Resultados para "Sophie" en Aventura

1868. The Boshin War is about to break out. A 16-year-old Japanese girl, Atsuko grew up in the neighborhoods of Aizu City, in the shadow of her brother Ibuka. Promised to an arranged marriage, the young girl hides a secret: she wields weapons just as well as her brother, whose talent with the sword actually masks an insurmountable fear of combat. When war is declared, Ibuka must leave to fight alongside their father for the honor of the family. Defying the tradition forbidding women to take part in battles and wanting to protect her brother, Atsuko enlists in secret as a simple soldier.

Book One of The Sophie Stearns Adventures is set in a bustling company town, where the everyday is anything but ordinary. Sophie and the G-Man chronicles Sophie's accidental entry into a parallel dimension where she needs to solve the mystery of the device that transported her and the reason it exists in the first place.

Adam Eberhardt has always felt different, but he never would’ve guessed he was a clone of Albert Einstein. Science geeks don't usually live inside the body of a hulk. A brain that never shuts off can be a blessing or a curse, but Adam hasn’t felt many blessings during his sleepless nights, regular victims of his severe anxiety disorder. Weaving through harrowing childhood memories, science research, and self-doubt, he most enjoys spending his mind power thinking about his wunderkind fellow student, Margot. . .who remains oblivious to his interest.

Kara—codename Snipe—isn’t just any gun-for-hire. Savvy, brutal, and equipped with cybernetic enhancements that make her extra lethal, she’s a key player in her older brother Darius’s underground operation, which floods the streets of Cascadia with dangerous digital highs. She’s fast, efficient, and likes what she does. That is, until Jack Monroe, Darius’s rival, contacts her with devastating intel.

Saber befürchtet, dass er sich nie vollständig von seinen ihn lähmenden Verletzungen erholen wird, und er weiß, dass er seine Amate nicht verdient hat, wenn er sie nicht beschützen kann. Sie sollte sich für einen Krieger entscheiden, nicht für einen Krüppel, der ständig ihre Hilfe braucht. Also tut Saber alles, was in seiner Macht steht, um die zarte Frau, in die er sich verliebt hat, von sich zu stoßen.

Sophie is literally up to her eyeballs in Albins from every dimension imaginable, the town is in jeopardy of completely disappearing and Walter continues to be cagey about what he knows. Sophie must convince him to trust her in order to fix everything that's gone wrong and then finally, maybe she can go home.

All her life, Spensa has dreamed of becoming a pilot. Of proving she's a hero like her father. She made it to the sky, but the truths she learned about her father were crushing. The rumours of his cowardice are true - he deserted his flight during battle against the Krell. Worse, though, he...

Canadian father and son, Jim and Jack, travel to Scotland to explore their ancestral line. At St Bride’s Church linked to their forebears and the legendary Sir James Douglas, a violent tremor and flash of light hurl them back to 1329.Stranded in medieval Scotland, they’re taken in by Ailith, a gifted druid whose visions of the Sky Spirits hint at forces beyond her century. As Jim and Ailith grow close, and Jack finds a second home in her care, the three form a bond that transcends time.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson comes the final book in an epic series about a girl who will travel beyond the stars to save the world she loves from destruction. Spensa made it out of the Nowhere, but what she saw in the space between the stars has changed her...

What waits in the shadows as we fight our greatest foe? Eyes of the Void is the second high-octane instalment in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Final Architecture space opera trilogy. From the author of the thrilling science-fiction epic Children of Time, which won the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award...

The war is over. Its heroes forgotten. Until one chance discovery . . . From the author of Children of Time, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award, Shards of Earth is the first high-octane, far-future space adventure in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Final Architecture trilogy. The series is read by Sophie...

The TARDIS lands in the Lancashire village of Bilehurst Cragg in the 17th century, and the Doctor, Ryan, Graham and Yaz soon become embroiled in a witch trial run by the local landowner. Fear stalks the land, and the arrival of King James I only serves to intensify the witch hunt. But the Doctor soon realises there is something more sinister than paranoia and superstition at work. Tendrils of living mud stir in the ground, and the dead lurch back to horrifying life as an evil alien presence begins to revive.

Spensa's life as a Defiant Defense Force pilot has been far from ordinary. She proved herself one of the best starfighters in the human enclave of Detritus and she saved her people from extermination at the hands of the Krell - the enigmatic alien species that has been holding them captive for...

Zac Topping's breathtaking near-future thriller, Wake of War, is a timely account of the lengths those with power will go to preserve it, and the determination of those they exploit to win back their freedom. It's 2037, and the United States government is on the brink of collapse amid rebel...

Quelque chose a été découvert sur Terre, au fond de l'océan. Un ancien artéfact, semblable à une porte géante, encastrée dans le fond marin. Une énigme gigantesque, enfouie et oubliée... dix-neuf mille pieds sous terre. Afin de l'étudier, Maas-Dorian, l'entreprise la plus puissante de la galaxie, a construit tout autour de l'artéfact un immense laboratoire autonome et secret. Le nom de cette base est FATHOM. Son objectif : percer les secrets de l'artéfact et découvrir ce qu'il recèle. Mais certains mystères devraient rester enfouis. Et certaines portes devraient ne jamais être ouvertes...

Quelque chose a été découvert sur Terre, au fond de l'océan. Un ancien artéfact, semblable à une porte géante, encastrée dans le fond marin. Une énigme gigantesque, enfouie et oubliée... dix-neuf mille pieds sous terre. Afin de l'étudier, Maas-Dorian, l'entreprise la plus puissante de la galaxie, a construit tout autour de l'artéfact un immense laboratoire autonome et secret. Le nom de cette base est FATHOM. Son objectif : percer les secrets de l'artéfact et découvrir ce qu'il recèle. Mais certains mystères devraient rester enfouis. Et certaines portes devraient ne jamais être ouvertes.

THE INTERNATIONAL PHENOMENON BEHIND THE COSMERE **** 'We must not cower in the dark because we're afraid of the spark within us. The answer is not to put out the spark, but to learn to control it' Spensa's world has been under attack for hundreds of years. An alien race called the Krell leads...

The Dragons of Pern are the world's only defence against an ancient threat - Thread, an evil rain that devours everything it touches. Paired with their riders from the moment they hatch, they risk their lives burning the scourge of the Red Star from the sky. But the dragons are in decline. Only one Weyr remains, and the only dragon queen is dying. F'lar knows that the Red Star is rising again and that the ancient threat will return. His only hope is the last queen egg and finding a woman strong enough to be the new queen's rider. But the villainous Lord Fax has other plans.

Dank eines waghalsigen Einsatzes konnten die Rebellen auf der Erde befreit werden. Niemand ahnt jedoch, dass auch dies zum Plan des selbsternannten Imperators Sjöberg gehörte. Und so ist es ein Schock, als "Projekt Vergeltung" im Alzir-System zuschlägt. Obwohl Admiral Pendergast sofort aktiv wird, ist die Zahl der Opfer groß. Gibt es ein Mittel gegen den tödlichen Erios-3-Virus? Unterdessen befindet sich die HYPERION im Einsatz.