Ergebnis für "Geschichte" in Urban Fantasy

Ein Bombenangriff legt Bingen in Schutt und Asche. Im letzten Augenblick können Arthur und Martha, die sich seit einem halben Jahr auf dem Dachboden in Arthurs Elternhaus verstecken, vor der SS fliehen. Zusammen mit der jüdischen Familie Diestelzweig tauchen sie in der Parallelwelt des Schwarzen Turms unter. Hier sind seit Arthurs letztem Besuch unglaublicherweise achtzig Jahre vergangen. Längst bewohnt nicht mehr Marthas Familie Martens Hof, und man gewährt ihnen nur widerwillig Unterschlupf.

Der Greif hat sie gefunden! Lange hatten sich Arthur und seine Frau Martha nach dem Krieg in ihrem beschaulichen Kleinstadtidyll in Sicherheit gewähnt. Doch als sie ihrem Sohn Karl zum 16. Geburtstag die geheimnisvolle Chronik schenken, tauchen die Kreaturen des grausamen Herrschers auf und entführen Martha in den Schwarzen Turm. Verzweifelt folgt Arthur ihnen in die Parallelwelt und erreicht erneut Martens Hof. Aus dem Gehöft ist inzwischen eine befestigte Stadt geworden, in der sich rasend schnell die Kunde verbreitet.

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 day, six towers appear on Earth. Each one stands hundreds of stories tall, and are invulnerable to all attacks. At the base of each tower is a portal, welcoming in all who dare enter it. All sorts of magical monsters can be found inside the towers. Even treasure, magic, and superhuman strength can be acquired. The problem is that the towers aren't a friendly place. Even worse, the towers sometimes release waves of monsters to attack Earth. In the year 2083, there are only a hundred survivors. In one last attempt, they challenge the final floor without regard for their lives.

Felicia, Lizbeth Rose’s half-sister and a student at the Grigori Rasputin school in San Diego—capital of the Holy Russian Empire—is caught between her own secrets and powerful family struggles. As a granddaughter of Rasputin, she provides an essential service to the hemophiliac Tsar Alexei, providing him the blood transfusions that keep him alive. Felicia is treated like nonentity at the bedside of the tsar, and at the school she’s seen as a charity case with no magical ability. But when Felicia is snatched outside the school, the facts of her heritage begin to surface.

"The Search for Atlantis" is a riveting tale that follows the journey of Nick Marcus, a passionate archaeologist determined to uncover one of history’s greatest mysteries the lost city of Atlantis. Nick's quest begins with the discovery of an ancient golden coin off the coast of Santorini, sparking a relentless pursuit that will take him from dusty archives to underwater expeditions in search of proof that Atlantis was more than just a myth.

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.

The Empire State is the other New York. It’s a parallel-universe, Prohibition-era world of mooks and shamuses that is the twisted magic mirror to our bustling Big Apple. It’s a city where sinister characters lurk around every corner while the great superheroes who once kept the streets safe have fallen into deadly rivalries and feuds. Not that its colourful residents know anything about the real New York...until detective Rad Bradley makes a discovery that will change the lives of all its inhabitants.

In this second thrilling installment of the Gunnie Rose series, Lizbeth Rose is hired onto a new crew for a seemingly easy protection job, transporting a crate into Dixie, just about the last part of the former United States of America she wants to visit. But what seemed like a straightforward job turns into a massacre as the crate is stolen. Up against a wall in Dixie, where social norms have stepped back into the last century, Lizbeth has to go undercover with an old friend to retrieve the crate, as what’s inside can spark a rebellion, if she can get it back in time.

The stakes are on a knife’s edge. Can this fated duo make the right choice to end a millennia-old conflict? Ophelia Banner is heartbroken. Her best friend is dead, but she needs to get her act together and support the staging of the summit and the uniting of the Pai Ona. And despite being warned not to reveal the true extent of her powers, she finds the watchful eyes of strangers difficult to avoid.

On the other side of the Aether is a dirty and dangerous London filled with marvelous steam-powered machines and magic. Detective “Dolly” Williamson’s job is to keep the cesspool from growing bigger. He loves when he just gets a simple murder. Follow the clues, catch the culprit. One man’s way to shrink the stink of the streets. That won’t happen this Sunday morning.

Zombies vs. the KKK: The darkest hour in undead civil rights history. Allied Zombies for Peace covers the violent 42-minute time period that took place on November 11th, 1968, known as the Veterans Day Parade Massacre. This report outlines, according to eyewitnesses, the events that mark that day as a black stain on undead civil rights history. Violence explodes when a shot is fired during the 1968 Veterans Day Parade in Columbus, Ohio.

When the first Martian cylinder crash lands in England, Ogilvy the astronomer barely survives the deadly heat ray from the attack by aliens. He then accidentally stumbles upon the truth about the Red Weed and sends vital evidence to scientists in France on board HMS Thunder Child, but the ship is attacked by a Martian tripod.

Marion Garin is the teenage daughter of Metaraon, the former Voice of God. Now she's also the steward of the Winter Court, which has been in anarchy since a revolution five years earlier. The problem: Marion still doesn't remember anything that happened before two weeks ago. Seth Wilder has a lead on her memories - whoever stole them and sold Marion's essence to a demon lord in Sheol. Marion wants to help steal them back, even though that means abandoning the Winter Court to war. And Seth can't seem to tell Marion no.