Títulos em Aventura

They told Derek Calver that he'd find an odd bunch among the Rim Runners out on the edge of space: Refugees from the Interstellar Transport Commission from the Survey Service, the Waverly Royal Mail and the Trans-Galactic Clipppers. But Calver didn't mind; he said he was a refugee from the Commission himself. He might have added that he was a refugee from Derek Calver, the mistakes he had made, the opportunities he had thrown away, the dreams that had been lost.

Get ready to immerse yourself in a realm of energy. Stories that ignite the human spirit and touch the soul.

Woran erkennt man, dass das Ende der Welt erreicht ist? Der junge Gazing muss sich dieser Frage bald stellen, denn er ist auf der Suche nach einem verschwundenen Kind, das sich genau dort aufhalten soll. Unterwegs stößt er auf das dunkelste Geheimnis des Universums - und seiner Selbst. Jodie S. Calussi zeichnet eine detailreiche, rätselhafte Welt, verhandelt auf kreative Weise Themen wie Social Media und Technologie und übt charmant Kritik an unserer Gesellschaft.

When a platoon of tall boys learns their sergeant's brother is MIA, they go into a city wracked with centuries of war to find him. By the end of the fight, they will learn of a massive government coverup by the highest officers in the expeditionary fleet, an alien invasion, new portal technology, and an AI uprising that may or may not be benevolent. All they must do to put things right is save humanity.

Eighty-three-year-old billionaire Andrew Whitlock recruits Rachel Hunt, a thirty-three-year-old former homicide detective with a tarnished reputation, for a daring mission: travel back in time to Honolulu, just days before December 7, 1941. Rachel's task is to locate and save Andrew's father—a man he never met—from perishing in his fighter plane during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Captain Cirilo Webster is a loyal officer of the Santiago Corporation, the multistellar megacorporation that controlls all travel between the Seventy-Seven human colonies. Finally given command of his first interstellar freighter, he is determined to do well by both his crew and his employers—but nothing is ever that simple. His crew is used to Captains passing through on their way to better ships. The Company’s policies have made more enemies than he can count. Their mission is unusual and the client might be lying to him. And if all of that wasn’t enough?

The deadly campaign in Russia has cost both Napoleon and those allied against him. Napoleon has been denied his victory . . . but at a terrible price. Laurence and the dragon Temeraire pursue the fleeing French army west but are demoralized when Napoleon makes it back to Paris unscathed. Worse, they soon learn that the French have stolen Temeraire and Iskierka’s egg. Now it is do or die, as our heroes need not only to save Temeraire’s offspring but also to stop Napoleon for good.

Setia Zees fled Earth to escape the clutches of a tyrannical master, becoming one of humanity’s first deep space colonists. Her destination, Talman Prime, should be a pristine planet, never inhabited by intelligent life. That’s how it looks at first, but then Setia stumbles across what seem to be the remains of an ancient civilization.

The Earth freehold received a young Ygg-Tree, and I a golden prize and Petal-in-the-Wind, who is worth more than any gold. Now I am an Ascendant, the leader of a battle spear, and the freehold's first pilot. I am also all but immortal. That secret was revealed to me by the ancient voice who had shared my body for a long time. But why? What had happened to make me like this? And why can't I remember anything?

As intergalactic civilization collapses and descends into chaos, the Strange Company must journey to the edge of human-controlled space to board and destroy the last ship of the corrupt Monarch Empire—in order to both satisfy a debt and salvage what remains of their reputation as hard-bitten and dangerous private military contractors.

Charlie isn’t a hero. He’s not a genius, a spy, or the guy who saves the day. He’s just an ordinary investigator sent to check out a classified site beneath the Antarctic ice. The mission? Simple. Look for anomalies. Report back. Don’t ask questions. Too bad he asks a lot of questions.

The Awakening of Joel Singer presents the story of a young man who unleashes the latent abilities of body and mind due to a genetic experiment gone haywire. Joel joins the mysterious Dr. Harrington, CEO of Gnotech, and his thousands of “Community Volunteers”, enhanced humans loyal to Dr. Harrington, in creating incredible medical innovations, and on increasingly dangerous missions at home and abroad that push his abilities further. All the while, powerful forces conspire against them.

The heavy cruiser Salahdiin is the most powerful private warship in the history of the Myriad Worlds, and bears a Letter of Marque, the Imperial charter for legalized piracy. As the most successful fighting captain of the Imperial Fleet, Saef Sinclair-Maru is the ideal choice to command the privateer, but exchanging egotistical admirals for demanding shareholders carries its own unique challenges, particularly when the fate of humanity lies in the balance.

Deutschland nach der atomaren Apokalypse Keiner kennt die Wurzeln von Cee – er scheint ein Findelkind zu sein. Von klein auf ist er ausgesprochen mutig und freiheitsliebend, was ihn zum geborenen Anführer macht. Deshalb ist er es auch, der die Mitglieder der Bikergang Thor zum ersten Mal seit Jahrzehnten aus dem Bunker führt. Doch in einer Zeit, in der zahllose rivalisierende Banden mit Strahlung, Nahrungsknappheit und zerschlagenen Hierarchien kämpfen, hat jeder Anführer eine Herkulesaufgabe vor sich.

The human race has been played for a fool. Though welcomed into the galactic community and given access to the combined knowledge of thousands of intelligent species, humans are largely regarded as an evolutionary mistake. Reptilian, insectoid, and other unclassifiable species are the dominant forms of intelligence. If it hadn't been for that annoying comet, the dinosaurs would have continued their evolutionary journey to sentience. Instead the ridiculous mammalians survived. And they want to be treated as equals.

After achieving Tier 3 as a Dark Matter Aspirant, Jace Seren and his allies—Priam Westerfold, Greg Bhastal, and Quinn Cipher—are on their way to Earth. Their mission is dangerous: take down all five megacorporations to clear the way for the Star Council to instill their control over the world and lift Earth’s civilization to its pinnacle of possibility. Corpo-mercs, cybered-up soldiers, lingering Aspirants, and Ascendants? That’s only the start of it. For the Nebula Alliance already has agents on Earth and they do not take kindly to hostile takeovers.

The Lost World is a science fiction novel by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle, published in 1912, concerning an expedition to a plateau in the Amazon basin of South America where prehistoric animals still survive. It was originally published serially in the Strand Magazine and illustrated by New-Zealand-born artist Harry Rountree during the months of April–November 1912. The character of Professor Challenger was introduced in this book. The novel also describes a war between indigenous people and a vicious tribe of ape-like creatures.

It began with the sighting of the Scorpion ships in the new 400-inch reflecting telescope on Mount Palomar. The ships landed on Earth to disgorge aliens quite indistinguishable from human beings, except that they were all apparently equal to the genius level of human beings.

Fen’s world is crumbling. Newearth, a once-promising planet gifted by the all-powerful alien Makers, now suffers from failed terraforming, leaving its people on the brink of collapse. Fen has spent her life working as a mercenary bodyguard for a cunning magistrate, entangled in the politics of the empire that shattered her family. But then her fathers—her last remaining tether to hope—are executed by the ruthless Sovereign, who marks Fen for the same fate.

Veterinarian Darcy Jackson and her family run a small but lucrative hobby farm, raising alpacas and sheltering abused animals in Harmony Valley, a coastal ranching and agricultural community. One foggy night while Darcy is returning home after a call, she veers off the road to avoid hitting a strange creature in the road and crashes her truck. Leroy Malek and his son, Dylan have been harboring a well-kept secret for years raising and caring for hybrids.