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In the House of the Dead he has been given a name. That name is Wakim, but Wakim knows that this name is not his true name not the name that he carried with him in life. Wakim has been commanded by his master Anubus to find and destroy The Prince Who Was A Thousand. Wakim leaves the House of the Dead intent on carrying out his mission to destroy The Prince Who Was A Thousand, but he has a second personal mission...to find his true name. And if he does Wakim cannot even imagine how that will change everything.

I decided that Orion Lake needed to die after the second time he saved my life. Everyone loves Orion Lake. Everyone else, that is. Far as I’m concerned, he can keep his flashy combat magic to himself. I’m not joining his pack of adoring fans. I don’t need help surviving the Scholomance, even if they do. Forget the hordes of monsters and cursed artifacts; I’m probably the most dangerous thing in the place. Just give me a chance and I’ll level mountains and kill untold millions, making myself the dark queen of the world.

Putting the fey tragedy behind him, Erich arrives at the Rhinian capital and begins his term of service under Lady Agrippina at the Imperial College of Magic. There, he draws the attention of a troubling wardrobe connoisseur but has no choice but to press on and earn his sister's tuition. After befriending a student at the College, the two set off on one of Agrippina's simple errands—until the Goddess of Dice turns their quick chore into a full-blown dungeon crawl!

The Carls just appeared. Coming home from work at three a.m., 23-year-old April May stumbles across a giant sculpture. Delighted by its appearance and craftsmanship - like a 10-foot-tall Transformer wearing a suit of samurai armor - April and her friend Andy make a video with it, which Andy uploads Online. The next day April wakes up to a viral video and a new life. News quickly spreads that there are Carls in dozens of cities around the world - everywhere from Beijing to Buenos Aires - and April, as their first documentarian, finds herself at the center of an intense media spotlight.

The Wild Things by Dave Eggers is the novelisation of Maurice Sendak's classic. Max likes to make noise, get dirty, ride his bike without a helmet and howl like a wolf. In any other age he would have just been considered a boy. These days he is considered wilful and deranged. After a row with his mother, Max runs away. He jumps into a boat and sails across the ocean to a strange island where giant and destructive beasts reign—the Wild Things. After almost being eaten, Max gains their trust, and he is made their king. But what will he do with the responsibility?

For Franny, the end of everything is just the beginning of her adventure. The world as we know it is no more. Cities are mobile. Electricity is rare. Reading is a relic of the past. After an explosive encounter with a mysterious stranger, Franny, a 14-year-old orphan girl, embarks on an epic quest to find the mysterious pilots who steer the cities, hoping that if she finds them, she will get answers about her family's past - and the world's future.

Thomas Quinn is a sorcerer haunted by the memories of the things he's done over centuries of service to the Arcanum. From battling djinn to killing demigods and dragons, the scars and nightmares have left him a broken man. He has long retired from that life, running an occult shop in Philadelphia for the past several decades, wanting nothing more than to be left alone with his books and his whiskey and his shame. But when two detectives come to his door asking about a brutal ritual murder in his city, Quinn must reluctantly take up the mantle of a sorcerer of the Arcanum once more.

An aura of mean-minded resentfulness is thick in the streets of Ankh-Morpork. Insurrection is in the air. The Haves and Have-Nots are about to fall out all over again. The Have-Nots want some of their own magic. But magic in the hands of amateurs is a dangerous thing. The City Watch is the last line of defence against such unnatural goings-on. But when even the Watch have trouble telling right from wrong, you know that law and order ain't what they used to be. But that's all about to change.

Subject 336, once a victim of sinister experiments designed to replicate her extraordinary abilities, now grapples with the consequences of her captors' actions. Unbeknownst to them, they unleashed a primal force that laid waste to their facility and left her haunted by the aftermath. Adrift and uncertain, Subject 336 embarks on a perilous journey from the scorching Mexican desert to the lush Colombian Amazon, all while the Third World War rages on.

When Selena travels to the remote desert town of Quartz Creek in search of her estranged Aunt Amelia, she is desperate and short of options. Fleeing an unhappy marriage, she has exactly twenty-seven dollars to her name, and her only friend in the world is her dog, Copper. On arrival, Selena learns Amelia is dead. But the inhabitants of Quartz Creek are only too happy to have a new resident. Out of money and ideas, Selena sees no harm staying in her aunt’s lovely house for a few weeks, tending to her garden and enjoying the strange, desolate beauty of the desert.

Jane est une mercenaire. Son but ? Arrêter les créatures qui menacent l'équilibre entre le monde Invisible et le nôtre. Pourtant, le jour où elle se fait attaquer par un monstre sanguinaire inconnu, sa vie bascule. Il n'en faut pas plus à la SSFMI, la Société Secrète Française du Monde Invisible, pour faire appel à ses agents. Avec l'aide d'un demi-démon et de son collègue au sourire ravageur, Jane doit désormais enquêter sur une série de meurtres.

From New York Times bestselling author Kate Quinn comes a gorgeously written fantastical adventure which poses the question: Have you ever wished you could live inside a book? Welcome to the Astral Library, where books are not just objects, but doors to new worlds, new lives, and new futures.

Das große Turnier hatte die stärksten und vielversprechendsten Kultivierenden der jüngeren Generation hervorgerufen. Einer kleinen Gruppe von sechs Personen war die Flucht jedoch gelungen. Leider landeten sie in einer völlig neuen Welt. Ob ihnen wohl auch die Rückkehr gelingt? Wird Kai endlich eine Chance bekommen, sich mit seiner Vergangenheit auseinanderzusetzen, um noch höher aufzusteigen?

Steve—Diomedes Tydides to his Trojan War buddies—just had a bad day on his charter fishing boat in San Diego, but when the goddess Athena calls on her faithful warrior for another secret mission, he’s ready. The bomb that exploded inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art isn’t the crime American authorities think it is. Someone also stole the Cup of Jamshid, and Diomedes knows its fortune-telling abilities won’t be used for anything benign.

Nico hat sich Bedrohungen durch Menschen, Bedrohungen durch Drachen und Schrecken jenseits der physischen Welt gestellt, aber er ist es leid, nur zu reagieren. Nico mag es zwar, auf Goldhaufen herumzuliegen, aber das bedeutet nicht, dass er noch länger warten wird. Er will die Initiative ergreifen, was die Befreiung der versklavten Drachen und die Gründung der Schuppennation, eines Ortes für alle Drachen, einschließt.

After a long and happy life with a loving human family, tabby cat Fuuta has passed into the afterlife. Eager to see Michiru again, Fuuta interviews for a position at Café Pont, which sits in the liminal space between the two worlds. Fuuta must investigate and deliver his messages without unnerving the living, or worse, upsetting the balance of the universe itself.

It seems the power that connects me, Anita Blake, with Jean-Claude Vampire Master of the City and Richard, leader of the werewolves, is attracting very unwelcome attention – from creatures so feared no vampire will willingly speak their name. They are known as the Harlequin, and they have the authority to pass judgement upon me. It is forbidden to speak of the Harlequin unless you've been contacted. And to be contacted is to face a sentence of death.

Voller Vorfreude fiebern die Elfen dem größten Ereignis der magischen Welt entgegen. Endlich rückt die lang ersehnte Hochzeit in greifbare Nähe. Von Träumen und Visionen geplagt, ist sich Emilijana sicher, dass sich das Böse erneut erhoben hat und ihre Familie abermals in Gefahr schwebt.

Eines Tages wird Munk auf die Burg des tyrannischen Greifen von Amser verschleppt. Während seine furchtlose Schwester Enna sich auf die Suche nach ihm macht, entdeckt Munk tief im Burgberg ein grauenvolles Geheimnis. Munk findet sich in der Kathedrale des Kegelberges wieder, wo der tyrannische Greif von Amser ihn zu grausamen Beutezügen ins Schattenreich des Todes schickt.

Von düsteren Träumen gequält, zerbricht Lilas Leben mit dem Tod ihres Bruders Tom. Der rätselhafte Juri tritt in ihr Leben und offenbart eine verborgene Wahrheit. Nuretaja, eine Welt voller Verrat und Tyrannei, ist auch ein Teil von ihr. In Lila schlummern uralte Seelen, deren Macht alles verändern könnte - oder sie vernichten wird.