Adventure Ice

The prehistoric adventure continues in this third installment of the Clan of the Ice Mountains series. Attu and Rika meet new challenges and dangers as they journey north to find a place their Clan can call home.

In 2005, the robotic probe "Huygens" lands on Saturn's moon Titan. 40 years later, a radio telescope receives signals from the far away moon that can only come from the long forgotten lander. At the same time, an expedition returns from neighbouring moon Enceladus. The crew lands on Titan and finds a dangerous secret that risks their return to Earth. Meanwhile, on Enceladus a deathly race has started that nobody thought was possible. And its outcome can only be decided by the astronauts that are stuck on Titan.

Seguro crees que ser abducida por extraterrestres es lo peor que me ha pasado. Y no lo es. La nave en la que viajábamos tuvo problemas técnicos y nuestros secuestradores nos dejaron a mí y a mis compañeras abandonadas en un planeta congelado.

Set in 2065, the World Aquanaut Security Patrol (WASP) guards Earth's oceans from their HQ base, Marineville. Led by Commander Shore, WASP agents battle against evil with the fearless and heroic Troy Tempest as captain of super submarine Stingray at the vanguard of protecting mankind. Together with hydrophone operator George 'Phones' Sheridan and the amphibious and beautiful Marina, Troy battles against underwater enemies the Aquaphibians, their submarine, Terror Fish and the persuasive power of their leader, Titan, the undersea Lord of Titanica.

In this novella set in 1924 London, ex-boxer Harry Stubbs is on the trail of a mysterious legacy. A polar explorer has died, leaving huge debts and hints of a priceless find. His informants seem to be talking in riddles, and Harry soon finds he isn't the only one on the trail - and what he's looking for is as lethal as it is valuable. The key to the enigma lies in an ancient Arabian book and it leads to something stranger and more horrifying than Harry could ever imagine.

Arrasados por la guerra, los Siete Reinos pronto sufrirán el larguísimo invierno que se predice como inusitadamente crudo. Y mientras empeoran la violencia y el clima, los personajes entrañables e infames que ya conocemos continúan debatiéndose entre feroces batallas y perversas intrigas palaciegas.

Friendship is forever, but something is keeping Annie from rescuing Addie from the humane society. In book one, she doesn't make it home quite yet, but we learn about how love heals all fear between a girl and a dog. In book two, we hear about Annie as she battles an ice storm to make sure she is the one that adopts Addie. Will Annie ever make it in time? Will she make it to the humane society? Will Addie finally come home?

The year is 1973. As a freak winter storm bears down on an exclusive, affluent suburb in Connecticut, cars skid out of control, men and women swap partners, and their children experiment with sex, drugs, and even suicide. Here two families, the Hoods and the Williamses, com face-to-face with the seething emotions behind the well-clipped lawns of their lives-in a novel widely hailed as a funny, acerbic, and moving hymn to a dazed and confused era of American life.

Ruby's world has changed more than she ever could have imagined. She's in love with a powerful Frost King. She's the heir to the Fire Throne. And she may be a Nightblood - the spawn of a vengeful deity hellbent on releasing an imprisoned army of shadowy wraiths. Once freed, these beasts will roam the earth, devouring the spirits of every last person until he or she is nothing but an empty husk. Ruby is able to control the shadows to a degree, even hosting one in her own body. But will this tenuous connection - which threatens to consume her - be enough to hold the beasts back?

A fictionalized account of a true story where one ship and crew attempted to find an explorer who disappeared with two ships and 129 men, and, in the process, became ice-bound; as Kane and his crew struggled against the elements, polar bears, the Esquimaux, and mutiny among its men. Embark on a perilous journey with Captain Kane and his crew, battling Arctic elements, polar bears, and mutiny, all in search of a vanished explorer and his lost ships.

Bjorn, youngest heir to the Mad Jarl of Oakharrow, has always felt more at ease with a quill than a sword. Yet when calamity strikes his family, he must draw a blade and lead a company of warriors into the cold, deadly mountains in pursuit of a mysterious foe. Though he seeks vengeance, an ancient power stirs within him, and the whispers of prophecy beckon him toward an ominous destiny....

Una fuerza aterradora ha surgido en el continente asolado de Genabackis. Como una marea de sangre corrompida, el Dominio Painita cruza el continente como lava hirviente que consume a todos los que no escuchan la palabra de su profeta, el Vidente Painita. En su camino se interpone una alianza incómoda: la hueste de Dujek Unbrazo y los veteranos Abrasapuentes de Whiskeyjack, junto con antiguos adversarios: el caudillo Caladan Brood, Anomander Rake y sus tiste andii. Superados en número y desconfiando de todo y de todos, deben hacer llegar el mensaje a cualquier posible aliado.

Underneath the steps leading down to Eric's basement is a hidden storage place. It's dusty and old, nothing special at all. But when Eric, Julie, and Neal all huddle inside the gray room together, something unbelievable happens. A glittering light and then a rainbow-colored staircase appear. As the kids take their very first step down into the mysterious land of Droon, they know that only magic and adventure await them!

Coral Amherst is the middle child of a wealthy family, with fingers throughout the politics and laws of the magical Dalebloods and the Republic they lead. Skill and connections alike have propelled her to the highest ranks of the Republic’s Navy. Now, duty inexorably drags her into a mission to learn the fate of a long-lost magical city, once home to many of the people the Dalebloods rule. Storms of dark magic drove the Seablood from their ancient city and to the shores of the Republic—and those same storms now assail the Republic itself!

In The Possessed we watch Elif Batuman investigate a possible murder at Tolstoy's ancestral estate. We go with her to Stanford, Switzerland, and St. Petersburg; retrace Pushkin's wanderings in the Caucasus; learn why Old Uzbek has 100 different words for crying; and see an 18th-century ice palace reconstructed on the Neva. Love and the novel, the individual in history, the existential plight of the graduate student: all find their places in The Possessed.

Icebreaker Snow and his friends have a mission to tow the Snowflake, an enormous, ground-breaking invention, to the southern Arctic Sea. Moving the Snowflake will take all the group’s strength. But the journey comes to a halt before it can begin, and they don’t know what’s wrong.

Icebreaker Snow's good friend Twinkle the pilot boat is posted to Utö Island in the Archipelago Sea. Soon, Twinkle is hard at work plying the iced-over waters of early spring. Returning from the pilot boat meeting point one day, Twinkle is surprised by a snowstorm that caused her instruments to stop working. She is out of contact with the rest of the world and finds herself in a place whose existence is known only in legends....

Diver Rovi is hard at work with the elite welding team when something unexpected happens. Rovi’s welding torch goes out. Rovi heads toward the surface to investigate. Suddenly, a powerful current carries him away. Athena Eight, the support station on the surface, notices that Rovi is missing from the job site....

Icebreaker Snow and his friends have been sent to the eastern Gulf of Finland on a special mission called Operation Plankton. The job is going splendidly, until Aurora Star notices a strange echo image from the sea floor and sends Diver Rovi to investigate. Rovi finds something remarkable below the sea....

Winter has come to the Gulf of Bothnia. The ice has formed a thick cover on the sea, which means lots of missions for the icebreakers that help ships to and from the port. Everything seems fine, a normal day at sea, until Lighthouse Marjaniemi stares in amazement at a gigantic, dark shape in the water in the Hailuoto channel....