Showing results for "The Dreamer" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

Eden has a secret: She has the ability to see and enter others’ dreams, a most inconvenient power when one is an outcast living in a magic-phobic village and yearning to fit in. When she accidentally exposes her powers, Eden discovers that her uncanny abilities connect her to the Dream World, home to the magical beings responsible for creating dreams and the first place Eden has felt she truly belongs.

Teenage Stella Grey has always felt an intense recurring sense of déjà vu … often plagued by strong dreams that feel more real than her waking moments. One ill-fated morning, her dream from the night before actually comes to life as she awakens and finds her house ransacked and her mother unconscious near their broken-in front door. Her next moments are scary, shocking, and earth-shattering as she is kidnapped and delivered to a Gothic mansion, the Manor de Rêves. Over the next few days, Stella grapples with where she is and why she was taken.

Ronan Lynch is a dreamer. He can pull both curiosities and catastrophes out of his dreams and into his compromised reality. Jordan Hennessy is a thief. The closer she comes to the dream object she is after, the more inextricably she becomes tied to it. Carmen Farooq-Lane is a hunter. Her brother was a dreamer...and a killer. She has seen what dreaming can do to a person. And she has seen the damage that dreamers can do. But that is nothing compared to the destruction that is about to be unleashed....

From National Book Award finalist Laini Taylor comes an epic fantasy about a mythic lost city and its dark past. The dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around--and Lazlo Strange, war orphan and junior librarian, has always feared that his dream chose poorly. Since he was just five...

The war between dreams and reality intensifies... with Ronan at its center.

Vera has unusual dreams—anything she dreams comes alive. Dream traveling, her family calls it. Doing it all her life, dream traveling doesn't affect Vera as much as it used to. She has her rules and her methods—as long as she follows them, all is fine until she sees something she discovered she couldn't handle. Now, her dreams are plagued by the Hunter, a deadly character that wants nothing more than to haunt her mind and leave behind a bloody spree. Vera must find a way to get the Hunter out of her head before he makes sure she never wakes up again. So much for "sweet dreams".

Something is happening to the source of the dreamers' power. It is blocked. Diminished. Weak. If it goes away entirely, what will happen to the dreamers and those who depend on them? Ronan Lynch isn't planning to wait and find out. Backed by his mentor, Bryde, he is ready to do what needs to be done to save the dreamers and the dreamed...even if it takes him far from his family and the boy he loves.

El sueño elige al soñador, y no al revés, y Lazlo Strange, huérfano de guerra y aprendiz de bibliotecario, ha temido siempre que su sueño eligiera mal. Desde los cinco años ha estado obsesionado con la mítica ciudad perdida de Weep, pero sería preciso alguien más audaz y valiente que él para cruzar medio mundo en su busca. Entonces se le presenta una asombrosa oportunidad en la persona de un héroe llamado Godslayer y una pandilla de legendarios guerreros, así que Lazlo ha de aprovechar su oportunidad o perderá su sueño para siempre.

"[Narrators] Melendez and del Castillo work together to heighten the vibrancy and tension of Huerta's narrative with forceful deliveries and dynamic characterizations. In a moving exploration of family, power, community, and love, two stories beautifully combine into a vivid, captivating...

15-year-old Ruta finds herself trapped in the Sleepverse’s Citadel where her many Selves gather at night; a place that no Dreamer has visited before. For her Selves, the Citadel is paradise. For Ruta, it’s a nightmare she can’t escape from. Someone is holding her hostage in a perpetual sleep state, and she needs to find out why before their nefarious plan comes to fruition.

At a circus where no one is as they seem, seventeen-year-old Cash must decide who he can trust, and how much he is willing to risk for friends, family, and his own freedom. ENTER THE DREAMER is a kaleidoscope of hope, determination, and everything wondrous about young adulthood meshed with the harsh reality of life. This whirlwind adventure follows Cash as he finds his place in the circus, overcomes danger, and learns about his mysterious, supernatural gift. Ready…

Trapped in a car wreck, crushed by a train. In seconds, Zaranna's world is torn apart and she must start life anew, as a survivor. A double amputee. Yet why does this promising equestrienne remember a flash of sulphurous fire, and a crimson paw hurling her mother's car onto the train tracks? Why does a tide of beguiling butterflies flood her increasingly chaotic dreams? As Zaranna Inglewood adjusts to life minus legs, plus gorgeous Alex, the paramedic who cut her body from the wreckage, she learns the terror of being hunted.

Heroes are rising. Rivalries are formed. Music is a force for change. In the shadows of the Regime, a magical champion appears! Haruko Tanaka isn't someone you'd expect to be magical—she's a geeky, manga-loving game-designer living under the roof of The Regime's finest contraband burners. When The Commander appears under her roof claiming she can be part of a program to turn her into a magical girl, she jumps at the chance to be like her fictional heroes! But reality is often different from fiction.

Sienna Young begins her day with anticipation of being invited to the biggest party of her high school career. She enlists her two best friends, heartthrob Scott Headly and glamour doll Eva Perriman, to help with her dilemma. Surprisingly Devin Harris, the other Fremont High heartthrob, succeeds in securing the invite. Sienna is on cloud nine as she dances the night away, reveling in the fact that all of her greatest desires has been fulfilled, or have they?

The Dreamer, Book Three in the Hesaurun Rings series, continues the story of Valerie Dunne, who survived sacrifice, time, and destiny—but her greatest trial is still ahead. As the Boecki march toward Earth, the Preservers reveal a new vessel of hope: The Dreamer. Forged in secrecy from Hesaurun’s ancient technology and guided by the wisdom of defectors who once served the enemy, The Dreamer is unlike any ship the galaxy has ever known, alive, sentient, and waiting for its master. Drawn into the corridors of power in Washington, D. C.

Im Krieg zwischen Traum und Wirklichkeit steht jedes Schicksal auf dem Spiel: "In Wie die Nacht entrinnt", dem 3. Urban-Fantasy-Roman von Maggie Stiefvaters "Dreamer"-Trilogie, stehen nicht nur die Brüder der Familie Lynch an ihrem ganz persönlichen Abgrund – in ihren Händen liegt auch das Schicksal aller Welten. Declan, der sich als Sohn und als Bruder stets für alles verantwortlich gefühlt hat, muss nun feststellen, dass er seine Familie nicht schützen kann. Ronan hat als Träumer an der Grenze zwischen Traum und Wachen gelebt – doch diese Grenze existiert nicht mehr, und Ronan fällt.

Die Träumer wandeln unter uns - und die Geträumten auch... "Wie der Falke fliegt" ist der 1. Teil der neuesten Urban-Fantasy-Reihe von Bestseller-Autorin Maggie Stiefvater - und entführt erneut in die geheimnisvolle Welt der "Raven Boys"-Reihe. Ronan Lynch ist ein sogenannter Träumer. Er kann sowohl Wunderbares als auch Entsetzliches aus seinen Träumen in die fragile reale Welt holen. Jordan Hennessy ist eine Diebin. Je näher sie dem Traum-Objekt kommt, hinter dem sie her ist, desto untrennbarer ist sie mit ihm verbunden. Carmen Farooq-Lane ist eine Jägerin, die Träumer jagt.

Etwas Furchtbares geschieht mit der Quelle, aus der die Träumer ihre Macht ziehen: Sie wird von etwas blockiert und scheint immer schwächer zu werden. Was wird aus Träumern und Geträumten, sollte die Quelle ganz versiegen? Der Träumer Ronan Lynch hat nicht vor, abzuwarten und es herauszufinden, auch wenn ihn das weit weg führt von seiner Familie und dem Jungen, den er liebt. Die Diebin Jordan Hennessy weiß, dass sie nicht überleben wird, wenn die Träumer scheitern.

Could Earth’s apocalypse really be worse than puberty for Daniela Rose-a depressive schizophrenic girl destined to meet a mysterious orphan boy who haunts her chaotic dreams? One girl. One boy. One mission. To protect their home-Earth-from invasion by the planet’s previous occupants...This epic story weaves an intricate tapestry of Divine guidance, faith, isolation, hope, and loss as it follows two children from their beginnings to their ends. If you knew your ending, how would you have lived your beginning?

Kayla's 16-and-a-half. And she's Lyzicc, which means her birth parents are ancient mythos creatures who've been hiding out on Earth. She has no idea who they are. All she knows is that she has a new power that shows her the daydreams of others. Two of the cutest guys in school are competing for her attention. Hale is Lyzicc and is pretty tight-lipped about his background.