It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the 10th annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, 18-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able to out charm, outwit, and outmaneuver his fellow students to mentor the winning...

Eden was always good at being good. Starting high school didn’t change who she was. But the night her brother’s best friend rapes her, Eden’s world capsizes. What was once simple, is now complex. What Eden once loved—who she once loved—she now hates. What she thought she knew to be true, is now lies. Nothing makes sense anymore, and she knows she’s supposed to tell someone what happened but she...

In Gold Coast, Long Island, everything from the expensive downtown shops to the manicured beaches, to the pressed uniforms of Jill Newman and her friends, looks perfect. But as Jill found out three years ago, nothing is as it seems. Freshman year Jill's best friend, the brilliant, dazzling Shaila Arnold, was killed by her boyfriend. After that dark night on the beach, Graham confessed, the case...

What happens if the light goes out? Internet? Connection? How will cities, countries, the planet change? Will modern people be able to live in new conditions? Three teenagers are forced to check this on their own experience. Eve-Lisa will have to put down the tablet and go outside for the first time in many years, Tim will have to leave his favorite books and become her guide in the dark, and...

In a world dominated by silence, cold and darkness, where most of the inhabitants sleep without waking up, not many events can disturb the peace. Except that the message that comes is not known from whom, it is not known where and it is not known how. The message that Eva-Lisa, Tim and Max have been waiting for so long. A message that will force them to leave their home, outside of which only...

In an endlessly dark and snowy world, it is very easy to lose each other. But what is there, in this darkness you can lose even yourself. Going on a journey, Eva-Lisa, Tim, Anna and Nick want only one thing - to find Max. But is it possible to find someone when you don't know where to look, and there is infinity in front of you? At the same time, is it possible to stay in place, when somewhere...

As Penny starts the school year she’s ready to face the world—alone. Noah has gone off the radar after ending his world tour early, and no one, including Penny, knows where he is. So when she accepts Megan’s invitation to visit her performing arts school, it seems like an opportunity to make some new friends.

The 1930s, the times of Stalinist repressions. A young man sentenced to 25 years for love of his homeland escapes from the stage echelon of the NKVD, which transports exhausted and desperate people to a slow death in the Gulag camps. A townsman, an aircraft design engineer, finds himself in a forest thicket teeming with predators, without a map, weapons, tools, warm clothes or even food.

Эти парень и девушка знакомы с детства и еще могут полюбить друг друга, но им придется стать врагами. По жребию они должны участвовать в страшных Голодных играх, где побеждает только один - таков закон, который не нарушался еще никогда… Китнисс и Пит выжили - заставили признать победителями их обоих. Но многие из тех, кому не нравится победа, считают парня и девушку опасными. У этих людей...

A huge monster unknown to science has been discovered in the sea! Either a giant deep-sea squid, or a species of whale. As part of an international expedition, a biology professor Aronax sets off to hunt for this terrible creature, and as a result, together with his servant Consel and Canadian harpooner Ned Lend, he becomes a prisoner aboard the Nautilus, an incredible technical ship created by...

Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and emotionally charged, each line a glimpse into a child's...

Growing up in New York, brothers Emil and Brighton always idolized the Spell Walkers—a vigilante group sworn to rid the world of specters. While the Spell Walkers and other celestials are born with powers, specters take them, violently stealing the essence of endangered magical creatures.