Résultats pour "Born" dans Anthologies et nouvelles

One moment Ruby Grace is an ordinary girl enjoying a ski trip in the Adirondack Mountains, and the next she’s running through the woods as a wolf. When she’s herself again, she seeks refuge in the house of Connor Ward, the mysterious and devastatingly gorgeous guy whose party she attended the night before. She tells him what happened, and he drops the biggest bombshell of her life: she’s a wolf shifter. Except when Ruby tries to use shifter magic, nothing happens. Which relegates her to the bottom tier of shifter society. Basically, lower than dirt.

The remarkable stories in Born Into This are eye-opening, razor-sharp and entertaining, often all at once. From an Aboriginal ranger trying to instil some pride in wayward urban teens on the harsh islands off the coast of Tasmania, to those scraping by on the margins of White society railroaded into complex and compromised decisions, Adam Thompson presents a powerful indictment of colonialism and racism.

THE POWERFUL NEW BESTSELLER FROM ONE OF THE NATION’S FAVOURITE STORYTELLERS AVAILABLE ON AUDIO. Harry always knew he would go back one day … Eighteen years ago when he was a boy, he had made a decision that drove him from the pace he knew and loved. In those early years, between boy and man...

For fans of Carmen Maria Machado and Jhumpa Lahiri, Ruined a Little When We Are Born delivers a stunning exploration of family and motherhood against the backdrop of Indian diaspora and culture. Tara Isabel Zambrano weaves elements from both the physical and supernatural worlds to beg the question: are we all ruined a little from our first breath?

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society. In this volume we offer up a small selection of talents from the literary landscape of 1800 to 1849 and its male authors whose time has now come again.

Terak is an orphaned elf who has been raised by the severe order of monks known as the Enclave. Inside the walls of the Black Keep, he is an outcast in more ways than one. In a world of magic, he must learn how to survive with no magic of his own. Can the very thing that makes him despised save those that would rather he didn't exist at all?

BESTSELLING AUTHOR COLLECTION Reader-favorite romances in collectible volumes from our bestselling authors Texas Born by New York Times bestselling author Diana Palmer Ever since Gabriel Brandon rescued her from a dark future, Michelle Godrey looked up to the rancher as her personal hero...

This collection of macabre tales of the black arts treads the dangerous landscape between this world and that populated by angels and demons, gods and devils, ghosts and spirits, and the legendary creatures of our darkest imaginings. First Born is the beginning of the journey into the Liber Monstrorum, the chronicles of those occult detectives who are the last line of defense against those preternatural forces that threaten to destroy a world that refuses to believe that such things exist...

A Witch Shall Be Born is one of the original sword and sorcery novellas by Robert E. Howard about Conan the Cimmerian. The story concerns a witch replacing her twin sister as queen of a city state, which brings her into conflict with Conan who had been the captain of the queen's guard. Themes of paranoia, and the duality of the twin sisters, are paramount in this story but it also includes elements of the conflict between barbarism and civilization that is common to the entire Conan series.

Johnny Delmer was born in a cabin that should have been condemned in a small town known as Docerville. Johnny's parents didn't have much money to put food on the table for little Johnny to eat. Johnny's father, Jack, worked at Doc's gas station in Docerville whenever he wasn't drunk. Johnny's mothe,r Susan, worked as a waitress at Dugers Diner also located in Docerville, but only part-time because she had an alcohol problem as well. Seeing the way Johnny's father treated his mother was one factor that would later mold little Johnny Delmer into a serial killer.

These stories represent Louis L'Amour at his best - stirring adventure tales of the ageless Old West, as tough and gritty as the men who tamed it. Each story is personally selected, with an introduction and special historical notes by the author.

Christmas Eve, 1936. On a foggy December night, a pregnant woman walks out in front of a trolley bus and is knocked unconscious. She is rushed to the Nightingale hospital, and a healthy baby is delivered. But the mother claims to have lost her memory, and cannot believe that the child is hers. It seems that the Nightingale nurses may need to perform a Christmas miracle.

Sit back, turn the lights down low, and get ready for the scare of your life, with nine bloodcurdling short stories from 31 Horrifying Tales from the Dead, written by Drac Von Stoller. "Born a Serial Killer", "Castle Drac Von Stoller", "The Seance", "What if the Devil Created Earth", "Wood Chipper", "The Haunted Camera","The Ghosts of Summerville Plantation", "Planchette", and "The Severed Hand" will have your hair standing on end!

And God told Moses, "And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you when I smite the land of Egypt." Moses called for all the elders of Israel and educated them on God's word. Lambs were sacrificed, and their blood marked upon the two side posts of each Hebrew door.

The fate of the Campbell Family fortune has suddenly been put in the hands of the youngest and only remaining child Kimberly Campbell. Kimberly is not sure she can take on a business that has been passed down in her family for generations, but she is left with little choice. She either steps up to the plate or watches as everything falls apart. While fighting to save the family business, Kim must also struggle with trouble in her new marriage. To complicate matters further, family secrets make her question whether or not she is making the right decision at all.

Like all great metropolises before it, when a city gets big enough, old enough, it must be born; but there are ancient enemies who cannot tolerate new life. Thus New York will live or die by the efforts of a reluctant midwife...and how well he can learn to sing the city's mighty song.

Sit back, turn the lights down low, and get ready for the scare of your life, with five bloodcurdling short stories from 31 Horrifying Tales from the Dead, written by Drac Von Stoller. "Born a Serial Killer", "Castle Drac Von Stoller", "The Seance," "What If The Devil Created Earth", and "Wood Chipper" will have your hair standing on end!

From the moment he spies her silhouette cast by the bonfire, Cormack understands what it is to yearn for something he will never possess. Breds are made to provide for the natural born humans, dig their homes deep beneath the surface of the earth and to protect them from the ever-present cyborg threat. A Bred who reaches beyond his station will be recycled immediately, yet Cormack cannot get her visage out of his mind. Until he unearths a box, buried long before the earth stopped spinning.

This collection contains the three books in Kate Pearce's Planet Valhalla series, sexy science fiction novellas where pleasure is paramount.