Showing results for "The Science of Light" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

Kousuke suddenly wakes up alone in a vast forest that clearly isn't anywhere on Earth. Now he has to find some way to eat, drink, and survive! Luckily, Kousuke also has the power to craft using a special video game menu that allows him to harvest resources and build whatever he can imagine. However, every time he goes to sleep, he's attacked by one of the many non-human races of this world, all of whom despise humankind. Enter Silphy, the beautiful dark elf who lays claim to Kousuke and vows to protect him--after all, she's taken him as her property!

When Amethyst Faye was six years old, she was almost stolen by a monster in the woods on the same night her mother mysteriously disappeared. Ten years, a half-dozen psychiatrists, and a slew of diagnoses haven’t made things any better; she is still plagued by nightmares, ridiculed at school, and misunderstood by everyone from her teachers to her counselor to her father. And lately she’s been sprouting thick green thorns out of her skin.

A certain college girl who's loved books ever since she was a little girl dies in an accident and is reborn in another world she knows nothing about. She is now Myne, the sickly five-year-old daughter of a poor soldier. To make things worse, the world she's been reborn in has a very low literacy rate and books mostly don't exist. She'd have to pay an enormous amount of money to buy one.

Dionne Archer is a regular high school girl. For her sixteenth birthday, though, she was gifted a strange mirror and a family secret that would change her life. Faced with new magical powers, Dionne must now team up with others like her to fight the organization known as the Lords of Chaos and keep them from achieving their goals. All while dealing with homework. As if being a teenager wasn’t hard enough already.

Alone and forlorn, Rudeus arrives at the city of Rosenburg to search for his mother, Zenith. Despite his attempts to focus on the task at hand, Eris' absence weighs heavy on his heart, and so Rudeus gambles on a dangerous new venture to distract himself from his newfound loneliness--accepting an A-rank job all by himself.

Marshall Seaver is being haunted. In the first installment of this chillingly compelling trilogy, sixteen-year-old Marshall discovers that something beyond our world is after him. The eerie clues pile up quickly, and when people start dying, it's clear whatever this is - it's huge. Marshall has no idea what's happening to him, but he's soon convinced that it has something to do with his best friend, Cooper, who's been missing for over a week.

Danny Youngblood thought he knew the dangers of monster summoning. But when a mysterious desert civilization, the Sapiens, launches a devastating attack on the Empire, he discovers a threat far greater than anything he's ever faced. As the Sapiens close in on the Imperial City, Danny and his friends must race against time to uncover the secrets behind their advanced weapons and powerful monsters. With the help of the brilliant inventor Isa, they develop new strategies and powerful summons to combat the invading force.

A tip from the enigmatic Man God leads to the Shirone Kingdom, where Lilia and Aisha are being held captive in the palace. Rudeus and company head to the rescue--only to get swept up in some nasty, unfinished business Roxy left in her wake! Family reunions are one thing, but can Dead End deal with saying goodbye to one of their own?

Continuing their journey, Rudeus, Eris and Ruijerd have a run in with a figure from legend--none other than the Great Emperor of the Demon World, Kishirika herself! When the trio lend her their aid, Kishrika rewards Rudy with a strange new power...one that might just be more than he bargained for.

At the end of the 21st century, the world has changed dramatically, but life continues 1,000 feet below the ocean's surface. In Great Britain, sea creatures swim among the ruins of Big Ben and the Tower of London, and citizens waver between fear and hope: fear of what lurks in the abyss and hope that humanity will soon discover a way to reclaim the planet. Meanwhile, 16-year-old Leyla McQueen has her own problems to deal with.

In a stratified society where contact with the sun is a luxury reserved for the elite, those kept prisoner in the darkness will do anything to find the light. Arden - beautiful, street-smart, and cynical - is one of the citizens of the lowest Level, known as Undercity, of an off-world colony. A blackout band traps Arden in her district, but as sister to the leader of the most powerful gang in Undercity, she has access to Above.

Ellaria wünscht sich nur eines: geliebt und von ihrem Volk akzeptiert zu werden. Als plötzlich ein feindlicher Fae in ihrem Reich auftaucht und ihr das Unmögliche offenbart, gerät ihre Welt und alles, an das sie glaubt, ins Wanken. Durch einen schweren Verrat eines geliebten Menschen wird sie auf die gefährlichste Probe ihres Lebens gestellt und sieht sich gezwungen, sich mit dem Fae zu verbünden.

Louve ist eine Schattenassassinin – für die richtige Summe holt sie die Seelen Verstorbener aus dem Schattenreich zurück. Da Louve nur über Auren die Welt wahrnimmt, befreit sie den Schattengott Enean höchstselbst. Enean, dem dunklen Thron und seiner Bestiengestalt überdrüssig, fährt in den Körper des jungen Mannes und entkommt ins Reich der Lebenden – seine Dämonen dicht auf den Fersen.

"TU SEI L’EREDE DELLE TERRE E DEI MARI, DEI CIELI E DEI REGNI. UNA REGINA AL POSTO DI UN RE. TU SEI LA PRIMORDIALE DELLA VITA." Ora che la verità sul suo piano è venuta a galla, mandando in frantumi la fragile fiducia che si era instaurata tra lei e Nyktos, a Seraphena non resta che aggrapparsi al proprio senso del dovere. Per questo farà tutto il possibile per fermare Kolis, il falso Re degli Dei, e porre fine alla sua tirannia su Iliseum e alla minaccia che rappresenta per i mortali. Anche se questo significa seguire il piano di Nyktos.

Kell est un magicien de sang, un sorcier capable de voyager d'un monde à l'autre. Des mondes, il y en a quatre, dont Londres est, à chaque fois, le cœur et l'âme. Le nôtre est gris. Le deuxième, rouge, déborde de magie. Dans le blanc, elle s'est faite bien trop rare quand, dans le noir, elle a tout dévoré. Et le fléau s'apprête à contaminer chacun des univers jusqu'au dernier – ce n'est plus qu'une question de temps...

Für Mia ändert sich alles, als sie beim Hören eines uralten Buchs in ein fremdes und magisches Reich gerissen wird. Nymphen, Nixen und Elfen sind dort nicht nur etwas völlig Alltägliches – sondern sie verfolgen zum Teil gefährliche Pläne. Doch zwischen den Schatten dieser unberechenbaren Welt begegnet Mia Liam, einem rätselhaften Jäger mit scharfem Verstand. Während sie gemeinsam herauszufinden versuchen, warum sich Mia hier so seltsam zu Hause fühlt, knistert es immer mehr zwischen ihnen. Aber kann Mia Liam wirklich vertrauen oder birgt auch er ein Geheimnis?

A medieval adventure for young adults, A Tale of Light and Shadow is the story of a boy struggling to become a courageous and honorable man and a girl who is desperately in love with him despite her father's disapproval. The audiobook chronicles the extraordinary tasks their adventure asks of their band of five friends and how those demands can overwhelm and break the bonds of friendship.

Zuhra and Inara have grown up in the Citadel of the Paladins, an abandoned fortress where legendary, magical warriors once lived before disappearing from the world - including their Paladin father the night Inara was born. On that same night, a massive, magical hedge grew and imprisoned them within the citadel. Inara inherited their father’s Paladin power; her eyes glow blue and she is able to make plants grow at unbelievable rates, but she has been trapped in her own mind because of a "roar" that drowns everything else out.

Leyla McQueen has finally reunited with her father after breaking him out of Broadmoor - the illegal government prison - but his freedom comes at a terrible cost. As Leyla celebrates his return, she must grapple with the pain of losing Ari. Now separated from the boy who has her heart and labeled the nation’s number one enemy, Leyla must risk illegal travel through unchartered waters in her quest for the truth behind her father's arrest.

Die Existenz von Vampiren, Feen und anderen Paranormalen ist längst kein Geheimnis mehr. Doch ist es ihnen verboten, sich ohne die Begleitung des ihnen zugeteilten Delegierten in der Öffentlichkeit zu bewegen. Ausgerechnet bei der warmherzigen Light versagt jedoch das raffinierte Auswahlsystem: Ihr erster Paranormaler ist der rebellische und entgegen aller Regeln männliche Dämon Dante. Und schon bald muss sie sich fragen, ob sie ihn vor der Menschheit oder sich selbst vor ihm schützen muss.