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Twice a year, the Guardian Spread occurs, where humans are recruited and must travel through dreams to the world of Xatyr, bound by Guardians who protect the society. And the only way to go back is to fail the Spiritual Awakening, designed to test the soul, not the brain, where either passing or failing is not a choice. Elisia Abel is not your ordinary person, she remembers all of her dreams, and she keeps log of those dreams through her paintings - admired by many, but understood by nobody. One day, as she turned eighteen, she woke up in a dream told real but not really, to a world they call Xatyr. Guided by Kavaa'r, her Guardian, she must decide whether she wants to stay in the surreal world and figure out why everyone else there calls her special, or go back to the human world to where her only family is - her Dad. Will she fail the test she's bound to pass, or will she pass the test she wanted to fail?
The book is about Americans in love in Peru in 1973-74, when Watergate preoccupied everybody back home, when Allende had just been overthrown in Chile, and things weren't very stable around or between the characters. The title refers to their garden gate in Cuzco, which had a stone lintel with twin serpents. He took it as a propitious sign for renewal of their love, since the snake meant good luck and prosperity for the Incas. Of course in Eden it meant the opposite, an ambiguity he appreciated as he reported on the aftermath of the Allende coup and the return of Peron, whiile trying to make it as a foreign correpondent so he could be with Liz, a photographer based in Cuzco. Peru seemed stable by comparison to DC, an inversion of the usual political stability of North versus South America, but in impoverished Ayacucho Province a Maoist rebel group, Sendero Luminoso, had arisen and Liz had been taking photos there the summer before, creating problems with the government they didn't need in addition to personal concerns with free love and open marriage, black market and stolen art, so chaos inside their gate as well as outside.
Fierce witches. Necromancers. Soul reapers. Mysterious shifters. Secret councils. Forbidden alliances. The Overlook Arcane Academy awaits. Half witch, half demon, Kate Devereaux’s now fully single. She broke up with her necromancer boyfriend, Lucas Channing, and wouldn’t you know it, another hot guy’s joined the scene. Kai, who works with her at her part time job slinging potions and magic books at an occult shop has set his sights on Kate. To complicate matters, she’s in danger from demon hunters. Or so her mysterious—allegedly murderous—father tells her. Caution: Cliffhangers, violence can be found in this series of action-packed fantasy including necromancers, hot dragons, and fierce witches.
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Descobreix el sisè i darrer volum de la saga Blackwater. Una saga matriarcal. Dones poderoses que lluiten pel poder durant generacions. Una atmosfera única per a una lectura addictiva. Un retrat realista amb tocs sobrenaturals. Escriptura magistral i visual en un ambiciós projecte entre el pulp i l'HBO. «Michael McDowell: el meu amic, el meu mestre. Fascinant, aterrador, simplement genial. El millor de tots nosaltres.» STEPHEN KING «Una sabia combinació entre Dumas i Lovecraft. Un creuament entre Stephen King i Gabriel García Márquez. Despiadadament addictiu.» ROBERT SHAPLEN, THE NEW YORK TIMES Les aigües fosques i glaçades del riu Blackwater inunden Perdido, un petit poble al sud d'Alabama. Allà, els Caskey, un clan de rics terratinents, intenten fer front als danys causats per la riuada. Liderats per la Mary-Love, l'omnipotent matriarca, i l'Òscar, el seu fill obedient, els Caskey treballen per refer-se i protegir la seva fortuna. Però no compten amb l'aparició de la misteriosa Elinor Dammert. Una jove bonica però molt parca en paraules que només sembla tenir un objectiu: apropar-se als Caskey costi el que costi.
Amaya worked hard for everything she got and owes it all to her Grandmother Lilah. Yet Amaya wants nothing to do with the small-town life she escaped, especially since she is living the life of a BOSS in NYC and wants to keep the past behind her. Now, Amaya is summoned home to a small town in South Carolina, for the reading of her grandmother’s will. Yet this one trip will have her life, and the lives of those she thought she knew so well, all turned on their heads! The stunning revelations deepen the riff between Amaya and her faith in GOD and LOVE. Will her grandmother’s secrets cause more pain and anger, or will it finally prove Amaya and her grandmother weren’t so different after a...
Durante años, Lilah Forrest había estado evitando a los solteros que le mandaba su padre, un coronel empeñado en casarla. Pero su padre sí consiguió que el Sargento Kevin Rogan fuera el acompañante de Lilah durante el Día de Acción de Gracias. Ella nunca se casaría con un militar, ni siquiera con el sexy soldado Rogan. Pero solo con sentir el roce de sus dedos, su fría actitud experimentó un cambio radical, y la inexperta Lilah fue incapaz de resistirse a la poderosa fuerza de la seducción. Sin embargo, Lilah sabía cómo le gustaban los hombres, y no le gustaban malhumorados y solitarios. Así que... ¿por qué después de una noche de pasión, quería que ese marine acatara sus órdenes... y se dirigiera hacia el altar con ella?
“Be quiet and listen: He is cheating on you. The name of your soulmate is Alistair George Arthur Lennox. You will be passed over for the promotion. The winning numbers are 5-8-12-24-39-43. And I’m very sorry to tell you this, but you will die next Sunday.” When Lilah Goodluck saves the life of Good Witch Willow as they’re crossing a busy L.A. street, the last thing she expects is five unwanted predictions as a reward. Who gives someone the winning lotto numbers then tells them they’ve only got a week to live? And who believes in that nonsense anyway? But when the first three predictions come true within twenty-four hours, Lilah’s disbelief turns to mild panic. She’s further hor...
1958. Gli anni passano, tra ricevimenti fastosi, unioni insolite e rivelazioni travolgenti, ma non portano quiete per i membri della famiglia Caskey. Dopo l’età dell’oro, ritornano giorni foschi. Qualcosa di terribile incombe su Perdido, i suoi abitanti e i suoi fiumi. Il tempo delle profezie è ormai giunto.