Resultados para "2" en Literatura y ficción

As the novel opens, Lestat, having risen from the earth after a fifty-five years' sleep, and infatuated with the modern world, presents himself in all his vampire brilliance as a rock star, a superstar, a seducer of millions. And, in this blaze of adulation, daring to break the vampire oath of silence, he determines to tell his story, to rouse the generations of the living dead from their slumbers and to penetrate the riddle of his own existence.

Alan MacKintosh lleva años decidido a no darle a su padre aquello que más desea: una descendencia que perpetúe su nombre. Marcado por la tiranía del antiguo laird y por su obsesión con controlar el destino de sus hijos, Alan se ha refugiado en una vida de libertad, conquistas y promesas incumplidas, convencido de que no casarse es su única forma de resistencia. Pero Anne Campbell no es una mujer fácil de ignorar.

When Dana and Nigel got married, they had such promise. After sixteen years, the cracks are showing. Dana is a burned-out ER nurse, and Nigel is a recently unemployed stay-at-home dad whose professional identity is disappearing. Questioning the directions their lives have taken, Dana and Nigel are each granted a wish from a mysterious stranger. For one week they can escape the pressure of their lives in favor of ones in which they never married.

CIUDAD NEGRA: La última ciudad perdida es la segunda aventura de Ulises Vidal y la espectacular secuela del bestseller internacional LA ÚLTIMA CRIPTA, la novela más vendida en la historia de Amazon España. El relato de CIUDAD NEGRA comienza varios meses después del regreso a casa de Ulises, Cassandra, y el profesor Castillo, tras la aventura narrada en La última cripta. Citados con urgencia por este último, les explica angustiado que su hija Valeria ha desaparecido misteriosamente en el territorio más remoto y peligroso de la Tierra.

Veinte años después de haber experimentado la más extraña aventura de su vida - un viaje a través del tiempo hasta la Escocia del siglo XVIII - Claire Randall regresa con su hija Brianna a las imponentes y misteriosas montañas escocesas donde todo comenzó. Con la ayuda de Roger, un joven historiador, Claire se lanza a una obsesiva búsqueda de las tumbas de los caídos en la batalla de Culloden,librada en 1745. El paso del tiempo no ha podido borrar los intensos recuerdos de un amor difícil de explicar.

Terry needed a weapon. He got a sidekick. After he discovers a few hundred monster soldiers camping out in easy striking distance of his house…oh, and the town…Terry realizes that the trash swords he took from dead enemies won’t cut it. Figuratively or literally. Those monsters have armor! Unfortunately, fixing that problem requires him to face the ultimate horror. Talking to people.

SUPERVENTAS DEL NEW YORK TIMES. ¡LA SAGA QUE HA SIDO UN ÉXITO ARROLLADOR EN TODO EL MUNDO! En la conclusión de Una ventana a la oscuridad, Elspeth va a tener que enfrentarse a todo lo que ha hecho mientras se embarca con Ravyn en una peligrosa aventura para salvar su reino. El reino está...

Jude ha llegado a un acuerdo con el rey malvado, Cardan, y se ha convertido en el poder en la sombra. Navegar en un mar de alianzas plagado de traiciones constantes ya es lo bastante complicado, pero Cardan, encima, es terriblemente difícil de controlar y hace todo lo que puede para humillar y minar a Jude, aunque su fascinación por ella permanece intacta. Cuando resulta evidente que alguien cercano a Jude planea traicionarla, lo que no solo pondrá en peligro su vida sino también la de aquellos a los que más quiere, Jude deberá desenmascarar al traidor.

The hit Audible Original series from executive producers of The Walking Dead and the writer of Pacific Rim returns for its highly anticipated second season. Six months have passed since the Vampire Queen fell silent, and the world balances on a knife’s edge. Rejoin the courageous Dunraven sisters, Darcy and Hope, as they navigate the vampire apocalypse in a sunless, endless winter that grows deadlier with each passing day. Brace yourself for a frigid realm of sacred daggers, mighty swords, secret seaside caves, unthinkable human blood farms, and a superpowered vampire villain on the hunt.

Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations. Yet he toils willingly, trusting that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better world for his children. But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Soon he discovers that humanity reached the surface generations ago. Vast cities and lush wilds spread across the planet. Darrow—and Reds like him—are nothing more than slaves to a decadent ruling class.

With a half-frozen fortress, a vampire sister who hits like a natural disaster, and a blood-drinking dryad fertilizing his fields, I have everything I need to found a kingdom. All I have to do is outmaneuver a werewolf plague, keep a wind mage addicted to my blood-spiked drugs, and survive a royal court full of nobles who smile while they plot my execution. I've played this game. I know how every major event is supposed to go. The problem? I've already changed too much.

El segundo volumen de Las Guerreras Maxwell, ahora en audiolibro. Gillian es conocida entre los miembros de su clan como la Retadora por su carácter indomable, que siendo su mayor atractivo es también su gran maldición. Enamorada de Niall desde la infancia, juntos vivieron una bonita historia...

Una historia que nadie quiere que acabe y todo el mundo quiere vivir. Tessa se acaba de despertar de un sueño. Es consciente de que era todo demasiado bonito para ser cierto… ¿Es posible volver a sonreír cuando todo se rompe en pedazos? Ella y Hardin parecían hechos el uno para el otro...

Los seres humanos son como un rebaño de ovejas que se dirige al matadero. Su única esperanza de sobrevivir reside en un equipo que acaba de abandonar el planeta. Tras su exitosa misión, en la que lograron destruir el anillo de esclavización instalado en la ciudad de Nueva York, Bic y el resto del Equipo Phantom atraviesan el anillo original de la Antártida y llegan al corazón del Imperio androquí.

Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations. Yet he toils willingly, trusting that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better world for his children. But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Soon he discovers that humanity reached the surface generations ago. Vast cities and lush wilds spread across the planet. Darrow—and Reds like him—are nothing more than slaves to a decadent ruling class.

But Jason Asano is settling into his new life. Now, a contest draws young elites to the city of Greenstone to compete for a grand prize. Jason must gather a band of companions if he is to stand a chance against the best the world has to offer. While the young adventurers are caught up in competition, the city leaders deal with revelations of betrayal as a vast and terrible enemy is revealed. Although Jason seems uninvolved, he has unknowingly crossed the enemy’s path before. 

As a single mom rebuilding my life from scratch, I don’t need help. And I definitely don’t need the attention of a six-foot-three maple farmer with a beard and a hero complex who looks at me like I’m a problem he didn’t sign up for. My landlord is broad-shouldered, permanently unimpressed, and entirely too comfortable telling me when I’m wrong. I think he’s grumpy, rigid, and overprotective. He thinks I’m chaos in Crocs. Falling for Josh Lawrence was never part of the plan. But then he starts showing up.

An eldritch magic has awakened, turning the mortal world darker. Colder. Famished. With flesh-eating monsters and a sinister curse spreading like a plague, the last glimmer of humanity in Foxglove Parish has long since faded. For Maevyth and Zevander, the only chance of escape is through The Eating Woods. But fate has woven a new web, tangling the threads of destiny, and crossing the mystical boundary to Aethyria might not be so simple.

Ralph es un francotirador de élite que se ha visto obligado a infiltrarse en la peligrosa mafia rusa, la Solivsnov. Sonia es una joven editora que lucha por reconstruir su vida en su ciudad natal. Un reencuentro después de un año.

La esperada segunda entrega de la saga de vampiros Rojo. América no responde. Ya nadie está a los mandos. En el resto del mundo, los medios evitan usar la palabra "vampiro". Los llaman El Enemigo, la Marea Roja, o metahumanos, pero se les llame como se les llame, están llegando a Europa. Son...