Böcker av Jc Holmberg

Alex Scire never thought much about the supernatural - until he mistakenly took his dad's magical ankh. Suddenly, he starts seeing ghosts everywhere, including his twin sister, Deborah, who's stuck in the afterlife. Desperate to move on, she asks Alex to help her find the Palantir, an object with extraordinary magical powers.After discovering a clue to the Palantir's location, Alex joins an archeological expedition headed to the ancient Mayan city of Lamanai to search for the object. But to find it, he has to battle a tyrannical ghost king, survive assassination attempts by those who killed his family, and gain the trust of two skeptical Druid apprentices.

After ruining his sister's chance to move on in the afterlife, Alex Scire vows to find another one of the Maqlû - alien objects of immense power. But all he has to aid him is his dad's magical ankh and a mysterious dragon's vague directions to the Fountain of Youth. He sets out on the dangerous quest alone and is shocked when his Druid friends, Jane and Diana, follow him onto a ghost ship, where they convince the pirate captain to help them. To succeed, though, they'll have to find a place that might not exist, battle pirates, and survive an eerie hurricane in the Bermuda Triangle.

After fulfilling his promise to take the Holy Grail to Avalon, Alex Scire encounters the ghost of William Wallace. The former Scottish warrior is stuck in the afterlife and asks for help in finding his scattered body parts so he can move on. Alex agrees and begins searching throughout Britain to help Wallace. But Alex's sudden appearance in England, nine months after everyone assumed he was dead, causes his enemies to redouble their efforts to kill him. And all he has to help him are his mysterious ankh, his Druid friends Jane and Diana, and a rowdy bunch of ghosts.

After accidentally destroying The Fountain of Youth, Alex Scire finds himself adrift on the ocean. And with his usual knack for finding trouble, he faces one deadly encounter after another until he meets a ghost who holds the secret to the fabled Holy Grail.Thinking he has one last chance to help his sister move on in the afterlife, Alex embarks on a quest that takes him from the dungeons of the Spanish Inquisition to Dracula's haunts in Transylvania. To find the Grail, though, he, and his Druid friends Jane and Diana, will have to survive assassination attempts and a deadly new cabal of ghosts. But those are nothing compared to the dangers that await them.

Alex Scire never thought much about the supernatural - until he mistakenly took his dad's magical ankh. Suddenly, he starts seeing ghosts everywhere, including his twin sister, Deborah, who's stuck in the afterlife. Desperate to move on, she asks Alex to help her find the Palantir, an object with extraordinary magical powers.After discovering a clue to the Palantir's location, Alex joins an archeological expedition headed to the ancient Mayan city of Lamanai to search for the object. But to find it, he has to battle a tyrannical ghost king, survive assassination attempts by those who killed his family, and gain the trust of two skeptical Druid apprentices. This is the first of eight books in the young adult fantasy series - The Maqlû.

Alex Scire never thought much about the supernatural - until he mistakenly took his dad's magical ankh. Suddenly, he starts seeing ghosts everywhere, including his twin sister, Deborah, who's stuck in the afterlife. Desperate to move on, she asks Alex to help her find the Palantir, an object with extraordinary magical powers.After discovering a clue to the Palantir's location, Alex joins an archeological expedition headed to the ancient Mayan city of Lamanai to search for the object. But to find it, he has to battle a tyrannical ghost king, survive assassination attempts by those who killed his family, and gain the trust of two skeptical Druid apprentices. Young adult; fantasy; ghosts; magic; historical; action adventure; coming of age