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Scott Westerfeld

The Secret Hour

Editura: Eos

Anul aparitiei: 2004

This first volume in a mesmerizing new trilogy introduces a group of teens, who call themselves Midnighters, living in a world that is frozen in time and inhabited by dark creatures that lurk in the shadows.

Scott Westerfeld

Touching Darkness

Editura: Harper Teen

Anul aparitiei: 2005

This is the second book in New York Times bestselling author Scott Westerfeld's Midnighters series. As the Midnighters search for the truth about the secret hour, they uncover terrifying mysteries woven into the very fabric of Bixby's history, and a conspiracy that touches the world of daylight. This time Jessica Day is not the only Midnighter in mortal danger, and if the group can't find a way to come together, they could lose one of their own . . . forever. Touching Darkness is the second book in the Midnighters trilogy, from the New York Times bestselling author of the Uglies series.

Scott Westerfeld

Touching Darkness

Editura: Eos

Anul aparitiei: 2006

This is the second book in New York Times bestselling author Scott Westerfeld's Midnighters series. As the Midnighters search for the truth about the secret hour, they uncover terrifying mysteries woven into the very fabric of Bixby's history, and a conspiracy that touches the world of daylight. This time Jessica Day is not the only Midnighter in mortal danger, and if the group can't find a way to come together, they could lose one of their own . . . forever. Touching Darkness is the second book in the Midnighters trilogy, from the New York Times bestselling author of the Uglies series.

Scott Westerfeld

The Risen Empire

Editura: Tor Books

Anul aparitiei: 2008

From the acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author of Evolution's Darling (Philip K. Dick Award special citation and a New York Times notable book) and Uglies, Pretties, and Specials, comes a sweeping epic. The Risen Empire is the first great space opera of the twenty-first century. The undead Emperor has ruled his mighty interstellar empire of eighty human worlds for sixteen hundred years. Because he can grant a form of eternal life-after-death, creating an elite known as the Risen, his power is absolute. He and his sister, the Child Empress, who is eternally a little girl, are worshipped as living gods. The Rix are machine-augmented humans who worship very different gods: AI compound minds of planetary size. Cool, relentless fanatics, their only goal is to propagate such AIs. They seek to end the Emperor's prolonged rule, and supplant it with an eternal cybernetic dynasty. They begin by taking the Child Empress hostage. Captain Laurent Zai of the Imperial Frigate Lynx is tasked with her rescue. Separated by light years, bound by an unlikely love, Zai and pacifist Senator Nara Oxham must both face the challenge of the Rix, and both will hold the fate of the empire in their ...

Scott Westerfeld

The Killing of Worlds

Editura: Tor Books

Anul aparitiei: 2008

#1 New York Times bestselling author Westerfeld continues one of the first great space operas of this centuryScott Westerfeld, New York Times bestselling author of Uglies, Pretties, and Specials, reached new heights of excitement with The Risen Empire and left readers begging for more. He delivers the dazzling payoff in book two, The Killing of Worlds.The immortal Emperor can grant a form of eternal life-after-death, creating an elite known as the Risen, and so has ruled the eighty worlds unchallenged for sixteen hundred years. The only thing he fears are the Rix, machine-augmented humans who worship AI compound minds. They are dedicated to replacing his prolonged rule with an eternal cybernetic dynasty of their own.Brilliant tactician Captain Laurent Zai of the Imperial Frigate Lynx faces a suicide mission: stopping the next thrust of the Rix invasion with just his own vessel. While ship-to-ship combat rages among the stars, Zai's lover, Senator Nara Oxham, is caught in a deadly political fencing match with the Emperor himself. The Emperor has a terrible secret, a secret Nara is in danger of finding out, a secret for which he would countenance the killing of worlds. ...

Scott Westerfeld

Killing of Worlds

Editura: Tor Books

Anul aparitiei: 2005

In this powerful conclusion to the first story arc of Succession--which began in "The Risen Empire"--Captain Laurent Zai, unjustly held responsible for the death of the Child Empress, and his crew are sent on a suicide mission.

Scott Westerfeld

The Secret Hour

Editura: Harper Teen

Anul aparitiei: 2005

This is the first book in New York Times bestselling author Scott Westerfeld's Midnighters series. A few nights after Jessica Day arrives in Bixby, Oklahoma, she wakes up at midnight to find the entire world frozen. For one secret hour each night, the town belongs to the dark creatures that haunt the shadows. And only a small group of people--Jessica included--is free to move about then. They are The Midnighters. The Secret Hour is the first book in the Midnighters trilogy, from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of the Uglies series.

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Parasite Positive

Editura: Little, Brown Book Group

Anul aparitiei: 2007

Scott Westerfeld, the award-winning author of MIDNIGHTERS rewrites the vampire myth in this stunning new novel Page dim. 196 x 128 x 19 Weight: 236 grams

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The Risen Empire

Editura: Little, Brown Book Group

Anul aparitiei: 2006

A cutting-edge space opera in which galactic cultures clash: human, inhuman and post-human Page dim. 178 x 108 x 45 Weight: 374 grams

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The Last Days

Editura: Little, Brown Book Group

Anul aparitiei: 2007

Scott Westerfeld, the award-winning author of MIDNIGHTERS rewrites the vampire myth in this stunning new novel Page dim. 197 x 127 x 19 Weight: 204 grams

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Goliath

Editura: Simon & Schuster Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 2012

The concluding part of this New York Timesbestselling series by Uglies'author Scott Westerfeld. Page dim. 127 x 197 x 35 Weight: 464 grams

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Extras

Editura: Simon & Schuster Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 2012

After rebel Tally Youngblood brings down the uglies/pretties/specials regime, fame, instead of beauty, becomes the new world order, and fifteen-year-old Aya Fuse embarks on a dangerous plan to boost her popularity ranking. Page dim. 197 x 133 x 29 Weight: 312 grams

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Impostors

Editura: Scholastic

Anul aparitiei: 2018

Frey and Rafi are inseparable . . . two edges of the same knife. But Frey's very existence is a secret. In Impostors, master storyteller Scott Westerfeld returns with a new series set in the world of his mega-bestselling Uglies-a world full of twist and turns, rebellion and intrigue, where any wrong step could be Frey's last Page dim. 193 x 128 x 27 Weight: 296 grams

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Afterworlds

Editura: Simon & Schuster Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 2014

From international bestselling author, Scott Westerfeld, a brand new, thought-provoking, suspenseful thriller you won't be able to put down! Page dim. 197 x 130 x 39 Weight: 412 grams

Westerfeld Scott, Lanagan Margo, Biancotti Deborah

Zeroes

Editura: Simon & Schuster Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 2015

Global bestseller Scott Westerfeld returns to his Uglies heartland with a fast-paced new YA trilogy. Page dim. 132 x 199 x 38 Weight: 382 grams

Westerfeld Scott, Lanagan Margo, Biancotti Deborah

Swarm

Editura: Simon & Schuster Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 2016

X-Men meets Heroes in the second book of this explosive new series about a group of teens with amazing abilities by New York Times bestselling Uglies author, Scott Westerfeld Page dim. 132 x 198 x 31 Weight: 324 grams

Westerfeld Scott, Lanagan Margo, Biancotti Deborah

Nexus

Editura: Simon & Schuster Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 2018

An unputdownable, action-packed read from internationally bestselling author of the Uglies series, Scott Westerfeld. Every power has a dark side... Page dim. 130 x 198 x 30 Weight: 344 grams

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Horizon

Editura: Scholastic

Anul aparitiei: 2017

A supernatural survival story following a diverse group of kids who step from the wreckage of a plane crash to find themselves stranded, at odds, and under threat from creatures unlike any they've seen before. It's a fast-paced, eerie mystery that not everyone will survive. And the greatest threat might be the kid standing next to you... Page dim. 149 x 217 x 29 Series: Horizon Weight: 358 grams

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Uglies

Editura: Simon & Schuster Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 2018

The first book in the international bestselling series from blockbuster author Scott Westerfeld! Page dim. 129 x 196 x 30 Weight: 310 grams

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Pretties

Editura: Simon & Schuster Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 2019

What happens when perfection isn't good enough? Page dim. 201 x 132 x 25 Weight: 268 grams