Résultats pour "A Mother" dans Dystopique

Out they came, away from natural predators, nesting in damp corners and in the tops of trees, crossbreeding with common cousins and laying thousands upon thousands of eggs. Then… the eggs hatched and an army of hungry caterpillars spread their tiny toxic threads on every breath of wind.’ The threads spell doom for humanity – half of it, at least. All around the world, men are dying in their sleep or turning into rage-fuelled killers. The world, as we know it, ends. However, humanity adapts and society moves on.

OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NATIONAL BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE Megha Majumdar’s electrifying new novel, following her acclaimed New York Times bestseller A Burning, is set in a near-future Kolkata, India in...

We are in darkness. We are alone. They came from the lands of light. They came with torches, with lanterns, with the banners of the sun. The children of endless day-they came to banish the darkness. And they came to kill. We are the children of never-ending night. We are the dwellers of shadow. In the light of our enemy, we are dying. We were born in darkness. We must cast out the light. This is our story.

Can you imagine if the United States didn’t have freedom of religion and one religion controlled the country? Would it be Christianity, Islam, or Judaism? In R.P. Wolff’s fifth book, a paranormal thriller in a dystopian world. Materism, the worship of the Gods of the Sun, Land, and Sea, has taken over the United States as the only religion. Maters brand the foreheads of infidels with the first letter of the infidel’s religion, so they can’t ever escape their initial religious identity.

The Sins of the Mother bill has everyone panicked. Arlanna and her cellmates know that they are running out of time. They need to escape, or they will be forced to have their skin seared with the details of their parents’ crimes, and their magic will be gone forever. Arlanna never understood the reason she’s been kept away from Prince Paxton most of her life, but when they’re assigned to the same cell, she begins to see why.

The Earth has existed for 4.54 billion years, and during that time life has continued to grow and adapt. Of all the species that have evolved, mankind has exceeded the most - from the discovery of fire, to the Internet and advanced machinery. Unfortunately, the hearts of men have changed for the worse due to greed, corruption, and manipulative warfare. As such, the wrath of the Earth has been stirred, and its creator Mother Gaia takes it upon herself to end the human race.

Mother Nature has issued human beings various warnings over the years, some subtle, some not so subtle; messages she intended to wake us up with, ones that would stop us from directing the planet onto a path that, some say, might already be irreversible. Unfortunately, these messages have largely gone unheeded up until now, which is why Mother Nature has decided to create something new: an Agent that is absolutely unpredictable.