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For 16-year-old Tris, the world changes in a heartbeat when she is forced to make a terrible choice. Turning her back on her family, Tris ventures out, alone, determined to find out where she truly belongs. Shocked by the brutality of her new life, Tris can trust no one. And yet she is drawn to a boy who seems to both threaten and protect her. The hardest choices may yet lie ahead…. A debut novel that will leave you breathless.

What if your whole world was a lie? What if a single revelation - like a single choice - changed everything?What if love and loyalty made you do things you never expected? The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered - fractured by violence and power struggles and scarred by loss and betrayal. So when offered a chance to explore the world past the limits she's known, Tris is ready. Perhaps beyond the fence, she and Tobias will find a simple new life together, free from complicated lies, tangled loyalties, and painful memories.

Tris has survived a brutal attack on her former home and family. But she has paid a terrible price. Wracked by grief and guilt, she becomes ever more reckless as she struggles to accept her new future. Yet if Tris wants to uncover the truth about her world, she must be stronger than ever...because more shocking choices and sacrifices lie ahead.

On a planet where violence and vengeance rule, in a galaxy where some are favoured by fate, everyone develops a currentgift, a unique power meant to shape the future. While most benefit from their currentgifts, Akos and Cyra do not - their gifts make them vulnerable to others' control. Can they reclaim their gifts, their fates and their lives and reset the balance of power in this world?

For some, it’s the end of the world. For others, it’s just the beginning. With brilliant imagination, today’s most visionary writers point to the future in a collection curated by bestselling author Blake Crouch. These stories range from darkly comic to deeply chilling, but they all look forward. Featuring stories by Andy Weir, Amor Towles, Veronica Roth, N. K. Jemisin, Paul Tremblay, and Blake Crouch; with narration by Evan Rachel Wood, David Harbour, Jason Isaacs, Rosa Salazar, Steven Strait, and Janina Gavankar.

Fifteen years ago, five ordinary teenagers were singled out by a prophecy to take down an impossibly powerful entity wreaking havoc across North America. He was known as the Dark One, and his weapon of choice - catastrophic events known as Drains - leveled cities and claimed thousands of lives. Chosen Ones, as the teens were known, gave everything they had to defeat him. After the Dark One fell, the world went back to normal...for everyone but them. Of the five, Sloane has had the hardest time adjusting.

In the second book of the Carve the Mark duology, globally bestselling Divergent author Veronica Roth reveals how Cyra and Akos fulfill their fates. The Fates Divide is a richly imagined tale of hope and resilience told in four stunning perspectives. The lives of Cyra Noavek and Akos Kereseth are ruled by their fates, spoken by the oracles at their births. The fates, once determined, are inescapable.

En el Chicago distópico de Beatrice, la sociedad está dividida en cinco facciones. En una ceremonia anual, todos los chicos de dieciséis años deben decidir a qué facción dedicarán el resto de sus vidas. Beatrice tiene que elegir entre quedarse con su familia...y ser quien realmente es.

La sociedad dividida en facciones en la que antes creía Tris Prior ha quedado hecha pedazos, fracturada por la violencia y las luchas de poder, y marcada por la traición. Así que cuando tiene la oportunidad de explorar el mundo más allá de los límites que siempre ha conocido, Tris está más que dispuesta.

Con la oleada de disturbios en las distintas facciones, el día de la iniciación de Tris debería haber sido una celebración de la facción elegida. En cambio, terminó con un gran problema. El conflicto entre las facciones se intensifica y las ideologías se enfrentan. En tiempos de guerra, se eligen líderes, los secretos afloran y cada decisión tiene mayores consecuencias.

What's right is right. Sonya Kantor knows this slogan—she lived by it for most of her life. For decades, everyone in the Seattle-Portland megalopolis lived under it, as well as constant surveillance in the form of the Insight, an ocular implant that tracked every word and every action, rewarding or punishing by a rigid moral code set forth by the Delegation. Then there was a revolution. The Delegation fell. Its most valuable members were locked in the Aperture, a prison on the outskirts of the city. And everyone else, now free from monitoring, went on with their lives. 

Was wirklich geschah? Four - das ist der geheimnisvolle Ferox-Anführer von Veronica Roths Bestseller-Trilogie "Die Bestimmung". Seine Geschichte unterscheidet sich von Tris' - und ist mindestens genauso interessant. In "Fours Geschichte" erfahren die Hörer endlich mehr über ihren Lieblingshelden: Wie kam er zu den Ferox? Wie wurde er ein Ausbilder?

Outside the last city on Earth, the planet is a wasteland. Without the genes of the fallen, humanity will end. Antigone's parents are dead. Passing into the Archive should be cause for celebration, but with her militant uncle Kreon rising to claim her father's vacant throne, all Antigone feels is rage. When he welcomes her and her siblings into his mansion, Antigone sees it for what it really is: a gilded cage, where she is a captive as well as a guest. But her uncle will soon learn that no cage is unbreakable. And neither is he. 

Le monde de Tris a volé en éclats. La guerre a dressé entre elle les factions qui régissent la société, elle a tué ses parents et fait de ses amis des tueurs. Tris est rongée par le chagrin et la culpabilité. Mais elle est divergente. Plus que tout autre, elle doit choisir son camp. Et se battre pour sauver ce qui peut encore l'être.

It’s only two weeks before an asteroid turns home to dust. Though most of Earth has already been evacuated, it’s Samantha’s job to catalog plant samples for the survivors’ unknowable journey beyond. Preparing to stay behind and watch the world end, she makes a final human connection. As certain doom hurtles nearer, the unexpected and beautiful potential for the future begins to flower.

In una galassia percorsa da una forza vitale chiamata "corrente", ogni uomo possiede un dono, un potere unico e particolare, in grado di influenzarne il futuro. CYRA è la sorella del brutale tiranno che regna sul popolo shotet. Il suo dono, che le conferisce potere provocandole allo stesso tempo dolore, viene utilizzato dal fratello per torturare i nemici. Ma Cyra non è soltanto un'arma nelle mani del tiranno. Lei è molto più di questo. Molto più di quanto lui possa immaginare.

In dit fantastische sciencefictionverhaal creëert Veronica Roth een universum waarin iedereen een unieke gave heeft. Cyra's gave geeft haar pijn, maar ze kan ook anderen onnoemelijk veel pijn doen. Haar broer Ryzek heerst als een tiran over hun planeet, Shotet. Ryzek misbruikt Cyra's gave om zijn vijanden te martelen. Maar Cyra is veel meer dan een wapen in handen van haar broer: ze is snel, veerkrachtig en slimmer dan hij denkt.

Cinq destins, un seul choix. Tris vit dans un monde post-apocalyptique où la société est divisée en cinq factions. À 16 ans, elle doit choisir son appartenance pour le reste de sa vie. Cas rarissime, son test d'aptitudes n'est pas concluant. Elle est divergente. Ce secret peut la sauver... Ou la tuer.

Full of friendship and revenge, each story and setting is more strange and wonderful than the last, brimming with new technologies and beings. And yet, in these futuristic lands, the people must still confront deeply human emotions and dilemmas. Veronica Roth reaches into the unknown and immerses listeners into six short stories that feel startlingly familiar and profoundly beautiful. With two new stories from the Carve the Mark universe, this collection has something for everyone. 

In einer Galaxie, in der Gewalt und Rache das Leben der Völker beherrschen, besitzt jeder Mensch eine besondere Gabe, eine einzigartige Kraft, die seine Zukunft mitgestaltet. Doch nicht jeder profitiert von seiner Gabe... Cyra ist die Schwester des brutalen Tyrannen Ryzek. Ihre Gabe bedeutet Schmerz, aber auch Macht - was ihr Bruder gezielt gegen seine Feinde einsetzt. Doch Cyra ist mehr als bloß eine Waffe in Ryzeks Händen: Sie ist stark und viel klüger, als er denkt.