Titres dans Action et aventure

Hunted by his former allies as a radical and enemy of the Imperium, Inquisitor Gregor Eisenhorn must fight to prove that he remains loyal as he tracks down a dangerous heretic whom the Inquisition believes dead, the dread former Inquisitor Quixos. As he grows more desperate for victory, Eisenhorn uses ever darker means to achieve his goals, but how far can he go using the weapons of the enemy until he becomes that very enemy, and no different to the traitor he hunts?

Entre orgueils et préjugés, bienvenue dans La Saison des débutantes ! " Parents d'une jeune fille turbulente, insolente et indisciplinée ? Engagez deux dames bien nées pour lui enseigner les bonnes manières et raffiner le matériau le plus brut. Nous tirons le meilleur du pire ! " Être pauvre n'empêche pas d'avoir de riches idées ! Privées d'un héritage qui leur aurait assuré une belle rente, Amy et Effy Tribble, deux charmantes soeurs ruinées, proposent leurs services en tant que chaperons professionnels. L'annonce passée dans le Morning Post saura attirer une clientèle fortunée.

After Lor makes the biggest mistake of her life, she finds herself on the run from the Aurora King and decides it's time to end this, once and for all. When a new enemy emerges to claim her freedom, the entire fate of Ouranos comes to rest on her shoulders. As the land continues to rebel, Lor must admit she is the key to saving the continent, whether she likes it or not. To fight for Nadir, she must lie, steal, and do whatever it takes to hunt down the remaining arks. Growing more and more desperate, she worries her actions are turning her into something she doesn't recognize.

RÉSUMÉ DU TOME 1 DE "SYSTEM UNIVERSE" : Le monde tel que nous le connaissions a cessé d'exister. Un mystérieux système en a pris le contrôle. Il a fixé ses propres règles. Chaque humain doit à présent se battre pour sa survie. Gagner de l'expérience. Améliorer ses statistiques. Acquérir des compétences. De combat en combat, Derek Hunt est devenu l'un des guerriers les plus puissants de la planète. Rien ni personne ne peut lui résister. Jusqu'au jour où un incident le précipite dans un monde inconnu. Un autre système, d'autres règles, d'autres ennemis.

Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations. Yet he toils willingly, trusting that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better world for his children. But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Soon he discovers that humanity reached the surface generations ago. Vast cities and lush wilds spread across the planet. Darrow—and Reds like him—are nothing more than slaves to a decadent ruling class.

Death has been fired by the Auditors of Reality for the heinous crime of developing…a personality. Sent to live like everyone else, Death takes a new name and begins working as a farmhand. He's got the scythe already, after all. And for humanity, Death is just…gone. Which leads to the kind of chaos you always get when an important public service is withdrawn. If Death doesn't come for you, then what are you supposed to do in the meantime? You can't have the undead wandering about like lost souls—there's no telling what might happen.

Arthur Leywin may have survived the Relictombs, but he immediately finds himself embroiled in something far more complex and dangerous: Alacryan politics. Accused of crimes he didn’t commit, Arthur is forced to defend himself without drawing the attention of his most powerful enemies. He quickly discovers that the best place to hide may be in plain sight as he continues his quest for the power to control Fate itself. It is a race against time, however, as the greatest threat of the war so far closes in on Arthur’s loved ones in Dicathen.

The Blood Angels Chapter of Space Marines is under threat. Having obliterated all human life in the Red Scar region of space, the largest tendril of Hivefleet Leviathan ever seen in the Imperium has converged and is making relentlessly for Baal. To face this awesome foe, Commander Dante has called upon the Successor Chapters of the ancient Ninth Legion. The Sons of Sanguinius gather in numbers not seen since the dark days of the Horus Heresy.

Arthur Parnassus lives a good life built on the ashes of a bad one. He’s the master of a strange orphanage on a distant and peculiar island, and he hopes to soon be the adoptive father to the six dangerous and magical children who live there. But when Arthur is summoned to make a public statement about his dark past, he finds himself at the helm of a fight for the future that his family, and all magical people, deserve. And when a new magical child hopes to join them on their island home Arthur knows they’re at a breaking point.

Jazz Bashara is a criminal. Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you're not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire. So smuggling in the occasional harmless bit of contraband barely counts, right? Not when you've got debts to pay and your job as a porter barely covers the rent. Everything changes when Jazz sees the chance to commit the perfect crime, with a reward too lucrative to turn down.

For generations the solar system--Mars, the moon, the asteroid belt--was humanity's great frontier. Until now. The alien artefact working through its program under the clouds of Venus has emerged to build a massive structure outside the orbit of Uranus: a gate that leads into a starless dark. Jim Holden and the crew of the Rocinante are part of a vast flotilla of scientific and military ships going out to examine the artefact. But behind the scenes, a complex plot is unfolding, with the destruction of Holden at its core.

Le destin ne se trompe jamais, il faut seulement l'aider un peu... Dans les Mondes Brisés s'opposent, depuis la nuit des temps, sanguis et humains en une...

Derrière la façade très académique de l'institut St Mary, les équipes d'historiens, de techniciens, de chercheurs ont découvert le secret du voyage dans le temps. Ici, on n'étudie pas seulement le passé, on le visite... Rattachée à la Police du Temps pour traquer le maléfique Clive Ronan, Max est loin de St Mary. La vie dans le futur a ses avantages, mais pas pour longtemps.

The Warmaster’s horde advances through the fire and ash of Terra's dying breaths, forcing the loyalists back to the Delphic Battlement—the very walls of the Sanctum Imperialis. Angron, Primarch of the World Eaters and Herald of Horus, has achieved immortality through annihilation—now he leads the armies of the damned in a wrathful tide, destroying all before them as the warp begins its poisonous corruption of Terra's very soil.

The witches Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick are travelling to far-distant Genua to stop a wedding and save a kingdom. But how do you fight a happy-ever-after, especially when it comes with glass slippers and a power-hungry Fairy Godmother who has made Destiny an offer it can't refuse? It's hard to resist a good story, even when the fate of the kingdom depends on it....

Fiction ? Réalité ? Qu’en est-il exactement de ce mystérieux manuscrit retrouvé dans la forêt tropicale du Pérou ? Son contenu est-il si redoutable que l’Eglise s’acharne à le détruire et, avec lui, ceux qui l’ont approché ? Le héros de ce roman d’aventure—et de cette recherche spirituelle—va reconstituer, au fil des rencontres, les neuf révélations que recèle ce livre, révélations qui lui ouvrent la porte d’une vie meilleure et lui apportent l’espoir d’un troisième millénaire où les hommes sauront concilier contrainte quotidienne et spiritualité.

L'aiguille creuse d'Étretat, les tours blanches de l'abbaye de Jumièges, le vieux phare de Tancarville... Autant de lieux mystérieux explorés par Arsène Lupin dans de fascinants jeux de piste, au cœur du fameux triangle d'or cauchois imaginé par Maurice Leblanc. Imaginé ? Est-ce si sûr ? Et si les aventures du gentleman cambrioleur dissimulaient un code ? La clé d'un trésor normand ? Le professeur Roland Bergton en est convaincu.

Could a robot ever show true creativity? Is it wise to trust self-driving cars? Will robotic body parts transform human beings into machines? Will organic technology allow robots to become human? Featuring Dr. Susan Calvin, Donovan and Powell, and the detective Elijah Baley, hero of the Robot novels, this is the ultimate collection of short stories from a genius of the genre.

"Je suis née sur ces terres encore sauvages du Montana, dans ce ranch où vivaient autrefois les trois fils Edison. Et effectivement, j'étais amoureuse de l'un d'entre eux... " J'avais huit ans lorsque j'ai juré à Kaan Edison que je l'épouserais. Il en avait alors dix-sept... Et puis un jour, j'ai grandi, et il a enfin vu en moi bien plus qu'une petite soeur sur qui veiller. Jusqu'à cette nuit maudite où il nous a tous abandonnés. Pourtant, quatre ans après, quand son père le somme de revenir pour sauver ce qui appartient à sa famille depuis plus de cent ans, il réapparaît.

Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident when he was 10, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself—and his dad. Then, when Charlie is 17, he meets a dog named Radar and his aging master, Howard Bowditch, a recluse in a big house at the top of a big hill, with a locked shed in the backyard. Sometimes strange sounds emerge from it.