Ergebnis für "Born" in Literatur & Belletristik

In Born of Dragons Lenore is safely returned to the North - but not without a price. Her bother Rodry is dead and her father, King Godwin, lies in a coma. With the rulership of the North in question, her treacherous brother Vars may just find an opening to rule. But Vars is a coward, and King Ravin, smarting from defeat, mobilizes the entire South to invade. The northern capital, never defeated, lies protected by tides and canals - but Ravin can happily lose scores of men. The most epic battle, it seems, is yet to come.

Angel Rahimi ist ein Fangirl. Für sie gibt es eigentlich nur The Ark – eine Pop-Rock-Boyband, die seit ein paar Jahren die Musikwelt im Sturm erobert hat. Angel war von Anfang an dabei, ist der Band durch alle Social-Media-Kanäle gefolgt und hat dabei auf Twitter Juliet kennengelernt, ihre beste Freundin. Als The Ark endlich ein Konzert in London geben, treffen sich Juliet und Angel zum ersten Mal im richtigen Leben. Beide sind zu einem persönlichen Meet and Greet mit Jimmy, Rowan und Lister eingeladen. Aber dabei läuft einiges aus dem Ruder und Angel findet sich plötzlich in einem Toilettenraum wieder – zusammen mit Jimmy.

I've finally accepted my place at the Dragonborn Academy, but my search into my mother's shadowed past is still on. As I begin to piece together her life and the circumstances of her suspicious death, I can't help but wonder if history is repeating itself...the similarities between us make me wonder if I'll be the next victim? At least my friends, Olivia and Logan, have my back. They have stepped in to help me dig into my mom's past.

Georjie’s summer is shaping up to be a big disappointment. Trapped in Ireland with her aunt’s gorgeous but cold adopted son, Jasher, her "vacation" gets worse with each passing day. But when a trip to the greenhouse reveals glowing cocoons she shouldn't be able to see, she embarks on a quest to solve a magical mystery....

Evil creatures find Sabrina irresistible... and she doesn't know it... Sabrina’s aura is unique, spellbinding, and absolutely delicious. Evil creatures come from miles around, attracted by the siren’s song she doesn’t know she’s singing.

Evil beings like Cutter.

He rides for miles in the darkness, racing through the night on his shiny black motorcycle. But he can’t outrun his nature no matter how much he wants to ... and the moment he catches scent of Sabrina’s aura, his longing to be something different sets his immortal soul ablaze.

Roselle St. Sismode is many things: victim of a conspiracy, unwilling host of an ever-evolving mind algorithm, spy for a rebel army, and heir to the Fate of Swords. As a warrior, she’s also the anticipated main event at the Secondborn Trials. When the opening ceremonies erupt in chaos, Roselle is abducted by a sadistic agent with a diabolical plan: transform Roselle into a mind-controlled assassin to topple society. But a rogue scientist has implanted Roselle with a genius technology that is far more powerful. It renders her untouchable. Faster. Stronger. And maybe immortal.

Guy Erma, a math prodigy and champion blades fighter, wants nothing more than to join Earth’s planetary defense force, the Dome Militant. But as an unregistered orphan, he’s an outsider with no identity—and no future. That changes when a royal performance spirals into chaos. Prince Teodor vanishes. Cyborg terrorists attack. The fate of the twelve-planet Dodecahedral Empire hangs by a thread. Suddenly, Guy is humanity’s last hope in a deadly game of power, deception, and survival. What begins as a quest for a uniform becomes a battle for the very future of the Empire.

Disillusioned businessman, John Lawrence Locke, finds himself summoned as a hero to another world, filled with monsters and magic! With his body reverted to the age of 15, the 33-year-old's mind is filled with the possibility of battles and adventures, like the ones in his favorite video games.

In the year 3121, the planet Drammat rules its utopian galaxy with innovation and compassion. The graduates of the Grand Drammatan Academy are the writers of their society’s future.

As the youngest student ever admitted to the Academy, 16-year-old Aria Blake is on edge when her lifelong visions of a teenage boy named Luca become more frequent and intense just before the school year begins.

With mental illness being a thing of the past and a stigma for the rare few who still face it, she’s forced to hide the truth or risk losing everything she's worked for.

Aria, Luca, and the rest of the gang survived a frozen wasteland planet, a human-trafficking ring leader with a penchant for murder, and the cunning second lady of Drammat who left them to die, only to find that no one believes their story. Instead of being hailed as heroes for releasing thousands of unlawfully imprisoned innocents, they are painted as terrorists. Separated from her friends and forced to endure torturous brainwashing sessions guised as therapy, Aria no longer knows which of her memories from Sratta are real and which are planted by Drammat’s agents.

When Astrid is attacked by a creep calling himself a Slayer, it seems like a cruel prank the universe is pulling on her already crappy life. Then Kaden, the most infuriating, stunning boy she’s ever met, arrives and tells her she’s a dragon-kin like him—part dragon, part human. Then Astrid actually shifts into a dragon.

Take a ride into the mind and heart of a nine-year-old boy who was born medically frail. Emmitt Thomas, “ET” Rhodes’ is embarrassed when people glare and point at him like he was an alien creature. It wasn’t his fault that his head was permanently tilted to the left side of his body, and his smile was off-center to the right side. His appearance made him feel different, like an error. A misfit.

Blessed with a gift...cursed with a secret. Everybody knows Cate Cahill and her sisters are eccentric. Too pretty, too reclusive, and far too educated for their own good. But the truth is even worse: they're witches. And if their secret is discovered by the priests of the Brotherhood, it would...

Kalina is a nobody, an orphan whose only remarkable trait is the silver hair she is forced to hide. But when she overhears that she might be a child of the Valdir, a silver-haired race of dragon riders that disappeared 16 years ago, she chooses to leave her old life behind and venture into the unknown to discover who she is and where the dragons disappeared to.

The King is dead. Long live the Queen. The Valdir stand on the brink of war with Ethea, and Kalina is the heir to both thrones. Suddenly thrust into the role of Queen, and navigating a war, she is forced to choose whether this is the fate she wants for herself. When the responsibility and pressure becomes too much, will Kalina break and run, leaving her people under the rule of another? Or will she step up and become the Queen they deserve?

The boys at school think James is a freak, and he isn’t sure they’re wrong. He’s 15 and possesses a genius level IQ. He has no friends, and his grandmother thinks it’s the 1960s, but none of these are his biggest problem. James is gay and totally incompetent with social interaction. He’s also attracted to a man old enough to be his father. His situation seems hopeless, until he meets Lincoln and Taylor, two boys who begin to teach him how to interact with others and deal with being different.

Leo Caraway - president of the Young Republicans club, 4.0 GPA, future Harvard student - had his entire future perfectly planned out. That was, until the X factor. As in Marion X. McMurphy, aka King Maggot, the lead singer of Purge, the most popular, most destructive punk rock band he has ever seen. As in Leo's biological father. At first, Leo is horrified to find out his real father is punk rock's most notorious bad boy.

"Skyggernes børn" foregår i 1913, hvor Berta vender tilbage til slottet Rosengave. Her genser hun sin halvsøster Carolin og bliver efter mange mystiske, uhyggelige og eventyrlige begivenheder klar over sit slægtskab med slottets beboere.

I "Hestens dal" fortælles om Aylas kamp for at overleve i vildmarken. Det er hårde vilkår, hun udsættes for, og selv om hun finder venskab og midlertidig støtte hos de dyr, hun tager til sig, savner hun menneskeligt selskab. Men langt mod vest har to unge mænd af Cro-Magnon-stammen begivet sig af sted... "Hestens dal" er andet bind i serien Jordens Børn.

Twenty years ago a man made a child he never intended to love. Ten years ago the world ended, and Emma turned her back on the man she believed was her father in an attempt to survive. Eight weeks ago she discovered the truth about her family, including the sister she never knew she had. Last week she had her heart broken by the one man she never imagined giving it to. Yesterday she turned her back on those she cared for in an attempt to help them survive.