Ergebnis für "The Tree" in Literatur & Belletristik

A new Civil War is brewing. With the city of Bewelcome as its headquarters, Allan Pinkerton’s Detective Agency leads a siege on Hex City, the town founded by “Reverend” Asher Rook and his consort, the Mayan goddess Ixchel. Monsters prowl the battleground, rocket trails of spells crisscross the sky, and an unnatural rain falls. Sides must be taken, but Pinkerton-agent-turned-outlaw Ed Morrow, spiritualist Yancey Kloves, and even Rook must choose what ruin or redemption means to each of them. Meanwhile, Chess Pargeter gears up for the greatest fight of his life—and death.

Recovering from the death of her son and the end of her marriage, Kelsey Stewart goes to stay with her aunt at her seaside inn in Carmel, California, looking only for retreat. But a local emergency unexpectedly brings Kelsey's troubled heart back to life again. When a young boy falls from one of the sea cliffs, Kelsey, a therapist specializing in brain-damaged children, is recruited to help rehabilitated Jody.

For the first time collected all together, C. S. E. Cooney releases fiction including the novella "The Witch in the Almond Tree," her erotic fairy tale "Witch, Beast, Saint," and the haunting "Braiding the Ghosts."

Dr. Harold Jones, a Professor of Christian Science has had a childhood dream of walking where God walked; to find the original location of the Garden of Eden from the Bible. Later in life, he comes into the funds to make this historical trip possible. He hires a ship and brings along four of his top students in his quest for the Garden and the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.

Laurel attends the weekend family reunion hoping to impress Billy with her accomplishments in the world of business, but instead she finds herself strangely reverted to a girl again; a girl who is eager to play in his private tree house if he will let her. Proud of her poise and demeanor in the real world, she has to have that stripped away from her if she also wants to do big girl things.

When a new hotshot lawyer arrives at the law firm where Navina works as receptionist, she mistakes Riley for a bicycle courier. Maybe high-powered lawyers dress like bums back in Vancouver, home of the crunchy granola eaters, but in Toronto, they're supposed to wear suits and look serious. Still, he is pretty cute. When Riley invites Navina on a hike, she gets blisters galore, but luckily, Riley is equipped with bandages...not to mention bungee cords. Did he really plan to tie her to the nearest tree?

Shelby is cute enough that she's grown accustomed to random creepy men vying for her attention. But when she meets Cameron Nickle, an eccentric doctor who can't stop talking about plants, she's intrigued, at least.