Resultados para "Daisy" en Ciencia ficción y fantasía

Eine starke KI an der Schwelle zur Welt: Öffnet sich die Büchse der Pandora? Oder kommen Glück und Wohlstand für alle? In den Wäldern Montanas arbeitet eine Reihe von Wissenschaftlern an der Entwicklung einer mächtigen allgemeinen künstlichen Intelligenz. Aus Sicherheitsgründen befinden sich ihre Labore weit verstreut in abgelegenen Hütten ohne Kommunikationsmittel und externe Stromversorgung. Der mysteriöse Leiter des Projekts lässt die Zwischenergebnisse regelmäßig abholen und Treibstoff für den Generator, Wasser und Lebensmittel liefern.

I fear I've made a mistake. I left a pampered life and a loveless relationship to live on an icy, primeval world, all for the promise of a soulmate and children. But three years have passed, and my hopes and dreams have become dashed. I haven't resonated. Without resonance, there will be no...

In Charm Cove, Maine, spring means blooming flowers, thawed snow, and just a hint of everyday magic. Moira Wicked is embracing it all—her powers, her future, and her recent engagement to Liam. Life is finally settling down. Until it starts raining daisies. One minute, the town looks like a picture-perfect coastal getaway. The next, it's drowning in daisies—falling from the sky, sprouting from rooftops, carpeting lawns, and turning every surface into a floral explosion. Pretty? Sure. Magical menace? Definitely.

Mia’s biggest nightmare is about to manifest—her mother is coming to town with her husband du jour in tow. Never mind the sorry state of the garden, the hormonal inches insulating Mia’s waist, or the Orca-sized cat that likes to rest her girth on Mia’s head in the middle of the night when she’s too tired to object.

Faith, an anomaly to the human race, must defend herself, her world, and her universe from certain doom after accidentally injuring a monster she runs into at her high school graduation. Her adventures lead her and a Watcher known as The Man, to the planet Quii, a city-planet outside her own universe that potentially holds a key to stopping the end of planet Earth. On Quii, secrets come out, and they learn truths about the mysterious Rymuth Elves, the planet's only inhabitants.

Darker than the night, like a piece of reality had been ripped out of the world to grant a view into the endless abyss of the void, a shape rose from the low hills of the moor, towering above all. Sherlock Holmes, his brother Mycroft, and their associate Mary Morstan are some of the most adept mages in London, safeguarding the peace of the city. Their daily life of solving crimes is interrupted when an ancient threat rises in Dartmoor.

The warm glow of the setting sun cast a golden hue over the Harrington's cozy living room, filling it with anticipation and excitement. Martin Harrington, a diligent and protective father with graying hair and a determined expression, sat at the head of the room, his strong build accentuated by the flickering firelight. His eyes sparkled with a mix of pride and concern as he glanced at his family gathered around him.

Exploring otherness, identity, faith, religion, gender and sexual trauma, Hag brings together a gripping collection of tales that are unsettlingly timely and wickedly sinister. E

An unforgettable, heart-wrenching story tying together past and present, from the bestselling author of The Forgotten Bookshop in Paris Provence, 1940. Thrown out of occupied Paris by the Nazis, brave, beautiful Mathilde finds refuge with her cousin in Provence, where she’s soon drawn into the...

An unforgettable story, tying together past and present, from the bestselling author of The Forgotten Bookshop in Paris and The Royal Librarian Berlin, 1933. The night skies are burning bright with huge bonfires of banned books. The Nazi party is swelling in number and Berlin is no longer a safe...

Lorsque la marée montera, ils seront coupés du reste du monde. Lorsqu'elle redescendra, plus rien ne sera jamais comme avant... Perchée sur une île des Cornouailles, Verdemer, la demeure ancestrale de la famille Darker, est chaque jour prise au piège de la marée montante. Le soir d'Halloween, les Darker s'y réunissent pour la première fois depuis des années pour fêter les quatre-vingts ans de leur grand-mère. Daisy y retrouve un père distant, une mère glaciale, ses deux soeurs, sa nièce et Conor, un ami de la famille. Tous ont quelque chose à cacher.

Olivia Dawson can’t seem to catch a break. Her boss is retiring and her immediate supervisor, an awful woman with a personal vendetta against her, looks to be getting his job. Her love life is in shambles, her best friend won’t shut the hell up about Star Trek, and her elderly neighbor won’t stop hitting her car with his pickup.

It wasn't supposed to be like this. Seven months ago, Vicki Morel was supposed to be happy, not in the midst of the apocalypse. Her and her fiance, Will, should have been married and about to celebrate the birth of their child. Instead, Will was the leader of a terrorist organization, and Vicki is now his prisoner. And if she doesn't do what he wants, he'll kill the man she really loves: Ambrose.

Rule one: anything can happen. Daisy Cooper's life has been pretty uneventful - until the moment it suddenly ends. Unfortunately, her death is (literally) an accident: Daisy wasn't meant to die for another 50 years. One terrible, embarrassing clerical error is behind it - and Death himself is to blame. As Daisy battles against her new reality, she starts to learn that letting go isn't just a challenge faced by those left behind. And while she learns how to survive this impossible new reality, friendship, hope and even love begin to come alive in the most unexpected ways. 

An unforgettable, heart-wrenching story tying together past and present, from the bestselling author of The Forgotten Bookshop in Paris Provence, 1940. Thrown out of occupied Paris by the Nazis, brave, beautiful Mathilde finds refuge with her cousin in Provence, where she’s soon drawn into the...

Cassandra Woods is not supposed to exist. Fearing for her life, she flees her home, escaping punishments for the crimes she committed against the tyrannical Queen of Striga to join forces with the coven's enemy.

An unforgettable story, tying together past and present, from the bestselling author of The Forgotten Bookshop in Paris and The Royal Librarian Berlin, 1933. The night skies are burning bright with huge bonfires of banned books. The Nazi party is swelling in number and Berlin is no longer a safe...

Before the clocks stopped, Narwhal Slotterfield was an ordinary basketball referee. He blew his whistle. He stretched the rules. He even had a girlfriend. But then the clock thing happened. Now it’s 7:23 p.m., Narwhal’s in a diner in the middle of the Great Plains, and now is all he’s got.

Я хотела свободы и независимости, а что их может дать? Конечно, титул и деньги! Первое у меня есть, а вот со вторым проблемы. Назначенный королем опекун ни в какую не желает делиться. Поэтому три часа назад я подсыпала ему в суп порошок забвения. Но этот нахал попросил ещё десерт и меня в придаток! Что же, королевский любимчик, готовься, вместе с женой ты получишь ворох проблем!

A new republic now governs America, paving the way for the restoration of democracy. But, the nation’s transition has not been an easy one, and tensions continue to rise as some call for the return of the Project. Zira's only goal is to find her place in this new world, but with her best friend, Tripp, battling a debilitating addiction and no resources of her own to help him, she reluctantly accepts aid from her former partner - and former adversary - Jared.