Resultados para "Julien" en Histórica

February 1816: A race through the icy, twisting cobblestone streets of London ends inside an abandoned church - and a horrific discovery. Bow Street Runner Sam Kelly is called to investigate the grisly murder of Sir Giles Holbrooke, who was left naked and garroted, with his tongue cut out. Yet it becomes even stranger when symbols that resemble crosses mysteriously begin to appear across the dead man's flesh during autopsy. Sam turns to the one person in the kingdom who he believes can solve the bizarre murder - the Duke of Aldridge's odd but brilliant ward, Kendra Donovan.

Beautiful and brilliant, Kendra Donovan is a rising star at the FBI. Yet her path to professional success hits a speed bump during a disastrous raid where half her team is murdered, a mole in the FBI is uncovered and she herself is severely wounded. As soon as she recovers, she goes rogue and travels to England to assassinate the man responsible for the deaths of her teammates.

There is only one place Kendra Donovan wants to travel - back to her own time period in the 21st century. But since that's not happening, she agrees instead to travel with her new guardian, the Duke of Aldridge, to one of his smaller estates in Lancashire. Their journey takes them through Yorkshire, a region whose breathtaking beauty masks a simmering violence brought on by the Industrial Revolution, which pits mill owner against worker.

His practice newly established, metaphysician Ned Mathey can't afford to turn away any clients. But the latest Londoner to seek Ned's magical aid gives him pause: Mr. Edgar Nevett, an arrogant banker, is the father of the bully who made Ned's life hell at boarding school. Nevertheless, Ned accepts the commission to ensure the Nevett family silver bears no ancient or modern curses, and then prepares to banish the Nevett family to unpleasant memory again.

The Dark Ages - a time of great turmoil and the collision of empires! As the Frank kingdom prepares for war, Roland, young heir to the Breton March, has been relegated to guard duty until a foreign emissary entrusts him with vital word of a new threat to the kingdom...Now Roland must embark on a risky journey to save all he loves from swift destruction...For Roland to become the champion his kingdom needs, he must survive war, intrigue and betrayal.

Three years after taking up residence at the University of Din Edin, Sophie and Gray return to London, escorting Lucia MacNeill, heiress of Alba, to meet the British prince to whom she is betrothed. Alas, sparks fail to fly between the pragmatic Lucia and the romantic Prince Roland, and the marriage alliance seems to be on shaky ground. Sophie tries to spark a connection between Roland and Lucia by enlisting them both in her latest scheme: reopening the mysterious and long-shuttered women's college at Oxford.

Set in a world of its own, Ernst Jünger's On the Marble Cliffs is both a mesmerizing work of fantasy and an allegory of the advent of fascism. The narrator of the book and his brother, Otho, live in an ancient house carved out of the great marble cliffs that overlook the Marina, a great and beautiful lake that is surrounded by a peaceable land of ancient cities and temples and flourishing vineyards.

In her second year of studies at Merlin College, Oxford, Sophie Marshall is feeling alienated among fellow students who fail to welcome a woman to their ranks. So when her husband, Gray, is invited north as a visiting lecturer at the University in Din Edin, they leap at the chance. There, Sophie's hunger for magical knowledge can finally be nourished. But soon Sophie must put her newly learned skills to the test.

In the hallowed halls of Oxford’s Merlin College, the most talented - and highest born - sons of the Kingdom of Britain are taught the intricacies of magickal theory. But what dazzles can also destroy, as Gray Marshall is about to discover.… Gray’s deep talent for magick has won him a place at Merlin College. But when he accompanies four fellow students on a mysterious midnight errand that ends in disaster and death, he is sent away in disgrace - and without a trace of his power.

Cairo, 1912: The case started as a simple one for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments, and Supernatural Entities - handling a possessed tram car. Soon, however, Agent Hamed Nasr and his new partner, Agent Onsi Youssef, are exposed to a new side of Cairo stirring with suffragettes, secret societies, and sentient automatons in a race against time to protect the city from an encroaching danger that crosses the line between the magical and the mundane.

A boy with a terminal illness believes that a legendary vampire in his hometown holds the cure.

Diese Traumreise bringt dich in die Weiten der ägyptischen Wüste: zu uralten Pyramiden, vergessenen Artefakten und den Ufern des Nil, wo eine der ersten Hochkulturen der Menschheit entstand. Eine Reise in eine vergangene Welt, mit leiser Musik und meditativer Stimme.

Eine entspannte Traumreise in die Zeit der Wikinger. Mit leiser Musik und sanfter Stimme geht es durch nordische Landschaften, vorbei an alten Schiffen und flackernden Feuern. Eine Reise zum Abschalten und zum Einschlafen. Zurück in eine ferne, stille Welt.

Eine Liebe, mächtiger als das Schicksal... das atemberaubende Finale der "Kingdom of the Wicked"-Trilogie! Noch immer ist die junge Hexe Emilia in der Hölle und muss sich nun den Geistern ihrer Vergangenheit stellen: Sie hat herausgefunden, dass ihre eigene Schwester offenbar ganz und gar nicht die Person ist, für die sie sie gehalten hat. Inmitten von Hexen, Dämonen und Gestaltwandlern muss Emilia schnell mit der neuen Situation zurechtkommen, bevor sie in den Intrigen der Sieben Kreise untergeht.

Three men are trapped in time. One woman could save them all. Historian Lia Carrer has finally returned to southern France, determined to rebuild her life after the death of her husband. But instead of finding solace in the region's quiet hills and medieval ruins, she falls in love with Raoul, a man whose very existence challenges everything she knows about life - and about her husband's death.

Höllische Spannung und knisternde Romantik: der rasante zweite Band der "Kingdom of the Wicked"-Reihe. Nachdem sie ihre Seele in einem Pakt verkauft hat, reist Emilia mit dem mysteriösen Fürsten Wrath an den Hof der Wicked, wo sie eine verführerische, düstere Welt der Sünden erwartet. Die oberste Regel am Hof der Höllenfürsten lautet: Vertraue niemandem.

Düster-romantische historische Fantasy in Sizilien – der Auftakt der gefeierten Kingdom of the Wicked-Reihe jetzt auf Deutsch! Als die junge Hexe Emilia ihre Zwillingsschwester Vittoria ermordet vorfindet, bricht für sie eine Welt zusammen. Zutiefst schockiert will sie Rache üben – koste es, was es wolle. Selbst wenn sie dafür verbotene, dunkle Magie einsetzen muss, die sie in die Gefahr bringt, von Hexenjägern enttarnt zu werden.

Almost anyone who has read or written science fiction or fantasy has been inspired by the work of Michael Moorcock. His literary flair and grand sense of adventure have been evident since his controversial first novel Behold the Man, from the stories and novels featuring his most famous character, Elric of Melniboné, to his fantasy masterpiece, Gloriana, winner of both the Campbell Memorial and World Fantasy awards for best novel.

Magisch, romantisch, geheimnisvoll: Spiegelstadt 2. Gefangen in Purpur und Schatten ist die Fortsetzung von Spiegelstadt. Tränen aus Gold und Silber und der Abschluss der queeren Urban-Fantasy-Dilogie von Andreas Suchanek und Christian Handel. Nach seiner Flucht aus der Spiegelstadt findet sich Max in einer dritten Version von Berlin wieder: Statt Prunk und Glamour der 20er-Jahre herrschen hier Verfall und Zerstörung. Um in dieser Gefängniswelt zu überleben, muss Max mit einem neuen Feind zusammenarbeiten.

Babylon Berlin goes Fantasy: Ein magisches Berlin in den 20er-Jahren, ein zerstörerisches Familiengeheimnis und eine Liebe, die alles verändert, sind die Zutaten für das Urban-Fantasy-Hörbuch Spiegelstadt. Tränen aus Gold und Silber von Christian Handel und Andreas Suchanek. In den Schatten unserer Welt existiert eine andere Wirklichkeit: die Spiegelstadt, ein magisches Berlin, erstarrt in den glamourösen 1920er-Jahren und bewohnt von vielgestaltigen Feen-Wesen. Reisen zwischen den Welten sind streng verboten und nur mithilfe magischer goldener Tränen möglich.