Showing results by publisher "Audible Studios" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

Rien ne va plus dans le panthéon nordique des dieux du Bien. En froid avec le dieu Odin, la déesse de la Fécondité, Freyja, jette une malédiction sur les Béorites, le peuple favori de son ennemi: désormais, tous les enfants de ces hommanimaux mourront au berceau, ce qui voue la race à une disparition certaine. Les Béorites décident donc de naviguer vers l'île de la déesse pour tenter de la raisonner.

Des hordes de gobelins attaquent les villes et les villages, ne laissant derrière eux que mort et désolation. La ville de Berrion est réduite en cendres et, très loin dans le Nord, une montagne s'est mise à rugir. La race des dragons est sur le point de renaître. Le grand cataclysme annoncé par les légendes va-t-il entraîner l'apocalypse? Le destin du monde serait déjà scellé si Amos Daragon n'avait pas échappé à la mort par miracle.

L'imperium est victorieux. Nayla Kaertan, a été capturée par l'Inquisition et est en route vers la planète mère. Saura-t-elle résister à la puissance de Dieu qui veut se nourrir de sa force vitale ?

C'è un campo, la Base, dove crescono i bambini senza ricordi o memoria. Tra loro c'è un gruppo più vivace, composto da Hana, capo del Guscio, dura e metodica, Dudu, sempre attento e guardingo, Glor, grande e goffo, Cranach, il più lento di tutti, Orla, la più piccola, e infine ZeroSette, l'ultimo arrivato. C'è anche Tom, ma lui appare diverso: si perde in mille pensieri e a volte sente riaffiorare un Coccio, un frammento di vita passata.

Iridella è una fata. E cosa fa una fata quando si innamora di un Normal? Come ogni ragazza: qualunque cosa, pur di aiutarlo. Soprattutto se è proprio la famiglia della fata ad aver messo nei guai il ragazzo dei suoi sogni. Si dà il caso infatti che l'amato Gionata lavori per Amet, un'azienda che si occupa dei test di sicurezza per le automobili e che sta per fallire a causa degli infidi cugini di Iridella, i vampiri Blue e Velvet. Iridella dovrà sfoderare tutta la sua astuzia per aiutare la Amet a sconfiggere questo terribile avversario dai canini affilati.

Steven (Slim) Pickings is on the edge of a breakdown - but then, it always feels like Slim is teetering on the edge of something. The difference this time is that something’s caused Slim’s worries to come alive! He’s set loose a bunch of annoying, pesky, outrageously contagious creatures - and they’re infecting everyone they meet and massing to take over the town! To stop them, Slim will have to do more than just team up with his family and friends - he’ll have to face his fears, literally.

Floralie Laurel, freshly expelled from Mrs. Coffrey's School for Young Girls, works as a flower seller in an English village with her guardian brother, Tom, miles and miles away from their real home in France. Tom and Floralie are drowning in debt, but fortunately, Grandmama arrives to save them. Unfortunately, Grandmama's idea of "saving" means sending Floralie to the Adelaide Laurel Orphanage for Unfortunate Children and shaping her into a proper lady - i.e., ridding her of imagination, daydreams, paintings, and poetry.

With help from his friends, Billy Smith - the unlikeliest of heroes - overthrew the corrupt General Sawtooth and claimed the Goblin Crown. But his perilous journey to save the goblin race has just begun. The powerful Hanorian Army is gathered at the gates of Kiranok, threatening to invade the goblin city and wipe out everyone within. So the inhabitants of Mother Mountain must draw on their deepest strengths for the battle to come....

The exciting third instalment in the White Ninja Saga. The town of Lanternwood is under attack. There's a tigon, a monster that is half dragon, half tiger, on the loose. Roxy is being hunted by a fire-breathing army, and her best friend, Cinnamon, has been kidnapped. It seems that everyone Roxy loves has been cursed, and it's up to her to save them. Somebody wants revenge. And when life couldn't be more dangerous, Roxy loses her powers and all seems lost.

Luna est un jeune elfe argenté qui a grandi au sein d'une meute de loups. Lorsque des guerrières drows déciment sa famille adoptive, elle se réfugie chez son mentor, le Marécageux, qui lui révèle les circonstances de sa naissance. Dans le but de retrouver sa mère, Luna entame un long périple qui la mènera à Rhasgarrok, la cité souterraine des elfes noirs.

Charlie Lawson's only summer excitement in small-town Wisconsin came from kicking butt in video games, where he's the undisputed Total Turbo champ. Now it's time to go back to middle school, where nine long months of boredom await. But then Charlie stumbles onto something big happening inside the abandoned warehouse across the street from his house. Specifically, someone big. He befriends Bruce, a 20-foot-tall teenage giant whom Charlie must keep a secret.

Debe de haber millones de chicos como yo. Me volvía loco una compañera del instituto, tenía mis diferencias con mi padre y, siendo sincero, los estudios no eran precisamente mi prioridad. Un escenario bastante típico para un adolescente. Sin embargo, algo increíble me enseñó que estaba equivocado, que después de todo yo sí era especial, de un modo que no se puede explicar sin comenzar por la noche en que conocí a dos niñas gemelas que cambiaron mi vida para siempre.

A story short-listed for the 1995 Beefeater Children's Novel Award, which tells of the impact a Romany child from the country has on a sophisticated urban household when she goes to stay with her very proper aunt Emma.

When Jerry falls asleep on the bus to school, he's incredibly hacked off to wake up and discover he's on another planet. The realisation that he's just been sold to a family of aliens by an exotic pet shop, does nothing to improve Jerry's mood. Harchi Jannan and his son, Chad, are thrilled with their unique new pet, but Rashila Jannan is so furious with her husband for buying it, she's ready to shed her tail tip.

It's just a regular trip for Kevin, and he comes back with just the regular sorts of things. Some local fudge, a scented candle for his mum...and his own personal god. It's Abandinus, a little-known Celtic deity who has suddenly found a new purpose in his eternal life - sorting out Kevin's. With a god on your side, everything's going to get a lot easier, isn't it? After all, a god can get stuff done. The trouble is, it's not always the kind of stuff Kevin has in mind....

When the children are snowed in during a dinner ladies' detention for what could turn into weeks, things look bad. After all, dinner ladies are not overly fond of children, and their cooking is terrible! Now London has been evacuated, and time and food are running out. Bagdemagus, the magical school cat, is behaving very strangely - can he help the children make their escape?

Everyone in New Orleans thinks the Button family lives in a spooky old haunted house - except the three Button children. The bumps in the night are perfectly normal to them until one day when an elderly ghost appears to investigate this mystery with his mechanically enchanted umbrella. Soon he discovers a world behind their walls, a world that takes him and the three Button children down to a village far below their home, a village of jack-o-lantern houses, a village of scary creatures, a village called Halloween Hollow.

The Magic Library is finally reopening its long-locked doors. But it needs four librarians. To become one, four magic books need to be found. Surprisingly, four homeless people find them. One is called Peter Butterpig, a bright-pink pig with great big butterfly wings. Two others are old robots called Sir Copperpot and Uncle Glitch, who are falling apart with failing memory banks, yet they never forgot to take care of the fourth.

When his parents return from Kenya with a cute little green lizard on his eighth birthday (he's two times two times two), Jacob Two-Two is thrilled. But it isn't long before Jacob realizes that his new pet, Dippy, isn't a lizard after all. And as months pass, it is apparent Dippy isn't so little either. Soon Dippy is attracting all sorts of unwanted attention, and before he knows it, Jacob is on the run from the Canadian government with a full-grown dinosaur to hide.

Poor Jacob Two-Two. Not only must he say everything twice just to be heard over his four brothers and sisters, but he finds himself the prisoner of the dreaded Hooded Fang. What had he done to deserve such a punishment? The worst crime of all - insulting a grown-up! Although he's small, Jacob is not helpless, especially when The Infamous Two come to his aid.