Résultats pour "beaute" dans Science-Fiction et fantasy

Un phénomène inexplicable s'empare des femmes à travers la planète : une sorte de cocon les enveloppe durant leur sommeil et si l'on tente de les réveiller, on prend le risque de les transformer en véritables furies vengeresses. Bientôt, presque toutes les femmes sont touchées par la fièvre Aurora et le monde est livré à la violence des hommes. À Dooling, petite ville des Appalaches, une seule femme semble immunisée contre cette maladie.

In this spectacular New York Times bestselling father/son collaboration that “barrels along like a freight train” (Publishers Weekly), Stephen King and Owen King tell the highest of high-stakes stories: what might happen if women disappeared from the world of men? In a future so real and...

Every girl has a secret she hopes the light will never find - but the demons already have. Four girls. Four sets of secrets. Four searching for answers. As the girls' worlds begin to converge, their secrets rather than their similarities draw them together. Meanwhile, all that's kept hidden has left them vulnerable to a battle in an invisible realm where demonic creatures fight to keep the girls chained to their pasts while angels of light work to free them.Can good ever come from evil? Can beauty ever arise from ashes?

Seoul, present day: antiques dealer Alys is mysteriously paid a vast sum of money to transport one of three highly coveted Anatomical Venuses to the UK and then destroy it. An offer she can’t refuse... London, 1769: Eleanor is new to the city and, after a chance meeting at Vauxhall Pleasure...

From New York Times bestselling author Owen King, who “writes with witty verve” (Entertainment Weekly) comes a “richly imagined” (The New York Times) Dickensian fantasy of illusion and charm where cats are revered as religious figures, thieves are noble, scholars are revolutionaries, and...

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William Wymark Jacobs (1863-1943) was an English author of short stories and novels. His most popular works in the early part of the last century were his humorous tales set around the docks of Wapping and in the taproom of the infamous Cauliflower tavern. 'The Rival Beauties' is one of the night watchman's most unlikely tales. He narrates the time when his ship came across a giant sea-serpent and they attempted to lure it with them to New York.