Resultados para "Eleanor" en Ciencia ficción y fantasía

Myra Reed’s life is going great. Being a cop is great. Guarding the library of arcane secrets is great. Even dealing with the monsters and gods vacationing in the little beach town of Ordinary, Oregon is great. Then the demon, Bathin, strolls into town and steals Myra’s sister’s soul. So much for great. Luckily, Myra has a plan to evict the demon and save her sister’s soul. Step one: shut down the portals to hell popping up in town. Step two: get rid of the pink know-it-all unicorn. Step three: don’t die while teaching Death how to be a cop.

Frankreich, 1793. Eleanor, einst eine einfache Dienstmagd, ist nun Mitglied der Liga des Scarlet Pimpernel, die sich wagemutig in jedes Abenteuer stürzt, um Menschen - und Vampire - vor der Guillotine zu retten. Diesmal müssen Eleanor und ihre Verbündeten das Verschwinden von Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand untersuchen, eines berüchtigten französischen Staatsmannes und Diplomaten. Dabei kommen sie bald zwei verfeindeten Vampir-Clans auf die Spur, die sich wahrhaft verbissen bekämpfen.

After winning his first battle, Prince Alexander fights to become the ruler his kingdom demands - but the line between leader and tyrant blurs with each new threat. Meanwhile Hephaestion, cast aside by Alexander for killing the wrong man, must conceal the devastating secret of a divine prophecy from Katerina even as the two of them are thrust together on a dangerous mission to Egypt.

Imagine a time when the gods turn a blind eye to the agony of men, when the last of the hellions roam the plains, and evil stirs beyond the edges of the map. A time when cities burn and, in their ashes, empires rise. Alexander, Macedon's 16-year-old heir, is on the brink of discovering his fated role in conquering the known world, but finds himself drawn to a newcomer. Katerina must navigate the dark secrets of court life while keeping hidden her own mission: kill the queen.

Eleanor is the story of choices that ripple through time far beyond the moment they’re made. And what happens when, just sometimes, bonds are so powerful they reach beyond this world and into another… 1962, Anchor Bend, Oregon. The sea calls to Eleanor. Like the turn of the waves it beckons...

When a terrible accident claims the life of Eleanor’s twin, her family is left in tatters, and her reality begins to unravel, dropping her in and out of unfamiliar worlds. When she returns to her own time and place, hours and days have flown by without her. One fateful day, Eleanor leaps from...

Everyone has a death. Hers has a name: Moira. When Amber Graves buries her father, she thinks the worst is over. The next night, she discovers she’s wrong. Her inheritance isn’t wealth—it’s his magic. And it comes bound to her own death: a porcelain-masked woman named Moira, who watches her from mirrors and shadows, waiting for the moment Amber’s heartbeat stops. As Amber struggles to balance work, love, and the dark art of necromancy, she learns the truth behind her father’s legacy—and the terrible cost of keeping it. What do you do when your guardian angel is the angel of death?

“In the beginning, God was said to have created everything in fairly short order. Some say seven days. Others say three. The truth is that god created nothing. God flipped a switch. The machines have been building ever since.” In the crowded techno-religious city of Aberthene, almost everyone is augmented by biomedical modification. Part machine, and part human. The church rules the state and controls everything from production to housing. Addeleigh Simmons works in a religious building cleaning out suicide booths during the day while attending classes and studying at night.

For Bobby Miracle, the job at Hipposync was supposed to be a dream internship. But when a trans-dimensional lockdown freezes time, she is trapped with a terrifying enemy who has a very sharp axe to grind. With survival at stake and secrets lurking in every corner, Bobby must bring her A game to the party and hope that her surname finally, finally, kicks in. Because though she may dress like one, even gets called one, no way is she a witch…right?

Villains on Parade, starring Chuck McCann, Wally Wingert, and the rest of our usual troupe, features an evil sorceress, bumbling henchmen, the annual Storming of the Castle, the Plunderers Day Parade, the Lost Orc Commentaries, and other extreme silliness. The bad guys have their say, and the pros take the stage and bring down the castle.

In 2028, environmental activists hesitate to take the fight to the extreme of violent revolution. Twenty years later, with the natural environment now seriously degraded, the revolution is brought to the activists, rather than the other way around, by an authoritarian government willing to resort to violence and willing to let the majority suffer from hunger and poverty in order to control its citizens. So it is the activists who must defend their communities, their neighbors, through a more humane and in some ways more conservative status quo of care and moderation.

Hannah Cirric just wants her nightmare to end. So when an uncle she believed dead arrives to warn her an obsessed psychotic immortal knows where she is, she flees with him. Racing to safety with the crazed killer hot on her heels, she barely escapes an ambush with death in her wake. Holed up in her uncle’s fortified compound, Hannah starts to suspect the woman stalking her isn’t the only one after her blood. And with more immortals hunting for her unparalleled power, her only weapon might be coursing through her veins.

At the edge of sanity lies an extraordinary truth. Discovering it may be the last thing she ever does.... Hannah thinks she’s losing her mind. After hitting and killing a man with her car, his body and blood vanish without a trace. Desperate to prove she isn’t insane, she searches exhaustively until she finds him - alive and unharmed. Taken under the wing of the handsome stranger, she’s stunned to learn he’s part of an ancient race of immortals. But so is his deranged sister, and she murders every person who learns his secret.

As a television reporter and double amputee, Odelle is used to having to prove herself. But fighting against the physical incarnation of evil for the fate of the world certainly raises the stakes. When a magical, ancient crown surfaces in Chicago, Odelle joins forces with the Eteria, a secret...

Historian Nora Zvezda is gunning for a promotion at the Chicago Field Museum. The discovery of two ancient Greek weapons unlike any she's seen before might be her big break—but the artifacts are more than they seem. Trying to uncover their secrets, Nora enlists the help of professor of ancient...

In the days leading up to Christmas, struggling actress Esther Diamond is working as a singing-and-dancing elf at Fenster & Co, a major Manhattan department store. As if dealing with hordes of holiday shoppers isn't bad enough, Esther's ex-almost-boyfriend, Detective Connor Lopez, is on the scene investigating a series of mob-related truck hijackings of Fenster's merchandise. Semi-retired hitman Lucky Battistuzzi is also nosing around, since the mob resents being implicated in thefts they didn't commit. 

Eleanor, a crowned Miss Indiana beauty queen, was on her way to college with dreams of one day becoming a star. That was until one-night poor decision derailed her plan and life. Years later, drugs and prostitution have her spiraling so out of control that she finds herself on the path to prison.

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Eleanor Matsuura, known for AMC's The Walking Dead and Spooks. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Paul Murray. In this collection of classic ghost stories from Japan, beautiful princesses turn out to be frogs...

Never look a dead man in the face, no matter how blue his eyes are…Shunned by the living. Hounded by the dead. Whoever said being different was good obviously couldn’t see ghosts. Enid Walsh moved to Atlanta with simple goals. Start fresh, lay low, and avoid the dead, but when a mystical dog arrives and blue-eyed Ollie discovers her secret, Enid is forced to solve his lover’s murder. The problem? She’s a waitress, not a detective.

A compulsive and chilling debut about a girl growing up in a cult WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT TO LEAVE? Green and Blue are sisters. Foxlowe is home. Outside is Bad. Green understands. Why can’t Blue? ‘Will lure you in – then cut to the kill’ Guardian ‘Wonderfully tense’ Emerald Street...