Resultados Editorial "audible studios" en Histórica

P. N. Elrod's novels of The Vampire Files blend the seductive shadows of classic noir into a sanctuary for a most unusual private investigator-vampire Jack Fleming. In Elrod's newest novel, Jack is under the gun when the New York mafia wants his hide, and the love of his life is wanted for murder.

This compelling series combines action and historical drama in fascinating tales of an American Tory who stumbles into the dark world of the vampire. Completely revised and expanded, each of these new editions includes more than 40 pages of new material. In this introduction to the series, young Jonathan Barrett arrives in London in 1773 to pursue his college education. His fate among the undead is sealed by the unnaturally beautiful Nora Jones, who seduces him and consumes his blood.

Scholar Phelan Cle is researching Bone Plain - which has been studied for the last 500 years, though no one has been able to locate it as a real place. Archaeologist Jonah Cle, Phelan's father, is also hunting through time, piecing history together from forgotten trinkets. When they unearth a disk marked with ancient runes, Beatrice pursues the secrets of a lost language that she suddenly notices all around her, hidden in plain sight.

Ombria. It is a city that echoes with the footfalls of sapphire-heeled shoes...that holds its breath as a straw-haired apparition glides through its streets...that sees its dreams-and nightmares-take shape in the drawings of a bastard-heir. It is an enchanted time and place envisioned by World Fantasy Award winner Patricia A. McKillip, acclaimed author of The Tower at Stony Wood....

This is the story Harry Ransom. If you know his name it's most likely as the inventor of the Ransom Process, a stroke of genius that changed the world. Or you may have read about how he lost the battle of Jasper City, or won it, depending on where you stand in matters of politics. Friends called him Hal or Harry, or by one of a half-dozen aliases, of which he had more than any honest man should. He often went by Professor Harry Ransom, and though he never had anything you might call a formal education, he definitely earned it.

Galina is a young woman caught, like her contemporaries, in the seeming lawlessness of the new Russia. In the midst of this chaos, her sister Maria turns into a jackdaw and flies away - prompting Galina to join Yakov, a policeman investigating a rash of recent disappearances. Their search will take them to the underground realm of hidden truths and archetypes, to find themselves caught between reality and myth, past and present, honor and betrayal... the secret history of Moscow.

Set against the turbulent backdrop of the Italian Renaissance this alternate history takes place in a world where real faith-based magic exists. Our hero is Damiano Dalstrego. He is a wizard's son, an alchemist and the heir to dark magics. Shattered by the demonic fury of his dark powers, Damiano Delstrego has forsaken his magical heritage to live as a mortal man.

A contemporary man, John Thornburn (a meek, non-violent and unpredictable artist) and woman, Derval (his tough, confrontational, strong and warrior-like lover) time travel to ancient Ireland to avenge a Viking attack. Packed with fascinating details of historical time and place in Irish history and delicately balanced on the border between realism and fantasy, the story centers around one of the most famous and beautiful illuminated manuscripts in history, the legendary but entirely real Book of Kells.

Alisanos, the deepwood, is more than just a forest...it is sentient, and predatory. Home to demons and worse, its mercurial boundaries can suddenly shift miles in any direction to encompass previously safe human lands - and those taken by the deepwood are forever changed. Audrun, a human woman trapped within the forest, is reunited with her four children, only to learn that each has been marked by the deepwood’s wild magic. And her newly born fifth child, captured by a winged demon, is still missing.

Set against the colorful and magical backdrop of Ireland, The Grey Horse chronicles a time when the Irish people suffered under harsh English overlords who sought to destroy their culture and way of life. Into the Irish town of Carraroe, a magnificent, completely grey stallion appears. The horse brings with him the promise of better times and magical happenings, for he is actually the shape-shifted form of Ruairi MacEibhir, journeyed to a time of danger in order to win the hand of the woman he loves.

Long ago, the wizards had vanished from the world, and all knowledge was left hidden in riddles. Morgon, prince of the simple farmers of Hed, proved himself a master of such riddles when he staked his life to win a crown from the dead Lord of Aum.But now ancient, evil forces were threatening him. Shape changers began replacing friends until no man could be trusted. So Morgon was forced to flee to hostile kingdoms, seeking the High One who ruled from mysterious Erlenstar Mountain.Beside him went Deth, the High One's Harper. Ahead lay strange encounters and terrifying adventures.

In post-Arthurian England, 10-year old Amby and the troupe of traveling players he belongs to are on the run from a conqueror. He has been gifted with second-sight, and when the troupe stumbles upon an unoccupied castle he is the only one in the group who senses the power that lies within the stone building. In the near future, the Fisher King, Mordred and Morgan le Fay seek to gain control of Dr. Elaine Brusen’s hypostater, a machine capable of altering fundamental reality.

When Camolen's Council of Wizards is cut down by twisted magic, the only witness is a palomino stallion named Ramble. Convinced the twisted magic threatens Camolen, Carey, Anfeald's Head Courier, plans to question Ramble using the now-forbidden spell that can change the horse into a human - the same spell that turned Dun Lady's Jess from horse to human and took her to another world: the American Midwest.

L’Impero di Ambha si sta sgretolando. Una terribile guerra di successione si profila all’orizzonte. L’unica speranza di pace risiede nel misterioso regno delle ceneri, dove i mortali possono trovare ciò che cercano negli echi dei sogni dei loro antenati. Il prezzo per arrivarci è altissimo, ma Arwa è determinata a compiere il viaggio. Rimasta vedova in seguito a un brutale massacro, ha giurato di servire la famiglia imperiale fino alla fine.

En 1535, un objeto perteneciente a Ah Puch, el temible dios maya del inframundo, llegó a la ciudad más importante del Imperio Español, pero, a pesar de ser relegado al olvido por la Iglesia durante quinientos años, la amenaza que supone para la humanidad no fue eliminada. En diciembre del año 2012, el Códice de Fray Bernardino llega a manos de la jefa del departamento de restauración del Archivo de Indias, Ireri Dávila. Aunque aún no lo sabe, el viejo manuscrito es la clave para que la peor de las profecías mayas se haga realidad.

Il diciottenne Farin vive nel villaggio medievale di Haufen, Il ragazzo è un emarginato, perché come figlio del becchino è deriso e maltrattato dagli altri abitanti del villaggio. Eppure, la sua unica scelta è apprendere il mestiere del padre, sempre più vittima dell'alcol. Le cose cambiano senza preavviso per Farin quando muore la strega del villaggio e lui la prepara per il funerale. Perché la strega porta un misterioso amuleto al collo e Farin non riesce a resistere alla tentazione di indossare il gioiello... Tiene per sé il suo segreto... tanto non gli crederebbe nessuno.

Nel mezzo del cammin della sua vita, Dante Alighieri è un famoso poeta e difensore della pace a Firenze, ma dietro il suo successo si cela il dolore per la morte di Beatrice. Mentre vaga smarrito per una selva oscura, viene scorto da Kabal, spirito custode della decaduta famiglia Cavalcanti. Dante potrebbe essere l’ultima occasione per salvare l’anima perduta di Guido, che dell’Alighieri era stato amico e mentore di poesia.

Giappone, Regno di Yamatai, secondo secolo. La nobile Jingu, scelta come moglie dall'Imperatore Chuai, si vede costretta ad abbandonare l'arte della spada e l'amato Hondawake. Quando però l'orgoglio di Chuai attira l'ira di un kami, la fanciulla si ritrova d'improvviso vedova, con una profezia a gravarle sul capo e il cuore avvelenato dal desiderio di vendetta. Impugnando la spada dell'Imperatore, Jingu guiderà l'esercito di Yamatai verso una terra sospesa fra i mondi, abitata da sinistre creature.

Firenze sarà una signoria. Che i fiorentini lo vogliano oppure no. Ma chi ne sarà il signore? Tra guelfi bianchi e guelfi neri inizia una lotta senza quartiere: Guido Cavalcanti e Vieri dei Cerchi contro Corso Donati, Kabal e Circo contro gli Ancestrarchi antichi fedeli a Don. Si paga con sangue e virtù ogni vicolo guadagnato, e si combatte su ogni campo: la benevolenza degli spiriti maggiori, il predominio commerciale, le alleanze politiche nello spirito e nella materia.

Toscana, tredicesimo secolo: prosegue l’epica saga fantasy di Guido Cavalcanti e del suo spirito-guida, l’astuto Kabal! I ghibellini sono sconfitti. Mentre l’enigmatico San Pietro convoca l’Ancestrarca Kabal per affidargli una pericolosa missione nella Curia Romana, nella meravigliosa Firenze è tempo di festeggiamenti.