Résultats pour "Girls" dans Dystopique

Melanie is a very special girl. Dr Caldwell calls her 'our little genius'. Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She thinks they don't like her. She jokes that she won't bite, but they don't laugh. Melanie loves school. She loves learning about spelling and sums and the world outside the classroom and the children's cells.

Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen's Calorie Man in Thailand. Under cover as a factory manager, Anderson combs Bangkok's street markets in search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty of history's lost calories. There, he encounters Emiko...Emiko is the Windup Girl, a strange and beautiful creature. One of the New People, Emiko is not human; instead, she is an engineered being, creche-grown and programmed to satisfy the decadent whims of a Kyoto businessman.

The world has changed. It wasn’t the Big Bang, EMP, or comet strike so many had planned for. It was worse because it was so avoidable. After the fighting and chaos and when the political machinations failed, nothing remained but the people. What sprang up resembled the Old West of the 1800s. Law existed in small towns as much as could be prosecuted by a sheriff, a few deputies, a local judge and the townspeople. Outside the towns, travelers operated at their own risk, and the bandits and plunderers knew it. The Girl had been out of the country when things crashed.

The last voice he trusted is gone. Now instinct is all he has left. Set in the devastated world of Scott Medbury's bestselling series America Falls, comes The Dog and the Girl, an action-packed and surprisingly moving post-apocalyptic survival story - perfect for fans of gritty dystopian fiction...

The Girl With All the Gifts: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! *The USA Today bestseller Melanie is a very special girl. Dr Caldwell calls her "our little genius." Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class...

Brought to you by Penguin. WINNER OF THE 2011 ARTHUR C CLARKE AWARD Lauren Beukes' tale of a young woman trapped in a brutal city but looking for a way out . . . Zinzi has a Sloth on her back, a dirty 419 scam habit and a talent for finding lost things. But when a little old lady turns up dead...

In the ruins of civilization, a young girl's kindness and capacity for love will either save humanity—or wipe it out in this USA Today bestselling thriller. "Heartfelt, remorseless, and painfully human." —Josh Whedon, creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Melanie is a very special girl. Dr...

The human race has been divided. The chosen few live in the safety of the domes, watching through their glass walls as those left on the outside suffer and die. But desperation has brought invention. New drugs have the ability to alter humans, giving them the strength to roam the poisoned night unafraid - but survival comes at a terrible price. Seventeen-year-old Nola Kent has spent her life in the domes, training to protect her little piece of the world within the glass. The mission of the domes is to preserve the human race, not to help the sick and starving.

'Full of magic, love triangles, political intrigue, betrayaI… I devoured this novel' ★★★★★ Red Queen meets Divergent in this fast-paced dystopian fantasy debut—packed with love triangles, betrayal, and a heroine who must risk everything to survive. In the Empire of Shariza, eye...

Claudia Danforth thought she had found a backdoor into one of Selecta Corporation's most critical computer systems, but what she actually stumbled upon was a trap set for bad girls. Bad girls like her. Despite the eighteen-year-old hacker's best efforts to remain stoic as she is taken into custody and stripped bare, Claudia is soon sobbing as she is soundly spanked and blushing crimson as her helpless arousal is put on shameful display during a thorough, intimate medical examination.

Set amidst the devastation of climate change and global pandemics, Lost Girl is a dystopian nightmare from the master of horror Adam Nevill. How far will he go to save his daughter? How far will he go to get revenge? It's 2053 and climate change has left billions homeless and starving - easy...

Brought to you by Penguin. Three years after a virus wiped out 99% of the men on earth, a mother and son are on the run . . . All Cole has left in the world is her boy, Miles. With men now a prized commodity, keeping him safe means breaking hastily written new rules - and leaving her own sister...

A young woman is seduced by the glamour of the circus and drawn into a dangerous world of violence, cruelty and revenge. For readers of Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus and Helen Oyeyemi's Mr Fox. Sara Sidorova lies dying. As she hovers between life and death, she receives a visitation from...

Ellen can see the past with a touch of her hand. Every past but her own. Exiled to a controlled city after the death of her parents, she dreams of a place where she isn't monitored. A time when she isn't hunted. But once the Republic finds her, that hope dies as quickly as her protector. Betrayed by her friends and her past, Ellen is transported to a place she once couldn't wait to see. Europa. It isn't the sanctuary she seeks. The Republic hasn't just lost its hold on her, but on the colony they believe to be theirs.

As the world around them collapses under the weight of a slow, creeping virus that erodes memory, 15-year-old Dany and her five-year-old sister are on the edge of their own personal apocalypse - fearing separation at the hands of child services. When a dangerous new strain of the virus emerges, Dany careens headlong into crisis, determined to save her sister. Together with her best friend and reluctant history teacher, they must flee the city.

Überall auf der Welt herrscht ein erbarmungsloser Krieg. Nur im Tal der Erweckten, das von der Außenwelt abgeschottet ist, können die Menschen noch in Sicherheit und Frieden leben. Das glaubt zumindest Sophia. Doch als ihr Freund Mirko verschwindet, beginnt Sophia ihre streng religiöse Gemeinde infrage zu stellen. Sie verlässt das Tal und findet anstelle eines Schlachtfeldes eine scheinbar perfekte, hoch technisierte Gesellschaft vor. Kann es sein, dass Sophias bisheriges Leben eine einzige Lüge war?

In the middle of the American Second Civil War, born with a face that is half black and half white, Jetta belongs nowhere. In New Orleans, where she lives with her grandmother after her parents' death, she is believed to be a demon come to curse them all. Everywhere in the town, the blacks - or people of any color - are being persecuted and, one day, Jetta is moved by the white military and shipped outside of the city walls to live in a closed ghetto along with the rest of New Orleans' many blacks. But Jetta is not black.

When the daughter of Greece's premier singer fails to sing as expected, she finds out about a biker group of women. But will she manage to find the elusive Orosa, the bikers' motovlogger, when all she has to go on are random street-sightings of criminal behavior, when her family is opposed to her following this path, and when her dad's employer wants to keep her as she was for marketing purposes?

AN UNIMAGINABLE APOCALYPSE. A SCARED YOUNG GIRL. A STUBBORN OLD WOMAN. NEITHER WILL SURVIVE WITHOUT THE OTHER. Pam is in her mid-seventies, widowed and hiding from the world behind a caustic sense of humour. Her health is declining, and she’s afraid of dying alone, but her most pressing...

A fascist administration rounds up undesirables. Terrorist groups strike governmental and religious targets. The constitution is under assault. Erec Stebbins’s China Girl is a controversial look at an America that is all too close to reality, radioactive in its timely examination of extremism in the nation.