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Wieder einmal muss sich Irene Winters, die unerschrockene Agentin der unsichtbaren Bibliothek, in Gefahr begeben. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal, aber was, wenn es das letzte Mal ist? Allein auf sich gestellt muss sie sich einem alten Feind stellen. Doch es gibt noch weitere schlechte Nachrichten. Mehrere Parallelwelten sind auf unerklärliche Weise verschwunden - und die Bibliothek könnte etwas damit zu tun haben. Irene und ihre Freunde müssen tief in die noch unerforschten Gebiete der Bibliothek eintauchen, wenn sie das Rätsel um die verschwindenden Welten lösen wollen.

Lors d'une tournée dans les Carpates, un prestidigitateur sur le déclin fait la rencontre d'un étrange personnage qui lui suggère un tour de magie époustouflant....

Fifteen years ago, Lęina’s mother, Yuliana, went searching for a mythical place called the Garden and never returned. Determined to learn the truth about what happened, Lęina travels to Brazil to search for the hidden realm, with Yuliana’s journal and a local tour guide leading the way. But Lęina soon begins to wonder if she’s looking for answers—or if what she truly wants to find is herself.

Ever since her dad disappeared five years ago, Persephone has quietly walled off the feelings she’d rather not feel. There’s no room for pain or anger when you’re just trying to get through the hell that is high school. But one day, the crush of taunts and disappointments is finally too much—and a power breaks loose inside her that she never knew was there.

In book one of the e-Ternity series, Brian's life gets turned upside down when he encounters three strange women on three consecutive days, and a mysterious app that appears on his phone, but can't be opened.

The war against the oni heats to a flashpoint even as Tinker learns that the enemy has a dangerous new weapon, the nactka. What’s more, the Stone Clan has sent its most famous warlords, the Harbingers, to take control of the allied war effort. Are these elves friends or foes? Tinker’s newfound baby siblings are up for grabs. The babies, though, are wood sprites and aren’t going to take things lying down. Team Mischief go!

Mercurius ist Barkeeper, Nachtclubbesitzer - und ein Mensch. Diese Tatsache ist in seinem Fall nicht ganz selbstverständlich, hat er doch familiäre Verbindungen zur magischen Unterwelt von Berlin. Unbemerkt von der Öffentlichkeit leben Hexen, Elfen und Elementarwesen mitten in der Stadt. Mercurius will mit dieser verborgenen Welt nichts zu tun haben. Doch als ein mächtiges Wasserwesen in Mercs Nachtclub auftaucht, den Abstellraum zertrümmert und zwei Partygäste tötet, kollidieren die beiden Welten auf einen Schlag.

Lacey and Alex, roommates in San Francisco, are a barista and a cook by day. By night though, Lacey is a part-time private investigator and Alex talks to plants. And they talk back. In this book, they get dragged into hunting for a lost dagger. Of course, it winds up being so much more than simply a lost dagger. The pair spend a couple of action-filled weeks travelling from San Francisco to Los Angeles, Barstow to Vegas, and all parts between in their hunt for the elusive artifact.

With only 199 days to deal with the lich, Florence must take the dungeon she calls a home on the road and eliminate the source of the lich’s power: infected dungeon cores. Whether these infected cores will become enemies or allies remains to be seen, but they aren’t the only threat Florence and her friends will face. Others will seek to use Florence’s unique nature for their own gain or destroy her for what she has become.

The Lost Valley, hidden deep within the Alps, becomes exposed to the outside world after a violent earthquake. Unaware of any possible dangers, the Ligurians are the first to discover the valley.

Hi. My name is Will. Apparently, I’m a necromancer. You would think that I might be a little bit more certain about something like that. Magical practitioners apparently go through a lot of training in an apprenticeship. Again with the apparently. In this case, "apparently" is completely appropriate because I didn’t do any of that. I was finally ready to renovate my house, so I was in a pinch for an apartment. I ended up in one that had a bunch of weird reviews. I did say I was in a pinch. It turned out that the apartment had a ghost.

Talia’s just found out she’s not from here—her insane grandmother, Geneva, is still alive and she pretty much wants the family dead. And when she was three, her mother and grandfather washed her blood, separating her very being. While she lived with her grandfather on Earth, her other half was raised by her mother, dimensions away on the magical game planet of Conjuriam—and that’s not even the worst of it.

Thrown through a portal into a world she thought only existed in her dreams, Reagan Bennett finds herself in The Realm: a place where everyone thinks she is the warrior Aeron. Unfortunately, Aeron was banished as a traitor and forbidden from ever returning to The Realm. On pain of death.

Esteemed archaeologist Cillian McGonegal had gone missing. He was onto a discovery that would shake up what we know about ancient Egyptian mythology, its origins, time, and our place in the world. Then he vanished. After two years, the McGonegal family had given up on ever finding him. Then one day an astounding letter arrived for the other McGonegal brother, Patrick. Cillian was alive, and what’s more, he had solved the mystery of the Serpent Mound. There is danger in this discovery, for not all who want answers have the noblest reasons, as Cillian and his brother will discover.

You see the world for what it is, and you know we are in trouble. Ills beyond the reach of bankers and cops, soldiers and presidents, and even kings threaten the fabric of our lives. What we need is a hero. Alex Cides straps on his tool belt one morning, only to find his wife is gone, his daughters fear him, he's lost his job, and a mysterious curse has thrown him out of balance with the universe. Ten impossible tasks in LA's mythical underbelly stand between setting things right or losing everything. Literally.

What if you couldn't say no to others, but they never knew? Empathy should have its limits. But for Freya, it doesn't. When others are around she finds herself bending to their will, unable to tell anyone what she wants, unable to assert herself or defend herself. Can she find a way forward or will she forever be drowning in their darkness?

"Be careful what you ask for" was the dire warning Leah had heard before she was transformed forever into an immortal. Zeal and Freya had chosen her because in her prayers she had unknowingly asked for this: a painless end to her cancer diagnosis. Now as she stands looking down on her daughter on life support, does she take God's will into her own hands to keep her daughter with her for eternity?

In Spellbound geht das Leben der frischgebackenen Hexe Emma so turbulent weiter, wie es angefangen hat. Mit den Zaubersprüchen läuft es nicht so rund - aber viel schlimmer ist, dass die von Höhenangst geplagte Emma lernen soll, auf einem Hexenbesen zu fliegen... Die Flugstunden sind jedoch schnell vergessen, als es einen weiteren Mord in der magischen Stadt gibt: Eine Werwölfin wurde tot aufgefunden und Daniel gilt als Hauptverdächtiger. Jetzt kann nur noch Emma dem gutaussehenden Engel helfen, seinen Heiligenschein wieder geradezurücken.

Jane Yellowrock is the queen of the vampires, and that makes her a target as she fights to maintain control and keep peace in the city of New Orleans. She has enemies at every turn, because vampires live forever, and they keep their grudges alive with them. That includes the Heir, the vampire sire of the Pellissier bloodline, which gave rise to Leo Pellissier himself—Jane’s old boss and the former master of the city.

In Charlie Halls Welt können Schatten manipuliert werden, zur Unterhaltung, aber auch um Macht zu gewinnen. Und manchmal haben sie ein Eigenleben. Charlie ist eine gewöhnliche Betrügerin, die als Barkeeperin arbeitet und versucht, sich von der Untergrundwelt des Schattenhandels zu distanzieren. Doch als eine Gestalt aus ihrer Vergangenheit zurückkehrt, wird Charlies Leben ins Chaos gestürzt.