Independently published dez 2011 (9 resultados)

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - As Potter leaves Kiera and his friends to go in search of Luke, he makes a lonely journey across the snow-capped mountains of Cumbria. Haunted by the death of Murphy, the capture of Luke and the love that he feels for Kiera, Potter reflects on his past life and the disturbing events that took place at the Wolf House.He remembers his first encounter with the werewolves, how he had to save Murphy and Luke, and capture the serial killer who was murdering the children from the town of Little Hope.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Max Cain fell asleep at eight years old. He woke up at eighteen-as the CEO of the most dangerous corporation on Earth. The last thing Max remembers is his eighth birthday: a school bully, a chase through the halls, and his two best friends doing impossible things. Then everything went black. Now he's awake in a boardroom in New York City with a decade missing from his mind, a fortune he doesn't remember building, and an army that answers to his name. Because while Max slept, someone else was using his body-and using it to wage war. Rescued by the friends he left behind as children, Max is taken into the hidden world he was born for: a secret society of people carrying the essences of history's greatest heroes, a mentor whose kindness hides secrets of its own, and magic stronger than anyone alive has ever seen. His magic. But there's a prophecy carved in stone with Max's name on it-and prophecies are never wrong. It says he will lead. It says all men will end. It says the person closest to him will die. To save the man who sacrificed everything for him, Max will cross the country with his best friends at his side, hunted by soldiers carrying weapons stamped with his own company's logo-and face an enemy who has been pulling the strings for a thousand years. Max spent ten years asleep. His enemy spent them getting ready.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - What comes after death Nineteen-year-old Gerry Patterson has no time to worry about anything except the challenges of life as a college freshman. That is, until a shockingly realistic daydream gives him a terrifying glimpse into the life of an abused woman in 1890s England. It is not just a daydream. He literally feels her confusion, her pain, her fear.Knowing his parents will not believe him, Gerry turns for help to his girlfriend, Remmy and her second-sighted Aunt Jasmina. Jasmina uses her gift of seeing past lives to help him understand his connection with his former existence. Though wanting to help too, Remmy is struggling with a troubling memory from her own previous existence that threatens to separate her from the love of her life.As they try to cope with these revelations, others from the past appear in the present to take them on a harrowing journey that further challenges their view of reality, and may permanently end their repeated cycles of death and rebirth.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Lyris Radleck's normal school life is turned on its head when she learns that she's only half human. Worse, she has a destiny she never asked for and doesn't want: to save Dandelorn, her father's world, from a desolate fate at the hands of a vengeful goblin. Lyris refuses her assignment until a heart-wrenching event changes her mind. Lyris is challenged to survive in a natural world without stores or cellphone coverage - let alone electricity or running water. Plus, Lyris' older cousin Darla, who's completely human, has dropped into Dandelorn behind her, and Lyris is faced with the task of sending her home. When Darla falls in love with the debonaire goblin, priorities change. To prove that he would not only ruin Dandelorn - and the Earthworld - but Darla's life as well, becomes Lyris' biggest challenge. Only wits and strength of character will make a difference and protect her from her darkest foe: herself.Excerpt.Darla stopped short, her face one big scowl. Dirt smudged her cheeks; water dripped from her hair; her sopping, navy skirt clung to her legs; and her mud-stained blouse had lost even every hint of its former whiteness. 'What have you done, Lyris Where are we ' Her voice wobbled, and I could tell there would be tears any second. 'We're in Dandelorn. Where have you been I've looked for you all day.' Should I hug her or something Not convinced that it would help, I just added, 'I'm. so glad you're okay.'With trembling fingers, she raked aside a clump of hair matted against her forehead. 'If you really want to know, I. I woke up to cats screaming. Hundreds of them. I couldn't see them but they must've been. huge. Since then, I've been walking through a jungle. for hours. And I just fell into a pond of scummy water.' She grabbed the edge of her skirt. 'Just look at me! I'm covered in mud!''What happened to your blazer ''It. it must've come off inside that tornado.''Portal.''Whatever.' She clutched the blue stones around her throat. 'I keep seeing these funny bugs flying around. and.and there's a jaguar back there. And something else. like out of a nightmare. A scarlet animal. sort of. Horrible looking. Its fingertip lit up and twirled at me.' A monster-in-the-closet type of fear glimmered in her eyes.Could only be Urzik. In which case, he was the one who'd zapped my friend Tam. 'W-hat did you do ''Pushed him into the pond. He screamed, and so I ran.' She slapped the mud on her blouse. 'I thought I was gonna be lost in this awful place forever. When do we leave 'I suppose I couldn't expect her to say, 'Gee, Lyris. Sorry I thought you were talking crazy.' But it would've been nice. I scratched the itchy mark on my arm. 'I tried to tell you that I was go-' 'Where's a place to clean up. Where's the restroom ' We'd need to ease into this. 'Darla, hate to break it to you, but we're in a different world. Things are more. natural here. The nearest restroom is that bush over there.' She stiffened. 'What are you saying ''Um. that you need to think Wilderness Training.''Really Then where did you get those cute, patchy cut-offs I want to change my clothes right now! And why does it smell like something just died here ' Probably me: no shower, and too much time with those irritating dwarves. Would Darla think to ask where I'd been for the past few hours 'Look, why don't we go back to this. place I heard about ' Darla didn't need to know that Gwynyin's place was inside a tree. 'We should-' 'We should get home!' She aimed her finger at me, and her voice ramped up an octave. 'What'll our moms think when they learn we fell down a HOLE! DID YOU CONSIDER THAT ''It wasn't a hole. I told you. It's called a portal. Why did you want to stop me from coming here, anyway ''Are you brain dead I was trying to save you from falling. It looked like a hole. How was I to know where it went ''So now we've got a problem, because I'm not sure you can get back.'. …

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - While tending his family's garden one September morning in 1779, a young commoner encountered a prince in a chance meeting that would change both of their lives.The young man certainly never imagined that he was setting out on a journey that would take him from the quaint village where he was born to the magnificent courts of Russia, Poland and England. But neither could the young farm boy have imagined that he would one day also witness firsthand the horrific treatment of the royal family imprisoned in a dark medieval prison during the mayhem of the French Revolution. Cléry, born Jean-Baptiste Cant Hanet, was the only personal servant to remain with King Louis XVI and his family in the tower of the Temple Prison. Although Cléry himself was closely scrutinized in the tower and even threatened with the guillotine, he managed to secretly record the guards' cruel and merciless treatment of the king, Queen Marie-Antoinette, their two children, and the king's sister. JEAN-BAPTISTE CLÉRY is the first non-fiction work to provide insight into the cultural and psychological world of this tragic royal family from a very different perspective, that of a dedicated servant. Cléry was the only personal servant permitted to accompany and remain with Louis and his family in the Temple where they were imprisoned in 1792. Isolated from his family, accused of spying, and eventually imprisoned himself for his loyalty, Cléry spent his final days in exile in Austria.Was Cléry wrongly accused of infidelity to the royal family Was he an agent of the revolutionaries JEAN-BAPTISTE CLÉRY separates fact from rumor, and finally unravels the truth about this ordinary man in an extraordinary setting with very extraordinary actors. The biography also exposes the inner struggles of the young servant who served as the personal valet to King Louis XVI and Queen Marie-Antoinette before their tragic rendezvous with the guillotine.Incorporating findings from research based on journals and memoirs from the late 18th and early 19th century France, the compelling story sheds light on the often neglected aspects of the lives of royal servants including their steadfast loyalty and dedication to the king's family as well as concern for their own personal well-being in dangerous, terrifying circumstances.…

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