Ergebnis für "Becky" in Fantasy

Vor Jahrhunderten entwickelten die Roboter auf dem kleinen Mond Panga ein Bewusstsein ihrer selbst – worauf sie umstandslos in der Wildnis verschwanden und zu einem Mythos wurden, zu einer urbanen Legende. Den Menschen hingegen ist es seither gelungen, die Klimakrise zu überwinden und zu einem gedeihlichen Dasein im Einklang mit ihrer Umwelt zu finden. Dex zieht als Teemönch mit Fahrrad nebst Wohnanhänger durch die Lande und lädt in den Siedlungen zu besinnlichen, therapeutischen Gesprächen ein.

A little girl has gone missing and paranormal P.I. Tempest Michaels already knows the police are not going to find her.They can’t. It’s beyond their ability to comprehend the nature of the creature that took her.Only he knows how to save poor little Becky’s life. Only he has the skills …...

'The best speculative fiction currently being written' John Connolly *THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND HUGO AWARD WINNER FOR BEST SERIES* From the ground, we stand. From our ship, we live. By the stars, we hope. The incredible new novel by Becky Chambers, author of the beloved The Long Way to a...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 HUGO AWARD AND THE ARTHUR C CLARKE AWARD 'Chambers is simply an exceptional talent' Tor.com **Winner of the 2017 Prix Julia-Verlanger** The stand-alone sequel to the award-winning The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet Lovelace was once merely a ship's artificial...

A young healer running from her life joins an expedition to a mysterious island and finds herself sharing a tent with the last person she expected—her unrequited crush, who's already rejected her once—in this cozy sapphic fantasy novel set in the world of Wildflower. Exhausted by the demands...

A magical florist journeys from the kingdom’s capital to its wild woods to fulfill an unusual request, and stumbles upon friendship, conspiracy, and the buds of new love in this debut cozy fantasy. “Wildflower is a lovely respite from reality, featuring a charming cast of characters, snappy...

Emery is born with a heart condition that means her heart could quite literally stop at any moment. The people around her know what to do - if they act quickly enough there will be no lasting damage, and Emery's heart can be restarted. But when this happens, she is briefly technically dead. Each...

Exhausted by the demands of her healing gift and eager for adventure, Peregrine Alcott bargains her way on an expedition to the mythical Island she's been obsessed with since childhood, where hidden relics and long-forgotten history await. On the journey, Perrin finds friendship in a...

Twelve years after the events of The Boys, Hughie finds himself back home in Scotland where he intends to finally marry Annie in the company of friends and family. But the sudden appearance of a peculiar document sends our hero into a tailspin and threatens to bring the events of his nightmarish past crashing down on him in the worst possible way. There was one story about The Boys that Hughie never knew. Now, whether he likes it or not, he's going to.

From distant planets to enchanted worlds of magic, embark on a journey through amazing short fiction in this epic anthology featuring twenty-two science fiction and fantasy authors. Travel from distant planets on the edge of space to enchanted worlds filled with magic. Laugh with plucky thieves...

Cursed from birth to always tell the truth, magical florist Felicity 'Fliss' Farrow chooses her words carefully and avoids trouble. But when she receives an anonymous request for a mysterious flower, her quest leads her directly into trouble's path, to Willoh Vane. Fliss knows the outcast - yet...

"Sweet and delicious!" —Sarah Beth Durst, New York Times bestselling author of The Spellshop "Delightful." —Samantha Sotto Yambao, New York Times bestselling author of Water Moon In this charming, fable-like book from Japan, a fox spirit sells magical confections to troubled humans, only for...

A hilarious contemporary retelling of the classic society novel, VANITY FAIR, featuring the irrepressible Becky Sharp Beautiful, brilliant, ruthless – nothing can stop Becky Sharp. Becky Sharp has big dreams and no connections. Determined to swap the gutters of Soho for the glamorous...

After moving back to her ancestral home with her parents, April finds more than just her beloved grandmother waiting for her. For more than a century, the rural Suffolk house has been waiting, guarding its secrets. Discovering a lost photograph of a mysterious young woman, fate draws April deep into her family’s history and the life of her great-great-grandmother, Annabelle. Through visions, dreams, and Annabelle’s diary, April finds grief, secrets, and family loyalties that stretch beyond even love’s limits.

>Wounded and running for her life, photojournalist Jillian Brandt turns to the only person in the world she feels she can trust, rancher Trey Langden. Trey's her former love and the very same man she'd wronged more than once. Would he believe her tale? Would he even care? She gambled everything that he would. It wasn't the phone call itself that rocked Trey's equilibrium, but the familiar voice on the other end. Why now?

After events that threw Ryker's motives and Bren's well-being into question, a devastated Lune struggles to keep fighting. Imprisoned once more, her only way of escape is to play by her captor's rules - or face gut-wrenching consequences. As the race to stop the Supreme Elite unfolds, old friends and new join forces, risking everything for a better tomorrow. But the Elite Trials aren't over. And when their purpose is revealed, no one is prepared for the horrifying truth.

What happens when Cinderella is so painfully shy that she cannot bear the idea of attending the royal ball? Or when the slipper fits . . . but on the wrong girl? What happens when Cinderella is determined to oust an imposter prince from her rightful throne? Or when she is a cendrillon miner working from a space station orbiting a cthonian planet? What happens when Cinderella, a humble housemaid, is sent with a message for a prisoner trapped in a frightening fairy circus?

Something sinister lurks in quiet suburbia. A paranormal team investigates poltergeist activity terrorizing one family in the unassuming Essex town of Manningtree. As night falls, a nightmare awaits them; whatever the motive, it is personal.

Halloween is my favorite holiday, so when my best friend calls and asks me if I got an invitation to a Halloween party, I immediately check the mailbox and see that I do have one. The moment Amy tells me that we're going, we start planning our night out. What costumes we'll wear, how to do our makeup, and what to do with our hair. The night of the party, I'm ready to call it off after everything that's happened in the past few days, but Amy refuses to let me. She drags me with her, reservations and all.

Leah Goodwell wakes up the day after her grandmother’s funeral to find that she is the latest in nine generations of time travelers, who work with the help of a key, a book, and Benjamin Franklin, who still exists in his print shop where it is always 1752. Leah doesn’t believe in time travel until she finds a key in her grandmother’s attic and accidentally jumps to Franklin’s shop. There she learns that Franklin and his close friend, Peter Collinson, created a secret institution to study time travel. It's called the Academy for Fluid Time.