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Noah is a rockstar with a death sentence. A year at most. That’s the verdict. Faced with a terminal diagnosis, the cynical punk singer flees the city for the frozen wilderness of upstate New York, hunting the legend, Nana Kay. They say she’s older than the Earth. They say she can cure the incurable. But when a blizzard traps Noah in her isolated cabin, the "cure" is nothing like he imagined. Eerie rituals, a guarded shed that protects her secrets, unexplainable things happening daily—Noah begins to fear for his life. To survive, he must first lose everything he thinks he knows.

Helgonen är en fascinerande skara, men kunskapen om dem är tämligen tunnsådd. De skymtar fram då och då i olika kulturella och historiska sammanhang utan att vi tänker så mycket på dem. Förvisso varvas då många gånger fakta med fiktion, men alternativa sanningar hör ju vår tid...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Some stories are famous. Some you've never heard. Do you know the lore in your state? From the Mothman to the Jersey Devil, the Bell Witch to the Lost Dutchman's Mine, American Legends takes you state by state through the creatures, curses, and...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if the most important non-human intelligence in fiction isn't in a spaceship - it's a sixty-pound English bulldog? Alex Lucio's debut novel The Weight of a Dog returns in the form it was written to become: an immersive full-cast audio drama...

Vicious Creatures, a new HarperVoyager book, full description to follow when available...

På sajten storiesofbrokenhearts.com samlas människor från hela världen för att anonymt skriva av sig om hjärtesorg, krossade ambitioner och allt annat som får livet att suga. Här möts amerikanen Jake, som trots att han egentligen är mitt uppe i sitt livs dröm helt tappat greppet, och...

The fate of two gods. The chosen one lying in a grave. No one will notice this imposter’s lack of magic, right? Seraphina Jones' aspirations are stuck on hold. Trapped in dead-end jobs and failed relationships, the dejected wannabe-journalist trudges through a mundane existence in London while...

There’s only one rule that truly matters. Never fall in love with a human. Break it and die. Exiled to Earth, Sav Briar is supposed to keep her head down—no magic, no mess, no attachments. When the rebel leader’s raid hits too close and drags her into their war, she crafts a dangerous plan to save her people. Jack, the rebel leader's son, was meant to watch her, nothing more. Instead, Sav drags him with her to Faerie and turns him into leverage to free the fae his father holds. It should have been simple. Then glances linger. Arguments burn hot.

Iliaden bygger på sagnet om prins Paris fra Troja, hvis bortførelse af den smukke Helene, gift med spartanerkongen Menelaos, fører til grækernes ti år lange krig og belejring af Troja. Iliaden beskriver nogle få uger i det sidste år af den ti år lange trojanske krig, hvor grækerne...

Everyone wants me to fail. I did a bad, bad thing. I tried to kill someone. Not just any someone, but an important vampire prince. But I paid my dues, and now I’m out, desperate to prove I can still be the kind of assassin people want to hire. Unfortunately, things aren’t that simple. The only way to become an assassin of worth is to graduate from the Guild of Assassins. And stepping back into the real world isn’t easy. Not when the two men who betrayed me are fighting for their positions at the guild right alongside me. And the vampire I tried to kill? He’s my mentor. Fun, fun.

Ganga, joyful goddess of the river, serves as caretaker to the mischievous godlings who roam her banks. But when their antics incur the wrath of a powerful sage, Ganga is cursed to become mortal, bound to her human form until she fulfils the obligations of the curse. Though she knows nothing of mortal life, Ganga weds King Shantanu and becomes a queen, determined to regain her freedom no matter the cost. But in a cruel turn of fate, just as she is freed of her binding, she is forced to leave her infant son behind. Her son, prince Devavrata, unwittingly carries the legacy of Ganga's curse. 

On the island of Ithaca, queen Penelope maintains a delicate balance of power. Many years ago, her husband Odysseus sailed to war with Troy and never returned. In his absence, Penelope uses all her cunning to keep the peace - but this is shattered with the arrival of Orestes, King of Mycenae. Orestes, son of Agamemnon, is mad. Wracked with guilt for putting his own mother to death, he grows ever more unhinged. But a king cannot be seen to be weak. To keep him safe from the ambitious men of Mycenae, his sister Elektra brings him to Ithaca to recover under the protection of Penelope.

Off the coast of Ireland sits a legendary island hidden by magic. A place of ruins and ancient trees, sea-salt air and fairy lore, Hy-Brasil is the only home Biddy has ever known. Washed up on its shore as a baby, Biddy lives a quiet life with her guardian, the mercurial magician Rowan. A life she finds increasingly stifling. One night, Rowan fails to return from his mysterious travels. To find him, Biddy must venture into the outside world for the first time. But Rowan has powerful enemies-forces who have hoarded the world's magic and have set their sights on the magician's secrets.

With her strange black eyes and even stranger fainting spells, Haelewise is shunned by her village, and her only solace lies in the stories her mother tells of child-stealing witches, of princes in wolf-skins, of an ancient tower cloaked in mist where women will find shelter if they are brave enough to seek it. But when her mother dies, Haelewise is left unmoored. With nothing left for her in her village, she sets out to find the tower of legend-a place called Gothel, where Haelewise meets a wise woman willing to take her under her wing.

'I was born on the full moon under an auspicious constellation, the holiest of positions—much good it did me.' So begins Kaikeyi's story. The only daughter of the kingdom of Kekaya, she is raised on tales of the gods: how they churned the vast ocean to obtain the nectar of immortality, how they vanquish evil and ensure the land of Bharat prospers, and how they offer powerful boons to the devout and the wise. Yet she watches as her father unceremoniously banishes her mother, listens as her own worth is reduced to how great a marriage alliance she can secure. 

The marriageable young ladies of London are dying mysteriously, and Abigail Wilder intends to discover why. Abigail's father, the Lord Sorcier of England, believes that a dark lord of faerie is involved—but while Abigail is willing to match her magic against Lord Longshadow, neither her father nor high society believe that she is capable of doing so. Thankfully, Abigail is not the only one investigating the terrible events in London. 

Red and the Wolf have finally contained the threat of the Five Kings, but at a steep cost. Red's beloved sister—Neve, the First Daughter—is lost in the Shadowlands. But Neve has an ally, even if it's one she'd rather never speak to again—the rogue king Solmir. Together they must journey across a dangerous landscape to find the mysterious Heart Tree—and finally claim the gods' dark, twisted powers for themselves.

Shortlisted for the 2021 Prime Minister's Literary Awards ‘A fox could be a shape-shifter, a spirit being. It could appear in human form if this suited its purposes; it could come and go as it pleased, play tricks, lead men astray.’ A film director in Hackney with a fox problem in her garden...

In the city of Shadow, beneath the World Tree, alleyways shimmer with magic and godlings live hidden among mortalkind. Oree Shoth, a blind artist, takes in a homeless man who glows like a living sun to her strange sight. However, this act of kindness is to engulf Oree in a nightmarish conspiracy. Someone, somehow, is murdering godlings, leaving their desecrated bodies all over the city. Oree's peculiar guest is at the heart of it, his presence putting her in mortal danger - but is it him the killers want, or Oree? 

Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned to the majestic city of Sky - a palace above the clouds where gods' and mortals' lives are intertwined. There, to her shock, Yeine is named one of the potential heirs to the king. But the throne of the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is not easily won and Yeine is thrust into a vicious power struggle with a pair of cousins she never knew she had. As she fights for her life, she draws ever closer to the secrets of her mother's death and her family's bloody history.