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Celaena Sardothien is Adarlan’s most feared assassin. As part of the Assassins' Guild, her allegiance is to her master, Arobynn Hamel, yet Celaena listens to no one and trusts only her fellow killer-for-hire, Sam. In these action-packed prequel novellas - together in one edition for the first time - Celaena embarks on five daring missions. They take her from remote islands to hostile deserts, where she fights to liberate slaves and seeks to avenge the tyrannous. But she is acting against Arobynn’s orders and could suffer an unimaginable punishment for such treachery.

In a faraway land where members of the royal family are named for the virtues they embody, one young boy will become a walking enigma.Born on the wrong side of the sheets, Fitz, son of Chilvary Farseer, is a royal bastard, cast out into the world, friendless and lonely. Only his magical link with animals - the old art known as the Wit - gives him solace and companionship. But the Wit, if used too often, is a perilous magic, and one abhorred by the nobility. So when Fitz is finally adopted into the royal household, he must give up his old ways.

Der Kampf zwischen Gut und Böse schreitet weiter voran. Auf ihrer Reise durch die Welten und ihrer Mission Frieden in die Anderswelt zu bringen, fragt Lilly sich immer wieder: Freund oder Feind? Wem kann sie trauen? Und wer spielt sein ganz eigenes, verdorbenes Spiel? Lillys Weg führt sie nicht nur in ihren eigenen Ratssaal, sondern auch nach Permata, wo sie Zeugin eines ganz besonderen Rituals wird, und sogar in die sagenumwobene Gilde der Assassinen.

The Officio Assassinorum safeguards the future of humanity. Its agents are the bloody-handed, secret saviours of the Imperium, killers charged with achieving the impossible...and Vindicare assassin Absolom Raithe has just been handed the most difficult assignment of his career.

Renowned for his flawless kills, the Swordsman is one of the most lethal mages on Earth. His reputation for subtlety allows him to command a high price - despite his singular rule. He does not kill innocents. Recently, his employer has been a secretive group known as the Harbingers, whose latest target is not who he seems. Known only as Hawk, the man proves to be an elusive quarry.

"Je me vengerai de ceux qui ont trahi ma famille. Ezio est ma nouvelle identité. Assassin est ma destinée." Trahi par les familles dirigeantes d'Italie, un jeune homme se lance dans une épique quête de vengeance. Afin d'éliminer la corruption et de rétablir l'honneur des siens, il deviendra un assassin. Il fera appel à la sagesse de grands esprits comme Léonard de Vinci ou Nicolas Machiavel, car il sait que sa survie dépend des dons qu'il doit développer.

1868. The Boshin War is about to break out. A 16-year-old Japanese girl, Atsuko grew up in the neighborhoods of Aizu City, in the shadow of her brother Ibuka. Promised to an arranged marriage, the young girl hides a secret: she wields weapons just as well as her brother, whose talent with the sword actually masks an insurmountable fear of combat. When war is declared, Ibuka must leave to fight alongside their father for the honor of the family. Defying the tradition forbidding women to take part in battles and wanting to protect her brother, Atsuko enlists in secret as a simple soldier.

My father's been kidnapped. The kidnappers demand an impossible ransom. If they don't get it in two weeks, they will kill my father. Mama won't survive his murder. She's already fallen unconscious. So, I've pulled my assassin grandmother out of retirement. Together, and with my dragon, we're going to find the kidnappers and rescue my father. And we're going to make those bastards pay.

Vaelin Al Sorna is a living legend. It was his leadership that overthrew empires and his sacrifice that saved the Unified Realm from destruction. Now he lives a quiet life, his days of warfare behind him.Yet whispers have spread across the sea of an army called the Steel Horde, led by a man who thinks himself a god. When Vaelin learns that Sherin, the woman he lost long ago, has fallen into the Horde's grasp, he resolves to confront this powerful new threat.To this end, he travels to the realms of the Merchant Kings - a strange land ruled by honour and intrigue.

The man was not meant to die; the daggers were only theatrical props, plastic and harmless. A summer's night, a production of Julius Caesar among the ruins of an Anglo-Saxon fort. Detective Inspector Tremayne is there with his sergeant, Clare Yarwood. The assassination scene, the man collapses to the ground, Brutus defending his actions, Mark Antony's rebuke.

The Steel Horde has laid waste to the Venerable Kingdom, unleashing a storm of fire and blood. Now the leader of this mighty host - Kehlbrand, the warlord who thinks himself a god - turns his eyes to the other merchant kingdoms. No one can stop his divine conquest. No one, perhaps, except Vaelin Al Sorna. Yet Vaelin is on the run, his own army in disarray. Worse, the new blood song he has acquired is as much a curse as a blessing and seeks to guide him down a path far darker than he could have imagined....