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10901) El hijo del tiempo
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"En el campo de batalla de la Revolución Americana, Matthew de Clermont conoce al joven cirujano Marcus MacNeil. Se trata de un momento de cambio y agitación política en el que parece que el mundo esta a un paso de un futuro mejor. Y cuando Matthew le ofrece la oportunidad de ser inmortal y liberarse de las restricciones de su entorno, Marcus se lanza sin dudar a la posibilidad de convertirse en vampiro. Pero Matthew está haciendo mucho más que...
10902) Empire of night
Author
Series
Age of legends volume 2
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Separated while trying to save the children of their village, twin sisters Ashyn and Moria must draw on all their power and influence to defeat enemies of legend and avert war in the empire"--
Series
Popular culture and philosophy volume 5
Publisher
Distributed by Publishers Group West
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Can power be wielded for good, or must it always corrupt? Does technology destroy the truly human? Is beer essential to the good life? The Lord of the Rings raises many such searching questions, and this book attempts some answers. Divided into five sections concerned with power and the Ring, the quest for happiness, good and evil in Middle-earth, time and mortality, and the relevance of fairy tales, The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy mines Tolkien's...
10904) Sea serpent's heir
Author
Publisher
Skybound Comet
Pub. Date
[2022]-
Language
English
Description
"For Aella, life on Kinamen Isle is one of boredom. Spending her days fishing and minding her aunts, she dreams of life beyond the horizon. Everything changes, however, when she awakens an ancient evil within herself as it's revealed that she's the reincarnation of Xir, the serpent that almost destroyed the world. Worse yet, a fanatical religious organization has arrived on Kinamen Isle in search of Xir. As Aella is forced to fight for her life, she'll...
10905) Un cuento de magia
Author
Series
Tale of magic volume 1
Publisher
VR Editoras
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
Fourteen-year-old Brystal Evergreen risks everything by opposing her kingdom's repression of women, but Madame Weatherberry, seeing her potential, invites her to a school where she hopes to change the world's perception of magic.
10906) La jaula del rey
Author
Series
Red queen volume 3
Publisher
Gran Travesía
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
Debilitada y prisionera, privada de su potente rayo y atormentada por sus errores, Mare Barrow se ha postrado a los pies de un traidor. La otrora «Niña Relámpago» vive ahora a merced del joven que alguna vez amó, Maven Calore, espurio rey de Norta, quien continúa su malévola campaña de expansión y genocidio. Pero más allá de las murallas palaciegas, la rebelión Roja crece y se multiplica; y el joven príncipe Cal, legítimo heredero del...
10907) The Alice behind Wonderland
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"In the summer of 1858, in a garden behind Christ Church in Oxford, Charles Dodgson--better known by his pseudonym Lewis Carroll--dressed the six-year-old Alice Liddell in ragamuffin's clothes, and then snapped the camera's shutter. In The Alice Behind Wonderland, Simon Winchester uses the famous photograph of Alice as the launching pad for an appreciative energetic and penetrating look at the inspiration behind, and the making of, one of the greatest...
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"It's not easy to enjoy a picnic when you have unseeable interlopers to contend with! In a new trio of stories for beginning readers, the affable Max the dog and mischievous Baby Cakes the cat encounter a scare-happy ghost who has a run-in with a mirror, the wind at its blustery best, and a teeny-tiny fairy with a wayward wand who may have met her match."--
Author
Series
Loki volume 1
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
After one prank too many, trickster god Loki has been banished to live as a kid on Earth. If he can show moral improvement within one month, he'll be allowed to return to Asgard. If not? Eternity in a pit of angry snakes. School, fake "parents," and an eleven-year-old Thor's farts are pure misery. But when a bigger threat than Loki's mischief comes to Earth, Loki will have to decide whether he's really a villain, or if he might want to do the right...
10911) The last magician
Author
Series
Last magician volume 1
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In an alternate version of present-day Manhattan, magic is dying, and Esta, a Mageus with a talent for manipulating time, travels back to 1901 to stop the destruction of a book that can possibly restore magic, but in Old New York, Esta must navigate gangs, secret societies, and her feelings for another magician in order to save the future of magic.
10912) Sueños de dioses y monstruos
Author
Series
Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
From the streets of Rome to the caves of the Kirin and beyond, humans, chimaera, and seraphim will fight, strive, love, and die in an epic theater that transcends good and evil, right and wrong, friend and enemy.
"La joven Karou ha tomado el control sobre la rebelión quimérica y ahora el futuro de su raza depende de ella, si es que aún queda futuro para las quimeras en Eretz, una tierra asolada por la guerra. Pero, cuando el brutal ejército de...
10913) The new friend fix
Author
Series
Catalina Incognito volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Catalina is excited to find out a new student, Esmeralda, has joined her third-grade class at Valle Grande Elementary School. But despite Catalina’s attempts to introduce herself, Esme won’t talk to anyone but her own cousin, Jazmín. Could Jazmín be keeping Esme from making new friends? According to Catalina’s frenemy Pablo, it’s just like what happened to the secret princess in the telenovela hit The Hidden Crown! With Tía Abuela’s...
10916) Lotería
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
Description
El giro de una carta puede cambiar tu destino en esta aventura para lectores de grado medio, basada en el juego de cartas Lotera y perfecta para los fanticos de la pelcula Coco. Mientras busca a su primo que ha desaparecido, una joven es transportada a un reino mtico donde se enreda en un peligroso juego de azar. "Un cuento mgico y filosfico arraigado en la tradicin mexicana". -School Library Journal, resea destacada. A la hora ms calurosa del da...
10917) Lo que le contó el jaguar
Author
Publisher
Edicones LQ
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
Jade está a punto de comenzar el octavo grado en una nueva ciudad--Atlanta. Ella solo quiere regresar a Chicago, donde están sus amigos y donde vive su abuela. Pero Jade disfruta caminar a su nueva escuela por el camino en el bosque detrás de su casa, donde las flores florecen y las hojas se mueven debajo de sus pies. En el bosque, Jade se siente segura, como si el bosque la estuviera escuchando. Es ahí donde Jade conoce a Itztli, un cuentacuentos...
10918) My Calamity Jane
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Welcome to 1876 America, a place bursting with gunslingers, outlaws, and garou -- better known as werewolves. And where there are garou, there're hunters: the one and only Calamity Jane, to be precise, along with her fellow stars of Wild Bill's Traveling Show, Annie Oakley and Frank the Pistol Prince Butler. After a garou hunt goes south and Jane finds a suspicious-like bite on her arm, she turns tail for Deadwood, where there's talk of a garou cure....
10919) El libro del cementerio
Author
Publisher
Roca Editorial de Libros
Pub. Date
2014-
Language
Español
Description
Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that he has been raised by ghosts and other denizens of the graveyard.
Nobody Owens es un chico normal , excepto que ha sido planteada por los fantasmas y otros habitantes del cementerio.
Author
Publisher
WEDmiston Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
This historical fantasy begins with a famous mouse trying desperately to follow an ambulance occupied by a VIP being transported to a cryonics clinic. It's Dec. 16, 1966, the day Walt Disney's body supposedly was placed into cryonic suspension. Heaven requires a review, every five years, to assess whether or not sufficient medical advances make it feasible for reanimation. Although absent for 50 years, DISNEY has not been forgotten, figuratively or...
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