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A man. His ex-girlfriend's cat. A sadistic game show unlike anything in the universe: a dungeon crawl where survival depends on killing your prey in the most entertaining way possible....

The ratings and views are off the chart. The fans just can't get enough. The dungeon gets more dangerous each day. But in a grinder designed to chew up and spit out crawlers by the millions, Carl and Princess Donut need to work harder than ever just to survive.,,,

The ninth floor. Nine armies, each led by rich and powerful aliens from across the galaxy. Each team has one objective: to capture and hold the castle at the very center of the battlefield. Strategy, alliances, pitched battles, and, of course, betrayal.

Linus Baker is a by-the-book case worker in the Department in Charge of Magical Youth. He's tasked with determining whether six dangerous magical children are likely to bring about the end of the world....

Arthur Parnassus lives a good life built on the ashes of a bad one. He’s the headmaster of a strange orphanage on a distant and peculiar island, and he hopes to soon be the adoptive father to the six dangerous and magical children who live there.

In the much-anticipated third volume of the Wicked Years, we return to Oz, seen now through the eyes of the Cowardly Lion....

With rent past due and a decent meal becoming an issue of some importance, Harry needs work, and soon....

Once peaceful and prosperous, the spectacular Land of Oz is knotted with social unrest....

Cassie Andrews works in a New York City bookshop, shelving books, making coffee for customers, and living an unassuming, ordinary life. Until the day one of her favorite customers—a lonely yet charming old man—dies right in front of her....

Harold is no naïve cultivator. He's an ancient lich with a single ambition: to slide back into his uninterrupted eternal slumber. But the cacophony of quarreling sects and smug martial artists seems determined to keep him awake....

Bringing the magic and suspense of the All Souls Trilogy to a deeply satisfying conclusion, this highly anticipated finale went straight to number one on the New York Times best seller list. In The Book of Life, Diana and Matthew time-travel back from Elizabethan London....

As one of the few witches in Britain, Mika Moon knows she has to hide her magic, keep her head down, and stay away from other witches so their powers don’t mingle and draw attention....

The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves....

Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden is Chicago's only openly practicing wizard. He is also dead broke....

Until an oracle predicted my regal future, I'd never imagined myself rising above the curve of my round ears. After all, I was the magicless halfling loved by beasts but loathed by every pure-blooded faerie at court. Well...by all but one....

Welcome to Charon's Crossing. The tea is hot, the scones are fresh, and the dead are just passing through. When a reaper comes to collect Wallace from his own funeral, Wallace begins to suspect he might be dead....

Harry Dresden, Chicago's only practicing professional wizard, should be happy that business is pretty good for a change....

Something is stirring up angry apparitions all over town. Something that can break all the laws of supernatural physics. Something that doesnt like Harry....

Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden is a very powerful wizard and a dedicated private eye. He is also a wise cracking trouble magnet....

Kirsten Raymonde will never forget the night Arthur Leander, the famous Hollywood actor, had a heart attack on stage during a production of King Lear. That was the night when a devastating flu pandemic arrived in the city, and within weeks, civilization as we know it came to an end....

The enemy unknowingly opened a portal to the Netherworld, and our world’s only wizard somehow managed to close it. Unfortunately, something got through. Something big. A dragon....

All the world's a stage...even when you're teleported to a new world. Struggling actress Cara O'Sullivan was walking down the street of Galway one moment, and the next, she was in an ancient tomb in a faraway world....

Winter lasts most of the year at the edge of the Russian wilderness, and in the long nights, Vasilisa and her siblings love to gather by the fire to listen to their nurse’s fairy tales. Above all, Vasya loves the story of Frost, the blue-eyed winter demon....

Long ago, Susan Rodriguez was Harry Dresden's lover-until she was attacked by his enemies, leaving her torn between her own humanity and the bloodlust of the vampiric Red Court....

Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, takes on a case as a favor to his friend Thomas, only to become the prime suspect in a series of ghastly murders.....

Sometimes, letting go is the only way to hold on. In the heart of the small town of Orchard Grove stands a mysterious apple orchard, a place where time feels fluid and the past lingers like the sweet scent of ripe fruit. For generations, the orchard has been a quiet witness to the hopes, memories, and forgotten dreams of those who visit its ancient trees. Elise, a devoted mother and bookshop owner, has spent years surrounded by other people’s stories while setting aside her own. Drawn to the orchard during a season of restless change, she begins to rediscover a part of herself she thought...

Hay trece palabras para "venganza" en el lenguaje Hada. Una docena de veces asesinos Hadas intentaron matarnos a mis cachorros no-natos y a mí. Cada vez, pagaron la multa con su vida. Cada vez, se acercaron más a lograr su cometido. Pero eran tan solo herramientas de un poder superior, eran peligrosos pero descartables. Ahora acecho a la cabeza del Gremio de Asesinos, armada con garras y dientes y todas las fuerzas de una licántropa. Soy Luna White, alfa, futura mamá, y maga. Hay trece palabras para "venganza" en el lenguaje Hada. Y yo tendré la última palabra.

“My name is Rylee and I am a Tracker.” When children go missing, and the Humans have no leads, I’m the one they call. I am their last hope in bringing home the lost ones. I salvage what they cannot. I’m on the FBI’s wanted list. I have a werewolf for a pet, a Witch of a best friend, and have no need for anyone else in my life.

Denneka isn’t looking forward to eighth grade. Of course, since she has no friends and gets bullied at school, she never looks forward to any new school year. But this time it’s different. This year, there’s a very strange new boy who keeps hanging around her for some reason. He’s super cute, and even though he doesn’t talk much, he seems to like her. But he also chases birds and sits in boxes and talks about seeing their missing teacher in a grave.

I expected aging out of the foster care system to be hard. I wasn't expecting it to include finding out I was a Warlock, destined to be hunted by the most powerful Witch Families so they could bind me to a coven of thirteen witches and spend the rest of my life "harvesting mana". Add to that a set of magical resonants that made me an even bigger target to some of those Witch Families, some of which would rather kill me than let a rival get me.

Alexandra is a young woman intent on forging her own destiny. But the Princess of Karstares is not free to marry for love and her relationship with a lowly knight is doomed from the start. When her betrothal to the King of Saphyre is announced Alexandra becomes desperate to make her own life. After a spell goes awry, Alexandra finds herself married to the tyrannical Carlyle with no memory of her past or even her magical ability.

Fragments is the story of Father Curtis, Priest of the Order of the Eternal, who seeks solace in the serenity of his secluded parish, sheltered from the oppressive regime’s grasp. But when he is unjustly branded a heretic, he is forced to embark on a harrowing journey for survival. In the process, he discovers that the very foundation of his beliefs has been built upon falsehoods. Amidst the chaos of his escape, he is confronted with the stark realization that the world he once trusted is a labyrinth of deception, orchestrated by the tyrannical forces of the Order.

En un éclair, chaque construction humaine érigée sur Terre s'effondre, créant un gigantesque donjon: un labyrinthe infernal de 18 niveaux remplis de pièges, de monstres et de butins. Seulement quelques survivants osent s'aventurer à l'intérieur, mais une fois que vous y pénétrez, impossible d'en ressortir. Vous n'avez que quelques jours pour trouver l'escalier vers le niveau suivant ou c'est game over. Dans ce jeu, ce n'est ni votre force ni votre dextérité qui vous aidera à survivre, mais votre popularité et votre nombre de vues.

Bestowed the Songs of both Life and Death, Kasira Severen spends her days as a Daughter of Silba, curing the Lowtown of their ailments. When the sun sets, however, she becomes the city’s most notorious assassin. Now, under her father’s command, she’s hunting her biggest target yet. Veridian Erris is the Crown Prince of Livadha, and he fears his whisky-fuelled life is about to end. With the bodies of soldiers piling up on the northern borders and nobles turning up dead on the docks, he has no choice but to try and broker peace with the exiled Queen.

"Die Wüste kennt keine Gnade, und ich auch nicht." Der gefallene Chaosgott Seth ist mit dem Leben zufrieden, das er sich seit seinem Fall aufgebaut hat – Rock'n'Roll, sein Chopper und die Gesellschaft von Freunden. Doch dann taucht die verschmorte Leiche eines Immobilienmaklers auf, der es auf Seths Bar, das Heliopolis, abgesehen hatte. Schnell fällt der Verdacht auf den jähzornigen Barbesitzer und unter den Freunden wächst das Misstrauen.

Sophie is a victim of spousal abuse, but her husband hadn't always been like that. She still loves him and refuses to give up on her marriage, despite his treatment of her.

Wer wirst du sein, wenn dir die Nacht zu Füßen liegt? Die Hamburger Medizinstudentin Sina ist ebenso geschockt wie fasziniert, als sie herausfindet, wer der Mann wirklich ist, in den sie verliebt hat: Denn Lazar ist ein Vampir und seine Unsterblichkeit ein Fluch, der bald auch Sinas Leben überschattet.

Le Temple est une nouvelle fantastique écrite en 1920 puis publiée dans le pulp Weird Tales en septembre 1925. Durant la Première Guerre mondiale, le sous-marin U-29 de la Kaiserliche Marine coule un cargo britannique et ses embarcations de sauvetage remplies de rescapés. Les sous-mariniers allemands s'approprient ensuite une étrange figure d'ivoire sculpté, récupérée sur le cadavre d'un homme agrippé au submersible. La folie gagne progressivement tout l'équipage, à l'exception du Kapitänleutnant Karl Heinrich, comte d'Altberg-Ehrenstein, le commandant.

Наследники Зерцалии возвращаются! Зерцалия. Наследники. Отражение зла — продолжение новой захватывающей серии Евгения Гаглоева. Трое уже известных вам героев, Камилла, Алекс и Макс, отправляются на новое задание. В этот раз их путь лежит в Ост-Стингер — спокойный, тихий, непримечательный городок. Но ребята уже знают, что в тихом омуте… водятся темные силы. Кажется, со школой Эмбера что-то не так — в ее стенах кроется тайна, которая по зубам лишь этому трио искателей приключений.

Maxine Lewis is about to discover a realm she never fathomed existed, but what awaits her is far beyond her wildest imaginings. Unbeknownst to her, she's about to become a pawn in a perilous game of survival, where her wits are her only defense. Nate Jackson, a formidable leader of a werewolf pack, faces a dire situation. His kind is on the brink of extinction, with a relentless enemy systematically erasing his pack members. As the pack's alpha, it falls upon him to unravel the sinister mystery behind these killings.

Als ihre Familie aus hochbegabten Magiern sie - die Blindgängerin – vor neun Jahren aus dem Haus warf, tippte Jordan mit dem Finger auf die Landkarte und landete so in South Orleans. Wütend und verletzt beschloss sie, ihre Familie und die Magie hinter sich zu lassen und als Mensch zu leben. Kopfgeldjägerin zu werden, war nicht geplant. Aber es war der einzige Job, den man ihr anbot und für den sie ein Talent zu haben schien. Heute kann sie sich nichts anderes mehr vorstellen. Sie liebt es, die Bösen zu fangen, ins Gefängnis zu verfrachten und dafür auch noch bezahlt zu werden.

Im Berlin der 2020er leben unerkannt unter den Menschen die furchtlosen Firbolg und die schattenhaften Nachtalben. Obwohl die beiden Völker eine uralte Vendetta austragen, kommt es manchmal zu romantischen Verknüpfungen. Manche erkennen die Natur ihrer Seele erst, wenn es zu spät ist. Dann verschwimmen die Grenzen zwischen Liebe und Hass. Ein Alb verliebt sich in einen Firbolg und andersherum. Kann Zuneigung und Leidenschaft die Kluft zwischen den beiden Völkern überbrücken? Dieses Buch erzählt vier chaotische Liebesgeschichten, in denen Firbolg auf Alben treffen.

Step into the mystical world of The Enchanted Wreath by Benjamin Thorpe, a captivating holiday tale brought to life by the enchanting narration of Tiffany Logan. This story blends folklore and festive charm, weaving a tale of magic, mystery, and transformation. At the heart of the story is a glowing wreath, imbued with ancient enchantments, that leads its finder on an unforgettable journey through snowy forests and ethereal wonders.

Wenn dein Herz sich nicht verlieben darf, würdest du dennoch auf seinen Takt hören? Seit Licht und Schatten sich vereint haben, ist das Gleichgewicht ...

1893 год. Генри Джеймс, классик американской литературы, остро переживает творческий кризис. Он приезжает в Париж и промозглой мартовской ночью пытается утопиться в Сене, но его спасает эксцентричный незнакомец, назвавшийся Шерлоком Холмсом. Он увлекает Джеймса в путешествие по Америке, чтобы распутать загадочное самоубийство давней знакомой Джеймса, одной из основательниц аристократического клуба Пяти сердец.