Ondřej Kronich Libri

La storia completa dei Sette Regni, incentrata sulla vivida ricostruzione delle epiche battaglie, delle brutali rivalità e delle temerarie ribellioni che hanno condotto agli eventi narrati ne «Le Cronache del Ghiaccio e del Fuoco» e nella serie HBO «Game of Thrones», riccamente illustrata da oltre centosettanta tavole originali a colori. È una cronaca che si dipana dal Tempo dell’Alba all’Età degli Eroi, dalla venuta dei primi uomini all’arrivo di Aegon il Conquistatore, dall’ascesa di Aegon stesso al Trono di Spade fino alla Ribellione di Robert e alla susseguente caduta di Aerys II Targaryen, il Re Folle, l’evento che ha messo in movimento le lotte tra Stark, Lannister, Baratheon e Targaryen.

Swallow, daughter, pull them in, those words that sit upon your lips. Lock them deep inside your soul, hide them 'til they've time to grow. Close your mouth upon the power, curse not, cure not, 'til the hour. You won't speak and you won't tell, you won't call on heaven or hell. You will learn and you will thrive. Silence, daughter. Stay alive. The day my mother was killed, she told my father I wouldn't speak again, and she told him if I died, he would die too. Then she predicted the king would sell his soul and lose his son to the sky. My father has a claim to the throne, and he is waiting in the shadows for all of my mother's words to come to pass. He wants desperately to be king, and I just want to be free. But freedom will require escape, and I'm a prisoner of my mother's curse and my father's greed. I can't speak or make a sound, and I can't wield a sword or beguile a king. In a land purged of enchantment, love might be the only magic left, and who could ever love . . . a bird?

On her long journey home from school after a fight which will surely lead to her expulsion, Karigan G'ladheon ponders her future as she trudges through the immense forest called Green Cloak. But her thoughts are interrupted by the clattering of hooves as a galloping horse bursts from the woods, the rider slumped over his mount's neck, impaled by two black-shafted arrows. As the young man lies dying on the road, he tells Karigan that he is a Green Rider, one of the legendary messengers of the king, and that he bears a "life and death" message for King Zachary. He begs Karigan to carry his message, warning her not to read it, and when she reluctantly agrees, he makes her swear on his sword to complete his mission "for love of country." As he bestows upon her the golden winged-horse brooch which is the symbol of his office, he whispers on his dying breath, "Beware the shadow man..." Karigan's promise changes her life forever. Pursued by unknown assassins, following a path only her horse seems to know, and accompanied by the silent specter of the original messenger, she herself becomes a legendary Green Rider. Caught up in a world of deadly danger and complex magic, compelled by forces she cannot understand, Karigan is hounded by dark beings bent on seeing that the message, and its reluctant carrier, never reach their destination.

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A funny, moving love story about facing fears hand in hand - one snake/spider/potentially unstable fourth-floor balcony at a time.

Als Teilnehmer einer Mondexpedition erlebt der Astronaut Richard Baedecker einen unvergesslichen Spaziergang auf dem Erdtrabanten. Doch Jahre später, nach der Rückkehr zur Erde, gerät sein Leben völlig aus den Fugen, ja scheint die Wirklichkeit plötzlich ihre Substanz zu verlieren. Und all das hängt offenbar auf geheimnisvolle Weise mit dem Flug zum Mond zusammen. Was ist damals tatsächlich dort geschehen? Ist der Mond wirklich nur ein leerer, verlassener Ort? Auf der Suche nach einer Antwort macht sich Richard auf eine fantastische Reise …

Henry Page, 17 anni, è l'ultimo dei romantici, da sempre all'inseguimento del grande amore. E forse proprio per questo, non si è mai innamorato. Ma un giorno in classe arriva Grace Town, e tutto cambia. Grace cammina aiutandosi con un bastone, porta vestiti troppo grandi per lei, ha sempre lo sguardo basso. Henry se la ritrova accanto nella redazione del giornale della scuola, e presto ne rimane incantato. Grace ha ovviamente qualcosa di spezzato, ma questo non fa che attirare Henry, convinto di poterle ridonare quel sorriso che fino a pochi mesi prima era una sua quotidiana compagnia. Ma forse ciò che è spezzato non sempre si può riparare, e il grande amore è più amaro di quanto i romantici credano.

Alice Jasobsová nevěří na duchy… dokud jeden z nich neunese její dceru. Když její manžel zmizí při pátrání po sérii zvláštních a hrůzných událostí v hýřícím přístavním městě Salem, Alice je nucena vzít svou malou dcerku Abigail s sebou z Bostonu a sama se pustit do pátrání. Ale brzy se dozví o děsivém proroctví, na které se město připravuje po setmění: sto let poté, co byla žena jménem Rebeka Haleová pověšena za čarodějnictví, má její pomstychtivý duch během svátku Všech svatých povstat z pekla, aby uloupil duše salemských dětí. Alice považuje staré legendy za hloupé povídačky, dokud přízračná žena z kouře a mlhy neukradne Abigail z její postýlky. Zoufalá touhou najít svou dcerku dřív, než vyjde slunce a ona bude ztracena navždy, svádí Alice boj o čas v dechberoucím dobrodružství, které ji zavede ze zapomenutých žalářů a ponurých hřbitovů až k strašidelným lesům Šibeničního vrchu. Spolu s Jonasem Hobbsem – nespoutaným námořníkem, jenž pátrá po svém vlastním dítěti – bojuje na život a smrt s nadpřirozenými silami a odhalí temné tajemství, které může být klíčem k záchraně Abigailiny duše… ovšem pokud dokáže přežít nejděsivější noc svého života.