Ergebnis für "Play Along" in Fantasy

Für die Erfüllung ihres innigsten Wunschs verspricht Evie einem unbekannten Jungen im magischen Spiegelkabinett ihrer Großmutter ihr Herz – und zahlt dafür einen hohen Preis: Seither bringen ihre Hände jedem, den sie berührt, den Tod. Erst als sie Jahre später dem charmanten Arthur begegnet, scheint sich ihr Wunsch nach jemandem, der sie liebt, endlich zu erfüllen. Doch Evies Fluch macht es den beiden unmöglich zusammen zu sein. Und als sie der Versuchung, sich nahezukommen, nicht länger widerstehen können, zahlt Arthur einen zu hohen Preis für seine Liebe zu Evie.

Die Menschheit hat sich in den unendlichen Weiten des Weltalls ausgebreitet. Überall sind neue Siedlungen entstanden...

This is the story of King Midas. Or that's what we're always told. The Golden King with his palace of riches and me, the girl he turned to gold. Upon the snowy mountains in the Sixth Kingdom of Orea, I'm locked away in Highbell Castle. It's for my safety, I'm told. Away from the dangers of the world below. No one can get in. Apart from him. King Midas rescued me from the streets. He gave me food, shelter and his heart. I promised to love him forever. But when war comes to the kingdom, a deal is struck—and I am at the heart of the bargain. Everything I know starts to change.

The Culture - a human/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh: Jernau Morat Gurgeh, The Player of Games, master of every board, computer, and strategy. Bored with success, Gurgeh travels to the Empire of Azad, cruel and incredibly wealthy, to try their fabulous game... a game so complex, so like life itself, that the winner becomes emperor.

Anne Shirley has left Redmond College behind to begin a new job and a new chapter of her life away from Green Gables. Now she faces a new challenge: the Pringles. They're known as the royal family of Summerside--and they quickly let Anne know she is not the person they had wanted as principal of Summerside High School. But as she settles into the cozy tower room at Windy Poplars, Anne finds she has great allies in the widows Aunt Kate and Aunt Chatty and in their irrepressible housekeeper, Rebecca Dew.