Showing results for "the troll" in Genre Fiction

Scotty is no stranger to being bullied, but after a chance encounter in an online chatroom, finds hope in Rebecca. Scotty is about to find out that people on the internet can be worse than people in real life. Facebook. Twitter. These are the places the modern troll thrives. How far would you be willing to go to bring a troll to justice?

Chris Anderson has everything. He’s the son of the richest family in town. He lives in a beautiful, loving home. He even has a fairy godmother. Chris Anderson also has nothing. He was born with a deformed arm, and when he gets angry he sees visions that terrify him. At the turn of the Twentieth Century, in a nation wrestling with faith and science, tradition and change, Chris will be forced to confront his own nature, and learn the meanings of freedom, love, and the grace of God.

This collection of Willa Cather stories - her first book of fiction and the capstone of her early career - is as relevant today as at the time of its initial publication. As different and individually distinguished as the seven stories may be, they share as their subject the role and status of the artist in American society.

Vi möter ensamma Mona, ett butiksbiträde som längtar efter den dagen då en främmande man kommer och tar henne med storm. Vi möter också lilla Benke, en stackars pojke som överges av sin kringflackande mor. Sist men inte minst får vi träffa Mary, gift med Edvin och fruktansvärt uttråkad av sitt schemalagda liv. Annakarin Svedberg, född 1934 i Halmstad, är känd för sina ovanliga kvinnoskildringar. De är ofta sensuella och lustfyllda. Svedberg anses vara en av de som först skrev om kärlek kvinnor emellan.

Der schlimmste Tag in Emma Harts Leben rückt näher! Der gefallene Engel Daniel Starr wird die verwöhnte Fee Elsa Knightsbridge heiraten. Zum Glück kann sich Emma immer auf ihre Freundinnen aus dem Hexen-Nachhilfeunterricht und ihren Vampir-Geist-Mitbewohner verlassen. Und auch an mörderischen Ablenkungen mangelt es in Spellbound nie! Als ein toter Troll in der Nähe einer Brücke gefunden wird und ein Werwolf wegen unsittlicher Entblößung auffällt, stürzt sich Emma in die Ermittlungen.

Charlie and Charlize are at their wits' end trying to keep their unruly eight-year-old daughter, Charlene, under control. Just when they're beginning to think their hands couldn't possibly get any fuller, a bewildering encounter with a man in a restaurant leaves them tasked with taking care of a troll child. Ahern's story, full of humorous turns and familial insight, is a playful testament to the love of a parent - or a troll.