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Cargando... The Crystal Skull (2008)por Manda Scott
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Fiction.
Suspense.
"One of the boldest recent adventures in historical fiction.".
Moving from the past to the present, Scott's story recounts the quest for a crystal skull with magical healing powers. In the past, Cedric Owen has to find a place of safekeeping for the skull so that, hundreds of years in the future, Stella Cody can find it and keep it safe from the forces that wish to unleash doomsday. Susan Duerden narrates in a light, crisp English accent that comes to embody Stella's point of view and personality. When narrating Cedric's experiences, Duerden lowers her voice and adds a bit of a nasal tone, adroitly adjusting for the masculine timbre while not overcompensating for it. However, some of her accents sound forced or exaggerated. L.E. (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine.
HTML:In a spellbinding blend of history, myth, and science, bestselling novelist Manda Scott unleashes a thriller that sweeps from the secrets of the Mayans to the court of a sixteenth-century queen to a shattering end-times prophecy. "It's a lump of rock, Stella; nothing more. No stone is worth dying for." Except it's not just a lump of rock. It's a blue crystal skull made by the Maya to save the world from ruin; a sapphire so perfect, so powerful that for centuries men have killed to own or destroy it. Ancient prophecies say that if the thirteen skulls already in existence are not reunited, the world will end on December 21, 2012. Cedric Owen, the skull's last Keeper, died so that it might keep its secret for the next four centuries. Now Stella Cody has found it, and someone has already tried to kill her. Like Owen, she's being huntedâ??but by whom? Desperate to unravel the mystery of the crystal skull, Stella must decode Cedric Owen's coded writings, sketches and ciphers no scholar has been able to unravel. What she discovers is astounding: a shocking secret prophecy...and the staggering puzzle of four terrifying creatures, thirteen precious stones, and what will happen if Cedric Owen's crystal skull falls into the wrong hands. But time is against Stella. She has only daysâ??hoursâ??left to uncover the only secret that may yet save the world. 12.21.12 The date is set. Time is running out. The end of the world starts now. From the Hardcover edit No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Tras el descubrimiento de un objeto legendario en una gruta, Stella, una joven doctora de Cambridge, debe reunir todas las pistas ocultas en el mismo y en indescifrables documentos para impedir el cumplimento de una antigua profecÃa: el fin del mundo, o el cambio a una nueva era, que los mayas fecharon con precisión implacable el 21 de diciembre de 2012.