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First in the bestselling Folk of the Air trilogy. The sequels - The Wicked King and The Queen of Nothing - are the winners of/won the Goodreads YA Best Fantasy in 2019 and 2020. Nominated for the CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL 2019. Winner of the silver INKY for best international YA book. "A dark jewel...

A runaway queen. A reluctant prince. And a quest that may destroy them both. Eight years have passed since the Battle of the Serpent. But in the icy north, Lady Nore of the Court of Teeth has reclaimed the Ice Needle Citadel. There she is using an ancient relic to create monsters of stick and...

Josie Barton is a high school student living in terror. Invisible creatures torment her everywhere she goes, constantly getting her into trouble at school, and even haunting her apartment. But just when Josie thinks things couldn't get any worse, she meets the guy from across the hall. Zeph Clemmont is a changeling with enemies in all the worst places, fighting to undo a curse that threatens to end his life. Survival means he will have to swallow his pride and trust Josie with all his darkest secrets.

The hotly-anticipated sequel to the unputdownable gothic contemporary fantasy The Glittering Edge. Return to a world where magic is real, witches make irresistible boyfriends, and keeping secrets is dangerous—but not as dangerous as the truth. With the feuding families of Romeo and Juliet, the...

If there's one thing Mare Barrow knows, it's that she's different. Mare's blood is red - the colour of common folk - but her Silver ability, the power to control lightning, has turned her into a weapon that the royal court tries to control. The crown calls her an impossibility, a fake, but as...

This is a world divided by blood - red or silver. The Reds are commoners, ruled by a Silver elite in possession of god-like superpowers. And to Mare Barrow, a seventeen-year-old Red girl from the poverty-stricken Stilts, it seems like nothing will ever change. That is, until she finds herself...

"Engaging characters, a driving plot, fabulous world-building, and two wonderful narrators will leave listeners eager for the second in this duology."—AudioFile Two girls reluctantly bound by fate must weather a dangerous courtship as a prophesied war grows ever closer in Jasmine Skye's...

The Left Hand of God by Paul Hoffman is the gripping first instalment in a remarkable trilogy. "Listen. The Sanctuary of the Redeemers on Shotover Scarp is named after a damned lie for there is no redemption that goes on there and less sanctuary." The Sanctuary of the Redeemers is a vast and...

Josie Barton is in mortal danger. Ensnared by Nepenthe’s mind-control enchantment and forced to turn on everyone she loves, William Barton was the last person in the world she expected might come to her rescue. But her older brother seems to be hiding a lot more than just the truth about his grim fate all those years ago, and his plans for her now may be far more sinister than Josie dares to imagine.

Two girls, bound by magic, must work together to stop an oncoming war, while grappling with unresolved feelings and terrible secrets in Daughter of the Cursed Kingdom, the thrilling conclusion to Jasmine Skye's romantasy duology. “If I ask you to walk into danger with me, Rosamund Holt, will...

Zaria and Kane, alchemologist and con man, are a match made in hell—yet they'll have to team up again to stay out of jail, as new threats arise and rival kingpins clash throughout London's slums. Zaria Mendoza doesn't think she'll ever see Kane Durante again. In fact, she thinks he's dead...

Quand je regarde mes mains, tout ce que j'arrive à penser c'est : « ce sont elles qui ont enterré ma mère. » Ning a perdu sa mère. Et le plus douloureux de son histoire, ce que c'est elle la responsable de sa mort. C'est elle qui lui a administré le poison sans le savoir, par un thé venimeux qui lui a été fatal Et qui pourrait maintenant être également mortel pour sa soeur Shu. Un jour, Ning entend qu'une compétition s'organise pour trouver le plus grand maître du shennong-shi du royaume—une magie ancestrale de l'art de la préparation du thé.

Rocio Lopez and Finn Lockwood survived the deadly trials of the Mages' Exam in a bid to keep their magic. But the world outside presents vicious threats of its own. Forced into the Confed's military special ops unit, Rocio must walk a fine line between complicity and resistance, or everyone she loves could pay the price. With the magic's pleas growing increasingly urgent, can she make her stand in time? Stripped of his talent, Finn is determined to fight the corrupt magical government - and to find his way back to the girl he's fallen for.

Eric hat überlebt, wo weit Stärkere vor ihm den Tod gefunden haben. Dabei hat er es auch noch geschafft, seinen Magie-Vorrat freizuschalten, eine der gefährlichsten Kreaturen der Höhlenwelt zu zähmen, eine uralte Stadt der Monsterjäger zu entdecken und eine junge Frau namens Jay zu retten, die eine Gruppe Späher mitten im Lager eines Gierschlunds dem sicheren Tod überlassen hatte. Die Dungeons der Krummberge liegen nun hinter ihm. Jetzt begibt der junge, unerfahrene Magier sich auf den Weg nach Orchus. Die Zeit ist gekommen, sich von seinem Schuldnereid zu befreien.

Eric wird in eine Welt hineingeboren, die vom Großen System regiert wird. Er ist der Sohn der Familie von Aren Bergman, einem allseits geachteten Minenarbeiter aus Orchus. Doch die Freude wird durch das schreckliche Gebrechen des Neugeborenen beeinträchtigt. Eric ist vollständig genullt - Level 0 und keinerlei Eigenschaftspunkte. Das Einzige, was seinen sofortigen Tod verhindert, sind seine winzigen Grundvorräte an "Leben" und "Energie". Die Hebamme hält es für das Werk des bösen Geistes Bug.

Nach dem Kampf gegen die Hyänen meldet das System Eric, dass es etwas lokalisieren konnte, das sich “Ort der Macht” nennt. Es ist der einzige Hinweis auf seiner Suche nach einem Weg zurück in seine eigene Welt. Es gibt da nur ein Problem: Ohne Mana kann das System den Weg zu diesem Ort nicht berechnen, und Erics Mana-Vorrat ist erschöpft. Schlimmer noch – in dieser anderen Welt herrschen merkwürdige Gesetze, und Erics Mana-Vorrat füllt sich nicht von selbst wieder auf. Zum Glück gibt es das Große System auch hier, aber die Wirkung seiner Gesetze ist eingeschränkt.

The New York Times bestselling series! A USA TODAY bestseller! Nothing can stop the demon tide. Don't miss the epic fourth book in The Black Witch Chronicles by critically acclaimed fantasy author Laurie Forest. Newly exposed as the Black Witch of Prophecy, Elloren Gardner Grey is on the run...

The New York TImes bestselling series! Dark forces are on the rise in this sweeping second book in The Black Witch Chronicles by critically acclaimed fantasy author Laurie Forest. Elloren Gardner and her friends were only seeking to right a few wrongs when they rescued a Selkie and freed a...

The New York Times bestselling series! Magical forces clash and Erthia hovers on the brink of ruin in the can't-miss finale of Laurie Forest’s epic fantasy series, The Black Witch Chronicles! Who can survive the Shadow storm? Black Witch of prophecy Elloren Gardner Grey has unleashed her...

The startling conclusion to the instant New York Times bestselling Something Dark and Holy trilogy The girl, the monster, the prince, the queen. They broke the world. And some things can never be undone. In Emily A. Duncan’s Blessed Monsters, they must unite once more to fight the dark chaos...