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Im großen Abschlussband der »His Dark Materials«-Serie reisen Lyra und Malcolm in die Wüste von Karamakan, um durch ein mysteriöses Gebäude in eine andere Welt zu gelangen, in der besondere Rosen wachsen. Ihr Öl soll es ihnen ermöglichen, endlich den Staub zu entschlüsseln und die Wahrheit ans Licht bringen zu können. Doch ihr Weg ist gefährlich. Lyra und Malcom müssen immer wieder gegen magische Wesen und das Magisterium kämpfen, das die Entdeckung der Rosen verhindern will.

Nate didn't want to die. But after years of battling a sickness that had left him a mere shell of what he once was, he wasn't exactly clinging to life either. Then everything changed. His final breath was just a new beginning, one that led to him waking up in a world almost identical to his own. He has the same parents, the same name, and even the same face in the mirror. But this Earth is different. Stranger. Better in some ways, and so much more dangerous in others.

Ven Kochin hat zu viel verloren. Traumatisiert und voller Verzweiflung sucht er einen Weg zum einzigen Ort, der ihm jetzt noch Antworten geben kann: Yarong, die Insel der Heartsooths und Heimat seiner Vorfahren. Um sie zu erreichen, kann Kochin dem lauernden Krieg jedoch nicht weiter entfliehen und muss als Sanitäter ins Militär eintreten. Monate später ist die Welt eine andere. Der Krieg hat Theumas erreicht und Kochin hat Dinge erfahren, die kein Mensch je wissen sollte. Nun steht er vor der alles entscheidenden Frage: Wie viel kann ein Heartsooth ertragen, um den Tod zu umgehen?

Since finding the cat Macak, Maeko has gone from living as a pickpocket on the streets of London to becoming deeply enmeshed in rising hostilities between the Pirates and the Literati. All around her, the two warring factions are hard at work looking for ways to destroy each other. Both sides have offered to help protect her loved ones if she does what they want. Meanwhile, things are spiraling out of control in her relationships with her companions, Chaff, and Ash.

Maeko hasn’t been long away from the gritty London streets, and she’s already learning that civilized life comes with its challenges. She must dress proper, eat proper, and be a proper lady. She can’t even talk to a boy without a chaperone. If not for her feline companion Macak, she might lose her mind.

Feisty teenage thief Maeko and her fellow pickpocket Chaff scrape out a meager existence in Victorian London’s gritty streets. When a near-disastrous heist leads her to a mysterious clockwork cat and two dead bodies, she’s thrust into a murder mystery that may cost her everything she holds dear. Her only allies are Chaff, the cat, and Ash, the son of the accused murderer. What starts as a simple investigation reveals a conspiracy stretching across the entire city. With danger closing in around them, the only way any of them will get out of this alive is if they all work together.

House Lyphryn has been in power since the initial war for the rule of Vatryx. A millennia later, a map has been found that is rumored to lead to a powerful secret. In an attempt to secure this unknown power for his own, Lord Lyphryn sent his most trusted commander to locate what the map may hide, but he wasn’t the only one to hear tell of this secret power. There are those in the realm who believe that Lyphryn has held power for too long and that this map may be the way to build a new world.

Última entrega de la tetralogía «Mortal Engines», una trepidante y original historia llena de misterio, con una ambientación única en un mundo futurista y postapocalíptico. Londres no es más que un montón de escombros radioactivos. Pero la vieja ciudad depredadora esconde un secreto que podría traer la paz. Mientras Tom y Wren arriesgan sus vidas para descubrirlo, Hester deberá enfrentarse sola a un viejo enemigo que pretende destruir la raza humana.

Chased from the only home he’s ever known, Fin is thrust into a world of danger and shadow—where cunning goblins stalk the forests, monstrous trolls guard ancient secrets, and creatures born of darkness wait just beyond the firelight. But he’s not alone. Along the way, he finds a few unlikely friends—and more than a few dangerous secrets.

Antes de Tom y Wren... estaba Anna Fang. Vuelos nocturnos es un Spin Off de la tetralogía «Mortal Engines», una trepidante y original historia llena de misterio, con una ambientación única en un mundo futurista y postapocalíptico. Las novelas en las que se basa la superproducción cinematográfica de Peter Jackson. Vuela. Lucha. Vive. En un peligroso futuro donde enormes ciudades motorizadas se atacan y devoran entre sí, Londres es un depredador que caza donde ningún otro se atreve. Pero Anna Fang, piloto, aventurera y espía, no conoce el miedo.

In this steampunk, Ocean’s Eleven-style caper, fourteen year-old Varick Pendragon has everything. He’s young and wealthy, but he can’t stand his family. The only member he cared for, his grandfather, has just passed away. Now, Varick is adrift and alone amid the rest of the Pendragons’ machinations. That is, until he meets a crew of young thieves. They’re planning the ultimate heist aboard a luxury airship cruise liner, and they want Varick in. But more than just Varick’s family will want to use him for personal gain. Varick will have to figure out who’s planning what.

Kaira had always believed the people who lived in the sky were gods. But it isn’t until she is able to awaken one of their fallen relics, a rusted automaton, that she begins to learn who they really were—nothing more than a powerful race of beings who live in lofty palaces above the clouds.

Идет затяжная война между Империей и Республикой. Империя создала новейшее оружие — сверхлегкие истребители, которыми могут управлять только избранные девушки. Сестры Вивьен и Бэтани проходят отбор. Родителям удается спрятать Бэтани, а Вивьен рекрутеры насильно отправляют в Академию. И теперь Вивьен предстоит понять, как сохранить себя в мире, объятом безжалостным пламенем войны.

What do you call a cat in a gun belt? Kitty kitty bang bang Victoria Wyndham is a watcher, alchemist, and a horrible joke teller. She has been tasked by the Arch Magus to protect Astaria from all threats to their nation. When her fellow watcher, Quinn, discovers that a mind-control drug used to turn animals into killing machines is to blame for a series of brutal murders, Victoria sets out to stop the people behind the drug.

At age 16, Kazen Dayl finds himself kicked out of school for a fight that he didn’t start. His parents send him away to avoid the threat of impending war, but his journey to safety takes increasingly harrowing turns.

For Annie Sakdavong, engineering is more than a passion—it's an escape. Trained from birth to be a "sword maiden"—a bodyguard bride pledged to a wealthy merchant—she defies her family by apprenticing herself to Issa Obasi, a brilliant Igbo engineer ostracized from his homeland for his inability to use his people's ikè, or rune magic. Together, they pursue revolutionary research to merge forbidden magic with steam power. But their work attracts the wrong attention.

Grayden and Beren head for the front lines to defend against the invading army. But the enemy has a devastating new weapon, and now the defenders must learn a new tactic in order to survive. Imprisoned, mutated, and forced to learn her new abilities, Raisa fears she will become a weapon against the ones she loves. Desperate to free her, Captain Marik races his airship to find Raisa, but it may already be too late.

Mara’s magic has stopped working—at the worst possible time! With chasms opening in the streets and chaos in the lower realms, should Mara seek help from the king of the elves?

By day, Mara runs a clockwork toyshop. By night, she spies for the resistance. The last thing Mara needs is a ridiculously handsome fay to train in customer service and spy craft. Arnesto is persistent, bedazzling, and a twelfth-level fay wizard. He also casts spells in all the wrong places, talks more than he listens, and manages to get himself arrested. Mara is giving the incompetent fay one more chance to prove himself.

Pax and his friends are trapped in a deadly game, posing as empire loyalists in a double life secretly supporting the rebellion. Under the scrutiny of the empire’s elite, they collect crucial intel and perfect their formidable taming magic. But their deception is a precarious tightrope walk. When their cover is blown, Pax and his crew must escape with their crucial magic to the rebel headquarters.