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One of the Time 100 Best Fantasy Books Of All Time Two men rebel together against tyranny—and then become rivals—in this first sweeping book of an epic fantasy series from Ken Liu, recipient of Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards. Hailed as one of the best books of 2015 by NPR. Wily...

Londons fall and kingdoms rise while darkness sweeps the Maresh Empire, and the fraught balance of magic blossoms into dangerous territory while heroes struggle. The direct sequel to A Gathering of Shadows, and the final audiobook in the Shades of Magic epic fantasy series, A Conjuring of Light...

Contains books one and two of the Dragontiarna series: Knights and Thieves.

The Time of Contempt: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! * Soon to be a major Netflix original series! To protect his ward, Ciri, Geralt of Rivia sends her away from the home of the Witchers to train with the sorceress Yennefer. But all...

Mars is supposed to be dead. Bizarre quakes are rumbling over the long-dormant tectonic plates of the planet, disrupting its trillion-dollar mining operations and driving scientists past the edges of theory and reason. However, when rocks shake off their ancient dust and begin to roll seemingly of their own volition carving canals as they converge to form a towering structure amid the ruddy terrain, Lt. Jain and her JSC team realize that their routine geological survey of a Martian cave system is anything but. The only clues they have stem from the emissions of a mysterious blue radiation, and a 300-year-old journal that is writing itself.

From the bestselling author who completed Robert Jordan's epic WHEEL OF TIME series comes a new, original creation that matches anything else in modern fantasy for epic scope, thrilling imagination, superb characters and sheer addictiveness. Return to a planet swept by apocalyptic storms, a...

Alijah's reign sweeps from Erador to Ayda. Those who would stand against the king are few, their numbers cast across too many battlefields. Does hope lie in the east? Can the elves turn the tide and keep The Rebellion alive? The weight of Dhenaheim now rests on Doran's shoulders. Chained and imprisoned, the clans are shattered and spread across the realm. On the island of Qamnaran, they build to the heavens. In the Moonlit Plains, they dig down into the dark. Only the Heavybellys have the mettle to do what must be done.

With Excalibur Bernard Cornwell draws his Arthurian trilogy to an exciting close that will have listners gripping their headphones. If Arthur existed (and I am quite certain he did) then he was probably the great British war leader who won the battle of Mount Badon. No one knows where it was...

His orders are clear: launch a raid against England and bring home the spoils of war. But the prophecy is also clear: General Torben will take a foreign bride - one who is a seer and healer just like his mother. The eldest princess of England is said to be just that...a beautiful, charming, and headstrong woman. But he's a Viking army general, and she's an English princess - and one who is already promised to the king of Tara.

"Impossible to put down.” —Kelly Link, author of Pulitzer Prize finalist Get In Trouble From bestselling author Alex Grecian comes a folk horror epic about a ragtag posse that must track down a witch through a wild west beset by demons and ghosts—and where death is always just around the...

After his eventful trip to the non-magical molopor in the distant domain of Anghysbel, Minalan’s return to civilization and magic finds him challenged by the changes wrought in the crypt of Szal the Yith. With nine distinctive sets of memories, besides his own, Minalan struggles to define himself in a turbulent time. With his brain buzzing with memories and feelings that aren’t his own and a list of vital tasks he must accomplish in order to save the world of Callidore from destruction, Minalan sets pen to parchment to chronicle his days in the heat of the struggle.

For centuries, the Kingdoms of Tintagel and Garstang have been rivals, battling endlessly over the borderlands with neither kingdom able to win a decisive victory, let alone knock the other out once and for all. But now, Garstang has unlocked the secret of recreating ancient war machines and unleashed an army out of nightmares, a magical-mechanical force grinding its way through once-impregnable defences and advancing on Shallot. Giant metal monsters stalk the land, crawling metal locusts tear through walls and defences, flying machines hover overhead or roam far behind the lines.

The exhilerating tale of Takeo continues in book II of the internationally best-selling Tales of the Otori trilogy, a sweeping saga set in a mythical, medieval Japan.

Be careful what you pray for . . . Cod became an archaeologist to chase the ghost of her hero, Aleya Ana-Ulai. History may have written Aleya off as a myth, but Cod is determined to prove she existed, even if it means sifting through relics for the rest of her life. Then a message arrives summoning her home. Cod's former teacher has found something monumental: the ruins of an enchanted city, slumbering beneath the soil.

Ormdale, Yorkshire, 1910 Una Worms thinks nothing of putting out a salamander fire or soothing a feverish wyvern, and she is never, ever late for tea. At only nineteen, the youngest daughter of England's famous dragon-keeping family is the one who keeps life running smoothly for everyone at the...

Guerteng´Khoosu ahora es el dueño reconocido del Yelmo de la Quimera, así como el portador de la Marca de Hiperión. Lo primero bastaría para que, si lo deseara, alzarse como Señor de la Guerra de los onis y reunir a la horda, y eso unido a lo segundo le permitiría ser el Siervo de Hiperión a ojos de su pueblo, pero ambos títulos no tienen ningún valor para él, de hecho los desprecia por lo que implican, por ello, tras ayudar a Momoela Viñeda a poner fin a la guerra civil de su reino y una vez completada su coronación, y por miedo a que Quinlux lo considere una amenaza mayor que...

Ernisa Rúmica es el heredero de la Casa Rúmica, una de las cinco grandes casas de Quinlux y aprendiz de Dómilux, o «Maestro de luz». Ernisa aspira a continuar el legado familiar, convertirse en un Dómilux y hacer méritos que le permitan suceder a su abuelo, en una lucha interna por el liderazgo de su casa, con el fin de continuar la voluntad de su abuelo y el rey, que no es otro que mantener el orden en las tierras del centro y el oeste, que sus antepasados lograron con incontables sacrificios y extenderla por las tierras salvajes del este, donde se libra una guerra constante por la ...

Después de ser vendido como esclavo, Guerteng´Khoosu es comprado por Momoela Viñeda, cuyos padres en su día traicionaron a Ernisa Rúmica y robaron el Yelmo de la Quimera y, en contra de su voluntad, se ha visto envuelta en una guerra por la sucesión por el trono de Ruñal, en la que su casa se está destruyendo a sí misma. Intentando llegar hasta Ruñal y reunirse con uno de sus tíos, Momoela sufre un intento de asesinato y se ve obligada a tomar una ruta diferente en la que, formando una inesperada alianza con los Vask de Balcán, se ven obligados a participar en su lucha por ...

Después de sobrevivir a duras penas de la traición de Quinlux, con Torrentera arrasada y su clan diezmado y con todo el mundo como su enemigo, a Guerteng´Khoosu no le queda más remedio que abrazar el destino del que lleva huyendo años. Con la aprobación de Hiperión, y aceptando ser su siervo a cambio de la salvación de su familia y su pueblo tras la Teomaquia, el Ligre de Balcán acepta a regañadientes unificar al pueblo oni bajo su liderazgo como Señor de la Guerra creando la horda, la única fuerza militar capaz de hacer frente a todos sus enemigos y así, no solo sobrevivir a ...

En la primera era, conocida como la Edad Dorada, los titanes, hijos de Gea y Urano, los Dioses Primigenios, tras destruir el Caos crearon un nuevo mundo donde antes solo existía el vacío y lo llenaron de vida. Los titanes, con Cronos a la cabeza, crearon una nueva realidad donde la vida pudiera surgir y evolucionar. El tiempo, la luz, la oscuridad, las almas, la tierra, el metal, el agua, el hielo, el viento, el fuego, la electricidad y la naturaleza. Doce elementos nacidos de seis titanes y seis titánides, con los que estos dieron forma al Mundo Primigenio.En él nacieron también los ...