Resultados para "Second" en Cuentos de hadas

Gwendolyn Mary Darling Carlisle's young life has been a saga of misfortune. After a tragic accident unexpectedly took her parents, Gwen found herself the sole caregiver for her ailing sister. It's her eighteenth birthday, but with responsibilities weighing heavy, she struggles to find something worth celebrating. Everything in her life has fallen apart. That is until she finds a mysterious man in her bedroom. Peter Pan has returned to the Darling estate. The boy from Neverland, who refused to grow up, has, in fact, grown into an alluring man.

An insidious curse is weakening the Norse kingdom of Saylok, where no daughters have been born in years. Washing up on these plagued shores is Ghisla, an orphaned stowaway nursed back to health by Hod, a blind cave dweller. Named for a mysterious god, Hod is surrounded by prophecy. To Ghisla, he’s a cherished new friend, but to Hod, the girl is much more. For when Ghisla sings, Hod can see.

Mowgli, l'enfant-loup a été rejeté par le clan des Hommes, il retrouve le peuple de la jungle. Sa victoire sur le tigre Shere Khan, l'implacable ennemi de ses frères l'a fait reconnaître comme le chef incontesté du clan. Pourtant Mowgli a le cœur lourd, parmi ses amis les bêtes, la panthère Bagheera, le serpent Kaa, l'ours Baloo, il se sent devenir un homme.

Imagine going to bed with mousy brown locks and waking up with a headful of supernova scarlet. It's a hot new look for me - literally, because it bursts into flames whenever I'm threatened. My magical makeover is all Gary's fault. I knew there was something off from the moment he transferred to my school. Go figure. He's a wizard with a trust fund and an inferiority complex. Now, thanks to him, I've graduated from high school bullies to supernatural terrors and that's not all. Fate has chosen me to face the legendary vampire destined to destroy the world.

Oona, a slave beaten and tortured, is saved from certain death by a pirate queen. Nurtured and nursed back to health by Red Meera, Oona becomes the Second Queen of the Westermen, the largest fighting force in the known world. When Meera falls near death from poison, Oona becomes First Queen. Will she use her newfound power to avenge herself on her former master? Indeed, she will - him and those who originally took her. The wrath of the Westermen is about to fall on the slave masters. There will be no mercy.

It's all fun and games to them - especially when someone gets hurt. One god of mischief and mayhem. One god of fur and fang. And the god of death himself. They've all been out to get me since the school year began, but this semester, the Rabbit's got some tricks up her sleeve. It's time to take these three vicious gods down a peg, or 10, and there's no better route to revenge than directly through the heart.

J.R.R. Tolkien’s writings on the Second Age of Middle-earth, collected for the first time in one volume. J.R.R. Tolkien famously described the Second Age of Middle-earth as a ‘dark age, and not very much of its history is (or need be) told’. And for many years readers would need to be...

Jada, Jake, and their two children, Cody and Emma, were living in the mountains of the Appalachians. The things that were happening around their farmhouse were getting out of control and Jada was scared to be left alone at the house with the two children when Jake had to go to work in the city. If you haven't read the first book Sharing the Mountain with Bigfoot: The First Year, please do so for this book is a continuation of that book.

Even grownups should have a little fun every now and then. It's time for us to reclaim our childhood in the land of Make Believe. And who better to take us there than Matta A. Rhymes? More commonly known as Mother Goose, Matta is a country girl full of a whole lot of sass! In short-story fashion, she recalls her life adventures with humor, excitement, and the countless missteps that shape who she becomes. The fact that a troublemaking goose follows her around and causes problems whenever the chance arises makes these stories that much more entertaining.

In an isolated mountain community, sometimes a child is born with two hearts. This child is called a striga and is considered a demon who must be abandoned on the edge of the forest. The child s mother must then decide to leave with her infant, or stay and try to forget. Nineteen year-old striga, Salka, and her mother, Miriat, made the choice to leave and live a life of deprivation and squalor in an isolated village. The striga tribe share the human belief that to follow the impulses of their other hearts is dangerous, inviting unspoken horrors and bringing ruin onto them all.

Want to know something cool? Neverland is real. It's beautiful, and magical, and filled with so much more than the novels described. I was stupid. The whole time I was there, I wanted to find my way home. Now that I've been brought back, I have to return.

Go on adventures, sometimes people die. It's a fact of life in Neverland. But when the magic of the island itself rebels and renders Peter missing in action, the Lost Boys find themselves scrambling for survival and turning to the eldest boy, Jim, for the next step.

On her deathbed, Beast's governess makes him promise to save her spoiled daughter, Beauty, from herself. Beast is convinced that he can reform the cantankerous Beauty, and fall in love with him, saving him from his own curse of being a beast. This does not bode well for Beast's best friend and a servant in his castle, Camille, who has been in love with him for her entire life. Between Beauty's explosive temper tantrums and Camille's sharp tongue, the two are put on a collision course for disaster.

I’m back in Eastport Bay for the first time in five years—and not thrilled to be here. There’s a reason I’ve stayed away so long. The place lost its magic for me long ago—the night the only girl I’ve ever loved proved beyond a shadow of a doubt she didn’t feel the same. But this trip is nonnegotiable. I’m planning to fly in, attend the ridiculous ball, then get back to Europe as quickly as possible. That is until I arrive at the family estate early and catch the cleaning crew still at work. And get a look at the woman beneath that coating of dust, ash, and spiderwebs.