Neal Shusterman
41) Siega (Scythe)
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Antes, las personas morían por causas naturales. Existían asesinos invisibles llamados enfermedades, el envejecimiento era irreversible y se producían accidentes de los que no se podía regresar. Ahora, todo eso ha quedado atrás y sólo perdura una verdad muy simple: la gente tiene que morir. Y esa es la tarea de los segadores. Porque en un futuro donde la humanidad controla la muerte, ¿quién decide cuándo y cómo sembrarla? Citra y Rowan acaban...
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Wenn die postmortale Perfektion zum Ende gelangt ...
Unsterblichkeit, Wohlstand, unendliches Wissen - all das haben die Menschen in der Zukunft erreicht. Das neue Problem: Überbevölkerung. Die Lösung: Die Installation der Scythe, die entscheiden, wer leben darf und wer sterben muss. Doch die Scythe der neuen Ordnung missbrauchen ihre Macht, allen voran Scythe Goddard. Aufhalten können ihn nur Citra und Rowan, doch die liegen in einem eisigen...
43) Scorpion Shards
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Six teens struggle to discover the source of their strange and horrific abilities in this first book of the Star Shards Chronicles.
Dillon has the terrifying power to create massive amounts of destruction with the slightest tweak of his will. Deanna is so consumed by fear, it has become like a black hole, drawing to her the very things that terrify her. Then, when the glare of a supernova sixteen light-years away illuminates the night sky, they have...
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Un segundo es lo que tarda su vida en transformarse. Nada más recibir un golpe en la cabeza, la realidad de Ash cambia. Por imposible que parezca, ha llegado a una especie de mundo paralelo en el que su vida es similar..., pero al mismo tiempo muy diferente. A medida que se desliza en bucle de un universo a otro, Ash empieza a ver las cosas desde nuevas perspectivas: algunas en las que tiene todo lo que siempre ha deseado y otras en las que ha perdido...
45) Dry
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2018.
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390 pages ; 22 cm.
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A lengthy California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, turning Alyssa's quiet suburban street into a warzone, and she is forced to make impossible choices if she and her brother are to survive.
46) Full tilt
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2009, ©2003
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201 pages ; 21 cm
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When sixteen-year-old Blake goes to a mysterious, by-invitation-only carnival he somehow knows that it could save his comatose brother, but soon learns that much more is at stake if he fails to meet the challenge presented there by the beautiful Cassandra.
47) Challenger Deep
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[2015]
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308, 5 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Caden Bosch is on a galleon that's headed for the deepest point on Earth: Challenger Deep, the southern part of the Marianas Trench. Caden Bosch is a brilliant high school student whose friends are starting to notice his odd behavior. Caden Bosch is designated the ship's artist in residence to document the journey with images. Caden Bosch pretends to join the school track team but spends his days walking for miles, absorbed by the thoughts in his...
48) Roxy
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[2021]
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377 pages ; 22 cm
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Isaac and Ivy Ramsey are the victims of the bet between two manufactured gods: the seductive and lethal Roxy (Oxycontin), and the smart, high-achieving Addison (Adderall). The wager: a contest to see who can bring their mark to a rave that has raged since the beginning of time. Drawn by what the drugs offer, tempted to take that step past helpful to harmful are Isaac, a soccer player thrown into Roxy's orbit by a bad fall; Ivy, his sister, whose increasing...
49) Game changer
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[2021]
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387 pages ; 22 cm
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After an especially rough tackle on the football field, Ash thinks he might be suffering some permanent damage, because suddenly stop signs are blue and always have been. After the second universe-altering hit, he drives a Beemer instead of a Dodge, and a pair of interdimensional twins promises him answers. The more universes he visits, the more Ash has to face perspectives he never thought to consider before, and the closer the universe gets to complete...
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Nick Slate, in order to protect his father and little brother, reluctantly must help the Accelerati complete Tesla's great device. Their power-mad leader wants nothing less than to control the world's energy-but there are still three missing objects to track down.
Nick's friends can't help him, as they are spread across the globe grappling with their own mysteries-with Vince in Scotland, Caitlin and Mitch on their way to New Jersey, and Petula's...
51) Edison's Alley
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Fourteen-year-old Nick has learned that the strange antiques in his attic bedroom were left there by the eccentric inventor Nikola Tesla. They are pieces of Tesla's Far Range Energy Emitter, capable of transmitting "free energy" to the globe. Some components of the contraption are still missing, but the objects themselves seem to be leading Nick and his friends to their current owners.
However, members of the Accelerati, a menacing secret society...
52) UnBound
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Find out what happens to Connor, Risa, and Lev now that they've finally destroyed the Proactive Citizenry in this collection of short stories set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Unwind Dystology by Neal Shusterman.
Connor Lassiter's fight to bring down Proactive Citizenry and find a suitable alternative to unwinding concluded in UnDivided. Now Connor, Risa, and Lev are free to live in a peaceful future-or are they? Neal Shusterman...
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(Autorisierte Lesefassung) Auch in einer Welt, in der Armut, Kriege, Krankheit und Tod besiegt sind, müssen Menschen sterben, und die Entscheidung über Leben und Tod treffen die Scythe. Sie sind auserwählt, um zu töten. Sie entscheiden, wer lebt und wer stirbt. Sie sind die Hüter des Todes. Aber die Welt muss wissen, dass dieser Dienst sie nicht kalt lässt, dass sie Mitleid empfinden. Reue. Unerträglich großes Leid. Denn wenn sie diese Gefühle...
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Der zweite Band der großen "Scythe"-Trilogie von New-York-Times-Bestseller-Autor Neal Shusterman
Citra hat es geschafft. Sie wurde auserwählt und als Scythe entscheidet sie jetzt, wer leben darf und wer sterben muss. Doch als wenn das nicht schon schwer genug wäre, übernehmen skrupellose Scythe die Macht und stellen neue Regeln auf. Die wichtigste Regel lautet, dass es ab jetzt keine Regeln mehr gibt. So beginnt Citras Kampf für Gerechtigkeit....
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Roxy - Ist sie die mächtigste Droge von allen?
Als Isaac der überirdisch schönen Roxy begegnet, zieht sie ihn sofort in ihren Bann. Er fühlt sich lebendig wie nie, alles ist leicht und nichts scheint unmöglich. Isaac ahnt nicht, dass Roxy kein normales Mädchen ist, sondern eine Droge, hergestellt in einem Labor, machthungrig und auf der Suche nach ihrem ersten echten Opfer. Sie will endlich beweisen, wie tödlich sie ist. Doch Roxy hat nicht...
56) Dry
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Niemand glaubte, dass es so weit kommen würde. Doch als Alyssa an einem heißen Junitag den Wasserhahn aufdreht, passiert nichts. Es kommt nicht ein Tropfen. Auch nicht bei den Nachbarn. In den Nachrichten heißt es nur, die Bewohner Kaliforniens sollen sich gedulden. Aber als das Problem nicht nur mehrere Stunden, sondern Tage bestehen bleibt, geduldet sich niemand mehr. Die Supermärkte und Tankstellen sind auf der Jagd nach Wasser längst leer...
57) The toll
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Arc of a scythe volume 3
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2019.
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In the finale to the Arc of a Scythe trilogy, dictators, prophets, and tensions rise. In a world that's conquered death, will humanity finally be torn asunder by the immortal beings it created? Citra and Rowan have disappeared. Endura is gone. It seems like nothing stands between Scythe Goddard and absolute dominion over the world scythedom. With the silence of the Thunderhead and the reverberations of the Great Resonance still shaking the earth to...
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2022
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The New York Times bestselling Arc of the Scythe series continues with "captivating...thrilling" (School Library Journal) stories that span the timeline. Storylines continue. Origin stories are revealed. And new Scythes emerge!
There are still countless tales of the Scythedom to tell. Centuries passed between the Thunderhead cradling humanity and Scythe Goddard trying to turn it upside down. For years, humans lived in a world...
There are still countless tales of the Scythedom to tell. Centuries passed between the Thunderhead cradling humanity and Scythe Goddard trying to turn it upside down. For years, humans lived in a world...
59) UnWholly
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Unwind dystology volume 2
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2012
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Rife with action and suspense, this riveting companion to the perennially popular Unwind challenges assumptions about where life begins and ends—and what it means to live.
Thanks to Connor, Lev, and Risa—and their high-profile revolt at Happy Jack Harvest Camp—people can no longer turn a blind eye to unwinding. Ridding society of troublesome teens while simltaneously providing much-needed tissues for transplant might...
Thanks to Connor, Lev, and Risa—and their high-profile revolt at Happy Jack Harvest Camp—people can no longer turn a blind eye to unwinding. Ridding society of troublesome teens while simltaneously providing much-needed tissues for transplant might...
60) UnDivided
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Unwind dystology volume 4
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2014
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The fate of America hangs in the balance in the fourth and final book in the New York Times bestselling Unwind Dystology series by Neal Shusterman.
Cam was only the start of Proactive Citizenry's plans for rewound teens. The corrupt company is planning to mass-produce rewound teen soldiers, and to keep their profitable plans from being interrupted, they've been suppressing technology that could make unwinding completely unnecessary....
Cam was only the start of Proactive Citizenry's plans for rewound teens. The corrupt company is planning to mass-produce rewound teen soldiers, and to keep their profitable plans from being interrupted, they've been suppressing technology that could make unwinding completely unnecessary....