Nimue creció siendo una marginada. Su conexión con la magia oscura la convertió en alguien temible para su pueblo druida, y ella siempre ha querido escapar. Hasta que un día su aldea es asaltada brutalmente por los Paladines Rojos, y el destino de Nimue se ve alterado para siempre. Antes de morir, su madre le designa la mision de entregarle una antigua espada a un hechicero legendario, y se convierte en ese momento en la unica esperanza de su diezmado pueblo.
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From the screenwriter of Academy Awardnominated Puss in Boots and Puss in Boots: The Last Wish comes a briskly paced romp (Booklist) about tweens enrolled in an interdimensional school for time travelers perfect for fans of the Spy School and Mr. Lemoncellos Library series.When Bertie Wells accidentally creates a black hole in his bedroom in the year 1878, the last thing he expects is for a grown-up to step out. Darla Marconi comes with an offer: Bertie is invited to attend the EverWhen School of Time Travel and Other Odd Sciences.Not exactly thrilled at the idea, but not exactly having anything better to do, Bertie agrees. And that was only the first weird thing to happen to him that day. Thankfully, hes not alone144 years in the future, math whiz Zoe Fuentes just accepted the same invitation, and 550 years in the past, Amelia da Vinci (yes, that da Vinci) has also decided to attend.Transported to 2024 for their first semester of school, these three must team up and work together in order to survive the year, including weathering a time paradox, solving the case of a disappearing dean, and uncovering the truth behind a shady intergalactic secret society.
Lart mythique du grand Franck Miller et la plume acérée de Thomas Wheeler ! Nimue a échappé au massacre de son village. Sa mère, avant de mourir, la chargée dune mission: remettre lépée du pouvoir à
Aquel que empuñe la Espada de Poder será el único y verdadero rey. Pero, ¿y si la espada ha elegido a una reina?Nimue creció siendo una marginada. Su conexión con la magia oscura la convirtió en alguien temible para su pueblo Druida, pero ella siempre ha querido escapar de aquellos que la repudian. Hasta que un dia su aldea es asaltada brutalmente por los Paladines Rojos, y el destino de Nimue se ve alterado para siempre. Antes de morir, su madre le designa la mision de entregar una antigua espada a un hechicero legendario, y en ese momento se convierte en la unica esperanza de su diezmado pueblo.Nimue recibe la ayuda de un mercenario encantador llamado Arturo, y lo que queda de su gente, los Inefables. Mientras tanto, ella blande la espada destinada al verdadero rey, y lucha sin piedad contra los paladines y los ejercitos de un rey corrupto.Aunque Nimue solo pretende unir a su pueblo, vengar a su familia y descubrir la verdad sobre su origen, poco a poco descubrira que quiza lo unico capaz de cambiar el destino sea el filo de su espada.
It is 1919 and the Great War has come to a close. But in the shadows of the worlds major cities, the killing has just begun. In this perilous time, as the division between order and chaos grows increasingly slim, a select group of visionaries have taken it upon themselves to ensure the safety of humanity. They are known as the Arcanum.In Londons stormy Hyde Park, Konstantin Duvall, the Arcanums founder, has been killed in a suspicious accident. Dismayed, the groups longest-lived member, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, determines to avenge Duvalls deathand uncover the secret left in his wake. For the dead man possessed the worlds most powerfulnow missingartifact: the Book of Enoch, the chronicle of Gods mistakes, within whose pages lie the seeds for the end of everything. From the scene of the crime, Conan Doyle embarks on a path that leads him to the sleazy underworld of New York Citys Bowery and a series of deceptively disparatebut decidedly connectedmurders. And as he calls upon the scattered members of the Arcanum for aid, he also finds himself embroiled in a story of war as old as time itself. Not of a struggle between countries, but between darkness and light.Peopled with the twentieth centurys most famousand infamousfigures, here is an extraordinary tale in which the stakes go beyond the realm of humankindinto the divine.