Ergebnis für "Geschichte" in Zeitgenössische Fantasy

Einmal Königin sein im Reich der Feen – Traum oder Albtraum? Im dritten Band in der Sunday-Times-Bestsellerserie findet die Feenforscherin Emily Wilde es heraus. Emily Wilde hat ihr Leben dem Studium der Feen gewidmet. Als renommierte Dryadologin hat sie in ihrer Enzyklopädie der Feen Hunderte von Arten dokumentiert. Jetzt steht sie kurz davor, ihr bisher gefährlichstes akademisches Projekt in Angriff zu nehmen: die Erforschung des Innenlebens eines Feenreichs – als dessen Königin.

Als Agentin der unsichtbaren Bibliothek ist es Irene Winters Aufgabe, die Balance zwischen Ordnung und Chaos innerhalb der unzählbaren Parallelwelten zu bewahren. Als ausgerechnet die Welt ihrer Schulzeit droht, ins Chaos zu stürzen, muss sie sich auf einen gefährlichen Handel einlassen: Sie soll ein Gemälde aus dem Kunsthistorischen Museum in Wien stehlen, um dafür ein seltenes Buch aus dem Besitz eines Sammlers, des Feenmannes Mr. Nemo, zu bekommen. Doch dieser spielt ein falsches Spiel.

Satrine Rainey - ehemaliges Straßenkind und Ex-Spionin - muss die Familie allein über Wasser halten, seit ihr Mann verunglückt ist. Mithilfe von gefälschten Dokumenten erschleicht sie sich einen Job als Konstabler. Als Partner wird ihr der Magier Minox Welling, genannt Jinx, zugeteilt. Ihr erster Fall - der rituelle Mord an einem Zirkelmagier - zwingt Satrine dazu, in die Straßen ihrer Kindheit zurückzukehren. Schafft sie es, den Mörder zu entlarven, bevor ihre eigenen Geheimnisse ans Tageslicht kommen?

One night in Lagos, two former friends reunite. Obinna is a dutiful and unsophisticated stay-at-home husband and father married to a powerful businesswoman. Eze is single, a cautious rebel from his university days whose arrival soon upsets the balance in Obinna’s life. In a world where men are constantly under surveillance and subject to the whims of powerful women, more than Obinna’s ordered and accustomed routine might be on the line.

David Fisher pushes paper for the EPA in a world that's a lot like ours...only different. In this California - and throughout the alternate United States - all gods are real, science doesn't exist, and magic rules everything, running imp-driven computers and creating anxiety-inducing bumper-to-bumper flying-carpet rush hours. Unfortunately, unchecked magic use can leave dangerous residues, creating hours of mind-numbing deskwork for David and his fellow bureaucrats at the Environmental Perfection Agency.

Jack Taylor has always been an adrenaline junkie. As a federal contractor, he does dangerous jobs for the government that fall out of the realm of the SEALS and the marines. And this next job is right up his alley. Jack has been assigned to test an orbital jump, and if it works, the United States government will have a new strategy against enemy countries.

Thomas Dylan’s four-year-old son has disappeared without a trace from their Virginia home. There’s no clue what happened until Thomas is also abducted - by robed priests with electric cattle prods. They take him through an inter-dimensional portal to a parallel America. There, the priests rule the Imperial Patriotic States, a backward nation suffering from horrific plagues. Healing comes not from medicine but from the Goddess, who dispenses favor in exchange for human sacrifice. The victims come from our world.

Abigail Argent stands out. Some people notice that she always wears gloves and shudder when they know why. The ones who know her best notice her ability with metal. Abigail's particular talent lies in the coloring of alloys, for seeing the beauty in a plain piece of metal and being able to draw it out. Her study leads her to discover a connection between her own craft and that of her favorite childhood myth: changing lead into gold.

The Past meets the Future to defeat an unspeakable evil! Europe, 1945, the final days of World War II. A sinister plan to defeat the Allies using black sorcery is thwarted, only to be resurrected again in a form more terrible than ever before! Now, over six turbulent decades, across multiple continents, and through the darkest alternate dimensions, a force of unimaginable power is poised to subjugate all mankind! Bound by time, a band of heroes will rise!

Tras irrumpir en el panorama literario internacional con Purga, que vendió más de un millón de ejemplares en más de cuarenta países y recibió el aplauso unánime de los lectores y la crítica, además de numerosos premios y honores, Sofi Oksanen, una de las principales voces de la narrativa finlandesa actual, vuelve a sorprendernos con Norma, una novela intensa y asombrosa que combina con gran eficacia la intriga, el realismo mágico y la crítica social.

Acres of Perhaps collects acclaimed and thrilling fiction writer Will Ludwigsen's recent and most heartfelt stories; these are tales that delve into what crime means, alternative history, whether a person could live a different life than the one of the moment, what humanity can do about the big and small evils of the world...as well as inspired serial killers, haunted presidents, cursed lead figurines, and a weird late-night '60s television show that meant much more to the fabric of reality than it let on. These stories are the collision of imaginative and brutal realism.

Die Geschichte vom kleinen Schwein Robinson ist eine Originalgeschichte von Beatrix Potter und erzählt die Erlebnisse des abenteuerlustigen kleinen Schweins Robinson, der auf seinem Weg, Besorgungen für seine Tanten in der Stadt zu erledigen, viele Hindernisse überwinden muss und sich schließlich ungewollt an Bord der "Pound of Candles" auf hoher See wiederfindet. Für Robinson ist dies der Beginn einer unglaublichen Reise.

Magic has returned to the world and with it all manners of problems. In an effort to escape the chaos of life, Thurk takes a contract in the mountains to the north. The job? Hunting down one of the most infamous bandits in the West: a half-ogre by the name of Kal Thorngoode. When the mission goes awry, Thurk realizes that the true danger on this mountain isn't his quarry, but a monster known as the wendigo. So, battling demons both outer and inner, the orc ranger must defeat both Kal and the monster in this third installment of the Orc Ranger series.