Marielle Jones has been hired to drive 8-year-old Tyler, his 10-year-old sister and their maternal grandmother on a camping trip across Oregon. When Tyler claims someone pushed him into the river, Marielle refuses to believe him. But, later, the party is shot at, and Marielle realizes something scary is going on. Is it possible someone wants an eight-year-old kid dead? Why? In the musty, dank corridors of an historic old military fort, astonishing answers emerge.
Who is making the crop circles? The enormous geometric designs have appeared in fields around the world for over thirty years. Novelist Risa McKensie plans to write about the fantastic works of art. When her intent becomes known, she receives an anonymous warning to drop the project. She can't imagine why. Because a fiction book might become a bestseller and draw attention to the circle phenomena? Who would care? Clearly, when the warnings multiply, more than one group. Risa meets a group of intellectual Artists who claim they make the formations using mental energy. Despite the escalation of the threats, she discounts the Artists' advice that The Meridians--a powerful consortium that thrives on war and chaos--are the ones she should most fear. Why would a novel about crop circles concern them?
He can set fires with his mind, influence the actions of birds and animals, and read auras. He is a SpiritKin. Orphaned at age fourteen, Gage, vows to hunt down his parents' murderers and kill them. Driven from his home village, he travels to the Boar's Head--land set aside by the usurper Solith king for outcast SpiritKin. On the way he meets Breen and Daevith, fostered children of nobility who defy the usurper and kindle Gage's awareness of their cause. Can Gage use his magic to help restore the crown to its rightful owner?
At her dying mother's plea, fourteen-year-old Lulie flees Missouri to escape her lecherous Pa. It's 1847 and she joins a wagon train bound for Oregon. Pa joins a following wagon train, intending to taunt her for 2,000 miles, before ultimately claiming her. Lulie's fellow travelers become her family and vow to help her however they legally can, but Lulie knows the only way to be free of him is to kill him. Does she have the skill, courage and resolve to do so?
Chaff and his companions sail to Fala, and find the uncharted island inhabited by two warring tribes. One of the tribesmen is an exile from Prand, whose only desire is to prevent his twelve-year old grandson Vachel from becoming a warrior. When Vachel captures a young member of the rival tribe, Braeth fears it will encourage the boy's warrior ambitions. While Chaff and the Loyals use their magiks to try to discover the source of the snowy island's wicked conflicts, Braeth struggles with his own identity, hoping it will save Vachel. But the Non will do everything in his evil power to prevent the success of either plan.
When his father is killed by an erupting firehill, Kelber vows to put an end to the devastation they cause. The only one with enough power to do this is Orland?s First Loyal, its connection to the Eternal One, and a possessor of great magik. But the First Loyal has been missing for two years. Kelber and his brother Trendarmon nearly die as they cross the sea to ask advice from Prand?s First Loyal, who sends Chaff and Haehli, Second Loyals of Prand, to assist Kelber in his quest.Kelber, Trendarmon and the Prandian Loyals face fire lizards, glowing avalanches, and vicious spies during their trek. Haehli falls in love with Trendarmon, and Kelber also meets his true love. The relationships bring heartache because Orland and Prand are not on friendly terms.When Kelber and his companions ascertain how Orland?s First Loyal has been imprisoned, they set about trying to free him. Surrounded by erupting firehills, the Loyals fight the Non?the antithesis of the Eternal One?in a tremendous battle between good and evil.Finalist, 2004 EPPIES?Best Young Adult!
The roots of the Eternal Trees hold the world together. So say the Believers. But Lord Yoad, a wealthy and powerful timber baron, plans to harvest them. Chaff, an orphan stableboy, suddenly receives Awareness magik-the ability to manipulate LifeForce particles-on his ten-and-six birthday. He sets out to find his beloved Lady Meave, Lord Yoad's wife, who has disappeared. He struggles to control his magik while he searches for her and for his true identity. When Lord Yoad's men fall an Eternal Tree, and the world begins to crumble, Chaff must use his magik to stop the LifeForce Particles from moving. Only he can save his true love and all the people of Prand.
In 1099, the magical island of Lyonesse, once King Arthur's retreat, is still a land of superstitions, secrets and destinies. A spirit prophet appears to Tamsin, a discontented freewoman, and says she has ten days to save the life of young Prince Aneurin, the reincarnation of the fabled king. With the help of a sweet-natured peasant lad, an exciting Cornishman, and a personable white mule, Tamsin inveigles her way into the castle. But Aneurin, who still mourns his mother and resents his look-alike companion, is hostile toward her. Selwich, the royal advisor, lusts after her. The king zealously protects the island's saffron crop, and when Selwich learns why, he plots to kill the king and the prince. When the prophet reappears to tell Tamsin about the accident in which the prince will die, the task takes on new dimensions and she must call upon all her resources-human, animal and spiritual-to overcome them.
At her dying mother's plea, fourteen-year-old Lulie flees Missouri to escape her lecherous Pa. It's 1847 and she joins a wagon train bound for Oregon. Pa joins a following wagon train, intending to taunt her for 2,000 miles, before ultimately claiming her. Lulie's fellow travelers become her family and vow to help her however they legally can, but Lulie knows the only way to be free of him is to kill him. Does she have the skill, courage and resolve to do so?
He can set fires with his mind, influence the actions of birds and animals, and read auras. He is a SpiritKin. Orphaned at age fourteen, Gage, vows to hunt down his parents' murderers and kill them. Driven from his home village, he travels to the Boar's Head--land set aside by the usurper Solith king for outcast SpiritKin. On the way he meets Breen and Daevith, fostered children of nobility who defy the usurper and kindle Gage's awareness of their cause. Can Gage use his magic to help restore the crown to its rightful owner?
Marielle Jones has been hired to drive 8-year-old Tyler, his 10-year-old sister and their maternal grandmother on a camping trip across Oregon. When Tyler claims someone pushed him into the river, Marielle refuses to believe him. But, later, the party is shot at, and Marielle realizes something scary is going on. Is it possible someone wants an eight-year-old kid dead? Why? In the musty, dank corridors of an historic old military fort, astonishing answers emerge.
Who is making the crop circles? The enormous geometric designs have appeared in fields around the world for over thirty years. Novelist Risa McKensie plans to write about the fantastic works of art. When her intent becomes known, she receives an anonymous warning to drop the project. She can't imagine why. Because a fiction book might become a bestseller and draw attention to the circle phenomena? Who would care? Clearly, when the warnings multiply, more than one group. Risa meets a group of intellectual Artists who claim they make the formations using mental energy. Despite the escalation of the threats, she discounts the Artists' advice that The Meridians--a powerful consortium that thrives on war and chaos--are the ones she should most fear. Why would a novel about crop circles concern them?
Dieses eBook: "Ein Drama in Livland" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Die Handlung des Romans spielt in Livland, einer historischen Landschaft im Baltikum, auf deren Gebiet das heutige Estland und Lettland liegen. Zu der Zeit der Handlung gehörte das Gebiet zum russischen Zarenreich. Den Hintergrund der Geschichte bilden die Auseinandersetzungen zwischen den deutschstämmigen Bewohnern und den Esten und Letten, die wiederum mit dem Zaren und seiner Verwaltung verbündet sind. Die Deutschstämmigen haben sich radikalisiert und zu Geheimbünden zusammengeschlossen. Wladimir Yanof gehört zu einer im Untergrund gegen die Herrschaft des Zaren agierenden Vereinigung. Er wurde nach Sibirien deportiert und konnte von dort wieder fliehen. Er hat sich inzwischen quer durch Russland bis an die Grenze von Livland durchgeschlagen. Knapp kann er der Ergreifung durch eine russische Grenzstreife entgehen. Mit Hilfe seiner List und der Unterstützung anderer Deutschstämmiger kann er über die Grenze kommen. Er kommt in einem Landgasthof unter. Er wird allerdings von dem Brigadier Eck und dessen Schergen verfolgt. Jules Verne (1828-1905) war ein französischer Schriftsteller.
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