Resultados para "Families" en Ciencia ficción y fantasía

En una casa destartalada de la nueva capital del reino, Madrid, Luzia Cotado usa magia para sobrellevar sus interminables días trabajando como sirvienta en la cocina. Pero cuando su señora descubre la habilidad secreta de Luzia para conseguir pequeños milagros, le exige que use ese don para mejorar la posición social de la familia. Lo que comienza siendo un simple entretenimiento para la aburrida nobleza se vuelve peligroso cuando Luzia atrae la atención de Antonio Pérez, el secretario del rey de España.

Louise Matthews has got it good. Wonderful job? Check. Loving family? The best. Roommates? Pretty fantastic, thank you. All of this helps her stay focused on what she wants: to finish out her apprenticeship and become a fully licensed Switch-an animal mage who bonds familiars to their witches. Only a problem has just moved in-a hot, occasionally wolf-shaped problem. Declan Mackenzie doesn't want to be a lone wolf, but he doesn't have a choice. Girlfriend? Gone. Sister? Starting a new life. Parents? In prison where they belong, thankfully.

Le destin peut être changé. Les malédictions peuvent être brisées. Au XVIe siècle, à Madrid, Luzia Cotado utilise sa magie pour venir à bout de ses corvées de fille de cuisine. Quand la maîtresse de maison découvre ses pouvoirs, elle y voit un moyen de redorer son image à la cour...

Dall’autore della fortunata saga Blackwater, un altro romanzo impossibile da interrompere. Alla fine del XIX secolo, nel cuore del famigerato Triangolo Nero, una ricca famiglia cerca di affermarsi pretendendo di liberare la città dalla corruzione. Gli Stallworth, guidati con pugno di ferro dal loro patriarca, l’influente e implacabile giudice James Stallworth, coadiuvato dal figlio Edward, predicatore dai sermoni incendiari, e dal genero Duncan Phair, giovane avvocato dalla carriera promettente, hanno un piano impeccabile: estirpare il male annientando una famiglia di corrotti e criminali: gli Shanks.

Romanen foregår i 1800-tallets Sverige ved Småland, hvor den fattige dreng Gustav vokser op. Som ung kommer Gustav i militæret og får soldaternavnet Rask. Ida og Gustav gifter sig, og sammen kæmper de for at få det bedste ud af dagliglivet og det lille stykke jord, de råder over. Det er både en gribende fortælling om mennesker, der kæmper for at få en bedre tilværelse, og et portræt af, hvordan livet faktisk var for mange i Sverige i 1800-tallet.

A trip to the library prompts one woman to question her fate in this galvanizing short story. For a woman like Hadley, deemed not acceptable to procreate, there’s only one recourse. Unlicensed for motherhood, she can alleviate her grief and frustration at a “baby library,” where a curiously endless supply of infants is available for a two-week loan. But the borrowed life that serves as a temporary balm leads to a journey of self-discovery that will forever change the direction of Hadley’s future.

Still reeling from the loss of Shane and with their twins due any day, Gwen is willing to ally with any force needed to put her family enemies in the ground, before they can touch her children. The strength of her vampire keepers is no use when Fannie and Lewis remain in the between, waiting to strike, and Dmitry seems resistant to helping as he is distracted with royal affairs that have him rattled.

A disgruntled bear fiance. A wanted familiar. A hairless cat named Lonnie. For Hazel Kinsey, it's just another day in Paradise Falls. When Hazel's familiar Tizzy the Squirrel fell in love with another familiar, they had no idea her furry pal would gain witch magic. Apparently, that's a big no-no for the High Familiar Clowder, the council who rules all familiars. When the Clowder shows up in Paradise Falls to decommission Tizzy and send her to the in-between, Haze defies the stick-in-the-butt jerkfaces by refusing to trade in Tiz for a new familiar.

Wenn du rasante Urban-Fantasy-Abenteuer mit einer taffen Heldin und viel Action, Spannung und Humor magst, wirst du Familien-Geheimnisse lieben.

Welcome to Twilight Hollow, WA, a small forest town with three resident witches. Adelaide O’Shea runs the Toasty Bean, imbuing her coffee and tea with warm, cozy magic. When a black cat crosses her path, she worries her new pet might be unlucky, and her suspicions are confirmed when the next thing in her path is a dead man with her phone number in his pocket.

Cunning man Hiram Woolley and his son Michael carry an itinerant preacher across the border into Mexico. Hiram is haunted by the specter of a bloody-faced man that stalks him in his dreams, but also by doubts about what lies ahead in the Mormon colonies around Nuevo Casas Grandes—this is the country Hiram's father fled to when he abandoned young Hiram and his mother.

It's hard being the youngest in a family of witches known for their power. It's even harder when that magical power has all but passed you by. Still, I was doing okay for myself. I like to think I was proving to the rest of my family that magic wasn't a requirement to living. Then Aunt Opal became the prime suspect in a murder investigation. Wouldn't you know it would happen right when everyone else in the family but me was out of town. Now it's up to me to prove her innocence, and a little magic could go a long way in helping me do that.

Arc kept his end of our bargain and helped me with my family's problem. Now it was time to return the favor. He's been on the run ever since waking up next to his dead on again/off again girlfriend. He swears he didn't kill her. I believe him. He also says she wasn't in his bed when he went to sleep. That's a harder pill to swallow. Arc is a very powerful witch in his own right. And from what I've seen, when he sets a ward, it sticks. So how did the killer not only get through his wards, but plant poor Sonya's body right next to him without him knowing it?

When Aunt Lavender claims she’s found the location of the lost city of Atlantis, I agree to join her quest—a decision I quickly come to regret when we end up magically shipwrecked on a mysterious island. Even worse, it’s inhabited by a secret sisterhood of witches who make us feel about as welcome as a swarm of mosquitoes at a garden party. It turns out the lack of hospitality is the least of our problems when one member is poisoned.

Becoming an uber-powerful witch overnight isn't nearly as much fun as it sounds. Controlling unfamiliar magic is hard. Really, really hard. Adding to the level of difficulty is the fact that dead bodies keep showing up. Okay, so there's only been two so far, but in a small town like Wind's Crossing, that's a lot. Our town doesn't have all that many living people either. At least this time it isn't my family the police have in their crosshairs. Unfortunately, that isn't the good news you'd think it is. This time the prime suspects are my good friends Mabel Morgan and Tommy Hill.

Gretes far er dansk skibskaptajn og hendes mor er fra Kina. Hun vokser op i Danmark, men da faren dør, flytter hun til Kina for at bo hos sin mors familie. Selvom morens kinesiske familie er fornem og velhavende, bliver livet som europæisk halvkastebarn i det traditionelle Shanghai en daglig kamp for den lille pige. Igennem Grete, der må skifte navn til Mei-yu, viser Karl Eskelund os livet i mellemkrigstidens Kinas finere kredse - et miljø han selv kendte til fra sin ungdom og sit ægteskab med en kinesisk kvinde.

Andrew has one chance to pull himself up from his humble beginnings and make something of himself. He has been found to have a spark of magic deep within himself. To bring it forth, he must first learn to summon the familiar. He must use every drop of his magic to search the Lands of Mist and find the one meant for him. The one he will be bonded to for life. The one who is actually capable and willing to make all his dreams possible. Andrew may be small now, but he has big dreams.

Numa casa simples, numa rua mais simples ainda, na nova capital Madrid, Luzia Cotado recorre a pequenos truques de magia para enfrentar os seus intermináveis ​​dias de trabalho como auxiliar de cozinha. Mas quando seu ambicioso patrono descobre que a humilde empregada escondida na cozinha tem medo de fazer pequenos milagres, ela exige que Luzia use seus talentos para promover a posição social da família.

Many families lived close to the pond: the roses, the sparrows and even men. During a family discussion, the little sparrows asked their parents, what is Beauty? A question whose answer would arrive in the most unexpected way. - Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) was a Danish author, poet and artist. Celebrated for children’s literature, his most cherished fairy tales include "The Emperor's New Clothes", "The Little Mermaid", "The Nightingale", "The Steadfast Tin Soldier", "The Snow Queen", "The Ugly Duckling" and "The Little Match Girl".

Vienna, 2035. AI agents now do what people once did. The question is no longer whether machines can think, but whether it makes any difference. Then a quantum biologist delivers the proof: inside the cells of our bodies lies something no technology can replicate. Consciousness is not an...