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In an era in which ancient gods live in the world’s cities together with their mortal followers, forming tight-knit guilds and powerful temples, the disfigured ash-caster and blacksmith Hineni has lived his entire life as a reclusive outcast. Hidden away behind layers of clothing and just as many walls and doors, he only ever leaves the house in the dead of night, so that neither the gods or anyone else can ever see him. However, on one of these night-tide outings, he finds that has gained the unwanted attention of what is seemingly a perfectly normal owl.

Team Hades, genetically modified to be the best, lost one of their own a long time ago. Losing her changed them since they no longer had a heart to protect, turning them into deadly weapons. When I show up, Team Hades is thrown into a spin of mixed emotions, ones they were never trained to master. None of them can understand why they are drawn to me, why the memories of their heart are resurfacing, and it's tearing them apart. Could I be the one they lost? Or is this just another test?

Sierra Carter learns that her former employer's technology is in reality a means of spreading a deadly evil around the world. Necocyaotl, god of death and destruction, has placed his essence in every device, causing people to place their self-interest and personal desires above all else. If Sierra's going to stop him, she'll need some help. And help is on the way. Chaco, also known as Coyotl the Trickster, is a handsome young man when he isn't a coyote - and an excellent cook. Fred the mannegishi has the gift of disappearing at will and a few well-kept secrets.

Bea is a lowly cabbage fairy, but she dreams of being an official Fairy Godmother. So when she is finally given a chance to prove her worth, Bea is determined to make a success of it. Besides, how hard can a Happy Ever After story be? Every girl wants to be rescued by a handsome man, don’t they? Apparently not. Bea's heroine doesn't want to be in her story, and her hero is much more interested in the ugly sister. The same ugly sister who is trying to overthrow the Kingdom. 

A Yakuza demigod lurks in the city, wounded but not defeated, and Vince needs to bring her down for good. He needs a team fit for slaying a god, even if he has to ask for favors from old bosses and cross boundaries to build it.

This full cast recording features narration from Arthur Morey; Charlie Thurston; David Stifel; James Anderson Foster; Joe Barrett; Kate Udall; Laural Merlington; Laurence Bouvard; Luke Daniels; Robert Fass; Shelley Atkinson; Tavia Gilbert; and Will Damron From bestselling author Neal Stephenson...

Après les événements de Prague, Jane n'a qu'une seule envie: oublier. Et se faire oublier. Elle se réfugie dans une colonie d'Invisibles avec Grisou pour fuir la SSFMI et faire son deuil. Du moins, tenter. Car ses rêves sont hantés par une sombre entité et ne cessent de la tourmenter. Alors qu'elle semble enfin voir le bout du tunnel, la colonie se fait attaquer. Pour les protéger, Jane décide de partir... et de traquer la créature monstrueuse qui a osé s'en prendre à ses proches.

Mais le compte à rebours est lancé. La cicatrice de Jane ne cesse de grandir, envahissant son bras d'un sang aussi noir que de l'encre. Alors, quand ils sont envoyés à Prague pour aider leurs collègues à défaire des renégats particulièrement coriaces, elle est bien décidée à tout faire pour sauver ses amis.

Jane est une mercenaire. Son but ? Arrêter les créatures qui menacent l'équilibre entre le monde Invisible et le nôtre. Pourtant, le jour où elle se fait attaquer par un monstre sanguinaire inconnu, sa vie bascule. Il n'en faut pas plus à la SSFMI, la Société Secrète Française du Monde Invisible, pour faire appel à ses agents. Avec l'aide d'un demi-démon et de son collègue au sourire ravageur, Jane doit désormais enquêter sur une série de meurtres.

À 18 ans, Cassiopée est contrainte de quitter l'orphelinat dans lequel elle vit depuis ses 6 ans. Seule au monde, l'adolescente est lâchée dans la ville. Alors qu'elle vient de se faire violemment agressée par deux inconnus, elle fait la connaissance du mystérieux et séduisant Gabriel. Grâce à lui, Cassiopée découvre sa véritable nature : elle fait partie des Myrnes, un peuple ailé doté d'incroyables pouvoirs sensoriels.

Brought to you by Penguin. A modern-day Dickensian fable and a celebration of friendship and humanity, by the acclaimed author of The Crimson Petal and the White. It all starts on the morning the letter D disappears from the language. First, it vanishes from her parents' conversation at...

Home to anthropomorphic people who thrive in a natural environment, the Neworld is certainly a heavenly place. Although the Masters have their work cut out for them - what with the constant threat of Old World poison and those Far Land folk hell-bent on wrecking the status quo. With kidnap, blackmail, and theft, to name but a few, these short stories will transport you to the Meadow, where it takes nothing more than the all-powerful Beck Chi to keep the ignorant Far Land in check, and prevent them from destroying the Neworld completely.

Rahil Zaman has good reason to keep his distance from the world—and his fangs are only part of that. He hides in his home, acquiring blood through the risky one-night stands he finds on hunter-infested hookup apps. After one such fling turns sour, Rahil ends up trapped in the work shed of the one match he wishes would respond to his flirtations. Finding the hot twink he'd been ghosting inside his work shed was not on Mercer Bloncourt's agenda. But Rahil is not the only intruding presence in Mercer's life. 

Bien décidée à protéger son futur enfant des projets du roi de Lapisia, Kalliopée se réfugie à Viridia. Cependant, le retour n'est pas aussi facile qu'elle l'aurait imaginé. L'absence de Karel lui pèse. Alors quand se présente une opportunité qu'elle n'aurait jamais crue possible, montrer ce dont elle est capable à son propre peuple, Kalliopée s'en empare. Peut-être pourra-t-elle oublier sa peine en se concentrant sur ce nouvel objectif.

Dans un monde où le mariage signe l'asservissement des femmes, Kalliopée, la Princesse de Viridia, est soulagée de se retrouver unie à Karel, son premier amour et le futur roi de Lapisia. Mais la vie est cruelle et la guerre change les hommes. Lorsqu'elle retrouve l'héritier au trône, celui-ci n'a plus rien du garçon qu'elle a connu. Karel est devenu un homme impitoyable, qui dirige son armée d'une main de fer.

Ryker only had one goal in his life right now: turn a certain adventuring guild into a flaming wreck while dancing merrily through the smoldering ruins. All for the chance to get back at a handful of people. It didn’t work out that way though. At all. He’d died, been forced into the body of an avatar, absconded with the queen as her castle fell to betrayal, kidnapped a little kid who is obviously more than he seems, and to top all that off, he killed his undead father. The smoldering ruins of the queendom have cooled, and Ryker has a task that is more than likely too much for him.

Ryker only had one goal in his life right now: Turn a certain adventuring guild into a flaming wreck while dancing merrily through the smoldering ruins. All for the chance to get back at a handful of people. It didn’t work out that way though. At all. He’d become the Count of Dungeon, made a hostage, married off to the false queen’s daughter against his will, and had his county made ground zero for a religious war. To top all that off, the Dark Lord of the North wants to see Ryker personally.

Ryker only has one goal in his life right now: Turn a certain adventuring guild into a flaming wreck while dancing merrily through the smoldering ruins. All for the chance to get back at a handful of people. It isn’t as if they didn’t deserve it either. They had driven him from his home. Chased him physically from the very guild house itself. Simply because he wasn’t as strong as they expected him to be. As strong as he’d expected himself to be. He’d returned the next day and left with something he’d hidden away and told no one about when he found it in one of his few Dungeon Dives.

The Yakuza have rolled into town, and Vince finds himself caught in a standoff between the old and new worlds of magic. Doubts remain over who tried to assassinate Vince, and the cops have locked down the city to protect the mayor's reputation. But Vince has a job to do. He's taken back the mafia's old territory for their don, but their rival still refuses to accept reality and bend the knee.

A feisty witch and a handsome mage must put their heated business rivalry aside to save their small town from supernatural forces in this charming contemporary fantasy romcom from the author of Thief Liar Lady. “Delightful and sweet . . . the magic and the romance both sizzle on the page...