Contemporary Science Fiction

Fitzchevalerie a scrupuleusement rempli son rôle d'assassin royal. Il a fidèlement servi le souverain subtil, puis vérité et sa reine, Kettricken. Mais, en accomplissant son devoir, il a perdu sa femme et sa fille. Désormais Fitz ne désire plus que le repos et l'oubli : il s'est retiré loin de la cour pour vivre une existence simple et paisible avec son loup Œil-de-nuit et le jeune Heur, un orphelin qu'il a recueilli. Or voici que ses anciens amis viennent le voir : Astérie la ménestrelle, Ombre son maître assassin et le mystérieux fou.

Kennedy Bennett comes from a long line of curse weavers. For centuries, her family has plied their trade in Unstable, Massachusetts, an unconventional small town that's welcomed paranormal practitioners since the dawn of spiritualism. Kennedy has recently struck out on her own, opening an antiques shop in Boston, where her specialty is uncursing and reselling hexed objects. Then Aiden Connolly walks into her life with an offer she really should refuse. The scion of a wealthy family of luck workers, Aiden has a scheme to get his hands on the most famous cursed object of all.

In a realm where magical professions tend to align within family trees, Lyra Treble is an unusual ingredient. Everyone expected her to follow in her parents' footsteps and become a bard, but she's gained entrance to the Royal Academy of Magical Baking, the most exclusive, prestigious institution of its kind in all the land. The academy is everything Lyra dreamed of and more. She loves the rigorous curriculum, the strict but fair professors, and her new friends-turned-family. But with a limited number of slots open for next year, her culinary future isn't guaranteed.

Taylor is the name, John Taylor. My card says I'm a detective, but what I really am is an expert on finding lost things. It's part of the gift I was born with as a child of the Nightside. I left there a long time ago, with my skin and sanity barely intact. Now I make my living in the sunlit streets of London. But business has been slow lately, so when Joanna Barrett showed up at my door, reeking of wealth, asking me to find her runaway teenage daughter, I didn't say no.

Le grand jour se profile : Alise comme Thymara vont enfin se trouver face aux dragons, l'une pour assouvir sa soif de connaissances, l'autre pour les conduire, avec un groupe de jeunes gens comme elle, jusqu'à la légendaire cité des Anciens, Kelsingra. Ce qu'elles ignorent, c'est que cette rencontre changera leur existence. Alise, passagère à bord du Mataf dont le rugueux capitaine, Leftrin, ne la laisse pas insensible, va faire un choix qui met en péril sa réputation et son mariage.

When Nell Ingram met skinwalker Jane Yellowrock, she was almost alone in the world, exiled by both choice and fear from the cult she was raised in, defending herself with the magic she drew from her deep connection to the forest that surrounds her. Now, Jane has referred Nell to PsyLED, a Homeland Security agency policing paranormals, and agent Rick LaFleur has shown up at Nell's doorstep.

Samantha McAllister looks just like the rest of the popular girls in her junior class. But hidden beneath the straightened hair and expertly applied makeup is a secret that her friends would never understand: Sam has purely obsessional OCD and is consumed by a stream of dark thoughts and worries that she can't turn off. Second-guessing every move, thought, and word makes daily life a struggle, and it doesn't help that her lifelong friends will turn toxic at the first sign of a wrong outfit, wrong lunch, or wrong crush.

When magic strikes and Atlanta goes to pieces, it's a job for Kate Daniels...Drafted into working for the Order of Merciful Aid, mercenary Kate Daniels has more paranormal problems than she knows what to do with these days. And in Atlanta, where magic comes and goes like the tide, that's saying a lot. But when Kate's werewolf friend Derek is discovered nearly dead, she must confront her greatest challenge yet.

Fraa Erasmas est un jeune chercheur vivant dans la congrégation de Saunt-Edhar, un sanctuaire pour les mathématiciens et les philosophes. Depuis des siècles, autour du sanctuaire, les gouvernements et les cités n'ont eu de cesse de se développer et de s'effondrer. Par le passé, la congrégation a été ravagée trois fois par la violence de conflits armés. Méfiante vis-à-vis du monde extérieur, la communauté de Saunt-Edhar ne s'ouvre au monde qu'une fois tous les dix ans.

Un secret ancestral a été dévoilé. Et rien ne sera jamais plus comme avant. Alors que le voile entre les mondes vient tout juste d’être refermé, Aileen n’a pas une seconde à perdre. Munie de sa détermination sans faille et de ses connaissances de druidesse, elle entreprend de réunir une équipe afin d’affronter la plus grande menace qui soit. Le tout en jonglant avec l’arrivée inopinée de son géniteur, ses histoires de coeur et la protection de son petit frère. Tic tac tic tac.

When twenty-something coder Seven Jones goes back to school at a community college in San Diego, the last thing she wants is to join some stupid club. And the last thing she expects is to walk into an underground magic club. Like, actual wizards and shit. Seven reluctantly joins the motley crew of magic weirdos and discovers her own power. But she struggles to control it . . . until she figures out how to channel her magic through an artificially intelligent computer program.

Les sombres aventures de Seïs continuent ; des révélations bouleversantes sortent de l'ombre... L'aura du Porteur de Mort n'a jamais été aussi oppressante ! Alors que l'ombre des spectres du passé tend à vouloir leur dicter leur destin, Seïs et Naïs font face à de nouvelles révélations qui pourraient bien tout faire basculer. Dans les ténèbres de la montagne, les cris du prisonnier résonnent et viennent troubler leurs certitudes. Méridiane, Shaolan et Torii sont plus près que jamais.

Kallista had always known she was different. The shadows had always called to her. She craved to be held safe in their cool depths. To escape her parent's methods of attempting to rid her of her demons. Valen was destruction. Everything he touched crumbled. Everywhere he went, pain followed. He learned a millennia ago that being alone was the only way to keep the world safe. When the marks that had shown on Valen's wrist years ago suddenly changed, he realized that there was more to his world than he knew. A woman called to the deepest parts of him.

After a successful rescue mission in the empire, Eizo welcomes Helen to the family. Life at the forge is peaceful once more, though living in the Black Forest comes with its own set of dangers. The family encounters another aggressive bear, and once they dispatch it, they find and adopt an orphaned wolf pup. With yet another mouth to feed, Eizo knows he must continue to test the limits of his cheats. His next challenge? Working with a rare, stubborn metal called appoitakara. Using this metal, Eizo forges Helen a new pair of swords and then decides to design a katana for himself!

Piloting a shuttle through a deadly solar flare, Jean Grey saves the X-Men, but is possessed by one of the universe's most powerful forces - the Phoenix. As she adapts to her new powers, the mutant team launches an assault against the clandestine organization known as the Hellfire Club. Once inside, however, Jean is tricked by the villain Mastermind into betraying her teammates. She becomes first the Hellfire Club's Black Queen and then Dark Phoenix, as the power to destroy worlds bursts forth uncontrolled.

Lily is a photojournalist in search of the “animal people” who supposedly haunt the city’s darkest slums. Hank is a slumdweller who knows the bad streets all too well. One night, in a brutal incident, their two lives collide - uptown Lily and downtown Hank, each with a quest and a role to play in the secret drama of the city’s oldest inhabitants. For the animal people walk among us. Native Americans call them the First People, but they have never left, and they claim the city for their own.

La survie est essentielle, encore plus quand elle est guidée par la vengeance. Pour les passionnés d’Urban Fantasy, voici une saga sombre et captivante, portée par une femme avide de revanche, prête à tout braver au cœur d’une apocalypse surnaturelle. Keira semblait avoir une vie parfaite, jusqu’à ce que tout s’effondre sous le joug de créatures surnaturelles asservissant l’humanité.

Ellie Beckett's life is simple and uncomplicated; she's on track to become a leading expert in biomedical engineering, she has a pub where she feels comfortable enough to hang out multiple times a week, and so what if she doesn't have time for . . . people? She doesn't need or want them. Until she meets Mia Sharpe. As it turns out, maybe Ellie does want at least one person.

With the successful conclusion of the monster subjugation campaign, Eizo returns home with a new addition to the family—Lidy! However, his days of battling beasts aren't quite over. During a chance encounter with Samya's childhood friend, Jolanda, the family learns of another corrupted bear that's stalking around the Black Forest. Jolanda also mentions a tantalizing rumor about a magical knife, which Rike and Eizo are eager to investigate. Could this be a new product to add to Forge Eizo's lineup?

Sunny est effondrée: un Aile de Nuit a affirmé que la prophétie était fausse et que les Dragonnets du Destin ne pourraient jamais mettre fin à la guerre. Pourtant, la petite Aile de Sable refuse de renoncer et cherche à convaincre ses amis de poursuivre leur lutte pour la paix. Comme d'habitude, personne ne la prend au sérieux. C'est donc seule que Sunny affronte sa destinée. Mais une dragonnette naïve a-t-elle la moindre chance face aux pièges des sables mouvants et à des adversaires sans pitié ?