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I would have trusted this man with my life. Until a couple of days ago, anyway. You know what they say - hope for the best, but plan for the worst. Max is quite accustomed to everything going wrong. She's St Mary's, after all. Disaster is her default state. But with her family reunited and a jump to Bronze Age Crete in the works, life is getting back to normal. Well, normal for St Mary's. And then, following one fateful night at the Tower of London, everything Max thought she knew comes crashing down around her. Too late for plans. The worst has happened. And who can Max trust now?

Auf einer abgeschiedenen Waldlichtung führt die junge Lorea mit ihrer wegen Hexerei verstoßenen Familie ein recht ruhiges Leben. Doch eines Nachts fällt ihr Haus einem Feuer zum Opfer, welchem nur Lorea und ihre Mutter knapp entrinnen. Um jenen Verfolgern zu entkommen, die hinter dem Brand stecken und ihnen nach dem Leben trachten, flüchten sie in den Süden ihrer englischen Heimat. Welche Gefahren noch auf sie lauern, ahnt Lorea erst, als sie auf Räuber und einen mysteriösen Fremden trifft.

Es rollt! Sowohl der Ball als auch die Spieler, und der Rubel sowieso! Denn beim Orkball bleibt kein Auge trocken. Doch Rok und seine Gefährten werden noch von weiteren Ereignissen gefordert. Schließlich gehen auch die härtesten Turniere vorbei, und irgendjemand muss aufräumen. Wer das wohl sein wird? Nebenbei brauen sich in fernen Ländern düstere Wolken zusammen. Große Drachen verlangen nach Aufmerksamkeit und ambrische Adlige zeigen ihre wahre Natur. Es gibt wieder einige Arbeit für die junge Gilde Kalandaha – gut, dass der Boss viel Erfahrung damit hat, sich vor so etwas zu drücken!

In an alternate St. Petersburg, librarian-spy Irene faces unimaginable dangers – as her arch-nemesis returns. The Burning Page is the third instalment in the Invisible Library series from bestselling author Genevieve Cogman. Librarian-spy Irene is on probation – and absconding from a mission...

In an alternate 1880s London, angels inhabit every public building, and vampires and werewolves walk the streets with human beings in a well-regulated truce. A fantastic utopia, except for a few things: Angels can Fall, and that Fall is like a nuclear bomb in both the physical and metaphysical worlds. And human beings remain human, with all their kindness and greed and passions and murderous intent. Jack the Ripper stalks the streets of this London too. But this London has an Angel. The Angel of the Crows.

Die Hyänen richteten sich auf, entwickelten Sprache, erlernten den Kampf und erwuchsen zu dem, was sie sind: Die Gnolle! Gnaar liebte es, seine Tage im Schatten zu verschlafen, doch die bevorstehende Prüfung, nach deren Abschluss er als vollwertiges Mitglied in die Gesellschaft der Gnolle aufgenommen zu werden hoffte, wartet mit einer schicksalhaften Überraschung auf. Gemeinsam mit seinen Freunden wird er ausgesandt, eine schier unlösbare Aufgabe zu meistern, die womöglich mehr von ihm abverlangt, als er zu leisten im Stande ist.

The orcs are thirsty. And so are Captain Frank Gerber's swords, but apparently, you can't murder your customers. Stuck with a nightclub after a job gone wrong, Frank has to figure out how to rebuild something he never even wanted. That's just the first of his problems. Frank's blades will have a taste of blood again, but first, he has to party with orcs, barter with gnomes, drink with dwarves, and make shady deals with the scum of Sankta Varath, the greatest city in all of Steelheart Kingdom. And that's just the first week.

1828. El Instituto Real de Traducción de Oxford, también conocido como Babel, es la institución mágica más importante del mundo. La magia con plata capaz de revelar significados ocultos perdidos en la traducción que allí se practica le ha otorgado al Imperio británico un poder sin parangón. Robin, un huérfano cantonés que ha terminado siendo alumno en Babel, se ha dado cuenta de que servir a Babel significa traicionar a su país de origen.

Sacrificing his life to protect his best friend was a decision Hui Yue did not regret. Yet who could have known that death was not the final destination, but rather the beginning of a new adventure into a world filled with demonic beasts and martial arts cultivation? Hui Yue soon finds that within this world, strength is what determined your future accomplishments...and there is no space for the weak. Embarking upon this new life, Hui Yue meets friends, experiences betrayal, and embarks on his own journey of cultivation to overcome his limits and increase his strength.

The eighth book in the bestselling Chronicles of St Mary's series which follows a group of tea-soaked disaster magnets as they hurtle their way around History. If you love Jasper Fforde or Ben Aaronovitch, you won't be able to resist Jodi Taylor.

The first volume of Gene Wolfe's powerful story of Latro, a Roman mercenary who received a head injury that deprived him of his short-term memory. In return it gave him the ability to converse with supernatural creatures, gods, and goddesses who invisibly inhabit the ancient landscape.

Frankreich im 14. Jahrhundert: das Land ist in Aufruhr. Während die Engländer in ihrem erbarmungslosen Eroberungswahn durch das Land streifen und Vernichtung und Tod verbreiten, erblickt in der Burg de Blois ein Zwillingspaar das Licht der Welt, das dazu bestimmt ist, den Lauf der Geschichte zu verändern. Doch Edward of Woodstock, der blutrünstige schwarze Prinz, steht bereits vor den Toren der Burg und überrennt sie mit seiner unerbittlichen und schwer bewaffneten Streitmacht. Sein grausames Ziel: die Neugeborenen mit dem Schwert zu richten und ihnen ihr Geburtsrecht zu nehmen.

Available for the first time as an audiobook in this original Outlander novella, Diana Gabaldon reveals what really happened to Roger MacKenzie Wakefield’s parents. Orphaned during World War II, Roger believed that his mother died during the London Blitz, and that his father, an RAF pilot, was killed in combat. But in An Echo in the Bone, Roger discovers that this may not be the whole story. Now, in "A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows," readers finally learn the truth.

The half-Immortal tyrant of Cai has been defeated, but at a devastating cost. Wu Ying has sacrificed both his chance at immortality and his greatest treasure. Now, gravely injured and with his cultivation path shattered, he has to rebuild with the help of his friends. To find his true destiny, Wu Ying must question everything he once knew, retracing his journey from the beginning. But this time, he does so with a broken body and shattered cultivation, racing against time before his injuries claim him.

A warrior with nothing to fight for is paired with a thieving assassin with nothing to lose. Together they must steal a treasure that no one can reach. The Crown Tower is the impregnable remains of the grandest fortress ever built and home to the realm’s most valuable possessions. But it isn’t gold or jewels the old wizard is after, and this prize can only be obtained by the combined talents of two remarkable men. Now if Arcadius can just keep Hadrian and Royce from killing each other, they just might succeed.

The ninth book in the bestselling Chronicles of St Mary's series which follows a group of tea-soaked disaster magnets as they hurtle their way around History. If you love Jasper Fforde or Ben Aaronovitch, you won't be able to resist Jodi Taylor.

In the cemetery of Drake’s Bend, a most unusual flower unfurls its bloom. The spectral orchid signals that a restless soul has returned—and it has unfinished business. Fern must piece together clues to settle a soul who lived an unremarkable life, before villagers are gathered in spectral arms to join it in death. But as Fern unravels the spirit’s final days, she discovers that person’s fate was bound to a far greater secret—one tied to her father’s murder. When another orchid flowers, the truth she has tried to discover for five years might finally be within her grasp…

In diesem letzten Band wird endlich die Wahrheit hinter Lady Trents berühmtberüchtigtstem Abenteuer enthüllt: Sie trotzte dem höchsten Gebirge der Welt, das weit hinter dem Territorium von Scirlands Feinden liegt - und machte dort im Heiligtum der Schwingen eine überraschende Entdeckung.

It had to happen. St Mary's is under investigation. Their director has been shot and Max is Number One Suspect. She needs to get away - fast - but dare she risk another jump so soon? And if she does, will it be a case of from the frying pan into the fire? We all know the answer to that one.

Sinnlich, düster und geheimnisvoll: Eine junge Frau in der tief verschneiten kanadischen Wildnis. Sagenumwobene Kreaturen, die nach Blut dürsten. Und ein mysteriöser Jäger, der für seinen Schutz einen hohen Preis fordert. Bist du bereit für den tiefen, dunklen Wald? Alberta im Winter 1795: Tief in der Wildnis lebt Kate als einzige Frau in einem Handelsposten der Hudson Bay Company.