Ergebnis für "Night Witches A Novel of World War II" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

Picking up from A Discovery of Witches' cliff-hanger ending, Shadow of Night takes reluctant witch Diana Bishop and vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont on a trip through time to Elizabethan London, where they are plunged into a world of spies, magic, and a coterie of Matthew's old friends, the School of Night. As the search for Ashmole 782—the lost and enchanted manuscript whose mystery first pulled Diana and Matthew into one another's orbit—deepens and Diana seeks out a witch to tutor her in magic, the net of Matthew's past tightens around them.

Stubborn, plain-spoken and from an unimpressive family, Lydia Polk never expected to be accepted into the Royal Academy of Witches. Now, with Hitler’s army rampaging across Europe, the witches of Britain have joined the war effort, and Lydia is key to the cause: she must use her magic to track down magical relics before Hitler and his sycophants can. Then a Nazi witch infiltrates the Academy with heart-breaking consequences, leaving the coven shaken, exposed and divided.

Maeve kämpft verzweifelt mit der Frage, wer sie wirklich ist. Die Wahrheit über ihre Familie ist in Rätseln und Geheimnissen verborgen, doch die Schatten der Vergangenheit lassen sie nicht los. Als ein altes Foto drei Männer zeigt, aber von einem vierten keine Spur zu finden ist, begibt sich Maeve auf eine gefährliche Suche nach Antworten. Doch während sie ihre Herkunft erkundet, ziehen düstere Mächte die Fäden. Ihre Gefährten – Jamie, Andrei, Ash und Tobias – stehen ihr zur Seite, doch die Bande zwischen ihnen werden auf eine harte Probe gestellt.

A young girl called Tozi stands at the bottom of a pyramid, waiting to be led to the top where her heart will be cut out.... Pepillo, a Spanish orphan who serves a sadistic Dominican friar, is aboard the Spanish fleet as it sails towards Mexico.... This is the epic story of the clash of two empires, two armies and two gods of war. Five hundred desperate adventurers are about to pit themselves against the most brutal armies of the ancient Americas, armies hundreds of thousands strong.

It’s 1989, and Joe Agabian and his best friend Ronnie set out to spend their first summer working in the hedonistic gay paradise of Fire Island Pines. Joe is desperate to let loose and finally move beyond the heartbreak of having lost his boyfriend to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The two friends are quickly taken in by a pair of quirky, older house cleaners. But something seems off, and Joe starts to suspect the two older men of being up to something otherworldly. In truth, Howie and Lenny are members of a secret disco witch coven tasked with protecting the island.

Unsere Liebe wurde aus der Nacht geboren und in Blut geschrieben. Doch einer von uns wird sie nicht überleben. Für alle Leser:innen von Tracy Wolff und Marie Niehoff Alyssa Ferrara hat es satt, nach den Regeln ihres patriarchischen Vaters zu leben. Obwohl das Erbe ihrer Familie auf ihr lastet, kämpft sie gegen die alte Ordnung. Als sie auch noch den geheimnisvollen Lincoln kennenlernt, gerät sie in einen Sog aus Machtkämpfen und Verlangen. Je mehr Wahrheiten sie dabei enthüllt, desto tödlicher werden uralte Intrigen, die schon bald Blut fordern. Die Frage ist nur, wessen Blut?

In a world of witches, daemons and vampires the fragile balance of peace is unravelling. Diana and Matthew's forbidden love has broken the laws dividing creatures. To discover the manuscript which holds their hope for the future, they must now travel back to the past. When Diana Bishop, descended from a line of powerful witches, discovered a significant alchemical manuscript in the Bodleian Library, she sparked a struggle in which she became bound to long-lived vampire Matthew Clairmont. Now the coexistence of witches, daemons, vampires and humans is dangerously threatened.

Nach dem Tod ihrer Mutter wurden Micah und ihr Vater aus dem Vega-Zirkel verstoßen, der Edinburgh vor grausamen Dämonen beschützt. Bis heute weiß Micah nicht, was damals wirklich geschehen ist – aber seitdem plagen sie schreckliche Albträume. Ihre beste Freundin Pola, eine Dämonenjägerin des Zirkels, scheint die Einzige zu sein, die sie versteht. Doch dann verschwindet Pola eines Tages spurlos, und mit ihr die magische Tinte, die den Dämonenjägern ihre Kräfte verleiht.

While patrolling the borders of the Klingon Empire, Captain Christopher Pike and the crew of the USS Enterprise record a series of subspace echoes from a planet orbiting a volatile flare star—and when Lieutenant Spock and Commander Una Chin-Riley lead a landing party to learn more, they discover the ruins of a dead civilization and evidence of starship-grade metals…quite possibly a crash site.

Stebbins Little School is full of bodies. It's unthinkable to Desdemona Fox. Children are sobbing as panicked teachers and neighbors beat down their family members outside of the school...or the things that used to be their family members. Parents don't eat their children do they? Officers Fox...

All her life, Ella Barrow has allowed others to make her decisions. Forced to stifle her artistic talents and stay in a loveless relationship with Clayton Kerrington, the man her mother believes to be her perfect match, Ella's life may be safe - but it's not her own. Paxon Nightwing, on the other hand, is anything but the safe choice. A charming and alluring dragon-hybrid Morgon, Paxon sees Ella for the woman she truly is. His bold confidence and protective nature ignites a passion she's never felt before.

Now the people know that the dragon minions of Takhisis, Queen of Dragons, have returned. The people of all nations prepare to fight to save their homes, their lives, and their freedom. But the races have long been divided by hatred and prejudice. Elven warriors and human knights fight among themselves. It seems the battle has been lost before it begins. The companions are separated, torn apart by war. A full season will pass before they meet again - if they meet again.

The extermination of Earth is at hand. With his increasingly irrational leadership Basil Wenceslas, chairman of the Hansa, has driven humanity into a corner. His punitive treatment of the Hansa colonies and the Roamers, as well as his refusal to aid an embattled Theroc, have made enemies for the people of Earth.

Old Man's War author John Scalzi's sendup of the heroic fantasy genre, a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Short Story. An over-the-top, humorous short story representing the prologue for a "future" book (written as an April Fool's Joke) published on Tor.com. The title of the series and book...