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Rice's lyrical, haunting new novel is a metaphysical thriller of angels and assassins that once again summons up dark and dangerous worlds set in times past.

The dazzling vampire Lestat was once the epitome of evil. But now he struggles with his immortality, yearning for a more saintly path. His chance comes when he rescues a witch from death by turning her into a vampire. But the repercussions are swift as the powerful Mayfair family rally to punish Lestat for creating a killer from one of their flock. Yet in the midst of this schism comes a passionate love affair as Lestat becomes dangerously drawn to Rowan Mayfair, a brilliant neurosurgeon and a true witch. However, the fates are cruel and in an intense finale he must decide on the destiny of his beloved.

Quinn Blackwood, a sexy and eccentric gentleman-become-vampire, has been haunted by Goblin all his life—a doppelgänger no one else can see—whose power is growing with each drop of blood that Quinn unwillingly drinks. Quinn's only hope of liberation from his increasingly dangerous doppelgänger is to find the legendary vampire Lestat.

En esta última entrega de las Crónicas Vampíricas, Anne Rice nos ofrece la historia de Armand, el eterno joven, el agraciado muchacho con cara de ángel de Boticelli, que apareció por primera vez en la ya clasica Entrevista con el vampiro. Ahora acompañamos a Armand a traves de los siglos desde el Kiev de su infancia, pasando por la antigua Constantinopla hasta la Venecia del Renacimiento. A medida que la novela avanza por escenarios de lujo extravagante unas veces, de decadencia absoluta otras, Armand desvela los detalles de su turbulenta existencia.

Having completed the two cycles of legend to which she has devoted her career so far, Anne Rice gives us now her most thoughtful and powerful book, a novel about the childhood of Christ the Lord based on the Gospels and on the most respected New Testament scholarship. The books power derives from the passion its author brings to the writing, and the way in which she summons up the voice, the presence, the words of the young Jesus who tells the story.

Anne Rice's legendary 'Vampire Chronicles' immersed us in the mythology, lives and loves of a motley crew of undead; they defined a genre. And now she has another age-old story in her sights, the terrifying werewolf legend ... The Wolf Gift marks the welcome return to form of a true master. It has all the prowess and pace of Interview with the Vampire but with the added benefit that this is Rice let loose on a fresh new subject -- and her excitement is palpable. The younger generation may be losing interest in vampire novels, but they still have a taste for the world of supernatural horror. Cue Anne Rice: there are few writers of her calibre and imagination working in this area, and even fewer that have done the research and self-examination that give her novels the richness and quality they are so justly famed for.

In the days before the Civil War, there lived in New Orleans the gens de couleur libre - copper-skinned half-casts, liberated by their owners, but confined by their color to a life of political nonexistence and social subordination. Still, an aristocracy would emerge in this society: artist, poets, and musicians, plantation owners, scientists and craftsmen whose talents and reputations would extend far beyond the limits of their small world. Mega-selling author Anne Rice's probing, lyrical style sweeps us into their midst as she introduces Marcel, the sensitive, blue-eyed scholar, Marie, his breathtakingly beautiful sister, whose curse is to pass for white; Christophe, novelist and teacher, the idol of all young gens and stunning Anna Bella, whose allure for the well-to-do white man would become legend. Here is a compelling and richly textured tale of a people forever caught in the shadows between black and white.

Anne Rice, creadora del ya considerada como un clásico de nuestro tiempoEntrevista con el vampiro, presenta una nueva, ambiciosa y excitante novela de las «Crónicas vampíricas».En el centro de la no

"In my dreams, I saw a city fall into the sea. I heard the cries of thousands. I saw flames that outshone the lamps of heaven. And all the world was shaken..." At the novel's centre: the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt, hero, leader, irresistible force, irrepressible spirit, battling (and ultimately reconciling with) a strange otherworldly form that has somehow taken possession of the prince's undead body and soul. This ancient and mysterious power and unearthly spirit of vampire lore has all the force, history and insidious reach of the unknowable Universe. It is through this spirit, previously considered benign for thousands of vampire years and throughout the Vampire Chronicles, that we come to be told the hypnotic tale of a great sea power of ancient times; a mysterious heaven on earth situated on a boundless continent - and of how and why, and in what manner and with what far-reaching purpose, this force came to build and rule the great legendary empire of centuries ago that thrived in the Atlantic Ocean. And as we learn of the mighty, far-reaching powers and perfections of this lost kingdom of Atalantaya, the lost realms of Atlantis, we come to understand its secrets, and how and why the vampire Lestat, indeed all the vampires, must reckon so many millennia later with the terrifying force of this ageless, all-powerful Atalantaya spirit.

Herod Antipas rules Galilee, Pontius Pilate is the new Roman governor of Judea, and the Roman Empire rules the world. These are turbulent times for Israel, a troubled land of turmoil and insurrection. Now in his thirtieth year, Jesus and his tight-knit family endure a long, dusty winter of disruption and chaos. Whispers of his virgin birth still persist, and while he struggles with the demands of his family and the weight of his great destiny, those around him wait for some sign of the path he will take. But this quiet man of Nazareth is instead called upon to found a ministry which will utterly transform an unsuspecting world.

Este segundo y enormemente ambicioso libro de Anne Rice sobre la vida de Cristo comienza durante su último invierno antes de su bautismo en el Jordán y concluye con el milagro de Caná. Al igual que ocurre con Out of Egypt, la primera novela, The Road to Cana esta basada en los Evangelios y en el Nuevo Testamento.

In THE ROAD TO CANA we see Jesus at thirty, during a winter of no rain, endless dust, and talk of trouble in Judea. He lives in the obscure village of Nazareth, with his close and devout Jewish family, sharing work, worship, trials and comforts alongside his step brother, James, his siter Salome, and his cousins. Una narracion de la vida de Cristo, empezando en el ultimo invierno de los ''años ocultos'', culminando en los cuarenta dias y cuarenta noches en el desierto, y concluyendo con un milagro: la transformacion del agua en vino en las bodas de Canaa.

Quinn Blackwood, un rico y excéntrico joven convertido en vampiro, pide la ayuda de Lestat para librarse del celoso control a que le somete Goblin. Lestat, intrigado, le pide a que narre la historia de su vida. Quinn recuerda su infancia en el seno de una familia muy peculiar y describe sus dias en Blackwood Farm, la mansion de altas columnas y extensos jardines rodeada de zonas pantanosas en la que crecio y ahora reside. A pesar de su amor por Mona Mayfair, una bella bruja, posee una agitada vida amorosa, ademas de un imperioso deseo de beber sangre. La intensa trayectoria vital de Quinn reune en un mismo volumen las Cronicas Vampiricas y la serie de Las Brujas de Mayfair para revelar nuevos episodios de la historia de los vampiros.

Toby O'Dare - Lucky the Fox - a contract killer of underground fame carries out a life of violence. He's been sent on an assignment to kill at Riverside, California, the Mission Inn. Into his nightmarish world of lone and lethal missions, comes a mysterious stranger, a seraph, who offers him a chance to save lives, rather than destroy them.