Ergebnis für "Dubliner" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

Die magiebegabte Leslie arneitet im Antiquitätenladen "Pot of Gold", wo sie sich mit lästigen Kunden herumschlägt und iherer Leidenschaft für sarkastische Kommentare und magische Artefakte nachgeht. Letztere wird ihr zum Verhängnis, als sie trotz Warnung ein geheimnisvolles Ouijabrett öffnet. Dass es sich in den dämonischen Nathaniel verwandelt, der einem nervigen Teenager erschreckend ähnelt, hat sie dabei nicht geahnt.

Die Hexe Ciara setzt alles daran, eine erfolgreiche Reporterin zu werden, und endlich zahlt sich ihre Mühe aus: Sie darf ihr Idol, einen berühmten Duellmagier, interviewen. Als er Hilfe sucht, weil eine Banshee seiner Familie den Tod ankündigt, wendet Ciara sich an ihre Freundin Leslie und den Privatdetektiv Victor.

For twenty-one summers, Sylvia has evaded the ironclad rules set by her village, driven by an insatiable curiosity to know the world beyond the confines of the willow her fellow fairies call home. Her ventures often lead her to the vacant human mansion beyond Elysia’s forest, where ghosts whisper and ancient treasures beckon in the darkness.

Two months after her exile from Elysia, Sylvia is adrift in a world both strange and exhilarating. As she journeys toward Aelthorin with Jon and Cliff, every step is fraught with uncertainty. Though she promised her mother she'd reunite with her family, Sylvia finds herself drawn deeper into a forbidden bond with Jon. Jon struggles to suppress his growing feelings for Sylvia, determined to help her obtain a powerful gemstone that could grant her the impossible–a power that might allow them to be together.

Following the suicide of her teenage mother, baby Fiona is put into State care. Fiona doesn’t know her absent father was the disgraced God of Love. Growing up, she suffers abuse and bullying and begins to see Otherworld creatures such as trolls and faeries, and worries for her sanity. Fiona discovers she has a physical strength beyond what is normal, and can fight the bullies, but is branded as violent and held in an Institution for the criminally insane. She is released on her eighteenth birthday into a hostel in Dublin City, Ireland.

"Eveline" is a short story from James Joyce's classic Dubliners. Nineteen-year-old Eveline has decided to leave home, but her future journey may not be all that she hopes. Like other stories in Dubliners,"Eveline" offers a penetrating analysis of Dublin society, especially its stagnation and paralysis. Each story incorporates epiphanies, by which Joyce meant to convey a sudden consciousness of the "soul" of a thing. Proceeds from sale of this title go to Reach Out and Read, an innovative literacy advocacy organization.

A farm cat and a barn owl wager on which of them will catch a sneaky, high-and-mighty field mouse first. What follows changes their lives forever.

Serengard has been under Orion rule for centuries - centuries of insufferable adherence to laws and traditions that its people no longer believe in. Raised by her scholarly grandfather in the fiery southern city of Neroi, Trzl is dedicated to turning the monarchy into a free society where knowledge is king and no one has to be subject to the whims of an Orion. As the rebellion escalates, her choices have an eerie impact on the revolution at large, elevating her to a position of influence she has only dreamed of attaining.