Résultats pour "the foxes" dans Adolescents et jeunes adultes

Alex’s last clear memory was of racing into battle, on a desperate mission of mercy. Before waking up with a collar of steel about his neck, stripped of all weapons and armor, soon to be sold at auction. Never had Alex faced such steep hurdles to achieving his dreams. Never had he been more determined to make those dreams come true. So marks the beginning of a perilous journey that would see Alex facing down vile slavers, corrupt merchants, ferocious spirit beasts, and bloodthirsty cultivators eager to see him fall.

The first in a new YA fantasy trilogy combines urban fantasy with magical realism mythology, featuring ancient animal totems - American Gods meets Princess Mononoke. Roan Harken considers herself a typical high school student - dead parents, an infected eyeball, and living in the house of her estranged, currently comatose grandmother (well, maybe not so typical) - but she's uncovering the depth of the secrets her family left behind. Saved from the grasp of Death itself by a powerful fox spirit named Sil, Roan must harness mysterious ancient power.

A stunning new standalone gothic fantasy from Sasha Peyton Smith, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Rose Bargain and The Thorn Queen. This historical romantasy is Divine Rivals meets A Study in Drowning and will leave readers swooning! A marriage she never wanted. A boy she tried to...

‘One of my all time favourite fantasy novels!’ Ellen Oh, author of the Prophecy and Spirit Hunters series The first book in a brand-new series set in ancient Japan from New York Times bestselling author Julie Kagawa. Enter a beautiful and perilous land of shapeshifters and samurai, kami and...

Emily Fox-Seton is a simple but good-hearted woman struggling to make ends meet while attempting to maintain the dignity of someone distantly related to the aristocracy. The Marquis of Walderhurst is an awkward but eligible bachelor being comically pursued by a pageant of unmarried ladies. When the Marquis surprises everyone by giving his attentions to Emily, he makes himself a fairy prince in her eyes. But marrying her prince is not the end of Emily's troubles.

Who is Jenna Fox? Seventeen-year-old Jenna has been told that is her name. She has just awoken from a coma, they tell her, and she is still recovering from a terrible accident in which she was involved a year ago. But what happened before that? Jenna doesn't remember her life. Or does she? And are the memories really hers?

The Fox Hunt 2: The Season of the Witch, a new Electric Monkey book, full description to follow when available...

Winner of the Costa Book of the Year 2015. Read by actress Emilia Fox, The Lie Tree is a wonderfully evocative and atmospheric novel by Frances Hardinge, award-winning author of Cuckoo Song and Fly By Night. When Faith's father is found dead under mysterious circumstances, she stumbles upon a...

Welcome to the University, where an ancient magic secures the right of elite society the Turnbull Club to rule – in exchange for a sacrifice to the hidden, magical world of the Night City … When naïve new student Emma Curran falls for the Turnbull Club’s leader, the glamorous Jasper...

Queen Sealyn’s failure to break Glatania’s curse is etched in the lives lost, the relentless uncertainty shadowing her people, and her own imprisonment. Sealyn must endure brutal torture and confront the ominous beast lurking in her prison cell, yet her greatest challenge may be holding on to hope amid the darkness. King Jace’s grief-stricken army of Elysians and Glatanian rebels finally embarks on a perilous quest to discover Sealyn’s fate. Their journey hits a crisis when the ship carrying Queen Sealyn’s mother is forced to seek refuge in enemy waters.

In a forest that mirrors our own world, water is metered, history is rewritten, and creatures are soothed into submission with shiny trinkets and sweet mist. This is life behind the Curtain, a subtle fabric of control maintained by the Thirteen. Fox, marked by a shard of painful truth, thinks he is alone in his doubts. Everything changes when he meets Kit, a young soul whose quiet questions match his own. Together, they embark on a dangerous exploration that reveals the intricate mechanisms of their world.

An addictive fantasy-romance set in modern-day Seoul. Eighteen-year-old Gu Miyoung has a secret--she's a gumiho, a nine-tailed fox who must devour the energy of men in order to survive. Because so few believe in the old tales anymore, and with so many evil men no one will miss, the modern city...

You should have stayed on Mars, sweetheart. The year is 2076. Earth is ruled by a one-world government. In order to maintain unity, all citizens must deny their national, racial, and religious identities—or suffer the consequences. After a video of her act of insurrection goes viral...

Escape through a maze of deception, betrayal, and death is the key to survival for 13 rebellious colonies that dare to fight tyranny and win their independence. Powerful forces seek to assassinate General George Washington as the unstoppable British fleet sails into New York Harbor. The Epic Order of the Seven must identify and stop the assassin, or the epic Battle of New York will be over before it even begins. The Declaration of Independence rallies patriots to tear down the statue of King George III, but will its words be worth dying for?

Sir Ian McKellen, fresh from his performance as Gandalf in Lord of the Rings, is Prospero, and heads a strong cast in Shakespeare’s last great play. The wronged duke raises a tempest to shipwreck his old opponents on his island so that he can ensure justice is done. With Emilia Fox as Miranda, Scott Handy in the pivotal role of the sprite Ariel, and Ben Owukwe as Caliban.

Alex had done it. Ascending farther than anyone had thought possible, earning a title as sacred as the right to rule within the Golden Realms. But there was no way his enemies would accept his ascension. Not after he had disrupted so many of their twisted plans.

Die Medizinstudentin Aiko führt alles andere als ein normales Leben – denn es ist nicht ihr erstes. Aiko ist die Reinkarnation der Fuchsgöttin Inari. Als solche wird ihre Seele so lange wiedergeboren, wie sie einen Naturgeist, einen Kodama, an ihrer Seite hat. Als Aikos Naturgeist getötet wird, muss sie in den Wäldern einen neuen Begleiter suchen. Dabei begegnet sie Chiaki, ihrem Rivalen aus der Universität. Auch dieser hütet ein Geheimnis: Er ist die Reinkarnation des Mondgottes Tsukuyomi und verlor ebenfalls seinen Kodama.

'Every now and then you pick up a novel and you know you've found something wonderful - a glorious voice, a character you adore. Helena Fox's novel delivers. It is exquisite. Read it.' Cath Crowley Biz knows how to float. She has her people, posse, her mum and the twins. She has Grace. And she...

OUR HOPELESS, HOPEFUL WORLD A novel about the contours of friendship, family, forgiveness, trauma and love that explores the stories we suppress and the stories we speak - and the healing that comes when we voice the things we've kept quiet for so long. George's life is loud. On the water...

Unladylike, bookish, and wholly uninterested in being a princess, Arismendi has one dream: to open Kingsgarden’s first school for girls. But such a dream is expensive—too expensive for a young woman with no legal right to money of her own. Ari’s only hope is the insufferable but fabulously wealthy lord who promises to fund her school in exchange for her hand in marriage. Seeing no other choice, Ari accepts the bargain, giving up any hope of love… until a beautiful girl kisses her on the very eve of her betrothal.