Résultats pour "Rose" dans Dystopique

When you’re a djinn, fixing all your problems can be as simple as snapping your fingers. This isn't one of those times. We all have our crosses to bear. The demons of our past haunt the corners of our minds. More often than not, those demons stay locked away, never to see the light of day. Rosie is not so lucky.

Set in a fractured United States, in the southwestern country now known as Texoma. A world where magic is acknowledged but mistrusted, especially by a young gunslinger named Lizbeth Rose. Battered by a run across the border to Mexico Lizbeth Rose takes a job offer from a pair of Russian wizards to be their local guide and gunnie. For the wizards, Gunnie Rose has already acquired a fearsome reputation and they’re at a desperate crossroad, even if they won’t admit it.

Three years out of the service and living a calm and relaxing life in a cabin in rural Georgia, Rose McCullum finds herself in a new war. A deadly pandemic sweeps across the country leaving millions of bodies in its wake. For whatever reason, she is unaffected.

In the second volume of the Native Tongue trilogy, the time has come for Láadan - the secret language created to resist an oppressive patriarchy - to empower womankind worldwide. To expand the language's reach, female linguists translate the Bible into Láadan and a group of Roman Catholic nuns are tasked to spread the language. But when outraged priests detect their sabotage, they send a double agent to infiltrate and destroy the movement from the inside.

History isn’t always written to glorify the victors. Sometimes, it’s written to conceal the truth. In this novel’s depiction of alternate history military fiction, Sparta still exists today as a technologically advanced, secret civilization dedicated to protecting humankind. When smallpox is genetically engineered into a bioweapon, Alessa—a warrior in the Spartan military—is sent to collect evidence regarding its origin. After being violently attacked, she awakens with no memory to a world infected with the very virus she had been sent to prevent.

Collin is clever, calm, and kind; qualities that serve him well living under an oppressive regime. But after he meets Rose—the stunning symbol of the Utopian Shroud—he decides to fight for love while fighting for his life. As Rose, Collin, and the Utopian Shroud try to stop the tyrannical rule of the Complot, Collin realizes there's more to romantically-ever-after than he thought. If he wants to hold the heart of Rose, Collin has to give up knowing the truth—because Rose's true identity must remain a secret for the Shroud to save Canuckia.

Fifteen years after a dark matter reactor accident plunged Earth into a nuclear winter, Harry reactivates in a garbage dump. He's an android with amnesia in old New York, presently known as Empire City. He now works for what's left of the federal union as a bounty hunter, trying to raise the money he needs to replace his AI implant before it kills him.

Silver Lady weaves a captivating narrative that resonates with those who enjoy uncanny stories of the inexplicable, as well as connections formed on epic journeys. Will the river reveal its secrets, or will the puzzles confound the crew? Dive into Silver Lady and experience a magical mystery ride that transcends time and reality.

There was nothing left to do but walk. Walk miles down the highway, town after town, from one state to the other. After the leaps and bounds our society has achieved, this is what we are reduced to. Walking. Go North, they say. There's hope in the North, where the spiders haven't found us.... Yet.

When the head of a hovercycle club inexplicably calls in news of his own murder, Detective Simon Grave and his team are drawn in to Crab Cove's hovercycle underworld, a world of loyalty, betrayal, greed, and-yes-irony. As if murder weren't enough, the bombing of an election debate stage has the mayor pressing for a quick resolution to both crimes. It becomes increasingly clear that the crimes are connected, and that the solution will require the unraveling of an elaborate criminal scheme-and more.