The Aftermath of Sexual Abuse

When Faith Fails

And 20 Habits of Spiritual Transformation

The Grand Illusion

Muscle Mastery Muscle Building Shortcut No Heavy Weights or Long Gym Hours for Beginners, Injured, Elderly, Athletes

Named one of the best books of the year by: TIMEEntertainment Weekly&#160; BuzzfeedAmazonPopSugarBustlePaste MagazinePopCrushPraise for&#160;A Torch Against the Night:&ldquo;The stakes here are high and the plot runs like a well-oiled machine, ratcheting up the tension with every chapter.&rdquo; &mdash;NPR.org&ldquo;An adrenaline rush till the very last page.&rdquo; &mdash;Buzzfeed &#160; &ldquo;The sequel to Tahir&rsquo;s bestselling smash An Ember in the Ashes finally comes out in August, and let me tell you, it does not disappoint.&rdquo; &mdash;Book Riot &#160; &ldquo;A Torch Against the Night is an unabashed page-turner that scarcely ever pauses for breath.&rdquo;&#160;&mdash;The Christian Science Monitor &#160; &ldquo;Fast-paced, exciting and full of adrenaline, A Torch Against The Night is everything fans of Tahir&rsquo;s debut could possibly anticipate in a sequel.&rdquo;&#160;&mdash;The Bucks County Courier Times&ldquo;Thrilling&hellip;Tahir meticulously plots these novels, ramping up the suspense and including plenty of surprises.&rdquo; &mdash;The Buffalo News&ldquo;Delivers in every way...The stakes have never been higher, and the tension is acutely felt as Elias and Laia run for their lives.&rdquo; &mdash;USA Today&rsquo;s Happy Ever After blog &#160; &ldquo;At last, it&rsquo;s here...It&rsquo;s as heartbreaking as it is action-packed, delivering a worthy second installment in Tahir&rsquo;s bestselling series.&rdquo; &mdash;Paste&ldquo;Tahir proves to be a master of suspense and a canny practitioner of the cliffhanger, riveting readers&rsquo; attention throughout.&hellip;[An] action-packed, breathlessly paced story.&rdquo; &mdash;Booklist, starred review"This sequel has a darker tone and even higher stakes than its predecessor, setting the stage for a thrilling conclusion." &mdash;Publishers Weekly, starred review"Excellent." &mdash;Kirkus Reviews"The rare sequel that improves on the original...unputdownable." &mdash;Common Sense Media (Five Stars)Praise for An Ember in the Ashes:&ldquo;This novel is a harrowing, haunting reminder of what it means to be human &mdash; and how hope might be kindled in the midst of oppression and fear.&rdquo;&#160;&mdash;The Washington Post&ldquo;An Ember in the Ashes&#160;could launch Sabaa Tahir into JK Rowling territory&hellip;It has the addictive quality of&#160;The&#160;Hunger Games&#160;combined with the fantasy of&#160;Harry Potter&#160;and the brutality of&#160;Game of Thrones.&rdquo;&mdash;Public Radio International"An Ember in the Ashes&#160;glows, burns, and smolders&mdash;as beautiful and radiant as it is searing."&mdash;Huffington Post&#160;&ldquo;[An Ember in the Ashes] thrusts its readers into a world marred by violence and oppression, yet does so with simple prose that can offer moments of loveliness in its clarity. This complexity makes&#160;Ember&#160;a worthy novel&mdash;and&#160;one as brave as its characters.&rdquo;&#160;&mdash;The New York Times Book Review&#160;&ldquo;Sabaa Tahir spins a captivating, heart-pounding fantasy.&rdquo; &mdash;Us Weekly&ldquo;An Ember in the Ashes&#160;mixes&#160;The Hunger Games&#160;with&#160;Game of Thrones...and adds a dash of&#160;Romeo and Juliet.&rdquo;&#160;&mdash;The Hollywood Reporter&ldquo;Blew me away...This book is dark, complex, vivid, and romantic&mdash;expect to be completely transported.&rdquo;&#160;&mdash;MTV.com&ldquo;Fast-paced, well-structured and&#160;full of twists and turns,&#160;An Ember in the Ashes&#160;is an evocative debut that has left me invested in knowing what happens next.&rdquo; &mdash;NPR&#160;&ldquo;Once you get caught up in the story,&#160;it&rsquo;s addictive, and there&rsquo;s no way you can put it down&#160;before you figure out what happens to the characters you have fallen for over the course of the 400 some-odd pages. So I didn&rsquo;t.&rdquo; &mdash;Bustle&#160;&#160;&ldquo;This epic fantasy set in the Martial Empire has it all: danger and violence, secrets and lies, strong characters and forbidden romance and a touch of the supernatural.&rdquo; &mdash;The Atlanta Journal-Constitution&#160;&ldquo;A setting inspired by ancient Rome; a fierce battle for freedom in the face of tyranny; and&#160;a villain who makes Cersei Lannister and Dolores Umbridge look like a pair of pathetic amateurs...An Ember in the Ashes&#160;is at the&#160;top of our must-read list&#160;for 2015.&rdquo; &mdash;MTV.com&ldquo;Be prepared to be blown away&#160;by this fantasy-thriller-adventure.&rdquo; &mdash;Girls&rsquo; Life&ldquo;An Ember in the Ashes&#160;is a book that's&#160;too good to put down.&rdquo; &mdash;RedEye&#160;&ldquo;Perfect for fans of Maggie Stiefvater's&#160;The Scorpio Races&#160;or Sarah Maas's Throne of Glass series&hellip;The book is already set to be a film, which will be EPIC!&rdquo; &mdash;TeenVogue.com*&#160;&ldquo;Tahir&rsquo;s&#160;deft, polished debut&#160;alternates between two very different perspectives on the same brutal world, deepening both in the contrast. In&#160;a tale brimming with political intrigue and haunted by supernatural forces, the true tension comes from watching Elias and Laia struggle to decide where their loyalties lie.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly, starred review&#160;&ldquo;Tahir&rsquo;s world-building is wonderfully detailed and the setting is an unusual one for fantasy novels. All of her characters, even minor ones, are fully realized....For fans of&#160;Game of Thrones&#160;and of Melina Marchetta&rsquo;s&#160;Finnikin of the Rock.&rdquo; &mdash;School Library Journal&#160;&ldquo;An original, well-constructed fantasy world...truly engaging.&rdquo; &mdash;Kirkus Reviews&#160;&#160;&ldquo;An&#160;epic fantasy debut&#160;about an orphan fighting for her family and a soldier fighting for his freedom. It&rsquo;s a story that&rsquo;s literally burning to be told.&rdquo; &mdash;Hypable.com&ldquo;First-time novelist Tahir has written an ambitious sword-and-sand adventure story that is notable for its suspense and scope.&rdquo; &mdash;Booklist&#160;&#160;&ldquo;Here's&#160;one of the year's most anticipated&#160;young-adult debuts.&rdquo; &mdash;io9.com&ldquo;I was so engrossed with this book that I missed a connecting flight.&#160;If that doesn&rsquo;t convince you to read&#160;An Ember in the Ashes, I don&rsquo;t know what will.&#160;An explosive, heartbreaking, epic debut&#160;that will keep you glued to the pages. I hope the world&rsquo;s ready for Sabaa Tahir.&rdquo; &mdash;Marie Lu,&#160;New York Times&#160;bestselling author of&#160;Legend&#160;&ldquo;With&#160;An Ember in the Ashes, Sabaa Tahir shows us light in the darkness, hope in a world of despair, and the human spirit reaching for greatness in difficult times.&rdquo; &mdash;#1&#160;New York Times&#160;bestselling author Brandon Sanderson&#160;&ldquo;An Ember in the Ashes&#160;is&#160;a spectacular page turner&#160;that asks readers to consider how far they&rsquo;d go to save the ones they love.&#160;Sabaa Tahir is the next superstar in young adult fiction&#160;and her debut is as cinematic as&#160;Gladiator&#160;and as high-stakes as&#160;Game of Thrones.&rdquo;&mdash;Holly Goldberg Sloan,&#160;New York Times&#160;bestselling author of&#160;Counting by 7s&#160;&ldquo;A heart-pounding story of love and loss, with the most original world-building I&rsquo;ve read all year. Deeply felt and deeply moving,&#160;I could not put it down.&rdquo; &mdash;Margaret Stohl,&#160;New York Times&#160;bestselling co-author of&#160;Beautiful Creatures&#160;&ldquo;This electric debut is a&#160;pulse-pounding action-packed&#160;Romeo and Juliet&#160;story in a richly imagined world with a great twist and heroic characters you&rsquo;ll root for and won&rsquo;t stop thinking about.&rdquo; &mdash;Melissa de la Cruz,&#160;New York Times&#160;bestselling author of&#160;Frozen&#160;and&#160;The Ring and the Crown

When Faith Fails

Autor:

Verlag:

Sprache:

CHF 13.50

Bewertungen