Category
Imaginary worlds full of magic, supernatural creatures and extraordinary elements populate its pages.
While the first book plays with living cards, on this occasion Alicia is involved in a crazy game of chess. Carroll provides us with a list of the movements that occur in it, although some of them go against the rules of the game, as if it were a little boy who was playing.
Un fugitivo llega a una isla aparentemente desierta huyendo de la justicia. Allí descubre un extraño museo y varios edificios abandonados, pero pronto sucede algo inquietante: aparecen de repente un grupo de personas elegantes que actúan como si él no existiera.
La llegada de Woland y su extravagante séquito altera el Moscú soviético mientras Margarita intenta salvar al Maestro y su novela sobre Poncio Pilato. Bulgákov mezcla sátira, amor, fantasía y reflexión moral en una obra inclasificable.
Kidnapped at a very early age, the young Ansset has been educated in the isolation of the House of Canto.
It all began with the prophecy of the Messenger of God: Palicrovol, Count of Traffing, would end the bloody tyranny and become king of Burland. The prophecy warned, however, that his life would not be safe until the tyrant and his daughter Asineth had died.
Tarod is a child who after a natural disaster is transported away from everything he has known at that time and begins a new life.
Tarod is betrayed by the people of his most intimate circle and must rethink to whom he owes loyalty.
To defeat Yandros, the Lord of Chaos, Keridil must convene the Council of Three, sail to the White Island shrine and open the chest of Aeoris.
In the remote village of Campo de Emond, in the region of the Two Rios, Rand al'Thor leads a simple life as a farmer with his father Tam. But on the night of Bel Tine, the calm is broken when the trollocs attack the village. During the flight, Tam is seriously injured, and Rand is forced to take him to the people for help, while discovers that violence has spread throughout the region. Shortly after, a mysterious woman named Moiraine, accompanied by her guardian Lan, reveals that the attack has not been fortuitous: Rand and two other young people in the village are the target of the Shadow forces. To save Campo de Emond and its inhabitants, the boys must leave their home and take a long journey.
The life of a monster-hunter witch is not easy. As soon as you can have to get up to your neck in a pellet to eliminate the scavenger beast that threatens the city, trying not to catch an incurable infection, as you can find yourself attached to the hunt for one of the last dragons, in which the question is not whether the hunters will be able to kill the poor beast, but what will happen when they have to split the loot.
I tell you, the time of the sword and the axe, the time of the wild storm, is coming. The Time of the White Winter and the White Light is coming. The Time of Madness and the Time of Hate, the Time of the End. The world will die in the frost and will rise again along with the new sun. It will rise from the Old Blood, from Hen Ichaer, from the seed sown. Of the seed that does not germinate, but it is on fire. That's right! Behold the signs! What signs are they, I will say unto you: first shall the blood of the Aen-seidhe, the blood of the Elves, be shed upon the earth.
In this work we follow the life of Fitz, a child bastard of royalty who is taken to the court of his grandfather, the king. There, Fitz is trained by an enigmatic man named Burrich to become a murderer at the service of the king. But Fitz also discovers that he has magic skills, which leads him to enter into the dangerous secrets of the court and face mortal enemies.
Fourth volume of the Geralt Saga of Rivia. Geralt, Jaskier, Yennefer and Ciri will be mixed in the skirmishes of the various magi factions: on the one hand, those who wish to appease Nilfgaard, and on the other, those who fear the result of openly interfering in the politics of kings.
Traspié has survived his first dangerous mission as the king's killer, although as a result it has gone very badly. He is in a position to break his oath to King Artimañas and to stay in the far mountains.
Fifth volume of the epic fantasy saga that has moved the foundations of the genre. Geralt, Jaskier and company march south in search of Ciri, crossing the war-torn territory, where it will be increasingly difficult to distinguish friends from enemies. Through the calcined fields, baptisms of fire.
In 1861, Hervé Joncour, a young French traveler, took a risky trip to Japan. It pursues the dream of silk, a material which Europe reverence and which is synonymous with the warmth of desire and the substance of love. But as usual, the perispecia is more risky than expected. The dangers that arise are embodied in a woman who with her charms can unravel the quiet life that the traveller has in his home with his wife Hélène.
Harry Potter grows up in his uncles' house, the Dursley, who hide his true family history from him; when Harry is 11 years old, letters from unknown sender begin to reach him, which are increasing in number as his uncles do not let him open them. They bring the news that the child has been admitted to the Hogwarts College of Magic and Hechiceria, since, like his parents, he has magical powers.
The third novel of the trilogy of the Vatidic. King Artimañas has died at the hands of his son, Regio, just like I did. Or at least that's what his friends and adversaries think. But with the help of his allies and the magic of the beasts he emerges from the grave, deeply wounded in body and soul.
Penultimate volume of saga that has convulsed the fantasy. Ciri, turned into a bandit, faces the relentless killer sent after her by the Emperor of Nilfgaard. The little witch is getting more and more deadly and ruthless... but maybe not enough. Meanwhile, Geralt's company is in the south, and Yennefer tracks the ocean in search of the hiding place of the traitor wizard Vilgefortz, which may be related to the death of Ciri's parents.
After once again defeating Lord Voldemort, his sinister enemy in Harry Potter and the philosophical stone, Harry is impatient at the home of his unbearable uncles at the beginning of the second year of the Hogwarts College of Magic and Hechiceria. However, the waiting takes little, as an elf appears in his room and warns him that a mortal threat will close on the school.
Ship of Magic is the first book of the Liveship Traders series and follows the fortunes of the Vestrit family. A vessel is a ship made of Wizardwood, a mystic substance, giving it magic properties. When three generations of a ship's owners die on board, a lifetime "quickens," meaning that the ship awakens and becomes a sentence being with all the memories of the ancestors who have contributed to the ship's quickening. Captain Vestrit's grandmother had ordered the lifehip Vivacia, and the
A touching narrative, full of tenderness and optimism, in which an unexpected ice storm changes the life of an 11-year-old, that of its neighbours and the trajectory of very special fish.
< div class "p-3" > It includes the following accounts: < / div > < div class "p-3" > - "Road without return" < / div > < div class "p-3" > - "The musicians." < / div > < div class "p-3" > - "Tandaradei!" < / div > < div class "p-3" > - "In the crater of the bomb" < / div > < div class "p-3" > - "Something ends, something begins." < / div > < div class "p-3" > - Battle Dust. < / div > < div class "p-3" > - "The golden afternoon." < / div > < div class "p-3" > - "What happened in Mischief Creek" < / div > < div class "p-3" > - "Spanienkreuz" < / div >
After several years away from the court, Fitzchivalry reworks with Chade at the service of the Farseer dynasty.
In the mines of Lepidor, the southernmost clan of the continent of Océanus, Iron is discovered, the most precious metal of Aquasilva, a world like the earth but with much more water and less emerging areas. This finding forces Cathan to travel to Taneth where he meets his father Elnibal at Council meetings. To do this, Cathan can convince his mother and Atek to let him be the bearer of good news to his father. But before marching through the world, his mother confesses to him a dangerous secret, in the world not only was there Fire, but also the Earth, Air, Water, Light, Time and Shadow, in the face of Cathan's belief that fire is the creative element and the only one worshipped by it, it is explained to him that there are other gods also, having each element has its own deity and its own magic. Thus, the ocean is the domain of Thetis, the goddess of Water. The shadow exists in the void and its deity is Ragnar, the god of the Earth is Hyperas, Althana the goddess of the Winds and Phaetan, the god of Light.
Prince Dutive has been rescued from his kidnappers and the Buck court has summarized its normal rhms. However, FitzChivalry Farseer cannot return to his former isolated life. Although dying deeply the loss of his wolf Nighteyes, Fitz must take up residence at Buckkeep and sum up his tasks as Chade's appetize assassin.
Along with his mentor, Chade, and the simplified yet strong Skilled Thick, FitzChivalry Farseer strives to help Prince Dutiful on a quest that could secure peace with the Outislands - and win Dutiful the hand of the Narcheska Elliania.
Logen Nuevededos, Jezal dan Luthar y el inquisidor Glokta avanzan por un mundo al borde de la guerra. Joe Abercrombie renueva la fantasía épica mediante personajes ambiguos, humor seco y consecuencias muy humanas.
The stories of Beedle el Bardo contain five very different fairy tales, each with its own magic character, which will delight the reader with his humour and the emotion of the danger of death.
In Gatlin, Ethan Wate is obsessed with a girl who appears in her dreams: Lena Duchannes. When you meet her, you discover that she belongs to a family of Casters and that, at the age of 16, she will be claimed by Light or Darkness, while both try to break an old curse.
After the events of his birthday, Lena is moving away from Ethan and is increasingly exposed to dark forces. Ethan, with the help of his friends, tries to understand what's going on and save her before the darkness overcomes her.
Little did the Geralt sorcerer of Rivia know what was waiting for him to go to the coastal village of Kerack. First he was unjustly accused of embezzlement, then he was mysteriously released on bail, and finally discovered that his precious swords, left in deposit when he entered the city, had disappeared.
The University, the bastion of knowledge, attracts the brightest minds, who come to learn the mysteries of science such as artificery and alchemy. However, under these buildings and their busy classrooms there is a maze of ancient tunnels, of abandoned rooms and rooms, of serpentinating corridors and semi-sound..
