Ergebnis für "Resistance" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

Brienna hat es geschafft: Endlich kann sie mit ihrer großen Liebe Cartier zusammen sein, die Revolution ist vorbei und Königin Isolde wird bald den Thron besteigen. Doch noch immer gibt es machthungrige Anhänger des alten Regimes, die ihre Intrigen spinnen. Und noch ist die neue Königin nicht gekrönt ... Als der grausame Declan Lannon, Sohn des ehemaligen Königs, aus den Kerkern flieht, steht wieder alles auf dem Spiel. Und Brienna und Cartier müssen herausfinden, wer wirklich auf ihrer Seite ist ... Slow-Burn-Romance und fesselnde High Fantasy in einem – zum Mitfiebern und Eintauchen.

As World War 3 rains down around them, the Resistance fights to maintain their stronghold. Meanwhile, Katrina faces her own battle as she searches for her place in this post-apocalyptic world. When she learns a secret that could cause the Resistance to fail, duty forces Katrina to take action. Will this decision require her to leave the life she worked for and the ones she loves behind?

For fans of Red Queen and Grave Mercy comes the captivating sequel to the Renaissance France-inspired epic fantasy The Queen’s Rising. Brienna is a mistress of knowledge and is beginning to settle into her role as the daughter of the once disgraced lord, Davin MacQuinn. Though she’d just...

Struggling with evolving psychic abilities, seventeen-year-old Anna Morgan and her equally exceptional friends are on the run from the ruthless Graham Cregg, leader of a covert operation known as the Delphi Project. Cregg has already killed repeatedly to test Anna's ability. Now, he and his father, a presidential contender, will stop at nothing to recapture the Delphi adepts, whom they see as weapons to be controlled - or destroyed.

Tommy and Careen’s eyes are opened to the Office of Civilian Safety and Defense’s abuses of power. After accidentally discovering that the miracle antidote that’s supposed to protect them is actually meant to control them, they take their knowledge public and join the fight to undermine the OCSD’s next bid for total control of the population. But Tommy and Careen’s differing viewpoints threaten to drive a wedge between them. Not everyone working for change proves trustworthy, and plans to spark a revolution go awry with consequences far beyond anything they bargained for.

Tommy and Careen have been vilified in the media for the Resistance's failed attempt to take down the Office of Civilian Safety and Defense. Both teens struggle to survive the circumstances that thrust them into the national spotlight, and this time, they don't have each other to lean on. They're on opposite sides. Even though both the OCSD and the Resistance believe Careen's convincing defection, Tommy refuses to believe her loyalties have shifted. How can she be in favor of the OCSD's latest plan to monitor all minors with the Cerberean Link, a device that will track their every move?

Still raw from the death of his parents, 18-year-old Tommy Bailey isn't sure if he wants to live - until he meets complex and intriguing Careen. He comes to her aid during a terrorist gas-strike, sharing his last dose of the government-mandated antidote that, they've been told, is key to their survival. Without enough antidote, the teens expect to die. Instead, they discover the terrorist attack wasn't real, and the antidote was never meant to protect them - it was meant to dull their thoughts and make them easy to control.

I was 12-years-old when the world ended. For eight years I've survived in this sh*thole once known as Earth, fighting the alien parasite that mutated most of the population into bloodthirsty freaks while the rest of us became the lunch special on their alien menu. Now things are changing, and not for the better. The parasite is evolving, becoming smarter, stronger, and deadlier. They've already stolen everything from me - my home, my family, even the man I loved. It's time for this bullsh*t to end once and for all.

Brought to you by Penguin. An empowering novel of resistance inspired by Sampat Pal and the Pink Sari Gang from the multi-award-winning author of Run, Rebel and The Crossing Rizu lives a comfortable life in the gated middle class suburbs of Delhi; her biggest worries are getting her homework...

“Masterful and left me on the edge of my seat…absolutely everything I could want in a sci-fi.” —Adalyn Grace, New York Times bestselling author of All the Stars and Teeth Westworld meets Warcross in this high-stakes, dizzyingly smart sci-fi about a teen girl navigating an afterlife in...