Der Gezeitensturm r?ckt n?her: die Zeit, wenn die Zwillingsplaneten Opal und Erdsto? ihrer Sonne am n?chsten kommen. Unglaubliche Gezeitenkr?fte wirken auf die beiden Welten ein. Diesmal soll es besonders schlimm werden, denn die Gro?e Konjunktion der Sterne und Planeten steht bevor. ?ber Erdsto? wurde ein absolutes Einreiseverbot verh?ngt. Doch einige Leichtsinnige lassen sich davon nicht abschrecken. Manche von ihnen sind einer untergegangenen Zivilisation auf der Spur. Andere sind auf Verbrecherjagd. Die Planetenverwalter Hans Rebka und May Perry haben keine Wahl: Sie m?ssen selbst nach Erdsto? reisen, um die Besucher von der Welt zu schaffen. Sie begeben sich auf eine lebensgef?hrliche Mission, die ungeahnte Geheimnisse bereith?lt?
Former SEAL Michael Harmon, Team Name “Ghost”, retired for service injuries, is not enjoying college life. But things are about to change, if not for the better. When he sees a kidnapping a series of, at the time logical, decisions leave him shot to ribbons and battling a battalion of Syrian commandos with only the help of three naked co-eds who answer to the names “Bambi,” “Thumper” and “Cotton Tail.” A fast-paced, highly-sexual, military-action thriller that ranges from a poison factory in the Mideast to the Florida Keys to Siberia, the novel will keep you guessing what twisted fate will bring next for the man once known as… Ghost. Keep an eye on him or… poof, he’ll be gone.
Here, in this place, her meaning as woman is clear. Here, apart from symbols and disguises, she stands as a woman, the prize of man. Does she, this woman, now know her femaleness? Does she understand? Is the meaning of her excruciatingly desirable body now brought home to her? Does she now understand the significance of her sex: that she is female, that nature has designed her for man? Yes, thought Chance, she is very beautiful, marvelously incredibly beautiful - Miss Lucia Turner, educated Eastern gentle-woman, sophisticated and refined, feminist - captive female - suddenly expectedly shamefully simply captive female. Reduced utterly, she, miss Lucia Turner, gifted and beautiful, to ancient primitive essentialities - owned, literally owned..
Local Guild boss and powerful ghost-hunter Cooper Boone is everything botanist Elly St. Clair could ask for — the handsome, strong, and silent type. Maybe too silent. For when Guild secrets threaten her career at the college, Elly has to call off their marriage — and leave small-town life behind…But starting over in the thriving metropolis of Cadence City isn't easy, especially when one of Elly's new friends disappears in the eerie catacombs beneath the streets. Cooper turns up just in time to help Elly investigate. And as the mystery deepens and dangerous ghost myths and legends come to light, Cooper makes it clear he intends to stick around — and this time he's holding nothing back…
Buried in his debts, billionaire Randal T. Rumpp makes a deal with a fiend who is intent on sending the Big Apple into the darkest depths of the earth, and only Remo and Chiun can stop him.
A brand-new series from the bestselling author of the Nightside novels!The Carnacki Institute exists to "Do Something" about Ghosts-and agents JC Chance, Melody Chambers, and Happy Jack Palmer will either lay them to rest, send them packing, or kick their nasty ectoplasmic arses with extreme prejudice.
Meet the Carnacki Institute's operatives — JC Chance: the team leader, brave, charming, and almost unbearably arrogant; Melody Chambers: the science geek who keeps the antisupernatural equipment running; and Happy Jack Palmer: the terminally gloomy telepath. Their mission: . Lay them to rest, send them packing, or just kick their nasty ectoplasmic arses...The Ghost Finders are investigating a haunting at the long-abandoned Haybarn Theater, which is being renovated. But work has been thrown off-schedule by the some peculiar and unnatural activities. And after the potentially world-altering recent events of their previous assignment, the team thinks that a haunted theater (aren't they all?) will be a walk in the park. Until they encounter the Phantom of the Haybarn — an ancient evil whose ability to alter reality itself will test the skills, science, and blind luck of the Ghost Finders to the limit.
A small band of travelers seeks to prevent a tyrant from finding the various pieces of a gate that, when fully assembled, will give him enormous power.
When we last left the mighty wizard detective Harry Dresden, he wasn't doing well. In fact, he had been murdered by an unknown assassin. But being dead doesn't stop him when his friends are in danger. Except now he has nobody, and no magic to help him. And there are also several dark spirits roaming the Chicago shadows who owe Harry some payback of their own. To save his friends—and his own soul—Harry will have to pull off the ultimate trick without any magic...
While developing a new system to maintain Morganville's defenses, student Claire Danvers discovers a way to amplify vampire mental powers. Through this, she's able to re-establish the field around this vampire-infested Texas college town that protects it from outsiders.But the new upgrades have an unexpected consequence: people inside the town begin to slowly forget who they are—even the vampires. Soon, the town's little memory problem has turned into a full-on epidemic. Now Claire needs to figure out a way to pull the plug on her experiment—before she forgets how to save Morganville...
In a post-Apocalyptic world where supernaturals have emerged from hiding, wealthy humans delight in decadence while the religious gain power through temptation. For the masses, fear reigns from birth to death, and the afterlife holds beings that only the bravest can summon—or dare to desire…Taken from her home and family, shamaness Aisling McConaughey has no choice except to enter the “ghostlands” in order to learn the fate of a wealthy man’s mistress. But there is always a price to pay for the use of her power. To save the woman’s life she must summon ...
Sylvie is back from vacation, and all she wants out of life right now is for the to leave her alone for a bit. No dead things, no mayhem, no life-and-death struggles. Just because Sylvie managed to take some time off doesn't mean that the has to follow her example, though, and it's been piling things up on her doorstep while she was away. Still, she can pick and choose her cases, right? Solving a string of burglaries sounds perfect—mind-numbingly boring and mundane. Until you throw in Sylvie's missing sister, a generous helping of necromancy, and a Chicago cop possessed by a disturbingly familiar spirit.As the Rolling Stones sang, "You can't always get what you want."
Przy dziwnych i zagadkowych okoliczno?ciach pojawi?a si? na Ziemi Gianeja, mieszkanka innej, niewiadomej planety. Ludzie Ziemi przyj?li jej jak druha, lecz zachowanie Gianei d?ugi czas zostawa?o niezrozumia?ym i nawet wrogim. Go?cia otacza?a tajemnica. O tym, jak odkry?a si? ta tajemnica, jak Gianeja zmieni?a sw?j stosunek do ludzi Ziemi, o sile humanizmu i pot?dze rozs?dku opowiada fantastyczna powie?? Gieorgija Martynowa „Gianeja”.
In the 21st century, scientists Victor Hunt and Chris Danchekker, doing research on Ganymede, attract a small band of friendly aliens lost in time, who begin to reveal something of the origin of mankind. Finally, man thought he comprehended his place in the Universe . . . until he learned of the Watchers in the stars!
Scattered among poor, desolate farms, the clans of the Uplands possess gifts. Wondrous gifts: the ability—with a glance, a gesture, a word—to summon animals, bring forth fire, move the land. Fearsome gifts: They can twist a limb, chain a mind, inflict a wasting illness. The Uplanders live in constant fear that one family might unleash its gift against another. Two young people, friends since childhood, decide to use their gifts. One, a girl, refuses to bring animals to their death in the hunt. The other, a boy, wears a blindfold lest his eyes and his anger kill.In this beautifully crafted story, Ursula K. Le Guin writes of the proud cruelty of power, of how hard it is to grow up, and of how much harder still it is to find, in the world’s darkness, gifts of light.• PEN Center USA Children’s literature award (2005)• The Judy Lopez Memorial Award for Children’s Literature Honor (2005) AWARDS
