Books with title Defiance Rising

Courage is having the strength to face defeat and keep going. Part of the capital has been bombed to oblivion.The invaders have taken control of the country.Jac and her friends barely escaped in time. Threatened by a force with far superior technology and firepower, they knew this outcome was likely.So they prepared.Now the plan has to go into action, even though they know that the odds are still against them and no plan can anticipate every unexpected twist and change of events.Or guarantee that everyone will survive…The final book in The Phoenix Enigma double-trilogy takes some unexpected and dramatic turns as the struggle for freedom nears its conclusion. Download and dive in to this near-future dystopian thriller, a fast-paced post-apocalyptic adventure for fans of Divergent and Hunger Games!

Eleven-year-old Toby Steiner wants to do normal things on his vacation. He wants to hike and race his bike down the hill. He wants to learn to fish out on the lake. He doesn't want to return to the children's hospital where his painful cancer treatment finally ended. When Toby starts spending time with Pearl, a spunky old woman who lives on a nearby farm, and Blossom, her broken-down cow, he sees all the more reason to keep the new lump on his side a secret from his parents. From Pearl he discovers the beauty of poetry, and from Blossom he just might uncover the meaning of life.

Eighteen-year-old Abigail Park is fine.Really.One month after her father’s unexpected death, she wants everything to get normal again. So long as she keeps moving, keeps doing her homework, and keeps practicing taekwondo with her litle sister, everything will be fine.When a bizarre event yanks the two sisters across the universe, they’ll have to rely on each other to survive, to mourn, and to defy the fate awaiting them at the hands of merciless aliens.Defiance kicks off the HARPER REVOLUTION young adult space opera series with aliens, wormholes, and kickass girls.

While the other girls in the walled city-state of Baalboden learn to sew and dance, Rachel Adams learns to track and hunt. While they bend like reeds to the will of their male Protectors, she uses hers for sparring practice. When Rachel's father fails to return from a courier mission and is declared dead, the city's brutal Commander assigns Rachel a new Protector: her father's apprentice, Logan-the boy she declared her love to and who turned her down two years before. Left with nothing but fierce belief in her father's survival, Rachel decides to escape and find him herself. As Rachel and Logan battle their way through the Wasteland, stalked by a monster that can't be killed and an army of assassins out for blood, they discover romance, heartbreak, and a truth that will incite a war decades in the making.

In the third installment of the Significance series, we begin with Maggie and Caleb in the clutches of a new enemy: the Virtuoso council. Not only do they have to deal with the consequences of taking the lives of the Watsons and the council attempting to take Maggie away to keep their precious Visionary safe, but they must deal with Marla as well. All are determined to undermine, control, and use Caleb and Maggie's rare gifts for their own uses, and some wish to destroy them entirely. A new challenge emerges when Maggie's father and Bish are threatened. Peter and the family fight and stand beside them every step of the way to save Maggie's father, to keep Caleb and Maggie together when the corrupted council is so set on keeping them apart, and to stop Marla and whatever she has up her sleeve. Then Maggie has the shock of her life when she discovers something about her real father. It may change everything for everyone.