Bøker av Rae Carson

Perfect for fans of Kristin Cashore, this debut combines adventure, a great heroine and brilliant storytelling.

?Any Sign of Life is a heartbreaking story filled with courage, friendship, and personality. Paige Miller is the perfect team-up buddy in an apocalypse. I was with her when she lost everything, and stood right next to her when she took it all back.??Wesley Chu, #1 New York Times?bestselling author of the War Arts Saga?A timely update to classic postapocalyptic YA.??Publishers Weekly (starred review)?A smart, suspenseful thriller. Totally un-put-down-able.??Kirkus ReviewsWhen a teenage girl thinks she may be the only person left alive in her town?maybe in the whole world?she must rely on hope, trust, and her own resilience. A harrowing and pulse-pounding survival story from New York Times?bestselling author Rae Carson. Any Sign of Life is a must-have for readers of Rick Yancey's The 5th Wave and Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman's Dry.Paige Miller is determined to take her basketball team to the state championship, maybe even beyond. But as March Madness heats up, Paige falls deathly ill. Days later, she wakes up attached to an IV and learns that the whole world has perished. Everyone she loves, and all of her dreams for the future?they're gone.But Paige is a warrior. She pushes through her fear and her grief and gets through each day scrounging for food, for shelter, for safety. As she struggles with her new reality, Paige learns that the apocalypse did not happen by accident. And that there are worse things than being alone.New York Times?bestselling author Rae Carson tells a contemporary and all-too-realistic story about surviving against the odds in this near-future thriller. Any Sign of Life will electrify fans of Rory Power's Wilder Girls and Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven.

He will never stop hunting me down. I have to end him. And soon.Lee Westfall survived the dangerous journey to California. She found a new family inthe other outcasts of their wagon train, and Jefferson, her best friend, is beginning to woo her shamelessly. Now they have a real home?one rich in gold, thanks to Lee's magical ability to sense the precious metal in the world around her.But Lee's Uncle Hiram has survived his own journey west. He's already murdered her parents, and he will do anything to have Lee and her talents under his control. No one is safe. When he kidnaps her, she sees firsthand the depths of his depravity.Lee's magic is changing, though. It is growing. The gold no longer simply sings to her?it listens. It obeys her call. Will that alone be enough to destroy her uncle?The second book of Rae Carson's acclaimed Gold Seer trilogy takes us deep into the heart of the gold fields and continues the epic story of an unforgettable heroine.The gold runs deep. I feel it pulsing way down in the earth. It glitters in my mind. And when the gold speaks to me, I speak back.The sequel to Walk on Earth a Stranger, a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award longlist title

"Rae Carson has proved she's a master and has shaken up the YA genre.”—USAToday.comThe first book in Rae Carson's award-winning and New York Times-bestselling trilogy! The Girl of Fire and Thorns is a sweeping journey full of adventure, sorcery, heartbreak, and power. Fans of George R. R. Martin's Game of Thrones and Leigh Bardugo's Grishaverse will devour this fantasy series.Once a century, one person is chosen for greatness. Elisa is the chosen one. But she has always felt powerless, useless. Now, on her sixteenth birthday, she has become the secret wife of a handsome and worldly king—a king whose country is in turmoil. A king who needs her to be the chosen one, not a failure of a princess.And he's not the only one who seeks her. Fierce enemies, seething with dark magic, are hunting her. A daring, determined revolutionary thinks she could be his people's savior. Soon it is not just her life, but her very heart that is at stake.Elisa could be everything to those who need her most. If the prophecy is fulfilled. If she finds the power deep within herself. If she doesn't die young. Most of the chosen do.William C. Morris YA Debut Award FinalistYALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Top Ten PickAndre Norton Award FinalistA Texas Tayshas SelectionOhioana Book Award YA winnerDon't miss The Empire of Dreams, Rae Carson's action-packed return to the world of The Girl of Fire and Thorns!

?Action, adventure, betrayal, and poison add up to a winner." ?BooklistNew York Times?bestselling author Rae Carson makes a triumphant return to the world of her award-winning Girl of Fire and Thorns trilogy in this extraordinary stand-alone novel. Fans of Leigh Bardugo, Kendare Blake, and Tomi Adeyemi won't want to put this book down.Red Sparkle Stone is a foundling orphan with an odd name, a veiled past, and a mark of magic in her hair. But finally?after years and years of running, of fighting?she is about to be adopted into the royal family by Empress Elisa herself. She'll have a home, a family. Sixteen-year-old Red can hardly believe her luck. Then, in a stunning political masterstroke, the empress's greatest rival blocks the adoption, and everything Red has worked for crumbles before her eyes.But Red is not about to let herself or the empress become a target again. Determined to prove her worth and protect her chosen family, she joins the Royal Guard, the world's most elite fighting force. It's no coincidence that someone wanted her to fail as a princess, though. Someone whose shadowy agenda puts everything?and everyone?she loves at risk. As danger closes in, it will be up to Red to save the empire. If she can survive recruitment year?something no woman has ever done before.New York Times?bestselling author Rae Carson returns to the world of The Girl of Fire and Thorns in this action-packed fantasy-adventure starring an iconic heroine who fights for her family and her friends, and for a place where she will belong.

Witness the epic final chapter of the Skywalker saga with the official novelization of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, including expanded scenes and additional content not seen in theaters!The Resistance has been reborn.

As seen in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, welcome to the casino city of Canto Bight. Dreams and schemes collide when a deal over a priceless bottle of wine becomes a struggle for survival as told by Mira Grant. Dreams can become reality, but the stakes have never been higher-for there is a darkness obscured by all the glamour and luxury.

Princess Elisa is back! And in a tale that's bigger and badder than ever for fans of Kristin Cashore.