Resultados para "Monster" en Novela histórica

Was ich bin? Ein bluttrinkendes Monster. Was ich mache? Ich jage jene, die noch monströser sind als ich. Mein Name ist Leonard von Montesaro. Die meisten meiner Art nennen mich allerdings den Templer. Und ja, einst habe ich tatsächlich dem Orden der kämpfenden Mönche angehört. Doch die Alte Welt habe ich schon vor langer Zeit verlassen. Meine Heimat ist New York. Hier bin ich der Älteste der Unsterblichen. Ich sorge dafür, dass unsere Gesetze eingehalten werden, dass niemand über die Stränge schlägt.

Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award An AudioFile Editors’ Pick for Summer Listening A Cullman Times Pick of Beach Reads A Shreveport Times Pick of Beach Reads with a Thrill One of Goodreads Biggest Books of Summer 2023 An International Pulpwood Queens Choice of Bonus Book-Club Reads A...

Lieutenant Jonathon Hunt (Sea Skimmer) has been appointed to a Commando Helicopter Squadron operating in Northern Norway. It is the height of the Cold War and the Soviets have discovered a secret NATO submarine listening station hidden in the Arctic Ice. They would like to do something about it but cannot come up with a method of attack until they decide on the use of an Ekranoplan. This massive machine known to NATO as the ‘Caspian Monster’ can get them in and out fast enough to give them the deniability they need.

In the dying days of 1850, the young detective Charles Maddox takes on a new case. His client? The only surviving son of the long-dead poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and his wife Mary, author of Frankenstein. Charles soon finds himself being drawn into the bitter battle being waged over the poet's literary legacy. When a chance discovery raises doubts about the death of Shelley's first wife, Harriet, he starts to question whether she did kill herself—or whether what really happened was far more sinister…

Tauche ein in das skurrile London der Jahrhundertwende! In Van Dusen und das grünäugige Monster trifft Professor Augustus S.F.X. Van Dusen – alias Die Denkmaschine – auf einen Fall, bei dem klassische Logik an ihre Grenzen stößt. Ein rätselhafter Anrufer, eine unheimlich leuchtende grüne Augenfarbe und ein Fall, der selbst den brillanten Kopf des Professors ins Schwitzen bringt. Alexander Wohnhaas hört diese turbulente Detektivgeschichte von Jacques Futrelle mit spürbarem Vergnügen, Witz und feinem Gespür für Atmosphäre.

London, 1811. The twisting streets of Wapping hold many an untold sin. Bounded by the Ratcliffe Highway to the north and the Dock to the south, shameful secrets are largely hidden by the noise of Trade. But two families have fallen victim to foul murder, and a terrified populace calls for...

Chloe Mendoza and her team from Monster Hunter International must seek out and destroy an ancient evil threatening Los Angeles at the height of Disco Fever.

Nothing tastes sweeter than revenge… Ravenna never asked for her gifts, and certainly not for her parents to sacrifice themselves protecting her. As a half-fae with foresight, she has more power than most realize, even her well-meaning but doomed parents. She isn't some damsel in...

When Her Majesty demands she attend The Monsters Ball, a three-day affair at a remote gothic estate, her family threatens to shun her if she attends. She plans to seduce the noblest members of this monstrous society to get information on the fearsome Wolven King.

Antônia is back in London after the passing of her father. Living overseas most her life, without the burden of family affairs, she is accustomed to a life that allows her to do as she pleases without answer to anyone. The missive changes everything, however. She will do as she must, but if her husband thinks he will rule her, he will be sadly mistaken. Hiding behind the guise of a beastly baron, Louis Lockheart, the unseelie king, has little patience for the unsavory human world. He tolerates it for only one purpose: to find the one he was betrothed to long ago. 

I'm just a girl, standing in front of a wolf, asking him to love her… If only life were that simple, but being a famous actress means nothing in my life is simple. When I bump into the guy of my dreams, I know it's doomed from the start. Will is everything I have a weakness for: smart, funny...

The Other Monster by Hiro Zarf is a sweeping historical adventure novel narrated by Tom Franklin - born Tom Frankenstein - the lesser-known second creation of Victor Frankenstein. Unlike his infamous brother, Tom is a refined success: intelligent, charming, and nearly human in appearance, save for the patchwork scars hidden beneath his clothing.

Aislinn Darrow was never meant to be her father's heir, but that was before her selfish brother condemned himself. Now, she must give up her old life to take his place. She should be presiding in her father's council chamber and serving the people of the Darrowlands—yet time and again, she finds herself straying to the castle smithy to visit the handsome new blacksmith manning the forge.

Mai un home ha estat reclòs en una presó més segura, més llunyana i més inexpugnable que Napoleó Bonaparte després de ser derrotat a Waterloo. Tothom sap què li va passar: que el món, fart de les seves ambicions infinites i les destrosses inacabables, va decidir tractar-lo com el que era… Un geni del mal. I la llàntia on el van tancar es deia Santa Helena: un illot de roca a milers de quilòmetres de la costa més propera, infestat de rates i vigilat per l'armada britànica.

My family made my life a misery, but there’s nothing I can do to escape them. I have nowhere else to go. The monster I encounter in the forest overwhelms my senses, calling to the omega in me. I can’t believe I let him touch me, but I’m so starved for affection I can’t help myself. And then I do the only thing that makes sense…I run. But the monster hunts me down. He says he gave me a choice, but he’s not letting me go. He’s going to claim me as his mate.

Ein Liebesroman, für alle, die gerne in die Zeit der Regency, mit einem Funken Magie eintauchen! Ein Monster, dass nur sie erlösen kann 1855: Nach einem Unfall findet sich Willow auf Bleak Castle wieder, wo sie eine Stelle als Gärtnerin antritt. Der idyllische Ort am Meer mit den herzlichen Bewohnern bietet der jungen Frau einen Neuanfang, von dem sie nicht zu träumen gewagt hat. Doch sie trägt ein Geheimnis mit sich, dass sie unter allen Umständen zu verbergen versucht. Auch vor ihrem Retter, Lord William Thornton, dem Herzog des Anwesens. William hat mit seinen eigenen Dämonen zu kämpfen.

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the book that changed the world. Published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and a movie starring Elle Fanning as Mary Shelley, Monster is a brilliant fictionalized biography akin to The Other Boleyn Girl. Two centuries ago this year, the young woman who invented science fiction was only 20 when she wrote the book that became Frankenstein. Mary Shelley said, “People ask how I, then a young girl, could think of, and dilate upon, so hideous subject?”

“ The best kind of vampire story—one in which the real evil is us.” —Peng Shepherd “Deliciously monstrous and demanding of our attention, Anna Kovatcheva crafts a feminist vampire story like no other.” —Ms, Magazine A heady, dark-hued Gothic gem of a debut novel: in...

#1 Sunday Times Bestselling Author Death isn't finished with them yet. Sarai believed the worst was behind her. However, months after exposing the government’s corruption in what has now been deemed “the Great Unravelling,” she faces scorn from citizens who preferred her and Kadra as the...

Die Verschwörung um Groß-Berlin zieht immer weitere Kreise. Walter Piefke kann wirklich niemandem trauen. Sind auch seine ehemaligen Kollegen von der Polizei involviert? Plötzlich treten die Geister der Vergangenheit wieder in sein Leben, denn zum einen geht es um die Spezialeinheit Argus und... seinen Bruder Hermann Piefke!? Zu allem Überfluss bekommt Walter es mit einem Serienmörder zu tun. Ist das Monster von Moabit wieder da?