Fantasy Library

From New York Times bestselling author Kate Quinn comes a gorgeously written fantastical adventure which poses the question: Have you ever wished you could live inside a book? Welcome to the Astral Library, where books are not just objects, but doors to new worlds, new lives, and new futures...

Two strangers find themselves connected by a vast and mysterious library containing many wonders and still more secrets, in this powerfully moving first book in a new series from the international bestselling author of Red Sister and Prince of Thorns. The boy has lived his whole life trapped...

Bjorn the Fell-handed is the oldest living Space Marine in the Imperium. A hero of the Space Wolves from the darkest days of myth, he was interred within the iron tomb of a Dreadnought eight thousand years ago, called upon only when the need is strongest. When a ghost ship drifts out of the warp and returns to Fenris, the old wolf wakes, for an ancient foe has risen again.

Trazyn the Infinite and Orikan the Diviner return, continuing their rivalry for better or worse. Fate has given them a gift – an ancient world from the necrons' past has returned, but uncovering its secrets may prove more difficult than they anticipated. When the opening of the Great Rift delivers a mysterious world from the necrons' past back into realspace, Trazyn sees an opportunity – this is his chance to not only mend his quarrel with the embittered Orikan, but to uncover the fate of the last expedition to the Chaos-corrupted planet of Amenthis.

Adelina is content to be a humble librarian with no magic, organizing ordinary books and leaving the magical section of the library to the management of the mysterious creature called a cervara . . . until she finds a misshelved spellbook that refuses to stay in its proper place. Despite warnings from the College of Magic and her superiors, she decides to return the book to the magical section, where she befriends the mysterious creature. Contrary to what she's been told, the cervara is trying to protect humanity from dangerous magic by hoarding it in the library. 

Echo London never wanted to be the curator of the People’s Library, a digital collection of human consciousness. But when she’s assigned as its head librarian, Echo is entrusted with humanity’s greatest minds and historical figures, all of whom have been recreated through controversial consciousness-capturing technology that lets visitors interact with the dead. But an anti-tech rebellion is stirring. When a rebel attack results in tragedy, a mysterious woman wearing an ancient death mask leaves behind cryptic final words for Echo: It all begins with nothing. 

Welcome to Sacramentus. Austerity and toil will teach the true measure of the Hive's failing. No one is blameless. The planetary governor has fallen, deposed in scandal and treachery. The Adeptus Arbites roam the smog-choked vertics and zontals, rooting out traitors, enforcing the Imperial law without mercy. As a new governor, an outsider, is crowned, the Hive teeters between order and anarchy. Whispers of rebellion echo from the heights of the Waistland to the depths of the Neg. Rival gangs seize both opportunity and territory, and forbidden cults grow ever bolder.

Heldanarr Fall has nothing to live for. He has conquered the Burning Valley and bent its people to his will. Yet even as a Chaos Lord, he must kneel to a god of bloodshed who demands endless war. Then, in the ruins of a siege, he finds two children. Helpless. Innocent. Worth protecting. For the first time since his rise to power, Heldanarr sees a future worth fighting for – the chance to make a better world.

Slitta da Stabba is a new warboss of the Blood Axes, and his problems are only just beginning. Now he answers to Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka, the mightiest ork in the galaxy, unchallenged warlord of the greatest Waaagh! to ever assail Humanity. Worlds burn in his bootprints, and every boss bows before him. Ghazghkull has set his sights on the Blood Axe world of Gabal for a titanic showdown with the Black Templars, and not all of his boyz are happy about it.

Meet Genevieve Dieudonné. She’s beautiful, powerful, resourceful, courageous, and over four hundred years old. In the crowded cities and dark forests of the Warhammer world, Genevieve and her unlikely companions battle the forces of malevolence and insanity. However, the vampire blood running through Genevieve’s veins means she must constantly fight the urge to surrender to the evil within.

They rated me negligible. Placed me in the basement. Nobody ever stopped to read the fine print on the man who reads everything. I’m the night librarian at the Conservatory. Nine years in the lower stacks, head down, staying exactly the size they measured me for. I can’t throw fire. I can’t ward a door. My one trick is that I can read the truth off any page—the redactions, the buried numbers, the things they filed away where no one would look. Then I get into the reserve, the secret stacks under the stacks, and the system that’s whispered to me my whole life wakes up. The ...

“The work of the newest major talent in fantasy.” —Wall Street Journal “Compulsively readable, with the deep, resonant magic of a world where reality is up for grabs. Unputdownable.” —Boing Boing Carloyn knows she’s a little bit…odd. But she figures that’s only natural when...

Having recovered from his grievous injuries, Warmaster Horus leads the triumphant Imperial forces against the rebel world of Isstvan III. Though the rebels are swiftly crushed, Horus's treachery is finally revealed when the planet is razed by virus bombs and Space Marines turn on their battle-brothers in the most bitter struggle imaginable.

Skeeg Horntoof is an ork with big dreams: the biggest hat, the most dakka, and the ambition to become the greatest freebooter the galaxy has ever seen. As kaptin of Gork's Revenge, he is guided by Da Freebooterz Code – a set of rules so outrageous they just might work. With a krew of misfits, meks, and mutineers, he sets out on a quest for loot and glory. This time, though, Horntoof may have bitten off more than he can chew – the kaptin has instructed his boyz to plunder the hunting grounds of the legendary rogue trader Lord Captain Antoinette von Hume.

When paranormal librarian Reed Moore received a strange note hinting at a problem within the world’s supernatural library network, she’s concerned. And when a routine asset retrieval goes wrong, she’s not only frightened for her life, but convinced something nefarious is pervading every library in the world. Tracking down the thief will take all her wits and threatens to rob her of everything. With a ticking clock and threats from all sides, will Reed track down the culprit or will this be her last investigation?

One mystery, one romance, and a fire-belching bulldog. In the heart of Singsong City, a retired assassin seeks refuge among the shelves of her beloved library. But when a familiar face from her past resurfaces, she is drawn back into a world of danger and deceit. With the help of an unlikely ally, she must unravel the mysteries of her own past before they consume her future. Will she find peace in the quiet of the stacks, or will the shadows of her past drag her back into the fray? Vampires Don’t Suck is the first book in the Singsong City series. It is a standalone paranormal romantic ...

When Cadia fell, a handful of traumatised survivors found themselves stranded on a ruined world carved apart by rival cults. Since then, the Kasrkin veterans known as the Tattershields have anchored the crumbling Imperial defence, holding back the overwhelming might of the Archenemy with sabotage, assassinations, and unbreakable discipline. Their commander, Sergeant Kostantin Taikon, is an inspiration to the beleaguered defenders. But he is haunted by guilt and consumed by fatalism, numbly fighting on with no hope of victory or atonement. The Imperials' grip on the planet is slipping.

Darya Nevic is a sniper and a hardened survivor, but endless loss has pushed her to breaking point. As the Cadian 217th war to liberate the world of Parrescum from heretic forces grows ever more deadly, the sergeant fights to keep her squad alive as she is hounded by the memories of those she failed to save. In the wake of disaster, a chance encounter offers Darya a way to not only strike back at the heretics, but to settle a debt she thought impossible to repay. She must lead a mission deep behind enemy lines, where death is all but certain. Yet there is even more at risk than she knows.

An approved textbook at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry since its first publication, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is an indispensable guide to the magical beasts of the wizarding world. It showcases a menagerie of magical creatures, explained enchantingly by noted magizoologist, Newt Scamander, who you may remember from the film series of the same name.

Corrupted powers gather around the ancient mountaintop fortress of Middenheim, the City of the White Wolf. Danger has arisen, not at the embattled borders of the Empire, but at the beating heart itself. Only the noble Templar Knights of Ulric can drive out the darkness, but they will need unlikely help to do it. A lowly thief, a devout servant of Morr, and the Hammers of Ulric gather to defend the city. For if Middenheim falls, the Empire falls with it.