Showing results for "River" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

Late at night our friend wanders a little and ponders quite a lot on a long walk along a river looking for a reason to keep on living. He meets up with a troll and a few other all-night ghouls as he drifts along, searching for purpose. They all find it amazing our friend can negotiate his way through the day posing as a teacher.

*NO.1 Sunday Times Bestseller* *Instant New York Times Bestseller* Discover the high stakes, action-packed romantic fantasy hit of the summer! Featuring a relic-hunter searching for an ancient Fae object to restore the magic to her world - and the cold-eyed Fae captain seeking the same...

A high stakes, action-packed romantasy from bestselling author Emily Varga where a relic-hunter searches for an ancient fae object to restore the magic to her world, but must learn to trust her own powers—and her heart. "[Narrator Safiyya Ingar] mesmerizes with feminine and masculine voice...

The Mummy meets Death on the Nile in What the River Knows, Isabel Ibañez's lush, immersive historical fantasy set in Egypt and filled with adventure, a rivals-to-lovers romance, and a dangerous race. Bolivian-Argentinian Inez Olivera belongs to the glittering upper society of nineteenth century...

Lush and chilling, with razor-sharp edges and an iron core of hope, this bewitching, powerhouse novel of two girls fighting back against the violence the world visits on them will stun and enchant readers. Girls have been going missing in the woods… When Natasha’s sister disappears, Natasha...

Just one taste can change everything. All seventeen–year–old Dusty wants is to escape into books and the Adirondack wilderness that surrounds her small town. But in the dead of night, strange things have been happening in Black River. Animals are being ravaged by something unnatural. And...

What do you do when your knight in shining armor lives, literally, in a different world? Most American teenagers want a vacation in Italy, but the Betarrini sisters have spent every summer of their lives among the romantic hills with their archaeologist parents. Stuck among the rubble of...

Set in the mythic underworld and modern Portland, two boys rediscover the joy of life in this tragic love story. Before he can be reborn, Zan has spent 499 years bound in a 500-year curse to process souls for the monstrous Ferrymanand if he fails, he dies. In Portland, Bastian is grieving. He...

A spellbinding, dreamy and irresistibly romantic magical-realist story set in Shanghai, where a shimmering school swimming pool hides a gateway to a flooded mirror world When fifteen-year-old Leah relocates to Shanghai with her parents, she dreads the thought of starting over somewhere new. But...

Brea Robinson is a murderer. That’s what everyone tells her when she’s accused of killing her best friend. Her mother always claimed she belonged in a straitjacket. Turns out, she was right. When the man with flashing violet eyes whisks her through a portal into a world beyond her imagination, a world vicious in its beauty and wicked in its lies, Brea begins to wonder if she was ever crazy at all. Every hallucination she’s ever had is real, but this new world has its own set of lies and questions.

Han pasado varios meses desde que la vida de las hermanas Silver cambió para siempre. Mientras que Dusty parece controlar la sed, Opi no puede pensar en otra cosa. En eso y en el deseo que la empuja sin remedio a Eli Blake y que la quema por dentro. Todo se complica aún más cuando una agente de policía muy decidida escarba en las muertes sin resolver del pueblo, amenazando con destapar los secretos que Opi y Dusty tanto se han esforzado en proteger. A la vez, las hermanas Silver descubren que lo que se esconde en las montañas continúa al acecho, esperándolos.

An enthralling debut perfect for fans of Children of Blood and Bone set in an ancient North African-inspired fantasy world where two sisters must fight to the death to win the crown. Sixteen-year-old Eva is a princess, born with the magick of blood and marrow--a dark and terrible magick that...

The River Chaos - that was not always its name - is the lifeblood of Maloto: ancient, mystical, a gateway to the heart of the island and to the past... The air felt quiet and still, as the river babbled gently over the rocks. A young warrior approached from the darkness of the Forest of Shadows and tentatively moved closer to the water’s edge. He knelt, placed his sword on the rocks by his feet, and cupped his hand into the river, scooping up a handful of cold water and drawing it to his mouth.

Bill Harley's 2003 recording is a very special collection of songs and stories for bedtime about a wonderful and wacky imaginary place, The Town Around the Bend. Harley's long-established humor, meaning, and music are toned down for the quiet time right before the eyes close and the world rests.

Number-one bestselling, Waterstones Prize-shortlisted author Emily Varga returns with a much-anticipated new YA romantasy novel, coming in 2026! A high stakes, action-packed romantasy from bestselling author Emily Varga where a relic-hunter searches for an ancient fae object to restore the magic...

Would you sacrifice your future... for an uncertain past? Gabriella and Evangelia Betarrini are just two normal American teenagers. Normal—except for the fact that they time travel to fourteenth-century Italy, where they’ve lived in castles, become swept up in historic battles, and fallen in...

In a world where fairy lives are traded for miracles, a river trader receives a mysterious job that could change the shape of his world forever in this thrilling young adult fantasy from New York Times bestselling author Scott Reintgen. Kill a fairy, get a miracle. That was the cruel logic...

The beloved Black River duology concludes in this spine-tingling, swoon-worthy vampire romance with an epic twist that will stay with readers forever. It’s Halloween in Black River, and the days are dark and cold. Four months have passed since the teenagers of White Mountain learned the truth...

Bloomsbury presents River Secrets by Shannon Hale, read by Chris Gaines In this third book in New York Times bestselling, Newbery Honor-winning author Shannon Hale's beloved YA fantasy series Books of Bayern, Razo must become the unlikely hero his country needs. Razo has never considered himself...

Soojin kannte die Regeln: Bringe niemals etwas anderes als Kleintiere von den Toten zurück. Aber das war, bevor Mirae letzten Herbst im Fluss ertrank. Außer sich vor Trauer und Einsamkeit, nutzt Soojin die Magie ihrer Vorfahren, um ihre Schwester zurückzubekommen.