Résultats pour "Maria" dans Action et aventure

There's just no rest for Valek, Ixia’s Chief of Security. Challenges are constant and new problems arrive daily, including a request to help Castletown’s watch solve the mystery of a string of nighttime disturbances, and keeping a close eye on the Commander’s food taster as she schemes her way back into business. As if that isn't enough, the Commander’s life is threatened. Is the assassination attempt on the Commander a declaration of war by the Sitian Council, or is it a ruse by an unknown party to incite a war between Ixia and Sitia?

"Diejenigen, die ihre Nüstern in den Aufwind am Morgen strecken, die werden aussterben! ..."(Maria Cortéz) Sind die Geschichten über fliegende Pferde nur Legenden, oder gibt es sie wirklich? Als die fünfzigjährige Pferdenärrin Rike mit ihrem Mann Hannes nach Spanien auswandert, ahnt sie noch nicht, dass sie bald Bekanntschaft mit einer blinden, alten Dame machen wird, deren Geschichten ihre Welt komplett auf den Kopf stellen werden. Maria Cortéz und ihr Lebensgefährte José hüten nämlich ein Geheimnis, das bereits seit der Antike versucht wird, vom Großteil der Weltbevölkerung zu verbergen.

The know dancing duet Tommy and Maria believed that their lives were in perfect order. Unfortunately, the pair was notified of the secrets that their parents have kept from their whole lives. Part of it entails being hunted by demons. They also entailed to Tommy's beloved mother Erinyes and Maria's father Thanatos were not only not their biological parents, but they were also demons living on Earth to protect humans. Witnessing their late parent's deaths caused Tommy and Maria to explore the abandoned hospital where Thanatos and Erinyes found them when they were babies.

There isn't just one world. There's two. Monsters roam about their lands, but they are not free. They are caged; they are prisoners. Their one escape is that of a Dreamer, an individual born with a gift to dream into The Realm, the monsters' home. If a Dreamer fails to kill these nightmarish beasts there, they escape to The Waking World, our world. There, they are free. There, they can wreak havoc. There, they reign. Fiske, a Dreamer and known thief, has his world turned upside down when he happens across a blind boy with no home to call his own.

Brought to you by Penguin. Maria is, in no particular order: a concept artist at one of Canada's biggest videogame studios, the goddess of Mount Makiling in the Philippines, and in love. And right now, being in love is her biggest problem. Because when Maria falls in love, tragedy and death...

Keeping a hibernating dragon should have been a simple thing. Should have been, but it was not. Apparently, nothing involving dragons was ever simple, at least not for Anne Elliot, junior keeper to dragon Kellynch. With the estate in debt, Anne’s father in denial, and the dragon’s treasure missing, Kellynch’s awakening is shaping up to be nothing short of catastrophe. Not to mention, there was the pesky matter of her own broken heart and resentment against the old friend who had caused it.

Darcy thought his problems were over when Pemberley hatched and successfully imprinted on humans. But baby dragons prove far more difficult than any dragon lore prepared him for. Only Elizabeth Bennet's notes offer him any help. When his imperious Aunt Catherine takes matters into her own hands, things take a turn for the worse and Pemberley’s life hangs in the balance. He desperately needs more of Elizabeth’s help, but she ignores all of his requests. Elizabeth, though, has problems of her own.

Smugglers. A kidnapping. A fire-breathing fairy dragon? The Blue Order is falling apart at the seams. After months in Bath mentoring Dragon Keepers and Friends, Dragon Sage Elizabeth Darcy actually anticipates traveling to London for the Keeper’s Cotillion. Which says a great deal considering the she-dragons who make up the Cotillion board would very much like to show the Sage her proper place. The she-dragons, though, are no match for what Sir Fitzwilliam Darcy finds waiting for him in London.

One would think Anne Elliot, a baronet’s daughter, would find the marriage mart far easier to navigate than a more ordinary woman. One would be wrong. After refusing a poor, but otherwise perfect sailor, on the advice of her friend Lady Russell, Anne finds an unhappy choice before her: marry deathly dull Charles Musgrove or hope against hope that another suitable proposal might come her way before she becomes a spinster on the shelf.

Most people were blissfully unaware that England was overrun by dragons. Only those born with preternatural hearing could hear and converse with dragonkind, and even those rarely came into their hearing before they were fifteen. It was not Elizabeth’s fault that she discovered the truth about dragons when she was only four years-old. It was also not Elizabeth’s fault that the old tatzelwurm, Rumblkins, who lived in the woods near Longbourn House befriended her.

Aranmanoth es una novela de iniciación a la vida y al amor, protagonizada por un muchacho medio humano medio mágico, hijo del Señor del Lines y de un hada de las aguas. En una Edad Media ensombrecida por guerras infinitas, Aranmanoth parte en búsqueda de su destino, alejándose de los demás mortales y obedeciendo a misteriosas señales de las hojas de los árboles y de los pájaros que atraviesan el cielo. Aranmanoth y Windumanoth, su niña amada, esposa de su padre, viajan en pos de un sueño de plenitud, hacia la tierra prometida de su infancia que, poco a poco, revela hallarse en su interior.

Die Wahrheit liegt schon so lange im Verborgenen, dass nur eine Person sie aufdecken kann—und zwar jemand, der nicht nach den Regeln spielt. Magie wurde gestohlen. Das Schwert eines Riesen wurde weggesperrt. Und niemand stellt die Merkwürdigkeiten in Frage. Bis auf Liv Beaufont. Sie schimpft regelrecht und vor allem lautstark darüber.

Mehr und mehr schreitet Yaras Verwandlung fort und mehr und mehr entfernt sie sich von dem, was sie einmal war...In Atlantis kommt es schließlich zur alles entscheidenden Konfrontation mit den Schwestern Medusas und es wird sich zeigen, ob die Zukunft den Menschen gehört, oder sie weichen müssen für das Zeitalter der Gorgonen.

Auf der Spur der Sirenen reisen Yara und ihre Begleiter weiter nach China, wo sie auf Thelxiope, Aglaopes Schwester treffen. Sie behauptet, den Liebesfluch der Sirene von ihr nehmen zu können, doch schon einmal wurde ihr Vertrauen enttäuscht. Und unter ihren Freunden nährt sich der Zweifel, ob Yara selbst überhaupt noch ein Mensch ist.