検索キーワード： 著者 "Eoin Colfer" すべてのカテゴリー

Un secondo giovane genio ha scoperto l'esistenza del Popolo: è una ragazzina, ed è decisa a catturarne un esemplare per porlo a studi scientifici. E non un esemplare qualsiasi! La nuova arrivata ha intenzione di catturare un demone, un membro .della specie più odia-umani fra quelle ignote all'uomo. Solo un incantesimo millenario separa la tribù demoniaca dal genere umano... e Artemis deve impedire che si dissolva. Se fallisse, demoni sanguinari sarebbero pronti a concludere la loro, antica missione: cancellare ogni umano dalla faccia del pianeta.

Il genio criminale di Artemis Fowl è tornato ed è più criminale che mai visto che, dopo l'ultima avventura, dalla sua mente è stato spazzato via ogni ricordo del Popolo. Anche Opal Koboi, però, è tornata: la perfida folletta che ha lasciato in prigione un suo clone e ora è libera e assetata di vendetta. Intanto lui, fuorilegge per tradizione familiare, sta preparando un colpo da maestro per rubare un famoso dipinto impressionista a una banca tedesca.

Stavolta Artemis Fowl ha combinato davvero un grosso guaio! La sua ultima invenzione, il Cubo, un minicomputer costruito usando la tecnologia fatata sottratta al Popolo e in grado di localizzarne il rifugio sotterraneo, è caduta nelle mani sbagliate. Quelle di Jon Spiro, un avido miliardario pronto a tutto pur di dominare il mondo. D'accordo, il Cubo è protetto dal Codice Eternità, impossibile da decifrare, almeno in teoria... ma in pratica?

Artemis Fowl è davvero un genio criminale? Sì, visto che a dodici anni è riuscito a impadronirsi dell'oro custodito dal Popolo delle creature fatate e a beffarsi della magia grazie al proprio stupefacente Q.I. Cinico, senza scrupoli e provvisto di una schiacciante superiorità intellettuale, Artemis ha tuttavia un punto debole: l'amore per la madre, che pretende di mandarlo a scuola come un moccioso qualunque, e per il padre, misteriosamente scomparso fra i ghiacci dell'Artico.

Squib Moreau er måske nok en 15-årig sump-vild, streetsmart, cajun-blodet vildbasse, men han har (som regel) gode intentioner: Han vil "virkelig" gerne være en sød og opmuntrende søn for sin hårdtarbejdende mor, sygeplejersken Elodie. Men nogle gange kommer livet i vejen - som for eksempel når Falske Far pludselig fordufter og efterlader en kæmpe gæld, eller når den korrupte landbetjent Regence Hooke får den idé, at Elodie er lige er hans "kinda gal".

Einst waren Drachen die Herrscher der Erde und die Könige der Lüfte. Vern, ehemals unter dem Namen "Lord Highfire" verehrt und gefürchtet, ist der Letzte seiner Art. Deprimiert hat er sich in die Sümpfe Louisianas zurückgezogen, wo er seine Tage mit Wodka und schlechten TV-Serien verbringt. Seine Einsamkeit wird jedoch gerstört, als er eines Tages dem 14-jährigen Squib begegnet. Gerade als Vern beginnt, sich mit Squibs Anwesenheit in seinem Leben abzufinden, wird dieser von einem korrupten Polizisten entführt und der Mafia übergeben.

Artemis' little brothers Myles and Beckett borrow the Fowl jet without permission, and it ends up as a fireball over Florida. The twins plus their fairy minder, the pixie-elf hybrid Lazuli Heitz, are lucky to escape with their lives. The Fowl parents and fairy police force decide that enough is enough and the twins are placed under house arrest. But Myles has questions like: Who was tracking the Fowl jet? Why would someone want to blow them out of the sky? What is the bigger picture?

For almost two years, Lord Teddy Bleedham-Drye, the Duke of Scilly, has been plotting revenge against the Fowl Twins, who humiliated him in book one. Teddy plans to give them exactly what they deserve: permanent death. He threatens Myles with his weaponized jet, and Beckett and specialist Lazuli succeed in disarming the aircraft and causing an accident that kills the duke. But does it really?

In the days of yore, he flew the skies and scorched angry mobs - now he hides from swamp tour boats and rises only with the greatest reluctance from his La-Z-Boy recliner. Laying low in the bayou, this once-magnificent fire breather has been reduced to lighting Marlboros with nose sparks, swilling Absolut in a Flashdance T-shirt, and binging Netflix in a fishing shack. For centuries, he struck fear in hearts far and wide as Wyvern, Lord Highfire of the Highfire Eyrie - now he goes by Vern.

For almost two years, Lord Teddy Bleedham-Drye has been plotting revenge against the Fowl Twins, who humiliated him in book one. Teddy plans to give them exactly what they deserve: permanent death. He threatens Myles with his weaponized jet, and Beckett and Specialist Lazuli succeed in disarming the aircraft and causing an accident that kills Lord Teddy. But does it really?

Artemis' little brothers, Myles and Beckett, borrow the Fowl jet without permission and it ends up as a fireball over Florida. The twins plus their fairy minder, the pixie-elf hybrid Lazuli Heitz, are lucky to escape with their lives. The Fowl parents and fairy police force decide that enough is enough, and the twins are placed under house arrest. But Myles has questions, like: who was tracking the Fowl jet? Why would someone want to blow them out of the sky? These questions must infuriate someone, because Myles is abducted and spirited away from his twin.

Ebo's sister left months ago. Now his brother has disappeared, too, and Ebo knows that to see them again, he must follow in their footsteps and make the hazardous voyage from Ghana to a safe haven in Europe. So the 12-year-old sets off on an epic journey that takes him across the Sahara Desert to the dangerous streets of Tripoli and finally out to the merciless sea. Powerful and timely, this novel brings to life Ebo's unquenchable hope for a new life in the face of daunting and perilous obstacles.

Thousands of years ago, fairies and humans fought a great battle for the magical island of Ireland. When it became clear that they could not win, all of the fairies moved below ground, except for the 8th Family, the demons. Rather than surrender, they used a magical time spell to take their colony out of time and into Limbo. There they have lived for decades, preparing to exact their violent revenge on humans.

Young FBI agent Chevie Savano arrives back in modern-day London after a time-trip to the Victorian age, to find the present very different from the one she left. Europe is being run by a Facsist movement known as the Boxites, who control their territory through intimidation and terror. Chevie's memories come back to her in fragments, and just as she is learning about the WARP program from Professor Charles Smart, inventor of the time machine, he is killed by secret service police. Now they are after Chevie, too, but she escapes....

"Taking on PJ" is a short story from the collection Dublin Noir. Brand new stories by: Ken Bruen, Eoin Colfer, Jason Starr, Laura Lippman, Olen Steinhauer, Peter Spiegelman, Kevin Wignall, Jim Fusilli, John Rickards, Patrick J. Lambe, Charlie Stella, Ray Banks, James O. Born, Sarah Weinman, Pat Mullan, Gary Phillips, Craig McDonald, Duane Swierczynski, Reed Farrel Coleman, and others.Irish crime-fiction sensation Ken Bruen and cohorts shine a light on the dark streets of Dublin.

Ed Cooper's a senior infant now and that means using the big boys' toilet. Ed needs 'to go' but he just can't. The big white toilet is very different to the junior infants' loo - with no lock on the door and goodness knows what hiding 'down there'! What can Ed do? He can't hold on forever. Maybe, just maybe, there's a way out - Gran's potty. Gran's potty is no ordinary potty but can it help save the day?

Ed Cooper has a problem with his big toes. The doctor says Ed needs 'correction shoes'. Disaster! Everybody will laugh at him. Ed uses every trick he can think of not to wear the shoes. He even tries DIY foot-straighteners! But it's no use. The shoes arrive. Ed opens the box, and the shoes are not as bad as he'd thought. They're worse!

Poor Ed Cooper seems to have one problem after another - his life is never boring. This time around Ed is having problems in school. He just can't get his head around his time-tables.

At home things are bad too - Ed has started to wet his bed. What is Ed to do?

Es hätte alles so schön werden können. Dan McEvoy, knallharter Türsteher und Exsoldat, hat soeben neue Haare transplantiert bekommen...

Zwei neue, spannend und rasant erzählte Abenteuer mit Artemis und den Unterirdischen von Erdland. Wie Holly Short mit Mut, Eigensinn und Ungehorsam als einzige Frau die Prüfung zum Aufklärungsoffizier besteht, und wie Artemis Fowl, der Meisterdieb, mit Hilfe von Zwerg Mulch Diggums das wertvollste Diadem der Welt stiehlt.