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The battle between good and evil has raged throughout time, in every corner of this world and the next. The heroes and villains of this ancient conflict are many and varied. Some have fought using their superior strength, and some their wit and cunning. Others would triumph with speed, skill, or sheer determination, but they all had one thing in common: they would fight to the death...

Inglaterra. Siglo XVI. Tom trabaja como criado en una posada conocida como la cabeza del cerdo. Limpiar los caballos, acarrear el agua, esas son sus principales ocupaciones. No tiene familia conocida, esta acostumbrado a los gritos, a los malos modos. Nunca nadie le ha tratado con respeto. Y un dia, un caballero de alto rengo, siguiendo instrucciones de la reina Isabel, viene a buscarle...

Un reality show en donde el protagonista se jugará, literalmente, la vida; una robonana a la que cualquiera le temería; una familia que viaja a Nueva York y se encuentra con una terrible enfermedad; un adolescente confundido que comete un crimen, y hasta un sofa asesino, son algunas de las historias con las que nos encontraremos en este libro y que dificilmente nos dejaran conciliar el sueño, ¿te atreveras a leerlas?

Tad es hijo único. Su padre posee una cadena de tiendas de productos de belleza y financia una organización llamda ACIDO (Asociación Caritativa para la Infancia Desgraciada y Olvidada). Tad tiene todo lo que un chico puede desear... pero una noche comete el error de desear ser alguien distinto, y su deseo se cumple en el acto: a la mañana siguiente se despierta sieno Bob Sarbi, y vive con sus padres en la caravana de una harapienta feria ambulante.Por este cambio de una vida de lujo a una vida de miseria, Tad entra en contacto con la crueldad y la delincuencia, y se ve sometido a experimenteso terribles.

Joe vive con sus padres ricos que se preocupan muy poco de él en la enorme mansión familiar. Aunque lo peor de todo es su abuelita. Joe comienza a sospechar que la abuelita está preparando algo contra el. El problema es saber que y como evitarlo. Descubrelo en esta emocionante, horripilante y divertida novela.

En el principio de los tiempos, unos seres malvados y crueles, los Antiguos, invadieron la Tierra con siniestros propósitos. Sin embargo, cinco niños dotados de poderes especiales consiguieron rechazarlos y salvar a la Humanidad de un destino espantoso. Aun así, por todo el planeta quedaron dispersos unos portales que comunican con la oscura dimensión donde los Antiguos moran al acecho, ávidos de cobrarse una horrible venganza. Huérfano de padre y madre, Matt Freeman tiene problemas con la policía y es enviado a una granja de acogida en Yorkshire. Una vez allí, descubrirá que posee alucinantes poderes cuyo alcance va más allá de su imaginación y, tras una trepidante peripecia que empieza en el Museo de Historia Natural y acaba en una central nuclear abandonada, luchará por salvar su vida y evitar que el mundo acabe sumido en el caos y la destrucción. El Portal del Cuervo es la primera entrega de Los cinco guardianes, una serie de aventuras fantásticas ambientada en nuestros días y protagonizada por cinco jóvenes héroes con poderes extraordinarios.

Readers will cheer for Alex Rider, the 14-year-old hero of British author Horowitz's spy thriller (the first in a projected series). When his guardian and uncle, Ian, is mysteriously killed, Alex discovers that his uncle was not the bank vice-president he purported to be, but rather a spy for the British government. Now the government wants Alex to take over his uncle's mission: investigating Sayle Enterprises, the makers of a revolutionary computer called Stormbreaker. The company's head plans to donate one to every secondary school in England, but his dealings with unfriendly countries and Ian Rider's murder have brought him under suspicion. Posing as a teenage computer whiz who's won a Stormbreaker promotional contest, Alex enters the factory and immediately finds clues from his uncle. Satirical names abound (e.g., Mr. Grin, Mr. Sayle's brutish butler, is so named for the scars he received from a circus knife-throwing act gone wrong) and the hard-boiled language is equally outrageous (It was a soft gray night with a half-moon forming a perfect D in the sky. D for what, Alex wondered. Danger? Discovery? Or disaster?). These exaggerations only add to the fun, as do the creative gadgets that Alex uses, including a metal-munching cream described as Zit-Clean. For Healthier Skin. The ultimate mystery may be a bit of a letdown, but that won't stop readers from racing through Alex's adventures, from a high-speed bike chase to a death-defying dance with a Portuguese man-of-war. The audience will stay tuned for his next assignment, Point Blanc, due out spring 2002. Ages 10-up.

My favourite literary hero at the moment is Anthony Horowitz SHARI LAPENA, author of The Couple Next Doorand A Stranger in the House_________________________Death, deception, and a detective with quite a lot to hide: the second novel in the bestselling series starring Private Investigator Daniel Hawthorne._________________________You shouldnt be here. Its too lateThese were Richard Pryce's last words, overheard moments before the celeb divorce lawyer was bludgeoned to death with a 3,000 bottle of wine.Strange circumstances pile up. Pryce was teetotal, so why this bottle? Why those words? Why did the killer paint a number on his wall? And, most importantly, which of the mans many, many enemies did the deed?Baffled, the police are forced to bring in Private Investigator Daniel Hawthorne and his sidekick, the author Anthony, whos really getting rather good at this murder investigation business.But as Hawthorne takes on the case with characteristic relish, it becomes clear that he, too, has secrets to hide. Anthony knows they must be exposed even at the risk of death_________________________Its great fun and often hilarious to watch Anthony, as Hawthornes biographer try to solve crimes while hopelessly out of his depth. This is meta-fiction I can get behind. SHARI LAPENA"Anthony Horowitz gets away with murder in all sorts of ways and emerges triumphant" THE TIMES, Books of the Year"Pure pleasure for readers A must-read delight." WALL STREET JOURNAL"This is crime fiction as dazzling entertainment, sustained by writing as skilfully light-footed as Fred Astaire" SUNDAY TIMES CRIME CLUB (STAR PICK)"A crime story that keeps you up into the small hours a page-turning mystery" METRO"Sheer genius ... The narrative is hilarious and full of Holmesian clues and deliberate errors which will leave the eagle-eyed reader feeling just a bit smug. A joy from start to finish" INDEPENDENT"Fans of traditional puzzle mysteries will be enthralled" PUBLISHERS WEEKLY"One of the most creative writers in the country today" JEREMY VINE"Huge fun Its hard to know why anyone who loves a good mystery wouldnt thoroughly enjoy the ride" IRISH INDEPENDENT"A new Anthony Horowitz novel is always something to look forward to. Anyone who likes a good Midsomer-style murder mystery will love The Sentence is Death" CULTUREFLY'Succeeds on all levels ... Horowitz has the Midas touch' BOOKLIST'This mystery is a worthy and witty follow-up to last year's best-seller The Word Is Murder ... brilliant and enigmatic' AARP'No one currently working the field has anywhere near this much ingenuity to burn' KIRKUS

There's been a murder on a remote island ... but the Diamond Brothers are on the case!When the Diamond Brothers receive an invitation to a school reunion on a remote Scottish island, things seem to be looking up. But Nick's got a bad feeling, and it's not indigestion. And when he meets their fellow guests, the feeling only gets worse especially when they start dying in ever more bizarre ways!

Retired publisher Susan Ryeland is running a small hotel on a Greek island with her long-term boyfriend. But life isn't as idyllic as it should be: exhausted by the responsibility of making everything work on an island where nothing ever does, Susan is beginning to miss her literary life in London - even though her publishing career once entangled her in a lethal literary murder plot.So when an English couple come to visit with tales of a murder that took place in a hotel the same day their daughter Cecily was married there, Susan can't help but find herself fascinated.And when they tell her that Cecily has gone missing a few short hours after reading Atticus Pund Takes The Case, a crime novel Susan edited some years previously, Susan knows she must return to London to find out what has happened.The clues to the murder and to Cecily's disappearance must lie within the pages of this novel.But to save Cecily, Susan must place her own life in mortal danger...

Featuring his famous literary detective Atticus Pund and Susan Ryeland, hero of the worldwide bestseller Magpie Murders, a brilliantly complex literary thriller with echoes of Agatha Christie from New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz.

Una historia de intriga, aventuras y acción, con un joven agente secreto como protagonista.Cuando el tutor de Álex Rider muere en circunstancias sospechosas, la vida del chico, de catorce años, da un giro y, en tan solo unos dias, el joven pasa de escolar a superespia. Tras unos agotadores ejercicios de entrenamiento, Alex sale hacia su primera mision. Su destino es Cornualles, donde Herold Sayle, un multimillonario de Oriente Medio esta fabricando sus superordenadores Stormbreaker.Alex Rider es un chico normal de catorce años. Un dia, recibe la noticia de que su tio, Ian Rider, con el que se ha criado toda la vida, ha muerto en un accidente de coche. Ahora, Alex esta solo, ya que sus padres murieron en un accidente aereo poco despues de nacer el.En el funeral de Ian, un hombre llamado Alan Blunt se presenta a Alex afirmando ser el director del banco para el que trabajaba su tio. Sin embargo, Alex empieza a sospechar que algo no va bien cuando descubre que uno de los acompañantes de Blunt lleva un arma en su cintura.Al poco tiempo, Alex recibe una llamada del banco. Le citan para arreglar su situacion, ya que ahora son ellos los encargados de los beneficios economicos de Alex hasta que cumpla veintiun años. Sin embargo, cuando llega al banco, descubre que su tio, en realidad, era un espia, y que el banco para el que trabajaba es una tapadera para una organizacion de agentes secretos, el MI6, de la cual el maximo responsable es el señor Blunt. Este, siendo conocedor de las increibles aptitudes fisicas y mentales de Alex, le ofrece terminar la mision en la que estaba trabajando su tio y por la cual fue asesinado. Sin apenas eleccion, Alex decide aceptar.La mision consiste en investigar a un excentrico multimillonario, Herod Sayle, que ha creado un superordenador, el Stormbreaker, del cual va a regalar al gobierno y a las escuelas de Inglaterra miles de unidades. Esta actitud hace sospechar al MI6 y deciden mandar a Alex, ya que, por su corta edad, es muy posible que no levante sospechas.Una vez en las instalaciones del señor Sayle, Alex descubre que el Stormbreaker contiene un virus mortal que matara a miles de personas una vez sea conectado"on-line". Tras superar los diferentes peligros, en el ultimo momento, Alex consigue impedir que Herod Sayle lleve a cabo su proposito, pero no puede impedir que este escape.Cuando todo parece haber acabado, Sayle reaparece en la vida de Alex con intencion de matarle, pero misteriosamente aparece un antiguo socio de Sayle, Yassen Gregorovich, el hombre que mato a Ian Rider, y le salva la vida al chico.

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