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Der Fluch der Kraken ist der dritte Band von Kevin Hearnes süchtig machender episch-düsterer Fantasy-Trilogie Fintans Sage. Im Krieg zerbrochen, doch nicht verloren: Auf dem Kontinent Teldwen kämpfen wahre Helden um eine neue Zukunft. Die Kapitänin Koesha ist jenseits der Ränder der Welt in den Besitz eines Artefakts gelangt, das der Schlüssel zur Magie des mächtigen Siebten Kenning sein könnte. Um sein Geheimnis zu ergründen, muss sie auf See erneut alles riskieren. Abhis Macht, mit Tieren zu sprechen, hat die Welt verändert.

Oje, Krake Pulpino, der im Krakenkindergarten arbeitet, braucht mal eine Pause: Denn 10 Krakenkinder mit insgesamt 80 Krakenarmen können eine Menge Quatsch machen. Klar, dass Nella Nixe ihm helfen möchte und spontan als Kraken-Babysitterin einspringt. Doch auch der fröhlichen Meerjungfrau fällt es schwer, alle 10 Krakenkinder gleichzeitig im Auge zu behalten.

Die herausragende Meeresbiologin Dr. Ha Nguyen, die ihr Leben lang die Intelligenz von Kopffüßern erforscht hat, reist zum abgelegenen Con Dao Archipel vor der Südküste Vietnams, um sich der Forschungsgruppe des Technologiekonzerns DIANIMA anzuschließen. Die Gruppe, bestehend aus Ha, einer kampferprobten Kriegsveteranin und dem ersten Androiden der Welt, soll eine hochintelligente, aber gefährliche Krakenart verstehen lernen, denn den Gerüchten nach haben die Kreaturen ihre eigene Sprache und Kultur entwickelt.

Zee Tarrow’s dreams are finally coming true. While the road to acceptance into Triumf’s Citadel Academy has been filled with pain, suffering, and more joy and surprises than Zee could’ve possibly imagined, now is his time to shine. After all, he’s the first kraken rider in more than a thousand years! Who could possibly defeat him? Except now he must be separated from his best and most loyal friend, the kraken, Jessup, as they both must complete basic training individually in order to pass and become full-fledged cadets.

Alaria Hartwood vanquishes a legendary kraken, becoming a Tentacle Mage. Her newfound talents and wealth bring hope of a quiet retirement but fate has far different plans. While Alaria wants to turn her retirement dream location into a place where she can focus on enchanting, potion making, and spell crafting it won't be easy. She quickly finds herself having to vanquish orcs and demons with a vibrant assistant. Mia is a great student, and a gifted soul, but even with her help, it seems like Alaria's shop on Brighthill will have to wait for the brewing storm to calm.

Die Superhelden Connor, Amaya und Greg retten den Tag vor den Schurken der Nacht. Mit der Kraft ihrer Tieramulette nehmen sie neue Gestalt an; Greg wird zu Gecko, Amaya zu Eulette und Connor zu Catboy. Dabei mögen ihre Outfits wie Pyjamas aussehen, doch in Wahrheit handelt es sich dabei um ihre Tarnung... Romeo überzieht die Stadt mit super stinkenden Eiern und die Tarnung des Gekko-Mobils könnte sehr behilflich sein, Romeo das Handwerk zu legen. Doch Gecko verliert gerade dann sein Mobil, als er es am dringendsten braucht.

With this outrageous new novel, China Miéville has written one of the strangest, funniest, and flat-out scariest books you will read this—or any other—year. The London that comes to life in Kraken is a weird metropolis awash in secret currents of myth and magic, where criminals, police, cultists, and wizards are locked in a war to bring about—or prevent—the End of All Things.

Catalina only made her deal with the demon because she had nowhere else to go. The world has kicked her every chance it got, so she’s all too happy to leave the realm she knows behind. What’s the worst that could happen? She doesn’t anticipate being auctioned away to a kraken. Thane is cold and distant…but he’s not unkind. Isolated as they are, Catalina finds herself seeking his company again and again.

Especially a matchmaker who works at the kind of paranormal bathhouse that would have grandmothers clutching their pearls. A worse look is a matchmaker experiencing a crisis of confidence. I am that matchmaker.

When the Monster Relations Bureau tells me I've been identified as a kraken shifter's mate, my first instinct is to run. I learned the hard way what it means to be treated like someone's possession, and I'm not about to make the same mistake twice. Only, Elias is… different. Patient and careful with me, willing to wait as long as it takes for me to let him in. The more I learn to trust him, and the more he draws me under with the dark temptation of his touch, the more the defenses I've held onto for so long start to crumble.

If there's one thing dragons fear, it's a kraken. Even lowly hull-scrubber Zee Tarrow knows that. Like everyone on the island kingdom of Tosh, he grew up frightened by fables and horrible tales of the great beasts of the deep. It seems an odd thing to impress upon the children of the realm, because–luckily for the dragons and their riders–no one has seen a kraken in a thousand years.

As a kraken bodyguard, I rarely get human clients. When I do, the only way to protect them is to form a telepathic bond. I don't like it, but after my wife's death years ago I've learned to build an impenetrable shield around myself and my emotions, until I meet my newest client. She's a scientist investigating an ancient relic on the ocean floor. The abyssal plane is no place for humans, but the job is the job, so I shut off my soul, bury my secrets, and link our minds. The flood of her emotions takes me by surprise.

NASA is building a probe to be splashed down in the Kraken Mare, the largest sea on Saturn’s great moon, Titan. It is one of the most promising habitats for extraterrestrial life in the solar system, but the surface is unpredictable and dangerous, requiring the probe to contain artificial intelligence software. To this end, Melissa Shepherd, a brilliant programmer, has developed "Dorothy", a powerful, self-modifying AI whose true potential is both revolutionary and terrifying. When miscalculations lead to a catastrophe during testing, Dorothy flees into the internet.

Landless one-time king Guyime, once called Pilgrim but known to history as the Ravager, has survived the fall of the Execration - an event that set him on a path to find the legendary Seven Swords. Guided by sorcery, Guyime journeys to Carthula in the centre of the First Sea to claim the mythical blade known as the Kraken’s Tooth. Aided by three companions - the beast charmer Seeker, a powerful sorceress, and a scholarly slave - Guyime ventures into Carthula’s perilous underbelly to secure a prize guarded by ancient magics, cursed spirits, and lethal traps.

Ships are sinking for no apparent reason, carrying hundreds to a dark underwater grave. Strange fireballs race through the sky above the deepest trenches of the oceans. Something is about to show itself, something terrible and alien, a force capable of causing global catastrophe.

The Arcadian returns to the dark ice in a reprisal of one of his first and most deadly missions. But this time the stakes couldn’t be higher. In 2008, a top-secret US submarine went missing on its test voyage off the coast of Antarctica. After years silent, its emergency beacon is suddenly activated, but strangely, the beacon is emanating from a point miles below the ice sheets of the frozen continent. The race is on.

Alaria Hartwood vanquishes a legendary kraken, becoming a Tentacle Mage. Her newfound talents and wealth bring hope of a quiet retirement, but fate has far different plans.

In this steamy 3rd book in the Spicy Adventures of the Suddenly Supernatural series, novice warlock Dane Staley has faced two vengeful demons in as many months, plus a manipulative vampire of a boss, all while dealing with university finals. What mortal could be expected to handle all that? Luckily, Dane Staley isn’t a mortal any longer. He’s a promising warlock, with a sensuous succubus and an equally beautiful, if rather eccentric, dryad by his side. Our trio of lovers is looking forward to summer break and an opportunity to unwind with their friends.