Résultats pour "The Twenty" dans Fantasy

Mercury Raine has spent his entire life surrounded by ghosts. Little about them can surprise him any longer. But when the Violet Giant, a ghost well over seven feet tall and built like a boulder, floats into his local pub, Mercury is as shocked as everyone else. And when the mysterious mountain of a specter knows Mercury at first glance, he is justifiably wary. Mercury’s identity is a closely guarded secret. His past is a mystery even to himself. And, for the first time in his life, the fortifications around his heart have begun to crack.

This is the omnibus of the first three books in the urban fantasy series Twenty-Sided Sorceress, collected together for the first time in one convenient volume.

Magic is the name of the game for Ivy Morgan, Maddie Graves, Harper Harlow, and Rowan Gray. Love is the most important thing, though. Four magical women, four magical children. Together they will fight the good fight. Apart they will crumble. This group of powerful friends will do whatever it takes to protect their children and each other.

It is 1958 and the France's first nuclear submarine, Plongeur. leaves port for the first of its sea trials. On board, gathered together for the first time, one of the Navy's most experienced captains and a tiny skeleton crew of sailors, engineers and scientists. The Plongeur makes her first dive and goes down, and down and down... Out of control, the submarine plummets to a depth where the pressure will crush her hull, killing everyone on board, and beyond.

Audrey Hamilton, a young American woman, comes to Paris to seek her fortune as an artist. Lurking beneath the glamour of the city, however, in a nation still recovering from the Great War of 1914-18, is the dark spiritual force of the poet Charles Baudelaire. Evil will rise from the moody old Cemetery of Montparnasse to ensnare Audrey's spirit and drag her to her doom.

When Professor Aronnax agrees to investigate a series of attacks by a mysterious sea monster, he begins an incredible underwater journey that leads him from Atlantis to the South Pole. Through unforeseen dangers, surprise encounters, and exotic settings, this epic adventure is a tour-de-force of imagination and narrative grandeur. Jules Verne was remarkably successful in foretelling the wonders science held for the future. This, his most famous novel, earned him the title of "Father of Science Fiction."

Jules Verne is considered to be an important author in France and most of Europe, where he has had a wide influence on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism. VOLUME 1: The year 1866 was signalised by a remarkable incident, a mysterious and puzzling phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten. Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind, even in the interior of continents, seafaring men were particularly excited.

Jules Verne is considered to be an important author in France and most of Europe, where he has had a wide influence on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism. VOLUME 2: We now come to the second part of our journey under the sea. The first ended with the moving scene in the coral cemetery which left such a deep impression on my mind. Thus, in the midst of this great sea, Captain Nemo's life was passing, even to his grave, which he had prepared in one of its deepest abysses.

Gamer and sorceress Jade Crow's psychotic ex-boyfriend, Samir, shows up for an epic showdown, and nothing in Wylde will ever be the same.

Never fear an ending. For every end is a beginning, too. Even the darkest night is broken by the dawn.... Jade Crow faces her biggest challenges yet, and the consequences just might be world-ending....

From Salman Rushdie, one of the great writers of our time, comes a spellbinding work of fiction that blends history, mythology, and a timeless love story. A lush, richly layered novel in which our world has been plunged into an age of unreason, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights is a breathtaking achievement and an enduring testament to the power of storytelling.

What if our future lies 40,000 years in our past? Subject Twenty-One is an astonishing debut novel in which a young woman's refusal to accept the status quo opens her eyes to the lies her society is built on. Elise's world is forever changed when she is given the opportunity of a lifetime - to work at the Museum of Evolution and be a companion to the Neanderthal, Subject Twenty-One. As a Sapien, a member of the lowest order of humans, she and others like her are held responsible for the damages inflicted on the world by previous generations.

Boss Fight: Samir! Roll for initiative.... Bruised, battered, but not even close to broken, Jade and her friends must reunite, and get ready to take out her psycho ex once and for all. Leveled up and wiser, Jade stands a chance this time. As long as she takes out Samir before he turns into a god.

Defeating her evil ex-boyfriend hasn't exactly been the reprieve from trouble that Jade hoped for. When Alek's mentor shows up with an injured Justice and government agents start asking questions she doesn't want to answer, Jade's problems are just beginning.

The Man in Black is waiting to make your acquaintance. Maybe you’ll meet him on a bus, in the supermarket or at an airport luggage carousel. Perhaps he’ll peer into your baby’s pram or approach you in the corridor of a care home. Wherever you encounter him, he's eager to pass on his stories. Stories of darkness and death, myth and madness. Stories to unsettle and horrify.

Для одного молодого человека, которого угораздило как-то повстречаться с настоящим демоном, наступила полоса невезения, в результате чего он вынужден терзаться многочисленными вопросами и самостоятельно находить на них ответы.

Liz Powell is terrified by a recurring nightmare involving the number 22. Her doctor assures her that it is just a bad dream... or is it?

Люди подчас выживают там, где выжить, казалось бы, невозможно. Боевой маг третьего ранга Олег Коробейников пережил падение с парашютом без самого парашюта, но оказался практически без ничего посреди сибирской тайги, где нечего есть, но зато полно хищных зверей, древних мутантов и других опасностей.