Jean Esch Libros

Nous avions quitté les deux jeunes héros, Lyra et Will, alors qu'ils venaient d'être séparés. Lyra a été enlevée par sa redoutable mère, Mme Coulter. Will doit rejoindre Lord Asriel, qui vit retranché, au sommet d'une montagne, dans sa citadelle imprenable, car une mission capitale l'attend. Vont-ils réussir à se rejoindre et à sauver tous les mondes parallèles, plus que jamais menacés par les forces obscures qui tentent d'imposer leur terrible loi ? On retrouve avec le plus grand plaisir l'univers captivant et original de Philip Pullman, mais aussi de nouveaux personnages comme les Gallivespiens, de minuscules créatures à la vie très brève, qui voyagent sur des libellules tout en reprenant les éléments qui ont fait le succès des deux premiers tomes, l'auteur parvient à renouveler son imaginaire pour conclure magistralement sa prodigieuse saga. Lyra, l'héroïne des Royaumes du Mord et de la Tour des Anges, est retenue prison nière par sa mère, l'ambitieuse et cruelle Mme Coulter qui, pour mieux s'assurer de sa docilité, l'a plongée dans un sommeil artificiel. Will, le compagnon de Lyra, armé du p oignard subtil, s'est lancé à sa recherche, escorté de deux anges, Balthamos et Baruch. Avec leur aide, il parviendra à délivrer son amie. Mais, à son réveil, Lyra lui annonc e qu'une mission encore plus périlleuse, presque désespérée, les attend : ils doivent d escendre dans le monde des morts...

Suspended from his job with the LAPD, Harry Bosch must face the darkest parts of his past to track down his mother's killer . . . even if it costs him his life. Harry attacked his commanding officer and is suspended indefinitely, pending a psychiatric evaluation. At first he resists the LAPD shrink, but finally recognizes that something is troubling him and has for a long time. In 1961, when Harry was twelve, his mother, a prostitute, was brutally murdered, and no one has ever been accused of the crime. With the spare time a suspension brings, Harry opens up the thirty-year-old file on the case and is irresistibly drawn into a past he has always avoided. It's clear that the case was fumbled and the smell of a cover-up is unmistakable. Someone powerful was able to divert justice and Harry vows to uncover the truth. As he relentlessly follows the broken pieces of the case, the stirred interest causes new murders and pushes Harry to the edge of his job... and his life.

Henderson's boys, part of a secret army of intelligence agents, have to parachute into enemy territory, travel cross-country, and outsmart a bunch of adults in order to achieve their objective.

As the boundaries between worlds begin to dissolve, Lyra and her daemon help Will Parry in his search for his father and for a powerful, magical knife.

Just as Hitler is preparing to invade Britain in 1940, the Henderson Boys are faced with a decision: head south to neutral Spain or sabotage the German invasion plans.

C.J. Townsend is a brilliant prosecutor known for keeping her cool even when trying the most horrific cases. The latest: an accused serial killer who savors cruelty and considers murder an art. But this case is different. C.J. recognizes the suspect. She knows what he's capable of. After all these years she still has the nightmares to prove it. Now she's walking a fine line between justice and revenge. Even C.J. isn't prepared for where it will take her.

«De no ser por esta niña, moriríamos todos.» LA GRAN SERIE DE FANTASÍA DE TODOS LOS TIEMPOS, ESCRITA POR UNO DE LOS MEJORES NARRADORES DE NUESTRA ÉPOCA. Lyra Belacqua y su animal daimonion llevan una vida un tanto salvaje y despreocupada entre los alumnos del Jordan College de Oxford. El destino que la aguarda la conducirá a las heladas tierras del Ártico, donde reinan los clanes de brujas y los osos polares libran virulentas luchas. Su extraordinario viaje tendrá inconmensurables repercusiones mucho más allá de su propio mundo. «La novela más ambiciosa desde El Señor de los Anillos.» New Statesman «Una novela intensa.» The Guardian «Uno de esos libros que difícilmente puedes parar de leer.» The Scotsman

El mal puede tener muchas caras... incluso podría tener la tuya. Tras el éxito de la Trilogía Bill Hodges, King presenta un thriller escalofriante y original. Un niño de once años ha sido brutalmente violado y asesinado, y todas las pruebas apuntan a Terry Maitland, un querido entrenador de liga infantil y profesor. El detective Ralph Anderson ordena su detención, pero Maitland tiene una coartada sólida que demuestra que estaba en otra ciudad durante el crimen. Sin embargo, el ADN encontrado en la escena lo incrimina. A pesar de que la justicia y la opinión pública lo consideran culpable, Anderson no está convencido. Maitland parece un buen tipo, un ciudadano ejemplar, lo que lo lleva a cuestionar si realmente tiene dos caras y cómo pudo estar en dos lugares a la vez. La respuesta, como es de esperar en una obra de King, te hará desear no haber preguntado. La crítica ha elogiado la novela, destacando su emocionante narrativa que aborda fobias profundas y su uso inteligente de la medicina forense, cimentando la historia en una realidad creíble. También se resalta el lado oscuro y sobrenatural, así como la inquietante naturaleza humana.

In these two delightful history-mysteries, seven boys in Ancient Rome solve strange crimes . . . thanks to some help from their cranky teacher, a little bit of logic, and a lot of amusing misadventure.It seems the boys can get nothing Their teacher's fiftieth birthday is long past (they should have done their math homework); the servant they bought as a present for his birthday isn't just your run-of-the-mill Gaul slave but a courier running for his life; and, to top it all off, the message he's carrying requests the assassination of a Roman senator—the father of one of the boys.