Books with title Lightning

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Three-Body Trilogy, Cixin Liu's Ball Lightning is the story of what happens when the beauty of scientific inquiry runs up against the drive to harness new discoveries with no consideration of their possible consequences.When Chen’s parents are incinerated before his eyes by a blast of ball lightning, he devotes his life to cracking the secret of this mysterious natural phenomenon. His search takes him to stormy mountaintops, an experimental military weapons lab, and an old Soviet science station. The more he learns, the more he comes to realize that ball lightning is just the tip of an entirely new frontier. While Chen’s quest for answers gives purpose to his lonely life, it also pits him against soldiers and scientists with motives of their own: a beautiful army major with an obsession with dangerous weaponry, and a physicist who has no place for ethical considerations in his single-minded pursuit of knowledge."Wildly imaginative."―Barack Obama on The Three-Body Problem trilogyTor books by Cixin LiuThe Remembrance of Earth's Past#1 The Three-Body Problem#2 The Dark Forest#3 Death's End

Ordinary is what most people are and I am not. I am not ordinary at all. I am a scientist. One stormy night, a group of villagers are struck by lightning. The only survivor is a baby—Mary Anning. From that moment on, a spark is lit within her. Growing up poor but proud on the windswept Dorset coast, Mary follows after her father, hunting for fossils uncovered by waves and landslips: ancient creatures, turned to stone. Ignoring other people's taunts, Mary faces danger to bring back valuable treasures to help feed her family. But tragedy and despair is never far away. Mary must depend upon her unique courage and knowledge to fulfill her dream of becoming a scientist in a time when girls have no opportunities for such ambitions. What will happen when she makes her greatest discovery of all? With a factual section about Mary Anning, her life, and the discoveries she made.

In Gnariam, it has been 12,000 years since the last Lightning Elemental stood guard. The world is in chaos. Shadow magic is spreading beyond the walls of secrecy. The Elemental Mages are falling to the forces of Darkness. A new savior must rise and bring balance, for the Fate of Gnariam. As sixteen year old Ranir is endowed with the ancient power of The Lightning Rod, will he become the hero the world needs, or succumb to the Darkness?Thank you taking the time to read The Lightning Rod! I hope that you enjoyed the beginning of Gnariam’s Fate Saga. We would love to hear your thoughts. So please feel free to leave a review here, or on Goodreads, and let us know what you thought!

A storm struck on the night Laura Shane was born, and there was a strangeness about the weather that people would remember for years. But even more mysterious was the blond-haired stranger who appeared out of nowhere – the man who saved Laura from a fatal delivery. Years later – another bolt of lightning – and the stranger returned, again to save Laura from tragedy. Was he the guardian angel he seemed? The devil in disguise? Or the master of a haunting destiny beyond time and space?

Thunder & Lightning is an endearing story about a beautiful paint horse named Thunder, a Missouri Fox Trotter named Lightning, and an Australian Shepherd named Oreo owned by a woman named Dakota. They live at Sardis Lake in the Kiamichi Mountains of southeastern Oklahoma. She loves to go trail riding and exploring the mountains in Oklahoma, California, New Mexico, and Colorado. Thunder is Dakota's favorite horse and saves Dakota's life while they are trail riding in the mountains. This story is full of fun and adventure in the wild. Ride along with Dakota and her horse though the mountains as she explores the trails and the wildlife on her journey.

Ever dreamed of having control over an element? Ava Sparks didn’t. She was just a normal girl without a passing thought that there could be something out there other than humans. Until her seventeenth birthday. In a moment of panic, something unthinkable happens: lightning surged out of her hands. Soon after, she is swept away into the world of elementals. At Westville Boarding School, she is drawn into a society full of dark secrets, power, and rivalry, and she must find her place in the battle Ms. Masters, the leader of the elementals, is set on instigating against humans. Aided by her best friend Harper McGee, she realizes her true potential and the benefits of wielding lightning. However, reoccurring nightmares are testing the limits of her sanity and the fact that an unavoidable darkness follows the lightning doesn't help. When the past and present starts to collide, secrets are revealed and fate is hard to avoid. Throw in the infuriating, but mouth-watering, Nathan Yates and life is no longer easy. She instantly feels drawn to him, no matter how rude he is or how hard he pushes her away.