Ergebnis für "The Wind in the Willows" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

Not much happens here. A mole gives up spring-cleaning. A dragon refuses to fight. Children explore gardens, secrets, and grown-up nonsense. And that's exactly the charm. In The Classic Collection of Kenneth Grahame, the smallest moments matter: a picnic basket, a dusty lane, a long afternoon with nowhere in particular to go. These are tales where animals talk, time meanders, and adventure might mean simply getting lost — on purpose. This volume brings together four of Grahame's most loved works: The Wind in the Willows, The Reluctant Dragon, The Golden Age, and Dream Days.

Centuries before A Game of Thrones, an even greater game began, one that set the skies alight with dragon flame and saw the Seven Kingdoms turned to ash.

So began the Targaryens’ bloody rule, with fire and blood. Setting brother against brother, mother against daughter, and dragon against dragon.

Chronicled by a learned maester of the Citadel, this thrilling and bloody history of Westeros tells the story of where the battle for the Iron Throne began…

Sie hat violette Augen, nachtblaue Haare und spitze Ohren. Seit ihrer Geburt weiß sie, dass sie eine Kriegerin ist. Sie träumt davon, den Drachenrittern anzugehören und die Fammin zu schlagen, ein Monstervolk, das der Tyrann erschaffen hat, um ihre Welt zu zerstören. Nihal, die bei den Menschen aufwuchs, ist die letzte Überlebende der Halbelfen, einem Volk, das der Tyrann bereits ausgerottet hat. Nihal trägt den Schmerz ihres Volkes in sich, das sie nie kennen gelernt hat, von dem sie aber in ihren Träumen angefleht wird, Vergeltung zu üben. Nur zwei Verbündete stehen ihr zur Seite: der junge Magier Sennar und ihr unfehlbares Schwert aus schwarzem Kristall. Wird es Nihal gelingen, das Schicksal einer Welt abzuwenden, die vom Untergang bedroht ist?

Once a detective, all he wants now is to run his café in peace. Sunder City is still recovering from the sudden and violent end of magic, and if one man can't solve all its problems, he can at least stop some people going hungry. But when a kid on the run shelters in Fetch's café, and a chain of gruesome murders begins among Sunder's high and mighty, trouble is brought to Fetch's door. There's a word whispered on the wind, and that word is revolution...

Hear the beloved children's tale as read by B.J. Harrison. "The Wind in the Willows" follows the eventful adventures of four animals: Mole, Rat, Toad and Badger, as they navigate twists of friendship, dangers and changing surroundings. This 20th-century novel has become known and loved through countless adaptations on the screen and stage alike, including the animated Disney adaptation The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949) and the British film The Wind in the Willows (1996) starring Steve Coogan. B. J.

Sie hat violette Augen, nachtblaue Haare und spitze Ohren. Seit ihrer Geburt weiß sie, dass sie eine Kriegerin ist. Sie träumt davon, den Drachenrittern anzugehören und die Fammin zu schlagen, ein Monstervolk, das der Tyrann erschaffen hat, um ihre Welt zu zerstören. Nihal, die bei den Menschen aufwuchs, ist die letzte Überlebende der Halbelfen, einem Volk, das der Tyrann bereits ausgerottet hat. Nihal trägt den Schmerz ihres Volkes in sich, das sie nie kennen gelernt hat, von dem sie aber in ihren Träumen angefleht wird, Vergeltung zu üben. Nur zwei Verbündete stehen ihr zur Seite: der junge Magier Sennar und ihr unfehlbares Schwert aus schwarzem Kristall. Wird es Nihal gelingen, das Schicksal einer Welt abzuwenden, die vom Untergang bedroht ist?

Brielle of Thornbrook has dedicated her life to the abbey. She spends her days forging iron and studying the Text, all in preparation of becoming an acolyte—a shepherd of the Father. Twenty-one years on this earth and she has never touched a man. And she never will. Yet dark things uncoil beyond Thornbrook's high stone walls. A chance encounter with an alluring stranger leads Brielle to Under, where the air breathes rot and the roots grow black. Zephyrus, Bringer of Spring, with eyes of green.

It’s the largest oil spill in history: a crashed supertanker in San Francisco Bay. Desperate to avert environmental damage—and a PR disaster—the multinational oil company releases an untested “designer microbe” to break up the spill. It's an “oil-eating” microbe, designed to consume anything made of petrocarbons: oil, gasoline, synthetic fabrics, and of course plastic. What the company doesn’t realize is that their microbe propagates through the air....

Brielle of Thornbrook has dedicated her life to the abbey. She spends her days forging iron and her evenings studying the Text, all in preparation of becoming an acolyte. Twenty-one years on this earth and she has never touched a man. And she never will. But when she finds an injured stranger in the forest, Brielle can’t resist the urge to help him. The encounter leads her to the realm of Under, where the air breathes rot, and the fair folk dance and whisper. Where she discovers that the man she helped is actually a god: Zephyrus, the West Wind, Bringer of Spring.