The Dragon Lantern is the second action-packed, steampunk adventure in the League of Seven series by the acclaimed author of Samurai Shortstop, Alan Gratz.
Archie Dent is convinced that he and his friends Hachi and Fergus are the first three members of a new League of Seven: a group of heroes who come together to fight the Mangleborn whenever the monsters arise to destroy humanity. His belief is put to the test when they are forced to undertake separate missions. Archie and his faithful Tik-Tok servant Mr. Rivets pursue a shapeshifting girl who has stolen the Dragon Lantern, an ancient artifact with mysterious powers. And Hachi and Fergus travel to New Orleans to find Madame Blavatsky, the only person who knows the circumstances surrounding the death of Hachi's father.
In the course of their adventures the three heroes meet potential candidates to join their League. At the same time, they learn deep-rooted secrets that could destroy the League forever . . .
The Monster War is the third book in the action-packed, steampunk League of Seven series by acclaimed author Alan Gratz.
Having discovered the monstrous secret of his origins, Archie Dent is no longer certain that he is worthy to be a member of the League of Seven. But with new enemies to face, he realizes that he may not have the luxury of questioning his destiny.
Wielding the Dragon Lantern, the maniacal Philomena Moffett has turned her back on the Septemberist Society, creating her own Shadow League and unleashing a monster army on the American continent. Archie and his friends must race to find the last two members of their league in time to thwart Moffett's plan and rescue humanity once more.
'The Dragon Detective Agency. Dirk Dilly speaking.'
When Holly and her family fly to LA for a holiday, it promises to be the trip of a lifetime. On her first day exploring the city of dreams, Holly befriends a movie director, who's captured something suspiciously dragonlike on camera while filming out in the desert. But before she can examine the tape properly, it goes missing...
Holly asks her partner-in-solving-crime, dragon detective Dirk Dilly, to join her on the hunt for clues in Hollywood. Will they be able to find the film before it falls into the wrong hands and exposes the existence of dragonkind to the world?
The final instalment in a fun and action-packed detective series for fans of TOTO THE NINJA CAT, HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON and Tom Fletcher's children's books!
Set in 2040, the Mars Diaries feature 14-year-old Tyce Sanders, the only child ever born on Mars. He lives under a dome on the red planet with 200 scientists and techies, including his mother, Kristy Sanders, a biologist and a believer. Tyce is confined to a wheelchair, but virtual reality and robotics allow him to experience life beyond his physical boundaries. Kids ages 10-14 will love the cool, high-tech gadgets, space travel, and great plot twists in this exciting series.
Set in 2040, the Mars Diaries feature 14-year-old Tyce Sanders, the only child ever born on Mars. He lives under a dome on the red planet with 200 scientists and techies, including his mother, Kristy Sanders, a biologist and a believer. Tyce is confined to a wheelchair, but virtual reality and robotics allow him to experience life beyond his physical boundaries. Kids ages 10-14 will love the cool, high-tech gadgets, space travel, and great plot twists in this exciting series.
En Manel i en Robert, dos joves aficionats a la literatura fantàstica, troben una obra original anglesa de H. P. Lovecraft, el seu autor preferit, i una noia els introduirà en un club molt especial. Però, quina relació hi ha entre aquest club, la noia i un professor especialitzat en Lovecraft? Quin món secret s'amaga darrere de la porta falsa? Els protagonistes viuran els misteris d'un barri barceloní esdevingut l'escenari d'un secret que intentaran desxifrar.
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Xulio Ricardo Trigo (Betanzos, A Coruña, 1959) ha publicat llibres de poesia i una catorzena de novel·les, entre les que destaquen El misteri del Barri Gótic, Després de l'oblit o La passió d'Alexandra. Ha guanyat els premis Ausiàs March, el Maria Mercè Marçal, el Miquel de Palol i el Joanot Martorell. Acostuma a escriure a El Periódico i El Diario de Barcelona.
Sergio es un niño que, tras una operación, comienza a ver a siete hombres vestidos de negro que caminan llevando una silla cada uno. Solo los ve él. Siempre que aparecen los hombres y se sientan, sucede una desgracia. Su investigación le lleva a descubrir la existencia de un cuadro donde aparecen estos misteriosos personajes: Los televidentes, y tras la pista de un pintor que murió abrasado años atrás en el pueblo.
Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano.
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Jordi Sierra i Fabra es un escritor español conocido mundialmente por sus obras de literatura infantil y juvenil. En 2004 inauguró la Fundación Jordi Sierra i Fabra, que otorga anualmente el Premio Jordi Sierra i Fabra para jóvenes escritores.
Tyler Street looked as though it hadn’t changed a bit since the last time Byron had been there. Same sidewalk cafe. Same trendy woman’s clothing store across the street. Same classy jazz club next door to that. It had been a year since he’d been there, and everything was perfectly in place.
Stepping past the jazz club and clothing store, he heard a high-pitched whimper in the background, rising above the traffic’s din. It sounded wounded, almost angry. Like a dying goose.
Checking the faces of other pedestrians, he wonders why nobody else seemed to notice the sound. They all kept walking, faces casual. Nobody was curious about that tortured wail.
Byron shrugged it off, figuring he was just imagining it. Maybe he was distracted by the grim mission that lay ahead of him.
He took a seat at the sidewalk cafe, checking the time and rehearsing words in his head he’d already repeated more times than he cared to recall.
It’s not you. It’s me. I just don’t think I’m...
Like most bad ideas, the whole thing had actually started as a joke. A flippant remark that should really have been swatted away like a persistent fly or left to dissolve into memory like an indistinct blur of the day's other conversations. I should have been, but it wasn't.
Instead, the joke became an idea, an idea that grew into a suggestion, and before I knew it, was gathering mass like a snowball rolling downhill, picking up both speed and size the further it was pushed. Within minutes, the joke had grown and mutated into a full-blown plan of action, for which arrangements were already being made. Once the ball gets rolling like that it’s always hard to stop. Bad ideas have a momentum of their own.
Morefield was a quiet town, filled, unfortunately, with not so quiet people. The primary forms of entertainment in this tiny rural backwater being either to gossip about other people's intrigues and indiscretions or actively participate in them yourself for the future discussion of others. As a trio, Adrien, Dion, and I had long ago decided to opt-out of...
Scary Stories Collection
5 Short Horror Stories
Story 1: Monsters
Story 2: Mr. Strings
Story 3: Clown Eater
Story 4: Graveyard Rising
Story 5: The Witch Tape
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"Whenever five or six English-speaking people meet round a fire on Christmas Eve, they start telling each other ghost stories." -Jerome K. Jerome
With the unforgettable opening words "Marley was dead, to begin with..." Charles Dickens kindled not just the modern celebration of the Yuletide but also rekindled the tradition of gathering 'round the fire on Christmas Eve to tell ghost stories. Here are a few of my favorites-some light, some somber, some extra-scary, beginning with a solo adaptation of A Christmas Carol. At age eleven I was introduced to Ebeneezer Scrooge and theatre-going in one magical night, when a production of the Dickens classic at the Children's Theatre Company in Minneapolis positively floored me. I've never spent another Christmastide without reading, watching, and/or appearing in this marvelous story. I hope you enjoy listening as much as I had reading these wondrous tales!
