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City of the Dead (Maximum Ride: Hawk #2)
by James Patterson Mindy McGinnisHawk, the daughter of Maximum Ride, teams with her mother up to help save their beloved but dangerous city in this action-packed thriller.For Hawk, being a hero weighs heavily on her wings. In the City of the Dead, life happens in the shadows. That's why a war is brewing against an enemy no one can see. Hawk and Maximum Ride never back down from a conflict, or from each other, and they argue more than they agree.But as the dead begin to outnumber the living, a mother's experience and a daughter's instinct can make one powerful arsenal.
City of the Dead: Blood Crown Quest 4 (EDGE: I HERO: Quests #8)
by Steve Skidmore Steve BarlowWe dare you to take on the Red Queen in this choose-your-own-destiny Blood Crown Quest!YOU have successfully found three of the Blood Crown rubies, but now you face your toughest and most dangerous challenge.YOU must travel to Necropolis -- City of the Dead -- where the Red Queen lives, and find the last Blood Crown ruby. Only then will you have the full power of the Blood Crown. But will you decide to use it for good, or for evil? You are the hero of this book. Only you can decide your own destiny...Hot spin-off from the I HERO series, which has now sold over 80,000 copies! YOU are pitted against the evil Red Queen and her dark minions as she attempts to collect four rubies to rebuild the Blood Crown. Written by the award-winning 2Steves!
City of the Gods - Starybogow: Whispers in the Dark
by Brandon RospondAmidst the backdrop of Eastern Europe in the year 1500, an earthquake releases factions of the Eldar Gods and Slavic Deities who have battled millenniums for the control of humanity. On the cross-roads of empires, political and military forces compete for control of a town which contains great treasure and power for those who are willing to take it. Teutonic Knights, Polish and Lithuanian soldiers, Cossacks, Hanseatic Merchants, Templars, Tartars and Imperial spies battle each other on behalf of their own ends. This anthology of short stories brings some of the newest and best in high fantasy to start off this new world of adventure.
City of the Gods: Cross of Saint Boniface
by Robert E. WatersSet against the backdrop of Eastern Europe, The Cross of St. Boniface starts in the cursed city of Starybogow, then travels the Ottoman Empire as Djin and Eldar gods battle for the souls of humans
City of the Iron Fish
by Simon IngsSimon Ings has written a surreal adventure probing the very fabric of existence, tearing it open to reveal a sometimes horrifying world within. It is a work that will delight any fan of China Mieville.Only a fool would question the strange magics that maintain the cool haven of the City of the Iron Fish in the middle of an inferno of scorching heat and splintered rock, for the well-watered streets of the city hide secrets in their shadows.Thomas Kemp is just such a fool ...And embarks on a journey that will take him to the limits of reality. It may kill him, worse, that may not be enough. Especially as it is his only friend, Blythe, who may discover the secret of the city's isolation.
City of the Iron Fish
by Simon IngsSimon Ings has written a surreal adventure probing the very fabric of existence, tearing it open to reveal a sometimes horrifying world within. It is a work that will delight any fan of China Mieville. Only a fool would question the strange magics that maintain the cool haven of the City of the Iron Fish in the middle of an inferno of scorching heat and splintered rock, for the well-watered streets of the city hide secrets in their shadows. Thomas Kemp is just such a fool... And embarks on a journey that will take him to the limits of reality. It may kill him, worse, that may not be enough. Especially as it is his only friend, Blythe, who may discover the secret of the city's isolation.
City of the Lost (Bionicle Legends #6)
by Greg FarshteyThe Toa enter an underwater world in which six new villains hold sway. Can the Toa navigate their way past the rocky shoals of this environment and complete their mission? Or are they doomed to a watery grave?
City of the Lost (Eric Carter)
by Stephen BlackmooreJoe Sunday has been a Los Angeles low-life for years, but his life gets a whole lot lower when he is killed by the rival of his crime boss-only to return as a zombie. His only hope is to find and steal a talisman that he learns can grant immortality. But, unfortunately for Joe, every other undead thug and crime boss in Los Angeles is looking for the same thing.
City of the Rats (Deltora Quest #3)
by Emily RoddaThe international bestselling series returns for a new generation with a fresh look and bonus content from the legends of Deltora. Lief, Barda, and Jasmine--three companions with nothing in common but their hatred of the enemy--are on a perilous quest to recapture the seven lost gems of the magic Belt of Deltora. Only when the Belt is complete can the evil Shadow Lord be overthrown.They have succeeded in finding the golden topaz and the great ruby. The two gems' mysterious powers have strengthened them and given them courage to move on in their search for the third stone. But none of them can know the horrors that await them in the forbidden City of the Rats.
City of the Saints: A Scientific Romance
by D.J. ButlerIn this steampunk historical fantasy, literary legends choose sides in the oncoming Civil War in an action-filled adventure. City of the Saints is a four-part gonzo action steampunk adventure tale. 1859. War among the states looms. Sam Clemens, US Army agent, is tasked with getting Brigham Young&’s Kingdom of Deseret, with its air-ships and phlogiston guns, into the war on the side of the Union. Clemens rides west aboard the amphibious steam-truck the Jim Smiley, but his competition is fierce: the explorer Captain Richard Burton for Her Majesty Queen Victoria, and as agent of the clandestine Confederate leadership, Edgar Allan Poe, who travels disguised as an exhibitor of Egyptian antiquities, armed with cunning clockwork weaponry. But will even the hypnotic hypocephalus and the flesh-eating scarabs be enough when the machinating Danites spring their coup?
City of the Snakes (The City)
by Darren ShanFor ten years Capac Raimi has ruled the City. Created by the first Cardinal to continue his legacy, Capac cannot be killed.Then Capac disappears. His trusted lieutenant, Ford Tasso, suspects the mysterious villacs, ancient and powerful Incan priests. To Ford, only one man has the cunning to outwit such adversaries-Al Jeery, who has taken the guise of his father, the terrifying assassin Paucar Wami.Al has no love for Capac and no wish to tangle with the villacs. Until Ford promises him the one thing he truly craves-retribution against the man who killed those he loved most and destroyed his life. Lured into the twisted, nightmarish world of the Incan priests, Al will learn more about the City than he ever imagined, and be offered more power than he ever desired.But in the City, everything comes at a cost...
City of the Uncommon Thief
by Lynne BertrandA dark and intricate fantasy, City of the Uncommon Thief is the story of a quarantined city gripped by fear and of the war that can free it."Guilders work. Foundlings scrub the bogs. Needles bind. Swords tear. And men leave. There is nothing uncommon in this city. I hope Errol Thebes is dead. We both know he is safer that way." In a walled city of a mile-high iron guild towers, many things are common knowledge: No book in any of the city's libraries reveals its place on a calendar or a map. No living beasts can be found within the city's walls. And no good comes to the guilder or foundling who trespasses too far from their labors. Even on the tower rooftops, where Errol Thebes and the rest of the city's teenagers pass a few short years under an open sky, no one truly believes anything uncommon is possible within the city walls. But one guildmaster has broken tradition to protect her child, and now the whole city faces an uncommon threat: a pair of black iron spikes that has the power of both sword and needle on the rib cages of men has gone missing, but the mayhem they cause rises everywhere. If the spikes are not found, no wall will be high enough to protect the city—or the world beyond it. And Errol Thebes? He's not dead and he's certainly not safe.
City of the Undead: A Zombicide Black Plague Novel (Zombicide #3)
by CL WernerA group of unlikely heroes are all that stand in the way of humanity&’s demise as the zombie apocalypse engulfs the kingdom in this high fantasy adventure set in the world of Zombicide: Black Plague.Witch Hunter Helchen mourns her dear friend, one of many heroes The Black Plague has sent to their grave as it consumes the kingdom. Yet she is determined to save what remains of humanity. Helchen and her companions travel to the labyrinthine canals of Zanice to obtain magical resources that would change the course of the zombie plague. Horrendous swaths of the undead mark their journey, and the companions are pursued relentlessly by necromantic forces of evil. When they discover a friend turned foe, Helchen must decide if all zombies are monsters… or if a new darkness is taking shape across the land.
City on the Moon
by Murray LeinsterLife on the moon under anything less than optimal conditions had always been a nightmare, and as Joe Kenmore and his colleague, Moreau, drove back to the City On The Moon on that day the Earth shuttle was due to land, the nearby mountain supporting critical elements of the shuttle's landing mechanisms crumbled causing an avalanche and resulting in chaos. Optimal conditions were no where in sight that day and as Kenmore and Moreau's investigations lead to their conclusion that explosions had been responsible for the avalanche. Now they realized that they were in a race against the clock to restore the landing beam before the shuttle had reached it's point of no return prior to landing. Kenmore had more than strictly humanitarian reasons for wanting to prevent a mishap aboard the shuttle that day, because on this particular mission, Arlene Gray was aboard. Kenmore had been anxiously awaiting her arrival, and now his love's life might hang in the balance.
City without End (The Entire and the Rose #3)
by Kay KenyonIn this series Kay Kenyon has created her most vivid and compelling society yet, the universe Entire. Reviewers have called this "a grand world," "an enormous stage," and "a bravura concept."On this stage unfolds a mighty struggle for dominance between two universes. Titus Quinn has forged an unstable peace with the Tarig lords. The ruinous capability of the nanotech surge weapon he possesses ensures détente. But it is a sham. In what the godwoman Zhiya calls "a fit of moral goodness," he's thrown the weapon into the space-folding waters of the Nigh. This clears the way for an enemy he could have never foreseen: the people of the Rose. A small cadre led by Helice Maki is determined to take the Entire for itself and leave the earth in ruins. The transform of earth will begin deep in a western desert and will sweep over the lives of ordinary people, entangling Quinn's sister-in-law Caitlin in a deepening and ultimate conspiracy.In the Entire, Quinn stalks Helice to the fabled Rim City, encircling the heart of the Entire. Here he at last finds his daughter, now called Sen Ni, in the Chalin style. Outside of earth-based time, she has grown to adulthood. He hardly knows her, and finds her the mistress of a remarkable dream-time insurgency against the Tarig lords--and more, a woman risen high in the Entire's meritocracy. Quinn needs his daughter's help against the woman who would destroy the earth. But Sen Ni has her own plans and allies, among them a boy-navitar unlike any other pilot of the River Nigh--a navitar willing and supremely able to break his vows and bend the world. Quinn casts his fate with the beautiful and resourceful Ji Anzi who--sent on a journey to other realms--holds the key to Quinn's heart and his overarching mission. But as he approaches the innermost sanctuary of the Tarig, he is alone. Waiting for him are powerful adversaries, including a lady who both hates and loves him, the high prefect of the dragon court, and Quinn's most implacable enemy, a warrior whose chaotic mind will soon be roused from an eternal slumber.
City: Grotto Of The Dancing Deer And Other Stories, Heritage Of Stars, And City (The\works Of Clifford D. Simak Ser.)
by Clifford D. Simak David W. WixonIntelligent canines in a far-future city preserve the legends and lore of their absent human masters Thousands of years have passed since humankind abandoned the city--first for the countryside, then for the stars, and ultimately for oblivion--leaving their most loyal animal companions alone on Earth. Granted the power of speech centuries earlier by the revered Bruce Webster, the intelligent, pacifist dogs are the last keepers of human history, raising their pups with bedtime stories, passed down through generations, of the lost "websters" who gave them so much but will never return. With the aid of Jenkins, an ageless service robot, the dogs live in a world of harmony and peace. But they now face serious threats from their own and other dimensions, perhaps the most dangerous of all being the reawakened remnants of a warlike race called "Man." In the Golden Age of Asimov and Heinlein, Clifford D. Simak's writing blazed as brightly as anyone's in the science fiction firmament. Winner of the International Fantasy Award, City is a magnificent literary metropolis filled with an astonishing array of interlinked stories and structures--at once dystopian, transcendent, compassionate, and visionary.
Citónica (Escuadrón #Volumen 3)
by Brandon SandersonLa esperada continuación de Escuadrón y Estelar, la épica saga de Brandon Sanderson sobre una chica que viaja más allá de las estrellas para salvar el mundo que ama de la destrucción. La vida de Spensa como miembro de la Fuerza de Defensa Desafiante dista mucho de ser normal y corriente. Demostró ser una de las mejores pilotos de caza estelar en el enclave humano de Detritus y salvó a su pueblo del exterminio a manos de los krells, la enigmática especie alienígena que los tenía prisioneros desde hace décadas. Por si fuera poco, viajó a años-luz de distancia de su hogar como espía infiltrada en la Supremacía, a un lugar donde descubrió que había toda una galaxia más allá de su pequeño y desolado planeta natal. Ahora la Supremacía, el gobierno galáctico empecinado en dominar toda vida humana, ha desatado una guerra a escala galáctica. Y Spensa ha visto las armas que pretenden emplear para terminarla: los zapadores, unas antiguas y enigmáticas fuerzas alienígenas que pueden arrasar sistemas estelares enteros en un instante. Spensa sabe que, por muchos pilotos con los que cuente la FDD, no hay manera de derrotar a ese depredador. Sin embargo, Spensa es citónica. Se enfrentó a un zapador y percibió algo siniestramente familiar en él. Y quizá, si logra descubrir lo que es ella misma, podría ser algo más que solo otra piloto en la guerra. Podría salvar la galaxia. Pero la única manera de que Spensa descubra su verdadera naturaleza es dejar atrás todo lo que conoce y entrar en la ninguna-parte, un lugar del que muy pocos han regresado jamás. Tener valor significa afrontar el miedo. Y esta misión es aterradora. Sobre Escuadrón (mejor libro del año según Kirkus Reviews):«Revelaciones sorprendentes y consecuencias trascendentales... Es evidente que Sanderson se lo pasó pipa con esta primera novela de altos vuelos y ritmo frenético, y los lectores también lo harán.»Kirkus Reviews «En este primer volumen repleto de acción, Sanderson presenta a una heroína ingeniosa e intrépida, acompañada de un reparto memorable... [y] después de que la emocionante historia gane intensidad y revele sus secretos, el final nos plantea la siguiente entrega.»Publishers Weekly «Es imposible pasar las páginas lo bastante rápido.»Booklist«Sanderson nos ofrece una aventura cinematográfica que explora los aspectos definitorios del individuo frente a la sociedad... No decepcionará a sus lectores acérrimos.»SLJ Sobre Estelar (secuela de Escuadrón):«Nadie se lo pasa mejor escribiendo ni describe mejor los combates de cazas espaciales... Leed el primer libro por diversión o disfrutad del segundo por sí mismo.»Booklist
Ciudad de máscaras
by Mike Reeves-Mcmillan María Emilia RuizEn la ciudad-estado de Bonvidaeo, por costumbre y por ley, todos deben usar máscaras y actuar según el personaje, o enfrentar sanciones civiles, sociales y religiosas. Gregorio Bass es enviado a Bonvidaeo como el Enviado de Calaria, principalmente para sacárselo de encima. Enmascarado como el hombre inocente, y en compañía de su joven y radical sirviente bonvidoanés, Bass se tropieza con misterios, intrigas, herejías y asesinatos.
Ciudad de pesadillas
by Holly Race¿QUÉ PASARÍA SI PUDIÉSEMOS ENTRAR EN LOS SUEÑOS? Hay sueños que se hacen realidad...Algunas pesadillas también. En un Londres alternativo, donde los sueños y las pesadillas se hacen realidad mientras dormimos, lo único que protege a los Soñadores de los peligros que lo habitan es una orden de caballeros que arriesgan sus vidas todas las noches. Fern hará todo lo posible para ser una de ellos, aunque para conseguirlo deba enfrentarse a su hermano gemelo Oliver, la persona a la que más odia y que la traicionó cuando más lo necesitaba. La joven no tardará en descubrir que este nuevo mundo está tan repleto de maravillas como plagado de peligros, y que alguien ha destapado un secreto mucho más terrorífico que cualquier pesadilla: QUIEN CONTROLA TUS SUEÑOS TE CONTROLA A TI.
Ciudad de zombis
by Homero AridjisIn Misteca, the social order has been replaced with an alternate reality that feeds into organized crime. In this terrible reality, two types of zombies coexist: the "dead living" (criminals, drug addicts, prostitutes, and psychopath police) and the "living dead," revived cadavers that destroy Misteca like a plague. The Lord of the Zombies, an unstoppable pedophile, imposes his reign of violence, corruption, and terror upon the inhabitants of Misteca. His bunker, protected by hitmen and rogue policemen, is also a harem of girls kidnapped by Malinche Negra and El Matagatos. One of them is the youngest daughter of Daniel Medina, a journalist who continues his search for her while avenging the murder of his parents.
Ciudadano de la galaxia
by Robert A. HeinleinUn gran clásico de la ciencia ficción de todos los tiempos, ahora en edición coleccionista para el lector joven. En una galaxia lejana, donde sigue vigente la esclavitud, otro niño huérfano es vendido en una subasta. Se trata de Thorby. Su nuevo dueño, Baslim, no es el mendigo lisiado que parece ser: tras adoptar a Thorby como si fuera su hijo, lucha sin descanso como espía abolicionista. Pero cuando las autoridades se acercan a Baslim, Thorby debe viajar a través de los mundos de una galaxia hostil y armarse de coraje para buscar su camino desde el último peldaño de la sociedad. En su lucha por ser reconocido como ciudadano de la galaxia, Thorby cambiará para siempre cuando descubra la verdad sobre su propia identidad. Esta novela, originariamente escrita en 1957, es un clásico indiscutible de la ciencia ficción, pero también una novela juvenil que, desde entonces, ha iniciado a varias generaciones de lectores en la literatura de género. Su autor, Robert A. Heinlein, es uno de los mayores creadores de la ciencia ficción clásica. La crítica ha dicho...«Tan satírica como provocativa... un protagonista que descubre los valores de la sociedad libre y del individuo.»Kirkus Reviews «Una poderosa combinación de ciencia ficción y misterio.»School Library Journal
Civil War Ghosts and Legends
by Nancy RobertsSince the first shots of the Civil War were fired, we continue to be haunted by those ghosts of our forefathers. The history of that turbulent era has left us with extraordinary tales that serve as a reminder of both the torture our ancestors endured and the heroism they displayed. Nancy Roberts records these eerie legends for us in her latest collection. A man from Harpers Ferry, bearing a striking resemblance to John Brown, is often asked to pose for photos yet his image does not appear when they are developed . . . The ghost of a murdered captain appears before his colonel and reveals the man responsible for his death ... A reenactment of J. E. B. Stuart's famous ride becomes a frightening reality as one man witnesses his great-grandfather's fall in battle a hundred years prior ... In these and other tales, Roberts demonstrates her unique gift for blending suspense, mystery, and history with her talent for finding stories of the supernatural. Follow her as she journeys through American history by way of folklore and legends.
Civil War: A Novel of the Marvel Universe (Marvel Novels #2)
by Stuart MooreSecond title in Titan Books' Marvel fiction reissue program, featuring the classic story: Civil WarSPIDER-MAN IRON MAN CAPTAIN AMERICA THE FANTASTIC FOURTHE EPIC STORY THAT BLOWS THE MARVEL UNIVERSE APART!Iron Man and Captain America: two core members of the Avengers, the world's greatest super hero team. When a tragic battle blows a hole in the city of Stamford, killing hundreds of people, the U.S. government demands that all super heroes unmask and register their powers. To Tony Stark--Iron Man--it's a regrettable but necessary step. To Captain America, it's an unbearable assault on civil liberties.SO BEGINS THE CIVIL WAR.BASED ON THE SMASH-HIT GRAPHIC NOVEL THAT HAS SOLD MORE THAN HALF A MILLION COPIES.