Résultats pour "schneider" dans Science-Fiction et fantasy

Une uchronie jurassienne empreinte de fantastique, par Sara Schneider, auteure de la série à succès Les enfants d'Aliel. Le surnaturel habite le Jura, imprègne ses pâturages et lie ses habitants à leur région par un attachement particulier. Certains êtres sensibles ont le don de percevoir cette magie, ils souffrent dans leur chair quand on agresse leur terre. Au XVIIe siècle, on les brûlait pour sorcellerie. Et si l'un d'eux vivait à notre époque dans des paysages défigurés par une place d'armes ? Et s'il réveillait quelques combattants défunts pour reprendre la lutte et rendre à la nature sa magie perdue ?

Once upon a time, Dinosaurs ruled the Earth. But the Mesozoic era – the Age of Reptiles – came to its cataclysmic end sixty-five million years ago. The Age of Monsters begins tonight. And the world of humankind will crumble. Some will call it Judgment. Some will attempt to fight. Others will simply run. Most will just try and survive. But no one will escape. In the mountains. In the oceans. In the cities and towns. Even up in space.

Der mitreißende Start der Romantasy-Reihe »Fire & Metal« – mit einem Finale, das einem den Atem raubt Es sollte der schönste Tag ihres Lebens werden, als die junge Wächterin Brynn zum ersten Mal mit ihrer Kohorte den jährlichen Markt auf dem Festland besuchen darf. Seit die verfeindeten...

In one fell swoop, the resistance was shattered. Lives were taken. Hope was lost. Peace slipped like grains of sand through his fingers. So did the Crown of Stones. Now, forced into hiding, Ian Troy grapples for a way to save the realm—and free its people—from the sadistic clutches of Jem Reth; Mirra’kelan’s new self-appointed emperor. Plagued with the knowledge of a tragic future, he strives to influence events and save those he cares for. But his magic has betrayed him, and Fate has other plans.

Brynn non è nata tra gli Alaha, ma è lì che è cresciuta. Ha trascorso tutta la vita tra le onde, addestrandosi come guardia e sognando il giorno in cui avrebbe finalmente messo piede sulla terraferma per il famoso Mercato annuale con i Kenta, lo stesso popolo che ha condannato la sua comunità a vivere in mare aperto. Ma quello che doveva essere un giorno di festa si trasforma in caos quando, inaspettatamente, Brynn si scontra con un enigmatico soldato nemico dagli occhi scuri e dallo sguardo troppo intenso per essere ignorato.

When her mom dies, leaving her in the care of her stepfather, Ciara never expects to spend years locked away. Music is the only thing keeping her from going insane, and she thanks her unknown savior every day for secretly giving her a way to listen to music. Reina's live performances fill her tiny music player. Eventually, Ciara falls in love, whether with the music or the person, she doesn't know, but she dreams of meeting the soul that powers that voice.

Alternate Worlds is a Magic: the Gathering memoir written by Brian Schneider, one of the game’s early R&D leads, about the fun and merit of growing up a gamer. Consider Alternate Worlds a love letter to Magic: the Gathering, to gamers, and to anyone who woke up one day and thought, “I miss my friends.” If I were to summarize why this book exists, I’d say that I got pretty fed up with the cloning culture in the gaming industry and just wanted to make something that felt like the opposite of that.

Es sollte der schönste Tag ihres Lebens werden, als die junge Wächterin Brynn zum ersten Mal mit ihrer Kohorte den jährlichen Markt auf dem Festland besuchen darf. Seit die verfeindeten Kenta die Alaha aufs offene Meer verbannten, herrscht ein brüchiger Frieden zwischen den beiden Völkern. Als Brynn sich mit dem geheimnisvollen Kenta-Soldaten Acker anlegt, ahnt sie nicht, dass sie eben diesen Frieden aufs Spiel gesetzt hat. 

An unlikely vigilante slips through the alleys of Old Korvosa, the armor of the insidious Gray Maidens - former stormtroopers of an insane queen - imprisoning her within a past she can neither forget nor atone for. But when an innocent comes to her in need, this mercenary avenger must test her mettle against a foe just as resolute and merciless as she once was.

Secrets are a dragon’s best friend. Deception is a close second. Both provide a sturdy armor, allowing half-dragon shape-shifter Dahlia Nite to live undetected among the humans. Walking in two worlds, belonging in neither, she wraps herself in a shroud of lies to hide in plain sight. But nothing stays hidden forever. When dismembered bodies of multiple species are dumped on the riverbank, the case falls to Dahlia and Detective Alex Creed. Backed by Sentinel City’s new task force, the pair finds themselves urged along by clues that seem too good to be true.

King Felix’s sole concern is winning a war caused by his own greed and malice. He is unaware his most revered knight, Sir Xandar, and the scientist, Pencerous, have a plot to end Felix’s bloody reign. But a team from afar seizes the plan’s most vital device, detouring Xandar’s mission through a war-torn nation and a kingdom afloat in the sky. After a clash with Queen Miranda, Xandar is hunted by her navy and the most feared “phantom” ship on the high seas. The vessel Xandar chartered finds nowhere to seek refuge - but an isle no ship has ever returned from.

If anyone can tell the difference between monsters and humans, it's Dahlia Nite. For nearly a century, she's hunted one to protect the other. Safeguarding humanity from the creatures that slip through the torn veil between the worlds. Creatures like her. But the lines are blurring. As people begin mutating and combusting on the streets, Dahlia realizes a strange affliction has descended upon Sentinel City. The mysterious ailment strikes all walks of life, from the posh high-end nightclub district to the homeless community.

The brutality of war was all Ian Troy had ever known. Peace was all he ever wanted. Fate had other plans when it placed the Crown of Stones, an ancient artifact of untold power, into his battle-weary hands. With one reckless wish, he ended a conflict that had been tearing the realms apart since before he was born—and paid a terrible price. A decade later, Ian is still haunted by that tragic day. Running from the blood in his veins and on his hands, he struggles to forget—what he’s done and what he is.

The life Dahlia built in Sentinel City is over, shattered by betrayal and crushed beneath the rubble of a world she’s come to love. But in the apocalypse, grief is a luxury none can afford. Least of all, the scaled vigilante fighting to protect them. In a race against time, Dahlia must find a way to save what remains of this tragic new reality—before the Renewal extinguishes all life on the linked worlds.

Struggling to reconcile the man he once was with the man prison made him, Ian Troy emerges from captivity to an unfamiliar world gripped with fear. In the wake of his fall, those he cares for suffered their own grim fates, leaving friends endangered and scattered. His old enemy, Draken of Langor, seized control of Mirra’kelan and named himself High King.

Slated for execution, shape-shifting assassin Dahlia Nite flees her world to hide in the human realm. As payment for the shelter they unknowingly provide, Dahlia dedicates herself to protecting humans from what truly lives in the shadows. Moving from town to town, she hunts the creatures that threaten an unsuspecting human race, burying the truth that could destroy them all. But the shadows are shifting. The lies are adding up. When Sentinel City is threatened by a series of bizarre brutal murders, light is shed on what should never be seen.

Emma dreams of stardom. When leaving home the first time, she finds herself on a secluded, mysterious island where she encounters magic that turns her need for help into a duplicate version of herself. Over the years, she revisits the island and its magic to create more versions of herself to help with managing her life and her music career.

When Donald Gardner's parents tell him they’ll be taking an exciting road trip through Kansas, he openly cringes. He is sure it will be a boring summer vacation. But at one of their final roadside stops on the way home, they are approached by a poor woman offering to sell a curious item—an antique silver shoe. 

Guardians don't get a choice between dreams and duty. When something terrible stirs...duty calls. With the help of her best friend, Jackie, and Uncle Irshad, her only remaining family, Ibby has rebuilt a normal life after the chaos of the year before when she discovered she was Inconquo - a metal-shaping, iron-slinging guardian. But a normal life is too much to ask for someone wielding the power Ibby has. When a secret society with sinister intentions returns to resurrect the original Inconquo, a bloodthirsty demi-god of mythic proportions...Ibby steps to the front lines.

Sixty-five million years ago... An artificial alien intelligence has come to strip-mine the prehistoric Earth but when their robotic automations kill a mother T. rex, they start a war. One of her hatchlings has survived, traveling with an adoptive raptor pack and as the orphaned tyrannosaur grows, they wage a guerrilla war against an invading army of war-bots and giant cloned-cyborgs.