Monument 14 is a suspenseful book with intriguing, realistic, and relatable characters. Five high school kids, two eighth graders, and six children get trapped inside in a superstore, while outside, the world is being destroyed and torn apart. Dean the protagonist, who is in high school, has to f...
Klappentext/Inhalt:Wenn die Zivilisation zusammenbricht, bist du ganz auf dich allein gestellt...Nachdem ein Tsunami die Ostküste der USA getroffen und weite Teile des Landes verwüstet hat, stranden vierzehn Jugendliche in einem Einkaufszentrum. Der Strom fällt aus, die Zivilisation bricht zusamm...
Pokud vás série zaujala a vy jste došly až k jejímu závěrečnému dílu, můžete zpozorovat, jak velkou Emmy Laybourne ušla cestu. Již v prvním díle jste mohli vidět, jak velký má autorka talent na popis charakterů, na dramatický opis krajiny, jenž čtenáře nenudí a na akční scény, jež zvládá přímo br...
While the last installment wasn't my favorite of the series, I still enjoyed it immensely and once again, I sped out to get it the second I finished the second and I was unable to put it down. I've said this in each of my reviews, but there's something about this author's writing style that is ad...
Summary: This story starts out with Dr. James Cutlass, Brayden’s father, at his desk trying to type out an official report about the MORS Test, that he and his colleagues set-up. The story is kind of like a flash back because Dr. Cutlass is remembering the horrific past, but is typing it up in ...
I stood on this deck with 250 other people, all of us wearing life jackets, feeling goofy, shifting from foot to foot, and waiting for it to be over. Now there are … maybe 120 of us, all told? We are the people who did not take Solu. Everyone looks beaten, bloodied, and ragged. The injured are ha...
They screamed war cries and were laughing with the raw exhilaration true bullies feel. Punching and kicking and pushing, they whaled on us as they pushed us down to the bottom of the stairs. I fell to the cement floor, bashing my head and my shoulder. Something tore inside my shoulder. It screame...
She winced in the sunlight when I brought her outside. “Bye!” Rinée said. “We’re coming back,” I told her and J.J., who stood gaping on the stoop, as Lea helped me to put Astrid in the passenger seat. “Bye, Ean!” Rinée repeated. Frankly, she seemed happy for us to go. * * * I drove. Astrid wa...
We come across a bone-skinny man trying and failing to get into his room and I realize I know him. It’s Hal! Hal from my snorkeling excursion. “Hal!” I say. “It’s me, Laurel, from Cozumel? We met on the catamaran.” “Oh yeah?” There’s no warmth on his face, only suspicion. “Where’s Peggy?” I ask. ...
Keep reading for a sneak peek of SWEET LAUREL DAY ONE A GUY WEARING SKINNY JEANS and a neon-blue fedora is leaping into the air, vaulting up onto the backs of the people in the crowd, waving like crazy and shouting, “Baby Tom-Tom! Baby Tom-Tom!” like a man on fire calling for a bucket. The dock...
A series of escalating disasters, beginning with a monster hailstorm and ending with a terrible chemical weapons spill that affects people differently depending on blood type, has torn the world as he knows it apart. “What Mario Scietto Says” is set in the world of Emmy Laybourne’s Monument 14. T...