Ergebnis für "Rose" in Magischer Realismus

The spell-bounding conclusion to Philip Pullman’s bestselling The Book of Dust sequence . . . ‘Lyra: what will you do when you find this place in the desert, the opening to the world of the roses?’ ‘Defend it,’ Lyra said. ‘Die defending it.’ When readers left Lyra in The Secret...

Kenna is a human in a magic-biased world, but a night at the club changes everything. There she meets four sexy strangers who unbind the magic she never knew she had. Now, she needs their help to train her wild and unpredictable magic and to find the truth of who she really is before someone she...

The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano follows the butterfly effect of one life-defining choice - nine times over. Winding through all the paths and decisions that shape a life, it cuts to the heart of what it means to be a woman. Every expectation, every choice, every path, every outcome - every piece of oneself that’s lost and found along the way.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Named a Best Book of the Year by Time, HuffPost, Kirkus Reviews, and more * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * A Roxane Gay Audacious Book Club Selection * A Marie Claire Book Club Pick A surreal literary fiction novel with “a dark, delicious edge” (Time)...

A year into her dream job at a cutthroat Silicon Valley startup, Cassie is trapped in a corporate nightmare. She struggles to reconcile the promise of a city where obscene wealth lives alongside abject poverty. Ivy League grads complain about the snack selection from a conference room with a view of houseless people bathing in the bay. Startup burnouts leap into the paths of commuter trains. When her CEO's demands become illegal and she ends up unexpectedly pregnant, Cassie must decide whether the tempting fruits of Silicon Valley are worth the pain, or succumb to the black hole.

When ballet dancer Clara Campbell arrives in New Orleans, lonely and homesick, she is immediately captivated by the story of Windisle Plantation and the tragic tale that is said to have transpired beyond its gate. Legend has it that it is abandoned by all living souls, but to Clara’s great surprise, it is not a ghost she hears through the stone wall surrounding the property, but a flesh and blood man: a scarred stranger with a pain deeper and darker than the churning waters of the Mississippi river that flows beside his self-imposed prison.

After publicly declaring war on the queen, Kenna finds herself in a race against time as she fights to free the shifters from the grip of madness and works to find and train an army equipped to take on the ruthless ruler. More innocent victims are taken as the atrocities of the war between races...

Alexis Spencer will use any inspirational quote to rationalize her failures and shortcomings. Her closest friends are a distant memory, and her college debt is still as high as the day she left. But that’s all fine and dandy, because “whatever will be, will be.” However, when Alexis loses her job and her relationship on the same day, there’s no quote strong enough to get her through that. In typical fashion, she blames the world for her problems, including her younger self, who should have tried harder.

I've spent my life in darkness, hidden away from the world. It's where monsters belong after all, isn't it? But my curvy maid, Dahlia, brings more than just order to my world. She brings me back to life and makes me want more. My beastly appearance doesn't scare her. Nothing does. Except, perhaps, the father she's running from. But I won't give her up for any man. This beauty is all mine.

Queen Isadora reigns with secrets and lies and will do whatever it takes to keep her throne, including killing the rightful heir. Hunted by the queen, Kenna is thrust into the center of a rebellion that seeks to end her tyranny. Now, she must learn what it means to rise up and rule, but does she...

“He went by Knox now, and Knox was everything Seth wasn’t and everything he’d never wanted to be. He was distant and ruthless like his father. Knox was a version of a man who was never supposed to exist, yet he stood only a few feet away from me. My mother did this to him because of me.” I’ve dreamt of finding Seth and fleeing the kingdoms as we once planned, but that was impossible. For ten years, while I longed for him, he plotted my demise. Knox now believes every word I say is a lie, and has cast me aside as his mate, but the love I feel for him never wavered.

Tim Kovak was supposed to be a bad guy, the latest in a line of evil wizards bound by a demon contract, supervised by a six-hundred-year-old succubus named Lydia. With a little magic and a lot of luck, Tim broke the contract and set them both free. Now he’s trying to be a superhero, learning the hard way that you can’t save everybody, and some problems are too big to punch. He thought he had managed to flip the script and beat Hell at its own game, but demons are patient, and all debts eventually come due.

Mazikeen is the Fae world's most renowned assassin, the Reaper. Trained for 500 years after the death of her mate, she serves as the boogeyman of The Mer Council. When her past and present collide, Mazikeen discovers the tangled web of secrets and lies that surround her. With everyone lying and no one to trust, Mazikeen goes looking for answers, and finds more than she bargained for.

Consummate storyteller Lorina Stephens returns with a novel of grief and the power of forgiveness. Do we sometimes seek absolution from the grave? Do we seek reconciliation between the child, the woman, the crone? In a story of unspoken truths and hidden fears, The Rose Guardian explores the cages we make when we fail to unlock our secrets.

Olivia Pennington has spent her whole life competing with Logan Alexander—and losing. From spelling bees to science fairs, he's always been one step ahead, snagging the trophies, titles, accolades, and now … he's after the promotion she desperately wanted. As if that's not bad enough, Logan also moved into the apartment she had her heart set on. Logan's been secretly falling in love with Olivia since the third grade. His strategy? Stay close, win her over.

Iris Ellington isn't looking for love. Not even a little bit. With a long list of failed relationships behind her, she's decided to reinvent herself as a person who doesn't fall head over heels on the first date. New town. New job. New Iris. But someone—or something—has other plans. When her neighbor's newspaper lands in front of her door, Iris has no choice but to return it. And when she does, she comes face to face with a ridiculously handsome but very grumpy chef who all but slams the door in her face.

Imogen and her sister Marin escape their cruel mother to attend a prestigious artists’ retreat, but soon learn that living in a fairy tale requires sacrifices, whether it be art or love in this critically acclaimed debut novel. Imogen has grown up reading fairy tales about mothers who die and...

Sophie Stewart knows a lot about plants. The rooftop garden she tends and beautifies is ample evidence of that. What she doesn't know is anything about love, not with her long track record of always picking the wrong guy. But then a mystery flower pops up in her garden—a flower that only blooms in the presence of true love. Never one to shy away from a little magic, Sophie convinces her best friend, Peter, to help her use the flower to find her soulmate. 

Madison Mosby figures she will never find happiness. At 25, she’s a washed-up cook, toiling in a grimy outpost in the food empire founded by her missing grandmother, and swimming in debt. Her mother is forever nagging her to start a family, and she’s reminded every day that following society’s rules have gotten her nowhere in life. Madison’s new life begins when a man appears before her, begging for a product that will tip the balance of power in a war that has been raging for the past seven years.

Scarlett Fernsby holds the world record for shortest relationships. Mostly thanks to overprotective parents and an interfering brother, every attempt at dating has been a disaster. When her whole family is out of town for six glorious months, she knows it's time to find love. What she didn't count on was Wade Hendrix. Her older brother's best friend. He's even worse than her brother. He's soon crashing every date of hers, and Scarlett's beginning to wonder if he's made it his life's mission to annoy her. Wade is a firefighter with a hero complex; she doesn't want to be his pity problem.