Resultat för "The Cure" i Science fiction och fantasy

On her 17th birthday, Ashen Spencer is blindfolded and escorted to the massive, mysterious building known as the Arc to begin her year of training and testing in hopes that she can earn the Cure - a powerful drug given only to those deemed worthy to survive beyond their 18th birthday. Ashen has a chance to rise up from her former life of squalor and be granted a place in society, if the Panel - the mysterious group of powerful men and women in charge of the Arc - deems her year a success.

The Cure is a genre-bending thriller reminiscent of Michael Crichton or Douglas Preston, about the biological underpinnings of psychopathy. As a child, her family was taken from her by a serial killer. Erin Palmer is left orphaned and forever scarred. She dedicates her life to the study of psychopaths, conducting one-on-one interviews and tests with inmates. When Erin finally finishes years of exhaustive research, she finds herself in possession of the key to ending psychopathic behavior - in the species - forever. That' s when they try to kill her.

Years after World War III, the world lies broken... not just from bombs, but from what followed. Radiation. Bioweapons. Years of reckless science. The outcome? A mutated form of cancer that spreads faster than fire and kills within weeks. There’s no treatment. No cure. Only silence, empty cities, and rationed painkillers.

A scientist finds a way to create perfect humans, heal the lame, and cure the sick. Dr. Aron Esterhazy's new formula can even turn ordinary people into superbeings. Everyone who finds out about it wants it - but who will control it?

»Durchdrungen von herrlicher Magie und erfüllt von fantastischen Freundschaften und ewiger Liebe.« Sarah Beth Durst, Bestsellerautorin von Spellshop Ein verlorenes Herz. Ein magischer Pakt. Ein Hauch von Schicksal. Prag 1769: Die Goldene Stadt hütet ein Geheimnis – sie besitzt ein...

Sarah Halloway lost everything, her medical license, her reputation, and her future. Now she’s been reassigned to The Sovereign, a colony ship rising into orbit via space elevator, carrying her into exile far from Earth. But exile turns into containment. When a sealed artifact from Area 51 ruptures mid-ascent, something inside awakens. It is not just alive. It is adaptive.

*COMING SOON: the second novel from Booker-longlisted Sophie Mackintosh* *Blue Ticket, a chilling new novel about freedom, fate and motherhood - out 7 May 2020* The Water Cure British Vogue 'Star of the Future' for 2020 Independent Best Books of the Decade Penguin presents the audiobook edition...

A welcome return to Vianne Rocher and the village in rural France that was the setting for Joanne Harris's remarkable and much-loved number one bestseller Chocolat. Perfect for fans of Victoria Hislop, Fiona Valpy, Maggie O'Farrell and Rachel Joyce. 'Vianne - unconventional, good-hearted...

Ruth's tireless research into the disease that killed her young daughter had an unexpected outcome: the discovery of a vaccine against old age. Just one jab a year reverses your biological clock, guaranteeing a long, healthy life. But Ruth's cure was hijacked by her colleague, Erik Grundleger, who hungers for immortality, and the SuperJuve—a premium upgrade—was created, driving human lifespan to a new high. The wealthy elite who take it are dubbed Supers, and the population begins to skyrocket. Then, a perilous side-effect of the SuperJuve emerges, with catastrophic consequences.

A woman trapped in a diabolical marriage must rely on wits and witchery to escape in a sweeping historical fantasy by Wall Street Journal bestselling author Charlie N. Holmberg. To secure her family’s business from the meddling of the powerful sorcerer Duke Nicholas George, the pragmatic Clyda...

Callie Summers’s seemingly ordinary life is merely a veil for an extraordinary discovery—one that is brimming with powerful gifts and fragments of forgotten memories. Memories that are slowly making their way to the surface. As her destiny unfolds before her, she finds herself drawn into an unimaginable adventure, which whispers of a forgotten time.

CeCe Campbell wakes on the asphalt of a mall parking lot with two missing years and a body that no longer feels like her own. Infected with the Kill Virus on her 18th birthday, she's among the first to be cured. Rehabilitation teaches CeCe how to walk, how to speak, how to exist in a world rebuilding itself, but it cannot return what she lost. Her mother is dead. Her brother is missing. And the last memory before the dark is a bite she cannot escape. When CeCe unexpectedly meets Derrick—the boy who infected her—she's torn between anger and a strange, undeniable connection.

Kjell of Jeru had always known who he was. He'd never envied his brother or wanted to be king. He was the bastard son of the late King Zoltev and a servant girl, and the ignominy of his birth had never bothered him. But there is more to this man than his parentage. More to this man than his blade, his size, or his skills, and all that Kjell once knew has shifted and changed. He is no longer simply Kjell of Jeru, a warrior defending the crown. Now he is a healer, one of the Gifted, and a man completely at odds with his power.  

Just when the slayers thought they could take some time to unwind and recover from their death defying battle against Dracula's offspring, Dan's cousin, Bruce, has an unexpected run in with werewolves and is wounded. Now, instead of the slayers searching for vampires, they’re searching for a cure for Bruce before he reaches the point of no return. While roaming the caverns of the Arizona mountains, Bruce meets Tatyana, a young woman running from vampires. Fortunately for him, she’s no stranger to the occult.

The Cure machine is the exact opposite of an MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imager). The inventor, Gill actually creates an MRE (Magnetic Resonance Exciter) that he calls "The Cure". Just as the imager detects the frequency of bacteria, the exciter bombards the bacteria and destroys the source of the disease. Even the criminal underground becomes involved. This is the story of the socioeconomic impact of The Cure

Stunned by her brother's apparent suicide, LUNA AUBER discovers that he has not only left her the keys to his apartment but also trip to Sweden. Per his instructions, LUNA is to explore their unexpected heritage of the Birke, an iconic female Viking warrior. Following her beloved brother's lead, LUNA will soon discover that the terrible shakes he suffered from were misdiagnosed. The shaking was in fact the early stages of his transformation. Her brother was a shapeshifter. A lycanthrope. And her own shaking has just begun. 

The Sea-Cure, a novel of journeys in the seventeenth century will transport you, dear listener, far beyond the first passage from Holland to Tenerife, aboard a merchant ship that also carries misfits and the mad sent away from their towns as outcasts. The ship sails between known and unknown...

Bree Smith’s son, Adam, is dying. Bree is out of money and out of hope when a dishevelled young man, Bateman, approaches her with a proven cure. There’s only one catch: Bree will need to collect it…from the future. The cost? Just return with a small package for Bateman. Once in the future, Bree faces the terrible consequences of the deal she has struck. She must make a final choice: save her son or save humanity? Conceived by terminal cancer patient, Joshua Castle, and brought to print, posthumously, by his mother, Penny, Cure is fast-paced and tense.

What if the very thing meant to save lives became the weapon that could destroy reality? A Whispering Cure unveils a gripping tale of medical innovation twisted into a dark conspiracy. When Dr. Elara Vance, a dedicated physician at St. Jude's Memorial Hospital, discovers a classified report detailing the inexplicable awakenings of comatose patients, her world is turned upside down.

When tragedy strikes, some lives are changed forever—but others are given a chance to fight.