Showing results for "Play" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

In the vast expanse of space, Jason Alexander Xavis emerges from the shadows of time, a lone traveler adrift in the cosmos. Discovered by the intrepid crew of the Orion's Belt, Jason's presence aboard the colony ship stirs whispers of mystery and intrigue. As the crew extends a welcoming hand, Jason grapples with the enigma of his own existence. He is the sole survivor of a long-forgotten expedition launched from Earth centuries ago, with no memory of what befell his fellow travelers or his own past.

Thousands of years before the Age of Elminster, dragons rule the skies of Faern, and elves dominate the huge forests that cover the land. Only in the mighty, magical empire of Netheril are men a force to be reckoned with. Bored and haughty in his midair castle, the Netherese mage Candlemas bets fellow wizard Sysquemalyn that a certain barbarian who has caught his eye can survive the most savage tests his friend - and deadly rival - can devise. The only rule: The tests must offer the subject some slight chance to survive.

Fourteen-year-old Kirby Renton is a gifted theatre kid who wants to fix things: his dads’ marriage, his younger brother’s epilepsy. When ten-year-old Baxter’s seizures start involving visits from “the lightning people,” who descend from the sky and show him strange symbols, Kirby knows he needs to protect his brother, but how? He thinks he’s found the answer when the neurologist advises his family to consider a seizure-alert dog, but the cost is too much for his family to afford.

It's dangerous to go alone. Even for superheroes. Laleh Ashe has found her first real friends at Camp Sable, a refuge for at-risk superpowered teens, but her politically ambitious mother has other plans. Mrs. Ashe is determined to send Laleh to a fancy, overseas boarding school—far from her friends and the life she's come to love. To drown her sorrows, Laleh agrees to a table top role playing game with her friends, Marco and Jake, as well as the new girl at camp—shy, withdrawn Rian. Too bad no one warned her about Rian's reality bending superpowers.

When Leah’s mother and grand-mother push her through a magic well in their backyard in order to escape a mysterious darkness, with an ominous directive to “retrieve the keys”, the last place she expects to come up for air in is a house for the children of gods. But—that’s exactly what happens. And the aforementioned keys? They’re kept inside the house, safe from the outside world and the mysterious Arcana, a magical secret society intent on stealing them.

Seventeen-year-old Ember Denning has made an art of isolating herself. She prefers the dead. She spends her days skipping school in old cemeteries and her nights hiding from her alcoholic father at the funeral home where she works. When her own father dies, Ember learns her whole life is a lie. Standing in the cemetery that's been her sanctuary, she's threatened by the most beautiful boy she's ever seen and rescued by two people who claim to be her family. They say she's special, that she has a supernatural gift like them...they just don't know exactly what it is.

Die neue Wirklichkeit der Permaspieler gewinnt an Tiefgang und Farbe. Die virtuelle Welt hat ihre erste Geburt erlebt - und ihren ersten Tod.Die unsichtbare Nabelschnur, die AlterWorld mit der Erde verbindet, wird immer dünner, und selbst der Gefallene kann die drohende Katastrophe nicht abwenden. Hätte Max seinen Blick abwenden können von dem russischen Mädchen, das gerade der Sklaverei in einem virtuellen China entkommen war?

Thief of Babes is a classic fantasy of a farmwife sworn to rescue her husband from the elves under the hill. Clarisse was left by Yves on their farm in New York's Hudson Valley during the Indian Wars. When he finally returns, he is a broken man, easily captured by the trickster elves. His wife makes a bargain with their queen to steal a human infant and replace them with a changeling for a night with her husband.

Há algo de terrível que acontece nos dias de Duplo Astro Rei, algo que faz com que os habitantes da aldeia se escondam em suas casas e trancem as portas e janelas. Algo que faz com que o Jovem Colibri, um menino começando a conhecer o mundo, seja confinado em seu quarto. Mas o que será esse algo? Que mistério se oculta por trás desse fenômeno astronômico? Que perigo ronda a aldeia e ameaça a vida de alguns moradores? Ninguém sabe, ou ninguém quer dizer. E o Jovem Colibri se sente cada vez mais frustrado e angustiado à medida que cresce.