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

A quindici anni, se si deve scegliere fra trascorrere un anno a Brisbane, Australia, o in uno sperduto paesino nella provincia piemontese, non si hanno dubbi: paesino. Purché sia vicino alla città in cui vive il tuo ragazzo. E così Flora lascia partire senza rimpianti la madre, oceanologa in trasferta di lavoro australiana, e va a stare a casa di una zia... che, però, non è una zia normale. Non è normale la zia, e neanche lo zio, i cugini, i vicini di casa, la scuola, i compagni di scuola.

Nev has just joined the crew of the starship Kaitan Heritage as the cargo loader. His captain, Qole, is the youngest-ever person to command her own ship, but she brooks no argument from her crew of orphans, fugitives, and con men. Nev can't resist her, even if her ship is an antique. As for Nev, he's a prince, in hiding on the ship. He believes Qole holds the key to changing galactic civilization, and when her cooperation proves difficult to obtain, Nev resolves to get her to his home planet by any means necessary.

Ryan and Regan Resnick are the youngest members of a top-secret team exploring the greatest discovery ever made: a vast alien city buried deep underground - as potentially deadly as it is astonishing. When the city is captured by highly trained soldiers led by a ruthless alien, the adult members of the team are taken hostage. Now Ryan and Regan are the team's only hope of survival.

Seventeen-year-old Snow has spent the majority of her life within the walls of the Whittaker Institute, a high security mental hospital in upstate New York. Deep down, she knows she's not crazy and doesn't belong there. When she meets a mysterious, handsome new orderly and dreams about a strange twisted tree she realizes she must escape and figure out who she really is.

Evangeline has spent her teenage years in obscurity. Her foster parents have the emotional aptitude of robots, and her classmates barely acknowledge her existence. About to turn 18 and feeling like a social pariah, she is desperate to connect with someone. Anyone. When Evangeline meets Sophie after literally stumbling upon her café, she believes she's found that connection. Willing to do anything to keep it, she accepts a job as Sofie's assistant and drops everything to fly to Manhattan.

Seventeen-year-old Genesis Lee has never forgotten anything. As one of the Mementia small group of genetically enhanced humans, Gena remembers everything with the help of her Link bracelets, which preserve them perfectly. But Links can be stolen, and six people have already lost their lives to a memory thief, including Gena’s best friend. Anyone could be next.

Seventeen-year-old Groundling, Fennel, is Sightless. She's never been able to see her lush forest home, but she knows its secrets. She knows how the shadows shift when she passes under a canopy of trees. She knows how to hide in the cool, damp caves when the Scourge comes. She knows how devious and arrogant the Groundlings' tree-dwelling neighbors, the Lofties, can be. And she's always known this day would come--the day she faces the Scourge alone.

'The world fades to nothing, and before I have the chance to think another thought... I'm dead. My name is Daisy West and my whole life is a lie. I'm part of a programme to test a drug called Revive - a drug that brings people back from the dead. I have died five times. I've been Revived five times. With each revival comes a new name, a new town...a new life. But this time, I won't let myself die. This time, I've found a love that I can't let go of. This time, I'm going to make my life my own.'

Jinn is an angel trapped in mortal flesh, sent down from the heavens to fight, die, and be reincarnated endlessly in the war against evil. But over the years, revenge supplanted justice, and now he lives only to wreck vengeance - whatever the cost - on the dark angel of Asmodeus who killed his lover. A series of brutal occult murders, left like breadcrumbs for him to follow, lead Jinn straight to the dark angel - an invitation to a final battle for the soul of Waterdeep. But will he still be able to choose the path of justice when he is so close to his enemy, after lifetimes of failure?

Que se passe-t-il lorsque l'assistante du Vilain est prête à devenir son apprentie ? Evie Sage n'a jamais été aussi heureuse. Qui aurait cru qu'il serait si gratifiant de travailler pour un Seigneur du Mal outrageusement beau ? Pourtant, le métier de méchant est exigeant, les forces du Bien sont agaçantes, et ce patron est quelque peu... euh... absent actuellement. Il est temps de sortir de sa zone de confort et d'acquérir de nouvelles compétences. Comme trahir. Apprendre le maniement des armes. Conspirer avec l'ennemi. Tout cela est si... si... délicieusement amusant.

Rinvenuti da cuccioli di lupo nella natura selvaggia della Foresta di Redstone, il branco sa che gli unici esseri umani con cui possono essere veramente se stessi, licantropia inclusa, sono i loro genitori adottivi. Così, ogni volta che sentono la necessità di entrare in contatto con la loro natura più selvaggia, tornano nella foresta per correre e condividere il loro legame speciale. Fino al terribile giorno in cui una troupe televisiva filma la loro trasformazione e Tora viene catturata da uno scienziato deciso a rivelare al mondo le sue capacità soprannaturali.

Clary est folle de joie. Lilith serait anéantie et Jace sauvé... Mais quand les "Chasseurs d'Ombres" viennent le libérer, ils ne trouvent que du sang et du verre brisé. Jace a disparu. Clary découvre bientôt qu'il est devenu un serviteur des démons ! Son sort est désormais lié à celui de Sébastien, son pire ennemi... Pour sauver l'homme qu'elle aime, Clary va devoir risquer plus que sa vie. Existe-t-il encore le moindre espoir ?

Alors que Simon s'adapte difficilement à sa condition de vampire, Clary et Jace filent le parfait amour... ou presque. La guerre est terminée. Clary rentre à New York pour s'entraîner à devenir Chasseur d'Ombres. Mais les tensions se ravivent avec les Créatures Obscures, des Chasseurs d'Ombres sont assassinés... Les deux camps se préparent à une nouvelle confrontation et se disputent Simon, un vampire aux nombreux pouvoirs. Ils ne reculeront devant rien. Au risque pour Clary de perdre tous ceux qu'elle aime... y compris Jace.

Le Monde Obscur est en émoi depuis le meurtre mystérieux d'un loup-garou survenu devant le Hunter's Moon, l'un des repaires de lycanthropes les plus fréquentés de New York. Du côté des Chasseurs d'Ombres, l'Inquisitrice, une femme insensible et austère, est dépêchée par l'Enclave pour s'emparer de l'Institut : Valentin est de retour et une guerre sanglante se prépare. Pris dans la tourmente des événements, écartelés entre cœur et raison, Clary et Jace se lancent à corps perdu dans un combat entre les forces du Bien et du Mal, qui les mènera des souterrains de la Cité Silencieuse aux eaux sombres de l'East River...

It's Boston, 1919, and the Cast Iron club is packed. Onstage, hemopaths - whose "afflicted" blood gives them the ability to create illusions through art - Corinne and Ada have been best friends ever since infamous gangster Johnny Dervish recruited them into his circle. By night they perform for Johnny's crowds, and by day they con Boston's elite. When a job goes wrong and Ada is imprisoned, she realizes how precarious their position is. After she escapes, two of the Cast Iron's hires are shot, and Johnny disappears.

In this delightful third book, Alethea Kontis weaves together some fine-feathered fairy tales to focus on Friday Woodcutter, the kind and loving seamstress. When Friday stumbles upon seven sleeping brothers in her sister Sunday's palace, she takes one look at Tristan and knows he's her future. But the brothers are cursed to be swans by day. Can Friday's unique magic somehow break the spell?

Eigentlich sollte sich Felicity ja glücklich schätzen. Nicht nur scheinen plötzlich sämtliche Jungen aus ihrer Schule an ihr interessiert zu sein, sie ist auch bereits mit dem bestaussehendsten Typen Londons verlobt. Nur leider ist die Verlobung schon vor Jahrhunderten arrangiert worden und ihr Zukünftiger, der etwas zu charmante Halbelf Leander FitzMor, der viel zu vielen Frauen den Kopf verdreht.

Dusty Everhart might be able to predict the future through the dreams of her crush Eli Booker, but that doesn't make her life even remotely easy. When one of her mermaid friends is viciously assaulted and left for dead, and the school's jokester Lance Rathbone is accused of the crime, Dusty's as shocked as everybody else. Lance needs Dusty to prove his innocence by finding the real attacker, but that's easier asked than done. Eli's dreams are no help, more nightmares than prophecies.

Scarlet’s true identity has been revealed, but her future is uncertain. Her forced marriage to Lord Gisbourne threatens Robin and Scarlet’s love, and as the royal court descends upon Nottingham for the appointment of a new Sheriff, the people of Nottingham hope that Prince John will appoint their beloved Robin Hood. But Prince John has different plans for Nottingham that revolve around a fateful secret from Scarlet’s past even she isn’t yet aware of.

In the lush and magical Pacific Northwest live two best friends who grew up like sisters: charismatic, mercurial, and beautiful Aurora, and the devoted, watchful narrator. Each of them is incomplete without the other. But their unbreakable bond is challenged when a mysterious and gifted musician named Jack comes between them. His music is like nothing I have ever heard. It is like the ocean surging, the wind that blows across the open water, the far call of gulls. Suddenly, each girl must decide what matters most.