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Xavier Rhodes may have discovered the answers to Meadow Song’s riddles, the fractured world, and the dark entities that plague it. He might even know a way to reverse everything... after a few dates, of course. While planning for battle, Xavier treats the dragonesses to a unique date of their choice. Each night brings him closer to Hayley, Brooke, and Nicki, all while adding equipment, technology, and amenities to Ironshire Estate.

Imara has lived a life separate from her family. She wasn’t shunned, just never acknowledged. The seventh child of a seventh child, she had had the bad taste to be born a girl. Her father’s family had no use for a girl, so she was sent to a city where the populace didn’t use magic. Now that she is grown and entering college, she has chosen the best magical college in the country. It just happens to be located in her birth city.

De-acum, naveta între America prezentului și Persia antică a devenit rutină pentru Mora, profesoara de dicție ajunsă, dintr-o întâmplare, soția regelui Xerxes. Asta până când o cădere de tensiune în laboratorul lui Alex dă peste cap mașina timpului și o trimite în Louisiana de dinaintea Războiului Civil. Acolo, Mora găsește o lume veselă și colorată, o familie care ascunde un secret inexplicabil ,dar și posibilitatea unei noi iubiri. Există vreo conexiune între toate acestea? Sunt simple coincidențe, erori de sistem sau felul Universului de a pune lucrurile în ordine?

"La lluvia de fuego" de Leopoldo Lugones es un cuento que presenta una visión apocalíptica y surrealista del mundo. En la historia, una lluvia de fuego cae sobre la tierra, devastando todo a su paso y sumiendo al mundo en el caos y la destrucción. Los protagonistas, un hombre y una mujer, luchan por sobrevivir en medio del desastre, enfrentándose a peligros y horrores inimaginables. Lugones utiliza la narrativa para explorar temas como la fragilidad de la humanidad, la naturaleza destructiva del hombre y la inevitable marcha hacia el fin del mundo.

"Un fenómeno inexplicable" es un relato corto escrito por Leopoldo Lugones, un autor argentino reconocido por su estilo oscuro y su exploración de lo sobrenatural. La historia sigue a un hombre común y corriente que se encuentra inexplicablemente atrapado en una serie de eventos extraordinarios y perturbadores. A medida que se desarrolla la trama, el protagonista se enfrenta a fenómenos que desafían la lógica y la razón, lo que lo lleva a cuestionar su propia percepción de la realidad.

"La estatua de sal" de Leopoldo Lugones es un cuento que narra la historia de una pareja, Juan y María, que se encuentra en un viaje a través de un desierto. En su travesía, se les advierte que no deben mirar hacia atrás bajo ninguna circunstancia. Sin embargo, la curiosidad y la tentación consumen a María, quien desobedece la advertencia y mira hacia atrás, convirtiéndose en una estatua de sal. Juan, devastado por la pérdida de su esposa, continúa su viaje solo. La narrativa explora temas de desobediencia, castigo, y la fragilidad de la humanidad ante las fuerzas sobrenaturales y divinas.

Eine riskante Undercovermission. Eine Freundschaft, die zum Scheitern verurteilt ist. Werden Rylee und Sam ihren Ruf retten können - und ihre Heimat? Im kleinen Städtchen Winchester wird es immer gefährlicher, seitdem die nächtlichen Angriffe in schrecklichen Morden enden. Wer sich nicht nach Sonnenuntergang im Haus zurückzieht, schließt sich einer kleinen Jägertruppe in Willow Creek an. Ihr Ziel ist, das Geheimnis von Winchester ein für alle Mal zu beseitigen: die Werwölfe.

"Historia del endemoniado Pacheco" de Jan Patocki es una historia apasionante que combina elementos de misterio, horror y lo sobrenatural. Ambientada en la España del siglo XVII, la historia sigue al protagonista, Pacheco, un noble que se ve envuelto en una serie de eventos siniestros que involucran fuerzas demoníacas. A medida que Pacheco profundiza en el misterio, descubre una red de intrigas y engaños que amenaza con consumirlo.

Drei Dinge habe ich in meiner Zeit an der Darkblood – ich meine Darkhen Academy – gelernt: Vergewissere dich immer, dass ein Dämon tot ist, bevor du ihm den Rücken kehrst. Jede Magie hat ihren Preis. Nichts bleibt lange verborgen. Keine Geheimnisse, keine Gefühle und schon gar keine dunklen Lords. Gerade als ich dachte, der Kampf gegen Luxora sei endlich vorbei, beschließt der dunkle Lord, sich aus der Asche zu erheben. Ratet mal, wen sie im Visier hat. Jep, mich. Als ob das nicht schon schlimm genug wäre, hat der Rat des Hexenzirkels mein kleines Warlock-Geheimnis entdeckt.

Magie in unserer Welt. Mitten unter uns und mächtig gefährlich – aber auch verdammt unterhaltsam. Gerade ist Eli, einzige Drachentöterin Europas und, als wäre das nicht genug, außerdem Mutter eines Kleinkinds, endlich in ruhigem Fahrwasser angekommen, als ungewöhnliche Vorkommnisse die magische Gemeinde mal wieder auf den Kopf stellen.

My name is Peter Grant, and until January, I was just probationary constable in that mighty army for justice known to all right-thinking people as the Metropolitan Police Service (and as the Filth to everybody else). My only concerns in life were how to avoid a transfer to the Case Progression Unit - we do paperwork so real coppers don't have to - and finding a way to climb into the panties of the outrageously perky WPC Leslie May. Then one night, in pursuance of a murder inquiry, I tried to take a witness statement from someone who was dead but disturbingly voluble....

Charley sees dead people. That's right, she sees dead people. And it's her job to convince them to "go into the light." But when these very dead people have died under less than ideal circumstances (i.e., murder), sometimes they want Charley to bring the bad guys to justice. Complicating matters are the intensely hot dreams she's been having about an Entity who has been following her all her life...and it turns out he might not be dead after all. In fact, he might be something else entirely.

Agent Franks of the U.S. Monster Control Bureau is a man of many parts - parts from other people, that is. Franks is nearly seven feet tall and all muscle. He's nearly indestructible. Plus he’s animated by a powerful alchemical substance and inhabited by a super-intelligent spirit more ancient than humanity itself. Good thing he’s on our side. More or less.

God lies defeated, his corpse hidden in the catacombs beneath Mordew. On the surface, the streets of this the sea-battered city are slick with the Living Mud and the half-formed, short-lived creatures it spawns - creatures that die and are swept down from the Merchant Quarter by the brooms of the workers and relentless rains, where they rot in the slums. There, a young boy called Nathan Treeves lives with his parents, eking out a meagre existence by picking treasures from the Living Mud - until one day his mother, desperate and starving, sells him to the mysterious Master of Mordew.

Ever since she was cursed by a faerie, Theodora Ettings has had no sense of fear or embarrassment—an unfortunate condition that leaves her prone to accidental scandal. Dora hopes to be a quiet, sensible wallflower during the London Season—but when Elias Wilder, the strange, handsome, and utterly ill-mannered Lord Sorcier, discovers her condition, she is instead drawn into peculiar and dangerous faerie affairs.

It was just supposed to be a quick trip to the pet store for some cat food, but the universe had other plans for Florence Valentine. Good for nothing kids and some annoying store employees were giving her a hard time, and then things got worse when she was killed by a delivery truck. Instead of angels, pearly gates, and eternal rewards, a voice in her head keeps telling her that she’s become a dungeon core, whatever that is.

Listeners will find themselves immersed in the strange world of best-selling Haruki Murakami's wild imagination. The story of a lonely boy, a mysterious girl, and a tormented sheep man plotting their escape from a nightmarish library, the book is like nothing else Murakami has written.

Once an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now Lestat is a rockstar in the demonic, shimmering 1980s. He rushes through the centuries in search of others like him, seeking answers to the mystery of his terrifying exsitence. His story, the second volume in Anne Rice's best-selling Vampire Chronicles, is mesmerizing, passionate, and thrilling.

Roland Deschain and his ka-tet are bearing southeast through the forests of Mid-World, the almost timeless landscape that seems to stretch from the wreckage of civility that defined Roland's youth to the crimson chaos that seems the future's only promise. Followers of Stephen King's epic series know Roland well, or as well as this enigmatic hero can be known. They also know the companions who have been drawn to his quest for the Dark Tower: Eddie Dean and his wife, Susannah; Jake Chambers; and Oy.

Le livre 1 a révélé l'existence du monde 1Q84. Certaines questions ont trouvé leur réponse. D'autres subsistent : qui sont les Little People ? Comment se fraient-ils un chemin vers le monde réel ? Pourquoi deux lunes dans le ciel ? Et la chrysalide de l'air, est-elle ce lieu où sommeille notre double ? Ceux qui s'aiment ne sont jamais seuls. Le destin de Tengo et d'Aomamé est en marche.