Résultats pour "Illusion" dans Fiction

Bienvenue à Val Quarios, petite station de ski familiale qui ferme ses portes l'été. Ne reste alors qu'une douzaine de saisonniers au milieu de bâtiments déserts. Hugo vient à peine d'arriver, mais, déjà, quelque chose l'inquiète. Ce sentiment d'être épié, ces "visions" qui le hantent et cette disparition soudaine... Quels secrets terrifiants se cachent derrière ces murs ? Hugo va devoir affronter ses peurs et ses cauchemars jusqu'à douter de sa raison.

Dans le champ où il vient d’atterrir pour offrir des baptêmes de l’air à trois dollars les dix minutes, Richard aperçoit un autre zinc tout semblable au sien. Adossé à sa carlingue, un personnage sympathique et mystérieux cherche à fuir le rôle de maître à penser à qui les foules demandent toujours plus. Il lui apprendra que chaque être humain peut se libérer des barrières qu’il a lui-même construites comme autant d’illusions sur sa propre existence. Il lui suffit pour cela de suivre une idée simple...

1892, New York. Après un tour de pyrotechnie qui dérape, Jenny Marton, jeune magicienne, voit le théâtre où elle se produisait partir en fumée et toutes ses économies avec. Son seul moyen de s’en sortir ? Résoudre l’enquête que lui a confiée Pinkerton, célèbre agence de...

Earth, like the rest of the Known Worlds, has fallen to the Shing. Scattered here and there, small groups of humans live in a state of semi-barbarism. They have lost the skills, science and knowledge that had been Earth's in the golden age of the League of Worlds, and whenever a colony of humans tries to rekindle the embers of a half-forgotten technology, the Shing, with their strange, mindlying power, crush them out. There is one man who can stand against the malign Shing, but he is an alien with amber eyes and must first prove to paranoid humanity that he is not a creature of the Shing.

UN THRILLER HALETANT CONSTRUIT COMME UNE MÉCANIQUE DE PRÉCISION. À la mort de son protecteur de toujours, Atanasio se rend à Genève pour la lecture du testament. Pour toucher l'héritage, le jeune homme doit consentir à une mission machiavélique : accomplir la vengeance de Don Carlo en assassinant les ennemis de ce dernier selon un protocole précis. À commencer par l'ensorcelante Alba Malcessati, l'épouse de Don Carlo.

After losing his wife and two young sons in an airplane crash, professor David Zimmer spends his waking hours in a blur of alcoholic grief and self-pity. Then, watching television one night, he sees a clip from a lost film by the silent comedian Hector Mann. Zimmer soon finds himself embarking...

Dane and Mandy, a popular magic act for 40 years, are tragically separated by a car wreck that claims Mandy’s life—or so everyone thinks. Even as Dane mourns and tries to rebuild his life without her, Mandy, supposedly dead, awakes in the present as the19-year-old she was in 1970.

At a time of extraordinary change, two women must harness their talents to take control of their own destiny . . . Bristol, 1896. Used to scraping a living as the young assistant to an ageing con artist, Cecily Marsden's life is turned upside down when her master suddenly dies. Believing herself...

Step into a dark and magical world where fairytales hold all the answers. After yet another rejection from a publishing house, and with her dreams of becoming a children's book author shattered for good, Yeon-seo decides to go for a hike in the mountains to clear her head and relax. Lost in her...

A scientist, a philosopher, and a theologian walk into a bar… JR Norman buys the first round, and they become lifelong friends. JR Norman is an unconventional man on an extraordinary journey to uncover the forces shaping our world. The story begins with JR Norman—who he is, what shaped him, and why he became obsessed with understanding the world. As he tries to make sense of his experience, he discovers a pattern: there are two forces at work in the world: THE REAL is everything that is good, true, and right. It is reality as it actually is—not merely as we perceive it.

Eve St. Clair desperately needs help sorting reality from her fearful imaginings when ghostly voices seem to haunt the Victorian house in Sunderland, England, that she inherited from her uncle. Online research leads to a group that claims to offer just the aid she’s seeking. But can Ransom King’s handpicked team of investigators truly banish Eve’s night terrors?

Cora is about to discover who she truly is. It’s the summer of 1913, and Cora Kensington’s life on the family farm has taken a dark turn. Not only are the crops failing, but someone dear to Cora is failing as well. One fateful afternoon, a stranger comes to call, and Cora discovers a terrible secret about her past… a secret that will radically change her future. Cora is invited to take the “Grand Tour” of Europe, a trip intended to finish a person’s education and solidify an understanding of refinement and ancient culture.

This vivid reimagining of the world-famous Indian epic Mahabharata takes us back to a time that is half history, half myth, and wholly magical. It is told by Panchaali, wife of the Pandava brothers, a fiery female redefining for us a world of gods and warriors. The novel traces the princess...

Et nygift par er på bryllupsrejse i Paris, da de pludselig bliver kidnappet på en dagstur ud på landet. Men hvem har taget dem – og hvorfor? Snart står det klart, at kidnapningen er del af en langt større plan. Efterretningstjenester fra Frankrig og USA må arbejde tæt sammen på tværs...

For fans of the New Camelot series by Sierra Simone and Kennedy Ryan's All the King's Men duet comes The Illusion of Power. A spicy, contemporary romance that follows future First Lady Selene Taylor during the integral months of her husband's campaign for the Oval where she finds herself...

A hidden enemy. A bitter price for victory. My name is Nadia. I'm a Marshal of the High Queen of the Elves, and I've lived through some terrifying things. Including the Mage Fall. And now, to my enormous annoyance, they're making a movie about it. The High Queen wants it to happen, so it's going to happen. Except someone has been sabotaging the production, and the sabotage has escalated to murder. A new enemy is in the shadows, and if I don't solve the murder, a lot of bad things are going to happen...

Hun er ikke det kæledyr, de tæmmede. Hun er det uhyre, de lukkede indenfor. Og hun viser ingen nåde. Det internationale fænomen Heir of Illusion – Skyggens hævn er tempofyldt og eventyrlig romantasy, når det er allerbedst. Den unge kvinde Ivy Pomeroy kan gøre sig selv usynlig og har...

Aspiring designer Taurus Maxwell learns that her fiancé has been having an affair with her mother on the day of her engagement party. She wonders if she can ever be able to give her heart to someone and have them love her in return. After her home burns down and her dreams of being a designer are crushed by another bad interview, her ex-fiancé's father, Ru Wén, gives her an offer she cannot refuse. With her mother and ex-fiancé trying to fight back into her life will she ever be able to escape them? Is it okay to find love with a man who happens to be your ex-fiance's father?

Franco Jeffries, a six-year-old boy, likes wearing dresses…and Franco’s decision to wear a dress puts him at the center of a much larger debate....

Für die junge Sängerin Stella wird ein Traum wahr, als sie zur »Show Illusion« nach Las Vegas eingeladen wird. Doch trickreiche Illusionen und undurchschaubare Geheimnisse stecken nicht nur hinter den atemraubenden Darbietungen auf der Bühne: Stellas Vorgängerin Fia ist nach einem mysteriösen Unfall verschwunden. Und Levin, der Kopf und Illusionist der Show, ist ebenso charmant wie undurchsichtig. Bald erkennt Stella, dass nichts in der Show dem Zufall überlassen ist.