Resultados para "shanghai" en Adolescentes

When 15-year-old Jack Sligo runs away from his loving Boston-Irish family, he hopes to get a summer job on a cruise ship. His dream becomes a nightmare when two strangers give him mysterious drinks in a waterfront saloon. Jack wakes up, far at sea, shanghaied aboard an African freighter. The ship’s first call is a remote jungle port in Venezuela where there’s plenty of thieves, rum and women, but no opportunity for escape.

Venduta dalla madre al Re dell’Inferno quando era bambina, Lady Jing è mezza vampira, metà hulijing, uno spirito volpe. In quanto protetta del Re, ha passato gli ultimi novant’anni a svolgere commissioni, evitare le frecciatine delle maliziose cortigiane hulijing e cercare di controllare la sua esplosiva irascibilità. Con risultati altalenanti. Quando Jing scopre che alcuni cortigiani tramano per rubare una preziosa perla di drago al Re, coglie l’occasione per smascherarli, una volta per tutte.

From #1 New York Times bestselling authors Cassandra Clare and Wesley Chu comes the second book in the Eldest Curses series and a thrilling adventure for High Warlock Magnus Bane and Alec Lightwood, for whom a death-defying mission into the heart of evil is not just a job, it’s also a romantic...