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Leave your preconceived notions at home as you embark on a mind-bending journey with six of today’s most visionary authors. Brimming with humor and heartache, this collection of short stories maps the roads we took to get here and the paths that lie ahead. The present may be a gift, but the future and the past both come with a price.

"[Narrators Rita] Amparita and [Stephanie] Németh-Parker excel in providing distinct voices for the many female characters. Listeners will find themselves entranced by their performances. " — AudioFile From the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six, Girl Dinner is a darkly-fun...

The Alexandrian Society, caretakers of lost knowledge from the greatest civilizations of antiquity, are the foremost secret society of magical academicians in the world. Those who earn a place among the Alexandrians will secure a life of wealth, power, and prestige beyond their wildest dreams, and each decade, only the six most uniquely talented magicians are selected to be considered for initiation. Enter the latest round of six: Libby Rhodes and Nico de Varona, unwilling halves of an unfathomable whole, who exert uncanny control over every element of physicality.

Celebrate the lasting impact of Return of the Jedi with this exciting reimagining of the timeless Star Wars film featuring new perspectives from forty contributors. On May 25, 1983, Star Wars cemented its legacy as the greatest movie franchise of all time with the release of Return of the...

CHICAGO, SOMETIME— Two people meet in the Art Institute by chance. Prior to their encounter, he is a doctoral student who manages his destructive thoughts with compulsive calculations about time travel; she is a bipolar counterfeit artist, undergoing court-ordered psychotherapy. By the end of the story, these things will still be true. But this is not a story about endings.

What do you get when you throw together a PTA president, a dissipated rake, a poor little match-girl, a colonial nun, and an elderly revolutionary? No, it’s not the start of a joke; it’s the cast of undead characters sharing a Victorian mansion in Santa Monica, California. The motley housemates can usually keep the bickering to a minimum—but when their clashing personalities get stuck in a rut, they suffer what could be a terminal case of déjà vu.

Six magicians were presented with the opportunity of a lifetime. Five are now members of the Society. Two paths lay before them. All must pick a side. Alliances will be tested, hearts will be broken, and The Society of Alexandrians will be revealed for what it is: a secret society with raw, world-changing power, headed by a man whose plans to change life as we know it are already under way.

In modern-day Manhattan where we lay our scene, two rival witch families fight to maintain control of their respective criminal empires. On one side of the conflict are the Antonova sisters—each one beautiful, cunning, and ruthless—and their mother, the elusive supplier of premium intoxicants, known only as Baba Yaga.

“A full cast of narrators, including the author, delivers this enchanting collection of short stories about love, magic, and betrayal.”—AudioFile This program features multicast narration. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six comes Januaries, a stunning collection of...

Viola Marek is a struggling real estate agent, and a vampire. But her biggest problem currently is that the house she needs to sell is haunted. The ghost haunting the house has been murdered, and until he can solve the mystery of how he died, he refuses to move on. Fox D’Mora is a medium, and though is also most-definitely a shameless fraud, he isn’t entirely without his uses—seeing as he’s actually the godson of Death.

An explosive return to the library leaves the six Alexandrians vulnerable to the lethal terms of their recruitment. Old alliances quickly fracture as the initiates take opposing strategies as to how to deal with the deadly bargain they have so far failed to uphold. Those who remain with the archives wrestle with the ethics of their astronomical abilities, while elsewhere, an unlikely pair from the Society cohort partner to influence politics on a global stage.

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six comes the story of three siblings who, upon the death of their father, are forced to reckon with their long-festering rivalries, dangerous abilities, and the crushing weight of all their unrealized adolescent potential.

An intimate, contemporary, and visceral Gothic novel about family secrets, unsolved murders, and ill-fated summer love, by multiple-New York Times bestselling sensation Olivie Blake. The headlines are calling it the "summer of exsanguination" in LA—girls are being murdered, the Santa Ana winds...

After the death of her estranged grandmother, Marisa Marrero finds herself bequeathed a surprising inheritance: a house in the New Orleans French Quarter, left to her with a variety of bizarre conditions attached. Among the surprising consequences of Marisa's acceptance is a friendship with a man called Jack St. Germaine, an alleged alchemist who may or may not be hiding a questionable history, and a series of encounters with Elisabeth Clavier, a vampire known for hunting mortals for sport.

Das Haus ist die exklusivste Studentinnenverbindung auf dem Campus, und alle ihre Absolventinnen sind schön, erfolgreich und angesehen. Nach einem ersten Semester, das sie lieber vergessen würde, ist Nina Kaur sich sicher, dass die Aufnahme in das Haus der erste Schritt in eine glänzende Zukunft ist. Dr. Sloane Hartley hat zu kämpfen: Nach der Elternzeit passen ihre Klamotten nicht mehr richtig, ihr Mann, der sich als Girl-Dad inszeniert, ist nicht so präsent, wie er glaubt, und selbst die wenigen Stunden am Tag, die sie von ihrem Kind getrennt ist, sind eine Qual.

Segreti. Tradimenti. Potere. Benvenuti nella Società Alessandrina. "Cos'altro se non la morte potrebbe conferire una tale vita alla conoscenza che proteggiamo?" Ogni dieci anni, ai sei maghi più talentuosi in circolazione viene offerta la possibilità di conquistarsi un posto nella Società Alessandrina, l'istituzione più segreta ed esclusiva del mondo, che garantirà loro potere e prestigio oltre ogni limite.

Die Bibliothek von Alexandria ist niemals untergegangen, sie verwahrt im Verborgenen seit Jahrtausenden die dunkelsten Geheimnisse der Menschheit. Alle zehn Jahre bekommen die talentiertesten Magier*innen ihrer Generation die Möglichkeit, das uralte Wissen zu studieren: Jene, die die Initiation überstehen, erwarten ungeheurer Reichtum, Macht und Weisheit. Doch von den sechs Auserwählten werden nur fünf überleben.

Der internationale Fantasy-Bestseller für die TikTok-Generation. Dark Academia meets Fantasy. "The Atlas Paradox" ist die Fortsetzung des Bestsellers "The Atlas Six", in dem sich sechs talentierte Magier:innen den tödlichen Prüfungen der Alexandrinischen Gesellschaft stellen. Mehr Geheimnisse. Verrat. Verführung. Herzen werden gebrochen, Allianzen geschmiedet und wieder zerbrochen, und die Alexandrinische Gesellschaft wird als das enthüllt, was sie ist: eine mächtige Organisation, die von einem Mann geführt wird, der unsere Welt revolutionieren möchte.

Ai sei maghi più talentuosi della loro generazione è stata data l'opportunità della vita: entrare nella Società Alessandrina, la società più segreta ed elitaria del mondo magico. Cinque di loro, ora, ne sono membri, e basta poco perché si rendano conto che essa custodisce un potere in grado di sovvertire le regole dell'universo. Non solo, l'uomo che ne è a capo progetta di mutare le leggi stesse dell'esistenza e i suoi piani sono già in atto. Ma un potere e una conoscenza tanto sconfinati hanno sempre un prezzo altissimo.

Das lang erwartete Finale der explosiven Atlas-Trilogie von Bestsellerautorin Olivie Blake. Die talentiertesten Magier wurden auserwählt – aber nur die Klügsten werden überleben. Die Ereignisse in der Bibliothek von Alexandria spitzen sich zu, und jeder der sechs Auserwählten muss sich die Frage stellen, ob die Suche nach grenzenloser magischer Macht sie verändert. Wie sie sich selbst beschränken können, um menschlich zu bleiben. Oder wen sie verraten müssen, um ihre wahren Ziele zu erreichen.