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Eigentlich wollte Dr. Minerva Sterling ihre Professur an der Universität in St. Andrews beginnen, aber das Universum hat andere Pläne: Allen voran einen unmöglichen Studenten, der ihr völlig unerwartet unter die Haut geht, ein mysteriöses Amulett, das ihre Welt auf den Kopf stellt, und ein Geheimnis, das alles fordern wird – nicht zuletzt auch ihr Herz. Wenn dein Schicksal mit den antiken Göttern verbunden ist, bist du bereit, es zu erfüllen?

The final volume in Robin Hobb's popular Rain Wilds fantasy series, Blood of Dragons completes the story of the dragons, their keepers, and their quest to find the lost city of Kelsingra—and the mythical silver wells that the dragons need to survive. Can Tintaglia and the Elderlings unlock the...

For years, the Trader cities valiantly battled their enemies, the Chalcedeans. But they could not have staved off invasion without the powerful dragon Tintaglia. In return, the Traders promised to help her serpents migrate up the Rain Wild River after a long exile at sea—to find a safe haven...

New York Times bestselling author Robin Hobb returns to world of the Rain Wilds—called “one of the most gripping settings in modern fantasy” (Booklist)—in City of Dragons. Continuing the enthralling journey she began in her acclaimed Dragon Keeper and Dragon Haven, Hobb rejoins a small...

Trying to escape her embarrassing immigrant mother, Vimbai moves into a dilapidated house in the dunes and discovers that one of her new roommates has a pocket universe instead of hair, there's a psychic energy baby living in the telephone wires, and her dead Zimbabwean grandmother is doing dishes in the kitchen.

“A full master of the epic fantasy.” —Tulsa World One of the world’s most acclaimed fantasists, New York Times bestselling author Robin Hobb returns to the world of her popular “Tawny Man” trilogy with Dragon Haven—the second book, following Dragon Keeper (“Imaginative, literate...

Eine Serie unerklärlicher Morde hält London in Atem - in der neuen Paranormal-Fantasy-Reihe von Robin G. Hunter. Düster und spannend, mysteriös und humorvoll nimmt die erste Staffel dieses Audible Originals ihre Hörer mit in den magischen Untergrund der Metropole. Nils Nelleßen, Judith Mauthe und Anke Reitzenstein sprechen die Hauptrollen. London, 2020. Die Magier des hermetischen Ordens wachen über den zerbrechlichen Frieden, der zwischen den Menschen und den paranormalen Wesen herrscht.

Dunkle Kräfte unterwandern den hermetischen Orden. Die magische Macht befindet sich im Ungleichgewicht - nichts ist, wie es scheint. Mystisch und hochspannend geht es weiter im dritten Teil von Robin G. Hunters Paranormal-Fantasy-Reihe Im Namen des Ordens - gesprochen von Hans Jürgen Stockerl, Nils Nelleßen und Judith Mauthe. London, 2021. In der magischen Unterwelt brodelt es. Der hermetische Orden ist kein sicherer Ort mehr. Nathan Blake, der Sohn des Protectors, ist plötzlich zurückgekehrt - von den Toten?

Eine ungeheuerliche Verschwörung zieht ihre Kreise bis in die höchsten Reihen des hermetischen Ordens. Wem können Sally und Caleb noch vertrauen? Auch im zweiten Teil von Robin G. Hunters Paranormal-Fantasy-Reihe "Im Namen des Ordens" nehmen die Sprecher Anke Reitzenstein, Nils Nelleßen und Judith Mauthe ihre Zuhörer mit in den magischen Untergrund Londons. Eine Reihe hochrangiger Londoner Politiker wurde aufs Übelste verprügelt. Die Täter? Johnny Depp, die Queen und Albert Einstein - oder wohl eher deren Doppelgänger. Nun hat es sogar den Premier erwischt. Werden die Attacken von paranormalen Wesen begangen?

Im Kreuzfeuer der mächtigen Fae Caleb und Sally werden zum Spielball uralter dämonischer Kräfte. In Londons mystischem Untergrund findet in der fünften Staffel Sallys Kampf gegen den König der dunklen Fae ein atemberaubendes Finale – gewohnt fesselnd wie humorvoll gesprochen von Nils Nelleßen, Judith Mauthe und Sascha Rotermund.

Ein tiefer Riss zieht sich durch die magische Welt Londons. Die Feindschaft zwischen dem hermetischen Orden und der Neuen Arkana lässt eine ganz neue, schwarz-magische Bedrohung heraufziehen, mit der niemand gerechnet hat. Noch einmal entführt die vierte Staffel ihre Hörer in die fantastische Unterwelt der britischen Metropole - mitreißend gesprochen von Nils Nelleßen, Judith Mauthe und Sascha Rotermund. Das Gleichgewicht der magischen Macht gerät immer mehr aus den Fugen.

Iris Collins is the messy one in her family—the chaos bunny. Her sisters are all wildly successful while she can't balance her budget for a single month. It's no wonder she's in debt to her roommates. When she unexpectedly inherits a house from her great aunt, her plan to turn it into a B&B fails—as most of her plans do. She winds up renting rooms like a Victorian spinster, collecting other lost souls...and not all of them are human.

It's Carnival time and the Caribbean-colonized planet of Toussaint is celebrating with music, dance, and pageantry. Masked "Midnight Robbers" waylay revelers with brandished weapons and spellbinding words. To young Tan-Tan, the Robber Queen is simply a favorite costume to wear at the festival - until her power-corrupted father commits an unforgiveable crime. Suddenly, both father and daughter are thrust into the brutal world of New Half-Way Tree....

When Francine's a little girl, she'll do just about anything for her papa. But as Francine grows older, she and Papa start fighting about everything - school, fiddling, and boys. Then the others come calling, fairies from no tale Francine has ever read. They ask her to come fiddle at their court, promising magic and all the music she wants. Francine gladly goes with them. When war starts between the two Creole fairy courts, the Seelie and the Unseelie, Francine finds she's fighting her papa again.

One minute, Ernestine “Ernie” Terwilliger was a fairly normal young woman with an almost normal life. Absent father. Peculiar mother. Family secrets. The next, she was hurled into a land where the Immortal Dealers are waging a battle between good and evil - and where the fate of the world is in the cards. Having only started to master her own deck, the inexperienced Ernie places the wrong bet on the right guy at the worst time. That’s when she’s bounced into another realm and trapped there by a formidable and power-hungry rogue Dealer.

Curse weaver Kennedy Bennett has resettled into her beloved hometown and opened a shop selling previously hexed antiques. When she fails to win an online auction for a notorious cursed painting, Aiden Connolly - the wealthy and swoon-worthy luck worker she is not dating - swoops in to buy it for her.

Ernestine “Ernie” Terwilliger has put her dreams aside to look after her eccentric mother. Case in point: saving her from a mysterious stranger who’s just stormed the terrified woman’s antique store wearing a rattlesnake tattoo, leveling threats, and brandishing the weirdest deck of cards Ernie’s ever seen. When Ernie grabs some of the cards and runs, she’s launched into a world she never knew existed - one her mother may know more about than she’s revealing. With a handful of stolen cards, Ernie has just been made an unwilling player in a game of good versus evil.

McCulley, a young and inexperienced nurse tossed into a stressful and chaotic situation, is having a difficult time reconciling her duty to help and heal with the indifference and overt racism of some of her colleagues and with the horrendously damaged soldiers and Vietnamese civilians whom she encounters during her service at the China Beach medical facilities. She is unexpectedly helped by the mysterious and inexplicable properties of an amulet....

Mattie Carver never thought she'd give up her small-town life to become one half of the best magic-smuggling duo in the business. Until recently, she didn't even know such a business existed. But as an unusually strong reliquary - able to carry vast quantities of magic in her body, undetected - she's been pulled into an underworld of organized crime and addictive enchantments.

Mattie Carver has relinquished the world of magic, with all its dark temptations. In six weeks, she'll marry Ben Ward and claim the safe, small-town life she craves. But Mattie's talents as a reliquary - someone able to smuggle magic within her body - make her a valuable commodity, even to those she trusts the most. Forced out of retirement by a painful betrayal, she must seek the help of the man she's tried desperately to stay away from: Ben's estranged brother, Asa.