Ergebnis für "Fang Fang" in Belletristik

Gegenwind aus den eigenen Reihen. Frühjahr 2014: Julia Durant und ihr Team stoßen auf einen Menschenhändlerring, von dem sie glaubten, dass er längst zerschlagen sei. Parallel dazu offenbart ihr Lebensgefährte ihr, dass er zum Jahresende die Nachfolge ihres Chefs antreten wird. Doch Durant bleibt kaum Zeit, sich darüber zu ärgern. Denn gegen ihren Kollegen Kullmer wird ein Foltervorwurf erhoben. Die Dinge drohen zu eskalieren.

I am vengeance. Tate Aaralyn, a lone vampire vigilante who strikes fear into the hearts of monsters. My fangs puncture, and the flavor of iron-infused retribution drips down my throat when I exact justice. Don't be like them. Don't succumb to bloodlust. Make the b*stards pay. These rules have been my guide, leading me through life in the Glenn. And all had been flowing nicely until I met him…

Jack London's classic adventure story about the friendship developed between a Yukon gold hunter and the mixed dog-wolf he rescues from the hands of a man who mistreats him. White Fang is a companion novel and thematic mirror to London's best-known work, The Call of the Wild.

Als Ella erfährt, dass ihre Jugendliebe Luke todkrank ist, wirft sie das vollkommen aus der Bahn. Vor achtundzwanzig Jahren hat die beiden ein verstörendes Ereignis getrennt und Ella möchte jetzt um jeden Preis herausfinden, warum Luke sie damals verraten hat. Doch damit riskiert sie nicht nur ihre Ehe, sondern alles, was ihr bisher wichtig schien. Ein Wettlauf mit der gnadenlos ablaufenden Zeit beginnt, um mit Luke Vergangenes aufzuarbeiten und Klarheit über das zu bekommen, was sie immer noch mit ihm verbindet.

In the swirling sewers beneath Arkham, excavators uncover a crystalline formation that hints at dark events from the city's past. As the discovery makes headlines, so too does a series of bizarre murders. With no leads, the Arkham police are always one step behind. Acting on a hunch, down-on-his-luck former journalist Andy Van Nortwick reunites with adventurer Jake Williams and struggling filmmaker Maude Brion to unearth the truth. The trio know of the supernatural horrors that lurk beyond this world, and the reality haunts them. 

Die Unberechenbarkeit zweiter Chancen. Morgen wird alles anders oder jetzt ist auch schon egal. So leben die Bewohner des heruntergekommenen rheinischen Kurorts Villrath. Seit die lokale Heilquelle vor Jahren versiegte, stehen die Gästezimmer leer. Da fördern Bauarbeiten ein mineralhaltiges Rinnsal zutage. Was könnte den Glanz vergangener Tage zurückbringen, wenn nicht das gute alte Heilwasser? Vera, letzte Trägerin der Villrather Nixenkrone und Wirtin des "Stübchen", beschließt gegen jede Vernunft, einen alten Jugendtraum wiederzubeleben. Notfalls mit Lug und Trug.

In the swirling sewers beneath Arkham, excavators uncover a crystalline formation that hints at dark events from the city's past. As the discovery makes headlines, so too does a series of bizarre murders. With no leads, the Arkham police are always one step behind. Acting on a hunch, down-on-his-luck former journalist Andy Van Nortwick reunites with adventurer Jake Williams and struggling filmmaker Maude Brion to unearth the truth. The trio know of the supernatural horrors that lurk beyond this world, and the reality haunts them. 

“A harrowing portrait of sexual violence and its thunderous reverberations. Through Jenna Tang’s incisive translation, the reader is brought along a heartbreaking and unflinching journey.”—Crystal Hana Kim, author of If You Leave Me *Shortlisted for the Baifang Schell Books Prize* The...

Since Peaches woke up in a fantasy world full of monsters and fae, she’s been treated like a piece of tasty human meat. After six years as a blood slave to vampires and the evil Unseelie queen—beholden to all, and master of none—there’s nothing left but a broken shell with a fractured soul. Until a deadly warrior turns up unannounced in her room. Vampire Haze is the muscle of the Fae Guardians elite cadre of 12. He is a spy, a protector of the weak, hammer and sword, a rigid enforcer of rules. He allows no one close to his heart, lest they see the shame driving him.

Born in the unforgiving wilderness of the Yukon Territory of Canada, White Fang, a fierce wolfdog shunned by his adoptive family, fights tooth and nail to survive amongst brutal beasts, wolves and hunter men. But when he's shown unexpected kindness from Weedon Scott, a man who takes White Fang in after rescuing him from a dog-fighting ring, he slowly begins to change. The once ferocious and aggressive White Fang becomes gentler, discovering that loyalty and love can tame even the wildest of hearts.

Performance artists Caleb and Camille Fang dedicated themselves to making great art. But when an artist's work lies in subverting normality, it can be difficult to raise well-adjusted children. Just ask Buster and Annie Fang. For as long as they can remember, they starred (unwillingly) in their parents' madcap pieces. But now that they are grown up, the chaos of their childhood has made it difficult to cope with life outside the fishbowl of their parents' strange world.

David wird aus seinem alten Leben gerissen und landet in einem rätselhaften Camp, das vorgibt, seine verborgenen Talente zu fördern. Dort trifft er Caleb – impulsiv, verschlossen und doch auf seltsame Weise vertraut. Zwischen den beiden wächst eine Freundschaft, die mehr als einmal auf die Probe gestellt wird. Während sie versuchen, sich in einer Welt zurechtzufinden, in der Regeln und Kontrolle über allem stehen, erkennen sie: Sie sind Teil eines Systems, das nicht nur formt, sondern auch täuscht. Wahrheit wird hier gemacht – von jenen, die das Bild der Realität diktieren.

Balthamos is a bureaucrat in Immigration, a part of the governmental Hegemony. He's a werewolf utterly unremarkable other than his choice of life partner, Monarch. Monarch, a colorful vampire who takes center stage wherever he goes, lives with Balthamos in the suburbs of Santsz. And then... rumors begin to spread of an illness come to be known as Wolfsbane. Lunids are reported to be Changing into werewolf form without any relationship to their two moons' influences. It doesn't take long for society to begin to unravel and conspiracy theories to point the finger at--vampires.

Nach der erschütternden Diagnose: Leukämie, sieht der 15-jährige Daniel Landon eine Parallele zu sich in den Worten von JD Salingers Der Fänger im Roggen. Inspiriert von Holden Caulfield, beginnt Daniel, die Absichten und die Autorität der Menschen um sich herum in Frage zu stellen, während er - dem Tod ins Auge blickend - nach seiner eigenen Identität sucht. Gelangweilt von seiner beengten Umgebung und den alternativen Behandlungsansätzen seiner Hippie-Eltern, folgt er den Spuren Holdens nach New York.

This is the story of a wild dog's journey toward becoming civilized in the Canadian Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush, at the end of the 19th Century. The book is characteristic of London's precise prose style and innovative use of voice and perspective, with much of the novel written from the view-point of the animals. White Fang examines (sometimes graphically) the violent world of wild dogs and the equally violent world of supposedly civilized humans.

Giovanni and Beatrice left vampire conspiracies and supernatural adventures for a peaceful family life. But peace only lasts so long for a vampire assassin and an undying scribe. The death of an old friend leaves Giovanni with a rare opportunity. He knows that Lady Penelope's library hides more than one rare book, but can he break into her family's ancestral home without raising alarms?

She was made to hunt her own. They call her a Nightwalker, the first of many. A creature of the night, a vampire, made by religious zealots intent to eliminate all vampires and witches. But what darkness lurks beneath the surface of her "holy" crusade? She hasn't lost her faith. Alice still believes in the God she's always followed. But are vampires beyond salvation? Will her obedience to the Order of the Morning Dawn truly save her? Are they telling her the truth, or feeding her lies......all in an effort to turn her into the perfect weapon?

- A Ca la Viuda, un petit mas dels afores d'un poble instal·lat en la rutina, fa temps que no s'hi acosta ningú. Al seu interior, però, hi batega l'essència de tots aquells que hi van viure i que esperen pacientment el retorn de l'última dona de la família. I un dia hi arriba la Maria...

In the frozen wilderness of the Yukon, a lone wolf-dog named White Fang must navigate the brutal laws of nature and the complexities of human society. Born in the wild and shaped by both savage survival and cruel treatment, White Fang learns the harsh realities of life, adapting to each challenge with intelligence and resilience. As he moves between brutal masters and kind-hearted guardians, his journey unfolds as an exploration of the thin line between savagery and civilization.

When Battle Commander Grifynn found the four matching boot blades in the mysteriously abandoned Keep of St Swiftyn's, he was sure of only one thing. They were exquisitely crafted. When his daughter took the LifeBond with her soon-to-be lifemate, General Gunnarr the Mighty Blue, High Prince of the Highland Dragons, he thought they were the perfect gift. Now Darque Aalanna Grifynn is Battle Commander of the Dragon Clan, the Resistance Armed Forces, and the LifeBond Teams.