Resultados para "Quest" en Aventura

Jake has left it late, and the only summer job he can find is on the remote Scottish island of Elsay. Still, that sounds fine–the work isn’t too hard, the pay’s all right, and the scenery is great. But he soon has second thoughts about staying. His boss, Fraser, is a bit of a rogue, while Fraser’s cute but snippy daughter, Alva, takes against him from the start. And the oddball characters in the local pub aren’t exactly welcoming.

The excursion was a mess. Sal's trust in his team is at rock bottom from the actions of another in the final fight. He now needs to enter the Tower and fight demons with the same person who betrayed him. As if that wasn't enough, he's pretty sure the former Super-Rookie and wonder kid on his team is actually a ticking time bomb, just waiting to explode.

Dome 17 is the only safe place left on a dead Earth. Life in Dome 17 takes a dramatic turn after some adventurers return from evaluating other domes. The struggling remnant of humanity cannot remain safe in the dome much longer. The question is where to go and how to get there? Seven vast colony ships were launched 100 years ago, but can one of them be located? Will it offer a chance to survive?

In the forests of Idaho, a debonaire billionaire finds himself back from the dead... and the transition is far from seamless. Meanwhile, the tattered remnants of a Bigfoot troop try to make their way to safety while a survival show host, a Shoshone tracker, and a brilliant primatologist struggle to protect their Sasquatchian friends. On top of that, they have to track down the mysterious "Stone that Sings" that started this whole mess. But dark forces with less-than-benevolent intentions are gathering... some looking for the meteorite... others searching for the surviving Bigfoots.

In Kirlian Quest the galaxies are united in an alliance of peace. But Hweeh of Weew, the Milky Way's leading research astronomer, observes that Amoeba--just beyond the galaxies' common frontier--is expanding ominously in the direction of the twin galaxies. Herald the Healer is called in.

Slim's a Texas bluesman of a certain age, down on his luck, and just about broke - but hey, that's what the blues are all about. Then, one day, in a single hot burst of lightning that comes straight up out of the ground, Slim finds himself in Tejas. Not Texas, but somewhere else. It's a little bit magic and a whole lot different, but the blues are the same. And the blues - manifest here in the form of a maple-necked pearl-gray Fender Stratocaster with blue-chrome pickups a.k.a. The Gutbucket - needs him and needs him bad.

With the old circus manager safely in jail, things should be going well at the circus where Anwyn Owens is assistant pilot. But when the aging starship that serves as their home breaks down, all the ingenuity of Anwyn and head pilot Jemal can't get things working again. The solution: head for the pirate planet of Open Port where Jemal knows of a salvage yard that just might have the necessary used part for sale.

Das Reich Gheera steht vor dem Untergang. Die Verteidigungskräfte haben keine Chance gegen die übermächtigen Legionen des sagenhaften Sternenkaisers, dessen Machtgier keine Grenzen kennt. Der endgültige Fall ist nur noch eine Frage der Zeit. In dieser Situation begibt sich der Kommandant Eftalan Quest auf eine schier aussichtslose Expedition: Er will den sagenhaften Planeten des Ursprungs finden - die Welt, von der angeblich alles Leben im Universum stammt. Doch es gibt noch andere Legenden um diese Welt, tödliche Legenden.

Cass and Ken fled their wedding when an assassin tried to kill them. They ran from Los Alamos to Las Vegas to Massachusetts and finally to the flooded remains of New Orleans. Now Kendra will try to recruit her employer to help them get to the bottom of this mystery, but everything has a cost. She may have no choice but to pay it, however. Cass has problems of her own when she discovers that a friend is in jeopardy because of her. Can she organize a rescue attempt?

Ever since Martin Banks and his fellow computer geeks discovered that reality is just a computer program to be happily hacked, they've been jaunting back and forth through time, posing as medieval wizards and having the epic adventures that other nerds can only dream of having. But even in their wildest fantasies, they never expected to end up at the mercy of the former apprentice whom they sent to prison for gross misuse of magic and all-around evil behavior.

On the road once again with John Walker and his ladies along with their band of brothers and sisters. This time their search starts out looking for what John calls "Black Gold" but evolves into much more. Ride along with the wrecking crew as they do their part in reshaping America into what it always could have been: a nation of free people.

Legend tells of a sword that makes a warrior’s enemies fall to their knees in surrender. Sheni isn’t sure if he believes the drunken ramblings of old space pirates, but what he does know is that a sword like that would fetch an eye-watering price. Unfortunately, the trail leads them from ancient temples to prison planets, and retrieving the sword from its final resting place might cost the crew more than they’re willing to pay. Especially since someone on board the Silver Hart is keeping a secret with deadly implications....

Making it out alive will be tougher than they ever imagined. Will Emily ever forgive herself for the danger she's about to put her crew through? Is this life for her? While Emily is still figuring out how to use these powers she has been bestowed with, she is also questioning what it means to be called The Chosen One and just how much pressure is on her.

The specter of the menacing Grand Admiral Thrawn looms over Luke and Mara Jade Skywalker as they embark on a journey to recover an important piece of Jedi history. Sometimes it seems a Jedi’s work is never done, and Luke and Mara Jade Skywalker know this only too well. Despite the bond they...

Sheni and his spacer crew only steal from people who don’t deserve what they’ve got. Unfortunately, a penthouse robbery puts them in hot water with a crooked art dealer who loves nothing more than a high-stakes hunt. If they don’t cough up a small fortune, their heads will be the next trophies on her wall.

Cast out by humanity yet burdened with a conscience, Sheni Dupont wouldn’t say he’s found his calling in space piracy. But in the cramped and rusty halls of the ship he shares with reptilian captain Gecki, starfish pilot Xotl and the weird green enigma known only as Alan, he may have found a home. So when a loan shark threatens to repossess their ship if they don’t pay back the credits they’ve borrowed, the crew of the Silver Hart are forced to take the only job going–stealing a crystal egg from a backwater planet on the brink of cosmic destruction.

The lost island of Atlantis has returned—and humanity’s survival hangs by a thread. Missing for millennia, the Oblivion Order’s most secret scientific base returns without warning, its experimental gravity engine unleashing catastrophic ripples through time and space. As the island’s uncontrolled presence begins to destabilise the moon’s orbit, the Earth inches closer to a fatal collision with the Sun.

Born from an ancient race of gifted aliens, the whole universe is depending on Emily to rise up to the challenge and become the Chosen One that she is destined to be. There’s one hitch...she has no idea who she is or where she comes from. Being hunted by her kind’s mortal enemy, her home planet is savagely attacked. Can she survive?

While her starfaring people are being hunted by an implacable enemy, a young caver discovers a traitor in their ranks and must undertake a transformative journey across the galaxy to save everything she has ever known. Persecuted for their worship of the Endless—an ancient, galactic-spanning race of god-like power, who disappeared long ago—the Pilgrims escaped the world of Raia almost a century ago, fleeing the despotic rule of the United Empire in a dozen space-faring fleets.

The Sekar aliens have already killed billions, and nobody knows where they came from or how to defeat them. The enemy’s only weakness is tharniol - the rarest substance in the known universe. Desperate times call for desperate measures and a shaky truce is made with the Raggers. The Raggers claim knowledge of data that will assist in the fight. Unfortunately, the data is buried deep in a subsurface facility on a fringe planet called Glesia - a facility which is crawling with Sekar.