Fiction Sagas

En déployant le Flambeau klikiss, la Ligue Hanséatique terrienne a ravivé un conflit vieux de dix mille ans. Depuis, une lutte titanesque opposant hydrogues, faeros et verdani fait rage à travers tout le Bras spiral de notre galaxie.Pris au piège entre ces superpuissances élémentales, les humains et leurs alliés ildirans cherchent désespérément une planche de salut.

Best-selling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir tells the tragic story of Henry VIII’s fifth wife, a 19-year-old beauty with a hidden past, in this fifth novel in the sweeping Six Tudor Queens series. In the spring of 1540, Henry VIII is desperate to be rid of his unappealing German queen, Anna of Kleve. A prematurely aged and ailing 49, with an ever-growing waistline, he casts an amorous eye on a pretty 19-year-old brunette, Katheryn Howard.

Cinq ans après leur attaque contre les mondes colonisés par les humains dans le Bras spiral, les hydrogues venus des planètes géantes gazeuses bloquent la production du carburant nécessaire aux vaisseaux interstellaires. Leur embargo étouffe la civilisation humaine. La Ligue Hanséatique terrienne accepte l'aide des mystérieux robots klikiss pour combattre les hydrogues. Mais la Hanse n'a pas encore pris conscience que ces robots ont déjà exterminé leurs propres créateurs... et pourraient se retourner bientôt contre l'humanité.

Marie-Bernadette Dupuy place sa nouvelle saga dans un décor qu’elle n’avait encore jamais exploré : la Bourgogne. De magnifiques paysages et un patrimoine très riche qui cachent bien des secrets…

Darren Shan and his best friend, Steve, get tickets to the Cirque du Freak, a wonderfully gothic freak show featuring weird, frightening half human/half animals who interact terrifyingly with the audience. In the midst of the excitement, true terror raises its head when Steve recognizes that one of the performers - Mr. Crepsley - is a vampire! Steve confronts the vampire after the show finishes - but his motives are surprising!

Teenage criminal Dylan and her twin brother Devin are struggling to survive the streets. After an attempt to steal food goes horribly wrong, the twins are offered a deal. Their needs will be provided for if they join the ranks of the Rhodi. This elite group of supernatural warriors battle against the Hunter’s Guild, a dark force that is threatening to destroy their world.

À New York, une ville démolie par les guerres des magiciens, Ryvenn, seize ans, apprend à maîtriser son pouvoir. C'est une empathe : elle est capable de ressentir les émotions des personnes autour d'elle. C'est bien moins impressionnant que télépathe ou télékinésiste, mais ça n'empêche pas le gouvernement de s'arracher son don. Quand elle n'est pas à l'école ou avec sa famille, Ryvenn utilise son pouvoir lors des interrogatoires des prisonniers pour une agence du gouvernement, qui la paie grassement en retour.

Rosalie Iron Wing has grown up in the woods with her father, Ray, a former science teacher who tells her stories of plants, of the stars, of the origins of the Dakhota people. Until, one morning, Ray doesn't return from checking his traps. Told she has no family, Rosalie is sent to live with a foster family in nearby Mankato - where the reserved, bookish teenager meets rebellious Gaby Makespeace, in a friendship that transcends the damaged legacies they've inherited.

The first three books of the Braxton Brothers series with many positive reviews on the individual books. Dive into this sweet family saga series where the bonds are close and the romances are swoon-worthy. The Braxton Brothers are home! Includes: Coming Home to Honey Grove, Friendship Blooms in Honey Grove, and Escaping to Honey Grove.

The port of Queenstown bustles with activity as people traverse the Atlantic either in search of new lives on foreign shores or returning to old familiar ones in Ireland. The Cliff House is fast gaining a reputation as a wonderful place to stay, and the business is going from strength to strength. Rose and Harp have turned their fortunes around and for the first time they are prosperous and independent. But all is not well.

Septembre 1939. Quelques semaines après l’entrée en guerre du Canada, la famille Gélinas vit dans la crainte constante de voir partir ses hommes au front. Tourmenté par des désirs qu’il a du mal à comprendre, Laurent se réfugie un peu trop souvent dans l’alcool. Ça vaut mieux que les questionnements terrifiants auxquels il est confronté tous les jours!

The Princes of Ireland, the first volume of Edward Rutherfurd’s magisterial epic of Irish history, ended with the disastrous Irish revolt of 1534 and the disappearance of the sacred Staff of Saint Patrick. The Rebels of Ireland opens with an Ireland transformed; plantation, the final step...

Shanghai, 1912. Violet Minturn is the privileged daughter of the American madam of the city's most exclusive courtesan house. But when the Ching dynasty is overturned, Violet is separated from her mother in a cruel act of chicanery and forced to become a "virgin courtesan." Half-Chinese and half-American, Violet grapples with her place in the worlds of East and West - until she is able to merge her two halves, empowering her to become a shrewd courtesan who excels in the business of seduction and illusion, though she still struggles to understand who she is.

The Earth lies shaken in the aftermath of a conspiracy. Some of the smartest minds on the planet have striven for and died in an effort to scour the skies of four vast alien satellites, but their success has brought a terrible vengeance down upon us. While alien agents stalk the Earth, a team of exhausted scientists and military outcasts struggle to fight them among a planet on the brink - the brink of plague, the brink of war, and the brink of an invasion larger than they can possibly imagine. But they have allies.

War and Peace is one of the greatest monuments in world literature. Set against the dramatic backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, it examines the relationship between the individual and the relentless march of history. Here are the universal themes of love and hate, ambition and despair, youth and age, expressed with a swirling vitality which makes the book as accessible today as it was when it was first published in 1869.

El gran maestro de la narrativa de acción y suspense nos transporta con este audiolibro a la Edad Media, a un fascinante mundo de reyes, damas, caballeros, pugnas feudales, castillos y ciudades amuralladas. El amor y la muerte se entrecruzan vibrantemente en este magistral tapiz cuyo centro es la construcción de una catedral gótica.

For Beck and her mother, Lovely, the serene island life they've carefully built is about to be upended. Plans for a quiet holiday with no guests at their popular Coquina House Bed & Breakfast are disrupted when they agree to host a trio of last-minute guests. These unexpected arrivals stir up more than just the peaceful waters of Coconut Key, leading to revelations that will transform the family forever.

Catch up with all of your favorite Bradens and enjoy Rex Braden and Jade Johnson's wedding!

Bienvenue à Stallen, l'école de magie élitiste ! Il y a quelques semaines encore, Ashkana, 16 ans, ignorait tout de son existence. Personne ne pensait que le complot était d'une telle ampleur. Ashkana, Thresh et leurs alliés, doivent faire face à une menace bien plus importante que ce qu'ils avaient imaginé. Leur sort, mais aussi celui de Stallen et de tous les surnaturels sont en jeu. Il n'est plus question de faire demi-tour, ou d'hésiter. S'ils veulent survivre, ils devront se battre tous ensemble.

Over seven decades, from 1940 to 2010, the pieds-noirs Cassars live in an itinerant state—separated in the chaos of World War II, running from a complicated colonial homeland, and, after Algerian independence, without a homeland at all. This Strange Eventful History, told with historical sweep, is above all a family story: of patriarch Gaston and his wife Lucienne, whose myth of perfect love sustains them and stifles their children; of François and Denise, devoted siblings connected by their family's strangeness; of François's union with Barbara; of Chloe, the result of that union.