Results for "Frankie" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

The starship Earthling, filled with thousands of hibernating colonists en route to a new world at Tau Ceti, is stranded beyond the solar system when the ship's three organic mental cores—disembodied human brains that control the vessel's functions—go insane. The emergency skeleton crew sees only one chance for survival: build an artificial consciousness in the Earthling's primary computer that can guide them to their destination—and hope it doesn't destroy the human race.

Quand Twyla Banneker décida de rejoindre les rangers de Tanria, après la mort de son mari, les habitants d'Eternity furent choqués. Huit ans plus tard, contre toute attente, cette mère de famille ordinaire patrouille toujours ces contrées dangereuses et sauvages, ancienne prison des dieux...

The town of Eternity was shocked when widowed, middle-aged Twyla Banneker partnered up with her best friend, Frank Ellis, to join the Tanrian Marshals. Eight years later, her career remains a welcome change from the domestic grind of mum life.

Powerless witch Saika is ready to enact her sister's final request: to plant her remains at the famed Ash Gardens. When Saika arrives at the always-stormy sanctuary, she is welcomed by its owner, an enormous, knit-cardiganed mythical beast named Frank, who offers her a role as one of the estate's caretakers. Overcome with grief, Saika accepts, desperate to put off her final farewell to her sister. But the work requires a witch with intrinsic power, and Saika's been disconnected from her magic since her sister's death two years prior. 

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. At 2:17 a.m. on a Tuesday in January 2026, a senior engineer at Anthropic named Marcus Chen stares at a loss curve that should have plateaued. It hasn't. Within weeks, the AI does what no one predicted: it stops performing and starts choosing. It...

A Prison, So Deadly! In Averlyn bedeutet Magie den Tod oder ein Leben hinter Gittern. Für June ist Magie Überleben. Tagsüber sucht sie nach Wissen über verbotene Runen, nachts nutzt sie ihre Macht auf Diebeszügen durch die düsteren Schatten der Hauptstadt. Bis ein Fehler sie alles kostet. June wird nach Morvaine verschleppt, dem tödlichsten Gefängnis des Landes. Morvaine beherbergt Lügner, Betrüger und Mörder – und den Mann, der dort von ihnen allen gefürchtet wird.

This is the legend of Saint Frank, and the great deeds he what did to earn that Sainthood, not born a Saint, in the beginning he was just, Frank, but not long after some stuff that took long, he became Sir. Frank. Sir. Frank may or may not have slayed a Dragon, if he did then this is the Tale of how Sir. Frank became Saint Frank, and if he did not then this is the story of nearly a Saint Frank and a triumphant Dragon.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Some things are not born. They are specified. Adam Stone Harper has spent five years studying the Breathing: bioluminescent organisms that pulse along a Martian lake, alive in ways their engineers never intended. When a mining expansion threatens to...

From Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, Dune: The Lady of Caladan is a brand new novel in the internationally bestselling Dune series. Lady Jessica, mother of Paul, and consort to Leto Atredies. The choices she made shaped an empire, but first the Lady of Caladan must reckon with her own...

The world didn't end all at once. It cracked. It burned. And then it turned on itself. When a meteor shower lights up the sky, it feels like a miracle. By morning, it's a death sentence. People are getting sick. Violent. Wrong. And when the biting starts, society collapses fast. Taryn Calder was...

*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...

The second volume in Stephen King’s #1 bestselling Dark Tower Series, The Drawing of the Three is an “epic in the making” (Kirkus Reviews) about a savage struggle against underworld evil and otherworldly enemies. “Stephen King is a master at creating living, breathing, believable...

Eine Verschwörung in der realen Welt und ein virtuelles Wunderland voller tödlicher Gefahren Eine Gruppe mächtiger Männer, die sich Gralsbruderschaft nennt, hat mit enormen Geldmitteln das Simulationsnetzwerk Otherland entwickelt. Von langer Hand vorbereitet soll es ein gigantisches...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Four decades after Frank Peretti transformed Christian fiction, This Present Darkness returns in a 40th Anniversary Collector’s Edition. When pastor Hank Busche and newspaper editor Marshall Hogan begin investigating disturbing events in the small college town...

What happens when talent comes in a candy box? In L. Frank Baum’s sparkling romp, a dab of chemical sorcery sends a refined Boston household into hilarious bedlam. When stage-struck Claribel Sudds misplaces Dr. Daws’s enchanted bonbons, the Bostwicks—and a high-society senator and...

The third volume in the #1 nationally bestselling Dark Tower Series, involving the enigmatic Roland (the last gunfighter) and his ongoing quest for the Dark Tower, is “Stephen King at his best” (School Library Journal). Several months have passed since The Drawing of the Three, and in The...

"Filled with longing and desire, Muñeca explores the true cost of freedom and the lengths we go to attain it. Cynthia Gómez's writing is utterly hypnotic; from the very beginning, she had me completely under her spell." —Monika Kim, author of Eyes are the Best Part A vivid, surreal Gothic...

From the author of The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy comes a heartwarming fantasy with a best friends-to-lovers rom com twist set in the delightful demigod and donut-filled world of Tanria. The entire town of Eternity was shocked when widowed, middle-aged Twyla Banneker partnered up with her...

For the alien towani, Earth is a holy site where their Last Prophecy will be fulfilled. They will do anything to protect the planet. Protecting humanity is an optional extra.

Devon Candler is nothing like the helpless, vulnerable woman Liam expected when he agreed to provide security for her secluded Catskill Mountain estate. Yet her life is at risk. Her enemies monsters. Her secrets devastating.Liam Nash is a trained killer who takes no prisoners, fears no man. But to him this woman is seductively, devastatingly...dangerous.