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In the port city of Kabrah, a desperate boy kills six with a sword that whispers promises of power, vengeance, and a throne. All it asks in return is blood. Shayne Fisher has spent months scraping together wages on the docks while his father rots in debtor’s prison. When thugs come to sell his sisters into slavery, the ancient weapon his father hid in the ceiling answers his prayer for help. But the sword’s voice grows louder with every kill, and Shayne’s ambitions are beginning to feel less like his own.

In this Short Story, follow Princess Astra, who has lived life with a silver spoon in her mouth, always getting what she wanted, when she wanted it. But when she meets a stranger of an older race, her life becomes an endless entrapment in darkness. Will she find a way to be free, or will she only know darkness for the rest of her days?

Combined for the first time in one volume are books #10-#12 of the internationally best-selling CLOAK MAGE series: CLOAK OF EMBERS, CLOAK OF TITANS, and CLOAK OF ILLUSION. My name is Nadia, and I'm a Marshal of the High Queen of the Elves. That means it's my responsibility to broker a peace deal between the dwarves and the Elven commoners... and there are lots of Elven nobles who would like to see the deal fail. So when the Lord Inquisitor Arvalaeon arrives on my doorstep, critically wounded and missing the last week of his memory, things have just gotten even more complicated.

Fitch is an orphan, a servant to dogs, and the lowest of the low in Castle Blacking, but he is a boy in love and he'll face untold terrors to prove himself. Karyzu is a blaggart, a brawler and a drunk, but he's also a legendary sword fighter and the only man around who has journeyed through Hell and lived to tell about it. Pursuing them both is Clayton Dower, the mysterious grave digger who won't rest until he sees what belongs buried stay buried.

When the mutilated body of a young man is discovered crucified in a shadowy Portsmouth alley, Detective Nicholas Cain, an immortal vampire with centuries of bloodstained experience, is thrust into the most chilling case of his career. The killer leaves no evidence, no motive, just an unsettling display of ritualistic brutality that speaks of a mind consumed by obsession. As the murders escalate, each scene becomes more elaborate, every victim meticulously posed like a grotesque masterpiece. But for the first time, Cain must face the darkness alone.

Armies have risen, the great machines of war are prepared, and the battle beasts are straining at their leashes. Despite Arcaena’s every attempt to prevent it, the full might of three kingdoms have gathered at her borders. From all outward appearances, Brin is finally on the stronger side.

Michael finds himself in the realm of the Forever Kingdom, with no memory of how he got there and who he is. Even so, he must participate in the Grand Game and forge a new destiny for himself. Dropped into a dungeon of monsters and strange magics, would you survive in a game where to lose means death? Alone, and with little more than his wits to aid him, Michael must advance as a player, slay his foes, and gain experience. All while navigating the intrigues around him and discovering his purpose.

Tamsyn Muir’s Gideon the Ninth unveils a solar system of swordplay, cut-throat politics, and lesbian necromancers. Her characters leap out of the audio, as skillfully animated as arcane revenants. The result is a heart-pounding epic science fantasy. Brought up by unfriendly, ossifying nuns, ancient retainers, and countless skeletons, Gideon is ready to abandon a life of servitude and an afterlife as a reanimated corpse.

For humans and vampires, the rules of survival are the same: never trust, never yield, and always– always–guard your heart. The adopted human daughter of the Nightborn vampire king, Oraya carved her place in a world designed to kill her. Her only chance to become something more than prey is...

From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire...

Wed me. Bed me. Slit my throat. Born in dirt, raised in rot, I dig graves for the dead, while the living decay around me. When my brother coughs blood, he appears. A man too polished for the graveyard, with a bargain too cruel for the light: Seduce the King. Become the Queen. Die. And my brother...

1828. Un jeune orphelin chinois est recueilli à Canton par un professeur et conduit à Londres. Rebaptisé Robin Swift, le jeune garçon consacre ses journées à l'étude des langues dans l'optique d'intégrer le prestigieux Institut royal de traduction de l'Université d'Oxford, plus connu sous le nom de Babel. Berceau de l'argentogravure, les étudiants y exploitent le sens perdu des mots à l'aide de barres d'argent enchantées.

THE BOOK BEHIND THE SECOND SEASON OF GAME OF THRONES, AN ORIGINAL SERIES NOW ON HBO. In this sequel to A Game of Thrones, George Martin pursues the embattled Seven Kingdoms through a bitter 10-year winter in which good and evil contend for power. When cruel Queen Cerisi's son takes the Iron...

In the wake of an unexpected homecoming, Jason questions if there is still a place for him in the world he left behind. Forced to confront what he has become in his time away, he feels more alien than ever. But his old world is hiding secrets that he never knew. As he starts to unravel what has been hidden from him his entire life, he discovers that not only might he fit in better than ever but he may be exactly what the world needs.

”Then, Samkiel, you will know this is how the world ends.” But it was not this world. No, it was mine. It was Dianna. The world quakes in fear as the last shred of Dianna’s humanity is ripped from her. As it should. Grief consumes Dianna, burning away any semblance of good within her and...

A betrayal. A deadly secret. An unlikely ally. Valerie Darkmore’s entire life has been building up to this moment —her initiation into the Marionettes, the prestigious league of witches sworn to serve the vampires. As one of the last remaining blood witches, her spot is almost guaranteed. At least, so she’d thought. The academy is full of sabotage and secrets as the tasks begin, and Valerie quickly realizes she has more than her spot on the line. Her survival seems just as uncertain.

Bloomsbury presents Piranesi by Susanna Clarke, read by Chiwetel Ejiofor. WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2021 WINNER OF THE KITSCHIES' 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE THE TIMES, GUARDIAN...

The complete unabridged audiobook of J.R.R Tolkien's The Silmarillion. The Silmarillion is an account of the Elder Days, of the First Age of Tolkien’s world. It is the ancient drama to which the characters in The Lord of the Rings look back, and in whose events some of them such as Elrond and Galadriel took part.

Winner of the 2023 Audie Award for Best Male Narrator Master storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this #1 New York Times bestselling and spellbinding novel about a young man who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the...