Ergebnis für "Witches" in Genre-Fiction

Nach einem Bürgerkrieg unter den Hexen versuchen die Freundinnen Niamh, Leonie, Helena und Elle, in ihr "normales" Leben zurückzukehren. Doch Niamh trauert um ihre große Liebe und hadert mit ihren Gefühlen für den Gemüselieferanten Luke; Leonie kämpft für ihren eigenen Zirkel aus Hexen of Color; Helena muss als Hohepriesterin des Hexenzirkels ihrer Majestät die magische Behörde am Laufen halten; und Elle ist mit einem Nicht-Magier verheiratet, der nichts von ihren Kräften ahnt – bis ihre Tochter sich als Hexe entpuppt.

Buying into the dream that education is the road out of poverty, a teen mom takes a chance on bettering herself, gets on welfare rolls, and talks her way into college. But once she's there, phallocratic narratives permeate every subject, and creative writing professors depend heavily on Freytag's pyramid to analyze life. So Ariel turns to a rich subcultural canon of resistance and failure, populated by writers like Audre Lorde, Tillie Olsen, and Kathy Acker. Wryly riffing on feminist literary tropes, We Were Witches documents the survival of a demonized single mother. 

Florence and Evie Caldwell have long disagreed on how to break their family’s curse, and tension has been high since their mother’s death thirteen years ago. Honeysuckle House, the family estate where every Caldwell has lived, now only houses one of the sisters. Evie has crafted it into an enchanted bed and breakfast while Florence runs a magical bookstore in town, refusing to even set foot inside Honeysuckle House.

Dunkle Geheimnisse, Freunde, die zu Feinden werden, und das drohende Ende der Welt. In "Die falsche Schwester", dem 2. Teil der Urban-Fantasy-Trilogie "Der Hexenzirkel Ihrer Majestät", droht den magisch begabten Freundinnen aus allen Richtungen Gefahr. Nach den erschütternden Ereignissen rund um Helena, die Hohepriesterin des Hexenzirkels Ihrer Majestät, steht für die Hexen Niamh, Leonie und Elle alles auf dem Spiel: Während Niamh zur neuen Hohepriesterin aufsteigt, begibt Leonie sich auf die lebensgefährliche Suche nach dem Verräter Hale, der einst den Bürgerkrieg unter den Hexen angezettelt hatte.

For fans of The Watchers and T. Kingfisher comes a queer, post-apocalyptic horror following one woman’s journey across a merciless wasteland to save her brother and confront the dark truth behind the monsters that ravaged the world - with the help of a woman she’s not sure she can trust but...

In the gripping first novel in the Daughters of the Empty Throne trilogy, author Margaret Killjoy spins a tale of earth magic, power struggle, and self-invention in an own-voices story of trans witchcraft. Lorel has always dreamed of becoming a witchlearning magic, fighting monsters, and...

The second epic installment of the Obsidian Throne trilogy, an epic fantasy of betrayal, memory, and the fight for an empire, in which a prince and a witch must find a way to burn the world to the ground in order to raise it up out of the ashes. An empress with vengeance in her heart Prince...

After the men in an Arctic Norwegian town are wiped out, the women must survive a sinister threat in this 1600s parable inspired by real events. Finnmark, Norway, 1617. Twenty-year-old Maren Magnusdatter stands on the craggy coast, watching the sea break into a sudden and reckless storm. Forty...

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It is believed that the soul of the being is captured in the heart at the moment of death. If the soul is evil, the heart should be taken, sealed and placed far away, severing any ability the entity would have to return to this earth. Sarafina was an entity such as that. A spawn of evil from the darkest side. She held her reign in the seventeen hundreds, taking the minds of the weak and innocent to build her forces. Stealing the hearts and souls of her victims to add to her power and strength.

In 1465 a simple pocketful of herbs could get you burned at the stake, but Luccia Alimenti, daughter of one of the legendary women doctors called Salernistas, travels Europe secretly distributing medical texts to midwives and herbalists. Despite dodging the Inquisition and battling the Plague with her beloved Irish godmother, Luccia finds love as well as heartbreak. Pushed to the edge, however, she must use her skill as an archer to rescue women being taken to the pyre.