Result for "Eleanor" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

Frankreich, 1793. Eleanor, einst eine einfache Dienstmagd, ist nun Mitglied der Liga des Scarlet Pimpernel, die sich wagemutig in jedes Abenteuer stürzt, um Menschen - und Vampire - vor der Guillotine zu retten. Diesmal müssen Eleanor und ihre Verbündeten das Verschwinden von Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand untersuchen, eines berüchtigten französischen Staatsmannes und Diplomaten. Dabei kommen sie bald zwei verfeindeten Vampir-Clans auf die Spur, die sich wahrhaft verbissen bekämpfen.

Wie ein unsichtbares Netz verbinden Fäden von Magie Familien miteinander: In Brinon haben alle ihren festen Platz im magischen Gefüge. Als seine Schwester stirbt, fällt Lucien die Aufgabe zu, ihren Witwer Noel zu heiraten – denn nur so bleibt das magische Gewebe der Familie intakt. Für beide Männer halten ihre Trauer, die ungewohnte neue Situation und intrigante Familienmitglieder mehr als eine Herausforderung bereit. Doch während der Sommer sich über Luciens idyllisches Landgut ergießt, entdecken sie, dass Liebe viele Facetten hat und Magie in bisher unbekannten Formen existiert.

It’s hard to bluff when you don’t know the rules. When a dead stockbroker needs help following the breadcrumbs of his past, who does he call on? Enid Walsh, unwilling lackey of the dead. But after putting Craig the Crowbar behind bars, the last thing she expects is for Craig’s boss to show up looking for answers. A new deadly threat lurks on the horizon, forcing Enid to hatch a plan to keep herself safe, but her ghost dog runs afoul of the spirit world’s government leaders amid rising tensions.

Eleanor is the story of choices that ripple through time far beyond the moment they’re made. And what happens when, just sometimes, bonds are so powerful they reach beyond this world and into another… 1962, Anchor Bend, Oregon. The sea calls to Eleanor. Like the turn of the waves it beckons...

When a terrible accident claims the life of Eleanor’s twin, her family is left in tatters, and her reality begins to unravel, dropping her in and out of unfamiliar worlds. When she returns to her own time and place, hours and days have flown by without her. One fateful day, Eleanor leaps from...

Magic is evil, and the strongest power in the world: Bree Fairfax, a young researcher and blossoming revolutionary, knows that much. That's why her work studying the time before magic thrust the world into a second dark age is so important, even as her politically radical friends insist that revolution is at the door.

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Eleanor Matsuura, known for AMC's The Walking Dead and Spooks. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Paul Murray. In this collection of classic ghost stories from Japan, beautiful princesses turn out to be frogs...

From bestselling author Eleanor Henderson comes a sweeping, though-provoking story of a mother’s desperate search for her daughter in a near-future America divided by the politics of women’s bodies; perfect for fans of Yesteryear and I Who Have Never Known Men An unexpected pregnancy. A...

On the night her mother dies, eight-year-old Beatrice receives an invitation to the mysterious Winter Garden. A place of wonder and magic, filled with all manner of strange and spectacular flora and fauna, the garden is her solace every night for seven days. But when the garden disappears, and no one believes her story, Beatrice is left to wonder if it were truly real.

Giant turtles, impossible ships, and tidal rivers ridden by a Drowned girl in search of a family in the latest in the bestselling Hugo and Nebula Award–winning Wayward Children series from Seanan McGuire. “Nadya’s story reads like a fairy tale, thanks to narrator Barrie Kreinik, whose...

"Jesse Vilinsky brings expert narration to another installment of the Wayward Children series...Vilinsky creates fun, expressive banter between Antsy and the group as they journey back home, finding new goals along the way. Some characters are depicted with quirky personalities, but the...

SAFE. Eleanor Teague has a new life: a grand house in the country, a husband who adores her, and a place to recover from everything that came before. London is far away now. So are the whispers about the terrible thing she did. PROTECTED. The rules are simple. Stay inside. Stay calm. Stay quiet. Her husband says it's for her own safety. The staff watch her closely. Because if she doesn't follow the rules... people start to talk. TRAPPED. But something isn't right at Haddon Hall. Eleanor starts seeing and hearing things she can't explain. She starts to question what's real.

Bayla, Heaven's Soul Collector, has been given two tasks; make sure the earthquake happens according to plan, and also make certain Gray Ellison, a teenaged human, survives. Bayla has a perfect record for completing missions; so, when another angel is added into the mix, she begins to question the Head Council's faith in her. Just as she is getting used to working with Hadraniel, her unasked for back-up, she has to face another hurdle. When Declan shows up with the mission to make sure Gray doesn't survive the earthquake, he starts to challenge all of Bayla's beliefs and plans.

Eleanor, a crowned Miss Indiana beauty queen, was on her way to college with dreams of one day becoming a star. That was until one-night poor decision derailed her plan and life. Years later, drugs and prostitution have her spiraling so out of control that she finds herself on the path to prison.

A compulsive and chilling debut about a girl growing up in a cult WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT TO LEAVE? Green and Blue are sisters. Foxlowe is home. Outside is Bad. Green understands. Why can’t Blue? ‘Will lure you in – then cut to the kill’ Guardian ‘Wonderfully tense’ Emerald Street...

Never look a dead man in the face, no matter how blue his eyes are…Shunned by the living. Hounded by the dead. Whoever said being different was good obviously couldn’t see ghosts. Enid Walsh moved to Atlanta with simple goals. Start fresh, lay low, and avoid the dead, but when a mystical dog arrives and blue-eyed Ollie discovers her secret, Enid is forced to solve his lover’s murder. The problem? She’s a waitress, not a detective.

Other Tales: Volume III contains eight bizarre and incredible tales of science fiction and fantasy, including the first ever Conan novella by Robert E. Howard, a science fiction story evidently about autism written in 1955, and an original Vonneguttian tale by author Robert Westley, writer of Natural Magic: A Helminverse Novel.

She may have seen her future, but she never saw him coming Miss Eleanor Blair is an air witch blessed with the gift of foresight. Ellie knows two things for certain: Damien Sinclair, the notorious Devil of Seven Dials has evidence that could expose her magical family, and he's planning to murder...

Vancouver. Former nurse Clara Jacobs’s miscarriage took a piece of her heart forever. But when a deadly pandemic suddenly blazes through Canada while her husband is far away on a business trip, her wounded spirit can’t take any more pain. Desperate to track down her soulmate, her misery turns to horror when she succumbs to the virus and dies alone…and rises as a walking corpse.

In the days leading up to Christmas, struggling actress Esther Diamond is working as a singing-and-dancing elf at Fenster & Co, a major Manhattan department store. As if dealing with hordes of holiday shoppers isn't bad enough, Esther's ex-almost-boyfriend, Detective Connor Lopez, is on the scene investigating a series of mob-related truck hijackings of Fenster's merchandise. Semi-retired hitman Lucky Battistuzzi is also nosing around, since the mob resents being implicated in thefts they didn't commit.