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The year is 2059. Nineteen-year-old Paige Mahoney is working in the criminal underworld of Scion London, based at Seven Dials, employed by a man named Jaxon Hall. Her job: to scout for information by breaking into people’s minds. For Paige is a dreamwalker, a clairvoyant and, in the world of Scion, she commits treason simply by breathing. It is raining the day her life changes for ever. Attacked, drugged and kidnapped, Paige is transported to Oxford – a city kept secret for two hundred years, controlled by a powerful, otherworldly race. Paige is assigned to Warden, a Rephaite with mysterious motives. He is her master. Her trainer. Her natural enemy. But if Paige wants to regain her freedom she must allow herself to be nurtured in this prison where she is meant to die. The Bone Season introduces a compelling heroine and also introduces an extraordinary young writer, with huge ambition and a teeming imagination. Samantha Shannon has created a bold new reality in this riveting debut.

A world divided. A queendom without an heir. An ancient enemy awakens. The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction – but assassins are getting closer to her door. Ead Duryan is an outsider at court. Though she has risen to the position of lady-in-waiting, she is loyal to a hidden society of mages. Ead keeps a watchful eye on Sabran, secretly protecting her with forbidden magic. Across the dark sea, Tané has trained to be a dragonrider since she was a child, but is forced to make a choice that could see her life unravel. Meanwhile, the divided East and West refuse to parley, and forces of chaos are rising from their sleep.

The desert planet of Arrakis has begun to grow green and lush. The life-giving spice is abundant. The nine-year-old royal twins, possesing their father's supernatural powers, are being groomed as Messiahs. But there are those who think the Imperium does not need messiahs...

Blue Sisters tells the story of three exceptional – and exceptionally different – sisters as they return to their family home in New York from their respective lives in Paris, London and LA in the wake of the death of their beloved fourth sister. As they are reunited whilst attempting to cope with this terrible loss, they must navigate addiction, grief and ambition and learn what it takes to fall in love with life again.

Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. By age twenty, in fact, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. Some might say she’s thrown her life away. But at her hospital bed, Alex is offered a second chance: to attend one of the world’s most elite universities on a full ride. What’s the catch, and why her? Still searching for answers to this herself, Alex arrives in New Haven tasked by her mysterious benefactors with monitoring the activities of Yale’s secret societies. These eight windowless “tombs” are well-known to be haunts of the future rich and powerful, from high-ranking politicos to Wall Street and Hollywood’s biggest players. But their occult activities are revealed to be more sinister and more extraordinary than any paranoid imagination might conceive.

ماذا لو كان العالم بأسره أرضًا قاحلة ميتة ومحترقة؟ وليدو الضباب على مدى ألف عام، تساقط الرماد ولم تتفتح زهرة. وعلى مدى ألف عام، كدح السكا في البؤس وعاشوا في خوف. وعلى مدى ألف عام، حكم الحاكم الأعلى، «شظية اللانهاية»، بسلطة مطلقة ورعب مطلق، منيعًا بقدرة إلهية. ثم، حين كان الأمل قد ضاع منذ زمن طويل حتى لم تبقَ منه ذكرى، أعاد رجل نصف سكا، مثقل بالندوب ومحطم القلب، اكتشافه في أعماق أكثر سجون الحاكم الأعلى جحيمًا. «انكسر» كيلسير واكتشف في نفسه قوى أحد وليدي الضباب. وكان لصًا بارعًا وقائدًا بالفطرة، فوجه مواهبه إلى أعظم عملية سطو، يكون الحاكم الأعلى نفسه هدفها. جنّد كيلسير نخبة العالم السفلي، أذكى مستخدمي الألومانسية وأكثرهم جدارة بالثقة، يملك كل واحد منهم إحدى قواه العديدة، ويستمتع جميعهم بتحدٍّ كبير المخاطر. ثم يكشف كيلسير عن حلمه الأسمى: ليس مجرد أعظم سرقة في التاريخ، بل إسقاط المستبد الإلهي. لكن حتى مع أفضل عصابة إجرامية جُمعت على الإطلاق، تبدو خطة كيل أشبه بمحاولة ميؤوس منها، إلى أن يجلب الحظ إلى حياته فتاة رثة تُدعى فين. ومثل كيل، هي يتيمة نصف سكا، لكنها عاشت حياة أقسى بكثير. تعلمت فين أن تتوقع الخيانة من كل من تقابله. وسيتعين عليها أن تتعلم الثقة إذا كان كيل سيساعدها على إتقان قوى لم تحلم بها يومًا. يتجرأ براندون ساندرسون، أحدث أساتذة سرد الحكايات في الفانتازيا ومؤلف روايته الأولى المشهود لها «إلانتريس»، على قلب هذا النوع رأسًا على عقب بطرح سؤال بسيط: ماذا لو أخفق البطل الذي تنبأت به النبوءة في هزيمة سيد الظلام؟ ستُوجد الإجابة في ثلاثية «ميستبورن»، ملحمة من المفاجآت تبدأ بالكتاب بين يديك. لن تعود الفانتازيا كما كانت أبدًا.

„Dann, Samkiel, wirst du wissen, dass dies das Ende der Welt ist.“ Doch es war nicht diese Welt. Nein, es war meine. Es war Dianna. Die Welt erbebt vor Angst, als Dianna der letzte Rest ihrer Menschlichkeit entrissen wird. So, wie es sein sollte. Trauer verzehrt Dianna, verbrennt jeden Anschein von Gutem in ihr und bedroht die aufkeimende Beziehung zwischen ihr und Liam. Nun muss Liam sie vom Rand der vollständigen Verdammnis zurückholen, bevor die Zeit abläuft.

Když se patnáctiletá Clary Frayová vydá do klubu Pandemonium v New Yorku, sotva čeká, že se stane svědkyní vraždy – natož vraždy spáchané třemi teenagery pokrytými podivnými tetováními a ozbrojenými bizarními zbraněmi. Pak tělo zmizí beze stopy. Je těžké zavolat policii, když jsou vrazi pro všechny ostatní neviditelní a když neexistuje nic – ani skvrna krve –, co by dokazovalo, že nějaký chlapec zemřel. Nebo to byl chlapec? Toto je Claryino první setkání s Lovci stínů, bojovníky zasvěcenými zbavování Země démonů. Je to také její první setkání s Jacem, Lovcem stínů, který vypadá trochu jako anděl a chová se hodně jako pitomec. Během čtyřiadvaceti hodin je Clary nemilosrdně vtažena do Jaceova světa, když její matka zmizí a samotnou Clary napadne démon. Proč by se ale démoni zajímali o obyčejné mundány, jako jsou Clary a její matka? A jak to, že Clary náhle získala Zrak? Lovci stínů by to rádi věděli...

An epic new fantasy about a demon hunter and a foot soldier thrown together in a centuries\-old war… and the forbidden love that could change the course of history. A bloody war between demons and the Vatican has waged for more than a century, with two elite soldiers now at its center: Selene Alleva, a high\-ranking exorcist running from a dark family legacy, and orphan Jules Lacroix, recruited by the Vatican and unrivalled on the battlefield. When their paths cross over a series of unprecedented demon attacks, the distrust–and unwelcome attraction–they have for each other is immediate. But to get to the bottom of the breaches they strike an uneasy alliance to avoid suspicion. With Jules posing as Selene’s estranged fiancé, they head to the Vatican in search of answers. But even as Selene questions who her most dangerous enemy is, Jules has begun to suspect that it’s him. Now Jules’ very existence challenges every truth Selene thought she knew, and suggests a terrible conspiracy at the heart of the Vatican. Unable to ignore their growing feelings, the two must make an impossible choice between love and duty. They say love conquers all – but can it win in a war between demons and exorcists? Or will it tear them apart…