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"A delicious treat of a novel! Heartfelt, hilarious, poignant, and lovely!" —Sarah Beth Durst, New York Times bestselling author of The Spellshop Steel Magnolias meets Practical Magic in this charming contemporary fantasy about a thirty-something kitchen witch who is recruited to help a...

In het bloedstollende slot van deze serie barst de ultieme strijd los. Mare zit gevangen, haar bliksemkracht verdwenen, en leeft in de greep van Maven Calore – de jongen van wie ze ooit hield. Maven heeft de troon overgenomen en blijft zijn web spinnen om zowel zijn land als Mare in zijn macht te houden. Maar de rebellie groeit.

Elorions Sieg über Lord Darius hat einen Preis: Sein Level schießt in die Höhe, und Liliths Labyrinth kann ihn nicht länger halten. Vor ihm gähnt die wahre Unterwelt - ein endloser Dungeon um einen Knochenpalast, in dem ein einziger Fehler alles kostet. Drei Wege liegen vor ihm: Er könnte jegliche Blaue Magie an sich reißen, die ihm in die Finger kommt, und so zu einer wandelnden Naturgewalt werden. Oder er investiert seine hart erkämpften Erfahrungspunkte in die anderen Gefangenen und schmiedet aus verängstigten Opfern ein Team.

Ce matin-là, la plus célèbre actrice française a le sentiment que quelque chose lui échappe. Chez elle, son employée de maison l'évite. Dans la rue, on ne se retourne pas sur son passage... Et si c'était plus qu'une impression – le début d'une aventure prodigieuse ? Après les succès du Chien de madame Halberstadt (Le Tripode, 2019) et de Clara lit Proust (Gallimard, 2022), Stéphane Carlier signe avec ce dixième roman une comédie à l'humour tendre autant qu'une fantaisie chahutant les limites du réel.

He bargained to prove her innocence. She offered him anything. And anything is a very dangerous thing to promise a faerie. The Errant Reapers aren’t like the fae in bedtime stories. The bounty hunters are powerful, fast, and dangerous enough to be banned from every fae court. Milo is one of the best, so tracking down one measly human girl? Easy. Or so he thinks… Until he meets her. Jules is a struggling art student with a broken heart and no idea the fae even exist.

Read by AudioFile Golden Voice and award-winning narrator, Hillary Huber. A mysterious library holds the secrets to the universe . . . Carolyn knows she’s a little bit . . . odd. But that's only natural when she’s spent her life locked away in an infinite Library, forced to study at the feet...

King Rat blends eerie fairy tale and contemporary urban fantasy in China Miéville's fantastical debut. Something is stirring in London's dark, stamping out its territory in brickdust and blood. Something has murdered Saul's father, and left Saul to pay for the crime. But a shadow from the urban...

When the most recent outbreak of human vampirism occurred in the narrow oasis of New Mexico's lower Rio Grande Valley, the terrifying oral tradition that had been passed on for more than four centuries had yet again been sadly reconfirmed. Every two decades or so, one or more bloodthirsty ghouls would appear that would prey upon the unsuspecting and completely vulnerable members of New Mexico's small but harmonious and tightly knit community that had long been an admixture of First American, Hispanic, and Anglo residents.

I’m a witch hunter. Caleb’s a witch. We should’ve killed each other on sight. Instead, we strike a deal and end up on the run, fighting off the people who trained me and trying to find the spell that will heal both our hearts. I know trusting him is a mistake. Wanting him is worse. But the truth we’re chasing might be the only thing that saves us…or destroys everything we thought I knew. Listen to the complete Cursed Hearts trilogy now.

>One king. A group of incorrigible women. Nine nights. The demon-king, Mahisha, rules Jambudvipa with an iron fist. He wears the horns of a buffalo and has the will of a bull. With allies far and wide, his kingdom—usurped from the Aryas—is prosperous. All seems aboveboard. But Jambudvipa's underbelly rots. Teeming with crime, sin, and greed, the city and its people are not what they seem. Most of all, Mahisha himself.

Briar Jones hat einen Traum: Die Temple, Schule für Thaumaturgie, zu besuchen, denn dort werden die mächtigsten CEOs und einflussreichsten Politiker des Landes in Magie ausgebildet, so zumindest die Gerüchte online. Aber Briar wird zurückgewiesen – stattdessen wird deren bester Freund Seb ausgewählt, woran ihre Beziehung zerbricht. Sieben Jahre später ermöglicht ein Sommerjob in den Archiven von Temple es Briar endlich, doch einen Blick hinter die Kulissen zu werfen und Seb wiederzusehen.

The gods left a secret. Jax needs to find it before Oracle's time runs out. Returning to Dravith should have been a victory. Jax has claimed Ashen Heart, reunited with his forces, and finally understands what he's truly fighting—Xenefier, an enemy older than the gods themselves, holding Oracle...

Exhilarating, dangerous, and seductive, Witch Season is an action-packed and fiercely romantic contemporary fantasy from debut author and screenwriter Julia Bianco. That is the price of magic–not just the blood, but the pain to bring it out. Katherine Barnes is an enforcer, charged with...

Os leitores que percorrem essas páginas fazem uma incursão pelas narrativas repletas de alumbramento da autora, que mais uma vez os arrebata com seu dom único para criar mundos fascinantes e os convidar a habitá-los. Marina Colasanti é uma das mais premiadas escritoras brasileiras, com livros de destaque em todos os segmentos. Em 2023, esse reconhecimento se tornou ainda maior: Marina recebeu o Prêmio Machado de Assis – o mais antigo e importante do país – pelo conjunto de sua obra. Este Sereno mundo azul é seu primeiro livro inédito a ser publicado após a premiação.

AN ANCIENT MAP. A FORGOTTEN CULT. A RACE TO STOP THE END OF THE WORLD. Three centuries ago, a ship sank carrying a secret that should have stayed lost forever—a map to a clutch of dragon eggs. Now that secret has resurfaced, and whoever finds the eggs first will hold the power to reshape the world in fire.

“The work of the newest major talent in fantasy.” —Wall Street Journal “Compulsively readable, with the deep, resonant magic of a world where reality is up for grabs. Unputdownable.” —Boing Boing Carloyn knows she’s a little bit…odd. But she figures that’s only natural when...

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...

The author of A Vampire's Guide to Gardening and Obsidian Queen brings you a lighthearted fantasy full of humor and romance, set in a cozy contemporary fae town in Vermont. Welcome to Moss Hollow. There are three things you need to know about my great aunt—she’s eccentric, she’s rich, and...

Relics are worth dying for. So is freedom. Luke is a relic hunter with a dangerous secret and a sacred vow he cannot break. When an opportunity arises to acquire powerful necromantic artifacts, he'll risk everything to get them. The frontier is no place for the faint-hearted. Traveling aboard a...

A richly atmospheric fantasy set across one day, as a ballet troupe of lost souls perform an ancient dance for the faerie realms, knowing they could be snatched away by their audience of faerie princes, imps and sprites at any moment. As dawn breaks on All Souls Day, the lingering mists part to...