Ergebnis für "Kyle" in Literatur & Belletristik

How does a nobody like me become a wizard? There are no nobodies, only people who haven't been placed in the correct story. Mine begins on Earth, where an education in comparative literature prepared me for a distinguished career selling timeshares from a call center. My daughter deserved better than the life I could give her. My wife had long stopped expecting me to provide it. Then an earthquake buried me beneath my office, and amid the rubble appeared a portal of blue light. Naturally, I stepped through.

Eine Wüste im Nahen Osten: General Middleton gerät mit seiner Einsatzgruppe in einen Hinterhalt von Terroristen. Sie töten seine Männer und nehmen ihn gefangen. Kurz bevor er das Bewusstsein verliert, hört er, wie sich die Terroristen unterhalten: Sie sprechen Englisch mit amerikanischem Akzent. Mit Rettung des Generals wird Gunnery Sergeant Kyle Swanson beauftragt- einer der besten Scharfschützen der Marines. Als Swanson und seine Männer in Syrien landen, laufen sie in eine Falle. Nur Swanson überlebt den Angriff. Woher hatte der Feind Informationen über diese streng geheime Mission?

The first three Starsea Cycle books bundled together. Science got us to space. Magic got us to the stars. The discovery of the Gates opened the stars to humanity—and awakened the Manifold, a force that gave certain people the power to command nature itself. These mages could ignite infernos, reshape matter, move objects with their minds, and even bend the wills of others. But every mage eventually begins to Fray. After their powers nearly destroyed civilization in the Mage War, the League of Worlds took control.

Justin Talemaker just got kicked out of his online gaming guild for being "that guy." Twenty-five years old, no job, no prospects, living in his mother's basement—and now he can't even keep his raid team together. Then a freak Oklahoma tornado flings him into Eyrth, a world governed by actual LitRPG mechanics, and a strange voice offers him a second chance: choose your class. Any sensible protagonist would roll a warrior or a mage. But Justin makes a different bet: the obscure Socialite class. All in on Charisma, betting everything on the skills that have always let him down.

Krieg im Nahen Osten – und ein Kampf um Gerechtigkeit! 2011. Auf einem abgelegenen Berggipfel mit Blick auf die Trümmer des iranischen Atomwaffenprogramms wird Geheimdienstchef Assad Ashani Zeuge einer Demonstration der Quds-Einheit, die Amerikas Krieg im Nahen Osten auf den Kopf zu stellen...

Mitch Rapp gerät zwischen die Fronten. CIA-Agent Mitch Rapp hasst es, jemandem einen Gefallen zu schulden – erst recht, wenn dieser Jemand der mächtigste Verbrecherboss der Welt ist. Als Damian Losa ihn kontaktiert, hält er es jedoch für eine Frage der Ehre, ihm zu helfen. Ein hochgradig...

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Four hundred years after the Ragnarok War, humanity still hasn't recovered from the impact of the meteor, Ragnarok. Alex Keener and his friends are remembered as gods, while strife reigns between their Elekai descendants, the dragons, and those of pure human blood. But unknown to humanity, an ancient and forgotten evil is hurtling toward Earth, threatening destruction. At the center of it all stands Shanti Roshar, a young woman who may be the subject of a long-lost prophecy, penned by the hand of Anna herself.

When Makara Angel winds up in post-apocalyptic LA, she was looking for a home, not trouble. Now Makara finds herself in the middle of a gang war, fighting for survival in LA's decaying streets. Even after she falls in with the Lost Angels and their charismatic leader, safety is no guarantee. The Black Reapers are ramping up their aggression against the Angels, and Makara finds herself in the crossfire.

Während sich Kyle Montgomerys letzte Kinderkurse einen Tag vor Weihnachten im Fit-to-Fight Studio mit einer lustigen Prüfung jeweils ihrem Ende zuneigen, steigt seine innere Unruhe und auch Verärgerung, da sich sein Mann Jason seit Tagen äußerst merkwürdig verhält. Sie haben immer noch keine Pläne für die kommenden Feiertage und Jason ist plötzlich nicht zu erreichen. Kyles Ärger verfliegt erst, als er von Jasons Überraschungsplänen erfährt, die Feiertage in ihrem Feriendomizil in Big Sur zu verbringen.

The first time Charlene Dinatale said no, she was ten years old, standing on a wall at recess, and the boy asking was Marc. Two decades later, she's saying yes to a much bigger stage: Director at Media Connect Corp, one of Toronto's most storied communications firms, walking into a department that isn't sure whether to welcome her or wait her out. Chad, the manager who expected the promotion himself, isn't hiding his resentment well. Claire is watching everyone, including Charlene, with the patience of someone building a case for her own future.

Wer will der CIA und dem reichsten Mann der Welt an den Kragen? Vertrauliche Informationen über den US-Billionär Nicholas Ward werden aus den Datenbanken der CIA entwendet. Direktorin Irene Kennedy vermutet einen Spion in den eigenen Reihen und setzt den Terrorabwehr-Experten Mitch Rapp auf...

Corporate flameout Ned Altimer dreams of leaving his world behind. So, when Earthblood Online splashes onto the VRMMO scene, he dives in and never looks back. His advantages are twofold: exclusive access to the game’s three-day Head Start period, and a ridiculously handsome talking axe named Frank who has knowledge of the game’s deepest secrets...if the magnificent Frank ever feels like sharing them.

Mi nombre es Eve Andrews. Si te cuento que me han despedido por cometer un grave error, que mi casera me ha dado un mes para abandonar el apartamento de Nueva York y que mi mejor amiga ha dejado de serlo porque me considera la mensajera de las peores noticias que podía recibir… habrás adivinado que mi vida es un desastre. Pero si, en medio de ese desastre, heredo la mitad de una mansión enorme, antigua y aislada, perdida en mitad de la nada, donde un cuarto guarda secretos, quizá las cosas cambien.

From the author of the horror sensation We Used to Live Here and The Caretaker comes a bingeable and perfectly unsettling audio collection of three brand new short stories, taking listeners all the way from a nightmareish flight through unfriendly skies to a submarine in the darkest depths of...

Mitch Rapp - der Action-Held aus »American Assassin« ist zurück! Joe Rickman, ehemaliger Vorzeigeagent der CIA, wollte Rache und wurde zum Verräter – sogar nach seinem Tod gelangen weiterhin hochkarätige Informationen der US-Geheimdienste in feindliche Hände. CIA-Direktorin Irene...

In the not-too-distant future, a 21-member crew launches from Earth. Their mission: to establish a temporary colony on Mars. Little do they know that colony will become permanent–and the last stand of the human race. Because, without warning, every single person left on Earth simply...vanishes. Now, a thousand years later, the resources needed to sustain life are running out, and the very existence of the Mars colony is threatened. Humankind has only one option–to return to its home planet.

John Gilliam, the Faceless Man, is one of the premier assassins in the world. His skills are legendary, and he's never failed in a mission. When a job goes wrong, though, he discovers that there's an entire universe beyond what he knows, one where magic and monsters exist and his skills and talents are frail shadows of the powers that be: the Doorverse.

The Volsung Academy is under siege. Its legendary founder, Arian—Sorcerer-Ascendant of Magekind—has vanished. Rival schools are circling, sensing weakness, eager to seize control and reshape the future of magic in their image. And Volsung's new philosophy, the Path of Balance, is dismissed as exactly the kind of softness that invites predators. When Vivienne Desai is unexpectedly chosen to represent Volsung at the Mage Games on Mars, the stakes couldn't be higher.

Junior year has come for the remaining students of Melbrook Hall, and it promises to be the most difficult one yet. With one of their own gone and another under serious investigation, none of the former Powereds know how many days remain for them in the Hero Certification Program. The time they do have will be filled with more trials and classes, honing their skills as they work toward the increasingly difficult goal of becoming Heroes.