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Cuentos de Erana mitos y leyendas
by A L ButcherEn un mundo donde la magia es ilegal y los elfos son esclavos, ¿te atreverás a escuchar los cuentos de antaño? Cinco cuentos místicos, de magia y monstruos. La luna sobre el agua: la historia de amor entre una diosa y un guerrero y la terrible maldición que trajo. El cuento de Treyna, la amada: cuando dos dioses rivales ansían a la misma mortal, hasta los cielos se retuercen de magia. El hijo de la tormenta: un solitario mago encuentra compañía en una criatura de la tormenta, pero la magia cuesta un precio, ¿cuál será? El frasco azul: una lección que hay que escuchar atentamente porque, de lo contrario, se cometerá un error embarazoso. La leyenda de Oeliana: la historia de una ninfa y un sapo, magia invocada por celos y deudas pagadas.
Cuentos de los Numinosos (Saga del Universo Titán Oscuro #3)
by Ty'Ron Robinson II"Dentro de los misterios, la verdad se sienta y la sabiduría reside". Lo sobrenatural existe y hay quienes operan dentro de él. Se les conoce como los numinosos. Desde Travis Vail hasta Cenicienta, Doctor Dark y muchos otros. Los detectives ocultos, los investigadores paranormales, los magos, las entidades cósmicas y similares hacen su parte dentro del Universo del Titán Oscuro. Casi nunca visto por la población. Estos son sus eventos.
Cuentos de otros mundos
by Rita BlackUna novela que contiene tres conmovedoras historias: El Corazón de Antún; El Libro Perdido de Alginor y Bionic. ¡No te las pierdas! Un misterioso y legendario corazón que mantiene vivo un planeta; un libro lleno de excepcional sabiduría; un planeta moribundo y un amor traicionado, son los ejes que se entrelazan en las tres historias relatadas en Cuentos de Otros Mundos. El Corazón de Antún, El libro perdido de Álginor y Bionic narran las odiseas de supervivencia y de autoconocimiento de seres cuyas motivaciones van desde el miedo y la codicia hasta el amor y la pasión. Han y Riana; Petr, Sharán y Ursus, Amil y Mía, serán los guías en estas tres aventuras fuera de este mundo.
Cuentos del Barrio del Refugio
by José María MerinoHay barrios donde el pasado se resiste a pasar y regresa en forma de sombras espectrales. Allí sus habitantes encuentran refugio de la realidad sorda en el delirio extravagante. Sobresaltados, absortos, buscan su destino en las calles del barrio traductores infieles, fantasmas incómodos, madres afligidas, contertulios infatigables, ladrones de libros, lectores perplejos, médicos vagabundos y gente acosada por el otro yo de una personalidad bipolar. Entre lo misterioso y lo fantástico, viven sus diminutas aventuras, que les cambiarán la vida. O no. Y experimentan los peligros de la imaginación, siempre al acecho.
Cuentos del intramundo (Flash Relatos #Volumen)
by Alejandro JodorowskyUna colección de microcuentos que nos dan, a través de la metáfora, pequeñas pistas para que nos conozcamos mejor. Fiel al carácter terapéutico de todos sus escritos, Alejandro Jodorowsky se interna en el mundo de las fábulas espirituales, de los cuentos sanadores, para que intentemos encauzar nuestro ser maltratado por la vida, hacia el autoconocimiento y la paz. Esta colección de microcuentos nos da, a través de la metáfora, pequeñas pistas de quiénes somos. En resumidas cuentas, Jodorowsky en estado puro. Estos relatos forman parte de la antología Cuentos mágicos y del intramundo.
Cuentos desde Interior (La puerta del bosque #Volumen)
by Melissa AlbertUNA COLECCIÓN ILUSTRADA DE 12 CUENTOS DE HADAS ENMARCADA EN EL UNIVERSO DE LA PUERTA DEL BOSQUE Y LA TIERRA DE LA NOCHE Viaja a Interior, un mundo brutal y hermoso, y pasa una noche con el Exterminador...Oye el susurro de los huesos al viento... Conoce a una mujer que fue asesinada dos veces... y sobrevivió. Melissa Albert, autora de la dulogía La puerta del bosque, regresa con una recopilación de doce historias originales ilustradas de un modo fabuloso. La crítica ha dicho:«Cuentos de hadas tentadores y deliciosamente siniestros»Kelly Link «Esta original y cautivadora recopilación se lee igual que las antiguas historias fantásticas susurradas de mujer a mujer, antes de que llegaran los hermanos Grimm y limpiaran toda la sangre»Laura Ruby
Cuentos inolvidables según Julio Cortázar
by Truman Capote Jorge Luis Borges Bierce AmbroseUna selección de cuentos que Julio Cortázar calificó como «inolvidables» en diversas épocas de su vida. Una lista de cuentos que se abre pero no se cierra e involucra al propio Cortázar como lector junto con grandes autores de la Literatura contemporánea. Los cuentos son "El puente sobre el río del Búho" de Ambroce Bierce, "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" de Jorge Luis Borges, "Un recuerdo navideño" de Truman Capote, "Conejos blancos" de Eleonora Carrington, "La casa inundada" de Felisberto Hernández, "Éxtasis" de Katherine Masfield, "Un sueño realizado" de Juan Carlos Onetti, "William Wilson" de Edgar Allán Poe y "La muerte de Iván Ilich" de León Tolstoi.
Cuentos retorcidos del Universo
by Carolina Orihuela Mari CollierEntra en mundos a la vez extraños y familiares. Viaja a través del tiempo, encuentra brujas dedicadas a sus quehaceres cotidianos, déjate hechizar por hadas de la infancia, y mata dragones de las historias de antaño. Conoce a personas ordinarias en situaciones extraordinarias, y viaja por el espacio hasta un planeta empobrecido que subasta su único bien exportable... mujeres. Como la vida, Cuentos retorcidos del Universo ofrece una variedad de historias que incluyen humor, asesinato, amor y situaciones que nunca terminan exactamente como uno podría esperar.
Cuervo Escarlata
by C. A. WilkeCon la mayor parte de su pasado aún como un misterio y el hombre que trató de matarla muerto, Scarlett pensó que podía vivir una vida normal. Estaba equivocada. Mientras las unidades militares corruptas y los gobiernos del mundo compiten por el control de una nueva nanotecnología, ella tiene que enfrentarse a ambos para descubrir la verdad del futuro de la humanidad - y cómo está involucrada. Una vez más, tendrá que convertirse en el Ángel Escarlata para proteger a todos y a todo lo que le importa. Pero cuando las ráfagas de plasma comiencen a volar, puede que descubra que la dura verdad del futuro podría costarle todo.
Cuffs: A Scorching Hot Romance (Mills And Boon Dare Ser.)
by Cara LockwoodHe’s everything she’d ever craved. Everything she’d ever wanted. Everything she hates. Feel the passion in USA TODAY bestselling author Cara Lockwood’s latest sizzling DARE novel!Tattoo artist Mags McHenry doesn’t believe in love or marriage. But hate? That’s something Mags can get behind. Because the second Mr. Tall, Dark and Arrogant walks into her shop and demands the one tattoo she vowed never to ink again, Mags feels rage. Searing and red-hot for this insanely sexy, rich banker who wears privilege and entitlement as comfortably as his expensive custom-made suit.But there’s something intelligent and dangerously predatory about Gael Quinn’s green eyes. And the power in his gravelly, deep voice makes Mags shiver with desire—and want to submit her body to that commanding, hungry touch.He’s a suit. She’s a rebel. They’re complete opposites. But when it comes to lust at first sight, Mags will break her own rules. Just this once. Then she can go back to living her life by her rules and keeping control. But with every touch, Gael owns her body. With every kiss, he steals her breath.And with every stolen moment of delicious pleasure, Gael is edging closer to taking the one thing Mags swore she’d never give away…Take control. Feel the rush. Explore your fantasies—Harlequin DARE publishes sexy romances featuring powerful alpha males and bold, fearless heroines exploring their deepest fantasies.
Cugel the Clever (Gateway Essentials #182)
by Jack VanceIn the dim far future of Earth, when the sun had shrunk to a small red disk in the dark sky and the race of man lived in isolated cities that echoed with the vastness of the world's history, science, myth and magic had become one. Sorcerors who read the books of ancient times held great power, and fearsome monsters created in ages long forgotten stalked the land. In this world of mystery and danger, the adventurer known as Cugel the Clever was forced to undertake a quest for Iucounu the Laughing Magician - a quest that was to take him to lands stranger than any he had dreamed of, and pit his wits and his sword against powers from beyond time itself.Previously published as The Eyes of the Overworld, this is the second of a quartet of titles sharing the same far-future setting first introduced in The Dying EarthContents: The Overworld, Cil, The Mountains of Magnatz, The Sorcerer Pharesm, The Pilgrims, The Cave in the Forest, The Manse of Iucounu.All Jack Vance titles in the SFGateway use the author's preferred texts, as restored for the Vance Integral Edition (VIE), an extensive project masterminded by an international online community of Vance's admirers. In general, we also use the VIE titles, and have adopted the arrangement of short story collections to eliminate overlaps.
Cugel the Clever: (previously Titled The Eyes Of The Overworld) (Mazirian The Magician Ser.)
by Jack VanceFrom “one of the greatest science fiction and fantasy writers of the 20th century” a shrewd thief quests to recover a magic jewel in this sci-fi classic (Stephen Gould, New York Times–bestselling author of Jumper).Jack Vance is one of the most remarkable talents to ever grace the world of science fiction. His unique, stylish voice has been beloved by generations of readers.One of his enduring classics is his Mazirian the Magician (previously titled The Dying Earth), and its sequels—a fascinating, baroque tale set on a far-future Earth, under a giant red sun that is soon to go out forever.Cugel the Clever is a novel-length adventure of Cugel the trickster, the thief, the very questionable hero in this decadent, dying world. Caught by the magician whose house he was robbing, Cugel is set the task of retrieving certain rare objects as penance.“One of American literature’s most distinctive and undervalued voices.” —The New York Times
Cugel: The Skybreak Spatterlight
by Jack VanceThe fantastic quests and adventures of Cugel: the greatest rogue in the realms of fantasy. For the second time, Cugel the Clever has been carried north over the Ocean of Sighs and dumped half a world away from home, on Shanglestone Strand. Swearing revenge on the Laughing Magician, Cugel sets off through mud pits and bars, through villages, manor houses and across the seas. At last, after many an extraordinary adventure, he comes once more to the land of Almery and the chance to exact the vengeance he craves . . .
Cugel: The Skybreak Spatterlight (Mazirian The Magician Ser.)
by Jack VanceA charming rogue undertakes an epic journey across a dying planet in the World Fantasy Award–winning author’s classic tale of adventure and revenge.The Earth is now a world older than memory, a place where the lowly inhabitants await the final twilight of the bloated red sun. But Cugel the Clever is nothing if not a survivor.Now, for the second time, Iucounu the Laughing Magician has magicked Cugel across the Ocean of Sighs to the faraway Shanglestone Strand. Beset by thieves and schemers, whose cunning almost equals his own, Cugel must fight the long way back to Iucounu’s manse where he intends to exact a terrible revenge before the old red sun goes out forever.Mixing sardonic humor and high adventure, World Fantasy Award–winning author Jack Vance weaves a picaresque tale of treachery and danger in his classic Tales of the Dying Earth series.
Cuidado con la niebla (¡Arriba la Lectura!, Level V #69)
by Pamela Rushby James HartMax y su familia piensan visitar la Muralla de Adriano en Inglaterra. Cuando se están marchando, la abuela le hace una advertencia muy inusual, pero Max no la escucha. Junto con un guía turístico llamado Jefficus, Max emprende una caminata por la muralla. Pero cuando aparece la niebla, se encuentran con que están en una época y en un lugar desconocidos. ¿Lograrán encontrar el camino de regreso? NIMAC-sourced textbook
Culdesac
by Robert RepinoThe war with no name rages on, setting the world on fire. Humanity faces extinction at the hands of the Colony, a race of intelligent ants seeking to overthrow the humans and establish a new order.The bobcat Culdesac is among the fiercest warriors fighting for the Colony. Driven by revenge and notorious for his ability to hunt humans in the wild, Culdesac is the perfect leader of the Red Sphinx, an elite unit of feline assassins. With the humans in retreat, the Red Sphinx seizes control of the remote village of Milton. But holding the town soon becomes a bitter struggle of wills. As the humans threaten a massive counterattack, the townsfolk protect a dark secret that could tip the balance of the war. For the brutal Culdesac, violence is the answer to everything. But this time, he'll need more than his claws and his guns, for what he discovers in Milton will upend everything he believes, everything he fought for, and everything he left behind. Relentless, bloody, and unforgiving, Culdesac is the story of an antihero with no soul to lose, carving a path of destruction that consumes the innocent and the guilty alike.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Culla degli Dèi
by Thomas Quinn MillerNel mondo di Allwyn, una guerra ha portato alla caduta dell'umanità. Mille anni dopo, i sopravvissuti vivono ai margini di un vasto impero nanico. Ghile, uno degli ultimi umani, si sta preparando per il suo rito d'attrito in un insediamento noto come la culla degli dei. Nel frattempo, Almoriz the Sorcerer e il suo apprendista Riff arrivano nel villaggio di Ghile per la loro visita annuale. Il loro incontro presenta una serie di eventi che cambiano per sempre la vita di Ghile. È contrassegnato come Stonechosen e esercita i poteri degli dei stessi. Ma Ghile non è solo; altri scelti per adempiere alla profezia stanno anche viaggiando verso la Culla, cercando di distruggerlo. È giunto il momento dello Stonechosen.
Culpe o Portador
by Frances Pauli Combo TranslationsVane nunca se afastou de uma oportunidade de aproveitar o poder. Ele passou sua vida manipulando outros para seu próprio ganho. Então, quando um castelo antigo lhe apresenta um anel mágico e uma promessa lendária, ele sabe exatamente o que fazer. Use o anel, encontre o Heir ... e trate-os na primeira oportunidade. Lidya é a criança do meio, nem adorável, pois sua irmã não é fisicamente capaz como seu irmão. Ela viveu em suas sombras durante toda a vida e ficou feliz o suficiente lá. Mas quando um homem chamado Vane aparece com um anel mágico e um conto insano, a vida de Lidya muda. Antes que alguém possa detê-lo, ela está presa em um concurso que os arrasará a todos em uma missão, colocará um deles em um trono antigo, e poderia facilmente custar-lhes a vida deles.
Cult Classic (Eric Carter #9)
by Stephen BlackmooreThe ninth book of this dark urban fantasy series follows necromancer Eric Carter through a world of vengeful gods and goddesses, mysterious murders, and restless ghosts. Eric Carter has a lot on his plate.He's hunting the Oracle of Las Vegas, a literal talking head that manipulates the future to make its prophecies come true. But it has a new trick. It can change the past, too.Now Jazz Age Los Angeles is invading the present. Long gone buildings suddenly restored, decommissioned Red Car trains appearing on paved over tracks, miles of the city changing back to orange groves.Throw in a hundred-year-old doomsday cult, time magic, and a terrifyingly powerful spell to raise the dead and it makes for a busy week. Carter knows the Oracle is behind it all but he can't figure out how. Or why.But he better figure it out soon or he, the city, and everyone he knows might be wiped from existence.Cult Classic is noir urban fantasy at its finest, with a cutting voice, sharp wit, and a plot that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
Cult Classic (Eric Carter #9)
by Stephen BlackmooreThe past is coming for necromancer Eric Carter—and the rest of the world—in the latest novel in the darkly comic noir fantasy thriller seriesEric Carter has lost his head.Well, not his head in particular, but rather the incredibly powerful talking head (seriously, that’s all it is) known as the Oracle of Las Vegas, which Carter himself made. The Oracle has always had the ability to affect the future to make its “predictions” come true. But now it’s playing with the past.All over Los Angeles, realities are colliding—historic buildings appearing, city streets turning to orange groves, scores of Prohibition-era corpses popping up and eerily chanting in unison—and it all seems to be linked to a century-old cult of apocalyptic lunatics who are just about ready to cut loose.Now, with the Oracle trying to kill him in a variety of creative ways, his few allies growing more impatient, and a seriously out-of-control rookie cop/mage as his unwanted shadow, Carter must find a way to stop his own creation from unleashing complete and utter destruction.
Cult of the Spider Queen: An Arkham Horror Novel (Arkham Horror)
by S A SidorAn ancient horror deep in the Amazon jungle spins a web of nightmares to ensnare adventurers, explorers, and their souls, in this skin-crawling Arkham Horror novel of cosmic dread.Arkham-based investigative reporter Andy van Nortwick has discovered that famed Amazon explorer and film director Maude Brion, missing for the past year while seeking an ancient tribe, is very much alive. But when a rescue mission ventures deep into the jungle in search of her ill-fated expedition, the real reasons for her silence become horrifyingly clear.
Cultivate Again To Be Unparalleled: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Dao ZuoCangYea cultivator at the grand completion stage was ambushed while he was on his journey he accidentally reincarnated and coincidentally trained in the most basic energy of the universe but i swear he really didn't do it voluntarily are you good at long-range attacks well let's play melee are you good at hand-to-hand combat fine then stand there and wait to be killed by me brat don't be so unconvinced this year you're playing with a comprehensive character the dangerous revenge of the cultivation world the cunning of the immortal world the legendary experiences of the god realm everything was in the recultivating unparalleled
Cultivate Again To Be Unparalleled: Volume 2 (Volume 2 #2)
by Dao ZuoCangYea cultivator at the grand completion stage was ambushed while he was on his journey he accidentally reincarnated and coincidentally trained in the most basic energy of the universe but i swear he really didn't do it voluntarily are you good at long-range attacks well let's play melee are you good at hand-to-hand combat fine then stand there and wait to be killed by me brat don't be so unconvinced this year you're playing with a comprehensive character the dangerous revenge of the cultivation world the cunning of the immortal world the legendary experiences of the god realm everything was in the recultivating unparalleled
Cultivate Again To Be Unparalleled: Volume 3 (Volume 3 #3)
by Dao ZuoCangYeA certain Mahayana Period cultivator was ambushed while he was on his journey. He accidentally reincarnated and coincidentally trained in the most basic energy of the universe. But I swear, he really didn't do it voluntarily. Are you good at long-range attacks? Well, let's play melee! Are you good at hand-to-hand combat? Fine, then stand there and wait to be killed by me! Brat, don't be so unconvinced. This year, you're playing with a comprehensive character. The dangerous revenge of Cultivation Realm; The cunning of Immortal Realm; The legendary experience of Divine Realm... Everything was in the .
Cultivate Again To Be Unparalleled: Volume 4 (Volume 4 #4)
by Dao ZuoCangYeA certain Mahayana Period cultivator was ambushed while he was on his journey. He accidentally reincarnated and coincidentally trained in the most basic energy of the universe. But I swear, he really didn't do it voluntarily. Are you good at long-range attacks? Well, let's play melee! Are you good at hand-to-hand combat? Fine, then stand there and wait to be killed by me! Brat, don't be so unconvinced. This year, you're playing with a comprehensive character. The dangerous revenge of Cultivation Realm; The cunning of Immortal Realm; The legendary experience of Divine Realm... Everything was in the .