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Efter et overfald på en af Londons undergrundsstationer går en ung mand i koma. På vej tilbage til livet bevæger han sig frem og tilbage mellem sin hospitalsseng og en række af de steder, der har betydet noget for ham, i et forsøg på at få et klart billede af det liv, han levede før overfaldet. Han opsøger sine venner, sit barndomshjem, sin egen lejlighed, sin sædvanlige boghandel og pladebutik - og blandt alle disse minder støder han både på selvmodsigende erindringer og ubesvarede spørgsmål om nutiden.

It's 1861, and although Mike Kelly is far younger than the legal age of 16, he and his best friend Todd secretly join up with the Second Kansas Infantry and become army drummer boys. Mike's dreams of glory end when he's wounded at the bloody Battle of Wilson's Creek and must begin a dangerous adventure behind enemy lines.

Danny and his younger sister, Peg, are placed in St. Joseph, Missouri, with kind Alfrid and Olga Swenson. Danny is thrilled to have a "real" father again, but when Olga suddenly dies, he is devastated - until he thinks of an ingenious plan to find Alfrid a new wife.

Eric ha sobrevivido donde personas mucho más fuertes que él han encontrado su muerte. Y no solo eso: logró activar su suministro mágico, domesticar a uno de los monstruos de mazmorra más peligrosos, encontrar la antigua ciudad de los cazadores de monstruos y rescatar a Jay, la niña abandonada por los exploradores en la guarida de Gulper.

The International Peace Ascent is the brainchild of billionaire Sebastian Plank: Recruit a global team of young climbers and film an inspiring, world-uniting documentary. The adventure begins when fifteen-year-old Peak Marcello and his mountaineer mother are helicoptered to a remote base camp in the Hindu Kush Mountains on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. When the camp is attacked and his mother taken, Peak has no choice but to track down the perpetrators to try to save her.

Peak and his team need to descend into Tibet after surviving an avalanche on the remote and isolated mountain of Hkakabo Razi. The only catch is that Peak's famous mountaineering father, Josh, and climbing guide, Zopa, are both wanted by the Chinese government. As a high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse ensues, making it off the mountain won't be the end of this team's struggles, only the beginning.

Surviving the ill-fated expedition to Knnot, Valeria, Alik, and the others have found refuge in Valeria's village. Though Val should find comfort in reuniting with her family, everything has changed—including herself. For now, Val is the Pale God's chosen champion. And she is ready for revenge on the Czar.

Though Meadowcity is besieged by Skycity's army, Sylvia Thorne manages to escape to seek help from the only people untouched by the war: the long-hidden city of Seascape. Can she convince them to interfere with a war between the cities they hid from for so long? When their leader challenges Sylvia to a set of ancient tests, Sylvia accepts without understanding the possibility that there might be more to the people of Seascape than she realizes.

Hijackers ditch an airliner into the remote Canadian wilderness, and 17-year-old Kyle Reynolds, along with the rest of St. Mark's award-winning jazz band, somehow, survives the crash. Kyle escapes into the wild with Misty, the girl of his daydreams, only to find out the hijackers will stop at nothing to find her.

The crops have failed and his family is starving, so 14-year-old Brody slips out into the early morning darkness, desperate to find food in the foothills of the Devil's Backbone. A terrible accident, a rescue by a delusional ex-slave, and a journey to find his family has Brody growing into a man...and also wanted for murder.

Desde la caída del meteorito en la Sierra del Pino los alumnos del instituto de Javier, profesor de secundaria, están cambiados. Demasiado educados y trabajadores, sobre todo los más conflictivos. Otros parece que se han vuelto locos, atacando a otros alumnos y profesores. Algo está cambiando entre el alumnado y no huele nada bien... Algo apesta a cieno y podrido en este instituto. ¿Te atreves a descubrir qué es?

Sam is an ordinary teenage girl. She is going to high school and hanging out with her loving family, when World War Three breaks out. This war is not a conventional war, where two nations are fighting one another for land or superiority. It is a war made and planned out by all world leaders. Not to take control, but to save the planet.

Fifteen-year-old aspiring filmmaker Jane-Claire Stevens believes her tight-knit beach community can weather anything. Little does she know disaster is indiscriminate. The record-breaking hurricane raging her way wipes her beloved home off the map. Jane-Claire is adrift. Her family’s plans obliterated. Her own future blank. The family is forced to separate. Her physician dad remains behind for his patients, and she evacuates with her mom and older brother to start from scratch in an unwelcoming city.

It’s a worldwide test that everyone’s agreed upon. Its main purpose? Thinning out the human herd. The population was growing too fast. Death by starvation was more common than murder or accident. Changes had to be made. An initial strategy to decrease the population was used, but the outcry against it was too massive to dismiss.

The Seventh Taking is the chilling tale of a young man’s journey through harsh mountain country in his search for the girl he loves and the two friends who dare to brave the dangerous elements - both human and natural - to support a friend. When Joy Vincent disappears in the Blue Summit Mountains of Tennessee while vacationing with her family, park rangers begin an intensive search for the Louisiana high-school junior. Seven weeks later, the search is abandoned, and authorities conclude that Joy voluntarily ran away because of a fight with her father.

Nadie recuerda cómo sucedió, solo que las aguas crecieron hasta devorarlo todo.... Una historia de acción, aventuras y lucha por la supervivencia. Únicamente los edificios más altos sobresalen aún del mar. Titanes de acero y cristal que siguen desafiando al océano y a las peligrosas criaturas que viven en él. En el interior de estas torres, en la ciudad ahora conocida como Nyork, siete grandes clanes se disputan la preciada «tierra seca»...y los recursos todavía más escasos. Una lucha a muerte. A la sombra de los siete grandes, sin embargo, existe otro clan

Una historia de acción, aventuras y lucha por la supervivencia. Únicamente los edificios más altos sobresalen aún del mar. Titanes de acero y cristal que siguen desafiando al océano y a las peligrosas criaturas que viven en él. En el interior de estas torres, en la ciudad ahora conocida como Nyork, siete grandes clanes se disputan la preciada «tierra seca»...y los recursos todavía más escasos. Una lucha a muerte. A la sombra de los siete grandes, sin embargo, existe otro clan. Uno al que todos creen exterminado, pero cuyos últimos miembros se resisten a morir.

For a nothing girl from the sidewalks a gap year with the United Youth Space Corps seemed a way to escape her destiny of poverty, or at least delay it. The year was supposed to be about acquiring some maximum experience credentials for her resume and social media account. Instead of the breezy year of selfies and mundane work experience that was advertised, she finds herself on a spaceship hijacked by a stowaway and trying to find a cure for the adult crew members that have been stricken by a comatose virus.

Natural disasters and a breakdown of civilization have cut off Alaska from the world and destroyed its landscape. Now, as food runs out and the few who remain turn on each other, Travis and his younger sister, Jess, must cross hundreds of miles in search of civilization. The wild lands around them are filled with ravenous animals, desperate survivors pushed to the edge, and people who've learned to shoot first and ask questions never.

Before Cyrano de Bergerac became a famous swordsman, poet, inventor, and iconoclast hero, he was an awkward teenager just like the rest of us. Find out what adventures turned him into the courageous, self-assured, hero we know and admire when you listen to Young Cyrano. Follow him on his teenage exploits with his best friend, Le Bret, and his first love, Roxanne. Adventure! Mysteries! Romance! Freemasons! Poetry, and of course, swordfights!