Resultados para "Hunger" en Ciencia ficción y fantasía

Rapunzel meets Little Red Riding Hood in the next installment of the bestselling Enchanted Legacies series. Contains mature themes...

Quando Katniss urla "Mi offro volontaria, mi offro volontaria come tributo!" sa di aver appena firmato la sua condanna a morte. È il giorno dell'estrazione dei partecipanti agli Hunger Games, un reality show organizzato ogni anno da Capitol City con una sola regola: uccidi o muori. Ognuno dei Distretti deve sorteggiare un ragazzo e una ragazza tra i 12 e i 18 anni che verrà gettato nell'Arena a combattere fino alla morte. Ne sopravvive uno solo, il più bravo, il più forte, ma anche quello che si conquista il pubblico, gli sponsor, l'audience.

Dragon Shifters conquered the human continent centuries ago. Now seems like a perfect time for a rebellion . . . Lissa Allaway is the best healer in her poverty-stricken region. Her people need her help to survive, but when she's drafted to serve the Drakeon in the capital, she's forced to...

È la mattina della mietitura che inaugura la decima edizione degli Hunger Games. A Capitol City, il diciottenne Coriolanus Snow si sta preparando con cura: è stato chiamato a partecipare ai Giochi in qualità di mentore e sa bene che questa potrebbe essere la sua unica possibilità di accedere alla gloria. La casata degli Snow, un tempo potente, sta attraversando la sua ora più buia.

In order to preserve his victory in Krysal, Kai has no choice but to venture to an unknown continent. Rosemount is nothing like his home, surrounding him with a wild mix of new powers, different species, and warring factions. Even stranger, his only companions are two uneasy allies that he never would have expected when he began his journey. The new continent offers great opportunities for growth, but it also contains hidden dangers. Demons have taken over the heart of Rosemount, and their hungers make them seek Kai.

Lik-Rifa, the dragon god of legend, has been freed from her eternal prison. Now she plots a new age of blood and conquest. As Orka continues the hunt for her missing son, the Bloodsworn sweep south in a desperate race to save one of their own—and Varg takes the first steps on the path of vengeance. Elvar has sworn to fulfil her blood oath and rescue a prisoner from the clutches of Lik-Rifa and her dragonborn followers, but first she must persuade the Battle-Grim to follow her. Yet even the might of the Bloodsworn and Battle-Grim cannot stand alone against a dragon god.

Contro tutte le previsioni, Katniss è sopravvissuta agli Hunger Games per la seconda volta. Ma anche se ora è lontana dall'arena sanguinaria, non può dirsi salva. Capitol City è molto arrabbiata. Capitol City vuole vendetta. E chi è destinato a pagare per i disordini? Katniss, ovviamente, la Ragazza di Fuoco. Come se non bastasse, il Presidente Snow tiene a precisare che ormai tutti sono in pericolo, nessuno escluso: la famiglia di Katniss, i suoi amici più cari, tutti gli abitanti del Distretto 12.

A 400-year-old vampire and a spellbound witch are on the hunt for the spell to set her free. What could possibly go wrong? Vampires, werewolves, hybrids, witches, and returned-from-the-dead exes. Just another day in New Orleans!

Just when you thought zombies were bad enough. At the end of the world, one luxury fishing boat captain will learn the perils of a new age.

Just as Clara and her sister are settling into their new life, Drosselmeyer sends a desperate message to the Seelie Court. With Lir and Louisa occupied elsewhere, Clara and Finias (the Sugarplum Faerie) have no choice but to respond and forge deep into Unseelie Territory, where a cruel Queen, known as the Eater of Hearts, has taken the throne. As they infiltrate the Court of Dread, Finias and Clara are forced to keep their relationship a secret. Meanwhile, the ravenous victims of the Queen, called the Heartless, turn the Unseelie kingdom into a far more dangerous place than usual.

1695. Spanish Netherlands. The war between King Louis XIV and the League of Augsberg reaches a pivotal moment at the Siege of Namur. When the besieged French army starts to mount an increasingly fierce resistance, Bastian immortal Conrad Greene and his company of elite intelligence operatives are sent to Liège to track down the traitor supplying the enemy with stocks of a new, powerful gunpowder.

The world’s food supply grows aggressively, occupying every inch of earth, no matter how inhospitable. World hunger is averted. Humanity flourishes. RC-714 is digested, absorbed…and passed on. The Change affects small fast-breeding mammals first. They multiply with the same aggressive speed as the ExoGen plants, but an insatiable hunger drives them to violence. A war between species breaks out. When RC-714 reaches humanity, along with every other large creature on the planet, civilization implodes. 

The instant Sunday Times bestseller! Daggermouth is the viral sensation by successful indie author H. M. Wolfe. A gut-wrenching, all-consuming, dark, dystopian romance – perfect for fans of The Hunger Games, The Handmaid's Tale and Conform. He Is Her Ruin. She Is His Rebellion. ‘Daggermouth...

Gabriella and Nocter fell in love as most do, but the difference was theirs bloomed in the sea. Their world was surrounded by the magical realm of the ocean, so their hearts were easily lulled into pristine moments that promised to be shining collections of the most amazing golden memories. They couldn't get enough of each other, nor could they steal enough moments to be satiated. Nothing could separate them, nothing but what did.

Non puoi rifiutarti di partecipare agli Hunger Games. Una volta scelto, il tuo destino è scritto. Dovrai lottare fino all'ultimo, persino uccidere per farcela. Katniss ha vinto. Ma è davvero salva? Dopo la settantaquattresima edizione degli Hunger Games, l'implacabile reality show che si svolge a Panem ogni anno, lei e Peeta sono, miracolosamente, ancora vivi. Katniss dovrebbe sentirsi sollevata, perfino felice. Dopotutto, è riuscita a tornare dalla sua famiglia e dall'amico di sempre, Gale.

Aboard the confines of an ancient space hulk, Seth and his Flesh Tearers engage in a brutal struggle against a horde of alien genestealers and their own natures. A hunger drives these warriors of the Blood, one matched by their alien aggressors. Hope remains while the Flesh Tearers can hold on to their honour, but what is the truth that lurks at the heart of this derelict ship, and will Seth manage to stave off the rage long enough to discover it?

Having witnessed gods fighting during the great incursion, Kai and Zae Zin Nim travel across the continent, hungry to attain those reaches of power. Their search leads them to the riches of Krysal, whose crystal cities tell stories of well-fed citizens... and strength that can be bought. With his newfound monstrous strength, Kai finds himself treated differently here than in his old home. Servants at his beck and call, and money beyond anything he's ever received. But the luxury makes him uneasy, and the Frontier elites speak of a rot at the nation's core.

My name is Lexie, and I raise the dead. Necromancy isn't all I can do. But that's for another time. It's my first week at the university, and an accident has sent our world spinning. A decision that should be years in the making now has to be made in mere days. The repercussions are big—not just for my life but for the guys' as well. Everyone will feel my choice. Everyone will have to live with it. What the hell do I do?

IL QUINTO ROMANZO DELLA SERIE HUNGER GAMES. Quando sai già che perderai tutto ciò che ami, che ragioni ti restano per lottare? All'alba dei cinquantesimi Hunger Games, i distretti di Panem sono in preda al panico. Quest'anno, infatti, per l'Edizione della Memoria, verrà sottratto alle famiglie un numero doppio di tributi rispetto al solito. Intanto, nel Distretto 12, Haymitch Abernathy cerca di non pensarci troppo, l'unica cosa che gli interessa è arrivare vivo a fine giornata e stare con la ragazza che ama. Quando viene chiamato il suo nome, però, il ragazzo vede infrangersi tutti i suoi sogni.

The Silence was a forty-year lie. The Hunger is the final truth. For four decades, the world has belonged to the women. After Elara Vance’s viral "Silence" erased the male sex, humanity rebuilt itself in the image of peace. The Republic of Neo-Genoa and the New York Archive rose as monuments to a world without "friction." But the cradle was always a cage. Now, the first generation of synthetic men—the "New Men"—has reached maturity. It was supposed to be the dawn of a restored species. Instead, it is the trigger for the Vance Fail-Safe.