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"Krieg ist eine reißende Bestie. Sie findet dich, egal, wo du bist. Und sie verschlingt Himmlische und Sterbliche gleichermaßen." 183 n. Chr. Die Wälder Germaniens sind düster und gefahrenvoll. Vor allem für die römischen Auxiliare, die der Schutzengel Esariel als Wächter in Feindesland begleitet. Gemeinsam mit seinen Geschwistern führt er einen nicht enden wollenden Krieg gegen die Anhänger Luzifers um die Fortführung von Gottes Werk nach dessen Exodus. Ein Kampf, der mittlerweile nur allzu oft auf dem Rücken derer ausgetragen wird, die er einst zu schützen geschworen hatte.

War comes for an unprepared squire. Gareth Arban wants to become a knight and win glory enough to marry the girl he loves. But death is the other face of glory. When invaders sweep out of the north wielding mighty dark magic, it will take more than a squire’s bravery to stop them….

One of the best-known Arthurian stories—adapted many times into verse, prose, games, and film. It recounts an adventure undertaken by King Arthur’s famous nephew, Sir Gawain, who is brave and the model of knightly grace. When a mysterious knight in green armor issues a challenge to the Round Table, the gallant Gawain volunteers to do battle for his king, beginning an adventure that explores chivalric tradition, loyalty, and the virtue of forgiveness, as well as alchemical symbolism and the psychological process of individuation.

Discovering she is another world’s prophesied heroine was not something Hannah Winters could have ever predicted. However, having accepted the mantle of Aerisia’s Artan, Hannah must now move beyond the pain of the past and conquer her magic in order to save this land.

Emma Woodhouse needs a dragon. Her life depends on it. But Emma’s dragon is claimed...by Elizabeth Darcy. When Emma Woodhouse meets newlywed Elizabeth, a brush of their gloved hands unmasks the Darcys’ fantastic secret. Emma has discovered Yuánchi, the deadly dragon coveted by both Emperor Napoleon and England’s secretary of war. Secrets are nothing new for Emma. She has her own: a deathbed promise and a clever plan to achieve it. The Darcys’ power, forbidden to her, might even help.

Lin ist die Tochter des Kaisers und Erbin des Phönixreiches. Ihr tyrannischer Vater jedoch versklavt seine Untertanen und erschafft schreckliche Monster – mithilfe der geheimnisvollen Knochensplittermagie. Doch die Gabe, diese zu wirken, hat Lin durch eine Krankheit verloren, und seitdem versucht ihr Vater, sie als Thronfolgerin zu entmachten. Gefangen in einem Palast voller Geheimnisse und verschlossener Türen will Lin heimlich die Knochensplittermagie wiedererlernen – um ihren grausamen Vater und seine entsetzlichen Kreationen zu stoppen.

Peace is the one thing for which the Eaglemasters never trained. Centuries of harsh conditioning made them doubt the dawn of this new era that now keeps the hordes of foes surrounding them at bay without a single drop of blood spilled. They crowned a king who proved most able to breathe life into that elusive flame. When He Who Lurks In The Shadows is finally unleashed upon the world after his thousand-year banishment, it soon becomes clear—they need worry no longer about the ghouls outside their walls. A new enemy is waiting to spring from every neighbor, every friend, every brother.

November 14, 1944: I wax a German ace. The next morning, it’s March 10, 1942. Confused? Welcome to my world. I have no idea how this happened or what the hell is going on, other than the fact that the airfield I found belongs to the 2/81, an all-female fighter squadron operating near Marseille, France.

Brynhild is a Valkyrie: shieldmaiden of the Allfather, chooser of the slain. But now she too has fallen, flightless in her exile. Gudrun is a princess of Burgundy, a daughter of the Rhine, a prize for an invading king – a king whose brother Attila has other plans, and a dragon to call upon.

Facing a heated courtroom of strangers, he must now recall the events that brought him here as a fellow alchemist probes his memory. Such is the job of alchemists: administering elixirs in order to see into the minds of men. Their dreams. Their nightmares. Their secrets. But while everyone believes him guilty, Alchemist Ortez knows what they do not. He was hired by the victim for a job unlike any they could imagine.

There is no magic on Prospect Hill—or anywhere else, for that matter. But just on the other side of the veil is the world of the Fae. Generations ago, the first farmers on Prospect Hill learned to bargain small trades to make their lives a little easier. Much of that old wisdom was lost as the riverboats gave way to the rail lines and the farmers took work at mills and factories. Alaine Fairborn’s family, however, was always superstitious, and she still hums the rhymes to find a lost shoe and to ensure dry weather on her sister’s wedding day.

The Last Unicorn is one of fantasy’s most revered classics, beloved by generations of readers and with millions of copies in print. Revisiting the world of that novel, Beagle’s long-awaited Hugo and Nebula-Awards-winning “Two Hearts” introduced the irrepressible Sooz on a quest to save her village from a griffin, and explored the bonds she formed with unforgettable characters like the wise and wonderful Molly Grue and Schmendrick the Magician.

Adelaide Henry carries an enormous steamer trunk with her wherever she goes. It’s locked at all times. Because when the trunk opens, people around Adelaide start to disappear. The year is 1915, and Adelaide is in trouble. Her secret sin killed her parents, forcing her to flee California in a hellfire rush and make her way to Montana as a homesteader.

Investigator Vissarion Lom has been summoned to the capital in order to catch a terrorist - and ordered to report directly to the head of the secret police. A totalitarian state, worn down by an endless war, must be seen to crush home-grown insurgents with an iron fist. But Lom discovers Mirgorod to be more corrupted than he imagined: a murky world of secret police and revolutionaries, cabaret clubs and doomed artists.

Loyalty costs money. Betrayal, on the other hand, is free. When the Emperor is taken hostage, the Red Knight and his men find their services in high demand - and themselves surrounded by enemies. The country is in revolt, the capital city is besieged, and any victory will be hard won. But the Red Knight has a plan. The question is, can he negotiate the political, magical, real, and romantic battlefields at the same time - especially when he intends to be victorious on them all?

Zbiór opowiadań o wyobrażeniach demonologicznych z czasów Polski szlacheckiej. Zawarte tu historie nie są ścisłą rekonstrukcją staropolskich podań, lecz autorską wizją tego, jak przed wiekami imaginowano sobie świat nadprzyrodzony. Zasiądźcie zatem z siedemnastowiecznymi bohaterami książki do stołu podczas szlacheckiej gościny, aby posłuchać mrożących krew w żyłach opowieści o latawcu, skarbniku, zmorze, morowicy i innych istotach nadprzyrodzonych grasujących niegdyś po polskich ziemiach.

After battling and defeating the Unliving Empress, the trio travel across the continent to master their final element: Frost. Zephyr, Vincent, and Nella soon learn that their time in the Frost School will be unlike anything they’ve done before. Blight titans of immense power, infected by the Shadow’s taint, have arisen. They bear the forms of Ostar the Beast God: tortoise, cat, bird, and serpent.

Abigail makes her choice and marries the love of her life, leaving heartbreak behind and consequences that she must face in the future. Basking in the glow of her newfound life, a life so different from her time spent in the orphanage, it is unrecognizable to her as she tries to adjust to situations she has never encountered before.

Fryda has grown up hearing tales of her uncle, King Beowulf, and his spectacular defeat of the monstrous Grendel. Her one desire is to become a shield maiden in her own right, but a terrible accident during her childhood has thwarted this dream. Yet still, somehow, she feels an uncontrollable power begin to rise within herself.

Some time after Inspector Newcomen’s strange case concerning Dr. Jekyll, the occurrence of a dreadful mental deviancy begins possesses many of the cultivated and sophisticated occupants of London’s West End. For Newcomen and others, it can be no coincidence that the outbreak seems suspiciously near to the home and surgery of the doctor whose demise was of such untoward circumstances.