Übersetzer Adam Seacord
Verlag: J-Novel Club
The Demon Lord and company venture to the human slave market within Hellion territory. Amid the battle to free the captives, the high-ranking devil Allit appears, seeking a rematch with the Demon Lord and mentioning an “Armageddon to come.” Conflict in Hellion Territory and the mysteries of this world thicken...
The politicians in a faraway town want to build a dam. This means Dragon’s lair would be submerged underwater. The politicians are not listening to the pleas of their residents. Something must be done to save Dragon’s Lair. The twins, Evette and Adam, with their two friends John and Jenny band together to find a way to save Dragon’s Lair. Their journey takes them deep into the mountains of east Dragon’s Lair where they discover a new world that is worth saving. What are the discoveries the children make that can save Dragon’s lair?Zum Buch
Ada Lovelace turned her powerful imagination into a vision of the future, predicting the impact of computers on human life. Lovelace had a unique education and embraced mathematics. She became one of the biggest believers in engineer Charles Babbage's ideas for calculation machines. This graphic biography shows how Lovelace helped spread awareness of what an early computer could do and how she became one of the first computer programmers. It also shows how Lovelace pushed back against doubts about calculation machines and against her own self-doubt.Zum Buch
I'll be famous one day, but for now I'm stuck in middle school with a bunch of morons. Being a kid can really stink. And no one knows this better than Greg Heffley, who finds himself thrust into middle school, where undersized weaklings share the hallways with kids who are taller, meaner, and already shaving. In Diary of a Wimpy Kid, author and illustrator Jeff Kinney introduces us to an unlikely hero. As Greg says in his diary: Just don't expect me to be all "Dear Diary" this and "Dear Diary" that. Luckily for us, what Greg Heffley says he won’t do and what he actually does are two very different things.Zum Buch
In 1913 suffragette Emily St John-Carstairs and her husband disappear from their South London home under mysterious circumstances. The scene shifts to 1958, where Teddy Bean, a former juggler turned private detective, is hired by Emily's sister to find her. As the story unfolds between the two decades, we follow the fortunes of an unprincipled parlour maid, an unemployed alcoholic cook and a mysterious gentleman known only as ‘Bob’, all of whom are in some way linked to Emily’s fate. Added into the mix, is the ex-juggler's schizophrenic, knife-wielding wife but what part does she play in Emily’s story?Zum Buch
The Kingdom of Athanasia is all abuzz as Prince Kevin is about to marry Taryn, the beautiful girl who mysteriously appeared at the castle on Christmas Eve and stole his heart. Taryn also won the Queen’s admiration when she represented the kingdom on a mission to the tropical land of Jabalia, where she met Princess Jameela and her childhood friend and escort, Zuberi. Athanasia has a unique custom where they unveil the Princess Tiara in a formal ceremony a few days before the wedding. Princess Jameela and Zuberi arrive in the kingdom as guests for the wedding just before the Tiara Ceremony. On the night before the ceremony King Matthew, Kevin’s father, tells the young wedding party about the history of the tiara and how a jealous suitor almost ruined the wedding of Kevin’s great-grandfather to his new princess, who would become Kevin’s great-grandmother. The Tiara Ceremony goes off without a hitch, but afterward the Tiara is missing, having been stolen. Taryn and Kevin are distraught as they must have a tiara to crown the new princess at the wedding, which is just days away. But hope arises with a clue from the royal library, the very room where Kevin first fell in love with Taryn as they shared their love for stories. Will Taryn, Kevin, and their friends from Jabalia be able to find the thief and recover the tiara in time for the wedding? Adventure awaits our young friends as Taryn’s dream is about to come true.Zum Buch
Charles K. Spencer is a well-to-do young American mining engineer. Drinking his water in a hotel in London one day, he overhears a conversation between two young women, one of whom is to go to Switzerland. He decides to play "fairy godfather" and send the other girl there as well, also to further her career as a writer for a scientific journal. However, the girl is shadowed on her journey by the mysterious Mr. Bower. Convinced that Bower is a rogue, Mr. Spencer decides to follow them to protect the girl...Zum Buch
