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Der internationale Fantasy-Bestseller für die TikTok-Generation. Dark Academia meets Fantasy. "The Atlas Paradox" ist die Fortsetzung des Bestsellers "The Atlas Six", in dem sich sechs talentierte Magier:innen den tödlichen Prüfungen der Alexandrinischen Gesellschaft stellen. Mehr Geheimnisse. Verrat. Verführung. Herzen werden gebrochen, Allianzen geschmiedet und wieder zerbrochen, und die Alexandrinische Gesellschaft wird als das enthüllt, was sie ist: eine mächtige Organisation, die von einem Mann geführt wird, der unsere Welt revolutionieren möchte.

Six magicians were presented with the opportunity of a lifetime. Five are now members of the Society. Two paths lay before them. All must pick a side. Alliances will be tested, hearts will be broken, and The Society of Alexandrians will be revealed for what it is: a secret society with raw, world-changing power, headed by a man whose plans to change life as we know it are already under way.

Die Bibliothek von Alexandria ist niemals untergegangen, sie verwahrt im Verborgenen seit Jahrtausenden die dunkelsten Geheimnisse der Menschheit. Alle zehn Jahre bekommen die talentiertesten Magier*innen ihrer Generation die Möglichkeit, das uralte Wissen zu studieren: Jene, die die Initiation überstehen, erwarten ungeheurer Reichtum, Macht und Weisheit. Doch von den sechs Auserwählten werden nur fünf überleben.

An explosive return to the library leaves the six Alexandrians vulnerable to the lethal terms of their recruitment. Old alliances quickly fracture as the initiates take opposing strategies as to how to deal with the deadly bargain they have so far failed to uphold. Those who remain with the archives wrestle with the ethics of their astronomical abilities, while elsewhere, an unlikely pair from the Society cohort partner to influence politics on a global stage.

Read by a full cast of narrators. Discover The Atlas Paradox, the dark academia sequel to viral sensation The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake – a No.1 Sunday Times bestseller. Inside the Alexandrian Society alliances will be tested, hearts will be broken and all must pick a side. Six magicians were...

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake is the runaway TikTok must-listen fantasy novel of the year, read by a full cast of narrators. If you loved Ninth House and A Deadly Education, you’ll love this. Secrets. Betrayal. Seduction. Welcome to the Alexandrian Society. When the world’s best magicians...

The Alexandrian Society, caretakers of lost knowledge from the greatest civilizations of antiquity, are the foremost secret society of magical academicians in the world. Those who earn a place among the Alexandrians will secure a life of wealth, power, and prestige beyond their wildest dreams, and each decade, only the six most uniquely talented magicians are selected to be considered for initiation. Enter the latest round of six: Libby Rhodes and Nico de Varona, unwilling halves of an unfathomable whole, who exert uncanny control over every element of physicality.

Siblings Kate, Michael, and Emma have been in one orphanage after another for the last ten years, passed along like lost baggage. Yet these unwanted children are more remarkable than they could possibly imagine. Ripped from their parents as babies, they are being protected from a horrible evil of devastating power, an evil they know nothing about.

Working undercover at a strip club is not my usual kind of job. If it weren’t a great opportunity to show the Mike Bravo team I can run my own op, I wouldn’t have agreed to it. When my boss asks me to befriend the biggest gossip in the establishment, the person who knows everything, I’m even more reluctant. Because that happens to be one of the dancers. The only dancer to catch my attention in all the wrong ways. I need to be professional or I will never prove I’m leadership material. Only problem is, the guy with the stage name Lemon makes me want to be anything but professional.

Cloud Atlas begins in 1850 with Adam Ewing, an American notary voyaging from the Chatham Isles to his home in California. Along the way, Ewing is befriended by a physician, Dr. Goose, who begins to treat him for a rare species of brain parasite.... Abruptly, the action jumps to Belgium in 1931, where Robert Frobisher, a disinherited bisexual composer, contrives his way into the household of an infirm maestro who has a beguiling wife and a nubile daughter....

Lauren Locklear. She has no idea that I would do anything for her. She doesn’t understand the mountains I would climb just to keep her safe. That’s okay though, I’ll make sure she does. She thinks she’s weak, and given the lack of love and support from those closest to her, I can understand why. That changes now, I will make her see the strong woman I see when I look at her. I’ve pined for her in secret, wanting nothing more than to show her what she could have. But with my past still haunting me, I knew it would be best to stay back.

Atlas was ready to return home from a post apocalyptic world. But betrayed at the last possible moment by his so called “friends”, he took revenge, by chucking a sword at the portal…nothing bad could happen right?

The Atlas Complex marks the much-anticipated, heart-shattering conclusion in Olivie Blake's trilogy that began with the internationally bestselling dark academic phenomenon, The Atlas Six. Only the extraordinary are chosen. Only the cunning survive. An explosive return to the library leaves the...

Since the day they unwittingly found themselves in the horror show of Carousel, Riley (the Film Buff), Antoine (the Athlete), Kimberly (the Eye Candy), Camden (the Scholar), and Anna (the Final Girl) have learned the rules of their horror-movie world. They've fought through story after story and come out alive—or at least preserved the storyline enough to come back to life. But their biggest challenge yet lies ahead.

Acclaimed author Emma Newman returns to the captivating universe she created in Planetfall with a stunning science fiction mystery where one man's murder is much more than it seems.... Gov-corp detective Carlos Moreno was only a baby when Atlas left Earth to seek truth among the stars. But in that moment, the course of Carlos' entire life changed.

1928, Paris. Um menino é encontrado à beira da morte e acolhido por uma bondosa família. Gentil, precoce e talentoso, ele se adapta muito bem ao novo lar, e a família lhe proporciona uma vida com a qual ele jamais havia sonhado. Entretanto, ele se recusa a dizer uma única palavra sobre sua verdadeira identidade. Ao se tornar um rapaz, descobrindo o amor e estudando no prestigiado Conservatório de Paris, ele quase consegue esquecer os horrores de seu passado e a promessa que fez. Mas, na Europa da década de 1930, um mal vem crescendo e se alastrando, e ninguém mais está a salvo.

Nachdem Captain Jace Hughes und seine Crew mit ihrem Schiff, der Renegade Star, nur knapp den Häschern der Union entkommen konnten, machen sie sich auf den Weg ins Unbekannte. Sie gelten als entflohene Verbrecher, für sie gibt es keinen Weg zurück. Doch noch ist nicht alles verloren. Durch Lex, ein sonderbares Mädchen mit einer außergewöhnlichen Gabe, wurde der Weg zur Erde enthüllt. Die Erde … bis dahin nur ein Mythos, der wertvolle Schätze, verlorengegangene Technologien und endlose Geheimnisse verheißt.

Chief Ty Christie of Willicott, Maryland, witnesses a murder at dawn from the deck of her cottage on Lake Massey. When dragging the lake, not only do the divers find the murder victim, they also discover dozens of bones. Even more shocking is the identification of a unique belt buckle found among the bones. Working together with Chief Christie, Savich and Sherlock soon discover a frightening connection between the bones and the escaped psychopath.

1945. In the waning months of World War II, Japan hid vast quantities of gold and other stolen valuables in boobytrapped underground caches all across the Philippines. By 1947 some of that loot was recovered, not by treasure hunters, but by the United States government, which told no one about the find. Instead, those assets were stamped classified, shipped to Europe, and secretly assimilated into something called the Black Eagle Trust.