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.

Band 6 Schlachtfelder Saddle Ranch ist alles, was Lance, seine Familie und ihr größerer Freundeskreis sich erhofft haben. Wunderschön, fruchtbar und abgelegen, sollte es ihnen die Sicherheit und den Schutz bieten, für den sie so viel geopfert haben. Aber Lance und Joy wissen, dass sie sich noch nicht ausruhen können. Der verrückte Baker und seine Bande von Mördern, die im Namen eines Gottes handeln, den Lance nicht einmal ansatzweise erkennen könnte, werden bald eintreffen, und ihre Absichten sind klar.

Contains volumes one and two of Reincarnated as a Familiar. A young teacher finds herself reborn with only fuzzy, damaged memories of her past life. Even worse, she's stuck in the body of a cat and can't remember her own name. Summoned by a young mage girl named Lesti, she takes up the name Astria and becomes the girl's familiar.

It's finally time for the Alandrian Central Magic Academy's famous Spring Tournament. For Lesti, it's her best opportunity to prove her strength before turning fifteen and becoming an adult. She'll have to do it alone, though. The academy has forbidden Astria from participating. Still, the tournament isn't all about fighting. People from across the alliance gather to watch the spectacle. Amongst the masses and gathered lords, threats new and old plot their moves. As Astria works to neutralize these threats, she finds herself with a choice that could change the course of her new world.

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.

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.

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.

Mais les tours qu'elle exécute au plus grand plaisir des nobles deviennent un jeu dangereux pour Luzia lorsqu'elle attire l'attention d'Antonio Pérez, premier secrétaire du Roi. Ce dernier est prêt à tout pour offrir un avantage stratégique au souverain, encore sous le choc de sa défaite contre la reine Elizabeth d'Angleterre.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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".

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?

Die postapokalyptische Welt war noch nie gefährlicher. Während Lance, Joy und ihre zerzauste Gruppe von Überlebenden müde durch eine verwüstete amerikanische Nation ziehen und gegen Banden von Kriminellen kämpfen, die ihnen alles nehmen würden, was sie besitzen, entdecken sie, dass die größte Bedrohung noch vor ihnen liegt.

Band 4 Harte Wege Nachdem sie der Raton-Pass-Miliz bei ihrer Verteidigung geholfen haben, wissen Lance und Joy, dass es Zeit ist, zu ihrem Ziel auf der Saddle Ranch weiterzuziehen. Die Verzögerung hat sie viel gekostet, aber er weiß, dass es etwas war, das sie tun mussten. In einer Welt, in der jeglicher Gemeinschaftssinn und jeder Gedanke an andere rasch verschwindet, hat diese eine Tat ausgereicht, um Lances Glauben daran wiederherzustellen, dass er sein Einfühlungsvermögen für seine Mitmenschen nicht verloren hat.

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