Zinzi has a talent for finding lost things. Being hired by famously reclusive music producer Odi Huron to find a teenybop pop star should be her ticket out of Zoo City, the festering slum of the criminal underclass. Set in a wildly re-imagined Johannesburg, it mixes refugees, crime, the music industry, African magic and the nature of sin.
Fantasy fiction
- Author:Beukes, LaurenSummary:
- Author:Royer, MaudeSummary:
De concert avec les astres, le dieu Zodiak et ses 12 Gardiens gouvernent la Terre. Du haut des constellations, ils accordent destinée, pouvoirs magiques et protection aux humains. Lors de leur naissance, certains enfants demeurent toutefois invisibles aux yeux de Zodiak. Ces nébuleux sont alors envoyés dans les sinistres forêts des oubliés. Né en saison du Sagittaire, Ychandre de Sadira, protégé d'un centaure, est destiné au trône de Nusakan. Né sous une mauvaise étoile seulement quelques heures avant son jeune maître, Hibou a, lui, été formé pour une vie de servitude. Les rêves ne sont pas pour les nébuleux. Et pourtant, Hibou rêve les yeux grands ouverts.
- Author:Royer, MaudeSummary:
Avant de mourir, Ychandre de Sadira a convaincu son esclave d'accomplir pour lui son destin en montant sur le trône de Nusakan. En s'appropriant le talisman de citrines d'Ychandre, Jorik a obtenu la protection du Gardien Sagittaire. C'est donc avec le centaure Kaus dans son sillage que le nébuleux se présentera au palais de Gemme. Étrangement, les dieux ne semblent pas s'offusquer de cette manigance. Cependant, quel sort les hommes réserveraient-ils au nébuleux s'ils découvraient sa véritable identité? Jorik devra apprendre à évoluer dans un monde très différent de celui qu'il a connu. Il s'attirera la colère des courtisans de la princesse Saraléane, mais aussi l'attention des venimeux, de puissants mages noirs. Serait-il investi d'une mission divine autre que le destin que lui a confié Ychandre ? La trajectoire des astres se courbe parfois de façon bien surprenante….
- Author:Royer, MaudeSummary:
Venu du firmament, où Serpentaire a rejoint les rangs des demi-dieux, un vent de changement souffle sur la Terre. Les nébuleux, délivrés de l'esclavage, sont maintenant sous la protection de la treizième Gardienne et de ses femmesdragons. Les dieux destinent même l'un d'eux, Valeski de Dhalim, au trône de Nusakan. Toutefois, l'obsidienne, la pierre fétiche de Serpentaire, qui ferait de ses protégés des magiciens, s'avère introuvable. Jorik de Sadira et Saraléanne de Gemme partiront avec leurs amis à la recherche de ces cristaux. Or, ils n'ont pas que des alliés. Tous sur Terre ne sont pas disposés à accepter cette révolution que leur imposent les astres. Pour les mangoustes, des assassins sans scrupules, les nébuleux doivent retourner dans l'ombre qui les a vus naître. Et ces mystérieux tortionnaires ne seront pas les seuls à se dresser sur la route des chercheurs d'obsidiennes.
- Author:Horsman, Paul E.Summary:
How did his parents and brothers die? Where their deaths really accidents, or were they killed? These questions young Ghyll Hardingraud must answer before he can ascend Rhidauna's throne. Ghyll’s search for the truth leads him and his Companions on a journey back to the past as he slowly unravels a dark conspiracy. Once crowned, the young King Ghyll still has to finish the mission his dead uncle imposed on him. The journey takes him and his trusted friends through inhospitable lands and dangerous swamps to the endless steppes of Zihaen, looking for the Voice from the West. He discovers he isn't the only one. His vindictive enemy pursues him, aided by undead forces.
- Author:MacAlister, KatieSummary:
While on a singles tour of Europe, Seattle's own Pia Thomason is looking for a man and trying not to think about her 40th birthday. Too bad her choice of suitors is less than appealing. But when she meets two mysterious strangers in Iceland, Pia becomes immersed in an undead love affair.
- Author:Zhao, Xiran Jay.Summary:
Percy Jackson meets Tristan Strong in this hilarious, action-packed middle grade contemporary fantasy that follows a young boy as he journeys across China to seal the underworld shut and save the mortal realm. Zachary Ying never had many opportunities to learn about his Chinese heritage. His single mom was busy enough making sure they got by, and his schools never taught anything except Western history and myths. So Zack is woefully unprepared when he discovers he was born to host the spirit of the First Emperor of China for a vital mission: sealing the leaking portal to the Chinese underworld before the upcoming Ghost Month blows it wide open. The mission takes an immediate wrong turn when the First Emperor botches his attempt to possess Zack's body and binds to Zack's AR gaming headset instead, leading to a battle where Zack's mom's soul gets taken by demons. Now, with one of history's most infamous tyrants yapping in his headset, Zack must journey across China to heist magical artifacts and defeat figures from history and myth, all while learning to wield the emperor's incredible water dragon powers. And if Zack can't finish the mission in time, the spirits of the underworld will flood into the mortal realm, and he could lose his mom forever.
- Author:MacAlister, KatieSummary:
Attractive twenty-something Aisling Grey is dispatched to Paris by her uncle to deliver a priceless dragon statue to a rich and eccentric female collector. When she arrives at the woman's house, she finds her the victim of what looks like a demonic ritual. Aisling also discovers a dark and handsome man at the murder scene who claims to be a special agent. But before she fully succumbs to his mysterious allure, he swipes her dragon and runs! Now the real Paris police are on the scene, and they want answers.
- Author:Anderle, Michael, Grey, NatalieSummary:
Enter the world of Metamorphosis Online, a fully immersive video game where players compete for spots in the Global Top 10-ranks that actually pay you to play the game. Gracie doesn't play the game to make money...at first. Broke, single, and working a crappy job as a blackjack dealer, Gracie's just blowing off steam and having fun. Can playing a new type of immersive game help her overcome real-life issues, or will it cause more problems? Before she knows it, Gracie has intervened in a generations-long war between the kobolds and the fae and started a ragtag guild, and her weird math abilities make themselves known in a way that most could not have imagined. Can she deal with being pitted against the game developers? For the first time Gracie can remember, she has something worth fighting for.
- Author:Ferraro, DaveSummary:
Yumiko Sato was spirited away by yokai when she was seven-years-old. Kagami, the yokai lord of a magical realm that exists beyond mirrors, allowed her to leave, but vowed that he would come for her when she turned eighteen, whereupon he would consume her, body and soul. When she returned from that strange world, Yumiko found that everything had changed. She could see the supernatural monsters of Japan called yokai, when no one else could. She could return to that terrible place by walking through mirrors. And her mother had disappeared. With less than a year left before Kagami comes for her, Yumiko has become an expert at hunting down and dispatching yokai with her mirror sword, sending them into the mirror world, where they can no longer harm anyone. She prepares for the battle of her life and hopes that when the yokai lord comes for her, she will be strong enough to defeat him, saving not only herself, but her mother as well. Between the ghosts, demons and urban legends that find their way into her life, Yumiko has little time for people. So when things go south, she finds herself in an uncomfortable position, working alongside a ragtag group of humans and yokai to try to save the world before evil forces march upon it. Things are not what they seem, and Yumiko has just scratched the surface of the mysteries surrounding yokai, and just who she has become since returning from that fateful trip to the yokai realm.
- Author:Dalton, RyanSummary:
When 15-year-old twins Malcolm and Valentine Gilbert moved to a new town, they never imagined that the old house across the street could bring them so much trouble. Inside the old house, a secret machine with the power to pierce time has reawakened. Meanwhile, lightning storms are breaking out all over town. They're getting worse every week, and seem to enjoy striking kids who just want to pass science class and mind their own business. When Malcolm and Valentine discover a connection between the house and the storms, their situation goes from mysterious to crazy-stupid dangerous. Someone is controlling the great machine, and their purpose is nearly complete. In a race against time, the twins must uncover the chilling plan, the mastermind behind it, and the force that's driving the deadly storms. They'll hunt a powerful enemy that threatens their town's existence, and the only clues are written in the sky.
- Author:Pratchett, TerrySummary:
The sixth Discworld novel, Wyrd Sisters features three witches: Granny Weatherwax; Nanny Ogg, matriarch of a large tribe of Oggs and owner of the most evil cat in the world; and Magrat Garlick, the junior witch, who firmly believes in occult jewelry, covens, and bubbling cauldrons, much to the annoyance of the other two.
- Author:Gwynne, JohnSummary:
The fourth in the Faithful and the Fallen series from John Gwynne, an epic fantasy perfect for fans of George R.R. Martin, Brandon Sanderson and David Gemmell. Events are coming to a climax in the Banished Lands, as the war reaches new heights. King Nathair has taken control of the fortress at Drassil and three of the Seven Treasures are in his possession. And together with Calidus and his ally Queen Rhin, Nathair will do anything to obtain the remaining Treasures. With all seven under his command, he can open a portal to the Otherworld. Then Asroth and his demon-horde will finally break into the Banished Lands and become flesh. Meanwhile Corban has been taken prisoner by the Jotun, warrior giants who ride their enormous bears into battle. His warband scattered, Corban must make new allies if he hopes to survive. But can he bond with competing factions of warlike giants' Somehow he must, if he's to counter the threat Nathair represents. His life hangs in the balance - and with it, the fate of the Banished Lands.
- Author:Thorn, AlessaSummary:
Fifteen hundred years is a long time to wait to get revenge. The Fae know how to nurse a grudge, and now they have returned to England to claim their rightful place.
- Author:Rubinkowski, JessicaSummary:
Gifted with the Pale God's power, Valeria will do whatever it takes to liberate her people. Even if that means stealing the Czar's son away from the safety of the Winter Palace, igniting the Czar's wrath.
- Author:Farland, DavidSummary:
Fallion and Jaz are living as fugitives in their own kingdom, now secretly controlled by evil supernatural beings. Fallion seems destined to heal the world and feels the calling to act, but when he summons his powers, two worlds collapse into one.
- Author:Sanderson, BrandonSummary:
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance, Book Two of the Stormlight Archive, continues the immersive fantasy epic that The Way of Kings began. Expected by his enemies to die the miserable death of a military slave, Kaladin survived to be given command of the royal bodyguards, a controversial first for a low-status "darkeyes." Now he must protect the king and Dalinar from every common peril as well as the distinctly uncommon threat of the Assassin, all while secretly struggling to master remarkable new powers that are somehow linked to his honorspren, Syl. The Assassin, Szeth, is active again, murdering rulers all over the world of Roshar, using his baffling powers to thwart every bodyguard and elude all pursuers. Among his prime targets is Highprince Dalinar, widely considered the power behind the Alethi throne. His leading role in the war would seem reason enough, but the Assassin's master has much deeper motives. Brilliant but troubled Shallan strives along a parallel path. Despite being broken in ways she refuses to acknowledge, she bears a terrible burden: to somehow prevent the return of the legendary Voidbringers and the civilization-ending Desolation that will follow. The secrets she needs can be found at the Shattered Plains, but just arriving there proves more difficult than she could have imagined. Meanwhile, at the heart of the Shattered Plains, the Parshendi are making an epochal decision. Hard pressed by years of Alethi attacks, their numbers ever shrinking, they are convinced by their war leader, Eshonai, to risk everything on a desperate gamble with the very supernatural forces they once fled. The possible consequences for Parshendi and humans alike, indeed, for Roshar itself, are as dangerous as they are incalculable. Other Tor books by Brandon Sanderson The Cosmere The Stormlight Archive The Way of Kings Words of Radiance Edgedancer (Novella) Oathbringer The Mistborn trilogy Mistborn: The Final Empire The Well of Ascension The Hero of Ages Mistborn: The Wax and Wayne series Alloy of Law Shadows of Self Bands of Mourning Collection Arcanum Unbounded Other Cosmere novels Elantris Warbreaker The Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians series Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians The Scrivener's Bones The Knights of Crystallia The Shattered Lens The Dark Talent The Rithmatist series The Rithmatist Other books by Brandon Sanderson The Reckoners Steelheart Firefight Calamity
- Author:Le Guin, Ursula K.Summary:
After being rescued by a flying cat, Alexander the cat decides to make good on a promise to do wonderful things.
- Author:Swann, S. AndrewSummary:
When young Uldolf discovers an injured and frightened young woman in the woods, he brings her to live with his adoptive family. But Lilly is not quite human, and the danger is greater than they can possibly imagine.
- Author:Lubar, DavidSummary:
Eighth grader Mercer, whose passion is the fantasy role-playing game Wizards of the Warrior World, hopes to use a fund raiser to bring a gaming convention to his middle school, but instead he attracts four genuine wizards who are trapped on Earth and want his help in returning to their own world.
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