Resultados para "River" en Ciencia ficción y fantasía

Soojin kannte die Regeln: Bringe niemals etwas anderes als Kleintiere von den Toten zurück. Aber das war, bevor Mirae letzten Herbst im Fluss ertrank. Außer sich vor Trauer und Einsamkeit, nutzt Soojin die Magie ihrer Vorfahren, um ihre Schwester zurückzubekommen.

Before he can be reborn, Zan has spent 499 years bound in a 500-year curse to process souls for the monstrous Ferryman—and if he fails, he dies. In Portland, Bastian is grieving. He survived a car accident that took his mother and impulse-purchased a crumbling bookstore with the life insurance money. But in sleep, death’s mark keeps dragging Bastian into Zan’s office. It shouldn’t be a problem to log his soul and forget he ever existed. But when Zan follows Bastian through his memories of grief and hope, Zan realizes that he is not ready for Bastian to die.

Late at night our friend wanders a little and ponders quite a lot on a long walk along a river looking for a reason to keep on living. He meets up with a troll and a few other all-night ghouls as he drifts along, searching for purpose. They all find it amazing our friend can negotiate his way through the day posing as a teacher.

The River Chaos - that was not always its name - is the lifeblood of Maloto: ancient, mystical, a gateway to the heart of the island and to the past... The air felt quiet and still, as the river babbled gently over the rocks. A young warrior approached from the darkness of the Forest of Shadows and tentatively moved closer to the water’s edge. He knelt, placed his sword on the rocks by his feet, and cupped his hand into the river, scooping up a handful of cold water and drawing it to his mouth.

Un anciano con un solo ojo, con un manto gris y sombrero de ala ancha, apoyándose de un bastón. Un vagabundo que aparece cuando menos se le espera, trayendo triunfo o perdición. El dios de la profecía, la poesía y el destino. Un cambiaformas. Un hechicero. El dios Odín es una figura dramática en la mitología nórdica y es aún parte del imaginario popular. Ha sido la inspiración para figuras como Gandalf el Gris, de J.R.R. Tolkien, y todavía figura en literatura moderna tan variada como los cómics de Marvel o la novela de Neil Gaiman American Gods (2001).

The Bettarinis and Forellis have found rich fulfillment, together in medieval Italia. But after fighting off countless enemies, they now must face the worst foe of all. As the Black Death closes in upon them, threatening everything and everyone they hold dear, Lia and Gabi–and the knights they love–must dig deep within to decide how they might remain safe…and if they need to risk it all in order to truly live as they’re called.

The grid has been down for seven months now, and law and order has completely given way to anarchy and violence. Seventeen-year-old Mitch Henley has returned to his family's backwoods homestead to avoid the dangers of the cities and towns and look after his little sister while they wait hopefully for their parents' return.

What do you do when your knight in shining armor lives, literally, in a different world? Most American teenagers want a vacation in Italy, but the Betarrini sisters have spent every summer of their lives among the romantic hills with their archaeologist parents. Stuck among the rubble of medieval castles in rural Tuscany on yet another hot, dusty archaeological site, Gabi and Lia are bored out of their minds … until Gabi places her hand atop a handprint in an ancient tomb and finds herself in 14th-century Italy.

Bloomsbury presents River Secrets by Shannon Hale, read by Chris Gaines In this third book in New York Times bestselling, Newbery Honor-winning author Shannon Hale's beloved YA fantasy series Books of Bayern, Razo must become the unlikely hero his country needs. Razo has never considered himself...

It's been a long, rough road for the trio of teenage wolves, the quick-witted Nanny, and the rest of the wolves joining the fight to bring down the Alpha of the Blue River Pack. More challenges lie ahead for Lena and her ragtag pack of misfits. Love, loss, fear, and the burning need for revenge will spur 17-year-old Lena Bluethorne into the fight of her life, and this time she must stand alone. The time has come to fight for what is hers, and for the ones she loves. Will Zane maintain his stranglehold on the wolves of Blue River, or is there a new dawn coming for the pack?

Lush and chilling, with razor-sharp edges and an iron core of hope, this bewitching, powerhouse novel of two girls fighting back against the violence the world visits on them will stun and enchant readers. Girls have been going missing in the woods… When Natasha’s sister disappears, Natasha...

Twilight meets Shatter Me in a mystical new YA paranormal romance series – vampires are BACK.​ All seventeen-year-old Dusty wants is to escape into books and the wilderness that surrounds her mountain home. What she doesn’t know is that there’s something waiting for her in the shadows of...

Seit ihrem ersten Tag in Hogwarts pflegen Draco Malfoy, Spross einer berüchtigten Zaubererdynastie, und Harry Potter eine erbitterte Rivalität. Draco scheint der Inbegriff eines intriganten Fieslings zu sein, dazu bestimmt, sich wie sein Vater Voldemorts Todessern anzuschließen. Doch im Lauf der Zeit spürt man trotz der frostig-arroganten Fassade immer deutlicher, dass der junge Slytherin zerrissen ist zwischen dem dunklen Erbe der Malfoys und seinen eigenen Wünschen und Vorstellungen.

Sixteen-year-old Jaffrey Pewitt holds a life-threatening secret. A genetic outcast, the brilliant teen’s academy scores have earned him a position patrolling the mainframe and eliminating rogue program code - a job prohibited to those with his DNA. And when he encounters an illegal AI, she threatens to expose his true identity if he doesn’t help her community survive.

Fourteen-year-old Joe Miller thought Bannerman's Island was just an urban legend—a creepy abandoned castle to scare tourists. But when he and his cousin sneak onto the forbidden island on Halloween night, they discover the legends are real. Three spirits have guarded this place for centuries, holding back something dark that's trying to cross over. As paranormal activity escalates, Joe realizes he's witnessed a threat to everyone along the Hudson River. The question isn't whether the darkness will break through. It's when.