Author: Nicholas Bowling
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 8417092293
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : es
Pages : 0
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Dos reinas, dos religiones, dos visiones del futuro de la nación. Huyendo a Londres con un cazador de brujas tras su rastro, Alyce descubre su propia magia oscura y se ve envuelta en la lucha. La madre de Alyce acaba de ser quemada en la hoguera por practicar brujería. Con solo un pequeño conjunto de instrucciones y la madre de una bruja como guía, Alyce debe enfrentarse al mundo del que ha sido aislada: un mundo de miedo y superstición. Con un cazador de brujas rápidamente detrás de su rastro, necesitará la ayuda de un posadero y un niño que busque descubrir la verdad detrás del pasado de su propia madre. Pero a medida que su viaje continúa, otra guerra se desata: una guerra oculta de lo sobrenatural, de los vivos y los muertos. El bien y el mal se difuminan y no se puede confiar en los motivos de nadie. Y Alyce se ve envuelta de mala gana en el conflicto. Luchando por comprender sus propios poderes, rápidamente se ve envuelta en una red de secretos, mentiras y magia oscura que podrían cambiar el destino del mundo que acaba de conocer. Este debut oscuro, retorcido y emocionante y original dejará a los lectores fascinados en su trama de suspenso y prosa rica. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Two queens, two religions, two visions for the future of the nation. Fleeing to London with a witch hunter on her trail, Alyce discovers her own dark magic and lands herself embroiled in the struggle. Alyce's mother has just been burnt at the stake for practicing witchcraft. With only a thin set of instructions and a witch's mommet for guidance, Alyce must face the world that she's been sealed off from -- a world of fear and superstition. With a witch hunter fast on her trail, she'll need the help of an innkeeper and a boy looking to discover the truth behind his own mother's past.But as her journey continues, another war rages: a hidden war of the supernatural, of the living and the dead. Good and evil are blurred, and nobody's motives can be trusted. And Alyce finds herself thrown unwillingly into the conflict. Struggling to understand her own powers, she is quickly drawn into a web of secret, lies, and dark magic that could change the fate of the world she is just coming to know.This dark, twisty, and thrillingly original debut will leave readers entranced in its suspenseful plot and rich prose.
Author: Zoraida Córdova
Publisher: Turtleback
ISBN: 9781663634139
Category : Dead
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Still feeling broken after her family's battle in Los Lagos, Lula invokes a dark spell to bring her boyfriend and others back after a fatal bus crash, but unwittingly raises an army of hungry, half-dead casimuertos, instead.
Author: Anne Rice
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Spanish language materials
Languages : es
Pages : 1261
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Author: J Froebel-Parker
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1496946588
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 65
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The year 1692 is an annus horribilis on the American timeline which has been engraved on the hearts of men, inscribed in the annals of history, is remembered with sadness, and continues to admonish humanity about the ease with which those deemed as other can be persecuted and made to suffer. Rebecka Nurse, ne Towne (known to many as Rebecca Nurse from Arthur Millers The Crucible and the authors 11th maternal great grandmother) could claim Charlemagne, the Anglo-Saxon kings of England, and the noble family de Ferrers among her ancestors, but nothing could save her from the gallows which had been made of the Witches Tree in the ancient Wampanoag settlement called Naumkeag, now Salem. Her own second cousin, Roger Conant, had founded Salem after leaving Plymouth (Plimoth), which all at her trial knew. He, in turn, had fought with Myles Standish (a relative of both his and Rebeckas) the governor of Plymouth and the authors 9th maternal great grandfather. This turmoil, envy, and perhaps even boredom, intertwine like the gnarled branches of the ancient tree which gives this story its title.
Author: Anne Rice
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788467467888
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 1263
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Author: Roald Dahl
Publisher: Serie Naranja
ISBN: 9786070128516
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : es
Pages : 200
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This Roald Dahl classic tells the scary, funny, and imaginative tale of a seven-year-old boy who has a run-in with some real-life witches! Witches, as our hero learns, hate children. With the help of a friend and his somewhat magical grandmother, our hero tries to expose the witches before they dispose of him.
Author: Anne Rice
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0307575950
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1058
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the beloved author of the Vampire Chronicles, the first installation of her spellbinding Mayfair Chronicles—the inspiration for the hit television series! “Extraordinary . . . Anne Rice offers more than just a story; she creates myth.”—The Washington Post Book World Rowan Mayfair, a beautiful woman, a brilliant practitioner of neurosurgery—aware that she has special powers but unaware that she comes from an ancient line of witches—finds the drowned body of a man off the coast of California and brings him to life. He is Michael Curry, who was born in New Orleans and orphaned in childhood by fire on Christmas Eve, who pulled himself up from poverty, and who now, in his brief interval of death, has acquired a sensory power that mystifies and frightens him. As these two, fiercely drawn to each other, fall in love and—in passionate alliance—set out to solve the mystery of her past and his unwelcome gift, an intricate tale of evil unfolds. Moving through time from today’s New Orleans and San Francisco to long-ago Amsterdam and a château in the Louis XIV’s France, and from the coffee plantations of Port au Prince, where the great Mayfair fortune is made and the legacy of their dark power is almost destroyed, to Civil War New Orleans, The Witching Hour is a luminous, deeply enchanting novel. The magic of the Mayfairs continues: THE WITCHING HOUR • LASHER • TALTOS
Author: Pilar Mateos
Publisher: Follettbound
ISBN: 9780329598853
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 64
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Author: María L. Gutiérrez
Publisher: Pinata Books
ISBN: 9781558859531
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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This bilingual picture book for children ages 4-8 is a lively, poetic ode to the fall ritual of Halloween: dressing up in outlandish costumes, fearing spooky decorations, knocking on neighbors' doors and calling out trick or treat!
Author: Diana Wynne Jones
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 8420459224
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : es
Pages : 0
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Earwig y la bruja es un clásico indispensable que inspiró la película de Studio Ghibli! Earwig no vive mal en el orfanato; desde que llegó, todo el mundo hace lo que ella dice, cuando ella dice. Pero todo cambia cuando la adoptan la bruja Bella Yaga y Mandrágora, y la llevan a vivir a su misteriosa casa llena de magia, habitaciones invisibles, pociones y libros de hechizos. La mayoría de los niños saldrían corriendo, aterrorizados por la casa y sus habitantes... pero Earwig no es como la mayoría. Earwig ha decidido que quiere aprender magia, ¡y necesitará ser muy lista (y la ayuda de un gato que habla) para conseguirlo! ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Read the book that inspired the full-length animated feature produced by the legendary Studio Ghibli and directed by Goro Miyazaki. Not every orphan would love living at St. Morwald's Home for Children, but Earwig does. She gets whatever she wants, whenever she wants it, and it's been that way since she was dropped on the orphanage’s doorstep as a baby. But all that changes the day Bella Yaga and the Mandrake come to St. Morwald's, disguised as foster parents. Earwig is whisked off to their mysterious house full of invisible rooms, potions, and spell books, with magic around every corner. Most children would run in terror from a house like that . . . but not Earwig. Using her own cleverness—with a lot of help from a talking cat—she decides to show the witch who's boss. A young middle grade novel by World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement–winner Diana Wynne Jones, beautifully and humorously illustrated in black and white by Caldecott Medalist Paul O. Zelinsky. “I would like to declare Diana Wynne Jones an international treasure," Neil Gaiman, Newbery Medal–winning and best-selling author
