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INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER • A People Best Book of the Month • An Apple Best Book of the Month “Beautifully written and full of wonder and humanity.” — People “Just as engrossing as the mysteries swirling in outer space.”—The New York Times Book ReviewIn the wake of First Contact, one mother upends her life and her children’s futures, as humanity reckons with its place in the universe.It’s March 1980, and Carol Girard and her husband are living an ordinary life in a small town in the Adirondacks. They have just had their first child, and though Carol is struggling with the challenges of new motherhood, her future seems clear. Until something extraordinary happens: an inexplicable flickering of light in the sky, which is ultimately determined to be communication from intelligent life on another planet. But these beings are eleven light-years away, and nothing is known about them other than the fact that they seem to know we exist, too.As humanity reels from a shifting understanding of its place in the universe, we follow the stories of the Girard family: Carol, whose fascination with this other life sparks a desperate search for spiritual meaning; Michael, her loyal son, who finds solace not in the stars above his head but in the ground beneath his feet; and Ro, Carol’s bright and ambitious daughter, whose childhood goal to work in interstellar communication will evolve into something far grander.Tracing five decades of love, loss, ambition, and self-discovery, The Radiant Dark is "Daring and expansive, soul-stirring, and precise, this is a novel about love and belonging.” (Eliana Ramage, author of To the Moon and Back).

'Taut, tense and at times almost unbearably real' Sunday Times bestseller Ruth Ware'A smart twist on the apocalypse' Reader Review'Shows what impact our times have on the ways we think. A compelling entry into the post-apocalypse genre' Kirkus***She wanted an adventure. But what if it never ends?When Zoo agrees to take part in a new reality TV show, In The Dark, she's hoping for a challenge. Facing eleven competitors, she's prepared for her physical and mental strength to be tested in a series of unforgiving survival tasks.But as her fellow contestants are overcome by hunger, injury and psychological breakdown, Zoo becomes increasingly afraid. Because the deserted TV set and gruesome props are starting to feel all too real.Is there something they're not telling Zoo about the world outside?

'Taut, tense and at times almost unbearably real' Sunday Times bestseller Ruth Ware'A smart twist on the apocalypse' Reader Review'Shows what impact our times have on the ways we think. A compelling entry into the post-apocalypse genre' Kirkus***She wanted an adventure. But what if it never ends?When Zoo agrees to take part in a new reality TV show, In The Dark, she's hoping for a challenge. Facing eleven competitors, she's prepared for her physical and mental strength to be tested in a series of unforgiving survival tasks.But as her fellow contestants are overcome by hunger, injury and psychological breakdown, Zoo becomes increasingly afraid. Because the deserted TV set and gruesome props are starting to feel all too real.Is there something they're not telling Zoo about the world outside?

Survive - Du bist allein: Ein raffinierter Thriller, der ans Limit geht und die Grenzen zwischen Reality-TV und tödlicher Gefahr verschwimmen lässt.Zwölf sorgfältig ausgewählte Kandidaten, eine Survival-Show mitten in der Wildnis, nur einer kann gewinnen – wenn alle anderen aufgeben. Doch dann geschieht, was keiner planen konnte: etwas TÖDLICHES bricht in das Überlebens-Spiel ein.Allianzen werden geschmiedet, Konflikte brechen auf und die Prüfungen werden immer härter und perfider. Bald muss sich jeder Kandidat ganz allein zu seiner großen Einzel-Challenge aufmachen. Orientierungsläufe, Lager bauen, Nahrung finden – schon bei den ersten Aufgaben geraten einige Teilnehmer an ihre Grenzen. Doch keiner ahnt, welche tödliche Gefahr bereits lauert.Alexandra Olivas Bestseller Survive - Du bist allein ist ein packender Thriller, der die Schattenseiten des Reality-TVs beleuchtet und eine junge Frau in einen Albtraum schickt, aus dem es kein Erwachen gibt. »Kompromisslos und heftig.« Justin Cronin