Titoli in Azione e avventura

After her victory over Master Grey, Emily wants nothing more than to relax and give herself time to recover from the duel. Her magic, pushed to the limits, is no longer reliable, forcing her to learn to control it from scratch. Every time she delays using her magic, she risks headaches...or worse. But she must return to Whitehall to complete her fourth-year exams and bid farewell to those of her friends who are not returning for fifth year. And then, she must return to Zangaria to play her role in Princess Alassa's wedding to Jade.

Harrie, un’adolescente con grandi occhi blu e capelli rossi, vive in un mondo tutto suo fatto di sogni, favole, film e tanti interrogativi su una madre mai conosciuta. Paul, instabile e annoiato frontman dei Purple River, uno dei gruppi musicali del momento, si ritrova a fare i conti con il prezzo della celebrità tanto inseguita, che sfregia la sua giovane vita. Il loro incontro avviene per caso o per volere del destino: da quel momento i loro cuori esplodono «come stelle nella notte» e spontaneo nasce il desiderio di fuggire insieme a Nizza, città sdraiata sul mare, tanto luminosa ed elegante da sembrare il paradiso.

E' possibile che mastro Catrame sia stato re di una isola? Pare proprio di sì, come scopriremo in questo racconto, tratto dalle Novelle Marinareche di Emilio Salgari, dove il nostro vecchio marinaio subirà un naufragio e verrà ospitato da una tribù di indigeni molto, molto, ospitali.

A raging sea tosses a boy upon the shores of ancient Wales. Left for dead, he has no memory, no name, and no home. But it is his determination to find out who he is—to learn the truth about his mysterious powers—that leads him to a strange and enchanted land. And it is there he discovers that the fate of this land and his personal quest are strangely entwined.

An original full cast audio adaptation of the New York Times bestselling graphic novel sensation from ND Stevenson, based on his beloved and critically acclaimed web comic. Nimona is the New York Times bestselling graphic novel sensation from ND Stevenson, based on his beloved and critically...

From #1 New York Times bestselling authors Cassandra Clare and Wesley Chu comes the second book in the Eldest Curses series and a thrilling adventure for High Warlock Magnus Bane and Alec Lightwood, for whom a death-defying mission into the heart of evil is not just a job, it’s also a romantic...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Words of Radiance, coauthor of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series and creator of the internationally bestselling Mistborn Trilogy, Brandon Sanderson comes Mitosis, a short story set in the action-packed world of Steelheart: the Reckoners series, exclusively available in the digital format. Epics still plague Newcago, but David and the Reckoners have vowed to fight back.

Complete your Divergent library with the Four stories! Fans of the Divergent series by #1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth will be delighted by ""Four: The Initiate,"" the second of four stories, each between fifty and seventy-five pages long, set in the world of Divergent and...

Newt has been to hell and back with his friends. The Glade. The Maze. The Scorch. The inner halls of WICKED. But now he has a burden that can't be shared with Thomas and the others - the Flare. And Newt can't bear the thought of his friends watching him descend into madness as he succumbs to the virus.

Skylar Reid is shaken when Sasha, the little girl she babysits, is kidnapped. She's scared that the weird dreams she's been having about Sasha are real - and even more afraid that Sasha is already dead. When a mysterious girl with extreme butt-kicking abilities roars into town on a motorcycle and starts stalking Skylar, things get even weirder. Supergirl Dana tells Sky that she also has abilities, that a hormone in their blood makes them stronger, faster, smarter...

Adam of Beneficence wanted to be a magician, and even undertook a magical apprenticeship, but there isn’t a single spark of magic in his entire body. In desperation, his master arranged for him to study at Heart’s Eye University, a former school of magic that has become a university, a place where magicians and mundanes can work to combine their talents and forge the future together. But all is not well at Heart’s Eye. The magical and mundane apprentices resent and fear each other, and outside, powerful forces are gathering to snuff out the future before it can take shape.

Nancy Springer's nationally bestselling series and breakout Netflix sensation is back! Enola Holmes is on the case, when a young porter - the boy in buttons - disappears without a trace. Enola Holmes, the much younger sister of Sherlock and Mycroft, owns a building in the heart of 19th century...

Así comienza esta famosa obra que narra la travesía del barco ballenero Pequod, comandado por el capitán Ahab, junto a Ismael - quien narra la historia- y el arponero Quiqueg, en la mítica persecución de la gran ballena blanca. La venganza, la locura, la lucha contra el destino, y la arrolladora fuerza de la naturaleza, son los temas principales de esta novela de aventuras que relata la lucha del capitán Ahab y su terrible obsesión por vengarse de la enorme ballena que lo privó de su pierna.

The kingdom of Zangaria teeters on the edge of civil war. The nobles are plotting another coup, the merchants are demanding political representation and a say in government, and the peasants are on the verge of outright revolt. Everyone is preparing for war. And when a deadly secret from the past resurfaces at the worst possible moment, Princess Alassa, one of Emily's closest friends, finds herself having to make a choice that will put her at the center of the storm and determine the future of the kingdom … Or see everything she loves destroyed in the fires of civil war.

The University of Heart’s Eye barely survived the conflict between magical and mundane students–a conflict fanned by an undercover sorcerer hiding in the last place anyone suspected, a conflict that came within moments of destroying the university or delivering the student body into inescapable servitude. But the fight for academic independence is far from over. Chaos is spreading across the Allied Lands and the university is being sucked into a vortex that may still destroy Emily’s dreams of a better future for the entire world.

Darren has settled into life as a vampire's assistant and feels at home in the Cirque du Freak. But now he must leave the freak show and his friends behind. With Mr. Crepsley as a traveling companion, he embarks on a dangerous trek to the very heart of the vampire world. But they face more than the cold on Vampire Mountain - the vampaneze have been there before them. Will a meeting with the Vampire Princes restore Darren's human side or turn him further toward the darkness? Only one thing is certain: Darren's initiation into the vampire clan is more deadly than he can ever have imagined.

Auf der Suche nach dem Schatz des berühmten Piratenkapitäns Störtebeker wollen Benno, Georg, Jan und Jutta die Elbinsel Pagensand erkunden. Heimlich machen die vier einen Jollenkreuzer wieder flott und segeln dem Abenteuer entgegen. Doch dann geraten sie in einen Sturm, das Boot schlägt leck und sie erreichen die Insel als Schiffbrüchige. Den Schatz finden sie zunächst nicht, dafür aber drei unheimliche, bewaffnete Männer, die Finsteres im Schilde führen - und jetzt beginnt das Abenteuer erst so richtig!

In the magic-soaked capital city of Oluwan, Small Sade needs a job—preferably as a maid, for employers who don’t mind her unique appearance and unlucky foot. But before she can be hired, she accidentally binds herself to a powerful being known only as the Crocodile, a god rumored to devour pretty girls. Small Sade entrances the Crocodile with her secret: She is not only an orphan and an aspiring maid, but also a Curse-Eater, gifted with the ability to alter people’s fates by cleaning their houses.

Mourning the loss of her cousin and missing bond, Dyna lies trapped with the enemy. Alone and afraid, the time has come to be her own savior. She will use every skill and spell her Guardians taught her to survive. Because the damsel is dead. This time, she fights. Cassiel and the Guardians are desperate to find their Maiden. Except they cannot do it alone. The journey to cross Troll Bridge proves harder than ever as they race against the impending winter. 

Two o'clock was missing. In an alternate Victorian world controlled by clock towers, a damaged clock can fracture time - and a destroyed one can stop it completely. It's a truth that 17-year-old clock mechanic Danny Hart knows all too well; his father has been trapped in a Stopped town east of London for three years. Though Danny is a prodigy who can repair not only clockwork but the very fabric of time, his fixation with staging a rescue is quickly becoming a concern to his superiors.