirts of Austin, we flee to the wilds of Lago Vista, Texas in the hopes to find safety, but find only carnage in Their wake.A full-scale assault on the planet Earth is beginning. Now in the middle of it all, we have only one choice: to join the revolution and fi...