検索キーワード： 歴史

Seventeen-year-old Anna Elizabeth Owens is a typical teenage girl growing up in Morrisville, North Carolina, until the day her great-grandmother requests her presence at her bedside. In her late seventies, the older woman has a special gift for Anna and she shares a mysterious message.

When the two most feared magicians of the underworld band to hunt Clara, she needs to be able to count on her friends. But that's difficult to do when she's surrounded by masters of illusion, who can bend reality as easily as they bend truth. The immortal Count and the dark Merqueen don't play by anyone's rules but their own. And when they turn to forbidden magic, Clara must decide what she's willing to sacrifice to survive.

With her crooked spine and reckless heart, Princess Meera always knew she wasn't meant to become queen of Ezo. But when her sister, the rightful heir, is cursed on the eve of her coronation, Meera must defend her kingdom from ruthless invaders by taking the throne.

Gwen has spent the past several years manning the blacksmith’s in place of her father, an open secret in the village in which she lives. A much more covert secret, however, is that she knows not only how to craft but also how to wield a sword, and an incognito stunt at the local jousting tournament manages to catch the eye of the wily Lady Isobelle. Isobelle has secret dreams too, but she’s been promised in marriage to the winner. Desperate to avoid this fate, when she connects the newcomer knight to the female smithy she saw earlier that day, she begins to hatch a scheme…

Was dich liebt, vernichtet dich. In jedem deiner Leben. Evelyn kann sich an jedes ihrer früheren Leben erinnern. Auch daran, dass sie in jedem einzelnen davon ihren 18. Geburtstag nicht erlebt hat – und schuld daran ist jedes Mal ihre große Liebe, der sie unerklärlicherweise nicht entrinnen kann. Nur dass sie ihr aktuelles Leben gerade sehr mag und, noch wichtiger, dass ihre Schwester sie für eine Knochenmarktransplantation braucht. Wenn sie ihre Schwester retten und den tragischen Verlauf ihrer Zeit und Raum überdauernden Liebesgeschichte aufhalten will, muss Evelyn: 1.

Um den zu retten, den sie liebt, muss Emilia alles riskieren! Emilia hört auf ihr Herz und folgt Nathan durch den Spiegel in das mysteriöse Anwesen Morgue Manor. Um ihn zu retten, muss sie den Hausherren in einem Duell besiegen. Nur ist Charles Lafontaine-Boutary niemand, der sich an die Regeln hält. Und wenn Emilia verliert, dann verliert sie nicht nur ihre magischen Kräfte. Als sie dann auch noch erfahren, was sich hinter dem Angriff auf die Silvercliff Hall verbirgt, setzen Emilia und Nathan alles auf eine Karte. Denn nur gemeinsam haben sie eine Chance, die magische Welt zu retten.

When the Gods make the first human woman, Pandora, they impress on her just one certainty: that she has been made to love and be loved by her husband, the titan Epimatheos. But certain that the gods who torture his brother Prometheus do not bring Pandora as the gift they claim, Epimatheos wants nothing to do with her. Hurt and confused, Pandora struggles to find purpose and meaning in her new life.

The immortal Count Washur has been waiting for Clara to grow more powerful to collect her soul. Now he's after her. Washur Castle comes alive with dark magic while it carries out the Count's attack. Clara knows it's a trap, but she goes anyway because he has something—someone—she can't bear to lose. Clara and her friends are strong, and their magic is stronger. But with their forces divided, can they overcome monsters and deadly illusions?

Der atemberaubende Trilogieabschluss des Bestsellerautors von Lockwood & Co. Albert und Scarlett ziehen schon eine ganze Zeit lang als Outlaws durch die Sieben Königreiche des geplagten Englands, ohne geschnappt zu werden. Auf ihrem Weg gewinnen sie nach und nach Verbündete, die ihnen helfen wollen, die Schreckensherrschaft der Glaubenshäuser zu beenden. Doch das ist nicht die einzige gewaltige Aufgabe, die sie sich vorgenommen haben. Sie wollen außerdem versuchen, Scarletts verschollenen Bruder zu finden.

While out in the forest to fetch water from the river one fateful evening, young village girl, Hazel Spree, happens across a wounded man in the water. When she pulls him out, he transforms into a terrifying beast and chases her down! Hazel fears her end, only to wake up with a curse brand on her chest!

When seventeen-year-old Dilly Rothbart finds her recently deceased father's hidden journal, her entire world is upended—for what she finds within are the steps to bring a dead soul back to life. Intent on finishing her father's work and establishing herself as the greatest scientist in history, Dilly plunges into a medical underworld of corpse-stealing, grave-robbing, and even murder. And when her twin sister steps in the way of her studies, she'll do whatever is necessary to secure the recognition she deserves.

A Theory of Dreaming has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.

Gerade als Euryale sich für ihre Liebe zu Deacon und gegen die Ewigkeit als Furie entschieden hatte, wurde er ihr entrissen und in die Unterwelt entführt. Verbunden mit einem seltsamen roten Lebensfaden, bricht sie mit Callisto und Cecilia auf, um ihren Geliebten zurückzuholen. Dazu muss sie sich nicht nur ihren Tanten, sondern auch ihrer Herrin – der dunkelsten Göttin der Unterwelt – stellen. Doch Euryale ist fest entschlossen, Deacon zu retten. Und die Hölle hat noch nie eine Furie aus Liebe wüten sehen ... Urban Fantasy im viktorianischen London.

In a colonized land where tigers are being hunted to extinction and ancient magic stirs, two star-crossed teens—Lee Seung, a servant yearning for freedom, and Choi Eunji, a noble girl defying tradition—join forces to try and reshape their respective fates. But their relationship evolves from begrudging accomplices to bitter adversaries as they soon find themselves on opposite sides of a battle over the last tiger, a symbol of their people’s lost freedom and key to the liberation of their country.

En la isla de Charmant, la magia fluye como el champán de contrabando y las fantasías se pueden comprar con una piedra preciosa. Pero es la Era de la Prohibición, y la amenaza se cierne sobre el circo de los Revelle, que se ganan la vida diluyendo el champán y reparando agujeros en sus trajes de lentejuelas. En ese momento aparece el hijo de la familia más rica de Charmant para hacer un trato: ofrecerá todo lo que los Revelle necesitan para mantener su negocio, a cambio de que Luxe, la estrella del circo, se haga pasar por su novia para ayudarlo a convertirse en alcalde.

The ship was built for one thing: to carry the delegations of two warring nations into neutral waters, where the heads of state would sign a peace treaty and end the war that has been raging for a generation. When it goes down, a pair of survivors—Cora, daughter of a Duran newspaper reporter, and Vivienne, lady’s maid to an Ariminthian princess—wash up on a remote island. At first, it seems like they have nothing in common—not even whether or not they want to be rescued. But the arrival of a pirate ship brings them to the realization that they do have a shared purpose: peace.

Flora and Henry were born a few blocks from each other, innocent of the forces that might keep a white boy and an African American girl apart; years later they meet again, and their mutual love of music sparks an even more powerful connection. But what Flora and Henry don't know is that they are pawns in a game played by the eternal adversaries Love and Death, here brilliantly reimagined as two extremely sympathetic and fascinating characters.

Hazel Sinnett este o tânără aristocrată mai dornică să devină chirurg decât să se mărite. Jack Currer este un recuperator de cadavre care încearcă să supraviețuiască într-un oraș unde e foarte ușor să mori. Cei doi se întâlnesc întâmplător în Edinburgh, însă Hazel își dă seama de importanța întâlnirii abia după ce e dată afară de la cursurile renumitului doctor Beecham, pentru simplul motiv că e femeie… O poveste gotică plină de mister, intrigă și romantism.

Hanalei of Tamarind is the cherished daughter of an old island family. But when her father steals a seadragon egg meant for an ailing princess, she is forced into a life of exile. In the years that follow, Hanalei finds solace in studying the majestic seadragons that roam the Nominomi Sea. Until, one day, an encounter with a female dragon offers her what she desires most. A chance to return home, and to right a terrible wrong.

A dark sorcerer, a corrupt king, and a hidden village of rebels. Assassins are not always the bad guys. It was an accident. But that matters little in Abbarkon. A duke is dead, and Flint is sentenced to hang by the neck until dead. Steps away from the gallows, a mysterious jester and a black-cloaked man snatch him from his guards.