Résultats pour "The Dreamer" dans Contemporain

Runner has a problem. He and 499,000 men and women are trapped in a game. He also just happens to be the only person from IT who could log everyone out safely. And he doesn't remember his password. He, like everyone else in this nightmare, had his memory scrambled or lost in the process of being loaded into the game. A single garbled message is his only clue to how to save everyone. The problem is that whoever loaded them into the game loaded their minds completely.

Why would a butler gatecrash a wizard funeral? It sounds like the first line of a joke, but what Jax sees when she gets to Abarim Manor is as serious as a heart attack. The butler’s employer, old wizard Blimaex Abarim, is being slowly tortured to death by contagious black magic, and she needs to stop the person responsible.

Der neue Fantasy-Roman der Autorin von DIVINE RIVALS. Das Reich Azenor steht seit Jahrzehnten unter einem schrecklichen Fluch. In jeder Neumondnacht werden die schlimmsten Albträume der Einwohner lebendig. Als angehende Wächterin ist es die Aufgabe von Clementine und ihrem Vater, ihr Dorf davor zu beschützen. Doch als eines Tages zwei junge Magier auftauchen und ihnen dieses Amt streitig machen, ändert sich alles. In einem Wettkampf verliert Clementine nicht nur ihren Posten, sondern auch ihr Zuhause.

Brun MacLugh is weary. For five hundred years he endured a life of loneliness, impatiently waiting for his days to come to an end and his grief along with it. Fate, however, has other plans: a new heir to the legacy he is duty-bound to protect is born, two hundred and fifty years after his greatest failure. Brun has no choice. He has to fulfil his purpose.

A brilliantly crafted modern tale from acclaimed film critic and screenwriter C. Robert Cargill—part Neil Gaiman, part Guillermo Del Toro, part William S. Burroughs—that charts the lives of two boys from their star-crossed childhood in the realm of magic and mystery to their anguished...

After a painful reminder of a death close to home, Jonathan, a young nurse, finds himself in a depressive spiral. An accident leaves him fighting for his own life and he slips into a coma— only to awaken trapped inside it. With his life support on the verge of being switched off, he must confront his past and decide whether life is worth fighting for— or if it's time to let go.

Having brought down all the kings of Potestia, Lillith embarks on fulfilling her avenging promise to the feline Ember. Though still grieving the death of her brother, she plans to cross the border into the Republic lands and kill every sage keeping the population under magical control. But the sages have been preparing for this, stoking fear in their subjects by prophesizing the coming of death in the form of a destructive demon queen—who looks remarkably like Lillith.

Arik is such a predator. Condemned by the gods to live eternity without emotions, Arik can only feel when he’s in the dreams of others. Dr. Megeara Kafieri watched her father ruin himself and his reputation as he searched to prove Atlantis was real. Her promise to him to salvage his reputation has now brought her to Greece where she intends to prove that the fabled island is right where her father said it was. Bad luck only turns worse when she finds a stranger floating in the sea. His is a face she’s seen many times.... in her dreams.

This story begins on Beijing's winter streets and does not end until you plant your next garden. It is the story of the life of a god and the liberation of magic. Come along on a trip through winding streets and bamboo forest, but don't be surprised when you arrive somewhere you never expected. And before you drink your next glass of kvass, remember the danger...

Ever been offered a promotion that seems too good to be true? You know - the sort they'd be insane to be offering to someone like you. The kind where you snap their arm off to accept, then wonder why all your long-serving colleagues look secretly relieved, as if they're off some strange and unpleasant hook...It's the kind of trick that deeply sinister companies like J.W. Wells & Co. pull all the time. Especially with employees who are too busy mooning over the office intern to think about what they're getting into.

Aurora and Leela have succeeded in their quest to balance work and family. Aurora has risen in the ranks at her company and has become a well-known environmental advocate. Leela’s business has grown and is the president of the farmers’ market. They have done this all while raising their conceived-by-magic eleven-year-old daughter, Kari. However, the time has come for them to tell Kari about her mystical origins, as Kari’s mind and body start to evolve in powerful ways.

WHAT WILL IT TAKE TO MAKE HER WISH COME TRUE?After a draining December, Sakuta is quickly nearing the end of his second year of high school. Since Mai is a third-year student, they don’t have much time left together before graduation rolls around. Meanwhile, his sister, Kaede, is slowly but...

Not only is Phobetor real, he’s about to destroy life on every world with sentient beings. You could say he’s becoming a bit of a problem. Unless I’m somehow the hero of an ancient prophecy - and let’s face it, I’m not - everyone I care about is in major trouble. My name is Bailey Spade, and this is how my story ends.

Tiger-Gestaltwandler: schlagfertig, loyal und sexy. Shay Malone, Tiger-Gestaltwandler und Partytier, liebt sein Leben und ist immer gut drauf. Seine drei Brüder halten ihn für einen draufgängerischen Faulpelz, der sich nur für das Steak auf seinem Grill oder die nächste Frau in seinem Bett interessiert – aber in Shay steckt viel mehr. Als er und seine Brüder einen großen Plan schmieden, um sich an ihrer kriminellen Großfamilie zu rächen, kann Shay zeigen, was in ihm steckt.

UNDOING WHAT CAN’T BE UNDONE.Sakuta had been ready to give up his life, but nothing could have prepared him to keep living like this. Now he must find a way to carry on even when it feels like tomorrow will never come. And even if it does, why should he care when the love of his life is...

History...Legacy...Destiny...Triggered by an act of self-sacrifice, all three converge upon Kara O'Keefe, transforming her simple life into one both magical and menacing. Overwhelmed by the expenses of her father's cancer treatments, Kara finds herself forced to give up Quicksilver, her cherished violin and the only physical link with her long-gone Grandda. Her selflessness becomes the key to her future.

Animal control officer Gwen Revmore has no use for the gods. They've never answered any of her prayers - even after a tragic accident leaves her husband dead, and her young son gravely injured. But after her estranged grandfather shows up at the hospital to urge her to try one more time to save the boy, Gwen decides there's nothing left to lose. She asks Nathao, the powerful King of Dreams, for help, and he agrees to save Sam - but like most favors, the help will come at a price.

Auntie Beulah, Teah’s surrogate mother, is tending Teah's home in McAlester, Oklahoma with loving care. Teah's career is moving forward. Her beautiful home in Albuquerque, New Mexico is a dream home. Everything in Teah's life seemed to be falling in place. She dreamed of her brother Callum, then met him in real life at a Core Shamanism retreat in Austin, Texas. She also met Chloe Kitson, the facilitator of the event. Chloe, a Shaman from Wexford, Ireland, was in America to make a life for herself.

Who will claim the throne now that Lord Incarnadine, King of the Realms Perilous, is dead? Under a mysterious spell cast by a mischief-maker, all of Castle Perilous's 144,000 creatures of curiosity clamor for the crown. Outside of the castle's coveting fray, Gene flies off with a adventurous Amazon in supernatural manifestation and Lord Inky explores the dark mysteries that lurk in the realm of the dead!

Avery moved to Lake Tahoe for the quiet. She didn’t get that. What she found made her question everything she knew about the world. Basil, her aging golden retriever, has aged in reverse. Her new neighbors make flowers grow in winter. And her student, pale-eyed Bay, can freeze a bully’s heart in his chest. Then there’s Duncan. After Duncan is captured in the Greensward, Avery thinks her biggest challenge is to rescue him, until ICE Agent Graham Braddock shows up at her door, claiming Duncan Sommerfeld is an illegal alien. Oh, if he only knew. Even so, she has to keep her promise to Bay - the promise that she would bring his father home to both of them, but how the heck did you accomplish the impossible?