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Through comic mayhem that stretches from the White House and through the heartland, Columbus, Tallahasse, Wichita, and Little Rock must face off against the many new kinds of zombies that have evolved in the past decade, as well as some new human survivors. But most of all, they have to face the growing pains of their own snarky, makeshift family.

After their plane crashes into the remote Alaskan wilderness, a roughneck group of oil drillers is forced to find a way back to civilization. As Ottway leads the injured survivors through the brutal snow and ice, they are relentlessly tracked by a vicious pack of rogue wolves that will do anything to defend their territory.

With the end of the world imminent, Pete Nelson locks himself inside a Las Vegas hotel. There, he tries to understand his confused reality influenced by film, TV, pop culture, disinformation, drugs and propaganda. The journey that follows is a surreal, psychedelic, apocalyptic quest where nothing is what it seems.

When a shipwreck leaves a humble postmaster named Gulliver on the fantastical island of Lilliput, both his size and his ego become gigantic. With tales of his greatness and heroic deeds, Gulliver wins the hearts of the little Lilliputians, but when he missteps and puts his little new friends in danger, he must find a way to undo the damage.

"In a post-apocalyptic future, mankind is color blind. A brilliant scientist suddenly dies, leaving his precious briefcase, filled with a highly-addictive synthetic drug that allows people to see colors again, to Ana, a mere twelve-year-old girl. Possession of the briefcase makes her the target of a doctor with wicked plans for the drug, and her only hope to escape his pursuit relies on the aid of the dead scientist's two devoted bodyguards. Together,...

"Revisit the world of Panem sixty-four years before the events of The Hunger Games, starting on the morning of the reaping of the Tenth Hunger Games" -- OCLC. La ambición lo alimentará. La competencia lo incitará. Pero el poder tiene su precio. Es la mañana de la cosecha que dará inicio a la décima competencia anual Los juegos del hambre. En el Capitolio, Coriolanus Snow de dieciocho años, se prepara para su única oportunidad de alcanzar...

A group of passengers struggle to survive and escape when their ocean liner completely capsizes at sea.

"Bosco es hijo n͠ico, pero suele platicar con su hermana imaginaria. A pesar de embrollarse con sus propias mentiras, es aceptado en una nueva escuela y ahora debe terminar sus estudios si no quiere acabar como cargador (aunque la idea lo seduce un poco). Tiene una familia en la que sus padres se quieren y lo quieren, y ľ lo que desea es que se divorcien. As̕ es el mundo de Bosco, un adolescente como puede serlo cualquiera, pero su vida (y la de...

In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place. "Es la hora. Ya no hay vuelta atr�as. Los juegos van a comenzar. Los tributos deben salir a la Arena y ... luchar por sobrevivir. Ganar significa...

"Nadie le dice que no a la Hermana Superior. Nadie que quiera seguir viva. El mundo como lo conocemos ha desaparecido después del gran apagón y de varias crisis climáticas. Apenas hay animales ni naturaleza y pocas personas han sobrevivido. Varias mujeres llegaron a una suerte de convento buscando refugio y han sido captadas por una secta religiosa. Una de ellas cuenta esta historia, escrita a escondidas noche tras noche para que alguien sepa todo...