Fiction Sagas

Philippa Gregory's first story in the best-selling Wideacre trilogy. A compelling tale of passion and intrigue set in the 18th century. From the author of The Other Boleyn Girl and The Virgin's Lover. Wideacre Hall, set in the heart of the English countryside, is the ancestral home that Beatrice Lacey loves. But as a woman of the 18th century, she has no right of inheritance. Corrupted by a world that mistreats women, she sets out to corrupt others.

You've heard of him. He's Adam Cain, the alien with an attitude. Now he's back...in a series of new adventures as a badass human, showing the galaxy who's the boss. Accompanied by his buddies Riyad Tarazi and Sherri Valentine, Adam is struggling to make ends meet on a distant tropical world running Capt. Cain's Bar & Grill. The problem: They picked the worst place in the galaxy to run a legitimate business...smack dab in the middle of lawless Dead Zone. Comprised of a hundred dead worlds, The Zone is a gold-rush-like region of salvagers, pirates, and scoundrels.

I thought I was done with romance, until a certain pompous elf reappeared in my life at the illustrious Monster Ball. A little teasing led to bruised lips and captured hearts. No one wants Jhaeros and me to be together, not even my favorite sister, Melarue. But she's a teenager just coming into her elemental powers and discovering boys - the wrong kind - the type I want to shoot arrows through.

Billed as "the most realistic game ever," Worlds at War was a video game unlike any other - one that promised a virtual reality experience that rivaled operating a giant mecha in combat. People flocked to the game in anticipation. For some, the game lived up to and far exceeded their expectations - the level of graphics was indeed, "just like being there." The game didn't provide the experience many others had hoped for, though; for a large number of players, the game was "too real to be fun." For video game design majors Ryan Johnson and Noah Bowden, the game play was incredible.

Abandoned as an infant, Quinn Faust is about to discover she's not just a normal human being. Bounced from foster home to foster home, she came to rely on her street smarts, martial arts skills, and the tiny silver amulet that was the only link to her lost family. Hired by a video game company to test new Virtual Reality gear to train soldiers, Quinn quickly learns there's more to the game than they told her.

Contains all three books in the Iconoclasts trilogy and two short stories.

A visionary work that combines speculative fiction with deep philosophical inquiry, The Sparrow tells the story of a charismatic Jesuit priest and linguist, Emilio Sandoz, who leads a scientific mission entrusted with a profound task: To make first contact with intelligent extraterrestrial life. The mission begins in faith, hope, and beauty, but a series of small misunderstandings brings it to a catastrophic end.

Murasaki Shikibu, born into the middle ranks of the aristocracy during the Heian period (794-1185 CE), wrote The Tale of Genji, widely considered the world's first novel, during the early years of the 11th century. Expansive, compelling, and sophisticated in its representation of ethical concerns and aesthetic ideals, Murasaki's tale came to occupy a central place in Japan's remarkable history of artistic achievement and is now recognized as a masterpiece of world literature.

The time is World War II. The place is a brutal prison camp deep in Japanese-occupied territory. Here, within the seething mass of humanity, one man, an American corporal, seeks dominance over both captives and captors alike. His weapons are human courage, unblinking understanding of human weaknesses, and total willingness to exploit every opportunity to enlarge his power and corrupt or destroy anyone who stands in his path.

“An epic reading experience.” —San Diego Union-Tribune Acclaimed, New York Times bestselling fantasist Raymond E. Feist gets his masterful Serpentwar Saga off to a spectacular start with Shadow of a Dark Queen. Feist’s classic epic fantasy adventure returns readers to ever-imperiled...

After fate cruelly takes her parents in a chilling train accident, 14-year-old Jobeth is whisked away to a sinister foster home overshadowed by a nefarious couple with darkness of their own. Thrust into a world where secrets whisper through the walls, an ominous flower marks Jobeth, birthed from violence. Forever tethered together, it refuses to let go, lurking in the darkness, gaining strength with each step she takes. Fleeing, the tendrils of abuse and shattering revelations seek to entangle her. Trying to hold her down. Yet this time, she is not alone.

Zusammen mit dreizehn anderen Kandidatinnen trainiert die zwanzigjährige Temperance Verus mit einem Basilisken, um die Kunst der Verführung zu erlernen und die Hand des Prinzen zu gewinnen. Als Tem mit Caspen, dem Schlangenkönig, zusammengebracht wird, erkennt sie, dass sie tatsächlich eine Chance haben könnte. Doch die Spannungen zwischen den Basilisken und den Menschen nehmen zu, und Tem ist hin- und hergerissen. Je tiefer ihre Verbindung zu Caspen wird, desto stärker wird auch ihre Bindung zum Prinzen.

Cadette des sœurs Essex, Imogène a été brièvement mariée. Désormais veuve, elle retourne vivre chez son tuteur, le duc de Holbrook, Raphaël. Si la jeune femme ne veut pas se remarier, la perspective de prendre un amant la séduit plutôt. À Holbrook Court, elle fait la connaissance du demi-frère du duc, Gabriel. Il semble être l’homme parfait, mais les désirs d’Imogène se heurtent à la réprobation de Raphaël. Ce n’est certainement pas son tuteur qui va diriger sa vie ! s’insurge la veuve joyeuse qui feint de ne pas comprendre que Raphaël est tout simplement jaloux.

Hadley has fought for a life of her own ever since her sister’s kidnapping. When she was drowning in expectations and family pressures, Calder was always the one who understood her. Until one night changed it all. From best friends to strangers in a single breath.

Damien St. Cloud is a failure. Born into a family of warlords and blessed with the most powerful soul force in history, he’s unable to make his powers work. A disappointment to his legendary father and a weakling compared to his sister, Damien’s life is miserable. Then his life changes forever when a visiting sorcerer proclaims Damien isn’t a warlord at all but a sorcerer.

When prospector Bob Broadhead went out to Gateway on the Heechee spacecraft, he decided he would know which was the right mission to make him his fortune. Three missions later, now famous and permanently rich, Robinette Broadhead has to face what happened to him and what he is...in a journey into himself as perilous and even more horrifying than the nightmare trip through the interstellar void that he drove himself to take!

An action-packed flintlock fantasy audiobook about guns, mages, bards, and dragons! Ulric, former war hero, has been living a quiet life of exile in the frontier city of Quinport and wants only to continue hiding from the mistakes of his past. But then he discovers the invention of a revolutionary new kind of rifle, and worse, the ruling Coalition discovers his identity.

À travers la galaxie, treize cents portes conduisant vers des systèmes solaires se sont ouvertes. Mais tandis que l’humanité bâtit son nouvel empire interstellaire au milieu des vestiges aliens, les mystères s’approfondissent et les menaces s’intensifient... Teresa Duarte, quant à elle, se prépare à porter le fardeau que constitue l’ambition divine de son père. Mais avant cela, elle va devoir se protéger de bien des secrets au sein même de son palais. Et James Holden, qui y a été fait prisonnier, n’y sera qu’un danger de plus.

Oubliez toutes les romances de Noël que vous avez pu voir jusqu'à maintenant, la mienne est totalement différente. Moi, Lili, dotée d'un cynisme récurrent, d'un humour à toutes épreuves et de défenses plus solides que la muraille de Chine, je ne m'attendais pas à en vivre une. Si mon connard de voisin n'avait pas emménagé à 6 h du matin, rien n'aurait débuté : ni les réflexions sarcastiques ni les coups fourrés. Seulement, il l'a fait et a déclenché une guerre où presque tous les coups sont permis.

One night changed them both forever. Their lives shattered, beyond repair, with jagged edges and pieces askew. Now, Everly has a chance to make things right. To bring healing to the place where everything fell apart. But it means facing the family her father almost destroyed, and the boy with the dark eyes - now grown - who still haunts her dreams.