Résultats pour "Firebird" dans Toutes les catégories

Julian Dakkia, Roman general and nephew to the emperor, has played his role as conqueror well. Yet, the moment he laid eyes on Malina, he was enthralled by the Dacian dancer. Years later, the fierce beauty stands before him, a captive on a scarred battlefield, her life in danger. He instinctively shifts into his fierce dragon form to save her, an action that may mean his head on the imperial gate.

Tadra has known her entire life that she was meant for a great destiny. But she never expected it to happen like this: trapped in a strange new world, her magic broken and her voice silenced, unable to shift to anything other than a tiny shadow of her firebird's glory. Ansel's kiss releases Tadra from her glass prison...just in time to face the battle bearing down on both of them.

Das erste Mal sieht Julian Malina tanzend auf einer Bühne. Das zweite Mal auf einem verwüsteten Schlachtfeld. Der Drache, der dem römischen Centurio innewohnt, ist sich sicher: Malina ist sein Juwel. Um sie vor der Brutalität seiner eigenen Soldaten zu retten, beansprucht Julian die Dakerin für sich und bringt sie als seine Sklavin nach Rom.

In Mercedes Lackey's Firebird, Ilya, son of a Russian prince, is largely ignored by his father and tormented by his larger, older brothers. His only friends are three old people: a priest, a magician, and a woman who toils in the palace dairy. From them Ilya learns faith, a smattering of magic, and the power of love - all of which he will need desperately, for his life is about to be turned upside down.

Nastia is no traitor. She is a fearless pilot, the daughter of revolutionaries, and now, as the Second World War descends on Russia, she must fight to defend the glorious Motherland. But all is not as it seems and when the battles begin, secrets are revealed and everything that Nastia once knew is challenged.

It is 1968, one of the most tumultuous years of the 20th century. Frank Cooper, a former star investigative reporter now writes obituaries for a popular New York City tabloid. He hears the confession of a dying man named Leonard Rudawski, a former American diplomat, who bitterly questions the fate of Pavel Lukashenko, a would-be Soviet defector in Paris in 1965. Lukashenko promised to expose the espionage secret of a generation if he could get to the West. But the defector, code named “Firebird,” vanished.

Desde el momento en que Julianus Dakkia, sobrino del emperador, vio a Malina Bihari por primera vez, quedó prendido de ella. Años después, la bella bailarina dacia reaparece en un campo de batalla a punto de perder su vida, y él instintivamente se transforma en dragón para salvarla. La acción podría costarle su cargo de general, y su vida, pero tiene una cosa muy clara: Malina es suya.

Kira Forrest is a survivor. She's risen above the pain of her beginnings to become a war hero only to leave it all behind in the pursuit of a simple life. Now a salvager, she makes a living sifting through the wreckage of dead alien ships from a war that nearly brought humanity to its knees. After her ship takes damage, she's forced to re-route to a space station where her past and present collide with dangerous consequences. Kira's existence holds the key to a faltering peace treaty with the Tuann - a technologically advanced alien race who dislikes and distrusts all humans.

Forty-one years ago the renowned physicist Chris Robin vanished. Before his disappearance, his fringe-science theories about the existence of endless alternate universes had earned him both admirers and enemies. Alex Benedict and Chase Kolpath discover that Robin had several interstellar yachts flown far outside the planetary system, where they too vanished. And following Robin's trail into the unknown puts Benedict and Kolpath in danger.

Alex Kaminsky, a fourteen-year-old Ukrainian immigrant boy, suffers burns to his hands and face when his uncle’s farmhouse burns down. Rescued by a neighbour, he is tended to by a backcountry midwife before being taken in by a local postmaster. Determined to search for his older brother, an itinerant farm worker (and talented artist) who has disappeared, Alex follows Marco’s trail from a Vegreville farm to Edmonton. From there he is on the run from officials to Calgary and finally Banff, where he finds his brother close to death in the Castle Mountain Internment Camp.

When superstar hockey player and notorious bad boy Aleksandr Volynsky is traded to the Seattle Earthquakes in a blockbuster deal, Stephanie demands the opportunity to prove herself by scoring an exclusive interview with a man with no love for the media - the same man she once thought, as a naive teenager, she'd someday marry. Now expected to carry a failing team on his shoulders, Aleksandr's troubles deepen when he encounters Stephanie after a season-opening loss.

Anya's journey for revenge against Baba Yaga and Yanka leads her to search for a powerful artifact that will help her stop them once and for all. On the way, she will confront the dark goddess Louhi and join forces with two formidable magicians: the cursed magician Kullervo, and Eldon Blaise, the apprentice to the legendary Merlin. As long-buried secrets of history and the heart come to light, Anya grapples with the darkness lurking within her own soul.

Anya is still reeling from the death of her grandfather when a strange encounter with the Finnish God of the Dead changes her life forever: Her family has been guarding the gates to the Russian otherworld on their farm for centuries, and she’s the new gatekeeper. Worse, if she doesn’t awaken her magical abilities and assume her new role, the gate will break, unleashing a flood of monsters and dark gods into their world.

Haunted by the aftermath of her clash with the sorcerer Ladislav, Anya finds herself ensnared in the ethereal realm of dreams, struggling to reclaim her shattered psyche and return to the waking world. Branded as outcasts and pursued by the forces of darkness, Anya's companions transport her comatose body to Budapest, a city teeming with newfound allies and sanctuary from their supernatural pursuers. Their quest: to locate Yanka, Anya's legendary ancestor whose power may tip the scales in the looming conflict.

When we terraformed Mars, we doomed Earth. It is now the year 3000, and there is no hope. Unity controls Earth, ruling with the mind-warping technology of the BioMage. And on Mars, where humanity fled, we answer to the criminal factions of the Overlords.

Lady Firebird was born to the royal family of Netaia. Because of her birthplace in the family, however, her life is expendable. Honorable suicide is the highest calling she could hope to attain. When she is chosen to lead an attack on the neighboring planet of Veroh, her death is expected. Instead she is taken prisoner during the battle and is held by the enemy.

He doesn't have a name. Or better, he doesn't remember it. Until another human stumbles, wounded, into his life. Memories start come come back, of a life long lost. And maybe he has lived longer than what everybody thinks, including himself. A Silvery Earth novella.

In the fifth magical adventure in the series from the creators of the Fairytale Hairdresser, Tibben, the Potions Master's apprentice, and his friend Wizz must journey to the Parched Desert to get to the bottom of the mystery fierce hot winds which are blowing sand all over the Kingdom of Arthwen!

Susan Sarandon reads this Russian legend about an archer named Ivan and his inseparable companion, the Horse of Power. When Ivan brings a golden feather from the Firebird to the Tsar, he is ordered to present the entire bird or lose his life. Then he is commanded to retrieve the princess Vassilisa from the end of the earth so that the Tsar might marry her. Inevitably, the archer himself falls in love with the princess. Ivan and the Horse of Power must ultimately find a way to thwart the Tsar.

In her debut book, Misty Copeland tells the story of a young girl--an every girl--whose confidence is fragile and who is questioning her own ability to reach the heights that Misty has reached. Misty encourages this young girl's faith in herself and shows her exactly how, through hard work and...