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V. E. Schwab, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, opens another door to a new fantasy series set in the dazzling world of Shades of Magic. Prepare for tangled schemes and perilous adventures with friends old and new in The Fragile Threads of Power. Once, there were four worlds, nestled like pages in a book, each pulsing with fantastical power and connected by a single city: London. Until the magic grew too...

"The sequel and series conclusion to She Who Became the Sun, the accomplished, poetic debut of war and destiny, sweeping across an epic alternate China. Mulan meets The Song of Achilles. How much would you give to win the world? Zhu Yuanzhang, the Radiant King, is riding high after her victory that tore southern China from its Mongol masters. Now she burns with a new desire: to seize the throne and crown herself emperor. But Zhu isn’t the only...

"Not every fishmonger can be a secret agent. Journey to an unnamed mountainous country in central Europe at the end of the Great War. Enter Citizen Orlov, a simple fishmonger and an honest, upright citizen, who stumbles into the Ministry of Security, and consequently a hidden world of espionage and secrecy. His first assignment? To safeguard the King when he visits the scenic town of Kufzig. But Orlov soon discovers that his ministry handler, the...

"The Viking King of Dublin is dead. His young widow, Gormflaith, has ambitions for her son...Gormflaith also has a secret. She is one of the Fomorians, an immortal race who can do fire-magic. She has kept her powers hidden at all costs...Faodla is one ofthe Tuatha Dae Danann with the gift of healing. Her kind dwell hidden in a fortress, forbidden to live amongst the mortals...She finds a land on the brink of war--a war she is desperate to stop"-- "The...

"Elspeth and Ravyn have gathered most of the twelve Providence Cards, but the last, and most important one remains to be found: The Twin Alders. If they are going to find it before the Solstice and cure the kingdom of the dark magic infecting it, they will need to journey beyond the dangerous mist-cloaked forest that surrounds their kingdom. And the only one who can lead them there is the monster that shares Elspeth's head: The Nightmare. And he's...

"Otah Machi, caught between ancient wonders and a modern empire, has survived more than most men endure in two lifetimes. In Price of War, an omnibus collection of An Autumn War and The Price of Spring, magic and treacherous politics bring a bitter harvest of violence and tragedy to the world he must defend. But when all is darkest and the world seems utterly lost, there is yet hope for the salvation of a future yet undiscovered. All depends on Otah,...

"In a fable for grown-ups by cartoonist Bill Watterson, a long-ago kingdom is afflicted with unexplainable calamities. Hoping to end the torment, the king dispatches his knights to discover the source of the mysterious events. Years later, a single battered knight returns"-- "From Bill Watterson, bestselling creator of the beloved comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, and John Kascht, one of America’s most renowned caricaturists, comes a mysterious and...

"The Empire of the Wolf is on its knees, but there's life in the great beast yet. To save it, Sir Konrad Vonvalt and Helena must look beyond its borders for allies - to the wolfmen of the southern plains, and the pagan clans in the north. But old grievances run deep, and both factions would benefit from the fall of Sova. Even these allies might not be enough. Their enemy, the zealot Bartholomew Claver, wields infernal powers bestowed on him by a mysterious...

A Shadow in Summer: The poet-sorcerer Heshai and the captive spirit, Seedless, find themselves caught on the edge of disaster as they struggle to save the city-state of Saraykeht from destruction and war. A Betrayal in Winter: Otah Machi was exiled from his family as a boy, but with his father, the reigning Khai, on his deathbed and his brother assassinated, Otah knows he must return home to takehis place as leader of the city-state. "In this omnibus...

"De Julia Quinn, la autora n.º 1 en ventas del New York Times, y Shonda Rhimes, pionera de la televisión, llega una novela poderosa y romántica sobre la épica historia de amor entre la reina Carlota y el rey Jorge III, de los Bridgerton y de cómo cambió la sociedad. Una historia inspirada en la serie original La reina Carlota: Una historia de los Bridgerton, creada por Shondaland para Netflix. «SOMOS UNA CORONA. EL PESO DE LA CORONA DEL REY...