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Return to Fillory in the riveting sequel to the New York Times bestseller and literary phenomenon, The Magicians, now an original series on Syfy, from the author of the #1 bestselling The Magician’s Land. Quentin Coldwater should be happy. He escaped a miserable Brooklyn childhood...

Lev Grossman’s new novel THE BRIGHT SWORD is out now! The stunning #1 New York Times bestselling conclusion to the Magicians trilogy A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR ONE OF THE YEAR’S BEST BOOKS The San Francisco Chronicle Salon The Christian Science Monitor AV Club...

Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden is Chicago's only openly practicing wizard. He is also dead broke. His vast knowledge and magical skills are unfortunately matched by his talent for making powerful enemies and alienating friends. With little more than his integrity left, he accepts an offer of work from Lt. Karin Murphy of Chicago's Special Investigations Unit. He wants to redeem himself in Murphy's eyes and make enough money to quiet his rumbling stomach.

Welcome to Charon's Crossing. The tea is hot, the scones are fresh, and the dead are just passing through. When a reaper comes to collect Wallace from his own funeral, Wallace begins to suspect he might be dead. And when Hugo, the owner of a peculiar tea shop, promises to help him cross over, Wallace decides he’s definitely dead.

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...

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...

Perfect for fans of the Threadneedle series, lose yourself in this brand-new paranormal fantasy. Available to pre-order now! Pepper Montgomery is a mortal woman on a desperate quest to save her dying sister. When a trail of cryptic breadcrumbs leads her to the elusive Night Market – a hidden...

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.

संध्या के सुपर पॉवर- सुपरपॉवर किसे अच्छे नहीं लगते लेकिन संध्या अपने सुपरपॉवर से छुटकारा चाहती है...

As Alessia Wells dons her crown as the first Fae Queen in centuries . . . She’s faced with what feels like insurmountable hurdles. When deadly attacks pop up across The Isle, it’s up to Alessia to put an end to the danger. But how can she stop the attacks when she can’t even control her...

When Vera—tall, brilliant of mind, and newly proud of her magefolk heritage—marries Mr Faulkner and leaves Pink, Oklahoma, for a fresh start in Geneva with her husband, she hopes distance will dull the shadows that have haunted her. Instead, she carries with her a secret that could shatter everything: she is pregnant, and she cannot tell whether the child growing inside her is her husband’s or the result of a brutal assault by the demon Dougal—the same creature that has terrorised the townsfolk of Pink, Oklahoma.

*NATIONAL BESTSELLER* In the fifth book in the sensational, cozy Before the Coffee Gets Cold series translated from Japanese, the mysterious café where customers arrive hoping to travel back in time welcomes four new guests: The father who could not allow his daughter to get married A woman who...

In this ordinary North Carolina suburb, family secrets are always in bloom. Samantha Montgomery pulls into the driveway of her family home to find a massive black vulture perched on the mailbox, staring at the house. Inside, everything has changed. Gone is the eclectic warmth Sam expects; instead the walls are a sterile white. Now, it's very important to say grace before dinner, and her mother won't hear a word against Sam's long-dead and little-missed grandmother, who was the first to put down roots in this small Southern town.

Las decisiones que tomamos, por muy pequeñas que sean, marcan el rumbo de nuestras vidas. Cuando Nora Clayton, una importante vicepresidenta ejecutiva de una gran compañía farmacéutica de Nueva York, debe despedir a diez mil trabajadores que serán sustituidos por maquinaria robotizada, desata la furia de Bonnie Larson.

Strange things exist on the periphery of our existence, haunting us from the darkness looming beyond our firelight. Black magic, weird cults, and worse things loom in the shadows. The Children of Old Leech have been with us from time immemorial. And they love us.... Donald Miller, geologist and academic, has walked along the edge of a chasm for most of his nearly 80 years, leading a charmed life between endearing absent-mindedness and sanity-shattering realization. Now, all things must converge.

No secret stays hidden forever. A phone call from an old friend sets mysterious book researcher Giovanni Vecchio back on the path of a mystery that has eluded him for centuries. Little does he suspect a young librarian holds the key to an ancient secret, nor could he expect the danger Beatrice De Novo would attract. Now both will follow a twisted maze leading from the archives of a university library, through the fires of Renaissance Florence, and toward a passion that could destroy them both.

A magical serial killer is on the loose, and gelatinous, otherworldly creatures are infesting the English countryside. Which is making life for the Ministry of Occultism difficult, because magic is supposed to be their best kept secret. After centuries in the shadows, the Ministry is forced to unmask, exposing the country's magical history - and magical citizens - to a brave new world of social media, government scrutiny, and public relations.