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The beloved King Ik is dead, and there was barely time to check his pulse before the royal throne was supporting the suspiciously shapely backside of an impostor pretending to be Ik's beautiful, long-lost daughter. With the land's heroic hunks busy drooling all over themselves, there's only one man left who can save the kingdom of Jenair. His name is Dungar Loloth, a rural blacksmith turned innkeeper, a surly hermit, and an all-around nobody oozing toward middle age, compensating for a lack of height, looks, charm, and tact with guts and an attitude.

'I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others...

Paksenarrion was the finest paladin her world would ever see. But Paksenarrion could never have become a fighter at all had it not been for he who had come before: Gird, the liberator, who taught his people that they could fight - and win - against their Mage-born rulers. And after Gird came one more: Luap, Gird's sworn follower and the king's half-breed bastard. Riven by internal conflict, Luap dare not lie and cannot tell the truth, nor face the future.

A queen now in exile as a traitor, Lara has watched Ithicana be conquered by her own father, helpless to do anything to stop the destruction. But when she learns her husband, Aren, has been captured in battle, Lara knows there is only one reason her father is keeping him alive: as bait for his traitorous daughter. And it is bait she fully intends to take. Risking her life to the Tempest Seas, Lara returns to Ithicana with a plan not only to free its king, but for liberating the Bridge Kingdom from her father’s clutches using his own weapons: the sisters whose lives she spared.

A pantheon of forgotten gods. An old grudge between a talk show host, an heiress, and the man they shattered along the way. A rapidly deteriorating AI system. An inconvenient tiara upon the head of a friend.

In the cold spring of 1936, Arthor Crandle, down-on-his luck and desperate for work, accepts a position in Providence, Rhode Island, as a live-in assistant for an unnamed shut-in. He arrives at the gloomy colonial-style house to discover that his strange employer is an author of disturbing, bizarre fiction. Health issues have confined him to his bedroom, where he is never to be disturbed. But the writer, who Crandle knows only as "Ech-Pi", refuses to meet him, communicating only by letters left on a table outside his room.

The Whippet Hotel is a strange place full of strange and mysterious people. Each floor has its own quirks and secrets. Leo should know most of them - he is the maintenance man's son, after all. But a whole lot more mystery gets thrown his way when a series of cryptic boxes are left for him . . . boxes that lead him to hidden floors, strange puzzles, and unexpected alliances. Leo had better be quick on his feet, because the fate of the building he loves is at stake . . . and so is Leo's own future!

Maeve is talking a walk when she comes across a group of sad leprechauns. They are worried about people trying to steal their gold on St. Patrick’s Day. Afraid they will leave Ireland, Maeve decides to help them protect their gold—with a magical carnival!

It is a time of Perpetual War. The legions of armored Archengardian warriors and the Noda—powered by dark technology—have been shedding each other's blood for as long as anyone can remember. The cause of the hostility has been lost to time, but the battle rages on.

Magentite. The rarest of gems, one capable of turning any mage into an unstoppable force of destruction. A gem found only in the empty lands surrounding the Tyber River. And now war has come. Endless war between Esteria and the native Tyberons, a savage and mysterious people who prowl the grass-covered land with spearpoints ready. Unable to end the conflict the Esterians rely on mercenaries to bolster their military, desperate men like Dain Gladstone, a disgraced Paladin.

Jusqu'où iront-ils l'un pour l'autre ? Dorian a annulé un mariage royal. Léona a renoncé à la couronne. Ils ont défié les traditions et leurs peuples. Ils ont scellé une alliance dans le sang. Jusqu'où iront-ils pour sauver la race des vampires, et peut-être l'humanité tout entière ? Léona se positionne en première ligne, pour protéger les siens, et Dorian est à ses côtés, incapable de la laisser affronter seule le danger. Ils entament leur dernière danse, celle qui scellera leur destin à tout jamais... Survivront-ils à cette ultime aventure ?

Dorian et Léona n'en ont pas fini avec les ennuis. Leur dernière décision a des conséquences terribles : l'instabilité de l'Écosse est plus forte que jamais. Mais leurs yeux se tournent maintenant vers l'Italie, où de puissantes familles rivales ont renversé les Gianni. Léona et Dorian embarquent pour Palerme afin de restaurer l'ordre. Là-bas, rien ne se passe comme prévu : des nouveau-nés se baladent en ville et le secret de l'existence des vampires est à deux doigts d'être révélé ! Si c'était le cas, le monde serait à feu et à sang pendant des semaines !

Dorian Alterton doit s'unir avec Abigail Brightman, sa promise, lors de la cérémonie de la lune de sang, dans le château écossais de ses ancêtres, sous le regard de tous les vampires de l'aristocratie européenne. Au moment fatidique, par un terrible concours de circonstances, Dorian est lié de manière éternelle à l'héritière des Gianni, une famille vampirique rivale à la sienne, qui règne en Italie.

David Innes is a young man who has just inherited a large mining company. An eccentric inventor, Abner Perry, convinces Innes to underwrite a project to build an 'iron mole,' claiming it will make them both wealthy. The mechanical beast works well, actually too well. On the maiden voyage, instead of digging for a few minutes and returning, they plunge straight through the earth's crust into the 'inner world' of Pellucidar.

Meet Mulder and Scully, FBI - the agency maverick and the female agent assigned to keep him in line. Their job is to investigate the eeriest unsolved mysteries in modern America, from pyro-psychics to death row demonics, from rampaging Sasquatches to alien invasions. These are the cases the Bureau wants handled quietly but quickly, before the public finds out what's really out there...and panics - the cases filed under "X".

'I just love the world of Patrick Rothfuss' Lin-Manuel Miranda 'He's bloody good, this Rothfuss guy' George R R Martin Sequel to the extraordinary THE NAME OF THE WIND, THE WISE MAN'S FEAR is the second instalment of this superb fantasy trilogy from Patrick Rothfuss. This is the most exciting...

Stay away from mages. It was a singular phrase my father had ingrained in me from the time of my birth. Sorry, Dad. I have a feeling that is going to be a problem. You have to understand… my life has been bland at best. Everything in my life, every single day, has been scripted, organized, and neat. Calm, cool, and collected. The problem? It wasn't real. I wasn't like the other witches in my father's coven. I had a chaotic storm growing inside of me, and the moment these mages stepped into the picture, it began to escape. The perfect image of my life was shattered.

Après avoir sauvé le père Noël et le lapin de Pâques de l’emprise de monsieur Setteur, Rom et Nat sont devenus des héros aux yeux de leurs concitoyens et des médias. Toute cette attention entraîne les deux enfants dans un dangereux rapport de rivalité, dont ils devront se sortir pour sauver les enfants du quartier d’une nouvelle menace : Madame Wenham. Quelle est la nature véritable de cette enseignante dont les exigences donnent froid dans le dos? Et pourquoi le malheur s’abat-il soudainement sur ses élèves?

Seventeen-year-old Adelaide Tate is in her last year of the Academy, with her eyes set on becoming part of the Red Guard. Who cares that no female has ever joined? When a dark force develops an unhealthy liking for her, Adelaide needs to fight for her life and figure out what makes her so different from the others. Betrayal. Fear. Anger. She must overcome it all in order to turn her world the right way around again. Adelaide has one choice. Accept the help offered to her by Xander Bane, or face the Demon Hoard alone.

Blue is an alien! Despite only being able to live in water, he has managed to help his soccer team win the championship. Now, his dad plans a party for his team but his best friend doesn’t know how to swim! Will his friend come to the party? Or will Blue have to cancel the party?