Ergebnis für "The Bell" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

Camellia Beauregard is a Belle. In the opulent world of Orleans, Belles are revered, for they control beauty, and beauty is a commodity coveted above all else. In Orleans, the people are born gray, they are born damned, and only with the help of a Belle and her talents can they transform and be made beautiful. But it's not enough for Camellia to be just a Belle. She wants to be the favorite - the Belle chosen by the queen of Orleans to live in the royal palace, to tend to the royal family and their court, to be recognized as the most talented Belle in the land.

Ein mächtiges Vampirhaus. Ein Mädchen auf der Suche nach ihrer Schwester. Eine gefährliche Leidenschaft. In einer Welt, in der Vampire wie Top-Celebritys behandelt werden und jeder um ihre Gunst buhlt, ist Renie eine Außenseiterin. Zu tief sitzt ihr Misstrauen gegenüber Vampiren. Doch ausgerechnet sie verdingt sich als sogenannte Spenderin: für eine begrenzte Zeit und gegen Entlohnung wird sie in eines der fünf Vampir-Häuser als Blut-Spenderin einziehen – in Belle Morte.

Belle Morte. One of five houses where vampires reside as celebrities and humans are paid to be their living donors. While others came here seeking fortune, I came in search of my sister who walked into Belle Morte five months ago . . . and never walked back out. Now that I'm here, the secrets about this world have proven to be much bigger than I ever anticipated. And lurking around every corner are shocking insinuations of what happened to my sister.

Teenie-Detektive auf gefährlichen Spuren: Mit dem ungleichen Duo Basti und Sabse schickt Hörspiel- und Comicautorin Frauke Schmickl zwei übersinnlich begabte Kids auf geheime Missionen, um neben Schule, Fußball und Serienmarathon mal eben schnell die Welt zu retten. Besuch? Ist nicht immer willkommen. Vor allem, wenn er aus einem Paralleluniversum anklopft und gleich ganz Schafsbüttel übernehmen will. Wie gut, dass es "Weltenwächter" gibt, die unschöne Überraschungen abwehren – ohne, dass wir Normalos etwas davon mitbekommen.

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Tras sobrevivir al despiadado ataque a Belle Morte, que mató tanto a vampiros como a donantes, la vida de Renie Mayfield ha cambiadopara siempre. Ahora que es vampira, la angustiosa transformación de su cuerpo y de su mente solo puede compararse con el descubrimiento de la espeluznante verdad sobre su hermana, June, que ha escapado de la mansión convertida en rabiosa, lo que añade aún más caos a la realidad de Renie.

Finding himself alone on a desert island when everything and everyone he knows and loved has been washed away in a huge storm, Mau is the last surviving member of his nation. He's also completely alone - or so he thinks until he finds the ghost girl. She has no toes, wears strange lacy trousers...

Gwyneth Shepherd's sophisticated, beautiful cousin Charlotte has been prepared her entire life for traveling through time. But unexpectedly, it is Gwyneth who in the middle of class takes a sudden spin to a different era! Gwyneth must now unearth the mystery of why her mother would lie about her...

In Kerstin Gier's Emerald Green, Gwen has a destiny to fulfill, but no one will tell her what it is. She's only recently learned that she is the Ruby, the final member of the time-traveling Circle of Twelve, and since then nothing has been going right. She suspects the founder of the Circle...

Things seem to be going well for Liv Silver: she's adjusting to her new home (and her new family) in London; she has a burgeoning romance with Henry Harper, one of the cutest boys in school; and the girl who's been turning her dreams into nightmares, Anabel, is now locked up. But serenity...

Mysterious doors with lizard-head knobs. Talking stone statues. A crazy girl with a hatchet. Yep, Liv's dreams have been pretty weird lately. Especially this one where she's in a graveyard at night, watching four boys perform dark magic rituals. The really weird thing is that Liv recognizes the...

Welcome to the dark decadence of Dhonielle Clayton's sharp tale of beauty, obsession and magic.... In the opulent world of Orléans, the people are born grey and damned, and only a Belle's powers can make them beautiful. Camellia Beauregard wants to be the favourite Belle - the one chosen by the queen to tend to the royal family. But once Camellia and her Belle sisters arrive at court, it becomes clear that being the favourite is not everything she always dreamed it would be.

Gwen's life has been a rollercoaster since she discovered she was the Ruby, the final member of the secret time-traveling Circle of Twelve. In between searching through history for the other time-travelers and asking for a bit of their blood (gross!), she's been trying to figure out what all the...

Lexi is a survivor; she has spent her whole life moving from one abusive foster home to the next, until she decided to take charge of her own life. Living in abandoned buildings, couch surfing, and working at a strip clubs were a huge improvement on what she had before. All she needs is enough money to feed herself, finish high school, and hopefully go to college. She has a plan. That is until she is caught and sent to live with a strange foster family upstate.  

Callesta, Sylvan, Rhys und Kenra versuchen mit aller Macht, die seltsame Anziehungskraft zwischen ihnen loszuwerden, doch solange sie nicht wissen, woher sie kommt und was sie bezweckt, ist es ein aussichtsloses Unterfangen. Währenddessen ergreift die Halbelfe Leria eine einmalige Chance. Das Elfenkönigspaar hat einen einmaligen Wettkampf ausgerufen. Der Sieger erhält nichts Geringeres als die Königswürde. Da sie zur Hälfte eine Fee ist, gehört Leria weder richtig ins Feenreich noch ins Elfenreich.

Galen is a vampire, Rafferty is a red wolf, and the twins, Ranger and Maverick, shift into grey wolves. What the shifters don't know is there is a war brewing and Lexi is caught right in the middle. But Lexi isn't human.

Ein Wettbewerb, bei dem nur das Äußere zählt. Eine Kandidatin, die nicht dazugehört. Ein tödliches Geheimnis, das alle in Gefahr bringt. Solidaris, im Jahr 107 nach der Vereinigung. Der nächste Mondzyklus steht kurz bevor: Eine glitzernde Show, ausgetragen unter den sensationsgierigen Augen der Nation, bei der Kandidatinnen aus allen Provinzen um das begehrte Monddiadem kämpfen. Als die 17-jährige Marisol für den Wettbewerb ausgewählt wird, glaubt sie erst an einen Scherz. Denn Marisol ist nichts von dem, was die Kandidatinnen normalerweise sind – anmutig, elegant und vor allem: schlank.

Inspired by an ominous Prague legend, What Wakes the Bells is a lavish gothic fantasy by debut author Elle Tesch that is perfect for fans of Adalyn Grace, Margaret Rogerson, and V.E. Schwab. Built by long-gone Saints, the city of Vaiwyn lives and breathes and bleeds. As a Keeper, Mina knows...

Sophia, the dangerous and erratic former queen, has been imprisoned, restoring peace to Orléans. Now her sister, Charlotte, sits on the throne and has decided to invoke the ancient tradition of the Beauty Trials―a series of harrowing tests meant to find the true ruler of Orléans. Edel, who has always aspired to be more than a Belle, decides to enter and, after promising to bind her arcana to keep from having an unnatural advantage, joins a few dozen other hopefuls intent on becoming the next Queen of Orléans.

Reise mit uns in eine Vergangenheit, in der die Melodie der Maschinen den Rhythmus deines Lebens bestimmt und werde Teil der Revolution! 1820: Napoleon hält England besetzt. Die 15-jährige Florance arbeitet als talentierte rechte Hand des Meistermechanikers eines maschinenverrückten Earls. Doch als dessen Anwesen plötzlich von Luftschiff-Rebellen überfallen wird, stehlen sie nicht nur den Prototypen einer revolutionären Erfindung, sondern auch die in dessen Maschinenraum unfreiwillig gefangene Florance.