Resultados para "The Tower" en Literatura de género

Creating "true narrative magic" (The Washington Post) at every revelatory turn, Stephen King surpasses all expectation in the stunning final volume of his seven-part epic masterwork. Entwining stories and worlds form a vast and complex canvas; here is the conclusion readers have long...

Facing execution, or worse, at the Agency, Sebastian Parker's life hangs in the balance. As Sebastian grows in power, he learns shocking truths about his true identity and his ultimate destiny. Will he assist the Agency in their battles? Are they fighting the real enemy? Can Sebastian evade his terrifying fate?

A New Yorker Best Book of the Year A bold, feminist debut novel, reimagining Mary, Queen of Scots’s darkest hour, when she was held hostage in a remote Scottish castle with a handful of loyal women while plotting a daring escape to reclaim her country and her freedom. "Such a vivid...

The Cerani Empire reaches a tipping point in the thrilling conclusion to the Tower and Knife trilogy. The world is at its breaking point. The nothing, a terrible darkness caused by the festering wounds of a god, bleeds out the very essence of all, of stone, silkand souls. Emperor Sarmin thought he had stopped it, but it is spreading toward his city, Cerana and he is powerless to halt the destruction. Even as Cerana fills with refugees, the Yrkmen armies arrive with conquest in mind, but they offer to spare Sarmin’s people if they will convert to the Mogyrk faith.

When Morgan got hit by a car and died on Earth, he never imagined that he would be chosen by a god, little g, to be taken to another planet - a World governed by game-like rules. Especially since said god liked to have people call him the Great Lord, and had basically created an entire World to run experiments in. Nor could Morgan have ever imagined that he would find one thing that he had never really had on Earth: a real family. It's been years since Morgan started his second chance at life on that world, and both he and his friends have achieved great power as part of a Great Raid.

Before the Flood, before Babel, before the first kingdoms raised their walls beneath the heavens, there were the Watchers. They descended bearing knowledge humanity had not been prepared to receive. They revealed hidden arts, altered the course of bloodlines, and crossed boundaries older than human memory. Their gifts promised power, wisdom, and freedom from mortal limitation. Instead, the world was corrupted. The giants rose. The old cities drowned. The Watchers were bound. And mankind forgot.

Nerekhall: a city of paranoia and fear, where the harsh and unbending rule of law is enforced by unfeeling automata called the Ironbound. Drawn to the city by recurring nightmares, Andira Runehand and her companion, Trenloe the Strong, soon find themselves caught up in a sinister plot and unable to escape. Both have different ideas about what it means to be a hero, and both must learn to trust the other. For in secret, an uneasy alliance concocts a dark plan in the city's infamous tower to open a portal and summon a demonic power, the likes of which has never set foot in Terrinoth.

Two lost heirs. One bloody crown. The greatest cold case in British history reimagined. For five hundred years, the fate of the two sons of Edward IV has been shrouded in myth and Tudor propaganda. In The Princes in the Tower, the shadows of the White Tower are peeled back to reveal a visceral psychological thriller where the line between protector and executioner is written in blood. The Weight of a Dying King When King Edward IV dies, his young heir, Edward V, and his brother, Richard of Shrewsbury, become the most dangerous pieces on the board of English power.

A chilling tale of recurring nightmares and supernatural terror, The Room in the Tower follows a man whose unsettling dreams of a mysterious country house and its ominous tower haunt him from childhood into adulthood. When fate leads him to the very place he has seen in his dreams, he is forced to confront a horrifying presence that has long awaited his arrival.

Rapunzel kennt nichts außer den endlosen Mauern ihres Turmes und der Stimme ihres Kerkermeisters. Hoch über einem verfluchten Wald lebt sie mit einer Macht in ihrem Haar, die sie weder versteht noch kontrollieren kann. Thalric ist kein Prinz, sondern ein gefallener Hexenmeister, der einen Pakt mit der Finsternis geschlossen hat, um sein Leben zu verlängern. Um zu überleben, braucht er Rapunzel. Um zu entkommen, braucht sie ihn.

Jonathan Ratcliffe is the successful manager of Affleck and Tate's engineering works. He has succeeded to this position over the head of Arthur Brett whose ancestors founded the firm, and the inevitable tension between the two men is increased when Arthur Brett finds himself attracted to Vanessa, Jonathan's daughter. She is only 16 but draws envious eyes. Angus Cotton, son of the Ratcliffe's cook, is a rough diamond and an engineer at Affleck and Tate. He has ambitious plans for his future, plans that never included Vanessa, until he is blamed by Jonathan for giving Vanessa a child.

One of history’s most complex and alluring women comes to life in this classic novel by the legendary Jean Plaidy. Young Anne Boleyn was not beautiful, but she was irresistible, capturing the hearts of kings and commoners alike. Daughter of an ambitious country lord, Anne was sent to France to...

The Great Wilderness was very much like your home. Well, perhaps not so very much. Unless your hometown is covered with such woods that a squirrel could run for days without ever touching the ground; unless you might discover that some animals in your back yard are not truly animals at all; unless you can listen for a month without hearing the slightest noise from a car engine or jet plane, then perhaps your home is not so very much like the Great Wilderness.

Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist and short story writer, best known for his spine-tingling and beautifully written ghost stories. The Room in the Tower is the most famous of these. It describes a horrific recurrent dream of nameless dread, occurring over a period of 15 years, in which the dreamer arrives at a peculiar house inhabited by a sinister silent family, where he takes tea on the lawn and is then shown to the room in the tower where something dreadful, malicious, and evil lurks...

"The Bell-Tower" appeared in 1855 in Putnam's Monthly Magazine no. 32 (August). In the south of Europe, nigh a once frescoed capital, now with dank mould cankering its bloom, central in a plain, stands what, at distance, seems the black mossed stump of some immeasurable pine, fallen, in forgotten days, with Anak and the Titan.

This unfinished late novel is complex, convoluted, and poses a challenge for both amateur and professional Jamesians alike. In it, Henry James explores the reactions of a native young British heir to his inheritance of an American fortune during the Gilded Age as well as the reactions of members of his family and surrounding community.

Thomas Hardy’s moving story of star-crossed lovers shows human beings at the mercy of forces beyond their control, setting a tragic drama of human passion against a backdrop of space and scientific discovery. Unhappily married, Lady Constantine defies social standards when she falls in love...

In 1483, Edward and Richard of York—Edward, by law, already King of England—were placed, for their protection before Edward's coronation, in the Tower of London by their uncle Richard. Within months the boys disappeared without a trace, and for the next five hundred years the despised Richard III was suspected of their heartless murders.

In To the Tower Born, Robin Maxwell ingeniously imagines what might have happened to the missing princes.

A story through decades and continents. From the desert to the ocean. From fast life in the city to deep solitude in the countryside. From the open road to urban decay. Memories, dreams and magical encounters. Always looking for Jimmy’s Brilliant Tower.

It is May 1560. As sinister storm clouds gather overhead, 26-year-old Queen Elizabeth dispatches William Cecil, her most trusted adviser, to Scotland for crucial negotiations. Handsome, ambitious Lord Robert Dudley is at her side. But their leisurely midsummer idyll is cut short when the courts master lutenist plunges to his death from a parapet beneath the queen's window. The loyal retainers of Elizabeth's privy council do not accept the official verdict of accidental death. Their fears are borne out when another tragedy rocks the realm, and points the way to a conspiracy to bring down Elizabeth and seize the throne.