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Memorias del águila y del jaguar
by Isabel AllendeEdición que reúne en un solo volumen las tres novelas de la trilogía de Isabel Allende «Memorias del Águila y el Jaguar»: La Ciudad de las Bestias, El reino del Dragón de Oro y El Bosque de los Pigmeos La pluma mágica de Isabel Allende nos invita a conocer, en esta preciosa trilogía de aventuras, realismo mágico y naturaleza, a Alexander Cold, un muchacho americano de quince años; a su abuela Kate, una enérgica y excéntrica reportera de viajes; y a Nadia Santos, una compañera de aventuras muy especial. En La Ciudad de las Bestias, Alexander y su abuela Kate se internan en una expedición en la selva amazónica en busca de una extraña bestia gigantesca. Junto con su compañera de viaje, Nadia Santos, y un centenario chamán indígena, Alex conocerá un mundo sorprendente y juntos vivirán una gran aventura.El universo ya conocido de Isabel Allende se amplía en La Ciudad de las Bestias con nuevos elementos de realismo mágico, aventura y naturaleza. Los jóvenes protagonistas, Nadia y Alexander, se internan en la inexplorada selva amazónica llevando de la mano al lector en un viaje sin pausa por un territorio misterioso donde se borran los límites entre la realidad y el sueño, donde hombres y dioses se confunden, donde los espíritus andan de la mano con los vivos. En El Reino del Dragón de Oro, Alexander Cold, su abuela Kate y Nadia Santos, los protagonistas de La Ciudad de las Bestias, vuelven a reunirse. Viviremos con ellos sus peripecias y vicisitudes en la belleza desnuda, limpia, de las montañas y los valles del Himalaya en compañía de nuevos amigos. Pero la pluma mágica de Allende también nos descubre el valor y la sencillez de las enseñanzas budistas a través del lama Tensing, maestro y guía espiritual de Dil Bahadur, el joven heredero del reino, a quien conduce por la senda del budismo y ha dado a conocer el valor de la compasión, de la naturaleza, de la vida, de la paz. Y en El Bosque de los Pigmeos, Nadia y Alexander viajan al corazón de África con su abuela Kate, a quien han encargado un gran reportaje. Su encuentro con el hermano Fernando, un misionero que está buscando a dos compañeros desaparecidos, marca el comienzo de este nuevo destino: la selva tropical africana, donde la caza clandestina del elefante y otros animales salvajes arrastra a mercenarios sin escrúpulos. Los malvados son ahora los jefes de la Hermandad del Leopardo: el comandante Mbembelé, el brujo Sombe y el rey Kosongo, que ha esclavizado a la tribu de los pigmeos.Los protagonistas, empujados por la curiosidad primero y la solidaridad después, lograrán sortear mil y un peligros gracias a sus poderes: Nadia, de hacerse invisible y hablar con los animales; Alexander, de transformarse en jaguar, y ambos de poder comunicarse con los espíritus. Entrarán en contacto con la cultura de los pigmeos, a los que, con la ayuda del espíritu de la reina Nana-Asante, lograrán liberar de la esclavitud. La paz entre los pigmeos y las otras tribus será posible a partir de ahora.
Memorias impuras
by Liliana BodocUna novela tan parecida a nuestro pasado que se lee con la avidez lógica de quien asiste a su propia historia. El virrey ha muerto y, mientras preparan las exequias, en la ciudad de Álbora esperan un seguro estallido de violencia. En castigo por haber sido la amante y el gran amor del virrey, Junia, la virreyna, encierra a Bérnaba en el calabozo del pueblo, donde cualquiera que lo desee puede pasar la noche con ella. Bérnaba, la hermosa, recluida con sus dos hijos y repudiada por todos, resiste y concibe la revolución en su propio cuerpo. Todas las razas que habitan el Virreynato se rebelan: los crudos, los mitimaes y los cue cués anhelan la independencia amparados en una profecía y bajo las órdenes de los maestros de la Logia Bagual. Pero las luchas internas entre los revolucionarios, sumadas al terror que encarnan la virreyna y su consejero, Cayo Catarina, y a las aspiraciones al poder de los hacendados, los prestamistas y el Protomedicato desatan una trama tan parecida a la nuestra que se lee con la avidez de quien asiste a su propia historia. Memorias impuras es uno de los libros más importantes de Liliana Bodoc, y esta reedición en Alfaguara es también un homenaje a su obra y a su memoria.
Memorias impuras
by Liliana BodocUna novela tan parecida a nuestro pasado que se lee con la avidez lógica de quien asiste a su propia historia. El virrey ha muerto y, mientras preparan las exequias, en la ciudad de Álbora esperan un seguro estallido de violencia. En castigo por haber sido la amante y el gran amor del virrey, Junia, la virreyna, encierra a Bérnaba en el calabozo del pueblo, donde cualquiera que lo desee puede pasar la noche con ella. Bérnaba, la hermosa, recluida con sus dos hijos y repudiada por todos, resiste y concibe la revolución en su propio cuerpo. Todas las razas que habitan el Virreynato se rebelan: los crudos, los mitimaes y los cue cués anhelan la independencia amparados en una profecía y bajo las órdenes de los maestros de la Logia Bagual. Pero las luchas internas entre los revolucionarios, sumadas al terror que encarnan la virreyna y su consejero, Cayo Catarina, y a las aspiraciones al poder de los hacendados, los prestamistas y el Protomedicato desatan una trama tan parecida a la nuestra que se lee con la avidez de quien asiste a su propia historia. Memorias impuras es uno de los libros más importantes de Liliana Bodoc, y esta reedición en Alfaguara es también un homenaje a su obra y a su memoria.
Memories Of Ice: Book Three Of The Malazan Book Of The Fallen (Malazan Book Of The Fallen Ser. #3)
by Steven EriksonMarking the return of many characters from Gardens of the Moon and introducing a host of remarkable new players, Memories of Ice is both a momentous new chapter in Steven Erikson's magnificent epic fantasy and a triumph of storytelling. The ravaged continent of Genabackis has given birth to a terrifying new empire: the Pannion Domin. Like a tide of corrupted blood, it seethes across the land, devouring all. In its path stands an uneasy alliance: Onearm's army and Whiskeyjack's Bridgeburners alongside their enemies of old--the forces of the Warlord Caladan Brood, Anomander Rake and his Tiste Andii mages, and the Rhivi people of the plains. But ancient undead clans are also gathering; the T'lan Imass have risen. For it would seem something altogether darker and more malign threatens this world. Rumors abound that the Crippled God is now unchained and intent on a terrible revenge.
Memories from the Jungle
by Tristan GarciaMemories from the Jungle is set in an unspecified future in which Earth has been rendered uninhabitable by pollution and war. Most humans live in orbital stations surrounding the globe, while only animals still survive on the African continent, along with a few scientists who study them in a kind of zoo and experimental laboratory. Doogie, a chimpanzee, has been raised as a human by a zoological researcher, Gardner Evans, and his daughter, Janet. Doogie is no ordinary chimpanzee: gifted with an exceptional intelligence (perhaps the result of a scientific experiment), he has been taught a fairly sophisticated version of the human language, is capable of human emotions such as love and jealousy, and has a highly developed understanding of human behavior. After an accident to the spacecraft that was bringing him back to Earth from an orbital station, Doogie finds himself alone in the jungle. In order to survive, he must rediscover the very animal nature he has been trained to reject.
Memories in Stone
by Dianne HartsockGilly is dying. He knows this, and in an act of desperation and grief, calls upon all his strength and the energies of the earth to imbue the twelve stones he’d gathered, shot through with crystals, with the memories of the life he’d shared with Finian, his husband and lover.With this he hopes to leave Finian, at the very least, with the joy of their time together. But he wishes for more. As a witch of singular power, he risks all he is in this final gamble. To move forward with Finian, or die alone, as he always had been.
Memories of Envy
by Barb HendeeA reluctant predator, Eleisha Clevon is determined to locate all vampires still existing in isolation, so she might offer them sanctuary at her home in Portland-and more importantly, so she can teach them to feed without killing. But the beautiful and delicate Simone Stratford doesn't want to be saved. Made into a vampire in the Roaring Twenties, she enjoys playing her own elaborate games with mortals, stoking their passion for her before finally draining them of their blood. And soon Eleisha and her protector, Philip Branté, find themselves caught up in one of Simone's games, which turns into a battle for Eleisha's life and Philip's soul. . . .
Memories of My Melancholy Whores
by Gabriel García Márquez Edith GrossmanAVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN eBOOK!A New York Times Notable Book On the eve of his ninetieth birthday a bachelor decides to give himself a wild night of love with a virgin. As is his habit-he has purchased hundreds of women-he asks a madam for her assistance. The fourteen-year-old girl who is procured for him is enchanting, but exhausted as she is from caring for siblings and her job sewing buttons, she can do little but sleep. Yet with this sleeping beauty at his side, it is he who awakens to a romance he has never known. Tender, knowing, and slyly comic, Memories of My Melancholy Whores is an exquisite addition to the master's work.
Memories of the Body: Tales of Desire and Transformation
by Lisa TuttleAward-winning horror author Lisa Tuttle's second short story collection is 'both entertaining and thought-provoking' Publisher's Weekly.This collection of fifteen emotionally-powerful short stories by a writer of cutting-edge fantasy, science fiction and horror are filled with subtlety, power and distinctive voice demanding to be heard.Includes five stories singled out by critic John Clute as 'among the very best short stories published in the last decade' - 'The Wound', 'Memories of the Body', 'Riding the Nightmare', 'Husbands' and 'Lizard Lust', along with 'A Mother's Heart', 'Bits and Pieces', 'Dead Television', 'Other Room', 'Skin Deep', 'Colonization of Edwin Beal', 'Spirit Cabinet', 'Jamie's Grave', 'Heart's Desire' and 'A Birthday'.
Memory
by H. P. LovecraftH. P. Lovecraft was one of the greatest horror writers of all time. His seminal work appeared in the pages of legendary Weird Tales and has influenced countless writer of the macabre. This is one of those stories.
Memory
by Theodore SturgeonJeremy Jedd stood in the igneous dust of the spaceport margin, staring into the sky and shading his eyes with his arm. Occasionally he checked the time by his ristkron, shaking it to make sure it was wound, craning back toward the hunched Customs House and the great clock. The sign there announced placidly that the Pinnacle had reported, was overdue, and would discharge passengers at Gate Three.
Memory (Miles Vorkosigan #10)
by Lois Mcmaster BujoldEven after Miles returns to military duty, his late death seems to be having a greater effect than he's willing to admit. His weakness reveals itself to the world at large at just the wrong time and in just the wrong way, and Miles is summoned home to face the Barrayarn Imperial Security chief.
Memory (Scavenger Trilogy #3)
by K. J. ParkerPoldarn went home and felt his life would come back together again but it did not. Betrayals by friends and enemies alike occur in this final book of the trilogy, things must come together, perhaps?
Memory Blank
by John E. StithMEMORY BLANK by John E. Stith Cal Donley wakes up missing his recent memory and covered with blood. Someone else's blood. He learns that he's a computer engineer living on the L5 orbital colony Daedalus, and he's married to a tantalizing stranger. Worn on his wrist is Vincent, a watch-sized artificial intelligence who can also tell time. But Vincent is missing some of his memory, too. As Cal tries to find out what happened during his long blackout, and in particular what happened in the last few hours of the gap, people around him begin to have accidents. Fatal accidents. Pretty soon, Cal knows only one thing for certain. What he doesn't know can kill him. Stith's work has been nominated for the Nebula-Award, and has included a Hugo Award honorable mention. Complete information on Stith's work may be found at www.neverend.com. The author of this book donated a digital copy to Bookshare.org. Join us in thanking John E. Stith for providing his accessible digital book to this community.
Memory Boy
by Will WeaverWorldwide disaster strikes early in the new millennium. A chain of cataclysmic volcanic explosions sends a cloud of ash into the atmosphere--three years later, the ash is still falling. Sunlight is scarce. Food is rationed. Cities are becoming wastlands of looting and murder. And sixteen-year-old Miles Newell is sure his family is in increasing danger. Escaping Minneapolis on the Ali Princess-- Miles's startling invention--the Newells hope to find comparative safety int he country. But as the family travel deeper into rural Minnesota, they find that people everywhere have changed. No one can be trusted. In this gripping adventure, a family leave behind all they've ever known to journey into the wilderness and an uncertain future.
Memory Girl
by Linda Joy SingletonIn ShareHaven, death is not the end. Centuries ago the ShareHaven Scientists discovered how to harvest a person's memories and transplant them into another body. Jennza has been raised knowing that someday she will join a Family and receive the memories of one of their beloved lost family members. Although the other teens are excited by the prospect, Jennza worries. After receiving a lifetime of new memories, will Jennza still be Jennza?
Memory In Shadow
by C. J. BlackWhen two men are thrown together under circumstances neither can control, an unexpected gift may be the key to happiness. All they need to do is defeat their demons, find a place with each other, and hold onto the second chance they've been given.In one night, Rasleigh Innsward has lost everything he cared for most. His wife and son gone. Even his memories have been burned away by the flames. It seems to him that his life is at an end until an unexpected gift and a second chance changes what he knows. Lahn Aurris has been given a task by his dearest friends--to unite the fiends and bring peace between his brethren and their mortal counterparts--but he's finding the task daunting and somewhat lonely. The two men are thrown together under circumstances neither can control. Can they defeat their demons and find a place with each other?
Memory Leak
by Trevor SchmidtEvery night, Jonathan Hart dreams of a cracked wasteland in the setting sun. By morning the image retreats to his subconscious mind. Again, he finds himself in a city of symmetrical people, where he is anonymous in his perfection. A voice in his head tells him there is more to life than following the will of his supreme leader, Liam Mail, and that there is more to his own life than he can remember. That there are things he can't remember about the city of symmetricals that could tear down the fabric of his world. Now, Jonathan must fight against the forces that suppress his memories before his mind is damaged beyond repair. Can Jonathan expose the twisted truth about the symmetrical elite, and in doing so restore society to its flawed asymmetrical origins? Or will his efforts explode and create a MEMORY LEAK?
Memory Maze: Memory Maze (The Hypnotists #2)
by Gordon KormanThe second entry in an all-new, mesmerizing adventure from the masterful, #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Gordon Korman!Jax Opus knows he's not like other kids. And it isn't his skill on the basketball court or his test scores that set him apart. No, Jax is different because he can hypnotize people. In fact, he might be the best hypnotist the world has seen in a very long time.You would think Jax would be happy about this. But really? It's ruining his life. He and his family are hiding from a master hypnotist who wants Jax out of the picture . . . forever. And the FBI is also starting to ask questions about Jax and his abilities. Jax thinks life might be getting a little better when a very rich, very powerful man asks him to help out with something. The reward will be great. And the price -- well, the price is that Jax starts taking on the man's memories. And some of them are pretty deadly.#1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Gordon Korman keeps the thrills coming and the adventure nonstop as the past and the present collide to build a memory maze that Jax Opus may never escape. . .
Memory Prime (Star Trek: The Original Series #42)
by Judith Reeves-StevensMemory Prime It is the central core of an immense computer library -- an elite network of research planetoids. Here, the Pathfinders -- the only artificial intelligences legally permitted to serve the Federation -- control and sift the overwhelming dataflow from thousands of research vessels across the galaxy... Now the greatest scientists in the Federation have gathered here for the prestigious Nobel and Z-Magnees prize ceremonies -- unaware that a deadly assassin is stalking one of them. And as Captain Kirk struggles to save his ship from sabotage and his first officer from accusations of murder, he discovers the hidden assassin is far from the deadliest secret lurking on Memory Prime...
Memory Wire
by Robert Charles WilsonTo escape his past, Keller has become an Eye - an all-seeing, unfeeling human video recorder. But his detachment fails when he meets Teresa, and he becomes involved in murder, smuggling and worse.
Memory Zero
by Keri ArthurMORTAL RECALL For Sam Ryan, life began at age fourteen. She has no memory of her parents or her childhood. In a decade of service with the State Police, Sam has exhausted the resources of the force searching for clues to her identity. But all mention of her family seems to have been deliberately wiped off the record. Everything changes the night Sam's missing partner resurfaces as a vampire . . . and forces her to kill him in self-defense. Now Sam is charged with murder. Suspended from the force, and with no one left to trust, Sam accepts some unexpected help from Gabriel Stern, a shapeshifter who conceals startling secrets. While investigating the circumstances surrounding her partner's strange behavior, Sam discovers that Garbriel's been involved with a dangerous organization that's planning a war on the human race. More immediate, someone is guarding the truth about Sam's past--someone who'd rather see her dead than risk her knowing too much. To stay alive, Sam must unravel the threads of her past--and find out not only who she is but what she is.
Memory Zero: Number 1 in series (Spook Squad Ser. #1)
by Keri ArthurSam Ryan has no memory of her past. All she has is a crayon drawing of a woman with the word 'Mummy' scrawled underneath. For the ten years Sam's been with the State Police, she's used their resources to search for any clues to her identity. But it's as if all mention of her family has been deliberately wiped off the system, and no one knows why.Everything changes the night her missing partner, Jack, attempts to kill her. Charged with his murder, Sam finds herself accepting help from Gabriel Stern - a shapeshifter with secrets of his own. As Sam delves into her partner's death, she discovers that not only is he very much alive, but he's involved with an organisation that plans to destroy the human race. Worse, someone knows the truth about Sam's past, and it appears that they'd rather see her dead than have her uncover it.
Memory Zero: Number 1 in series (Spook Squad Trilogy #1)
by Keri ArthurSam Ryan has no memory of her past. All she has is a crayon drawing of a woman with the word 'Mummy' scrawled underneath. For the ten years Sam's been with the State Police, she's used their resources to search for any clues to her identity. But it's as if all mention of her family has been deliberately wiped off the system, and no one knows why.Everything changes the night her missing partner, Jack, attempts to kill her. Charged with his murder, Sam finds herself accepting help from Gabriel Stern - a shapeshifter with secrets of his own. As Sam delves into her partner's death, she discovers that not only is he very much alive, but he's involved with an organisation that plans to destroy the human race. Worse, someone knows the truth about Sam's past, and it appears that they'd rather see her dead than have her uncover it.
Memory and Dream
by Charles De Lint20 years previous, a woman whose artistic power brought to life the images she painted turned her back on her talent when the forces she unleashed brought tragedy to loved ones, but now she is being drawn back to the nightmare.