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Essun's missing daughter grows more powerful every day, and her choices may destroy the world in this "magnificent" Hugo Award winner and NYT Notable Book. (NPR) The season of endings grows darker, as civilization fades into the long cold night. Essun -- once Damaya, once Syenite, now avenger --...

Die Fortsetzung des Fantasy-Epos. Drei Gefährten, drei Anliegen, ein Ziel: Zundaj, die Hauptstadt des Reichs. Schon in Terys geht so einiges schief. Doch die Weiterreise von dort entpuppt sich als Albtraum, in dem so manch einer seiner Gefährten sein wahres Gesicht zeigt. Die große Stadt heißt sie dann nur widerwillig willkommen. Werden wenigstens die Magier des Ordens Nikko gewogen sein? Oder erwartet ihn dort gar eine ganz böse Überraschung?

There's never enough time to really enjoy life, not when you're Russian Weapons Engineer Vlad Nardoir. Vlad has done a number of things in his short time in Eldgard. He's helped capture an Imperial fortress, defeated a corrupted demigod, and created a Crafter's guild where all are welcome. But Vlad's greatest challenge is yet to come. With a timer counting down until the Vault of Souls changes locations, leaving him completely without a lead for its resting place, Vlad will need to battle against time, a powerful hidden evil, and his own internal darkness to destroy the vault in time.

Gujaareh, la città dei Sogni, è afflitta dal dominio imperiale del Protettorato Kisuati. Una città in cui l'unica legge era la pace ora conosce solo violenza e oppressione... e incubi. Una mortale e misteriosa pestilenza perseguita i cittadini di Gujaareh, condannando gli infetti a morire durante il sonno tra urla strazianti. Assediata da sogni oscuri e crudeli signori, la città e tutta la sua gente languiscono nell'ardente desiderio di sollevarsi, ma Gujaareh conosce la pace da troppo tempo. Qualcuno dovrà mostrare loro la strada.

Five bedraggled refugees and a sinister wizard awaken a dragon and defy the gods. After their homeland is struck with a deadly plague, five refugees cross the continent searching for answers. Instead they find Psander, a wizard whose fortress is invisible to the gods and who is willing to sacrifice anything to keep the knowledge of the wizards safe. With Psander as their patron, the refugees cross the mountains, brave the territory of their sworn enemies, confront a hostile ocean and even traverse the world....

The rot eats away at mortals. The Witnesses pray so that they may not turn into one of the forgotten. And the constricting mists infect the lands with fear. But there is more to this tale than just the Elders and their Seeds. Four mortals will have a part to play in Minethria’s fate. A farmer girl with only love in her eyes. A warrior born to the life of a refugee. A highborn stuck between the realm of gods and men. And a woman running into front lines and away from home.

Nella antica città di Gujaareh, la pace è l'unica legge. Sui suoi tetti e tra le ombre delle sue strade acciottolate vegliano i Raccoglitori, sacerdoti della Dea dei sogni. Hanno il compito di raccogliere la magia dalla mente dei sognatori perché venga usata per guarire le sofferenze del corpo e dell'anima. E possono uccidere chiunque giudichino corrotto.

George is an unremarkable human bard who made a promise a long time ago. A promise that set him on a path to find the remains of Simantiar, the greatest wizard who ever lived. Though all that was left were bones, Simantiar was still very much alive and quite...underwhelming. This is their story: The Fantastically Underwhelming Epic of a dead wizard and an average bard.

Some of the parchment pages were the color of cream, thick and substantial, made to last many, many lifetimes. Other pages were thin and desiccated, positively yellow from age, and crackled alarmingly as Van Richten turned them over. There were no ornate illuminations, no fussy borders, only lines of plain text in hard black ink. The flowing handwriting was a bit difficult to follow at first; the writer's style of calligraphy had not been in common use for three hundred years.

P. N. Elrod's novels of The Vampire Files turn the seductive shadows of the noir novel into sanctuary for fiction's most unusual private investigator - vampire Jack Fleming. In Elrod's newest novel, Jack takes to Chicago's cold, violent streets to find a blackmailer who's onto the detective's unnatural secret....

As a young woman, Jendara left the cold northern isles of the Ironbound Archipelago to find her fortune. Now, many years later, she's forsaken her buccaneer ways and returned home in search of a simpler life, where she can raise her young son, Kran, in peace. When a strange clan of shapeshifting raiders pillages her home, however, there's no choice for Jendara but to take up her axes once again to help the islanders defend all that they hold dear.

Alvie Brechenmacher has arrived in London to begin her training in Polymaking - the magical discipline of bespelling plastic. Polymaking is the newest form of magic, and in a field where there is so much left to learn, every Polymaker dreams of making the next big discovery. Even though she is only an apprentice, Alvie is an inventor at heart, and she is determined to make as many discoveries - in as short a time frame - as she can. Luckily for her, she’s studying under the world-renowned magician Marion Praff, who is just as dedicated as Alvie is.

Jared craved an ordinary life. Clock in, do paperwork, clock out. He gave up magic, joined the Meta Marshal Service, and just wanted to be left alone. Until a routine prisoner transport went awry and blew up his entire existence. That was when he found Cassie down on her knees in the wreckage, asking him for help. And he knew in that instant: Magic just wouldn't leave him alone. Now he's on a hunt for an escaped convict and a powerful ancient artifact with the potential to ruin their world for good.

The Obelisk Gate: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! * Essun's missing daughter grows more powerful every day, and her choices may destroy the world in this "magnificent" Hugo Award winner and NYT Notable Book. (NPR) The season of...

Fêter mon anniversaire depuis un cachot ? Ce n'est pas vraiment ce que j'avais imaginé. Mais lorsque le Seigneur du Chaos (un démon sexy à mourir) me prend pour mon double maléfique, c'est exactement ce qu'il se passe. Quand il finit par comprendre que je ne suis qu'une simple mortelle, il me propose un accord que je ne peux refuser : son autorisation de rester dans la ville interdite pour retrouver le meurtrier de ma mère en échange de mon aide.

When we summoned the Ether, we thought we were saving the world. We thought we were ending the reign of dragons, freeing the people of power-hungry Azarius kings and queens once and for all. Turns out, none of us had any idea what the reign of dragons truly meant.

Desperate to free the royal hostages, Will Prentis and King Krasmir of Rogand face off against the scheming Grand Vizier of Ahr. As the specter of war looms ever larger, only the Emperor of Ahr has the power to avert catastrophe. With the Grand Vizier remaining a step ahead of his enemies, a mysterious captive might hold the key to exposing his objectives. Everything will depend on three remarkable talismans, and the courage of those bearing them into deadly peril.

Jahr 801 nDZ: Das mächte Herz der Welt, das Mittenreich von Trefalia steht in voller Pracht und nichts scheint es erschüttern zu können. Tiranen und Menschen leben in Koexistenz und das gemeinsame Leben schafft für viele einen noch nie dagewesenen Wohlstand. Doch der Schein trügt, denn in den Schatten lauern diejenigen, die noch lange nicht mit längst als vergangen geglaubten Konflikten abgeschlossen haben. In einer finsteren Nacht flieht der junge Jay, Sohn des Stadthalters von Ilmerun, aus seinem Heimathaus in den alten Ilmery Forst.

As a journalist in Capone-controlled Chicago, Jack Fleming is used to the sight of blood. But when he becomes a vampire, his addictive thirst for it puts him between the cops and the mob in a pulsating fight for his life.

USA Today best-selling author N. M. Howell presents the third novel in her Return of the Dragonborn series. Dragonborn and sorcerers unite in the face of war. Arvall has finally accepted the dragonborn and their dragons, and the University is finally set to re-open in a time of relative peace. But in not so distant lands, the enemy prepares to strike.