Resultados para "Kyle" en Ciencia ficción y fantasía

To Benning Kidd, the best offense is leaving no one alive to attack you. It's time to make that philosophy a reality. Lauren Doheny, the Noble behind all the bounties, attacks, and plots against Benning, is dead. Unfortunately, Benning's struggles with the Nobility have just started. A coalition is forming against her, bringing together thousands of ships and an army of marines. Fleet admirals are gathering their forces and turning their eyes on Marauder's Rest.

How does a nobody like me become a wizard? There are no nobodies, only people who haven't been placed in the correct story. Mine begins on Earth, where an education in comparative literature prepared me for a distinguished career selling timeshares from a call center. My daughter deserved better than the life I could give her. My wife had long stopped expecting me to provide it. Then an earthquake buried me beneath my office, and amid the rubble appeared a portal of blue light. Naturally, I stepped through.

The Volsung Academy is under siege. Its legendary founder, Arian—Sorcerer-Ascendant of Magekind—has vanished. Rival schools are circling, sensing weakness, eager to seize control and reshape the future of magic in their image. And Volsung's new philosophy, the Path of Balance, is dismissed as exactly the kind of softness that invites predators. When Vivienne Desai is unexpectedly chosen to represent Volsung at the Mage Games on Mars, the stakes couldn't be higher.

Khat, a member of a humanoid race created by the Ancients to survive in the Waste, and Sagai, his human partner, are relic dealers working on the edge of society, trying to stay one step ahead of the Trade Inspectors and to support Sagai's family. When Khat is hired to find relics believed to be part of one of the Ancients' arcane engines, they are both reluctant to become involved. But the request comes from the Warders, powerful mages who serve Charisat's Elector.

Nathaniel "King Crow" Valentine hates a lot of things: losing lightball games, spiders, and bad service at restaurants, to name a few. But topping this list are the Medics, the cult-like, opportunistic group of healers who take advantage of prisoners in the dungeon of Toroth-Gol. Crow might hate the Medics even more than those who put him in the dungeon in the first place. Unfortunately for Crow, the Medics control the third level of Toroth-Gol. Not only that, but they've imprisoned Crow's father--and they're not afraid to use him as leverage to get what they want.

A single step took John Gilliam, the Faceless Man and Divine Inquisitor, from a world of sunshine to one of ice and darkness, one where only the strongest and fittest survive. Once more, he must find the imbalance threatening the world and stop it before it unleashes a terrible disaster, but he faces more challenges here than ever before. A genocidal war rages across the land, one that he'll be swept up in whether he likes it or not.

King Crow isn’t having a very good day. The Empire’s most famous athlete suddenly finds himself convicted of treason and sentenced to the Hunt, an annual event where the city’s most undesirable prisoners are sent into a dungeon filled with treasure, magic, and… bloodthirsty monsters. Crow didn’t commit the crime, so why is he in the dungeon? Who set him up? And why—for the love of god—is his only weapon a fast-talking, sapient, electromagnetically charged potato named Spud?

The first day of Mia's new life in Grayslake, Georgia, is not going as planned. The house her grandfather left her looks ready to crumble, boxes cover every inch of the floor and - oh - there's a bear cub in her pantry. It gets worse when the cub's uncle comes by and busts out his fur and claws while on her front porch. Then it gets loads better because suddenly there's a hot hunk of badge-wearing werebear on her lawn ready to rescue her.

They set a Slamhound on Turner's trail in New Delhi, slotted it to his pheromones and the colour of his hair. When the Maas Biolabs and Hosaka zaibatsus fight it out for world domination, computer cowboys like Turner and Count Zero are just foot soldiers in the great game: useful but ultimately...

John Gilliam, the Faceless Man, is one of the premier assassins in the world. His skills are legendary, and he's never failed in a mission. When a job goes wrong, though, he discovers that there's an entire universe beyond what he knows, one where magic and monsters exist and his skills and talents are frail shadows of the powers that be: the Doorverse.

Knowledge is power. That would be the motto of Lander University, had it not been snatched up and used to death by others long before the school was founded. For while Lander offers a full range of courses to nearly all students, it also offers a small number of specialty classes to a very select few. Lander is home to the Hero Certification Program, a curriculum designed to develop students with superhuman capabilities, commonly known as Supers, into official Heroes.

"Light is only light because it remembers the dark." Night Masters was never meant to exist. Born of a forbidden union between a death goddess and a mortal elf healer, Night's existence is a crack in the foundation of reality—a child forged of starlight, shadow, and divine defiance. Hidden from the gods and raised in Thornwick Orphanage, Night grows up cursed, feared, and branded. But when a mysterious mage arrives and spirits him away to the legendary Bloodame Academy, Night's destiny begins to awaken.

Long after the zombie apocalypse wiped out most of the human race, a young man named Noah resides in a remote mountain cabin. Several years have passed since he last saw another human being. The long period of isolation and loneliness has fostered a deep despair in Noah. But Noah is a man who was struggling even before the end of the world, a seemingly helpless slave to his addictions. When the vindictive sister he has long believed dead unexpectedly returns, events transpire that prompt him to leave his mountain refuge and embark on a cross-country trek to find the lost love of his life.

The first three Starsea Cycle books bundled together. Science got us to space. Magic got us to the stars. The discovery of the Gates opened the stars to humanity—and awakened the Manifold, a force that gave certain people the power to command nature itself. These mages could ignite infernos, reshape matter, move objects with their minds, and even bend the wills of others. But every mage eventually begins to Fray. After their powers nearly destroyed civilization in the Mage War, the League of Worlds took control.

King Crow has made it through the first level of Toroth-Gol. After killing the world’s last giant, running afoul of pirates, and narrowly escaping a booby-trapped party store, he finds himself on a platform in the middle of the ocean, where he faces a new challenge...

Journey into the magical world of the Brothers Grimm with the beloved fairy tale "Little Red Riding Hood," brought to life by the engaging narration of Kyle Snyder. This classic story follows the adventures of Little Red Riding Hood, a kind-hearted girl who sets off through the forest to visit her grandmother.

Despite having their secret revealed, the residents of Melbrook Hall return to Lander University for another year in the Hero Certification Program. Good thing the focus of this year is teamwork, because with their origins known, they'll have to lean on each other more than ever. Now finally sophomores, their curriculum expands, allowing them to train in the majors that Heroes specialize in. The new classes will test their minds, bodies, and determination in ways never anticipated.

Junior year has come for the remaining students of Melbrook Hall, and it promises to be the most difficult one yet. With one of their own gone and another under serious investigation, none of the former Powereds know how many days remain for them in the Hero Certification Program. The time they do have will be filled with more trials and classes, honing their skills as they work toward the increasingly difficult goal of becoming Heroes.

Some warriors fight for glory. He fights for her. Dernin was born to protect, not to entertain a bloodthirsty crowd. Captured on Jorvla and forced into a brutal underground fighting ring, he's spent months battling for survival. Until his next match comes with a prize he never expected. Alaysia...

As if hitting 30 wasn't enough, unmated Scarlet Wickham is summoned to this year's Gathering. As a woman marked to be the mate of an Alpha pair, she's not going to find happiness anywhere other than in the arms of two Alpha werewolves. So, off she goes with her sisters in tow. 'Cause yeah, she's one of the plump Wickham triplets, and they're all being carted off to werewolf speed dating.