Resultados para "For the Win" en Ciencia ficción y fantasía

Twelve-year-old Douglas Spaulding knows Green Town, Illinois, is as vast and deep as the whole world that lies beyond. It is a pair of new tennis shoes, the first harvest of dandelions for Grandfather's renowned intoxicant, the distant clang of the trolley bell on a hazy afternoon. But as young Douglas is about to discover, summer can be more than the repetition of established rituals that hold time at bay.

Richard MacBlair has all the answers Idina Moorfield needs and is finally willing to share them. Well, most of them. Who knew there was a whole special forces division? Dedicated to people exhibiting magical powers to deal with unique challenges? Things are starting to make a lot more sense to Idina. But a lot more changes may be coming her way.

Richard MacBlair has all the answers Idina Moorfield needs and is finally willing to share them. Well, most of them. Who knew there was a whole special forces division? Dedicated to people exhibiting magical powers to deal with unique challenges? Things are starting to make a lot more sense to Idina. But a lot more changes may be coming her way. She has to face new challenges. A series of tests to determine if she's good enough for a new special forces group.

It figures. Just when Bradfordian bookshop clerk Toby Dexter finally works up the nerve to talk to his secret crush, she darts into an open door. Toby follows, and in that second, everything changes. Though it still looks like Bradford-on-Avon, the town’s suddenly chatty ATM and river mermaids are the first clues that something is quite out of place - namely, Toby. The moment he stepped through that door, Toby entered the magical parallel world of Mysterie.

As they struggle to survive in a barbarous fantasy land, a mother and daughter attempt to shake off the bonds of female slavery and escape to freedom.

In 2488, Battle Quest, an arrow shooting, sword fighting, magic slinging live action RPG, is the most popular sport in the universe. Tal works in a trash dump by day and fights in a street samurai pit by night. He dreams of becoming a Battle Quest pro to pull his sisters and grandmother from the slums. Problem is he’s too short, too broke, and his highlight vid-reel has more fails than an ogre’s got warts.

Emma Chavet and her father are winemakers who stubbornly cling to the old ways. But when an unwelcome offer comes to buy their business, they must face the new realities of a Green society. This story was originally published in the Audie Award-winning METAtropolis: Cascadia.

Menedemos, the young dashing sea captain, and his helper, the scholarly Sostratos, are sea-traders from the Greek island of Rhodes. Fearless sailors, they will travel any distance to make a profit or to search for rich treasures. While they trade in fineries such as wine and silk (and even, to the chagrin of many, peacocks), they live in dangerous times with pirates, thieves, and barbarians.

When the fastest racing pirate in the world rescues a witch who doesn't know her own power . . . lightning strikes.

Here is a brilliant recounting of the life of Odysseus after his safe return to the island of Ithaca, his wife Penelope, and his son Telemachus. Countless readers and listeners have thrilled to the adventures of Odysseus in The Iliad and The Odyssey, but what further adventures awaited him after his ten years of war and ten years of wandering? Narrated by Telemachus to the bard Phemios, On Wine-Dark Seas speaks of the human drama of a man gone twenty years from home and family, a man who saw Troy on the night of its destruction, a man who lives the special quest which is his destiny.

After a harrowing visit to the Underworld, I finally shifted into my Phoenix. Flying doesn't stop Fate from insisting that I fight for my life, though. Catching the local murderer red-handed should have put a stop to the constant danger I'm in. But now I have to escort this Tainted scum to the Underworld for a dip in the River Lethe, and it seems Fate isn't done messing with me yet. The more I get to know her, the more she seems like another overworked, overlooked woman in desperate need of some girlfriends.

Ray Bradbury’s moving recollection of a vanished golden era remains one of his most enchanting novels. Dandelion Wine stands out in the Bradbury literary canon as the author’s most deeply personal work, a semi-autobiographical recollection of a magical small-town summer in 1928...

Tarzan of the Apes, Jason Gridley, and the crew of the airship O-220 return to Pellucidar, the world at the Earth’s core, on a wartime mission to stop the Nazis from obtaining a powerful superweapon. But when the Lord of the Jungle’s murderous adversaries partner with the Mahars - Pellucidar’s routed reptilian overlords - and his adventurous granddaughter Suzanne goes missing on a reconnaissance mission, can Tarzan prevent the conquest and enslavement of all humanity in both the inner and outer worlds?

Ein himmlischer Wunderwein heilt die Herzen der Menschen. Was es mit diesem Wunderwein auf sich hat und wie man das Wunder auch wieder verlieren kann, davon hören wir in dieser kleinen Geschichte mehr.

国际巅峰调酒大师、品酒大师，有酒神之称的李解冻，为了品尝出土的已成膏状汉代美酒醉死于而立之年。当他一觉醒来时，却发现自己来到了一个名叫五行大陆的世界……國際巔峰調酒大師、品酒大師，有酒神之稱的李解凍，為了品嚐出土的已成膏狀漢代美酒醉死於而立之年。當他一覺醒來時，卻發現自己來到了一個名叫五行大陸的世界……

国际巅峰调酒大师、品酒大师，有酒神之称的李解冻，为了品尝出土的已成膏状汉代美酒醉死于而立之年。当他一觉醒来时，却发现自己来到了一个名叫五行大陆的世界……國際巔峰調酒大師、品酒大師，有酒神之稱的李解凍，為了品嚐出土的已成膏狀漢代美酒醉死於而立之年。當他一覺醒來時，卻發現自己來到了一個名叫五行大陸的世界……

国际巅峰调酒大师、品酒大师，有酒神之称的李解冻，为了品尝出土的已成膏状汉代美酒醉死于而立之年。当他一觉醒来时，却发现自己来到了一个名叫五行大陆的世界……國際巔峰調酒大師、品酒大師，有酒神之稱的李解凍，為了品嚐出土的已成膏狀漢代美酒醉死於而立之年。當他一覺醒來時，卻發現自己來到了一個名叫五行大陸的世界……

国际巅峰调酒大师、品酒大师，有酒神之称的李解冻，为了品尝出土的已成膏状汉代美酒醉死于而立之年。当他一觉醒来时，却发现自己来到了一个名叫五行大陆的世界……國際巔峰調酒大師、品酒大師，有酒神之稱的李解凍，為了品嚐出土的已成膏狀漢代美酒醉死於而立之年。當他一覺醒來時，卻發現自己來到了一個名叫五行大陸的世界……

国际巅峰调酒大师、品酒大师，有酒神之称的李解冻，为了品尝出土的已成膏状汉代美酒醉死于而立之年。当他一觉醒来时，却发现自己来到了一个名叫五行大陆的世界……國際巔峰調酒大師、品酒大師，有酒神之稱的李解凍，為了品嚐出土的已成膏狀漢代美酒醉死於而立之年。當他一覺醒來時，卻發現自己來到了一個名叫五行大陸的世界……

国际巅峰调酒大师、品酒大师，有酒神之称的李解冻，为了品尝出土的已成膏状汉代美酒醉死于而立之年。当他一觉醒来时，却发现自己来到了一个名叫五行大陆的世界……國際巔峰調酒大師、品酒大師，有酒神之稱的李解凍，為了品嚐出土的已成膏狀漢代美酒醉死於而立之年。當他一覺醒來時，卻發現自己來到了一個名叫五行大陸的世界……