Résultats pour "The Cloak" dans Littérature, romans et fiction

A deadly puzzle. A closing trap. My name is Nadia, and I'm a Marshal of the High Queen of the Elves. That means it's my responsibility to broker a peace deal between the dwarves and the Elven commoners...and there are lots of Elven nobles who would like to see the deal fail.

From New York Times bestselling author James Luceno comes an all-new Star Wars adventure that reveals the action and intrigue unfolding directly before Episode I: The Phantom Menace. Mired in greed and corruption, tangled in bureaucracy, the Galactic Republic is crumbling. In the outlying...

My name is Nadia, and I'm a Marshal of the High Queen of the Elves. That means I've learned all kinds of secrets. One of them is that several dozen dragons live on Earth, disguised as famous musicians and wealthy industrialists. Now the dragons are holding a council to determine whether or not they wish to leave Earth, and my job is to persuade them to stay. But so many dragons in one place make a big juicy target for the High Queen's enemies.

No one has ever seen this assassin's face, and I'm his next target. My name's Nadia, and I work for the High Queen of the Elves. That means all her enemies are my enemies...and I've made a lot of foes all by myself. So when an old friend calls for help, I don't think anything of it. But it might be the first step into a deadly trap...

My name's Nadia, and I serve the High Queen of the Elves. My friend Neil Freeman also works for her, and he's the deadliest assassin who ever lived. He paid a high price for his abilities, including a damaged memory. But his memory holds secrets that might destroy the world. So when the mad wizards of Singularity come to rip open Neil's mind and steal those secrets, it's up to us to stop them.

Combined for the first time in one volume, here are the first three books in the internationally best-selling Cloak Games series - Cloak Games: Thief Trap, Cloak Games: Frost Fever, and Cloak Games: Rebel Fist, and the bonus short story "Wraith Wolf". The High Queen of the Elves has conquered Earth, but I don't care about that. I don't care about the High Queen, or the rebels seeking to overthrow her. All I care about is getting my baby brother the treatments he needs to recover from his potentially fatal disease...and those treatments have a steep price.

My name's Nadia, and I serve the High Queen of the Elves. My friend Neil Freeman also works for her, and he's the deadliest assassin who ever lived. He paid a high price for his abilities, including a damaged memory. But his memory holds secrets that might destroy the world. So when the mad wizards of Singularity come to rip open Neil's mind and steal those secrets, it's up to us to stop them.

The Cloak (sometimes translated as Overcoat) is a short story by Russian author Nikolai Gogol, published in 1842. The story and its author have had great influence on Russian literature, as expressed in a quote attributed to Fyodor Dostoyevsky: "We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'." The story narrates the life and death of titular councillor Akaky Akakievich Bashmachkin, an impoverished government clerk and copyist in the Russian capital of St. Petersburg. Akaky is dedicated to his job, though little recognized in his department for his hard work.

My name's Nadia, and I'm the shadow agent of the High Queen of the Elves. When an Elven lord is assassinated with a bullet forged from magical iron, the High Queen sends me to track down the source. But the bullet is just a small part of a much larger hoard. And to claim that hoard, the enemies of humanity and the Elves will wipe out anyone who stands in their path. Starting with me....

My name is Nadia, and I’m a shadow agent of the High Queen of the Elves. I don’t have many friends, but I look after the ones I do have...and I pay my debts. So when Hakon Valborg’s teenaged granddaughter Lydia is arrested for the murder of her computer science teacher, I agree to help. But there’s more going on here than just murder.

I thought I would help the Family of the Shadow Hunters track down a renegade cult of Dark Ones worshippers. Instead, whatever nightmare the cultists summoned killed them all, and now it's on the run. If I don't find the creature, a lot of people are going to die. Starting with everyone I love.

There is no honor among thieves. My name is Nadia, and I'm a shadow agent of the High Queen of the Elves. That means I use magic to steal things for her. Now she wants me to steal a treasure from an Elven lord, without him even realizing that it's missing. To pull it off, I'll need a crew.

My name is Nadia, and I'm a shadow agent of the High Queen of the Elves. That means I use magic to steal things for her. Now she wants me to steal a treasure from an Elven lord without him even realizing that it's missing. To pull it off, I'll need a crew.

I want freedom, and I want power. Unfortunately for me, I have little enough of either. To make matters worse, my baby brother Russell is dying of a rare magical disease, and the only one who can cure him is the cruel Elven archmage Morvilind. And if that wasn't bad enough, Morvilind demands a steep price for his cures. Specifically, he wants me to steal treasures for him, and this time he’s sent me to steal a priceless relic from the ambassador of the frost giants.

A wizard puppeteering a body made of earthworms tries to solve his own murder. A talking cat with an appetite for dragon brains investigates the disappearance of his mistress and other magicfolk. A soldier must grudgingly train three griffon cubs to fend off a looming invasion. A tailor's apprentice seeks revenge against a cruel and mad wizard. Embark on four interconnected tales of magic and adventure from the land of Caracal.

Removed from the shadow of death as the Queen of King Henry VIII, Anna of Cleves revels in her new life as the King's "good sister". A new Queen has risen, the young Catherine Howard, and as court and country try to pit Anna against Catherine, the Lady of Cleves strives to show only friendship and support to the new Queen and the royal family.

Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) was a preeminent Ukrainian-born story writer. He is particularly famous for those stories which veer in the direction of surrealism and the grotesque. The Cloak is one such tale. Akaky Akakiyevich is a reclusive and widely ridiculed lower official whose job is to copy letters. He lives a hand-to-mouth existence with his elderly landlady and has little money. But the harsh weather in St. Petersburg necessitates the purchase of a new cloak.

Nikolai Gogol was one of the first to use the technique of the grotesque. According to Viktor Shklovsky, Gogol's strange style of writing resembles the "ostranenie" technique of defamiliarization. THE CLOAK: In the department of - but it is better not to mention the department. There is nothing more irritable than departments, regiments, courts of justice, and, in a word, every branch of public service. Each individual attached to them nowadays thinks all society insulted in his person.

A supernatural adventure that blends faith, courage, and destiny. Fifteen-year-old Mike Spencer never asked for a miracle. But when a mysterious golden energy awakens in his hands power unlike anything seen since the prophets of old his life changes forever. After his father’s mysterious disappearance, Mike and his friends are thrust into a high-stakes race across the Middle East.

Inspired by Agatha Christie's real-life Detection Club, a murder among a group of golden age mystery writers meets a second chance romance in this debut novel from author Jackie McMahon. London, 1930. Lucy Hubbard is on the cusp of achieving her dreams. With her first mystery novel debuting...