Anne Rice Knihy

Lestat je upír, nikoli však obvyklá nemrtvá-neživá bytost. Je temperamentní, výstřední a živý v tom nejlepším slova smyslu. Střemhlavě se řítí v čase ze smyslného prostředí Paříže osmnáctého století do doby vlády římského císaře Augusta, ze starověkého Egypta plného démonů do New Orleansu před koncem devatenáctého století, z Galie zabydlené potomky Keltů a jejich kněžími - druidy, do frenetického světa rockových superhvězd ve dvacátém století. Lestat - pronásledován jak smrtelníky, tak nesmrtelnými - se snaží ve světě dobrat smyslu své existence a skrze čas se mu podaří dobrat se tajemství vlastní temné nesmrtelnosti.

V Princi Lestatovi, dlouho očekávaném návratu do říše Upířích kronik, znovu ožívá neodolatelný svět duchů, nejstarších a nejmocnějších sil mezi nebem a zemí. Tam patří i nezkrotný, neviditelný Amel, jehož žízeň po lidské krvi ohrožuje nesmrtelné nemrtvé po celém světě. Anne Riceová pokračuje tam, kde před více než čtvrt stoletím v mimořádně působivé Královně prokletých a Upíru Lestatovi skončila, aby vytvořila nový výjimečný okruh duchů a sil – postavy, legendu a tradici všech Upířích kronik. Román se přesouvá ze současného New Yorku a západního pobřeží USA do starověkého Egypta, Kartága ve třetím století, Říma čtrnáctého století a renesančních Benátek. Pohybuje se mezi světy a bytostmi všech Upířích kronik – nevynechá Louise de Pointe du Lac; věčně mladého Armanda, jehož tvář patří Botticelliho andělu; hovoří o Mekare a Maharet; Pandoře a Flaviovi; Davidu Talbotovi, upírovi a hlavním zástupci utajované Talamasky; neopomene pravé tisícileté dítě Maria a přidá spoustu nových podmanivých nadpřirozených postav. Ti všichni se setkávají v tomto obsáhlém, barvitém, ambiciózním románu, aby nakonec povstali a vypátrali, kdo (nebo co) je hlas, a odhalili, po čem touží a proč… Zdánlivě nepřítomnou ústřední postavou, všemi postrádaným potulným hrdinou je nebezpečný rebel, psanec a naděje nemrtvých – okouzlující princ Lestat…

Kultovní román, kterým to všechno začalo... Louisovi je dvě stě let. Ze života okusil všechno kromě smrti. Ta je mu jako upírovi zapovězena. Ale temné hříchy černé duše ho tlačí natolik, že se zpovídá mladému reportérovi, který nebezpečně propadá jeho omamnému kouzlu. Filmoví nadšenci si jistě vzpomenou na stejnojmennou adaptaci, ve které hlavní role ztvárnili Brad Pitt a Tom Cruise...

Jste si jistí, že mumie, kterou davy lidí okukují ve vitríně Káhirského muzea, je skutečně slavný faraon Ramses Veliký osobně? Věříte, že Anglie časů průmyslové revoluce by neměla co nabídnout starověkému vladaři? Pak vás ujišťuji, že po přečtení téhle knihy budete mít jiný názor..

Dvanáct generací krásných, výjimečných, ale i nebezpečných žen, sleduje tajemná organizace zabývající se nadpřirozenými jevy. Strhující osudy jednotlivých „čarodějnic“ nás zavedou na skotskou vysočinu, do středověké Francie, na Antilské souostroví a nakonec do New Orleansu. Tam všude byli předkové lékařky Rowan upalováni, pronásledováni, zároveň však i zbožňováni a oslavováni.

Příběh upíra - Armanda - věčně mladého upíra s tváří Botticeliho anděla. Armand, nyní prochází napříč staletími do Kyjevské Rusi (jeho dětství) - zničeného města pod nadvládou Mongolů - a do starověké Konstantinopole, kde ho tatarští nájezdníci prodají do otroctví. A v nádherném paláci renesančních Benátek ho nalézáme citově a intelektuálně vázaného na velkého upíra Maria, který se mezi lidmi vydává za záhadného, samotářského malíře a obdaří Armanda darem upírské krve. Jak se román žene k vyvrcholení, pohybuje se mezi přepychovými a elegantními scénami, mezi bojem, požáty a uctívání ďábla v Paříži 19. století stejně jako v dnešním New Orleansu, vidíme jeho věčně zranitelného a romantického hrdinu, nuceného volit mezi svou soumračnou nesmrtelností a spásou nesmrtelné duše.

Úvodní část rodinné kroniky příslušníků staré bohaté rodiny z New Orleansu, proslavéné v minulosti čarodějnickými schopnostmi jejích ženských potomků. Čtyři ženy postupně odkázaly své nadpřirozené schopnosti svým dcerám a v průběhu staletí se každá z nich stala svým způsobem jejich obětí. První díl je věnován poslední ženské příslušnici rodu, mladé lékařce, která své neobvyklé schopnosti využívá ve své profesi k dobrým účelům. Seznámí se s člověkem, který po klinické smrti nabyl mimořádných telepatických schopností a ten ji upozorní na mezery v její minulosti a podnítí v ní odvahu začít po této minulosti pátrat.

Rowan byla vychovávána v adoptivní rodině, aby byla přerušena rodinná kletba čarodějnictví. Stává se lékařkou s udivujícími schopnostmi. Po smrti svých adoptivních rodičů se neubrání styku se svoji původní rodinou Mayfairů, kde se od nejstarší členky rodu dozví všechna rodinná tajemství, i to, že ona je předurčenou následnicí tradice čarodějnic v rodině. I jí pronásleduje a zhmotňuje se jí rodinný démon Lasher a její život nabírá zcela jiný směr. Souboj Rowaniny pozemské lásky a nadpřirozených sil je hybnou silou příběhu

Svatou zemí zmítají nepokoje a sedmiletý Ježíš s rodinou opouští Egypt a vydává se na nebezpečnou cestu domů do Jeruzaléma. Během cesty chlapec přemýšlí o záhadách, které obklopily jeho narození. Román Anny Riceové, vycházející z evangelií a Nového zákona, je brilantně napsaný. Spojuje hlasy přítomnosti a Ježíšova slova, pomocí nichž se Ježíš snaží pochopit svůj neobyčejný život a vypráví svůj příběh. V březnu 2016 přichází do kin stejnojmenný film. Jednu z hlavních rolí si zahraje známý herec Sean Bean

Nový svět, moderní a plný špičkových technologií, skrývá příběh o stvoření vlkodlaka, přepsaný Annou Riceovou. Děj se odehrává na divokém pobřeží Severní Kalifornie, v majestátním sídle obklopeném sekvojovým lesem. Mladý reportér, nově zaměstnaný u San Francisco Observer, přijíždí psát článek, zatímco starší žena, majitelka domu, se ho snaží prodat. Jejich náhodné setkání se změní v idylickou noc, která je však přerušena tragédií, když je mladý muž bezdůvodně napaden a pokousán neznámou šelmou. Tato brutální epizoda zásadně mění jeho život; Reuben je lapen v extázi a hrůze, snaží se smířit s tím, čím se stal, a zároveň ho vlčí dar vzrušuje. Musí čelit pokušení a vlčí divokosti, zatímco se snaží udržet silný smysl pro dobro. Na jeho stopě jsou vládní složky, média a vědci, kteří ohrožují jeho dvojí život. V průběhu hledání odpovědí na otázky o jeho nové existenci a tajemstvích alchymie se setkává s opravdovou láskou a uvědomuje si, že se stává obojím – člověkem i vlkem.

For the first time, the complete Mayfair Chronicles from #1 New York Times bestselling author Anne Rice are collected together in a stylish three-book set--the inspiration for the hit television series. In this mesmerizing series, Anne Rice demonstrates her gift for spellbinding storytelling and the creation of legend: The Witching Hour: A hypnotic tale of witchcraft and the occult that introduces a great dynasty of witches--a family that over the ages is itself haunted by a powerful, dangerous, and seductive being. Lasher: The beautiful Rowan Mayfair, queen of the coven, must flee from the darkly brutal yet irresistible demon known as Lasher. Taltos When Ashlar learns that another Taltos has been seen, he is suddenly propelled into the haunting world of the Mayfair family, the New Orleans dynasty of witches forever besieged by ghosts, spirits, and their own dizzying powers.

The "New York Times" bestselling first and second volumes in Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles now join Ballantine's monthly "Special Low Price" mass market reissue program.

The mother of all vampires, Akasha, awakens after a 6,000 year slumber when she hears Lestat the vampire's music about her. She elevates herself to the level of the gods and vows to destroy Lestat.

The hypnotic, deeply seductive novels of Anne Rice have captivated millions of fans around the world. It all began a quarter of a century ago with Interview with the Vampire. Now, in one chilling volume, here are the first three classic novels of The Vampire Chronicles. INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE Witness the confessions of a vampire. A novel of mesmerizing beauty and astonishing force, it is a story of danger and flight, love and loss, suspense and resolution, and the extraordinary power of the senses. THE VAMPIRE LESTAT Once an aristocrat from pre-revolutionary France, now a rock star in the decadent 1980s, Lestat rushes through the centuries seeking to fathom the mystery of his existence. His is a mesmerizing story–passionate and thrilling. QUEEN OF THE DAMNED Akasha, the queen of the damned, has risen from a six-thousand-year sleep to let loose the powers of the night. She has a marvelously devious plan to “save” mankind–in this vivid novel of the erotic, electrifying world of the undead. --back cover

Here is the glorious and sinister life of Marius- patrician by birth, scholar by choice and one of the oldest vampires of them all. From his genesis in ancient Rome, to his present day meeting with Thorne, a Nordic vampire of snow and ice, we follow the story of this aristocratic killer.His is a tale that spans the breadth of time. When the Visigoths sack his city, Marius is there; with the resurgence of the glory of Rome, he is there, still searching for his lost love Pandora, he even entertains an obsession with Botticelli. So prevalent is Marius that it is he who gives the dark gift to the illustrious vampire Armand.Intertwined with the stories of Rice's magnificent Pantheon of the undead, haunted by Pandora and by his alter ego Mael and tracked by the ominous Talamasca, this account of Marius is the most wondrous and mind-blowing of them all.

SOON TO BE A MAJOR TV SHOW, FROM THE NETWORK BEHIND THE WALKING DEAD ' W hen I found Rice's work I absolutely loved how she took that genre and (...) made it feel so contemporary and relevant' Sarah Pinborough, bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes ' Rice wrote in the great tradition of the gothic' Ramsey Campbell, bestselling author of The Hungry Moon FROM INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND 'QUEEN OF THE UNDEAD', ANNE RICE The Vampire Chronicles continue with a riveting, rich saga - part adventure, part fairy tale - of Prince Lestat and the story of how he came to rule the vampire world From his ancestral chateau high up in the mountains of France, Prince Lestat grapples to instil a new ideology of peace and harmony among the blood-drinking community. Accustomed to welcoming the Undead from far and wide, one night he awakes to news of a ruthless attack by a group of maverick vampires. After fleeing to investigate the terror, Lestat learns of several new enemies who are intent on disrupting the harmony he tries so hard to maintain. But is Lestat strong enough to take on such evil alone or will sacrifices have to be made? Will his cry for peace be heard in a world riddled with violence?

*** NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *** "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 taken possession of his 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 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 powers 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.

Celebrate the daring gifts of Anne Rice, writing as A. N. Roquelaure, with this beautifully repackaged boxed set of the three erotic novels in her acclaimed Sleeping Beauty trilogy.

Herod Antipas rules Galilee, Pontius Pilate is the new Roman governor of Judea, and the Roman Empire rules the world. 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.

The acclaimed author of Servant of the Bones makes real for us the exquisite and otherworldly society of the eighteenth-century castrati, the delicate and alluring male sopranos whose graceful bodies and glorious voices brought them the adulation of the royal courts and grand opera houses of Europe, men who lived as idols, concealing their pain as they were adored as angels, yet shunned as half men.

A pharaoh made immortal by a powerful elixir, Ramses the Great served as counselor and lover to Egypt's most influential rulers before awakening in Edwardian England. Having defeated both human and supernatural foes, he has found love with Julie Stratford, the daughter of the archaeologist who discovered his tomb. As a world war looms, Ramses and other resurrected immortals face their greatest challenge yet. Russian assassins, armed with immense power, are determined to eliminate those who loved Lawrence Stratford. These assassins wield a supernatural force that can animate statues. Ramses, along with allies like Cleopatra and Bektaten, must confront this threat while uncovering the origins of a great weapon linked to an ancient Egyptian ritual meant to humble pharaohs before Osiris, the god of the underworld. Their journey will take them across stormy seas and into northern Russia's forests, where they will navigate a terrifying clash of political ambitions and religious fervor driven by a Godlike power. The true answers they seek lie beyond the boundary between life and death, in realms that challenge even the imagination of an immortal like Ramses.

In the days before the Civil War, there lived a Louisiana people unique in Southern histroy. Though descended from African slaves, they were also descended from the French and Spanish who enslaved them. Called the Free People of Color, this dazzling historical novel chronicles the lives of four of them--men and women caught perilously between the worlds of master and slave, privilege and oppression, passion and pain.

Adam Murphy, a twenty-five-year-old journalist, is chasing a career-making story of a serial killer preying on young gay men in West Hollywood when he is abruptly fired by the magazine that employs him. He soon learns his former lover has disappeared, but what hes about to uncover is far more diabolical than he could ever have imagined. Light Before Day is a riveting and complex mystery set against the gothic landscape that Rice has made his own.

Beauty's adventures in the hypnotic realm of sexuality make her the bound captive of an Eastern Sultan and a prisoner in the exotic confines of the harem. As this voluptuous adult fairy tale moves towards its conclusion, all Beauty's encounters with the myriad variations of sexual fantasy are presented in a sensuous, seductive and erotic prose that intensifies Beauty's secret world.

Internationally bestselling author, Anne Rice, has written twenty-eight novels - magnificent tales of other worldly beings that explore the realms of good and evil, love and alienation: each a reflection of her own moral journey.

When Last The Vampire Lestat Was Seen, He Was Rising From The Dead In Present-Day New Orleans To Walk Again Among Anne Rice'S Unforgettable Undead. Now Lestat Lives Again, But In A Twilight World Of Music And Memory. His Charismatic Friend Louis De Pointe Du Lac Is Tortured By The Memory Of The Child Vampire, Claudia, Whom He Loved And Lost. He Calls On Merrick, Young And Gorgeous Mixed-Race By-Blow Of The Rich New Orleans Mayfair Clan. To Save Louis' Sanity, Merrick Must Use Her Black Witchcraft To Call Up The Ghost Of Claudia - However Dangerous This May Be. There Are Other Mayfair Spirits Who Will Not Lie Still, And Her Search Takes Her Close To The Edge, Through Blood And Terror, Ritual And Violence. Sweeping From New Orleans To The Brazilian Jungle And The Island Of Haiti, This Is Vampire Literature At Its Most Tantalising, Sexy And Irresistible.

Lestat is back with a vengeance and in thrall to Rowan Mayfair. Both demon and angel, he is drawn to kill but tempted by goodness as he moves among the pantheon of Anne Rice's unforgettable characters. Julien Mayfair, his tormentor; Rowan, witch and neurosurgeon, who attracts spirits to herself, casts spells on others and finds herself dangerously drawn to Lestat; Patsy, country and western singer, who was killed by Quinn Blackwood and dumped in a swamp; Ash Templeton, a 5,000 year old Taltos whose genes live on in the Mayfairs. Now, Lestat fights to save Patsy's ghost from the dark realms of the Earthbound, to uncover the mystery of the Taltos and to decide the fate of Rowan Mayfair. Both of Anne Rice's irresistible realms - the worlds of Blackwood Farm and the Mayfair Witches - collide as Lestat struggles between his lust for blood and the quest for life, between gratification and redemption.

Lestat is back, saviour and demon, presiding over a gothic story of family greed and hatred through generations, a terrifying drama of blood lust and betrayal, possession and matricide. Blackwood Farm with its grand Southern mansion, set among dark cypress swamps in Louisiana, harbours terrible blood-stained secrets and family ghosts. Heir to them all is Quinn Blackwood, young, rash and beautiful, himself a 'bloodhunter' whom Lestat takes under his wing. But Quinn is in thrall not only to the past and his own appetites but, even more dangerously, to a companion spirit, a 'goblin' succubus who could destroy him and others. Only the unearthly power of Lestat combined with the earthly powers of the Mayfair clan could hope to save Quinn from himself and his ghosts, or to rescue the doomed girl Quinn loves from her own mortality. Shocking, savage and richly erotic, this novel with the deceptively gentle title bring us Anne Rice at her most powerfully disturbing. Here are vampires and witches, men and women, demons and a doppelganger, caught up in a maelstrom of death and destruction, blood and fire, cruelty and fate.

“Rice is our modern messenger of the occult, whose nicely updated dark-side passion plays twist and turn in true Gothic form.”—San Francisco Chronicle In a gripping feat of storytelling, Anne Rice continues the extraordinary Vampire Chronicles that began with the now-classic Interview with the Vampire. For centuries, Lestat—vampire-hero, enchanter, seducer of mortals—has been a courted prince in the dark and flourishing universe of the living dead. Now he is alone. And in his overwhelming need to destroy his doubts and his loneliness, Lestat embarks on the most dangerous enterprise he has undertaken in all the years of his haunted existence. Praise for The Tale of the Body Thief “Tinged with mystery, full of drama . . . The story is involving, the twists surprising.”—People “Fast-paced . . . . mesmerizing . . . silkenly sensuous . . . No one writing today matches her deftness with the [sensual].”—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution “Hypnotic . . . masterful.”—Cosmopolitan

“I dreamed a dream of angels. I saw them and heard them in a great and endless galactic night. I saw the lights that were these angels, flying here and there, in streaks of irresistible brilliance . . . I felt love around me in this vast and seamless realm of sound and light . . . And something akin to sadness swept me up and mingled my very essence with the voices who sang, because the voices were singing of me . . . ” Thus begins a lyrical, haunting novel, a metaphysical thriller of angels and assassins set in fifteenth-century Rome, a city of domes, rooftop gardens, and towering crosses beneath shifting clouds. Amidst the backdrop of Michelangelo, Raphael, and the Holy Inquisition, Toby O’Dare, a former government assassin, is summoned by the angel Malchiah to solve a poisoning crime and uncover the truth behind a haunting by a restless spirit—a diabolical dybbuk. As O’Dare navigates dark plots and threats, the veil of ecclesiastical terror closes in around him. His journey of atonement reconnects him with his own past, revealing matters both light and dark, fierce and tender, and offering a deeper vision of love and the promise of salvation.

In a new and major novel, the creator of fantastic universes o vampires and witches takes us now into the world of Isaiah and Jeremiah, and the destruction of Solomon's Temple, to tell the story of Azriel, Servant of the Bones. He is ghost, genii, demon, angel--pure spirit made visible. He pours his heart out to us as he journeys from an ancient Babylon of royal plottings and religious upheavals to Europe of the Black Death and on to the modern world. There he finds himself, amidst the towers of Manhattan, in confrontation with his own human origins and the dark forces that have sought to condemn him to a life of evil and destruction.

It is winter at Nideck Point. Oak fires burn in the stately flickering hearths, and the community organizes its annual celebration of music and pageantry. But for Reuben Golding, now infused with the Wolf Gift, this promises to be a season like no other. He's preparing to honor an ancient Midwinter festival with his fellow Morphenkinder--a secret gathering that takes place deep within the verdant recesses of the surrounding forests. However, Reuben is soon distracted by a ghost. Tormented, imploring, and unable to speak, it haunts the halls of the great mansion, drawing him toward a strange netherworld of new spirits, or ageless ones. And as the swirl of Nideck's preparations reaches a fever pitch, they reveal their own dark magical powers.

In this terrifying novel from the phenomenally successful Anne Rice, the illustrious vampire Lestat makes a Faustian pact with Devil.

Beauty, having indulged in a secret and forbidden infatuation with the rebellious slave Prince Tristan, is sent away. Sold at auction, she will soon experience the tantalizing punishments of 'the village, ' as her education in love, cruelty, dominance, submission and tenderness is turned over to the brazenly handsome Captain of the Guard.

A famous children's book illustrator is seduced by a teenage runaway with a mysterious past.

Welcome to the club: Eden - there to satisfy your deepest desires, if you can afford to indulge them. Mysterious, elegant, sparkling in the Caribbean sun, pulsating in the velvet nights, the champagne never stops flowing and the rich and beautiful play games of dominance and submission.

Anne Rice's extraordinary new novel summons the world of fifteenth-century Rome: a city of beauty and terror, of art and sin. In this extraordinary setting Toby O'Dare, former government assassin, is called upon by the angel Malchiah, to solve a terrible crime of poisoning and to seek out the truth behind the presence of an earthbound restless spirit - a diabolical dybbuk - that is causing chaos in the city. Toby is plunged into the luscious world of the Italian Renaissance, sent to charm and calm this troublesome spirit. But he soon discovers himself in the midst of dark plots and surrounded by a darker and more dangerous threat as the veil of ecclesiastical terror closes in around him. As Toby once again embarks on a powerful journey of atonement, he is reconnected with his own past, with matters light and dark, fierce and tender, with the promise of salvation and with a deeper and richer vision of love.

In "Beauty’s Kingdom," Anne Rice, as A. N. Roquelaure, continues the Sleeping Beauty series. After Queen Eleanor's death, Beauty and Laurent return to claim the throne, advocating for voluntary erotic servitude. The novel explores themes of desire and ecstasy, appealing to both longtime fans and new readers of erotica. Intended for mature audiences.

This story begins with a murder on modern-day Fifth Avenue in New York and reaches back across the centuries to an equally ruthless Old Testament world. Through the hero, Azriel, it explores the pogroms, the diaspora, arcane mysteries of the Kabbalah, the Fall, and the nature of good and evil.

Step beyond the wall of your own imagination to the place where erotic enchantment lies... When Sleeping Beauty awakes at the Prince's kiss it is the beginning of our story, not the end. Once the prisoner of a spell, locked in the sleep of innocence - now she is the prisoner of sensual love, held fast by the magic of desire. Claimed by the Prince as the slave of his passions, Sleeping Beauty learns that tenderness and cruelty, pleasure and pain, longing and fulfilment are all one in the awesome kingdom of love. Beauty she is - but she is sleeping no more...

Educated in the Florence of Cosimo de' Medici, trained in knighthood at his father's mountaintop castle, Vittorio inhabits a world of courtly splendor and country pleasures—a world suddenly threatened when his entire family is confronted by an unholy power. In the midst of this upheaval, Vittorio is seduced by the beautiful and sinister vampire Ursula—setting in motion a chilling chain of events that will mark his life for eternity. Against a backdrop of the wonders—both sacred and profane—and the beauty and ferocity of Renaissance Italy, Anne Rice creates a passionate and tragic legend of doomed young love and lost innocence.

At the center of the story is Toby O'Dare, known as Lucky the Fox, a notorious contract killer living under various aliases. Once a man of promise, he now exists as a soulless figure, taking orders from a mysterious figure referred to as 'The Right Man.' The narrative begins in present-day Riverside, California, where Lucky finds solace at the Mission Inn, a place where he can drop his disguises. However, he is soon tasked with another assassination assignment. Amidst his grim reality, a mysterious seraph appears, offering him a chance to save lives instead of taking them. Lucky, who grew up in New Orleans with an alcoholic mother and a murdered father, once dreamed of becoming a priest, seeking refuge in rituals, history, and music. Now, he seizes this unexpected opportunity. Transported back to thirteenth-century England, Lucky enters a perilous world where Jews, despised and accused of heinous crimes, live under constant threat. As he navigates this treacherous landscape, his journey unfolds from medieval villages to the cities of London and Paris, evolving into a tale of danger, loyalty, betrayal, selflessness, and love.

In the grand manner of Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice's new novel moves across time and the continents, from nineteenth-century Vienna to a St. Charles Greek Revival mansion in present-day New Orleans to dazzling capitals of the modern-day world, telling a story of two charismatic figures bound to each other by a passionate commitment to music as a means of rapture, seduction, and liberation.

ELIGIBLE! They have been summoned to London to enjoy the "delights" of the Season, yet neither Theodora Wooton-Devereux nor Lord Nicholas Faringdon is an enthusiastic participant in the game of love.

From hatching and growing feathers to finally taking flight independently, Baby Bird grows and finds the courage to leave Mommy Birds nest. Mommy Bird urges caution, but Baby Bird is all too excited and quickly flies away high into the sky and begins to explore, soaring above the trees and rocketing over neighboring towns. He finds himself excited by all the noises and new things he sees as he wanders and meanders about using his new sense of freedom. His only destination in mind is one where he can discover more to fill the curiosity in his head that has been bubbling up since he was born in his nest, waiting for the day he could

Stanley is a lonely stinkbug who cannot seem to fit in, at his school, the St Galgani's School for Insects. Every time he gets nervous he FLAARPS and lets out a huge cloud of putrid, green odor!With this problem on his hands, he has no idea how he is going to ask his crush, Iris Papilio Ulysses, a beautiful and remote butterfly, to prom, as he only admires her from afar.Feeling down one afternoon, he has a strange conversation with the school janitor who gives him some mysterious advice about how to find answers to his life questions of how to fight bullies, gain courage, identify true friends, and learn how to love who you truly are.In a strange twist of fate, the janitor embarks Stanley and his friend Valerie, who is also a stinkbug, on an epic quest. Stanley and Valerie get caught up in this bizarre adventure that changes their lives forever.

Supporting Strategy develops the concept of the strategic development process. The book begins by describing a balanced process for strategy development, spanning direction setting, strategy creation, rehearsal, evaluation and choice, leading to a continuous process of adopting strategic initiatives. It then goes on to present a practical collection of frameworks, methods and models which both individually and in combination can be used to support strategy. The collection drama theory, visioning methods, problem structuring methods, resource based view of strategy, SWOT / TOWS analysis, system dynamics, agent based modelling, scenario planning, decision and risk analysis, financial evaluation, real options, robustness analysis and performance measurement. This is a contributed work with original content written fro the book from leading academics in the field, including Maureen Meadows, Robert Berry, Jim Bryant, Adrian Caldart, Alberto Franco, Giles Hindle, Nigel Howard, Martin Kunc, Abhijit Mandal, Gilberto Montibeller, John Morecroft, Martin Murtland, Fernando Oliveira, and Efstathios Tapinos.

Una novela ambientada en una época y lugar fascinantes, por la célebre autora de las Crónicas Vampíricas. En el estado de Luisiana, antes del estallido de la guerra de Secesión, existió una casta muy peculiar. Sus miembros eran descendientes de los esclavos, pero llevaban también la sangre de los esclavistas franceses y españoles, que tenían por costumbre liberar a los hijos que tenían con sus concubinas negras. El atractivo que sus hermosas mujeres ejercían entre los blancos de Nueva Orleans acabó por convertirse en una leyenda… Esta historia está protagonizada por Marcel, un adolescente mestizo, y su hermana, la bellísima y vulnerable Marie.

Ramsés es inmortal. Pero ha bebido el elixir de la vida y se ha convertido en Ramsés el Maldito, condenado a recorrer la tierra para saciar deseos que nunca se verán satisfechos. La momia recobra la vida en el Londres eduardianto y regresa a el Cairo con la personalidad asumidad del doctor Ramsey, egiptólogo. Le persigue el recuerdo de su última reencarnación como amante de Cleopatra. Su anhelo por la Reina de Egipto le lleva a cometer un acto que devastará los corazones de quienes le rodean.

Bereits als kleines Mädchen wird sie von dem Vampir Lestat verwandelt und lebt fortan mit ihren beiden Vampir-Vätern Louis de Pointe du Lac und Lestat de Lioncourt auf einem herrschaftlichen Anwesen. Viele Jahre des vollkommenen Glückes vergehe, bis sich allmählich Unzufriedenheit bei Claudia einstellt, weil sie von jedem wie ein kleines Kind behandelt wird, obwohl sie doch inzwischen schon reich an »Lebenserfahrung« ist! Mit der Unzufriedenheit steigt auch ihr Verlangen nach Blut… Claudia – Waise, Tochter, Opfer, Monster…

Con La Hora de las brujas, Anne Rice abre la seductora trilogía centrada en la familia Mayfair, en la que se entremezcla la brujería con una historia familiar que abarca cuatro siglos y salta de las desoladas tierras altas de Escocia a la bulliciosa Nueva Orleans. Fama, fortuna, tragedia y relaciones turbulentas están pautadas por un poderoso y letal espirítu. Michael Curry es un exitoso contratista profesional, pero sufre extraños sueños relacionados con su hogar ancestral, en Nueva Orleans. Tras una experiencia cercana a la muerte, desarrolla extraños poderes. La persona que le rescata es la doctora Rowan Mayfair, brillante neurocirujana y descendiente de una legendaria familia de dicha ciudad. Ambos se verán obligados a enfrentarse a su sorprendente herencia.

"La voz del diablo es la segunda entrega de «Las Brujas de Mayfair», la saga en la que la autora de Entrevista con el vampiro recuperaba el recurso de tomar voces de otros mundos para retratar la naturaleza humana y conformar así un universo mitológico hipnótico, oscuro y, al mismo tiempo, seductor. Lasher es un espíritu demoníaco que se aprovecha de las Mayfair femeninas en su intento de procrear. Rowan Mayfair, reina del clan, ha dado a luz al hijo de Lasher y después ha desaparecido... «Al principio oía la voz de su padre. »"Emaleth", le susurraba junto al vientre de su madre mientras esta dormía. Luego le cantaba largas canciones sobre el valle de Donnelaith, el castillo y el lugar donde un día se encontrarían ambos. Le aseguró que nacería sabiendo todo cuanto él sabía. "Así somos nosotros", le dijo su padre en el rápido lenguaje que los otros no comprendían. »A los otros les sonaba como un murmullo o un silbido. Era su lengua secreta, pues eran capaces de oír unas sílabas pronunciadas tan rápidamente que los otros no captaban. Ambos se comunicaban por medio de ese lenguaje.»" -- publisher website

Con La hora de las brujas, Anne Rice abre la seductora trilogía centrada en la familia Mayfair, en la que se entremezcla la brujería con una historia familiar que abarca cuatro siglos y salta de las desoladas tierras altas de Escocia a la bulliciosa Nueva Orleans. Fama, fortuna, tragedia y relaciones turbulentas están pautadas por un poderoso y letal espíritu.Michael Curry es un exitoso contratista profesional, pero sufre extraños sueños relacionados con su hogar ancestral, en Nueva Orleans. Tras una experiencia cercana a la muerte, desarrolla extraños poderes. La persona que le rescata es la doctora Rowan Mayfair, brillante neurocirujana y descendiente de una legendaria familia de dicha ciudad. Ambos se verán obligados a enfrentarse a su sorprendente herencia.

La saga des sorcières Mayfair nous entraîne dans l'univers ensorcelant des vieilles légendes celtes, dans le monde troublant, sensuel et passionné des mystérieuses amours entre les humains et les esprits. Parfaitement adaptées au XXe siècle, protégées par leur colossale fortune, les sorcières Mayfair ont quitté la lointaine Ecosse et cessé de pratiquer la magie — sauf exception ! — pour vivre dans le luxe et la douceur d'une ville à moitié française au charme langoureux : La Nouvelle-Orléans. Mais on n'est pas impunément dotées de tempéraments de feu et de pouvoirs exceptionnels... Un jour, surgit un passé oublié, tout de tendresse et de poésie, que les sorcières doivent choisir de protéger ou de détruire. La violence et la mort font alors brutalement irruption dans leur existence, les forçant à réagir...

Risvegliatosi da un sonno millenario, il vampiro Thorne è in cerca di una guida che lo reintroduca nel mondo attuale. Il destino gli fa incontrare Marius, antico mentore di Lestat e amante di Pandora. Si chiamava Thorne e da secoli dormiva in una caverna tra i ghiacci. Finché un giorno il suo sonno millenario fu lacerato da urla di orrore e di morte: si era risvegliata una regina che proclamava di racchiudere in sé il Sacro Nucleo della sua stirpe e aveva cominciato ad annientare tutti i bevitori di sangue della Terra. Thorne, grazie alle sue doti medianiche, avvertì le loro grida, attraverso i loro occhi vide la crudeltà con cui la malvagia creatura li eliminava e decise che era giunto il momento per lui di ritornare nel mondo. Doveva fermare quell'orrore, e per farlo doveva trovare lui, l'immortale. E lo incontrò in una fumosa taverna: Marius, antico mentore di Lestat e amante di Pandora, il vampiro che per secoli aveva protetto i Sacri Genitori della loro razza dannata, il solo in grado di spiegargli ogni cosa sin dall'inizio, benché sapesse che la conoscenza non avrebbe potuto, in ogni caso, garantirgli la salvezza'.

Ramsés es inmortal, vive a través de los siglos. Pero ha bebido el elixir de la vida y se ha convertido en Ramsés el Maldito, condenado a recorrer la Tierra para saciar afanes que nunca verá satisfechos: de comida, de vino, de mujeres. De nuevo, Anne Rice se sirve de un personaje sobrehumano para someterlo a la más humana de las condiciones: la pasión. La momia recobra la vida en el Londres eduardiano y regresa a El Cairo con la personalidad asumida del doctor Ramsey, egiptólogo. Lo persigue el recuerdo de su última reencarnación como amante de Cleopatra. Su anhelo por la Reina de Egipto le lleva a cometer un acto que devastará los corazones de quienes le rodean.

Morto carbonizzato sul sagrato della cattedrale di Saint Patrick, a New York: questa era la fine che tutti credevano avesse fatto il vampiro Armand, immolatosi sotto i raggi del sole nascente. Invece Armand è sopravvissuto e, dopo essere stato curato da due giovani mortali, è pronto a raccontare al vampiro-biografo David Talbot la sua vita, lunga oltre cinquecento anni. Bello come un angelo, Armand ha l’aspetto di un eterno adolescente; tuttavia, dietro quell’eterea sembianza, si celano una vicenda colma di violenze, subite e inflitte, e un’anima tormentata e profondamente inquieta. Dalle steppe russe alla Venezia più misteriosa, la vita di Armand è stata sempre marchiata dal talento e dalla ribellione, fino all’incontro con Marius, il Maestro, colui che gli offrirà la conoscenza e l’immortalità, colui che lo salverà dall’abisso e lo condannerà in eterno...

Lestat is back, saviour and demon, presiding over a gothic story of family greed and hatred through generations, a terrifying drama of blood lust and betrayal, possession and matricide. Blackwood Farm with its grand Southern mansion, set among dark cypress swamps in Louisiana, harbours terrible blood-stained secrets and family ghosts. Heir to them all is Quinn Blackwood, young, rash and beautiful, himself a 'bloodhunter' whom Lestat takes under his wing. But Quinn is in thrall not only to the past and his own appetites but, even more dangerously, to a companion spirit, a 'goblin' succubus who could destroy him and others. Only the unearthly power of Lestat combined with the earthly powers of the Mayfair clan could hope to save Quinn from himself and his ghosts, or to rescue the doomed girl Quinn loves from her own mortality. Shocking, savage and richly erotic, this novel with the deceptively gentle title bring us Anne Rice at her most powerfully disturbing. Here are vampires and witches, men and women, demons and a doppelganger, caught up in a maelstrom of death and destruction, blood and fire, cruelty and fate.

Continuing the epic of the Mayfair witches, this brilliantly imagined tale takes listeners on a wondrous journey back through the centuries.

E' David Talbot, il vampiro-biografo, a insistere perché Pandora racconti la sua storia, una storia d'amore e di orrore cominciata oltre duemila anni prima. Figlia di un influente senatore romano dell'età augustea, Pandora, fanciulla coltissima e disinibita, a soli dieci anni fa innamorare perdutamente il biondo e misterioso Marius, la cui offerta di matrimonio viene però respinta dal padre. I due non si vedono più per molti anni, finché improvvisa giunge la catastrofe: accusati di congiurare contro l'imperatore Tiberio, il padre e i fratelli di Pandora sono trucidati. Fuggita ad Antiochia, Pandora cerca protezione nel Tempio di Iside, dove ritrova Marius, immutato nella bellezza e custode di un segreto spaventoso.

Stephen King, Anne Rice, Richard Laymon, Ray Bradbury, Riger Zelazny e molti altri maestri della narrativa dell'orrore si cimentano in queste pagine con una delle figure più inquietanti del nostro immaginario orrorifico: il Vampiro. Dopo la pubblicazione del Dracula di Bram Stoker il mito del Principe delle Tenebre ha conquistato definitivamente l'attenzione del grande pubblico. E' vero comunque che storie di vampiri erano già state scritte prima del capolavoro di Stoker. Sono proprio questi primi esempi ad aprire l'antologia, che prende poi in esame i celebri film nati sulla scia dei racconti, e si chiude con una selezione di alcune tra le tante storie brevi scritte negli ultimi anni che hanno aperto al genere nuove possibilità.

E' la solitudine, la "maledizione" che si impadronisce di Lestat, il vampiro immortale, il principe incontrastato del tenebroso universo dei morti viventi. Lestat avverte dolorosamente la "maledizione" della sua solitudine e desidera rinascere come mortale, liberandosi quindi del suo corpo di "non-morto" e impadronendosi di un corpo "vivo". Intraprende così un viaggio che lo porterà da Miami al deserto del Gobi, da Amsterdam alla giungla amazzonica, fino all'incontro cruciale con l'unico uomo che può soddisfare il suo desiderio, Raglan James, il Ladro di Corpi. Più sinistro e malvagio di un demone, il Ladro di Corpi si impadronisce con l'inganno del corpo vampiresco di Lestat, il quale, rinchiuso come anelava nel corpo mortale, scopre...

New York è stretta dalla morsa dell'inverno e sommersa dalla neve. Lestat è sulle tracce di Dora, la bella e carismatica figlia di un boss della droga che lui ha ucciso; una donna che come nessun altro mortale suscita in lui sentimenti di tenerezza. Combattuto tra l'istinto vampiresco e uno slancio d'amore per la ragazza, Lestat si confronta con gli avversari più pericolosi che abbia mai conosciuto. Viene rapito dal misterioso Memnoch, che sostiene di essere il Diavolo, e che lo porta fuori dal mondo. E' invitato ad assistere allo spettacolo della Creazione e viene poi trasportato, come gli antichi profeti, nel regno dei Cieli e accompagnato nel Purgatorio. Sarà condotto nella Terra della Morte e dovrà confrontarsi con Dio e con il Diavolo.