Tiempo robado

Una mujer misteriosa. Una maldición antigua. Dos corazones destinados a encontrar el verdadero amor en una vieja mansión de la campiña inglesa. Llega la tercera entrega de la Familia Marston de Christine Cross. Lady Sara Ferrers arrastra una maldición. Descendiente de la famosa lady Katherine Ferrers, una salteadora de caminos que murió a causa de un disparo y que se dice que vaga durante las noches por la mansión de Markyate Cell, la gente la considera una bruja. En realidad, se trata solo de una joven solitaria que lleva una vida tranquila... hasta que conoce a su nuevo vecino, el...

Warbreaker is the story of two sisters, who happen to be princesses, the God King one of them has to marry, the lesser god who doesn't like his job, and the immortal who's still trying to undo the mistakes he made hundreds of years ago. Their world is one in which those who die in glory return as gods to live confined to a pantheon in Hallandren's capital city and where a power known as BioChromatic magic is based on an essence known as breath that can only be collected one unit at a time from individual people. By using breath and drawing upon the color in everyday objects, all manner of...

Más de dos décadas escuchando la voz que llama desde el otro lado del Sáhara. Una niña, Lola, que sueña con viajar. Recuerdos de carreras por los campos amarillos. Una África sin leones ni jirafas. Un perro que sonríe y baila tango. Un orfanato en Angola. La joven Lola que no sonríe. Un oso de peluche experto en etnias y etología. El amor por el atletismo. Las ruinas de treinta años de guerra. Otro amor, pero que oprime, traiciona y vacía el alma. Cientos de atletas de caras sucias y pies descalzos. La promesa de volver a África para encontrar a Desgraça, la niña que nació...

The book follows the adventures of a young lad, Nils Holgersson, whose "chief delight was to eat and sleep, and after that he liked best to make mischief". He takes great delight in hurting the animals on his family farm. Nils captures a tomte in a net while his family are at church and have left him home to memorize chapters from the Bible. The tomte proposes to Nils that if Nils frees him, the tomte will give him a huge gold coin. Nils rejects the offer and the tomte turns Nils into a tomte, which leaves him shrunken and able to talk with animals, who are thrilled to see the boy reduced to...