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What if you’ve sworn to protect the one you were born to destroy? Tarisai has always longed for the warmth of a family. She was raised in isolation by a mysterious, often absent mother known only as the Lady. The Lady sends her to the capital of the global empire of Aritsar to compete with other children to be chosen as one of the crown prince’s Council of Eleven. If she’s picked, she’ll be joined with the other council members through the Ray, a bond deeper than blood. That closeness is irresistible to Tarisai. But the Lady has other ideas....

Jacob Reckless continues to travel the portal in his father's abandoned study. His name has continued to be famous on the other side of the mirror, as a finder of enchanted items and buried secrets. His family and friends, from his brother, Will, to the shape-shifting vixen Fox, are on a collision course as the two worlds become connected. Who is driving these two worlds together, and why is he always a step ahead?

After a violent coup in the United States overthrows the Constitution and ushers in a new government regime, the Republic of Gilead imposes subservient roles on all women. Offred, now a Handmaid tasked with the singular role of procreation in the childless household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife, can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost everything, even her own name.

Although a year has passed, not a day goes by without Meggie thinking of Inkheart, the book whose characters became real. But for Dustfinger, the fire-eater brought into being from words, the need to return to the tale has become desperate. When he finds a crooked storyteller with the ability to read him back, Dustfinger leaves behind his young apprentice Farid and plunges into the medieval world of his past.

Welcome to the Home for Wayward and Misbegotten Creatures, an institution run by evil Miss Carbunkle, a cunning villainess who believes her terrified young charges exist only to serve and suffer. Part animal and part human, the groundlings toil in classroom and factory, forbidden to enjoy anything regular children have, most particularly singing and music. For the Wonderling, an innocent-hearted, one-eared, fox-like eleven-year-old with only a number rather than a proper name - a 13 etched on a medallion around his neck - it is the only home he has ever known.

Five years after the events of Inkdeath, Meggie, Mo, and the people of Ombra lead peaceful lives, their fires warmed by the flames of Dustfinger―the Fire-Dancer. But when Dustfinger spots Orpheus’s glass man within the gates of Ombra, a familiar restlessness begins to haunt him once more. And for good reason… The past five years have been a different story for Orpheus, who has spent his days living a meager and deprived existence, fueled only by his thirst for revenge against Dustfinger and all those who betrayed him.

Imagine it were possible to bring the characters from a book to life. Not like when you listen to an audiobook with such enchantment that the characters seem to jump off the pages and into your bedroom...but for real. Imagine they could actually climb out of the pages and into our world. Then imagine if those characters brought their world into ours.

Carl Hiaasen takes us deep in the Everglades with an eccentric eco-avenger, a ticked-off panther, and two kids on a mission to find their missing teacher. Florida - where the animals are wild and the people are wilder! Bunny Starch, the most feared biology teacher ever, is missing. She disappeared after a school field trip to Black Vine Swamp. And, to be honest, the kids in her class are relieved. But when the principal tries to tell the students that Mrs. Starch has been called away on a "family emergency", Nick and Marta just don't buy it.

Used as a pawn in her father's war, Sabine spent her life captive to the King of Novear, her will commanded by a siphoning crystal. When she wakes up in the hands of her enemy, Sabine realizes her father committed the ultimate betrayal: a ritual bonding her magic to the Prince of the Solstice Kingdom. When the assassination fails, Keahi promises Sabine the one thing she will live for—revenge.

With enough humor to ease the rawness of the story, Undone takes you on a roller-coaster two-year journey through the unexpectedness of life. A look back makes Michele long for a do-over, the chance to make fewer mistakes and leave less of a mess to clean up. A look forward makes Michele wonder if all her attempts to control life have robbed her of the vibrancy of it. And in the middle of this internal chaos, she finds her once-pristine house filled with the sights and sounds of three small, uncontainable children who just want to be loved.

It's a period of turmoil in Britain, with the country's politicians electing to remove the UK from the European Union, despite ever-increasing evidence that the public no longer supports it. And the small town of Lychford is suffering. But what can three rural witches do to guard against the unknown? And why are unwary hikers being led over the magical borders by their smartphones' mapping software? And is the immigration question really important enough to kill for?

When Nicholas Meyer was asked to direct the troubled second Star Trek film, he was something less than a true believer. A best-selling author and successful director, he had never been a fan of the TV series. But as he began to ponder the appeal of Kirk, Spock, et al., he realized that their story was a classical nautical adventure yarn transplanted into space and - armed with that insight - set out on his mission: to revitalize Trek.

The irreverent author of the cult classic Syrup hits his target in this satire on the wages of big capital. In Max Barry's hilarious vision of the near future, the world is run by giant American corporations, and employees take the last names of the companies they work for; The Police and The NRA are publicly traded security firms, and the U.S. government may only investigate crimes if they can bill a citizen directly.

Echo of Silence: In a deep-sea station, Tazia Nerif has found her life's work as an engineer, keeping things running smoothly. But she wants nothing more than to break down the barrier of silence between her and her telekinetic Psy station commander. Dorian: A changeling who can never shift lives a life of quiet frustration - until he learns how to let his leopard come out and play.

Author and historian Tom Holland returns to his roots in Roman history and the audience he cultivated with Rubicon—his masterful, witty, brilliantly researched popular history of the fall of the Roman republic—with Dynasty, a luridly fascinating history of the reign of the first five Roman emperors. Dynasty continues Rubicon's story, opening where that book ended: with the murder of Julius Caesar. This is the period of the first and perhaps greatest Roman emperors. It's a colorful story of rule and ruination, from the rise of Augustus to the death of Nero.

Punto Rojo, Punto Azul es una odisea romántica que pone a prueba los límites del amor interplanetario. Antonio, un adolescente melancólico, vive en la Tierra, un planeta que oscila entre la esperanza, el abandono y la constante amenaza de la extinción humana. Ina, una chica privilegiada, ha vivido en Marte desde los siete años, lejos de la pobreza y la violencia. Antes fueron amigos de la infancia, pero tras una década de silencio, se reencuentran, avivando una conexión profunda pero imposible.

Cuando la cazadora Feyre mata a un lobo en el bosque, una criatura bestial irrumpe en su casa para exigir una compensación. Así, es trasladada a una tierra mágica y engañosa de la que solo había oído hablar en las leyendas, donde Feyre descubre que su captor no es un animal sino Tamlin: una divinidad inmortal y letal que alguna vez reinó en su mundo. Mientras Feyre vive en su castillo, lo que siente por Tamlin muta de una hostilidad helada a una pasión ardiente y feroz.

Tras casi dieciocho meses en el Colegio de Guerra Basgiath, Violet Sorrengail tiene claro que no queda tiempo para entrenar. Hay que tomar decisiones. La batalla ha comenzado y, con enemigos acercándose a las murallas e infiltrados en sus propias filas, es imposible saber en quién confiar. Ahora Violet deberá emprender un viaje fuera de los límites de Aretia en busca de aliados de tierras desconocidas que acepten pelear por Navarre. La misión pondrá a prueba su suerte, y la obligará a usar todo su ingenio y fortaleza para salvar a quienes más ama: sus dragones, su familia, su hogar y a él.

Ryder es un hombre lobo alfa que necesita una pareja para no volverse loco y perder el control sobre su lado bestial. Dalia es una omega que está pasando por un mal momento en su vida. Cuando un encuentro fortuito causado por las hormonas de Dalia haga surgir una atracción fatal entre ambos, los dos deberán enfrentarse a sus peores demonios si quieren seguir con vida en su peligroso mundo. En un mundo donde los hombres lobo son casi el quince por ciento de la población mundial y las criaturas sobrenaturales conviven con los humanos en la era moderna, Ryder Blackwolf es el ...

Si alguien espera leer una historia de amor épica con canciones románticas y poemas cursis, por favor, que busque otro libro. Esta es mi historia, sí, mía, y no del imbécil de Oscar. Admitámoslo, nadie quiere saber nada sobre un hombre bueno y sincero que busca hacer lo correcto, de los que renuncian a tener a la mujer de sus sueños por miedo a ser rechazado.

Cuando Tiggy D'Aplièse acepta trabajar en una de las zonas más recónditas de Escocia, en concreto en la enorme finca Kinnaird, nada le hace sospechar que el misterioso terrateniente, Charlie Kinnaird, está a punto de alterar su futuro e, irónicamente, revelarle su pasado. En su nuevo hogar Tiggy descubrirá que tiene un don, el sexto sentido, una herencia de sus antepasados gitanos.

En las sombras de la noche, en Caldwell (Nueva York), se desarrolla una sorda y cruel guerra entre los vampiros y sus verdugos. Y existe una hermandad secreta de seis vampiros guerreros, los defensores de toda su raza. Ninguno de ellos desea aniquilar a sus enemigos con tanta ansia como Wrath, el campeón de la Hermandad de la Daga Negra. Wrath, el vampiro de raza más pura de los que aún pueblan la tierra, tiene una deuda pendiente con los que, hace siglos, mataron a sus padres.

“Es difícil ser la única en tu especie” HARLEQUIN: Luego de que mi padre intentara encontrar la cura para la infertilidad, yo nací como una mujer loba. Eso habría sido un secreto familiar si mi versión animal no hubiera matado a mi madre. Al tener que explicar su muerte, mi padre le contó al mundo la verdad sobre mí. Ahora soy la muchacha más famosa del planeta, pero espero que nadie me reconozca en esta universidad en medio de la nada, en Tennessee. No recuerdo la muerte de mi madre, porque era demasiado chica cuando pasó, pero desde ese momento tuve que aprender a controlar ...

Un príncipe cautivo. Una bruja solitaria. Una maldición. En los cuentos de hadas, las reinas son madres o brujas, y las brujas arrancan corazones. En los cuentos de hadas, las princesas esperan en sus torres a que las rescate el príncipe. En los cuentos de hadas, los príncipes matan a las brujas y nunca se enamoran de quien no deben. Pero esto no es un cuento de hadas. Es una pesadilla, y las pesadillas son como los espejos rotos: cortan. No toques nada. No sumerjas los pies en donde canta el árbol. Y, sobre todo, cuida tu corazón... Una novela oscura de fantasía y romance para ...

Evie Sage está más contenta que nunca de ser la asistente de El Villano. ¿Quién iba a pensar que trabajar para un señor del mal tan sumamente guapo (shhh, eso perjudica su reputación) sería tan gratificante? Aun así, lo de hacer el mal es una tarea muy exigente, ya que las fuerzas del bien no se cansan de insistir, y cierto jefe intimidante está un poco..., eh..., fuera de la oficina y fuera de juego.