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Set on a planet in a parallel universe where magic is a reality, these three high fantasy novels from the Witch World series transport you to the eastern continent of Estcarp, illustrating why prolific author Andre Norton was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Contains Trey of Swords, Ware Hawk, and The Gate of the Cat.

British flyer Will Laurence and his extraordinary Celestial dragon, Temeraire, gratefully anticipate their voyage home from China. But before they set sail, they are waylaid by urgent new orders. The British government, having purchased three valuable dragon eggs from the Ottoman Empire, now requires Laurence and Temeraire to make a more perilous overland journey instead, stopping off in Istanbul to collect and escort the precious cargo back to England. And time is of the essence if the eggs are to hatch upon British shores.

1341, sur les traces de son passé, le "Bâtard de Kosigan" et sa compagnie s'enfoncent dans les profondeurs de l'Empire germanique au service d'un puissant seigneur du Rhin. Les mystères s'épaississent, mêlant complots, magie et religion, sur fond de chasse aux sorcières. Le chevalier devra naviguer avec prudence sur des eaux redoutables où l'Inquisition rôde et où il est parfois difficile de distinguer amis et ennemis. À quelques siècles d'intervalle, Kergaël de Kosigan tente d'élucider les interrogations soulevées par les écrits de son ancêtre.

1340. Pierre Cordwain de Kosigan se retrouve mêlé à ce qui ressemble fort à un complot de grande envergure contre le roi de France. Il se pourrait que des forces supérieures soient à l'œuvre, menaçant la paix dans l'Europe tout entière. Cette fois, ses capacités surnaturelles ne suffiront pas à le tirer d'affaire. Bien au contraire, au milieu des trahisons et des soupçons de l'Inquisition, elles pourraient devenir sa plus grande faiblesse. 1899. Le descendant du Bâtard a subi une tentative d'assassinat. Ses proches cherchent à en découvrir l'auteur.

The land of Terre d'Ange is a place of unsurpassed beauty and grace. The inhabiting race rose from the seed of angels and men, and they live by one simple rule: Love as thou wilt. Phèdre nó Delaunay was sold into indentured servitude as a child. Her bond was purchased by a nobleman, the first to recognize that she is one pricked by Kushiel's Dart, chosen to forever experience pain and pleasure as one.

When HMS Reliant captures a French frigate and seizes its precious cargo - an unhatched dragon egg - fate sweeps Captain Will Laurence from his seafaring life into an uncertain future and an unexpected kinship with a most extraordinary creature. Thrust into the rarified world of the Aerial Corps as master of the dragon Temeraire, he will face a crash course in the daring tactics of airborne battle.

Set in the world of Larry Niven’s popular The Magic Goes Away, The Burning City transports listeners to an enchanted and ancient city bearing a provocative resemblance to our own modern society. There, Yangin-Atep, the volatile and voracious god of fire, alternately protects and destroys the city’s denizens. In Tep’s Town, nothing can burn indoors, and no fire can start - except when the Burning comes upon the city. At that time the people, possessed by Yangin-Atep, set their own town ablaze in a riotous orgy of destruction that often comes without warning

Filled with magic, heroism, and all-too-human characters, Bujold's Sharing Knife saga is both a gripping adventure and a poignant romance. In this second volume, Fawn Bluefield, the clever farm girl, and Dag Redwing Hickory, the seasoned Lakewalker soldier-sorcerer, are newly married. Their arrival at Dag's home on Hickory Lake Camp is met with prejudice and suspicion, as many in the camp deny the literal bond between Dag and Fawn, woven in blood in the Lakewalker magical way.

Mientras empeoran la violencia y el clima en los Siete Reinos, otra fuerza armada, surge desde más allá del Muro de Hielo: se trata de los Otros, un ejército sobrenatural de muertos vivientes, cuyos cuerpos inertes no podrán ser detenidos. Tormenta de espadas es el tercer volumen de Canción de hielo y fuego, la monumental saga de fantasía épica del escritor George R. R. Martin que ha vendido más de 20 millones de ejemplares en todo el mundo.

In the spring of 1914, renowned photographer August Sander took a photograph of three young men on their way to a country dance. This haunting image, capturing the last moments of innocence on the brink of World War I, provides the central focus of Powers' brilliant and compelling novel. As the fate of the three farmers is chronicled, two contemporary stories unfold.

For centuries, the vineyards at Château Renard have depended on the talent of their vine witches, whose spells help create the world-renowned wine of the Chanceaux Valley. Then the skill of divining harvests fell into ruin when sorcière Elena Boureanu was blindsided by a curse. Now, after breaking the spell that confined her to the shallows of a marshland and weakened her magic, Elena is struggling to return to her former life. And the vineyard she was destined to inherit is now in the possession of a handsome stranger.

Lean Times in Lankhmar, a gripping novella by Fritz Leiber Jr, follows the divergent paths of Faford and the Gray Mouser in the city of Lankhmar. The Gray Mouser becomes a Lieutenant for the city's top extortioner, dealing with the various religious sects on the Street of the Gods. Meanwhile, Fairford becomes an acolyte for the dottering apostle of the god, Issac of the Jug, setting the stage for a clash of interests between our two heroes. As the Issac of the Jug religion gains popularity and wealth, the Mouser is tasked with extracting funds from Fairford's mentor.

Doppo Kunikida is an idealist and a straitlaced detective at the Armed Detective Agency, an organization that takes on dangerous jobs even the police won’t handle. Everything in his life is going just as he’s planned…until one day, he’s paired up with the agency’s newest hire: a suspicious, eccentric, suicide-obsessed man named Osamu Dazai. Their first case together turns out to be far more complicated than Kunikida anticipated—and it looks like the detective agency’s sworn enemy, the Port Mafia, is somehow involved, too!

There is only one way to travel across the Wastelands: on the Trans-Siberian Express, a train as famous for its luxury as for its danger. The train is never short of passengers, eager to catch sight of Wastelands creatures more miraculous and terrifying than anything they could imagine. But on the train's last journey, something went horribly wrong, though no one seems to remember what exactly happened. Not even Zhang Weiwei, who has spent her life onboard and thought she knew all of the train’s secrets.

Risking her life to save her homeland, Shabon, a princess from the Nine-Headed Dragon Archipelago, joins Souma's side in hopes of stopping an impending war. But with a fleet already en route to the hostile archipelago under his orders, Souma sets out on an infiltration mission before it arrives, and he discovers that the real threat is a massive creature in their waters that defies all common sense!

The man who became known as Esrahaddon is reported to have destroyed the world’s greatest empire—but there are those who believe he saved it. Few individuals are as divisive, but all agree on three facts: He was exiled to the wilderness, hunted by a goblin priestess, and sentenced to death by a god—all before the age of eight. How he managed to survive and why people continued to fear his name a thousand years later has always been a mystery...until now.

Louis XIV transformed from the Sun King into the King of Shadows when he embraced immortality and became the world’s first vampire. For the last three centuries, he has been ruling the kingdom from the decadent Court of Shadows in Versailles, demanding the blood of his subjects to sate his nobles’ thirst and maintain their loyalty.

Pour Durzo Blint, l'assassinat est un art et il est l'artiste le plus accompli de la cité, grâce à des talents secrets hérités de la nuit des temps. Pour Azoth, survivre est une lutte de tous les instants. Le petit rat de la guilde a appris à juger les gens d'un seul coup d'œil et à prendre des risques,comme proposer à Durzo Blint de devenir son apprenti. Mais pour être accepté, il doit commencer par abandonner son ancienne vie, changer d'identité, aborder un monde d'intrigues politiques, d'effroyables dangers et de magies étranges, et sacrifier ce qui lui est le plus précieux...

Iceland, 976—Freydis Eiriksdottir, born to a völva mother and berserker father, lives a quiet life on her remote farmstead. Busy dreaming of the sea and haunted by the loss of her mother, she has no idea what the Norns have in store for her. When her father, Eirik the Red, marries the daughter of a powerful chieftain, the course of Freydis's life changes forever. Deciding that Freydis would be better off with the Gothar, Eirik sends his only daughter to serve the Norse gods. Freydis learns the ancient ways and discovers that her world is endangered.

Sein Schicksal liegt vor ihm, doch nur sein Mut kann ihm den Weg ebnen. Sein ganzes Leben war Angor kaum mehr als der Sohn eines Waffenschmiedes. Doch als ein Ritter des Reiches Nuray in sein Dorf kommt, bietet sich ihm eine Gelegenheit, die seine kühnsten Vorstellungen übertrifft. Von seinen Fähigkeiten mit dem Schwert überzeugt, bietet ihm der Ritter einen Platz unter den Verteidigern des Reiches an. Vor eine folgenreiche Entscheidung gestellt, greift Angor zum Schwert. Doch sein Wunsch nach ruhmreichen Abenteuern sieht sich schon bald einer erbarmungslosen Wahrheit gegenüber.