Polar Science Fiction

Léonie, achetée au Liberia, alors qu'elle n'était qu'une enfant, séquestrée, prostituée, s'enfuit à vingt ans de son enfer pour se retrouver clandestine et sans papiers dans les rues de Paris. Edmé, un inspecteur de la Crim, déprimé par les violences, la misère et le cynisme qu'il côtoie chaque jour, découvre un étrange charnier dans la Marne. Cyrian, fils de famille en mal de raisons de vivre, se prête à un voyage expérimental d'un genre nouveau, pour trouver le frisson de l'extrême : le transfert de l'âme dans un corps d'emprunt... Leur point commun ? Tous trois sont porteurs d'âmes, comme tous les êtres humains.

Two teens join an epic battle to save a distant world and its dragon prince. Whitney and Edward are ordinary teenagers, but their lives are about to take an extraordinary turn. As they approach their 13th and 14th birthdays, a mysterious force beckons to them, awakening a sense of wonder and curiosity within. Little do they know, they possess incredible powers that are entwined with the fate of a hidden world they never knew existed.

Runt Higgins has a long to-do list. He needs to find out who cursed him, and why; he needs to make up with his best friend, Syke; and he needs to pass the Junior Henchman Training Program. That last one? Not likely. Professor Murphy hates Runt and is actively trying to fail him. The only way for Runt to pass the class and stay at Dr. Critchlore’s School is to locate a rare mineral that Dr. Critchlore needs to make an Undefeatable Minion. To find it, Runt must travel to icy Upper Worb and battle gyrfalcons, yetis...and the loathsome team from Dr. Pravus’s school.

Polar bear shapeshifter Russell is content with his isolated life in a small Alaskan town. That is, until the arrival of a kindergarten teacher from the lower 48 blows Russell's comfortable world to pieces. One whiff of Riley Jenkins' compelling scent, and Russ is a goner. But how can he explain all that he is to this innocent young woman...and will her own dark past prevent their fated love from turning into a happily-ever-after?

Dans une Double Breytain en plein bouleversement industriel, l'effervescence règne autour du manaschiste, combustible fossile dont l'utilisation révolutionne le monde en cette fin de XIXe siècle. Au cœur du duché de "Heaven Forest", peu importent les mutations sur la population engendrée par l'exploitation de ce minerai, les autorités ont d'autres priorités, telle la sécurité du port où la mafia sévit. Ainsi, quand le cadavre d'un inconnu est retrouvé mutilé près des docks, on confie l'affaire - certes singulière, mais de faible importance - à l'inspecteur détective Rhys Overlake, arrivé le jour même en ville.

Climate change has caused a global water crisis. China has occupied three Canadian prairie provinces and is hauling fresh river water from Hudson Bay to Beijing by the northwest passage which is open year-round. The story has special insights into Canada's water resources, geography, and history. Environmentalists who appreciate the north and Canada's water resources will enjoy listening to Jeremiah Coffey's first novel.

The Southern Pole of Mars is a frozen wasteland of horrific dangers, creatures from times long past, and unimaginable peril. Hired gun Jack Taylor ventures into this no man’s land to entertain his employer’s friend with a safari for the ages. But what begins as a pleasure hunt soon turns into a fight for survival when contract killers arrive to collect a bounty, and unless Taylor can stop them, it could mean doom for the Martian city of Asann’e.

For most of human history, mental illness has been largely untreatable. Sufferers lived their lives - if they survived - in and out of asylums, accumulating life's wreckage around them. In 1948, all that changed when an Australian doctor and recently returned prisoner of war, working alone in a disused kitchen, set about an experimental treatment for one of the scourges of mankind - manic depression, or bipolar disorder. That doctor was John Cade and in that small kitchen he stirred up a miracle.

In Seattle for her best friend's wedding, curvy Grace is immediately attracted to the best man, Kingston Meade. He's equally interested in her, especially since his bear insists she is their mate. The attraction is undeniable, but she still doesn't know he's a polar bear shifter. There's also the added problem of leucistic panther-shifter Ashley, who is determined to get her claws into Kingston, and she's willing to slash Grace out of his life to do it. Will the bear king of Emerald City win and keep his curvy human queen?

Meet fascinating animals that live in polar regions, including harp seals, leopard seals, orcas, penguins, polar bears, and walruses. Which ones live at both poles? Pair this nonfiction title with its fiction companion book, The Little Penguin.

Ashways, also known as the city of euphoria, is a place that promises joy and excitement to all who live there. There is no cost, apart from the fact that no one can enter or leave, as a desert wasteland surrounds the dystopian city and keeps the societies hostage to their own settlements. Join me as I journey through the Ashways, and discover that this is not a fictional place at all, and is rather a place and a reality for millions of people all over the globe....

Pierre et Gabrielle se rendent tous les ans sur les bords d'une rivière pour assister à la remontée des saumons. Mais cette année, le spectacle est compromis.