Neal Shusterman
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Antsy Does Time
- By: Neal Shusterman
- Narrator: Neal Shusterman
- Length: 6 hours 29 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2008
- Language: English
It was a dumb idea, but one of those dumb ideas that accidentally turns out to be brilliant–which, I’ve come to realize, is much worse than being dumb. My name’s Antsy Bonano–but you probably already know that–and unless you got, like, memory issues, you’ll remember the kid named the Schwa, who I told you about last time. Well, now there’s this other kid, and his story is a whole lot stranger. It all started when Gunnar Ümlaut and I were watching three airborne bozos struggle with a runaway parade balloon. That’s when Gunnar tells me he’s only got six months to live. Maybe it was because he said he was living on borrowed time, or maybe it was just because I wanted to do something meaningful for him, but I gave him a month of my life . . .
. . . And that’s when things began to get seriously weird.
... Read moreChallenger Deep
- By: Neal Shusterman
- Narrator: Michael Curran-Dorsano
- Length: 8 hours 12 minutes
- Publisher: Quill Tree Books
- Publish date: April 21, 2015
- Language: English
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4.14(21329 ratings)
National Book Award * Golden Kite Award Winner * Six Starred Reviews
A captivating novel about mental illness that lingers long beyond the last page, Challenger Deep is a heartfelt tour de force by New York Times bestselling author Neal Shusterman.
Caden Bosch is on a ship that’s headed for the deepest point on Earth: Challenger Deep, the southern part of the Marianas Trench.
Caden Bosch is a brilliant high school student whose friends are starting to notice his odd behavior.
Caden Bosch is designated the ship’s artist in residence to document the journey with images.
Caden Bosch pretends to join the school track team but spends his days walking for miles, absorbed by the thoughts in his head.
Caden Bosch is split between his allegiance to the captain and the allure of mutiny.
Caden Bosch is torn.
Challenger Deep is a deeply powerful and personal novel from one of today’s most admired writers for teens. Laurie Halse Anderson, award-winning author of Speak, calls Challenger Deep “a brilliant journey across the dark sea of the mind; frightening, sensitive, and powerful. Simply extraordinary.”
... Read moreDry
- By: Neal Shusterman
- Narrator: Neal Shusterman
- Length: 11 hours 6 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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4.03(30461 ratings)
When the California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, one teen is forced to make life and death decisions for her family in this harrowing story of survival from New York Times bestselling author Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman.
The drought–or the Tap-Out, as everyone calls it–has been going on for a while now. Everyone’s lives have become an endless list of don’ts: don’t water the lawn, don’t fill up your pool, don’t take long showers.
Until the taps run dry.
Suddenly, Alyssa’s quiet suburban street spirals into a warzone of desperation; neighbors and families turned against each other on the hunt for water. And when her parents don’t return and her life–and the life of her brother–is threatened, Alyssa has to make impossible choices if she’s going to survive.
Edison’s Alley
- By: Neal Shusterman
- Length: 6 hours 52 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: September 29, 2020
- Language: English
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4.15(1002 ratings)
Fourteen-year-old Nick has learned that the strange antiques in his attic bedroom were left there by the eccentric inventor Nikola Tesla. They are pieces of Tesla’s Far Range Energy Emitter, capable of transmitting “free energy” to the globe. Some components of the contraption are still missing, but the objects themselves seem to be leading Nick and his friends to their current owners.
However, members of the Accelerati, a menacing secret society of physicists, are on the hunt too, and their brazen leader, Dr. Alan Jorgenson, will stop at nothing to foil Nick and steal the objects. It takes a dangerous build-up of electromagnetic energy in the atmosphere to reverse everyone’s fortunes-and lead Nick to his destiny.
Everlost
- By: Neal Shusterman
- Narrator: Nick Podehl
- Length: 8 hours 0 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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3.96(30841 ratings)
In this eerie and atmospheric novel, New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Neal Shusterman explores questions of life, death, and what might lie in between.
Nick and Allie don’t survive the car accident–and their souls don’t exactly get where they’re supposed to go. Instead, they’re caught halfway between life and death, in a sort of limbo known as Everlost: a shadow of the living world, filled with all the things and places that no longer exist. It’s a magical, yet dangerous, place where bands of lost kids run wild and anyone who stands in the same place too long sinks to the center of the Earth.
When they find Mary, the self-proclaimed queen of lost souls, Nick feels like he’s found a home, but Allie isn’t satisfied spending eternity between worlds. Against all warnings, Allie begins learning the “Criminal Art” of haunting, and ventures into dangerous territory, where a monster called the McGill threatens all the souls of Everlost.
Everwild
- By: Neal Shusterman
- Narrator: Nick Podehl
- Length: 11 hours 16 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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4.21(12258 ratings)
After the events of Everlost, Nick and Allie are on separate paths–and Everlost, the limbo land of dead children, is at war in this riveting novel from New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Neal Shusterman.
Nick wants to help the dead reach the light at the end of the tunnel, but Mary Hightower, their self-proclaimed queen and a dangerous fanatic, is determined to keep them trapped in Everlost for all of eternity. Traveling in the memory of the Hindenburg, Mary is spreading her propaganda and attracting Afterlights to her cause at a frightening speed.
Allie travels home to seek out her parents, along with Mikey, who was once the terrifying monster the McGill. Allie is tempted by the seductive thrill of skinjacking the living, until she discovers the shocking truth about skinjackers that makes her question her place in both worlds.
Full Tilt
- By: Neal Shusterman
- Length: 5 hours 48 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: October 30, 2018
- Language: English
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3.89(8535 ratings)
Sixteen-year-old Blake has always been the responsible one in his dysfunctional family-the one who drives safely, gets good grades, and looks after his wild younger brother, Quinn. Quinn is his brother’s opposite-a thrill-seeker who’s always chasing the next scary rush, no matter what the cost. But Quinn and Blake are in for the surprise of their lives when they’re thrust into the world of a bizarre phantom carnival-and their souls are the price of admission.
In order to save his brother, and himself, Blake must survive seven different carnival rides before dawn. Seven rides . . . it sounds easy. But each ride is full of unexpected dangers, because each ride is a reflection of one of Blake’s deepest fears. And the last ride is the worst one of all. Because that’s the one that confronts Blake with a terrifying secret from his past-a secret he’s been running from for years.
Full of roller-coaster twists and turns, Neal Shusterman’s latest novel is an Orpheus-like adventure into one boy’s psyche.
Game Changer
- By: Neal Shusterman
- Narrator: Andrew Eiden
- Length: 10 hours 3 minutes
- Publisher: Quill Tree Books
- Publish date: February 09, 2021
- Language: English
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3.69(4699 ratings)
“A timely, speculative thought experiment in perspective, privilege, and identity.” —Kirkus
“The conceit behind Shusterman’s latest is truly unique. While it exhibits the author’s usual storytelling aplomb, it also manages to delve into more serious and timely subject matter, such as racism, sexism, and homophobia. Despite these heavy topics, the story still moves at a lively pace and, thanks to a zany sci-fi twist, manages to pack in a few laughs as well.” —Booklist
All it takes is one hit on the football field, and suddenly Ash’s life doesn’t look quite the way he remembers it.
Impossible though it seems, he’s been hit into another dimension–and keeps on bouncing through worlds that are almost-but-not-really his own.
The changes start small, but they quickly spiral out of control as Ash slides into universes where he has everything he’s ever wanted, universes where society is stuck in the past…universes where he finds himself looking at life through entirely different eyes.
And if he isn’t careful, the world he’s learning to see more clearly could blink out of existence…
This high-concept novel from the National Book Award-winning and New York Times-bestselling author of the Arc of a Scythe series tackles the most urgent themes of our time, making this a must-buy for readers who are starting to ask big questions about their own role in the universe.
... Read moreGuys Read: The Dirt on Our Shoes
- By: Neal Shusterman
- Narrator: Adam Saunders
- Length: 50 minutes
- Publisher: Walden Pond Press
- Publish date: September 17, 2013
- Language: English
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3.94(85 ratings)
T-Bin has been traveling through space for years to deposit its passengers on a new planet, to give them a new life. But now, mere days from arrival, Tanner can’t shake the feeling that there’s a more sinister plot at work. A short story from Guys Read: Other Worlds, edited by Jon Scieszka.
... Read moreHawking’s Hallway
- By: Neal Shusterman
- Length: 9 hours 38 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: November 17, 2020
- Language: English
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4.33(692 ratings)
Nick Slate, in order to protect his father and little brother, reluctantly must help the Accelerati complete Tesla’s great device. Their power-mad leader wants nothing less than to control the world’s energy-but there are still three missing objects to track down.
Nick’s friends can’t help him, as they are spread across the globe grappling with their own mysteries-with Vince in Scotland, Caitlin and Mitch on their way to New Jersey, and Petula’s whereabouts unknown. On his own, Nick must locate Tesla’s final inventions- which are the most powerful of all, capable of shattering time and collapsing space.
Nimbo (The Toll)
- By: Neal Shusterman
- Length: 15 hours 2 minutes
- Publisher: BookaVivo
- Publish date: August 31, 2022
- Language: Spanish
No ha pasado mas que un ano desde que los caminos de Citra y Rowan se separaron, pero en este tiempo los rumores sobre un justiciero que persigue a los segadores corruptos se han multiplicado. Por todo el continente se oyen susurros de que los culpables acaban siempre devorados por las llamas. La segadora Anastasia criba con compasion y desafia abiertamente las ideas del nuevo orden. No obstante, cuando su vida se ve amenazada y sus metodos se cuestionan, queda claro que no todos los miembros de la Guadana desean el cambio y que la podredumbre crece hasta en los cimientos mas solidos. La muerte debe existir para que la vida tenga sentido. Pero ?cual es el precio que cada segador esta dispuesto a pagar?
... Read morePunto de inflexión (Game Changer)
- By: Neal Shusterman
- Length: 10 hours 51 minutes
- Publisher: BookaVivo
- Publish date: March 28, 2023
- Language: Spanish
Un segundo es lo que tarda su vida en transformarse. Nada más recibir un golpe en la cabeza, la realidad de Ash cambia. Por imposible que parezca, ha llegado a una especie de mundo paralelo en el que su vida es similar…, pero al mismo tiempo muy diferente. A medida que se desliza en bucle de un universo a otro, Ash empieza a ver las cosas desde nuevas perspectivas: algunas en las que tiene todo lo que siempre ha deseado y otras en las que ha perdido hasta el menor de sus privilegios, algunas en las que la sociedad se ha anclado al pasado y otras en las que el futuro está a punto de desintegrarse. Y tal vez, al perderse en otras dimensiones, encuentre mucho más de lo que había buscado. Punto de inflexión es la nueva novela independiente del premiado autor de Siega. Su adaptación televisiva, a cargo de Netflix, se encuentra en preparación.
... Read moreRoxy
- By: Neal Shusterman
- Narrator: Michael Crouch
- Length: 10 hours 56 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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3.93(3207 ratings)
From the team that brought you the New York Times bestselling Dry comes a “gritty and unflinching” (Booklist) thriller that proves when gods play games, even love is a lie.
The freeway is coming.
It will cut the neighborhood in two. Construction has already started, pushing toward this corridor of condemned houses and cracked concrete with the momentum of the inevitable. Yet there you are, in the fifth house on the left, fighting for your life.
Ramey, I.
The victim of the bet between two manufactured gods: the seductive and lethal Roxy (Oxycontin), who is at the top of her game, and the smart, high-achieving Addison (Adderall), who is tired of being the helpful one, and longs for a more dangerous, less wholesome image. The wager–a contest to see who can bring their mark to “the Party” first–is a race to the bottom of a rave that has raged since the beginning of time. And you are only human, dazzled by the lights and music. Drawn by what the drugs offer–tempted to take that step past helpful to harmful…and the troubled places that lie beyond.
But there are two I. Rameys–Isaac, a soccer player thrown into Roxy’s orbit by a bad fall and a bad doctor and Ivy, his older sister, whose increasing frustration with her untreated ADHD leads her to renew her acquaintance with Addy.
Which one are you?
Scorpion Shards
- By: Neal Shusterman
- Length: 6 hours 29 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: July 21, 2020
- Language: English
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3.72(1310 ratings)
Six teens struggle to discover the source of their strange and horrific abilities in this first book of the Star Shards Chronicles.
Dillon has the terrifying power to create massive amounts of destruction with the slightest tweak of his will. Deanna is so consumed by fear, it has become like a black hole, drawing to her the very things that terrify her. Then, when the glare of a supernova sixteen light-years away illuminates the night sky, they have a vision: There are six of them out there, all teenagers, and all suffering from supernatural afflictions that disfigure their bodies and souls. Only by finding one another will the six ever be strong enough to defeat these mysterious forces that, bit by bit, are devouring their souls from the inside out.
Acclaimed author Neal Shusterman “combines personal quest, horror, and science fiction into an absorbing exploration of good and evil, guilt, forgiveness and personal responsibility” (VOYA) in this thrilling start to a riveting trilogy.
Shattered Sky
- By: Neal Shusterman
- Length: 15 hours 49 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: September 15, 2020
- Language: English
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4.09(537 ratings)
In this conclusion to the Star Shards Chronicles, powerful and terrifying invaders have arrived from a parallel dimension, and only the Star Shards can prevent the destruction of the human race.
Six children were conceived at the exact moment that the star Mentaras-H went supernova, and the explosion transformed their souls into living star fragments. Now the Star Shards face the ultimate battle-and the true purpose of their gifts will be revealed, for it is no accident they have these powers. Once despised for their “deformities,” the Star Shards are now worshiped and feared as gods. Their power is unlimited, as is the temptation to abuse it. But a new and terrifying force has torn a wound in the universe, infecting it like a deadly, intelligent virus. Only one power exists that could conceivably prevent the extermination of the human race: the Star Shards. But only if they can put aside their titanic egos and join forces one final time.
Acclaimed author Neal Shusterman’s “talent for depicting superhuman characters with human strengths and weaknesses lends depth and immediacy to a tale of cosmic proportions” (School Library Journal) in this stunning conclusion to a visionary trilogy.
Siega (Scythe)
- By: Neal Shusterman
- Length: 12 hours 54 minutes
- Publisher: BookaVivo
- Publish date: August 31, 2022
- Language: Spanish
Antes, las personas morian por causas naturales. Existian asesinos invisibles llamados enfermedades, el envejecimiento era irreversible y se producian accidentes de los que no se podia regresar. Ahora, todo eso ha quedado atras y solo perdura una verdad muy simple: la gente tiene que morir. Y esa es la tarea de los segadores. Porque en un futuro donde la humanidad controla la muerte, ?quien decide cuando y como sembrarla? Citra y Rowan acaban de ser seleccionados como aprendices de segadores. ?Su objetivo? Superar las pruebas de su mentor, sean las que sean. Aunque en el proceso renuncien a todo lo que les hace humanos.
... Read moreThe Dark Side of Nowhere
- By: Neal Shusterman
- Narrator: Jason Harris
- Length: 4 hours 43 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2009
- Language: English
The Schwa Was Here
- By: Neal Shusterman
- Narrator: Neal Shusterman
- Length: 5 hours 59 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2008
- Language: English
The Shadow Club
- By: Neal Shusterman
- Length: 4 hours 45 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: July 28, 2020
- Language: English
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3.87(2287 ratings)
The Shadow Club starts simply enough: the kids who are tired of being second-best get together and, for the first time, talk about how they feel. But soon the members decide to play practical jokes on the first-place winners they envy, and things begin to spin dangerously out of control.
... Read moreThe Shadow Club Rising
- By: Neal Shusterman
- Length: 4 hours 43 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: November 17, 2020
- Language: English
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3.89(798 ratings)
The Shadow Club doesn’t exist anymore. The group of second-best kids used to play anonymous practical jokes on their rivals, until things spiraled out of control. Now Jared and the ex-Shadow Club members are having a hard time shaking their reputation. And when the new golden boy at school is the victim of a series of nasty pranks, everyone’s convinced Jared is to blame. Determined to prove his innocence, Jared soon becomes wrapped up in a nightmare worse than anything the Shadow Club ever caused.
... Read moreThief of Souls
- By: Neal Shusterman
- Length: 8 hours 51 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: August 11, 2020
- Language: English
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3.98(665 ratings)
A group of monumentally powerful teens must face an ancient, soul-eating foe in this second book of the Star Shards Chronicles.
A cataclysmic explosion has given earthly teens astronomical powers-when the star Mentarsus-H went supernova at their conceptions, the teens absorbed the shattered soul of the star and inherited unimaginable abilities. Now the Star Shards have become like gods, drunk on their own power-and ripe for manipulation by The Bringer, a creature who would turn them against one another and transform the planet into his own personal feeding ground. But who is more dangerous: The Bringer or the Star Shards?
Acclaimed author Neal Shusterman presents “a story which is grippingly unexpected” (The Bookwatch) that sets the stage for the riveting conclusion to the Star Shards trilogy.
Trueno (Thunderhead)
- By: Neal Shusterman
- Length: 18 hours 37 minutes
- Publisher: BookaVivo
- Publish date: September 27, 2022
- Language: Spanish
Todo cambio hace tres anos: fue entonces cuando Anastasia y Lucifer desaparecieron; cuando el segador Goddard llego al poder; cuando el Nimbo retiro la palabra a toda la humanidad, menos a Grayson Tolliver. En este impactante desenlace de El arco de la Guadana, la trilogia que Neal Shusterman comenzo con Siega, se pondran a prueba las lealtades y reapareceran viejos amigos. Pero el rugir del trueno siempre es el preludio de la tormenta, y puede que el ruido del cambio ya haya empezado a resonar entre los portadores de la muerte.
... Read moreUnBound
- By: Neal Shusterman
- Length: 10 hours 2 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: April 07, 2020
- Language: English
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4.23(4436 ratings)
Find out what happens to Connor, Risa, and Lev now that they’ve finally destroyed the Proactive Citizenry in this collection of short stories set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Unwind Dystology by Neal Shusterman.
Connor Lassiter’s fight to bring down Proactive Citizenry and find a suitable alternative to unwinding concluded in UnDivided. Now Connor, Risa, and Lev are free to live in a peaceful future-or are they? Neal Shusterman brings back his beloved Unwind characters for his fans to see what’s left for those who were destined to be unwound.
Unwind
- By: Neal Shusterman
- Narrator: Luke Daniels
- Length: 10 hours 9 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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4.17(197986 ratings)
Three teens fight for their lives and each other in this breathtakingly suspenseful first book in the twisted, New York Times bestselling Unwind Dystology series by Neal Shusterman.
After America’s Second Civil War, the Pro-Choice and Pro-Life armies came to an agreement. According to their Bill of Life, human life may not be terminated from the moment of conception until the age of thirteen. But between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, the child may be gotten rid of by their parent through a process called “unwinding.”
By repurposing a teen’s organs and other body parts in living recipients, the unwound child’s life doesn’t technically end. According to society’s leaders, unwinding leads to a healthier and safer community, as troublesome and unwanted teens are used for the greater good.
Curtis is a rebel whose unwinding was ordered by his parents. Rita, a ward of the state, has been slated for unwinding due to cost cutting. And Lev, his parents’ tenth child, has been destined for unwinding since birth as a religious tithe. As their paths intersect, they start to fight for their own destinies. But do they stand a chance of escaping their fate or proving their lives are worth saving?