Résultats pour "Apocalypsis" dans Fiction

Valentine disparue... Qui la cherche vraiment ? Entre satire sociale, polar contemporain et romance lesbienne, le nouveau roman de Virginie Despentes est un road-book qui promène l'auditeur entre Paris et Barcelone, sur les traces de tous ceux qui ont connu Valentine, l'adolescente égarée... Les différents personnages se croisent sans forcément se rencontrer, et finissent par composer, sur un ton tendre et puissant, le portrait d'une époque.

Slay monsters. Steal powers. Become unstoppable. Rob was having a bad day even before the Integration struck. A bloodthirsty monster appeared in his living room. His supposedly dead brother was suddenly back alive. And a strange Victorian butler was trying to kill him. That all happened before...

Where the System demands obedience, Dean chooses rebellion. The System is expanding its reach, consuming countless worlds as it does. Those who do not die are converted into adventurers—thralls who feed its lust for endless violence and conquest. During a chance encounter with one of the System’s agents, Dean Williams is Activated, becoming one of the few on Earth with access to magic. Enhanced far beyond normal adventurers, his mission is simple: Complete quests. Earn rewards. Gain power.

As humanity is taking its final breath, facing extinction from a myriad of monsters, the last three people on earth are creating a final chance for the hero to go back in time and stop the apocalypse. However, before the hero can enter the chronomancer portal to the past, she and the portal's creator are both killed, leaving only the weak assistant to carry on their dream of saving the world. Will Nick be able to right the wrongs done to him, and prepare the hero for the world to come?

Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilisation. This is the twelfth expedition. Their group is made up of four women: An anthropologist; a surveyor; a psychologist, the de facto leader; and our narrator, a biologist. Their mission is to map the terrain and collect specimens; to record all their observations, scientific and otherwise, of their surroundings and of one another; and, above all, to avoid being contaminated by Area X itself.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Three days ago, Elias was worried about missing a lecture. Now he's running for his life. It starts with a news report. A bite attack at a Chinese airport. Something strange, something far away. Elias doesn't think much of it. He's twenty-three, living...

Izzy heard the warning before the world went dark. When an EMP wipes out the grid, her mountain town descends into chaos. With no power, no help, and panic spreading fast, Izzy must rely on instinct and training to save lives before everything burns...

By the time the classified report is leaked to the public, it's already too late. A horrifying pandemic has begun to spread, with ferocious speed, from Paris to the rest of Europe. The infected masses die quickly . . . but they don't remain dead for long. As military forces are overpowered by the horde of undead, civilization as we know it is pushed to the breaking point. Those who remain uninfected rush the ports, hoping to escape the bloodthirsty beasts, desperate for some safe harbor.

Christ's second coming motivates several characters during the civil war battle of fredericksburg. They assure the bloodbath of December, 1862, is the biblical armageddon, and that confederate general Stonewall Jackson will be revewaled as Christ come again. The Apocalypse also figures in 2nd Century Asia Minor, where a certain Montanus believes he is the incarnation of God the Father, and that his two female disciples form a new Trinity, who will orchestrate the world's end.

*A Short History of the Apocalypse: your comprehensive guide to the challenges of Armageddon* Join Frankie Boyle (Saturday Night Swindle; Celebrity Vengeance) and Charlie Skelton (head writer: Ad Naseum; David Suchet's News Sachet) as they debrief time traveller and bon vivant from the late 21st...

Captured and alone, Aurora's fate hangs in the balance as her brothers and friends desperately search for her. Still playing the role of billionaire Greyson Ross, Tyler has abandoned his post at the Ministry of Truth, risking everything to save his sister. But as time runs out and their hopes dwindle, they realize that the forces of darkness are closing in. Aurora is trapped on a remote Scottish peninsula, at the mercy of a ruthless faction that answers to no one.

When an EMP plunges Ridgecrest Prison into darkness, every lock and safeguard fails. Trapped with five thousand violent inmates and only a handful of allies, Dr. Alexandra Ward must fight to survive the chaos, and decide who can be trusted when survival is all that matters...

A lethal super-virus has wiped out much of the population, toppling governments, religions, and most of society. Stranded on a remote, faraway mission, Col. Noah Dresdon agonizes about what’s become of his family in Florida. Did his wife survive? The last time he talked to her, she was already sick.

Regan is hoping for a few minutes to breathe, but the universe has other ideas. The demons from the world of Deorus have finally arrived. He expected a tough battle, but he underestimated just what the demons would bring to bear. That doesn't mean he is giving up. Regan is not averse to a challenge. Yet the demons aren't the only threat that seems to be rearing its head, and he just can't seem to grab the new one by its tail.

The training continues. So do the missions, and now Jonesy and Molly and Duke need to run on a razor’s edge to save the world - preferably without killing their new recruits.

After a massive wave of disappearances, 26-year-old CIA analyst Everett Carroll finally believes what he's been told about the biblical prophecy of the rapture. But will he be able to survive the gauntlet of destruction known as the Great Tribulation? Seven seals, seven trumpets, and seven vials of God's wrath are about to be poured out upon the earth, and woe to the inhabitants thereof! Global currencies have collapsed, famine and plague have claimed the lives of millions, and the world has crumbled into chaos.

Aurora Carter thought she had it all figured out—running her pottery business in the quaint town of Grand Marais, Minnesota. But when her long-lost cousin Drew, a devout Christian and investigative journalist, sends her a package with a cryptic warning, she brushes it off. Little does she know, Drew's murder is just the beginning of a chain of events that will shake her beliefs and lure her into one adventure after another.

When the long-feared war between the USA and Russia finally ignites, the world is changed forever. In a matter of hours, nuclear fire engulfs major cities, and civilization collapses. New York City—once a beacon of power and progress—is reduced to smoldering ruins, where only the ruthless survive. In the heart of this shattered landscape, a group of unlikely allies must navigate the chaos. Facing brutal warlords, desperate scavengers, and the deadly remains of a once-thriving metropolis, they are forced into a relentless battle for survival.

The world didn't end in a single night. It died slowly. Brutally. One day at a time. The Pleasure Beach is packed. Families queue for the Roller Coaster, arcades flash in the heat, and twelve-year-old Josh begs for just one more go. Then, the holiday crowds turn into a stampede of terror. A contagion tears through the seafront, turning tourists and neighbours into shambling, flesh-eating monsters. There is no warning. There is no time to run. In moments, the fairground becomes a slaughterhouse. Trapped in the chaos, Matt and Josh must fight through a seaside town gone to hell.

Der Journalist Peter Adam erwacht im Kölner Dom - ohne Erinnerung daran, was in den letzten Tagen geschehen ist. Ringsum hebt sich der Boden, die Hölle tut sich auf, Menschen stehen in Flammen. Hat die Zeit der Apokalypse begonnen? Selbst der Papst im fernen Rom, der sich Petrus II. nennt, scheint von einem Dämon besessen zu sein und tut nichts, um das drohende Verhängnis abzuwenden. Die letzte Hoffnung der Welt liegt in der rätselhaften Tätowierung, die Peter Adams gesamten Körper bedeckt. Uralte Zeichen, die den Weg zu einem der größten Mysterien der Menschheitsgeschichte weisen. Dem Ursprung des Bösen.