Science Fiction & Fantasy

Khalani Kanes has never stood on the surface of the earth. In the underground city of Apollo, faith and dreams are as absent as the sun. She longs to visit Genesis, the infamous Domed City and the final place where humanity lives aboveground. But when Khalani is given a life sentence and thrown into prison for a theft she didn't commit, that wish shatters into oblivion.

On the night before her wedding, seventeen-year-old Sorel leaps from a window and runs away from her life, grabbing men’s clothes and a sharp knife. To keep from being found, she takes on the identity of Isser Jacobs—but it soon becomes clear that the real Isser Jacobs is a lawbreaker, a revolutionary, and powerful people want him dead. Sorel is drawn into the dark underworld of her small city, where smugglers, forgers, and wicked angels fight for control of the Jewish community. In order to make it out, Sorel must discover who Isser Jacobs really is—and who she wants to be.

It turns out the last of the dragon rider fae have been locked in a trap, a mansion with no doors, no way to leave for five hundred years, and I’m the first fae to enter. The dragon fae riders know nothing of the world outside or the vampyres who have taken over in their absence, and most don’t trust me.

Fortsetzung der Zodiac-Chroniken von Spiegelbestsellerautorin Marah Woolf – Kehre zurück in Averies dystopisch fantastische Welt Wärst du bereit, dein Herz zu opfern für eine Schuld, die nicht gesühnt werden kann? Averie hat versagt, obwohl sie verhindert hat, dass Eternity stirbt. Aber nun beanspruchen die Aionen ihre Welt für sich. Sie werden sie verdunkeln und den Menschen die noch verbliebene Zeit stehlen. Um das zu verhindern, beschließt Averie, an den Zeitenspielen teilzunehmen, die einmal pro Dekade auf Destiny veranstaltet werden.

Les continents de Tavéar, gouverné par quatre ducs qui maîtrisent les intempéries par le biais de leurs émotions, et de Finéar, patrie du peuple des Sans-Âme, se livrent depuis près d’un siècle une guerre sans merci. Prétextant une volonté de trêve, le duc de la colère envoie sa plus jeune fille, Shamar, âgée de dix-neuf ans, épouser l’empereur ennemi ; ces noces permettraient aux Sans-Âme d’avoir des héritiers capables de maîtriser les éléments. Mais ce qu’ignore l’empereur de Finéar, c’est que Shamar ne possède aucun pouvoir – et qu’elle est aveugle.

The Illinir may be over, but the race for Enderlain’s future has just begun. The hunt for the old king’s lost heir is on, and the first to find them will win the throne. But a darker force is festering in Enderlain’s underbelly, and Mikira, Ari, Damien, and Reid will need to find a way back to each other—and themselves—before the kingdom is torn apart. Hearts will be broken and new bonds will be forged in this explosive finale to This Dark Descent, where spellbinding fantasy meets Jewish mythology in a cut-throat race for the throne—and humanity's survival.

I don't know about love. I suspect the emotion that others apparently feel all the time is just . . . absent from me. Like there's an ingredient missing from the recipe. The possible exception is Gran. Grace cares about only two things: performing magic and her cantankerous gran. Gran shares her prickly personality and spiky sense of humour, and she's the only one Grace lets into her tightly locked heart – until she meets Simon, a schoolmate who promises to help her turn her magic tricks into a small business and social media stardom.

Nai hat sich ihr ganzes Leben darauf vorbereitet, den Platz als Anführerin ihres Rudels einzunehmen. An der Alpha Academy, einer Eliteschule, soll sie nun die dafür nötige Elementar-Magie erlernen. Die vier Wächter, die sie dorthin eskortieren, entpuppen sich jedoch als jene Männer, die Nai vor langer Zeit zu ihren Erzfeinden erklärt hat. Als auf ihrer Haut plötzlich magische Runen erscheinen und ausgestoßene Gestaltwandler die Schule angreifen, scheint Nais Lage verzwickter denn je. Doch dann trifft sie auf einem Maskenball ihren Mate - ihre große Liebe, vom Schicksal vorherbestimmt.

Olive Joshi is an imaginative sixteen-year-old with OCD. She checks and double-checks that the stove burners are off, avoids driving for fear of causing an accident, and constantly worries about hurting the people she loves. Olive finds refuge from her anxiety in writing stories about Coseema, a magical princess on the distant planet Lyria. Coseema is fearless, confident, powerful, and perfect—everything Olive thinks she’ll never be.

Welcome to England, where the Protectorate enforces the Public Good. Here, there are rules for everything – what to eat, what to wear, what to do, what to say, what to read, what to think, who to obey, who to hate, who to love. Your safety is assured, so long as you follow the rules. Gabriel is a natural born rule-breaker. And his biggest crime of all? Being gay.

Entin Soroy is devastated. A brutal terrorist attack killed his parents and forced the starship's inhabitants to digitize into a rushed video game to survive. The once top-ranked fighter pilot student now delivers vegetables for greedy merchants. But when a timed Run goes wrong, his earnings are stripped, and he vows to find a new way. Eizel Oqerton refuses to accept that her parents failed their transfer. They can't be dead. And without them to uphold their government contracts, her wealthy family will soon lose everything. Unless… no one knows.

Entrez dans une ville qui n'ouvre ses portes qu'une fois par an... Amis depuis l'enfance, Prym et Joanna ont un avenir prometteur au sein de la nation d'Erit, construite sur les ruines d'une Pologne ravagée. Leur vie bascule le jour où ils sont choisis pour être envoyés dans la Zone où rôde la Chose. Les mobilisés n'ont qu'une mission : vaincre la plus dangereuse créature jamais créée par l'Homme, ou mourir en essayant. Dix-neuf générations ont franchi les portes de la Zone. Personne n'en est jamais ressorti.

Artemisias einziges Ziel im Leben ist es, eine Graue Schwester zu werden. Diese Nonnen sorgen dafür, dass die Seelen der Verstorbenen ins Jenseits übergehen können. Als ihr Konvent von einer Armee besessener Soldaten angegriffen wird, erweckt Artemisia ausversehen den uralten und bösartigen Geist eines Revenanten, was sie fast umbringt. Zugleich hat der Tod in Loraille Einzug gehalten und nur eine Vespertine hat eine Chance ihn aufzuhalten.

Die Säulen der alten Welt sind gefallen. Seit Zeus, Poseidon und Hades getötet wurden, sind die Throne der drei Reiche verwaist. Nun liegt die Hölle im Sterben. Und nur einer kann sie retten: Grave – der Bastard der Unterwelt. Von den Göttinnen des Schicksals auserwählt, ist es an ihm, die Erde vor der dunklen Bedrohung zu beschützen. Denn Nyx, die Göttin der Nacht, lauert auf ihre Gelegenheit.

Ein Serienkiller treibt sein Unwesen in Roarhaven und Umgebung. Die Opfer verbindet auf den ersten Blick nichts miteinander, außer die sehr fantasievolle, detailverliebte Todesart. Skulduggery und Walküre tappen im Dunkeln, aber dann erhalten sie eine codierte Nachricht vom Täter. Der Mörder nennt sich "Ersatz" und will die Detektive offenbar testen.

Cleo has her paws full making sure that her witch Elodie's do-it-yourself charms are worth the boxes they're packaged in. Her witch isn't always the best flier, either. Elodie just needs to get her next batch of charms made in time for Witch Week. If only Cleo didn't keep getting in the way, upsetting pumpkins, and getting her claws into everything. But when Cleo and Elodie find a hunter and his hellhounds risking wildfire in the forest one Halloween morning, the cat and her witch will have to work at their best to make sure the Wild Hunt doesn't bring terror to the nearby town.

Fleeing the persecution of those like her, Tatiana seeks refuge in a small town she once visited. But this civil haven, in a world where society has broken down, is beginning to crumble. Will Tatiana flee or stay and fight for the new life she has built? Only by harnessing the very forces that haunt her can Tatiana save her friends…and herself.

As the end of school quickly approaches, and Cooper Bailey watches his perfect world slip away, his only concern is savouring every last minute of his high school career. For his best friend, Reid Patterson, graduation is a doorway to the future, where his discipline and focus will finally allow him to meet his true potential. When a mysterious mirror-masked man begs for their help to stop a dangerous heretic, Cooper and Reid find themselves thrust into unknown worlds, wrestling with a destiny as old as time itself.

Now that Katya Sparhardt has reached eighteen years of age, she is finally ready to be inducted into the dance ensemble at Trantonias Metapeet Temple. After years of training, she feels ready to devote her life to worshipping the Lord through her art, even if it means making some personal sacrifices—no one at the temple may practice magic, get married, or have children. But she starts to question her choices when her best friend Amalia Tansy abruptly leaves the temple.

Trick rider in a traveling circus, seventeen-year-old Vandemere (Vandy) Petruska is caught between two worlds. As Vandy Davidson, he lives the legacy of the father who abandoned him, performing on his beloved horses in the circus ring. But he’s also his Romanian mother’s son. As Vandy Petruska, he seeks to deny the tarot magie his mother has gifted to him. But as the magie’s power over him grows stronger, he becomes aware that the bad luck in his life isn’t an accident.

Kiatana is a reluctant fae princess of her forest, but when a dragon and his rider crash-land upon her home, it sets off a chain of events that puts the entire kingdom in peril. Joining together with the rider, his dragon, two lost wolf pups and her trusty pegasus, Kiatana embarks on a journey across the realm to find a cure for a magical plague that has cursed her home, although a traitor lurks in the shadows, and she finds herself captivated by forbidden love along the way.

Die Geschichte beginnt in einer nicht allzu fernen Zukunft. Die Welt steht kurz vor dem Untergang. Naturkatastrophen, lange Regenperioden, Stürme, Dürren. Das sind nur ein paar der Dinge, die passieren. Doch das Schlimmste von allem ist, dass der Schild der Erde völlig zusammenzubrechen droht. Die Regierungen versprachen, etwas zu unternehmen, aber sie führten Kriege um Macht und Besitztümer, wie eh und je. Als ob sie davon noch irgendeinen Nutzen hätten, wenn der Schild zusammenbricht. Angeblich sind Teams von Forschern kurz vor der Lösung. Nicht jeder glaubt ihnen.

Grace Brooks is a total and unashamed nerd. She loves her life, her friends, and her little dog Neutrino. That is until one day she’s uprooted to Miller’s Island, North Carolina, to start over as the new kid in school. There she meets Jack, and they quickly bond over their love of science and all things nerdy. Together they embark on an epic adventure, travelling through time to solve the mystery of The Toxic River.

Sadie Jean Parker spent the first 17 years of her life alone, save for infrequent visits with her mother and the town librarian. A seemingly endless cycle of quiet meals and rustling pages… that ends a week before her 17th birthday. A strange man appears in her dreams, insisting she enter the Well ahead of her scheduled time. But why would she trust a stranger, a mere dream? Why would she risk her only chance of being chosen by the Well? Despite her doubts, Sadie’s gut tells her to trust him. And that trust earns her passage through the Well into Magor, the realm of magic.

Jade and Axel are the first light warriors in over a millennium and forced to confront an enigmatic villain with the powers of darkness. They are fated to be the last of their kind—whether that means dying at their dark counterpart's hands or finally defeating him. Unfortunately, their powers aren't working as they should, especially when all they have on their minds is the other secretly behind their mark.