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Toba and Naftaly's lives changed forever when Toba discovered the mirrored world of the Maziks beyond the Pomegranate Gate. In their search for answers, they must find their own ways to the wonderous and powerful neighbouring republic of Zayit. A magnificent city overflowing with olives, spices and salt—but not the safe haven they need. The republic has turned its back on fleeing Jewish and Mazik refugees, and is closing its ears to warnings of war. Meanwhile, the tyrannical Mazik King Tarses is building his army to cross the sea to Zayit

Every Christmas, for reasons which seem good at the time - especially after an eggnog or two - Max and the others leap into the nearest pod and indulge in their illegal Christmas jump. It's a tradition. This year, however, just to be different, they find themselves part of someone else's illegal Christmas jump. It's time to don a spacesuit and bring your own urine!

"Vergesst nicht, dass ein Monster in mir steckt", erinnere ich ihn, als sein Gesicht dem meinem näherkommt. "Wie könnte ich das vergessen? Es starrt mich aus diesen finsteren Augen an." Asmodea ist eine Baba Yaga aus Eranien und folgt mit ihrer Familie dem Hilferuf der Schatten aus Leyland. Dort angekommen, merkt sie jedoch schnell, dass sie hereingelegt wurden. Die dunklen Kreaturen verfolgen ihren ganz eigenen Plan, in den ihre Schwester Baalia eingeweiht zu sein scheint. Gemeinsam mit ihrem Bruder Iblis flieht sie deshalb nach Queensbury.

Nice Victorian ladies don’t run off to find legendary lost cities. One trifling little arrest shouldn’t have cost Ellie Mallory her job, but it’s only the latest in a line of injustices facing any educated woman with archaeological ambitions. When Ellie stumbles across the map to a mysterious ancient city, she knows she’s holding her chance to revolutionize Pre-Colombian history. There’s just one teensy complication.

With her sharpened magical senses, Sylvia recognizes invisible writing while cataloging an obscure book for the library. She’s shocked to discover the message, written many years earlier, pleaded for help. She’s even more shocked to discover the author of the message was married to a paper magician. Could there be a connection to Sylvia’s father? With a magical mystery on her hands, Sylvia engages the help of Gabe Glass, and together they follow the clues to the location of two hidden ledgers that implicate a very dangerous individual in an illegal bookmaking scheme.

At the bottom of the Great Depression in1930’s rural Alabama, three young friends- Cat, Little Preacher, and Jane Alice- form a secret alliance to do battle with the Swamp Witch. After a dare from her brothers, Cat comes face-to-face with the mysterious witch and barely escapes her clutches. Afraid of what she has found, she enlists her two friends on a mission to save their small town from the evil lurking in the swamp. This is a coming-of-age morality tale that tests their courage and builds their faith. As the plot thickens, they call on God for deliverance.

Poseidon and Athena. Finally friends. When the Greek and Roman gods are forced to merge into one pantheon, the unthinkable happens. House Poseidon and House Athena agree to set aside their centuries-long feud in the interest of self-preservation, betrothing their heirs. For close to twenty years, Lukas Poseidon and Daphne Athena knew they were destined to get married, somehow finding a friendship in the face of it all. Until a year ago, when Daphne disappears without explanation. Or so Lukas thinks.

Heinrich und die Jungen seiner Bande kennen nur Hunger, Kälte und die Brutalität eines Lebens auf den Straßen Wiens im Jahre 1519. Doch erst in einem Moment höchster Gefahr, als nicht einmal der Uhrmacher ihn noch schützen kann, wird Heinrich plötzlich von einem Wesen gerettet, das düstere Geschichten von Hexerei auf einmal wahr werden lässt.

Picking up where Part One left off, the trying journey across America progresses, and all of the characters continue to learn and grow as they travel the unseen path of destiny laid before them, in this exhilarating fantasy adventure tale interwoven with factual elements of 1860s America.

Set in a world of its own, Ernst Jünger's On the Marble Cliffs is both a mesmerizing work of fantasy and an allegory of the advent of fascism. The narrator of the book and his brother, Otho, live in an ancient house carved out of the great marble cliffs that overlook the Marina, a great and beautiful lake that is surrounded by a peaceable land of ancient cities and temples and flourishing vineyards.

Book 2 in this war-filled journey through the crusades and into the depths of the ancient Noctis Bellum. Filled with legendary characters both barbaric and gray, driven by valor and treachery alike!

Have you been to Castle Chansany? Perhaps you’ve heard of it, or somewhere like it. It’s that airy castle in the clouds, straight out of a dream. A place where wizards spin marvels from their finger-tips, and the Queen holds banquets deep into the night. A place of mystery and curiosity, finery and fancy, where even the furniture might talk to you (if you’re polite enough to it). A place of magic and enchantment, where anything could happen... Come meet the flamboyant Wizard Garstang and his draconic apprentice, Jessamine.

A satirical and complex Fantasy novel featuring one of the last remaining Dragons and his efforts to coexist with mankind.

As the Black Plague lays waste to Italy, Ginevra di Gasparo is summoned back to Florence after nearly a decade of lonely exile. Ginevra has a gift: using the ancient practices of alchemy she learned as a young girl, she can heal the sick. But when word traveled of her unusual craft, she was condemned as a witch and banished. Now, the same men who expelled Ginevra are begging for her return.

Im ewigen Eis auf der Nachtseite Kardeiras gilt Narjas ganze Leidenschaft der Jagd. Nach der Heilung von einer schweren Verletzung möchte sie sich wieder ganz vorn in der Rangordnung positionieren. Als sie ohne ihren Partner von einer Jagd zurückkehrt, degradiert Herdenführer Tjaris sie zum Teesammeln im Wald der glühenden Bäume. Frustriert macht sie von dort einen Abstecher in die nahegelegene Zone und fällt dem Wächter des verwunschenen Gartens in die Hände. Der denkt gar nicht daran, Narja wieder gehen zu lassen.

It's been years since the Earthling Lansius awoke in a medieval fantasy world. Since then, he's learned the lay of the land, and after joining the army as a foot soldier, he witnessed the war against the thousand-year Imperium roll to its violent end. Now, Lord Lansius finds himself elevated to a reluctant warlord. With the emperor dead and famine threatening, he'll do all he can to keep bloodshed from breaking out at every turn.

Cuando perdió a su padre, Ramon Gener necesitó recorrer un camino en busca de los sentimientos que inspiraron a los más grandes artistas de la historia. El resultado de su viaje es este libro, lleno de fantasía y verdad, en el que asistimos al ocaso inevitable de la mayor diva de su época, Maria Callas; descubrimos cómo del inalcanzable deseo de Hector Berlioz nace la Sinfonía Fantástica y velamos junto a Farinelli el cuerpo de su hermano, el hombre que le convirtió en el castrado más grande la historia, pero que, al mismo tiempo, le arrebató la vida.

High in the Appalachian mountains is a place quite unlike any other. The Avallon Hotel and its enigmatic General Manager, June Hudson, are famed for offering unrivalled luxury, season after season, to those who come from far and wide to indulge in its beautiful hot springs and take the healing waters. Everything is perfect. Perhaps too perfect.

Macht geht vor Recht. Das ist das Urgesetz des Dschungels, und es gilt nicht nur im Tierreich, sondern prägt auch das Leben der Menschen. Seit es der Menschheit gelungen ist, die flüchtige Qi-Energie für ihre Zwecke zu nutzen, hat sie die Welt in Zonen eingeteilt und kann außergewöhnliche Artefakte schaffen. Damit ist sie der Unsterblichkeit näher gekommen, doch diese Entwicklung zementiert ein grundlegendes Gesetz: Macht verleiht Privilegien. Die Stärksten nehmen sich nicht nur von allem das Beste, sondern auch das Recht, sich über andere zu erheben.

As the new dragon keeper in the hidden valley of Ormdale, Edith expects her first dragon mating season to involve venomous bites and amorous wyverns. She doesn't expect to find herself growing closer to an inconveniently appealing suitor next door, or to stumble upon a dragon poacher lurking in the outbuildings, or to uncover a family scandal in the Abbey.