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Holly only wants to heal her sick mother and live a simple village life, not be whisked away to a strange realm and possibly get killed by a dangerous fae warrior. But sometimes fate has other plans. Far from home, his horse and eagle missing, Gadriel, the cursed heir to the Throne of Five, captures a human girl, mistaking her for the evil sorceress foretold to bring about the fall of his beloved kingdom.

Drawing on a rich history of myth and legend, and yet unmistakably of the moment, Hero is a love story about what it means for women to be supporting characters in a world written by men. How can you be yourself when you are a product of other people’s imaginations? How can you love another person and be free?

Jane Crowe is an ordinary peasant girl who never dreamed she would work for the infamous Lord of the Greenwood. But when she’s forced out of her home, she has no choice but to turn to Robin Hood for help—and he makes her an irresistible offer. He needs a pair of eyes in the King’s Houses, and quiet, unassuming Jane—who has spent her whole life going unnoticed—will be the perfect spy. At first, Jane’s work for Robin seems straightforward. She whispers to him about the nobles at King’s Houses and all their secrets, including the new Sheriff of Nottingham.

Cora Zeng is a crime scene cleaner, washing away the remains of brutal murders and suicides in Chinatown. But none of that seems so terrible when she’s already witnessed the most horrific thing possible: her sister, Delilah, being pushed in front of a train. Before fleeing the scene, the murderer shouted two words: bat eater. So the bloody messes don’t really bother Cora—she’s more bothered by the germs on the subway railing, the bare hands of a stranger, the hidden viruses in every corner, and the bite marks on her coffee table.

പാണ്ഡവരുടെ ദുരിതപൂര്‍ണ്ണമായ ജീവിതനാളു കളില്‍ ശ്രീകൃഷ്ണന്‍ ഉപദേഷ്ടാവായും വഴികാട്ടിയായും അവരോടൊപ്പം എങ്ങനെയാണു നിന്നതെന്ന് ഈ കൃതിയില്‍ കെ. എം. മുന്‍ഷി ആഖ്യാനം ചെയ്തിരിക്കുന്നു. കൃഷ്ണന്റെ സാന്നിദ്ധ്യത്തില്‍ പാണ്ഡവരില്‍ ഒരുവനായ ഭീമസേനന്റെ ശക്തിദൗര്‍ല്യങ്ങളും മോഹ ങ്ങളും പൊങ്ങച്ചങ്ങളും വിഡ്ഢിത്തങ്ങളും എല്ലാം അനാവരണം ചെയ്യപ്പെടുന്നുണ്ട് ഈ നോവലില്‍.

SHE HOLDS THE POWER OF A GOD, BUT WILL IT COST HER EVERYTHING? Lena's life changes forever when she discovers a mysterious amulet on a dig in Greece. One touch binds her to Hecate, the goddess of witchcraft— who is, shockingly, a devastatingly handsome Greek god named Hector. Her newfound power makes her a target for gods and monsters eager to control fate itself.

Beneath tangled roots and mossy hills lies a world hidden from human eyes—a labyrinth of cozy tunnels lit by acorn lanterns, where mice write poetry by candlelight, rabbits tend enchanted herb gardens, and badgers brew magical ales that sparkle like stardust. This is the realm of the Burrowfolk, a place of wonder, whimsy, and ancient magic tied to the roots of the Heart Oak Tree, the source of all their enchantments.

Sybil Vandeleur, the last known unicorn shifter, is free from the queen's grasp, but trapped under the mountain of Aldervora, searching for the lost library and white witches in a desperate attempt to save her kind. Aramis, Prince of Shadowvale, finds himself powerless and without a throne after making a bargain to rescue her with the rebels who he’s spent his whole life hunting down. Will love and determination be enough to overcome the obstacles that stand in their way? Or will they be torn apart, destined to be enemies forever?

All Tom wanted was to do his job. But when he accidentally walks into the middle of a feud between two sweet little old ladies, he finds out life in Fernald Court old age housing isn’t what it seems. There’s blood on the rooftops, bodies on the floor, and oddities skulking in the night. And though the ladies are little and old, one of them is the furthest thing from sweet.

Peter kann mit Tieren sprechen. Peter lebt ein ganz normales Leben, bis er eines Tages durch den jungen Hasen Oskar entdeckt, dass er mit Tieren sprechen kann. Als er den Oskar beim Gartenzaun trifft, erfährt er, dass Oskars Eltern verschwunden sind und er sich große Sorgen macht. Gemeinsam machen sich die beiden auf eine abenteuerliche Suche durch den Wald, um Oskars Eltern zu finden. Unterwegs begegnen sie verschiedenen Tieren, die Peter mit seiner besonderen Gabe verstehen kann, darunter auch ein Uhu, der sich über die Störungen beschwert.

Ausgebrochen aus den Fesseln einer unglücklichen Ehe, findet Morgan Zuflucht Camelot – der Stadt der Träume und des Friedens. Ihr Bruder, König Arthur, schätzt sie endlich als seine intelligente Beraterin und etabliert sie als festen Bestandteil seines engsten Vertrautenkreises. Doch Morgans Leben ist alles andere als unkompliziert. Ihr rachsüchtiger Ehemann will den gemeinsamen Sohn an sich reißen und auch die strengen Vorschriften am Hof führen immer wieder zu Schwierigkeiten.

Setting aside the streamlining, modernizing approach of many recent translations, Mendelsohn artfully reproduces the epic’s formal qualities – meter, enjambment, alliteration, assonance – and in so doing restores to Homer’s masterwork its archaic grandeur. His expansive six-beat line, far closer to the original than that of other recent translations, allows him to capture each of Homer’s verses line for line, without sacrificing the amplitude and shadings of the original.

Curiosity is certain she saw fairies at the bottom of the garden. Little does she know . . . they saw her first. Emotionally abandoned by her mother and infatuated by a figurine of a fairy ballerina she discovers in an old toy shop, eight-year-old Curiosity Portland steals the figurine, unleashing strange and frightening happenings around her home which, in turn, reveals a disturbing family history. An ominous tale of faerie folk.

এক শস্যক্ষেত্রে একটি পরিত্যক্ত শিশুকন্যাকে পাওয়া যায় এক দল খুনে নেকড়ের হাত থেকে এক শকুনের দ্বারা রক্ষিত অবস্থায়। সেই কন্যাকে মিথিলা নামের এক শক্তিহীন, সবার দ্বারা উপেক্ষিত রাজ্যের রাজা দত্তক নেন. কেউ বিশ্বাস করে না এই কন্যার কোনো মূল্য আছে বলে. কিন্তু তারা সকলেই ভুল ছিল. কারণ সে কোনো সামান্য নারী নয়. সে সীতা! রামচন্দ্র ধারাবাহিকের দ্বিতীয় বিয়ের সঙ্গে অব্যাহত এই মহাকাব্যিক যাত্রা, এক রোমাঞ্চকর অভিযান যা বিব্রত করে এক আশ্রিত শিশুর উপাখ্যান, যে হয়ে ওঠে একজন প্রধান মন্ত্রী এবং তারপর এক দেবী!

Eight months ago, Rowena Downshire was a half-starved black market courier darting through the shadows of Corma's underside. Today, she's a (mostly) respectable clerk in the Alchemist's infamous apothecary shop, the Stone Scales, and certainly the last girl one would think qualified to carry the weight of the world on her shoulders a second time. Looks can be deceiving. When Anselm Meteron and the Alchemist receive an invitation to an old acquaintance's ball, they're expecting blackmail, graft, or veiled threats related to the plot to steal the secrets of the Creator's Grand Experiment.

Black market courier Rowena Downshire is just trying to pay her mother's freedom from debtor's prison when an urgent and unexpected delivery leads her face to face with a creature out of nightmares. Rowena escapes with her life, but the strange book she was ordered to deliver is stolen. The Alchemist knows things few men have lived to tell about, and when Rowena shows up on his doorstep, frightened and empty-handed, he knows better than to turn her away. What he discovers leads him to ask for help from the last man he wants to see—the former mercenary, Anselm Meteron.

In a remote castle perched atop a windswept island, a long-awaited royal heir is born. In accordance with ancient custom, a blessing ceremony takes place to bestow the princess with magical gifts – along with a terrible curse. Except this is not the love story you may think you know. There is no enchanted sleep for the princess, and no handsome prince to save the day. Just three women, who together concoct a desperate plan of misdirect that changes the course of all their lives.

The Winter Court princess must find the next piece of the puzzle to end the curse ravaging her lands.

Now imprisoned in Moros, buried deep in the Land of the Dead, Finnian is determined to right a wrong he made centuries ago. Somewhere in the hellish landscape is his father, and he intends to find him and flee their chains together. Cassian, the High God of Death and Curses, has one desire: get Finnian to confess where he’s hiding a valuable weapon—one deadly to deities. For centuries, the High Goddess of Fate has plagued Cassian over a dispute that took place between them long ago.

Death rarely lingers… but this time, it pauses. When a young woman hovers on the edge of darkness, she encounters a shadow unlike any she could have foreseen—gentle yet unyielding, a figure with secrets woven deep within a veiled gaze. An unexpected reflection beside her, offering one of countless paths through sorrow, fractured memories, and a strange, elusive solace. As she steps into the depths of her own shadows, she glimpses a world stretching far beyond loss, a place where some find something close to peace while others stumble into something far from it.