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Twelve teens who have prepared their entire lives for an ancient life-or-death game must finally come to terms with its arrival, forming tenuous alliances and killing each other for the chance to be the last one standing and the winner of the ultimate prize: the ability to save a select group of people from the end of the world.

From an early age, Patricia Delfine and Laurence Armstead had different, and sometimes opposite, ways of seeing the world. Patricia could talk to animals and even turn herself into a bird, while Laurence built a supercomputer and a time machine (that only went forward two seconds). As they navigated the never-ending nightmare that is junior high school, they became allies, until an enigmatic guidance counselor with a hidden agenda intervened. They...

"From the author of the smash hit, New York Times bestselling One Second After series comes a thriller in which the survival of humanity itself is at stake. The countdown is on. In less than forty eight hours, Earth will be hit by a major solar storm. At first, it is thought to be a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) that will severely damage our world's electronic infrastructure. A crisis to be certain, but one that can be survived--until something far...

The Young Trib Force, Judd, Vicki, Ryan, and Lionel, unleash the power of the printed page through an underground newspaper at Nicolae High, while the authorities search with a vengeance for the kids responsible.

On an overseas flight to London a journalist, Buck Williams, and a pilot, Rayford Steele, are caught in the middle of the most incredible event in history. Suddenly, without warning, dosens of passengers simply vanish into thin air... As chaos and anarchy engulf the world, both men set out on vastly different paths in a desperate search foe answers

Without warning, the world comes to an end for Hannah and Amanda Given. The sky looms frigid white. The electricity falters. Airplanes everywhere crash to the ground. But the Givens are saved by mysterious strangers, three fearsome and beautiful beings who force each sister to wear a plain silver bracelet. Within moments, the sky comes down in a crushing sheet of light and everything around them is gone. Shielded from the devastation by their silver...

Jack West Jr. and his loyal team of adventurers hunt for the Six Sacred Stones which will provide clues to locating the "Machine", an ancient device that will ward off the coming armageddon.

"An indelible and haunting new novel that explores the loss of childhood, intergenerational conflict, and humanity's complacency in the face of its own demise. Lydia Millet's multilayered new novel - her first since the National Book Award Longlist Sweet Lamb of Heaven -- follows a group of children and their families on summer vacation at a lakeside mansion. The teenage narrator Eve and the other children are contemptuous of their parents, who spend...

Corruption in high government offices threatens to block the election of a worthy presidential candidate as Joshua Jordan and his family fight seemingly impossible odds to clear his name and protect the autonomy of the nation of Israel.

Based on interviews with political, military, intelligence, business, and religious leaders in Israel, Iran, Iraq, and Russia; newly declassified documents from the CIA, Pentagon and White House; an exclusive poll of American attitudes toward biblical prophecy, Israel, and current events; and his own interpretation of biblical prophecy, Rosenberg presents ten "future headlines" for the Middle East and the world.