Résultats pour "Miles" dans Contemporain

The Red Knight's final battle lies ahead...but there's a whole war still to fight first. He began with a small company, fighting the dangerous semi-mythical creatures that threatened villages, nunneries and cities. But as his power - and his forces - grew, so the power of the enemy he stood against became ever clearer. Not the power of men...but that of gods, with thousands of mortal allies. Never has strategy been more important, and this war will end where it started: at Lissen Carak.

Anna Walker has always kept her unique ability hidden: she can step inside the dreams of others. But when a close friend falls into a mysterious coma, Anna’s desperate attempt to help thrusts her into a nightmare of angels, demons, and ancient prophecies.

Im Prinzip ist alles vom Hüter der Welt vorbestimmt. Lili muss nur noch den Rat der Drei besiegen und dann wird alles gut. Nur hat der besagte Hüter einen klitzekleinen Faktor übersehen. Die liebe Liebe. Die macht ihm einen Strich durch die Rechnung, und plötzlich läuft nichts mehr so wie vorherbestimmt. Oder etwa doch? Lili begibt sich auf eine gefährliche Mission, von der sie nicht mehr nach Hause zurückkehren kann. Ihre Schwestern kämpfen ohne sie weiter.

Every city has a soul. Some are as ancient as myths and others are as new and destructive as children. New York City? She's got five. But every city also has a dark side. A roiling, ancient evil stirs beneath the earth, threatening to destroy the city and her five protectors unless they can come together and stop it once and for all.

Anna Walker’s hunt for the Grail Cup—the relic of eternal life—puts her directly in Lucifer’s sights. To force her hand, he threatens the one person she cannot lose: her mother. As Anna races to claim the relic, vampiric zealots rise to steal it, and every path is fraught with betrayal. Through it all, Kincade remains her anchor, fighting at her side and determined to keep her from the dark lord’s grasp. But when an unlikely ally with divine power joins their fight, even his strength may not be enough to protect her.

Anna Walker’s quest for the Holy Relics grows more dangerous by the day. Pursued by Azriel, tormented by a destroyer angel sent to lure her into darkness, and bound by her deepening feelings for Kincade, she struggles to hold on to the light. But when the Prince of Greed demands she destroy her own family—or forfeit her soul—Anna must confront the shadows within herself. Her only hope lies in recovering the Staff of Moses, but every step draws her closer to damnation.

The race is on to find the Spear of Destiny before Lucifer’s forces can claim it—and plunge the world into darkness. For Anna Walker, the mission becomes personal when her greatest enemy, Azriel, kidnaps her closest ally, demanding the spear in exchange for Kincade’s soul. As Anna battles time and temptation, a new threat emerges: the Knights of the Holy Lance, a faction with an army of engineered dream walkers and a twisted plan for the relic.

Every great city has a soul. A human avatar that embodies their city's heart and wields its magic. New York? She's got six. But all is not well in the city that never sleeps. Though Brooklyn, Manny, Bronca, Venezia, Padmini and Neek have temporarily managed to stop the Woman in White from invading—and destroying the entire universe in the process—the mysterious capital 'E' Enemy has more subtle powers at her disposal.

It's Carnival time and the Caribbean-colonized planet of Toussaint is celebrating with music, dance, and pageantry. Masked "Midnight Robbers" waylay revelers with brandished weapons and spellbinding words. To young Tan-Tan, the Robber Queen is simply a favorite costume to wear at the festival - until her power-corrupted father commits an unforgiveable crime. Suddenly, both father and daughter are thrust into the brutal world of New Half-Way Tree....

Three-time Hugo Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N.K. Jemisin crafts her most incredible novel yet, a "glorious" story of culture, identity, magic, and myths in contemporary New York City. In Manhattan, a young grad student gets off the train and realizes he doesn't remember...

The perfect - and perfectly magical - Christmas story about a despondent elf and the waitress who gave him reason to go back to Santa’s workshop.

I'm the worst. Seriously. Ask anyone and they'll tell you, "Sylvie Orion is the world's worst witch." But being a supernatural bounty hunter requires more smarts than magic. So put that on your wand and suck it, beyotches. When my latest client—a kleptomaniac werewolf—disappears, I'm on the...

Book club favorite and acclaimed author of No Better Time and The Secret Women makes her first foray into the mythical fantasy genre with this epic tale of legacy, power, sacrifice, and family bonds that is a call to action wrapped in elemental magic. Aeola St. James is no ordinary CEO. While...

Was macht eine moderne Hexe, die Verletzungen und Krankheiten heilen kann? Sie studiert Medizin und rettet als Ärztin in einer renommierten Bostoner Klinik Menschenleben. Als sie Teil eines diagnostischen Teams wird, spitzt sich die Lage zu. Anastasia deckt die schmutzigen Machenschaften einer Organhandel-Mafia auf, in die auch ihr charismatischer Vorgesetzter, Dr. Sutton Riggs, verwickelt zu sein scheint.

Four-time Hugo Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N.K. Jemisin crafts a glorious tale of identity, resistance, magic and myth. All is not well in the city that never sleeps. Even though the avatars of New York City have temporarily managed to stop the Woman in White from...

Syrah Carthan doesn’t know why she accepted a job as the first female fire chief at Sequoia National Park, where, decades earlier, a forest fire killed her parents. That day, her brother, Romelo, disappeared, as if pulled into the scorched earth itself. Syrah has always had an uncanny affinity for the natural wonders of the park she protects, but after she sanctions a prescribed burn that goes terribly wrong, she quits her position in disgrace.

McCulley, a young and inexperienced nurse tossed into a stressful and chaotic situation, is having a difficult time reconciling her duty to help and heal with the indifference and overt racism of some of her colleagues and with the horrendously damaged soldiers and Vietnamese civilians whom she encounters during her service at the China Beach medical facilities. She is unexpectedly helped by the mysterious and inexplicable properties of an amulet....

Oceanus, the Great River Titan, wasn't exactly a fan of humanity. His people, the Titans, waged war against the gods of Olympus a millennia ago over such things. Yet, Oceanus chose not to involve himself. Following the loss of the war, all of Titans were disbanded and sentenced by Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades to live out eternity in the Underworld itself. All but Oceanus.

Trying to escape her embarrassing immigrant mother, Vimbai moves into a dilapidated house in the dunes and discovers that one of her new roommates has a pocket universe instead of hair, there's a psychic energy baby living in the telephone wires, and her dead Zimbabwean grandmother is doing dishes in the kitchen.

When Francine's a little girl, she'll do just about anything for her papa. But as Francine grows older, she and Papa start fighting about everything - school, fiddling, and boys. Then the others come calling, fairies from no tale Francine has ever read. They ask her to come fiddle at their court, promising magic and all the music she wants. Francine gladly goes with them. When war starts between the two Creole fairy courts, the Seelie and the Unseelie, Francine finds she's fighting her papa again.