A s templeton (5 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Nikka Lindstrom always has been a titch. odd.Born during a Kansas thunderstorm, Nikka was homeschooled throughout most of her seventeen years. Short and slender with braided frizzy yellow hair, she has a talent for speaking in anagrams, but avoids contractions in speech because she feels sorry for the bits of words left out. She would be nearly blind without her thick eyeglasses. On her nape rests a striking blue birthmark in the shape of three dolphins intertwined.Nikka dearly loves her father and mother, and gets along famously with her twin brother. She has yet to venture outside Kansas, which may be why she lately senses that something is lacking in her otherwise contented, arguably humdrum life.But when an erratic, obsessed federal agent shows up on her doorstep, making bizarre claims about space aliens living hidden among humankind, Nikka will be obliged to face some uncomfortable truths that call into question all that she thought she knew about the world.And about herself.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Girl-boy tween twins Claire and Casey Steele are thankful not to suffer from ceaseless conflict and sibling rivalry. Lately, however, they have developed an unhealthy fascination with electronic gaming-the more intense and mayhem-filled, the better.So when the prototype of what seems to be a super-advanced VR game console mysteriously arrives on their doorstep, Casey and Claire conspire to immerse themselves in a fantasy action-adventure game called Quest for the Shining Realm.Thing is, Claire and Casey do not even remotely suspect that the Quest might prove to be no ordinary game.Or maybe, just maybe, not a game at all.Virtual Magic is a magical realism / sci-fi crossover from that wondrous realm between MG and YA known as The Tween Valley. Amid vivid action-adventure, readers witness an ordinary family struggle with the downsides of electronic games, deal with the somber realities of a soldier mom returned from deployment, and discover just in time that imagination is the most powerful magick of all.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - It was quite a shock for Kansas-born Nikka Lindstrom to discover that she is not, in fact, a very odd 18-year-old woman, but one of the Mâren, an all-female semiaquatic people who have long been living hidden among humankind.Are the Mâren the basis for the Mermaid Myth Who knows More to the point, who cares The Mâren's hidden status is under threat. Heedless of the Mâren's Law of Concealment, mâr renegades have increasingly been playing dirty tricks on 'drylanders,' and ubiquitous surveillance technologies have been capturing more and more mâren unawares on camera.Nikka may soon wonder whether the time has come for the Maren to swim up from the oceans' depths and take their rightful place among Earth's other peoples.However, unbeknownst to everyone but a vengeful mâr and a mad scientist, the greatest threat ever to humankind's future is set to be unleashed.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Earth is on the brink of an artificial ice age.Human civilization is on its knees.Both at the black-nailed grey hands of hordes of space alien invaders, led by the cruel conqueror, Lord Szergakk, who wants nothing less than to xenoform Earth to suit their kind.Nikka is faced with the daunting, maybe hopeless task of uniting Earth's four sapient species-the Mâren, the Nixen, the Tritons, and Humankind-in order to prevent the destruction of the ecosystem and the extinction of humanity.So, thinks Nikka, a real challenge.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What a busy couple of years Nikka Lindstrom has had!First, Nikka discovered that she is not exactly human but one of the Mâren, an all-female semiaquatic people-do not call them mermaids, for, as everyone knows (nudge nudge, wink wink), mermaids do not exist.Nikka proceeded to foil Sívkka's evil scheme to use the horrible Terminus Blossom to take down human civilization, and helped to avert the capture of the Mâren by the Triton Corps, a motley crew of human-mâr transgenic hybrids.But most significant of all, Nikka made the fateful choice to 'out' herself and indeed all the Mâren to the wide world. Who can foresee the profound and far-reaching consequences of her decision Meanwhile, no sooner have a group of North Pole tourists gone mysteriously missing than a powerful U.S. Senator takes a keen interest in Nikka and her people.And an enigmatic industrialist announces plans to deploy ingenious large-scale climate engineering that will gradually offset global warming.Or so he claims.…