Resultados para "Eleanor" en Ciencia ficción y fantasía

When a terrible accident claims the life of Eleanor’s twin, her family is left in tatters, and her reality begins to unravel, dropping her in and out of unfamiliar worlds. When she returns to her own time and place, hours and days have flown by without her. One fateful day, Eleanor leaps from...

“In the beginning, God was said to have created everything in fairly short order. Some say seven days. Others say three. The truth is that god created nothing. God flipped a switch. The machines have been building ever since.” In the crowded techno-religious city of Aberthene, almost everyone is augmented by biomedical modification. Part machine, and part human. The church rules the state and controls everything from production to housing. Addeleigh Simmons works in a religious building cleaning out suicide booths during the day while attending classes and studying at night.

Hannah Cirric just wants her nightmare to end. So when an uncle she believed dead arrives to warn her an obsessed psychotic immortal knows where she is, she flees with him. Racing to safety with the crazed killer hot on her heels, she barely escapes an ambush with death in her wake. Holed up in her uncle’s fortified compound, Hannah starts to suspect the woman stalking her isn’t the only one after her blood. And with more immortals hunting for her unparalleled power, her only weapon might be coursing through her veins.

At the edge of sanity lies an extraordinary truth. Discovering it may be the last thing she ever does.... Hannah thinks she’s losing her mind. After hitting and killing a man with her car, his body and blood vanish without a trace. Desperate to prove she isn’t insane, she searches exhaustively until she finds him - alive and unharmed. Taken under the wing of the handsome stranger, she’s stunned to learn he’s part of an ancient race of immortals. But so is his deranged sister, and she murders every person who learns his secret.

In 2028, environmental activists hesitate to take the fight to the extreme of violent revolution. Twenty years later, with the natural environment now seriously degraded, the revolution is brought to the activists, rather than the other way around, by an authoritarian government willing to resort to violence and willing to let the majority suffer from hunger and poverty in order to control its citizens. So it is the activists who must defend their communities, their neighbors, through a more humane and in some ways more conservative status quo of care and moderation.

In the days leading up to Christmas, struggling actress Esther Diamond is working as a singing-and-dancing elf at Fenster & Co, a major Manhattan department store. As if dealing with hordes of holiday shoppers isn't bad enough, Esther's ex-almost-boyfriend, Detective Connor Lopez, is on the scene investigating a series of mob-related truck hijackings of Fenster's merchandise. Semi-retired hitman Lucky Battistuzzi is also nosing around, since the mob resents being implicated in thefts they didn't commit.

As a television reporter and double amputee, Odelle is used to having to prove herself. But fighting against the physical incarnation of evil for the fate of the world certainly raises the stakes.

Eleanor, a crowned Miss Indiana beauty queen, was on her way to college with dreams of one day becoming a star. That was until one-night poor decision derailed her plan and life. Years later, drugs and prostitution have her spiraling so out of control that she finds herself on the path to prison.

Wie ein unsichtbares Netz verbinden Fäden von Magie Familien miteinander: In Brinon haben alle ihren festen Platz im magischen Gefüge. Als seine Schwester stirbt, fällt Lucien die Aufgabe zu, ihren Witwer Noel zu heiraten – denn nur so bleibt das magische Gewebe der Familie intakt. Für beide Männer halten ihre Trauer, die ungewohnte neue Situation und intrigante Familienmitglieder mehr als eine Herausforderung bereit. Doch während der Sommer sich über Luciens idyllisches Landgut ergießt, entdecken sie, dass Liebe viele Facetten hat und Magie in bisher unbekannten Formen existiert.

When a petrol yacht catches fire in the South Atlantic, its lone survivor, Patterson, swims to safety. He is relieved when he washes up on a tropical island inhabited by four other ship-wrecked characters. But when he discovers one of the men was cast adrift by the Titanic, he is forced to question where he really is and if he will be able to escape.

Panopticon City: A Dystopian Nightmare—Rebellion in the Surveillance transports listeners to a world where freedom is a memory, and control is absolute. The sprawling metropolis of Panopticon is a city under siege not from invaders, but from within. An all-seeing regime watches every move, hears every whisper, and crushes any hope of dissent with brutal efficiency. But in the cracks of this oppressive society, rebellion flickers.

For Bobby Miracle, the job at Hipposync was supposed to be a dream internship. But when a trans-dimensional lockdown freezes time, she is trapped with a terrifying enemy who has a very sharp axe to grind. With survival at stake and secrets lurking in every corner, Bobby must bring her A game to the party and hope that her surname finally, finally, kicks in. Because though she may dress like one, even gets called one, no way is she a witch…right?

Along with her mother, a woman who, in the cosmic sense, is completely out of time, Priya Mani might be the only person in the galaxy with the power to stop a madman bent on rewriting the laws of physics and destroying the universe, and all other universes, just to get his way. Join Priya and a band of intergalactic misfits as they drink their way across the galaxy and stumble upon the greater meanings of life: to drink good rum and maintain a healthy bowel movement.

One more day. One more chance to tell family you love them, feel the grass beneath your feet, or finally speak your mind. So This Is The End follows Nora Hamilton as she navigates her last 24 hours before death, and she is determined to do something meaningful with her last moments. While looking for unique bucket list ideas, a friend suggests going on one last first date. What happens next is like a love story. Of course Nora would fall in love in her last 24 hours before death.

Cryptozoologist Ada Montgomery searches the mountains for two things: her missing brother and the kind of cryptids that’ll make her famous. Sasquatch, Ozark Howler, Snarly Yow.... She’s got evidence they’re out there. She believes in evolution and science - definitely not magic. Until a vampire saves her life.

Queen Morgan is the matriarch of her magically-gifted family, the primary caretaker of Chemerie, and the most powerful wielder her country has seen for many centuries. Because of her devoted service, Chemerie now stands strong with a massive fleet of mighty dragons, a skilled knight’s guard, and four caretakers wielding pure magic ready to heal, empower, and fight at their side.

"Jesse Vilinsky brings expert narration to another installment of the Wayward Children series...Vilinsky creates fun, expressive banter between Antsy and the group as they journey back home, finding new goals along the way. Some characters are depicted with quirky personalities, but the...

Kira Frost, fae princess and future leader of the matriarchal kingdom of Terrandale, must make a choice. To receive her elemental powers and the ability to control water, she must complete four harrowing feats representing each of the elements her people control. And she must complete them alongside three sexy fae men from opposite elemental lines vying for her love and affection. They all want her, but she can only have one - bonding herself to one man for life in exchange for her powers and her future throne. There’s only one problem: she wants them all.

A strange and weird adventure, laid in modern America with the flavor of the 19th century. The story of a businessman who was almost too honest, who found a method of paying a long-standing debt of honor, although 30 years in his grave.

R.F. Kuang, Kate Elliott, Ken Liu, Todd McCaffrey, Garth Nix, Peter S. Beagle, and other modern masters of fantasy and science fiction put their unique spin on the greatest of mythical beasts—the dragon—in never-before-seen works written exclusively for this fantasy anthology compiled by...