Ediciones rubí jun 2026 (9 résultats)

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Some debts span centuries. Some daughters refuse to pay. Eva Beauford tried to cheat a blood covenant older than this country.Using her own potent blood, she believed she could protect the man chosen for her before she drew her first breath and shatter the pact that has bound Beauford daughters for two centuries. Veidrel knew. And the ancient entity answered the only way it knows. With a blight.Now black ash falls on Beauford Grove like snow. The soil turns to ash. The people are falling sick with blackened veins beneath their skin, just as they did in Haiti two centuries ago, when a plantation dared to defy the covenant.Rafe, Eva's scientist, her partner, her heart, is Veidrel's now, possessed and slipping further away with every passing hour.Eva is pregnant with a child that shouldn't exist. Born of the ritual, carrying both Beauford and Durand blood, and an inheritance her ancestors predicted and Veidrel never anticipated. A child who could end this war.If Eva can survive long enough to bring him into the world.The Grove kept its end of a dark bargain for two hundred years. Now the debt comes due, and Eva Beauford refuses to pay.Book Two of the Beauford Grove Series.…

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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Strange balls of light haunt the night skies over Half Moon Bay, and two young girls are on a collision course with evil when people begin to spontaneously combust. Eighteen-year-old Claire Weatherly flees Cincinnati, Ohio for Half Moon Bay, CA when her family dies in a mysterious fire. She hopes by reconnecting with her aunt and uncle she can out run her grief, her guilt, and death itself. But she quickly discovers that Half Moon Bay isn't her salvation. Seventeen-year-old Lucy escapes imprisonment from a house outside Half Moon Bay when a red ball of light attacks and incinerates her captor. She's been praying for salvation and at first believes the ball of light is the answer to those prayers. But after witnessing the carnage, she doubts the ball's intent and runs for her life. It's only by luck that the two girls find each other and form a bond of inseparable friendship, trust, and love. Together they must solve the mystery of the balls of light and discover their evil intentions. Together they must put an end to the fiery holocaust plaguing Half Moon Bay. Together they must overcome and survive these Days of Fire and Ash.…

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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - The dinosaurs are not as gone as you think.Every moment those creatures were alive, sunlight was bouncing off their scales and feathers and skin and scattering in all directions into space. Those photons did not stop. They have been traveling at the speed of light for sixty-six million years. Right now, at this moment, the light that last touched a living Tyrannosaurus rex is somewhere in the universe, approximately sixty-six million light-years from Earth, still carrying the precise electromagnetic record of the surface it reflected from.This is not poetry. This is physics.In Prehistoric Light Fossils, cosmologist and optical physicist Prof. Leocade Vinter-Osagie develops one of the most startling ideas in the history of science: that the universe has been photographing itself since the beginning, that every illuminated surface in the history of Earth has been encoded in photons still traveling through the cosmos, and that these ancient light fossils, though extraordinarily difficult to access, are physically real and in principle recoverable.Drawing on the established physics of light propagation, quantum optics, information theory, and gravitational lensing, Vinter-Osagie builds the complete scientific framework for what she calls photon paleontology. She shows exactly where the ancient light is, what it carries, why it has survived intact, and what natural concentrating mechanisms in the universe might redirect it toward instruments capable of detecting it.This is not a book about science fiction. It is a book about what the laws of physics actually permit, and what those permissions reveal about the universe we live in. We are surrounded by the electromagnetic records of every moment of life that has ever existed on this planet. The archive is vast. The photons are real. The question is whether we will ever find a way to read them.Vinter-Osagie guides readers through the physics of photon information preservation, the spectral signatures of Cretaceous vegetation and ocean life, the telescope technologies at the frontier, the mathematical challenge of extracting ancient signals from cosmic noise, and the extraordinary scenario of what we would actually see if prehistoric light fossils were ever recovered: not photographs of individual animals, but the spectral fingerprint of the entire living world they inhabited, including the optical record of the day the asteroid hit.Sixty-six million years ago, light left this planet carrying a record of everything alive. It is still out there. This book is about finding it.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Survival is a habit. Healing is a choice.The city took the hit. He's deciding whether to cry about it.In Mofolo, the power dies at exactly 6:43 PM. For Kael, survival is the lifelong habit of paying attention. Beneath a Johannesburg sky burning orange and bruised purple, he navigates a world of sparse flats and heavy secrets. When a mysterious envelope from Zodwa arrives, the 'thick skin' he's built begins to crack. This is a gritty, lyrical exploration of trauma and the project of becoming whole. In a city as beautiful as it is difficult, Kael must discover that while moving forward isn't the same as arriving, the door is finally open.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Nestled in the shadow of theBerchtesgaden Alps, the HotelGeneral Walker hides secretsthat some would kill toprotect. When Grace notices aman whose presence seemsout of time, she uncovers thedark legacy of a Nazi officerand a hunt for lost treasureshidden within the hotel's walls.As danger closes in, Gracemust outwit him, reveal thesecrets of the past, andpreserve priceless historybefore it's lost forever.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - He was America's perfect football hero. Until a stranger with a notebook arrived to help him discover who he really was.Liam Hargrove is twenty-two years old, the son of a Texas rancher, captain of his college football team, and a top prospect for the NFL draft. On the outside, he represents everything an American man is expected to be. But beneath his number 88 jersey, Liam carries a heavy burden-a deep unease about his true identity hidden under the armor of the perfect athlete and son.Noah Thompson is an openly gay academic who arrives in Liam's world to research the exact type of performative masculinity that Liam represents. Unimpressed by the football hype, Noah begins asking Liam profound questions about his public and private self, challenging the protective barrier Liam has built.What starts as a simple academic research project quickly transforms into the most genuine connection Liam has ever experienced. Through their secret meetings, Liam begins to understand his bisexuality and the difference between living a planned play and a true improvisation. However, their growing romance is threatened when anonymous photos of them together are sent to the press, jeopardizing Liam's NFL draft expectations and threatening to expose his personal life to his conservative family and the entire sports world.Forced to confront his father's past mistakes and the rigid expectations of his environment, Liam must decide if he will continue wearing his armor or risk everything to finally live his truth. Tight End is an emotional LGBT romance about identity, family conflicts, and the courage it takes to be fully seen.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware.