Dystopian Magic

Cast out of her family three years ago, Mara turned to the only place that would take her - a school where students train to protect others. But Mara is stunned when guarding a noble girl in the Empire's capital turns out to be more dangerous than she could've imagined. More shocking still, she finds the boy she thought she had lost forever outside the gates of her new home. Mara knew the dizzying Imperial city would hold dangers.

Ravaged by a plague known as Red Death, the planet Gabriel - a former colony of Earth - is a barren wasteland. Since being abandoned by Earth 500 years ago, resources are scarce and life is cheap. To stay alive, the survivors, the Citizens, scavenge the remains of a now dead city, trading for food with the resource-rich Curadores, the only other survivors on Gabriel. Every old computer, every piece of wire, every scrap of metal counts. To steal is the ultimate sin. So when tough-as-nails 17-year-old Leica is caught doing just that, she's exiled.

Seventeen-year-old Pippa Reyes, who discovers that she is a werecat, believes that her only chance of survival is to escape New York and travel across the barren lands of the United States to reach a safehold for her kind. With the aid of her friends, Aiden and Abby Hunter, the three teens head west, across a nearly destroyed terrain infested with ferals attempting to snatch their lives at every turn.

Recruitment Day is here...if you fail, a loved one will die. For Lucian "Lucky" Spark, Recruitment Day means the Establishment, a totalitarian government, will force him to become one of five Recruits competing to join the ruthless Imposer task force. Each Recruit participates in increasingly difficult and violent military training for a chance to advance to the next level. Those who fail must choose an "Incentive" - a family member - to be brutally killed. If Lucky fails, he'll have to choose death for his only living relative: Cole, his four-year-old brother.

After winning a contest for a popular game called Wordwick Games, five teens; Gemma, Sparks, Rio, Kat, and Jack, are invited to stay at Wordwick Games inventor Henry Word's mysterious castle and play the newest level of Workwick Games. Little do they know, the castle is the doorway to a wondrous world call Anachronia where words can be used as weapons, power, and commodity.

In Masks, Mara Holdfast's life changed forever. As the daughter of the Autarch’s Master Maskmaker, she had a clearly defined future: a quiet, ordered life in the capital, making Masks with her father and doing work important to the ruling Autarch. But when her Mask, specially made by her own father, cracked and fell to pieces during her Masking ceremony, Mara was exiled from everything she once knew.Now she has become part of an underground rebellion, rejecting the unjust rules of a Masked society.

Things definitely got ugly in beautiful Paradise Valley when Penelope decided she was better than any of the other unicorns, most specifically, her sister Cloud. When Cloud was chosen to become the herd's next doctor, Penelope snapped. She'd just take a tiny bit of a toxic herb and feed it to the herd's doctor, her dad. An herb that only Penelope knew was in his breakfast. Luckily, she would just happened to have the cure for it. She'd save her beloved dad and finally be the cool one. What could go wrong? Plenty!

The people in Diandra Brown's town tremble under the iron-fisted rule of Moms with psychic powers and Dads who enforce the law. They're surrounded by the deadly shadowland known as the void. The world has torn itself to pieces, they say. For humanity to survive, obedience comes first no matter the cost. Children must do what they're told, grow up to become Moms and Dads - or refuse and be thrown into the black.

Who lies? Who tells the truth? Death hangs on the answer.... Tell a lie, and the darkness will find you. Quinn and Piper are twins, but they've never met. A tragic event brings them together and draws them into a family curse that stretches across centuries. One twin can command the darkness; the other could hold the key to breaking the curse. But when lies become truth and truth looks like lies, who can you believe? Don't miss this startling new audiobook from Teri Terry, queen of the YA psychological thriller!

Pearlbreaker Jesse Fisher is on a mission to free as many Drifters as he can - ignoring the direct orders of Captain Alkine. When a mysterious red pearl sets Jesse free from the Skyship brig, he uses it as an opportunity to rescue Cassius from Theo, Madame’s newest protégé. With Skyship agents in hot pursuit, Cassius and Jesse learn they are the children of Haven rebels, sent to Earth to continue the battle against Haven’s totalitarian regime. Outnumbered, their only hope for survival rests on an uneasy alliance with Madame and their other Earth-bound enemies.

When Rachel and her mother move to Mrs. Moore's house - the one with right next to the Line - Rachel starts questioning things. There are so many rumors of the horrible things that lie beyond the Line - in a place called Away - but no one dares to talk about it. And it's no use asking questions, especially of Mrs. Moore, who has always lived by the Line, or of her mother. But then, Rachel comes across a recorded message - one that could only have come from Away. And the voice on the recorder is asking for help...

Desperate to escape an arranged marriage and the life her high-ranking government official father planned for her, Cat Hunter does the unthinkable. She runs away from her homeland, Tellus, disguises herself as a boy, and stows away on an air ship. She’s ready for life in a new land where the general population isn’t poverty stricken and at the mercy of the cruel officials. What she isn’t quite ready for is meeting Fox, a crew member aboard the Stormdancer - which turns out to be a smugglers’ ship.

Ruti is Markless. In a society where worth is determined by the pattern on your palm and the magic it grants you, this also deems her worthless. But she’s a hardened survivor, a protector of the lowest class … and the most powerful witch in Somanchi. With a single song, she can ask the spirits to grant her unimaginable powers. Dekala’s Mark is strong, a Mark fit for the future queen of Somanchi, but it’s also unstable. She knows the only solution is to be bonded with another, but that would mean relinquishing control over her throne and kingdom.

After delivering the pearl, Finn and Aria thought life would return to normal. But with the survival of the clans still in peril, they must continue their quest. Can they find the next relic before the forces of evil? Not everyone is who they appear to be, and time is running out....

My name is Aidan Miers. I have all the pieces I need to craft the cure, but one. Unfortunately, getting it may prove a bit difficult.

My name is Aidan Miers. My dad is stable but he's still sick. It's my job to find the cure. Whatever it takes, even if it is the end of the world.

My name is Aidan Miers. Someone tried to kill my dad. I don't know why, but I have to save him. If that means I risk my life, so be it. Magic is real, and I'm going to use it to save my father.

Jade was only a little girl when the earthquake struck. Before her eyes, half of New York City disappeared, replaced by a village that seemed torn out of a storybook. Horses and carriages. Cobblestone streets. A towering castle. And, above all, a queen with the magical ability to strip emotions away.

While the underground frantically works to mount a resistance against Pandora and the World Alliance, the potentate’s evil grows. She stages withering chemical attacks wherever the underground may survive. She passes more laws to hamper their movements. And new inventions to control their minds. And as Nia grows heavy with the potentate's child, her desperation to escape before the birth turns to panic. Get ready for hours of entertainment, from the busy pens of Carol Marrs Phipps and Tom Phipps.

Creativity is a crime. Arts are atrocities. Disobedience means death. Dreams, creativity, and magic are all gone under a single order. Banned from the things that make you different, people must conform to a dull and practical lifestyle. The daughter of the Regime's head executioner is expected to follow in his footsteps, but 14-year-old Calista Knight is curious about creativity and dreams. When the new boy, Wes, encourages Calista to stop taking the medicine preventing dreams and introduces her to creativity, a new life opens up to her.