Fiction4all sep 2021 (8 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When a nasty little plague of people turning into stone in coffee shops around the city threatens the bottom line of the Coffee Cartels and their highly addictive designer coffees, investigative consultant, Boston Jonson, is tossed into a world where everyone is out to either admire him or kill him, a world of annoying weirdoes who are probably better off turned into stone.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the late 21st Century, A body is found in the headquarters of the world's largest fast food franchise, Barto Burger, creators of the world's first completely cloned hamburger. The president of the company, Gansheng Barto, has apparently eaten himself to death on his own burgers. Is it really suicide, or is it murder by burger. It's time to bring in Boston Jonson, crime consultant extraordinaire, to use his unorthodox mixture of Zen, insults, and hula hula shirts to unravel a startling mystery. With this rubbing alcohol-swilling sidekick, the beautiful dark-eyed Marlee Dunn, Boston dives into a jungle of underground catacombs, mad scientists, homicidal public relations managers, gargoyles, and a corporate world gone mad with genetic engineering, cloning and cruelty to old people.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Tales in Firelight and Shadow is a collection of short stories by well-known and fresh new writers of fantasy, speculative and science fiction, retelling folktales from many lands and cultures. Award-winning authors present challenging new twists on familiar tales: James Morrow's museum curator and his university professor daughter discover the ultimate answer to the human condition; Mary Turzillo's talking cat rats on a legendary illusionist; and Tenea D. Johnson's fairies deal with the dream dolls of nightmare.Writers testing the speculative waters with their risk-taking styles captivate and enchant us: an adventurous young professional tries out a new eatery, with disastrous results; a haunted lake binds the horrors of the slaveholding past to the land's future; a boy steals what a Scottish fairy has no intention of parting with. A lonely girl in a beachside shack yearns for a mermaid godmother's gifts. Shadowy stalkers haunt forests and dreams.Emerging novelists delight us with old tales never before told like this: Jason Parent's Salem shyster outsmarts his own self; Patricia Stoltey's ogre is not at all what-or who-we think; Christina St. Clair's loving wife on the ultimate spiritual quest seems to have gone horribly astray; and A.J. Maguire's scientist alone on the moon with her husband and the man she truly loves must come up with the courage to choose if and how she will survive. We discover that fairytales and urban legends are the stuff of personal memory.The folktales gathered and retold in Tales in Firelight and Shadow answer the oldest of our questions: 'Why is my world as it is, and how can I find my way through it ' For, if folktales exorcize the pain of lessons learned over many lifetimes, then in this world of fairy, flame and chaos, enchantment-we realize with a start-is the only reality. We dream so that we may open our eyes.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - HE PROMISED TO LOVE HER UNTIL THE STARS GROW COLDIt is a dark time for the ancient vampire hunters known as the Wraith. The oldest and most prestigious of their academies lies in ruins, and the ruling order, the Council of Seven, is dead. The armies of Vampire Lord Bane march almost undaunted across the face of the Earth. Thousands of Wraith have died during a war they have come to know as 'The Purge.' The Wraith are facing extinction.Yet there are heroes stillA talented and powerful young Wraith, Thomas Cross, and his master, Conrad Verge, fight to hold back the darkness. But Thomas would throw it all away to find the woman he has dreamed about every night of his life.Until he discovers that his dream woman is his mortal enemy. She is a vampire.Everything changes in that moment. In a story that spans ten years and changes Wraith Universe irrevocably, this is a hero's fall from grace. The Wraith Chronicles continue in the second book of the series from science fiction/fantasy author Terence West.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The ancient vampire hunting order known as the Gwyliad Wriaeth has a dark secret. It's entwined so deeply in the order that very few know about it, but it threatens to unravel everything they stand for. We are those who are to blame.As each new student graduates from training they must take part in a ritual steeped in shadows and mysticism that has become the source of the Wraith's strength, speed, and longevity. Emily St. Louise--Saint to her her friends--is ready. As the ritual begins, something goes terribly, terribly wrong. Saint becomes something more than human, more than vampire, more than Wraith.Now Saint will shake the foundation of the Gwyliad Wraith on her search for truth. Buried somewhere in the academy's walls are answers. But to gain the truth, she must first loose everything. Science Fiction/Fantasy author Terence West brings you the first thrilling novel from 'The Wraith Chronicles.'.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Empire secure at last, Valerius finds that far from being able to rest, he must now rebuild what he has conquered. Exhausted after two years of effort, he takes a vacation with Queen and their young children to visit her ailing father King Reuters in Dulcai. But rest is not to be had there, either, for a strange prophecy drives Valerius back to the Inland Sea to confront yet another form of evil. Sailing a new type of ship designed by King Koltar, and joined by Vahla with the ubiquitous Chad, Valerius faces a possessed bastard son of Fantar in a series of sea battles before climbing back into the mountains south of Zagorbia to face his ultimate test and learn at last the secret power of the magic gem, the Eye of Valeria. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this fifth and final episode of the series, Tiffany and Chip return to Hollywood, California, where Tiffany's life had tragically ended six months earlier. In the process, they encounter three demons who intend to take them back to Florida, to face the wrath of the super demon Braithwaite, who has been chosen to control America for the next hundred years. Will Tiffany find the man responsible for sending her to her untimely death Or will any of the three demons they encounter destroy her long-awaited plans for revenge If the demons are unable to stop her, what will happen when she finally faces the man responsible for sending her to her death Will her taste for revenge force her to become the demon she should have been when she was pulled into Hell by the horny subordinate spirit Gutril Or is there some other plan mapped out for her, designed by an unseen power she has no knowledge of.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Image of Christian is a fable about fame, celebrity, and other illusions. Christian answers a 'help wanted' ad on the Internet and gets more than the job he desperately needs. His new boss, Grace, owns bits and pieces of this and that all over the world.Despite her success in it, she doesn't have much use for the 'Information Age' 'This is an age of faith, just like any other. Data gets shaped and moulded by the prophets of this so-called Information Age to create the reality they choose. These are the New Dark Ages, Christian. Ignorance rules, as always.'Once upon a time the gods of Olympus walked the Earth, sometimes as themselves and sometimes in disguise. Humans knew better than to trust them and knew better than to believe they were who they seemed. That wisdom is largely lost in the world of The Image of Christian.…