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Après plusieurs semaines de navigation, le prince Devoir et les siens posent enfin le pied sur l'île d'Aslevjal. C'est au cœur de cet enfer de glace et de neige que le prince doit honorer sa promesse: ramener la tête du dragon Glasfeu. Mais entre les conditions climatiques hostiles, l'animosité d'une partie des Outrîliens qui les accompagnent, ou encore la mauvaise humeur de Lourd dont les attaques d'art incontrôlées gagnent sans cesse en puissance, l'expédition peine à atteindre son but.

The Realm of Dreich is a getaway for the rich and powerful, a medieval-inspired town in the middle of a vast frozen wilderness. Now it’s the site of a wedding, intended to join two feuding families who have spent centuries in an uneasy truce with each other. When Tommy Carpenter asks his best friend, Nate Garrett, to help him with the security of the wedding, Nate reluctantly agrees, knowing that it will be a long weekend of work and, in all probability, treachery.

A heart-wrenching standalone novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author TJ Klune, We Burned So Bright follows an elder gay couple on an end-of-the-world road-trip. "Narrator Kirt Graves strikes just the right notes in this thoughtful exploration of grief, life, and the afterlife" —Kirkus...

Où il est question de n’avoir plus que deux mois à vivre, de décider que ce n’est pas si grave que ça, d’aller boire un coup entre potes et de réfléchir à comment transformer son enterrement en énorme fête.

After breaking from life with the Pack, mercenary Kate Daniels and her mate - former Beast Lord Curran Lennart - are adjusting to a very different pace. While they're thrilled to escape all the infighting, Curran misses the constant challenges of leading the shapeshifters.

Ninth House meets Babel for fans of myth and folklore in this contemporary fantasy about a Korean-American college student at a magical university where fairy tales intersect with family heritage to unleash powers beyond imagining. “You always wanted magic to be real.” Sharon and her...

A hauntingly beautiful and radically disorienting tale by the International Booker Prize-nominated author of Eurotrash. Paul, a Swiss interior designer living alone in the remote Orkney Islands, receives an unusual commission from Kuki, a prestigious design magazine: travel to a massive data...

Tabitha Greene knows more about magical theory than any witch and most of the wizards of her world. She thrives at research and tweaking the writing of spells to best suit their casters. A lifetime of thinking she possessed no magic forged such skills in her. And she excelled at her chosen craft. Then she learned that the magic she possessed wasn't too weak. It was too powerful. Too uncontrollable. Too forbidden. Basically, it was pure chaos. No, literally, it was pure chaos.

If the dragons don't kill you, the deadlines will. At the Tower of Jackdaw and Spittlelick, magic isn't wild or romantic. It's regulated, audited, and buried under paperwork. Ivy Armstride is a junior mage trying to survive a workplace where spells misfire, mentors are eccentric at best, and...

Robyn has a vivid imagination, even for a twelve-year-old. Vivid enough to create herself a companion—but Ed isn’t your ordinary imaginary friend. Ed is a Dimetrodon, an ancient beast from a forgotten age.

Tess Tulley is the proud proprietor of Mill City Investigations—the premier (if you ask her) private investigation business in her small Massachusetts city. Business is slow, especially after she blew up her credibility among her fellow Spinners (do not call them witches) by turning in her own uncle for a crime spree three years ago. Loyalty among Spinners is top priority, and Tess’s decision to put the investigation over her coven has left her out in the cold.

In the aftermath of a wager gone terribly wrong, Rajani, the God of Violence, has made a mistake. In his rage, he has broken a cardinal rule and directly interfered with fate, leading to the severing of a sacred Red Thread. He thinks he has gotten away with it; thinks that nobody besides the equally culpable God of Love, Halia, witnessed his crime. But he is wrong. Truth and Vengeance saw. As did the severed Red Thread of Fate who screams for retribution. Together, they will seek out the mortal man whose world was shattered and offer him justice... at any cost.

Die junge Reporterin Ivy Briggs reist auf die geheimnisvolle Isle of Veil, eine abgelegene Insel vor der Südküste Englands. Doch ausgerechnet Dr. Bennett Wyler, der charismatische Leiter der Station, macht ihr das Leben schwer. Gerade als sie beginnt, sich an die eigenwillige Umgebung und die liebenswert-chaotischen Dämonenwelpen zu gewöhnen, erschüttert ein Mord die Aufzuchtstation. Um die Schließung der Station zu verhindern, bleibt Ivy und Bennett nur eines zu tun: Sie müssen zusammenarbeiten.

Vincent Lupo is a jaded, wine-soaked immortal just trying to finish writing his latest smutty novel and avoid the people he’s wronged—magical or otherwise. Then a severed head turns up in his fridge, branded with an invocation sigil and whispering lines from a play he wrote a century ago. A play the wrong people believe is prophecy. Now Vincent’s neck-deep in death cults, cursed scripts, and a once-devoted mortal aide who’s now a cult leader hellbent on crafting his own narrative—and casting Vincent as the unwilling Bloodbard at centre stage.

Edgar does not cheat in flower shows. He might use a magically enhanced serum, but anyone could do that. It's not his fault the other competitors don’t know magic exists! But when the Ivy House crew goes to the pre-show to support him, it becomes clear that someone should've been watching Edgar much more carefully. What he's done is way worse than overgrown flora.

The first book in a delightfully witty fantasy series in which Dr. Greta Helsing, doctor to the undead, must defend London from both supernatural ailments and a bloodthirsty cult. Greta Helsing inherited her family's highly specialized and highly peculiar medical practice. In her consulting...

Saint Weirdo returns to the Holy City, and surely a few months of peace and calm await the masochist healer back on his own turf. This time, for sure! Yeah, right. Luciel’s homecoming is less a vacation and more a pitstop on his never-ending list of responsibilities as an S-rank healer. The enigma that is Estia and her connection to the mysterious Lihzalea loom in the background, as all the while the Church continues to reel under the changes its newest S-rank brought so suddenly.

It's not just boba now. Together with his friends, Arthur is at the frontier of the Demon World, building a brand-new town, one stone at a time. After one particularly stubborn owl won an argument with the system, Arthur blazed a trail with the rest of his friends toward the frontiers of the demon world. All around him is a world untouched by demons. Now, he needs to tame the wilderness into the shape of a town. Luckily, he has help.

All of America knows what happened in Sanctuary - a boy lost his footing at a party and a town went mad with grief. But not everyone believes it. Now Detective Maggie Knight is forced before a congressional hearing, following a revival of persecution that hasn't been seen since Salem. Exiled witch Sarah Fenn and her daughter Harper fled, seeking refuge. Instead, they find hope carried on whispers of a dangerous magic and a centuries-old legend promising power.

Three-time Hugo Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N.K. Jemisin crafts her most incredible novel yet, a "glorious" story of culture, identity, magic, and myths in contemporary New York City. In Manhattan, a young grad student gets off the train and realizes he doesn't remember...