Virtualbookworm com publishing aug 2017 (2 résultats)

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - A man-eating leopard prowls the Transvaal. Daring, desperate, and indomitable, this lord of all cats, slowed by an ancient wound, has turned now to the one prey on which he can hope to survive. Captain Hilton Rixton, sportsman retired from the stalk, reaches for his rifle one more time to protect his adoptive African family from a terror against which they have no defense. Hindering his quest are bounty seekers and glory hounds flooding the jungle in search of the elusive quarry, so that even Rixton of Africa is unsure if he can resolve the accelerating crisis to anything but a tragic end.Lord of the Darkness is the haunting saga of a veteran shikari, robbed of an eye long ago by a tiger in the Indian bush, and his pursuit of a brilliant predator as they advance inescapably toward their fated and final rendezvous.…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Verena, an American teenage girl, develops an obsession with Germany and with King Ludwig II of Bavaria, a German king who died mysteriously in 1886. Verena's pursuit of her obsession leads her to the discovery of a manuscript written by King Ludwig. It reveals Ludwig's secrets and those of an ancient enterprise to protect the Holy Grail. She learns about the Swan Knights, the direct line of descendants from the Grail Knight, Parsifal, and about a portal to the Grail's hiding place.Ludwig's manuscript details the many heroic figures and fantastic creatures wrapped in the Grail's fate, including The Ancient One, a giant swan who has served as the custodian of the Grail secrets and as the teacher of the Swan Knights' children since the beginning. Many mysteries of German history and of Germanic legend are explained by the manuscript. Verena eventually discovers her own connection to the Grail and its stories, and the reason for the strange obsession.…