検索キーワード： "Dreams" 現代文学

Serving as courier to Nathao, the increasingly powerful King of Dreams, means Gwen Revmore gets a close-up look at the gods that most mortals can only imagine. Right now, it's not a position to be envied. This time, Gwen has landed in the middle of a dispute between mother and daughter when Persephone gives birth to a son outside the reach of her mother Demma, the goddess of knowledge and medicine. The child is supposed to be given to Demma to compensate her for her loss of Persephone to Luke.

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.

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.

Welcome to Newford: to the music clubs, the waterfront, and the alleyways where ancient myths and magic spill into the modern world. Gemmins live in abandoned cars and skells traverse the tunnels below, while mermaids swim in the gray harbor waters and fill the cold night with their song. Come meet Jilly, painting wonders in the rough city streets; and Geordie, playing fiddle while he dreams of a ghost; and the Angel of Grasso Street gathering the fey and the wild and the poor and the lost.

Life hasn’t always been great for Rainn and Gerran, but it couldn’t be much more perfect than it is now. Rainn was happy to move to the remote mountains of Pennsylvania to be with her love, and to satisfy his “other” side. There, they are perfectly content. Only one more thing could make their lives complete. Gerran is the last of his kind and hopes to create a new life with his human wife. When test after test shows there is no hope, they are both heartbroken. The two are just too different, their systems too incompatible, and there’s no way around it.

Our favorite Fairy Godmother is on her own in an enchanted cave that has more twists and turns and most of them deadly. She has an enchanted oversized dog with her, but will that be enough? No help is coming. Alex, the police detective, is still under a sleep curse and Sir Thomas, a talking cat...

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!

Some days, a girl just can't catch a break...especially when the girl in question is Georgina Kincaid, a shape-shifting succubus who gets her energy from seducing men. First there's her relationship with gorgeous best-selling writer Seth Mortensen, which is unsatisfying on a number of levels.

Join Rachel as she discovers her life before Earth. A journey where she learns of her past ties with her seductively beautiful yet evil sister, Nammu, the ruler of the planet Niburu and how she arrived on Earth 3,600 years ago along with many other Niburuins. This is also a journey where flames are reignited as Rachel is reunited with her love of her life.

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.

I like my women like I like my whiskey: liable to kill me. The two parts of being a paranormal private investigator I could really do without are being forced to eat bananas by an animated statue with a potassium fixation, and being put on trial for murder by a self-appointed council of vampire...

New Orleans is on the brink of war. Harlow is a ghost in her own body. She has no control, no power - all she can do is watch as her twin sister, Ava Mae, lives recklessly and foolishly, slowly destroying everything Harlow has worked so hard for. Augustine needs to focus on his new role as Guardian of New Orleans, as tourists mysteriously disappear off the streets, but all he can think of is rescuing Harlow - keeping his family safe. As the Coven grows more powerful, control of the city hangs in the balance, and if the witches prevail, no fae will survive.

Though trained as a ruthless and efficient killer, Claire barely survived her last assignment. Still reeling from the summoning of the deadly Pale Queen and Roxie's betrayal, she's unprepared for Queen Mab's next demand: to help uncover a new threat to the kingdom, Claire must hunt down the mortal mother she's never known.

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?

Zoe Lydon is afraid. She's not left her house in almost two year, and she has an almost suffocating fear of strangers, not to mention the outside world. What she's about to realize, however, is that she can escape her reality through her dreams. Unfortunately, it's quite possible that her nightmares are only just beginning....

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.

Story is told by a narrator who is a psychologist in Indian country. What appears to be a consultation with a patient ends up being a meeting with his teacher, Tarrence. Tarrence proceeds to take the narrator into a dreamtime journey that melts the worldview held by the storyteller. The dream leads the narrator to a place in which the energy generated by ancient dreamers must be balanced. The lack of balance brought on by the power dreamers and their ceremony resulted in the atomic bomb.

Two worlds threaten to crumble in the face of a common enemy in the epic conclusion to the Sunday Times bestselling Daughter of Smoke and Bone trilogy. 'A GRIPPING PAGE-TURNER' MARIE CLAIRE 'THRILLING' GLAMOUR Once upon a time, an angel and a devil pressed their hands to their hearts and started...

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.

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.