Résultats pour "Elias" dans Anthologies et nouvelles

A casual glance out his apartment window turns Magician Eli Marks’ life upside down. After spotting a dead body in the projection booth of the movie theater next door, Eli is pulled into the hunt for the killer. As he attempts to puzzle out a solution to this classic locked room mystery, he must deal with a crisis of a more personal nature: the appearance of a rival magician who threatens not only Eli’s faith in himself as a performer, but his relationship with his girlfriend.

Books four, five, and six in the Eli Marks mystery series all in one volume. This audiobook includes: The Linking Rings, The Floating Light Bulb, and The Zombie Ball.

Peaches Taylor spent the last seven years slinging drinks and dodging drunks at the Starkwood Saloon. Some might call it a dead-end job, but to her it was an investment - another six months, and she’d have enough money to buy the place. Life would've been perfect if Eli hadn’t come home. Eli King is ready to settle down. He stood by his brothers when they needed him, paying the price for their freedom with his own. Now it’s time to claim his reward - the Starkwood Saloon.

Elias B. Hopkins, aka "The Parson", is a new reverend at Jackman's Gulch, a small miner village in Australia. In the local bar, swearing and blasphemies are not uncommon. That's why he decides to recite the Bible aloud for each bad word he hears. So much that he who swears is now frowned upon by his peers for breaking the atmosphere.

In these disturbing, haunting, yet strangely beautiful stories, the terrible carnage of the Middle East is rendered in unforgettable form. In the brilliant, horrifying title story, a lonely shepherd wanders a broken no-man's land, carrying with him the burden of an unspeakable act. A collection of startling authority and vivid imagination, this collection heralds the arrival of a masterful new storyteller.

These loosely connected stories are laced with the familiar and the uncanny, the real and the surreal, the ordinary and the fabulistic. A documentary filmmaker refuses to give up on finding his daughter who mysteriously disappears by the river. A small-time real estate agent recovers from a brief psychotic episode upon discovering his fiancee's affair. An actress struggles to grasp reality when the recordings of lucid dreams are used in movies instead of live performances. An eccentric teenager recounts his first romance from beyond the grave.

Richard lebt zwischen Einsamkeit und Sehnsucht – gefangen in der Stille seiner Tage. Bis er eine Stimme entdeckt, die sein Herz berührt. Aus einem harmlosen Gespräch wird eine Verbindung, die alles verändert: leidenschaftlich, heilsam und gefährlich ehrlich. Eine Liebe, die keine Regeln kennt. Eine Nähe, die Grenzen sprengt. Eine Geschichte, die bleibt.

The electrifying, "cutting-edge" (USA Today) debut work of fiction from Ron Currie, author of the forethcoming novel The One-Eyed Man (March 2017) Ron Currie’s gutsy, funny book is instantly gripping: If God takes human form and dies, what would become of life as we know it? Effortlessly...

A stunning collection of stories exploring love and art, luck and loss, from the “invaluable” (George Saunders) author of How to Behave in a Crowd and The Material “These stories don’t close so much as continue inside you. They tilt the world and don’t set it back, leaving you to live...

Stories of the Silver Tower and of Sir Bryan's youth. With more and more foes placing themselves in Sir Bryan's way, the old knight is more determined than ever to reach the Starlight Monastery.

Ruby has always had a big imagination and a love for adventure. When Ruby decides she wants to write a book, she enlists her aunt, Lora, who is a journalist, to help her write it. She comes up with a story about a principal who is really mean, inspired by her own life—sort of. Meanwhile, her teacher Mr. Goodwin is quitting school for a reason that only Ruby knows, and Aunt Lora has been getting mysterious calls from her work that she doesn't want Ruby to know about.

Threads are converging in this collection of short stories. Sir Demitri Reyven goes toe to toe with an old friend and comrade as dragons circle overhead. Sir Bryan meets ghosts from his past and meets a horrible end...or does he? And Captain Sidonia continues to lead the caravan of orphans to Starlight Monastery while the mercenaries of the Grey Wolves, under her command, struggle to continue at under half-strength.

The trek to Starlight Monastery continues as the brave Sir Bryan leaves Lazland with his young orphaned charges. But will their luck finally hold out until the journey's end? Or will the deadly Magistrate Vonner and his daemonic allies catch up to him? Will his newfound ability to tap into the memories of the world through the magic of Chronomancy be enough to stop another daemonic incursion? Or is another Crystal War imminent and unstoppable? Sir Bryan will never be the same after these flashes of loss and redemption.

In this collection of dark-fantasy flash-fiction stories, Sir Bryan Wulfram of Erdenwald continues his journey to the Starlight Monastery, where he will lay the remains of a dead friend to rest. He has hired three different mercenary companies to guard himself and the 20 orphans from Pelastrios City who have taken the journey with him, and he will need all of their strongest and bravest warriors to survive the hidden enemies who threaten him and his mission at every turn.

Sir Bryan spends more and more time exploring the past as he sees events that happened not only when he was younger and just setting out on the path of the knight, but also the events that his father, the Marquis of Erdenwald, experienced as a younger man. In the present, Sir Bryan must make the treacherous journey back to the Statlight Monastery, where he hopes to lay the earthly remains of an old friend to rest. He will be taking his new charges with him, though, and he must hire additional help to protect them at all costs.

Beirut is a city of contradiction and paradox. It is an urban and rural city, one of violence and forgiveness, memory and forgetfulness. Beirut is a city of war and peace. This short story collection is a part of a vibrant, living recovery of Beirut. Beirut Noir recovers the city once again through writing, through the literary visions of its authors....

After five years of backbreaking work and training at Old Isaac's vineyard, Gregor Wulfram leaves his friends to serve ten years in a remote mountain community. In that time, he must learn to work with the other knights, fight monsters and bandits, and even court an enchantress from the royal court in his quest to earn a spot in the nobility of the land.

Alle Jahre wieder macht sich die halbe Republik kurz vor den Feiertagen auf den Weg zur buckligen Verwandtschaft. Als ob der Besuch bei Tante und Onkel nicht schon schlimm genug wäre, quälen wir uns stundenlang durch den Stau, fluchen über den ICE in verkehrter Wagenreihung oder sitzen auf dem verschneiten Rollfeld fest, während unser Airbus zum wiederholten Mal enteist wird. Und das alles umgeben von nicht minder nervigen Nichten, Neffen, Omas und Opas, die sich ebenfalls nicht vor dem Besuch bei der Familie zu drücken wussten.