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From the internationally bestselling author of the Sword of Truth series, comes a new Richard and Kahlan novel, sequel to The Omen Machine. The bloodthirsty Jit is dead, and against all odds Richard and Kahlan have survived. But a new menace has attacked them in the Dark Lands. Infected with the...

Fourth in the “flawless” (The Reading Café) New York Times bestselling series from the author of Vision in Silver. For centuries, the Others and humans have lived side by side in uneasy peace. But when humankind oversteps its bounds, the Others will have to decide how much humanity...

In the shadow of Eryispek—a mountain said to have no summit—a dark power is stirring. Storms rage in the frozen heights. Unexplained disappearances shake the kingdom below. And old enemies are sharpening their swords.

After half-killing Mother Blake's murderer, Breed is obliged to repay a debt to a powerful Prince of the Midnight Court. Armed with little more than a bad attitude, and partnered with a feckless sorcerer and an arrogant, gang enforcer, Breed sets sail for the land of Voskva.

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Stranger Things: Suspicious Minds written by Gwenda Bond, read by Kristen Sieh. _____________________________ ‘A pacey, creepy book that does what any good prequel should... this is unmistakably Stranger Things' – SFX Magazine...

Charles Cornick is his pack's enforcer and lives a harsh life, doing jobs other wolves can't - or won't. And his most recent task was rescuing Anna Latham from a life of brutality. This leaves him shot and wounded, but he's happy to pay the price. Charles is strongly drawn to Anna, and her growing 'Omega' powers will see his people through dangerous times. Anna desperately needs her new mountainous home to be safer than the life she's left behind. But when a rogue werewolf starts murdering hikers, Charles and Anna are sent into the winter forests to investigate.

Legends abound of the glorious - or infamous - deeds of the emperor's sons. Yet almost nothing is known of Alpharius, the most mysterious of them all, for the lord of the Alpha Legion is unparalleled in the art of obfuscation. Such are his gifts of secrecy and deceit that even his rediscovery has remained an enigma - until now. But when the tale comes from the serpent’s mouth, where do the lies end and the truth begin?

The System has arrived. Soon, magic will permeate the entire planet, society will be disrupted, and Dungeon-spawned monsters will walk the Earth. A few lucky people — or unlucky enough to become merely the first die horribly - have been given the honor of becoming Exemplars and given System-provided power to either help or torment their fellow humans. This is one of their stories.

C'è un momento in cui la preda smette di fuggire e si volta a guardare i suoi cacciatori. Diana Blake ha attraversato le Paludi dei Negromanti. Ora deve fare ciò che nessun erede della Linea di Sangue ha mai osato: tornare alla Rocca delle Tenebre e reclamare il Trono che le appartiene di diritto. Per farlo, ha bisogno di un esercito, di alleati pronti a morire per una causa che molti considerano già perduta e di guerrieri disposti a marciare contro le ombre stesse. È lo scontro che secoli di profezie hanno annunciato.

In the bioluminescent, star-worshipping city of Astraea, inventor and occultist Lucia Fairfax harvests a particular currency from the shadows—luck itself—drawn from a dimension she calls the Otherside. But when her latest ritual fails and her husband dies tragically, her carefully cultivated fortune bleeds dry.

Im Lauf der vergangenen Jahre hatte ich der Hölle zahlreiche Niederlagen eingebracht. Das konnte Luzifer nicht länger hinnehmen. Gemeinsam mit seiner Gefährtin Lilith setzte er zum vernichtenden Schlag gegen uns an. Ich sollte in der Hölle sterben. Und meine Henkerin war niemand Geringeres als – Jane Collins!

They never knew his name. Only the silence he carried. Rowen has spent his life trying to disappear—until the day he meets Thalia. She sees something no one else has: power. Dangerous power. In a town haunted by secrets and cruelty, Rowen and Thalia are drawn together by more than just curiosity. As Rowen’s hunger grows, so does the darkness inside him—something ancient, unrelenting, and tied to a truth he’s desperate to bury. But monsters don’t just live in nightmares. Sometimes, they live inside you.

From the same world as Snow, Rosie, and Jabber comes a new tale that takes place in the Kingdom of Amethyst, where dragon guardians of nature, like Nasrin-Uma, are just as real as fae guardians, like Faltorr. Sometimes ordinary people are called upon to right a wrong that was done before anyone in the village of Hydrakon could remember, except the fae. When the Dragon Nasrin-Uma is taken prisoner by a strange, possessed, apple tree, the fae oracle the Mother of All Seasons sends Faltorr to enlist the help of young childhood friends Zvory and Mavin to mount a rescue.

Oskar Dorn never expected to find a home in a world that keeps trying to kill him. The Wayspring magic, part of every living thing in this world, is fading. And now, the goddess who summoned him here has tasked him with saving it. To make matters worse, his brother is still dying, his magic warped by the dark shaman Valla. She tortured Erik for months and is now sending teams of Hyenamen and twisted shadow creatures after Oskar’s new family.

കഥയാണ്. ഒരു മാന്ത്രിക നോവൽ. വൈദികകാലത്ത് കൈലാസത്തിന്റെ മഞ്ഞുമൂടിയ കൊടുമുടികളിൽ നിന്ന് ആരംഭിക്കുന്ന ദ്രാവിഡ...

In a fantastical aftermath of the Salem witch trials, magical women known as the Dirty have signed a contract swearing off their innate magic in exchange for freedom from violence by non-magical Freemen. Two hundred years later, in a Catskills orphanage, headmistress Whitetail has sprouted antlers—proof of a violated contract. When her wealthy benefactor visits, proposing marriage, her appearance sparks abuse. Rushing to her teacher's defense, eight-year-old Rabbit curses the Beard dead, and Whitetail's arrested on trumped-up charges.

Emilia en haar tweelingzus Vittoria zijn streghe – heksen die in het geheim tussen de mensen leven. Op een avond komt Vittoria niet voor haar dienst in het Siciliaanse restaurant van haar ouders opdagen en besluit Emilia op onderzoek uit te gaan. Het spoor brengt haar naar het plaatselijke klooster, waar ze haar zus dood aantreft, onvoorstelbaar toegetakeld. Verzwolgen door woede en verdriet besluit Emilia de moordenaar van haar zus te vinden en wraak te nemen. Zelfs als dat betekent dat ze de duisterste magie moet gebruiken, die volgens haar familie verboden is.

Genevieve’s graduation party was supposed to be unforgettable, but not like this. One moment she’s surrounded by friends, music, and booze. The next, there’s blood on the carpet, a blackout, and she’s waking up in a hospital with no one believing her story. The house is condemned, her friends are gone, and a hooded figure with a knife, and something far from human keeps showing up. Now she’s caught between the world she knows and a place that shouldn’t exist, and she has no idea if she’s losing her grip… or if something far worse has found her.

The walls that kept the darkness out are beginning to fall. One hundred and fifty years ago, the Sundering drowned Avoni in darkness, twisting every living thing into a nightmare. The only survivors live under the Aurora Shrouds, mystical barriers shielding isolated towns from the horrors outside. When a Vanguard Courier, uncovers evidence that the Shrouds are dying, he is forced into a perilous journey through the Sundered Lands, where he uncovers long-buried secrets, binding Avoni's fate to a treaty with a forgotten race.

In the land of the Vale, the grand city of Pivot stands as a symbol of progress, where science has replaced the old ways of magic. Seventeen-year-old Pascal has grown up within the warm embrace of the Skystead Home for Orphaned Children, sheltered from the harsher truths of the world. That care has left him yearning to explore, to see, to feel, and to experience all that lies undiscovered. Even whispers of disappearing children cannot keep Pascal from wandering beyond the orphanage walls.