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Zanthar at the Edge of Never
by Robert Moore WilliamsThe night was suddenly alive with the clamor of elfin trumpets and the beat of elfin drums. At the sound, the cat-lions crouched in readiness to leap. For a time, Zanthar and Nerissa were busy, soothing the great beasts, encouraging them to stand firm. Then something happened in the green field in front of the clearing that made Zanthar forget about the cat-lions. Appearing from nowhere were millions of tiny eyes-and the eyes were moving . . .
Zap!
by Martha FreemanEleven-year-old Luis is left looking for answers after a city-wide blackout leads him to an electrifying mystery in this edge-of-your-seat thriller from Martha Freeman.Luis Cardenal is toasting a Pop-Tart when a power outage strikes Hampton, New Jersey. Elevators and gas pumps fail right away; soon cell phones die and grocery shelves empty. Cold and in the dark, people begin to get desperate. Luis likes to know how things work, and the blackout gets him wondering: Where does the city’s electricity come from? What would cause it to shut down? No one seems to have answers, and rumors are flying. Then a slip of the tongue gives Luis and his ex best friend Maura a clue. Brushed off by the busy police, the two sixth graders determine they are on their own. To get to the bottom of the mystery, they know they need to brave the abandoned houses of Luis’s poor neighborhood and find the homeless teen legend known as Computer Genius. What they don’t know is that someone suspects they know too much, someone who wants to keep Hampton in the dark. In this electrifying mystery, two can-do sleuths embark on a high-tech urban adventure to answer an age-old question: Who turned out the lights?
The Zap Gun
by Philip K. DickScaldingly sarcastic yet enduringly empathetic, The Zap Gun is Dick¿s remarkable novel depicting the insanity of the arms race. Lars Powderdry and Lilo Topchev are counterpart weapons fashion designers for a world divided into two factions¿Wes-bloc and Peep-East. Since the Plowshare Protocols of 2002, their job has been to invent elaborate weapons that only seem massively lethal. But when alien satellites hostile to both sides appear in the sky, the two are brought together in the dire hope that they can create a weapon to save the world, a task made all the more difficult by Lars falling in love with Lilo even as he knows she¿s trying to kill him.
The Zap Gun
by Philip K. DickIn this biting satire, the Cold War may have ended, but the eastern and western governments never told their citizens. Instead they created an elaborate ruse, wherein each side comes up with increasingly outlandish doomsday weapons--weapons that don't work. But when aliens invade, the top designers of both sides have to come together to make a real doomsday device--if they don't kill each other first.With its combination of romance, espionage, and alien invasion, The Zap Gun skewers the military-industrial complex in a way that's as relevant today as it was at the height of the Cold War.
Zara (Double Helix Case Files #2)
by Jade Kerrion Double Helix1st Place, Science Fiction, Royal Palm Literary Award 2016The alpha empath, Danyael Sabre, languishes in a maximum-security prison. His life sentence should spell emotional freedom for the assassin, Zara Itani, but true to her contrary nature, she travels the solitary and hazardous path from hate to love even though it is far too late for her and Danyael.Meanwhile in her hometown of Beirut, international political conspiracy simmers on the brink of renewed military conflict. Zara’s loyalties will be tested; her beliefs challenged. She could start a war, or she could stop it.Tell me who you love and I will tell you who you are....Zara will finally discover who she is, but what will it cost Danyael this time?This is a standalone futuristic thriller set in the award-winning world of the Double Helix.
Zara Hanson & The Mystery of the Painted Symbol
by J. L. HaynesZara Hanson is a specialist asset of a clandestine agency that investigates mysterious phenomena. Asked to take on the most important mission of her life, should she accept it? With the mission accepted, the fate of humanity hangs in the balance. Partnered with an extraordinary agent, Zara is about to fall into a universe that unravels in such a way that affects her mind, heart and soul. An astounding mystery woven into the entire universe. A wondrous mystery. A mystery of self-discovery, of remembering who you are. But who's really pulling the strings?
Zara the Starlight Fairy: The Twilight Fairies Book 3 (Rainbow Magic #3)
by Daisy MeadowsStrange things are happening to the stars at Camp Stargaze, and without Zara the Starlight Fairy's bag of star dust, the night sky will be ruined forever. But can Kirsty and Rachel help her to find it before the goblins do? The race is on!
Zara the Starlight Fairy: The Twilight Fairies Book 3 (Rainbow Magic #3)
by Daisy MeadowsStrange things are happening to the stars at Camp Stargaze, and without Zara the Starlight Fairy's bag of star dust, the night sky will be ruined forever. But can Kirsty and Rachel help her to find it before the goblins do? The race is on!2024 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
Zara's Witness: A Soul Journery into the Nature of Being
by Shubhrangshu Roy‘This Universe, Zara, is the creation of our several desires. It is the product of our energy in motion. And when our imagination flounders, we feel sapped of energy.’Zara, enclosed in a plasma bubble, lands on the bank of the Ganges from the tongue of the glacier. She begins her life on the riverbank where the eternal question of ‘Who am I?’ drives her on a journey to the city where she reckons that she can find her purpose. But her voyage is not going to be an easy one as she confronts personal loss and materialistic pleasures.Zara’s Witness is a philosophical fantasy where Zara’s story is told through the four ashramas of life which guides a human towards fulfilment, happiness, and spiritual liberation. This book is aimed towards anyone who is trying to find their purpose in life.The extraordinary prose will transport you to Zara’s world, leave you spellbound, help you appreciate the finer nuances of life, and compel you to go on a journey of self-discovery and rumination.
Zarsthor's Bane: The Jargoon Pard, Zarsthor's Bane, The Crystal Gryphon, Gryphon In Glory, And Horn Crown (Witch World: High Hallack Cycle #5)
by Andre NortonThe High Hallack Cycle continues with unlikely compatriots bound together by danger as they search for a terrible treasure in the Witch World. Brixia knows what evil powers can do to a person, a people, and a land. Once a highborn Lady of a hall in High Hallack, she now scours the deserted Dales, where the Darkness has devastated all in its path. Her only companion is her loyal feline, Uta—until she meets the travelers. One is a madman. A broken lord driven by desire whose only wish is to find the powerful magical item known as Zarsthor&’s Bane—an object as wreathed in mystery and ancient lore as it is cloaked in peril. The other is a squire devotedly following his demented master. All three soon find themselves drawn into the dreaded Waste in search of the mystical totem. But such a prize comes at a price none of them are prepared to pay—a price worse than death itself . . . Zarsthor&’s Bane is the 2nd book in the Witch World: High Hallack Cycle, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
¡Zas! (Mundodisco #Volumen 34)
by Terry Pratchett¡Zas! es el golpe de un mazo de troll cayendo en seco sobre el casco de un enano, también es un juego de mesa y la 34ª entrega de Mundodisco. ¡Zas! es el golpe de un mazo de troll cuando cae en seco sobre el casco de un enano; también es un juego de mesa en el que se enfrentan las dos tribus... Y es la historia de una descomunal bronca milenaria que amenaza con estallar de nuevo. Terry Pratchett se confirma una vez más como un narrador único, más divertido, agudo y brillantemente original que nunca.
¡Zas! (Mundodisco #34)
by Terry Pratchett¡Zas! es el golpe de un mazo de troll cuando cae en seco sobre el casco de un enano; también es un juego de mesa en el que se enfrentan las dos tribus... Y es la historia de una descomunal bronca milenaria que amenaza con estallar de nuevo. Terry Pratchett se confirma una vez más como un narrador único, más divertido, agudo y brillantemente original que nunca.
Zathura, The Movie: The Junior Novel
by Ellen WeissBased on the action-adventure movie, this novel takes readers on a thrilling journey.
Zazen
by Vanessa VeselkaSomewhere in Della's consumptive, industrial wasteland of a city, a bomb goes off. It is not the first, and will not be the last.Reactions to the attacks are polarized. Police activity intensifies. Della's revolutionary parents welcome the upheaval but are trapped within their own insular beliefs. Her activist restaurant co-workers, who would rather change their identities than the world around them, resume a shallow rebellion of hair-dye, sex parties, and self-absorption. As those bombs keep inching closer, thudding deep and real between the sounds of katydids fluttering in the still of the city night, and the destruction begins to excite her. What begins as terror threats called in to greasy bro-bars across the block boils over into a desperate plot, intoxicating and captivating Della and leaving her little chance for escape.Zazen unfolds as a search for clarity soured by irresolution and catastrophe, yet made vital by the thin, wild veins of imagination run through each escalating moment, tensing and relaxing, unfurling and ensnaring. Vanessa Veselka renders Della and her world with beautiful, freighting, and phantasmagorically intelligent accuracy, crafting from their shattered constitutions a perversely perfect mirror for our own selves and state.
Zealot (Blood and Sacrifice Chronicles #2)
by C. Vonzale Lewis"Lacing magic and demons, the author takes us on a freefall ride of terror and violence as Nicole and her friends take on the monsters that hide and feed on the innocent." - Dave Wickenden, Author of Homegrown Nicole Fontane thought her demons were buried deep enough. She was wrong. After barely escaping the blood bath of the Harvest ritual, Nicole and her vigilante compatriots learn that there are others practicing blood magick on Tulare Island. Hired to rid the island of the remaining blood magick users, Nicole and her allies come face to face with The Better Day Church and the mysterious Young Family, whose nefarious behavior is well known on the island. The murky organization stirs old memories of a cult buried deep in the Louisiana bayou—flickers of Nicole’s traumatic past and the altar she barely escaped. But when Nicole receives an invitation to the Young family’s private residence to attend a secret meeting with The Daughters of the Vine—an elusive sect of women led by Gavina Young—she knows there is no escaping her fraught history with cults. The invite is clearly a trap, but it’s also an opportunity to take down the church. Nicole soon learns that the sickness lurking behind the walls of the Young family’s manor runs far deeper than the banal allure of blood magick. The church’s matriarch harbors a predatory interest in Nicole’s power—barely disguising her desire to harness it. Nicole must unravel the mysteries of her newfound abilities, or her first job may be her last. Worst of all, she may end up on the altar again.
Zeb Bolt and the Ember Scroll (The Unmapped Chronicles #3)
by Abi ElphinstoneIn the thrilling finale to bestselling author Abi Elphinstone&’s The Unmapped Chronicles, a young orphan rises up to stop the evil harpy Morg once and for all.Eleven-year-old Zebedee Bolt is on the run. Again. Only this time, it&’s not the police who find him. It&’s an evil harpy called Morg. And when she hauls him into Crackledawn, an Unmapped kingdom that conjures sunlight for our world, Zeb discovers running away only gets you so far. When magic&’s involved, you&’ve got to pick a side. And though Zeb vowed he wouldn&’t trust anyone ever again, he didn&’t expect to stumble aboard The Kerfuffle, an enchanted boat belonging to a girl called Oonie and her talking chameleon, Mrs. Fickletint. Suddenly, Zeb finds himself on a voyage complete with silver whales, fire krakens, and underwater palaces. Can he muster up enough trust in others, and in magic, to summon a dragon, find the Ember Scroll, and defeat Morg once and for all? This is a story about saving the world but it&’s also a story about trusting friends—and chameleons—even when kingdoms are falling apart.
Zebracadabra!
by Kes GrayMeet Zebracadabra, master of magic. Watch as he transforms his animal friends before your very eyes!"ZEBRACADABRA!"Pink flamingos turn into... black-and-white stripy flamingos!"ZEBRACADABRA!"A green alligator turns into... a black-and-white stripy alligator!"ZEBRACADABRA!"Colourful chameleons turn into... you guessed it - black-and-white stripy chameleons!How does Zebracadabra do it? By being the best magician in the world, of course! Or he would be, if only he knew how to turn the animals back to their original colours...A laugh-out-loud picture book from Kes Gray, author of Oi Frog, with gloriously silly illustrations by Fred Blunt.
Zed: A Novel
by Joanna KavennaFrom the winner of the Orange Award for New Writing comes a blistering, satirical novel about life under a global media and tech corporation that knows exactly what we think, what we want, and what we do—before we do. One corporation has made a perfect world based on a perfect algorithm . . . now what to do with all these messy people? Lionel Bigman is dead. Murdered by a robot. Guy Matthias, the philandering founder and CEO of the mega-corporation Beetle, insists it was human error. But was it? Either the predictive algorithms of Beetle's supposedly omniscient 'lifechain' don't work, or, they've been hacked. Both scenarios are impossible to imagine and signal the end of Beetle's technotopia and life as we know it. Dazzlingly original and darkly comic, Zed asks profound questions about who we are, what we owe to one another, and what makes us human. It describes our moment—the ugliness and the beauty—perfectly. Kavenna is a prophet who has seen deeply into the present—and thrown back her head and laughed.
Zeina Starborn and the Emerald King: (Zeina Starborn Book Two) (Zeina Starborn)
by Hannah DurkanThe thrilling new fantasy adventure in the ZEINA STARBORN series, perfect for 9+ fans of BRIGHTSTORM and ORPHANS OF THE TIDE.For Zeina and Jackson, life has changed dramatically. Now on the run with the fearsome sky pirates, The Smog Rats, their days are full of adventure. Still, Zeina is excited to be safe for a week or two when she and The Smog Rats attend the infamous Solstice Festival in a grand but secretive palace built by the ice bears.As humans are usually forbidden to attend and celebrate the Gathering - the only gathering of horned sky whales left, which happens only once every 10 years - she and Jackson are honoured. But things aren't quite right. From crumbling ice structures to the strange behaviour of the new Emerald King, there are signs everywhere that this festival has an ulterior purpose. Zeina and Jackson must battle both familiar foes and new adversaries in order to halt the invention of a new, cruel technology that would prove devastating to The Smog Rats cause and change the world of the sky whales forever.(P) 2023 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
Zeina Starborn and the Emerald King: (Zeina Starborn Book Two) (Zeina Starborn)
by Hannah DurkanThe thrilling sequel to ZEINA STARBORN AND THE SKY WHALE, perfect for 9+ fans of BRIGHTSTORM and ORPHANS OF THE TIDE.After months of being on the run, Zeina is thrilled when the Smog Rats are invited by ice bears to an infamous festival featuring horned sky whales.But, from an ice palace with crumbling ice structures to the strange behaviour of the new Emerald King, something doesn't seem quite right . . .Zeina and Jackson find themselves going up against both new enemies and familiar foes in order to halt the invention of an advanced, cruel technology.PRAISE FOR ZEINA STARBORN AND THE SKY WHALE:'A thrilling tale of intrigue and adventure in the clouds, full of wonderful creatures, mind-boggling gadgets, bravery, kindness and hope' Thomas Taylor, author of MALAMANDER'What a ride! Zeina Starborn and the Sky Whale takes you on an adventure worthy of a great explorer.' Kate Gilby-Smith, author of THE ASTONISHING FUTURE OF ALEX NOBODY'Packed to the fins with adventure, gadgets and plenty of heart' Maria Kuzniar, author of THE SHIP OF SHADOWS'An exhilarating read with an immersive world that all readers will enjoy ... and a main character that you'll be rooting for all the way' Rachel Faturoti, author of SADÉ AND HER SHADOW BEASTS
Zeina Starborn and the Sky Whale
by Hannah Durkan*Winner of the Northern Writers' Award 2020*'A thrilling tale of intrigue and adventure in the clouds, full of wonderful creatures, mind-boggling gadgets, bravery, kindness and hope' Thomas Taylor, author of MalamanderWhen Zeina Starborn's dream of exploring the skies becomes a reality, she finds herself in a daring adventure beyond her wildest imagination. Meet explorers, inventors, and mighty sky whales in this richly inventive fantasy, perfect for 9+ fans of BRIGHTSTORM and ORPHANS OF THE TIDE.Zeina Starborn spends her days dreaming of adventure in the sky and escaping the smog-filled city of Ravenport.So, when she wins the chance to visit the famous Willoughby Whale Hotel - a ginormous structure built on the back of a flying whale - Zeina grabs it. Even clashing with Jackson, spoiled heir to the Willoughby fortune, can't dampen her excitement.But a series of clues makes her question what she's been told about this dazzling world of inventors, explorers and mighty sky whales. Zeina and Jackson must put aside their differences to uncover the secret plot around them as they embark on the journey of a lifetime.
Zeina Starborn and the Sky Whale (Zeina Starborn)
by Hannah Durkan*Winner of the Northern Writers' Award 2020*When Zeina Starborn's dream of exploring the skies becomes a reality, she finds herself in a daring adventure beyond her wildest imagination. Meet explorers, inventors, and mighty sky whales in this richly inventive fantasy, perfect for 9+ fans of BRIGHTSTORM and ORPHANS OF THE TIDE.Zeina Starborn spends her days dreaming of adventure in the sky and escaping the smog-filled city of Ravenport.So, when she wins the chance to visit the famous Willoughby Whale Hotel - a ginormous structure built on the back of a flying whale - Zeina grabs it. Even clashing with Jackson, spoiled heir to the Willoughby fortune, can't dampen her excitement.But a series of clues makes her question what she's been told about this dazzling world of inventors, explorers and mighty sky whales. Zeina and Jackson must put aside their differences to uncover the secret plot around them as they embark on the journey of a lifetime.(P) 2022 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
Zelda
by Connie FurnariWhen Zelda wakes up, after losing a duel in magic, she finds herself in a body that isn’t hers. She doesn’t have blond hair anymore, they are black with some purple locks; she is wearing new-gothic clothes, not her usual faded jeans. Sheila, who had been her best friend, decided to swap their lives with a spell. While she’s immobilized, waiting to die, Zelda remembers the day when her powers appeared: the day of her sixteenth birthday. Only a few weeks before, she didn’t know that she would find herself fighting against Salem’s black magic in order to save the mortal boy she loved. Zelda is an urban fantasy tale that recalls the light and magical style of the fairy tales; the story alternates tender moments, action and bravery. It’s the experience of a girl like many others, a little clumsy but with a good heart, who finds out how difficult it is to grow up, with or without magical powers.