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In the walled city-state of Alu, Kammani wants nothing more than to become the accomplished healer her father used to be before her family was cast out of their privileged life in shame. When Alu's ruler falls deathly ill, Kammani’s beautiful little sister, Nanaea, is chosen as one of three sacred maidens to join him in the afterlife. It’s an honor. A tradition. And Nanaea believes it is her chance to live an even grander life than the one that was stolen from her. But Kammani sees the selection for what it really is - a death sentence.

Seventeen-year-old Valeria is one of the only survivors of the freeze, a dark magical hold Knnot Mountain unleashed on her village. Everyone, including her family, is trapped in an unbreakable sheet of ice. Ever since, she’s been on the run from the czar, who has set out to imprison anyone who managed to escape. Valeria finds refuge with the Thieves Guild, doing odd jobs with her best friend, Alik, the only piece of home she has left. That is, until he is brutally murdered. A year later, she discovers Alik is alive and being held captive.

Rora is a shifter, as magical as all those born in the wilderness—and as feared. She uses her abilities to spy for the king, traveling under different guises and listening for signs of trouble. When a magical illness surfaces across the kingdom, Rora uncovers a devastating truth: Finley, the young prince and her best friend, has caught it, too. His only hope is stardust, the rarest of magical elements, found deep in the wilderness where Rora grew up—and to which she swore never to return.

Somadina and her twin brother, Jayaike, are practically the same person: they finish each other's sentences and make each other whole. When the twins come of age, their magical gifts begin to develop, but while Jayaike's powers enchant, Somadina's cause fear to ripple through her town. Always an outsider, Somadina now faces blatant—and dangerous—hostility. And things go from bad to worse when her brother—the one person she trusted—vanishes. Somadina knows that no matter the dangers, she must track him down.

In a reunified Korea of the near future, the sun beats down on a junkyard filled with abandoned robots, broken down for parts. Eleven-year-old Ruijie sifts through the scraps, searching for a piece that might support her failing body. There among the piles of trash, something catches her eye: a robot boy—so lifelike and strange, unlike anything she’s ever seen before.

18-year-old Rowan James has spent her whole life harboring unpleasant truths—that’s what happens when you can smell lies on the teller’s breath—and building walls around herself to block them out. Like her younger sister, Linden, who can taste the feelings of others, Rowan has long struggled with her gift, which has taught her that everyone distorts the truth, and no one is who they seem to be. So when her old rival Hadrian Fitch shows up on her front porch—bloodied and bruised and asking for the kind of help only she can provide—her first instinct is distrust.

Despite all of the odds, Joan achieved the impossible. She reset the timeline, saved her family – and destroyed the hero, Nick. But her success has come at a terrible cost. She alone remembers what happened. Now, Aaron, her hard-won friend – and maybe more – is an enemy, trying to kill her. And Nick, the boy she loved, is a stranger who doesn’t even know her name. Only Joan remembers that a greater and more dangerous enemy is still out there. When a deadly attack forces Joan back into the monster world, she finds herself on the run with Nick – as Aaron closes in.

Deadly storms have ravaged Mina’s homeland for generations. Floods sweep away entire villages, while bloody wars are waged over the few remaining resources. Her people believe the Sea God, once their protector, now curses them with death and despair. In an attempt to appease him, each year a beautiful maiden is thrown into the sea to serve as the Sea God’s bride, in the hopes that one day the “true bride” will be chosen and end the suffering.

Digory and Polly meet and become friends one cold, wet summer in London. Their lives burst into adventure when Digory's Uncle Andrew, who thinks he is a magician, sends them hurtling to...somewhere else. They find their way to Narnia, newborn from the Lion's song, and encounter the evil sorceress Jadis, before they finally return home.

All Ekata wants is to stay alive - and the chance to prove herself as a scholar. Once Ekata's brother is finally named heir to the dukedom of Kylma Above, there will be nothing to keep her at home with her murderous family. Not her books or her experiments, not her family's icy castle atop a frozen lake, not even the tantalizingly close Kylma Below, a mesmerizing underwater kingdom that provides her family with magic. But just as escape is within reach, her parents and 12 siblings fall under a strange sleeping sickness, and no one can find a cure.

When a 17-year-old boy goes missing while camping with his buddies in the Chisos Mountains in Big Bend, the case is right up PI Charlie Dodge’s alley. Charlie’s reputation for finding missing people - especially missing kids - is unparalleled. Unfortunately, trouble seems to be equally good at finding him. Charlie’s still in the thick of it when bad news arrives regarding his wife, Annie, whose early onset Alzheimer’s is causing her to slip further and further away. The timing couldn’t be worse. Thankfully, Charlie’s ride-or-die assistant, Wyrick, has his back.

Once, Catriona Macgregor led a charmed life. Daughter of a wealthy rancher, pretty and educated, she looked forward to all the world had to offer—until fate took a turn. Now family, home, and even her name have been stripped away. As “Black Cat Whitfield,” adopted daughter of an outlaw, she’s wanted by the authorities. It certainly wasn’t the destiny she imagined—especially as one of the Blessed.

Leelo has spent her entire life on Endla, coexisting with the bloodthirsty Forest and respecting the poisonous lake that protects her island from outsiders who seek to destroy it. But as much as Leelo cares for her community, she struggles to accept that her younger brother will be exiled by his next birthday, unless he gains the magic of enchanted song so vital to Endla. When Leelo sees a young outsider on the verge of drowning in the lake, she knows exactly what she’s supposed to do.

Margo is a troubled schoolgirl. After the death of her father, she’s on her way to a new boarding school in a new city. Moon is a salesman. He makes his living traveling through a series of interconnected worlds on a network of barely used train lines. They never should have met. But when Margo suddenly appears one day on Moon’s train, their fates become inextricably linked. If Margo wants to survive, she has to pass as a traveling salesman, too—except it’s not that easy.

Chaol Westfall has always defined himself by his unwavering loyalty, his strength, and his position as the captain of the Guard. But all of that has changed since the glass castle shattered, since his men were slaughtered, since the king of Adarlan spared him from a killing blow, but left his body broken. His only shot at recovery lies with the legendary healers of the Torre Cesme in Antica - the stronghold of the southern continent's mighty empire.

Desconfía de todo. Lucha por tu vida. Protege siempre tu corazón. El fenómeno romantasy que arrasa en todo el mundo, con 2.000.000 de ejemplares vendidos. Una sola vez cada cien años, se celebra el Kejari, el legendario torneo en honor a la diosa de la muerte, Nyaxia, que reúne a los vampiros de todos los rincones. En esta ocasión, sin embargo, hay una participante de lo más particular: una humana, Oraya, que además es la hija adoptiva del rey de los Nacidos de la Noche. Aunque lleva entrenándose toda la vida, Oraya está en clara desventaja.

Descubre el épico final de la trilogía Powerless de Lauren Roberts. A Paedyn y a Kai vuelve a separarles una realidad que se impone a sus deseos, y deberán enfrentarse a una terrible decisión en esta emocionante conclusión de la exitosa trilogía romántica, perfecta para fans de Sarah J. Maas.

Descubre a TJ Klune, el rey del cozy fantasy. ¡Bienvenido a la Ciudad de los Sueños Eléctricos! Un mundo de robots extraordinarios que permanecerá para siempre en tu corazón. Tres robots viven en una diminuta y peculiar casa entre las ramas de una arboleda: una máquina enfermera un poco sádica, una pequeña aspiradora desesperada por recibir amor y atención, y Giovanni Lawson, un androide inventor. Pero también vive con ellos un humano: Victor Lawson, hijo de Gio. Refugiados y a salvo en el bosque, los cuatro forman una extraña familia.

Hace menos de un año, Evelyn Dasher era una chica normal con una existencia segura y bastante anodina; una vida que era una absoluta mentira. Oculta en la Zona 3, sabe que si vuelve a perder el control de sus peligrosas habilidades, no solo pondrá en peligro a todos los miembros de la comunidad secreta, sino también al guapísimo y terriblemente inhumano Luc. Pero hay verdades para las que ni siquiera Luc puede prepararse, y a medida que las habilidades de Evie evolucionan, las consecuencias de todo lo que él ha hecho se vuelven devastadoras.

La caza de brujas ha comenzado. Italia, campiña romana, siglo XVII. La joven Ade y su hermano pequeño huyen de la casa en la que se criaron porque la acusación que se cierne sobre ella la conduce directamente a la hoguera. En lo más profundo del bosque, encuentran refugio entre unas...

Una reina a la fuga. Un príncipe reacio. Una misión que podría destruirlos a ambos. Han pasado ocho años desde la Batalla de la Serpiente, pero en el norte helado, lady Nore de la Corte de los Dientes ha recuperado la Ciudadela de la Aguja de Hielo. Allí emplea una antigua reliquia para crear monstruos hechos de palos y nieve que seguirán sus órdenes y ejecutarán su venganza. Suren, la reina niña de la Corte de los Dientes, y la única persona con poder sobre su madre, huyó al mundo humano, donde ahora vive como un animal en los bosques.

UNA HISTORIA DE AMOR PARA DESAFIAR AL DESTINO. Un mundo en el que caben todos los mundos. Un chico con el poder de crear puentes entre ellos. Una chica que llega por accidente... y que no puede regresar a casa. Dani es una chica normal. O lo era hasta que un libro se la tragó y llegó a Albión, una dimensión regentada por una clase noble que impone sus normas escondida tras sonrisas fingidas y bailes a medianoche. Un mundo en el que los visitantes como ella son meros siervos a su merced.

Cuando Evelyn Dasher se cruzó en el camino de Luc, se vio empujada al mundo de Lux, pero descubrió que, en realidad, ya estaba más involucrada de lo que creía. Su búsqueda de la verdad la acerca todavía más a Luc, el Origen que está en el centro de todo.

En el castillo de Adalheid reina el caos. Serilda se halla atrapada en un juego mortal con el Erlking. Al mismo tiempo, la joven está decidida a ayudar a Gild a resolver el misterio de su olvidado nombre y su pasado. Pero pronto resulta evidente que el Erlking no solo quiere usar a Serilda para recuperar a su amor verdadero. También busca venganza contra los siete dioses que atraparon a los oscuros tras el velo. Si el Erlking lo logra, podría cambiar el reino de los mortales para siempre.