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Cornwall, 1285 CE. Now nearly 17, Megge and Brighida must endure another brutal loss. And as they perform the rites of transition that precede a burial, Megge accepts a daunting new charge that carries consequences not even her cousin the seer can predict. It brings visions. Dreams. And voices that come to her as she goes about her work. A silken voice beckons her back to the cliffs of Kernow, which she has seen only in dreams.

Branwyn St. Clair is running from her wicked stepfather when she stows aboard the first ship she comes to. Little does she know, it is the infamous elven pirate ship, the Moonbeam. When cabin boy, Johnny Pate finds her in the hold, they form an uneasy alliance. Life aboard the Moonbeam is not what she expects. The ship soars through the clouds in search of plunder. But the biggest theft of all has already occurred....

Während seiner Reise über den Atlantik wird Phileas Fogg das Opfer einer Verschwörung. Inmitten eines Sturms geht er unfreiwillig über Bord. Sein Leben hängt an einem seidenen Faden, als endlich das Auftauchen eines Schiffes Rettung verspricht. Fogg wird aus den Fluten geborgen, muss allerdings schnell erkennen, dass er geradewegs in die Hölle geraten ist. Denn das Schiff heißt Ghost und ihr Kapitän Wolf Larsen, der berüchtigte Seewolf. Währenddessen begeben sich Aouda und ihr Diener Passepartout auf die Suche nach Phileas Fogg.

When Poseidon's ambition is thwarted (as told in Moon of the Goddess), Princess Thalassai expects to enjoy the luxury of peace. Instead, the Earthshaker's revenge strikes like forked lightning. He recruits Aphoron, disgraced prince of Ephyra, to set off an attack on her home city. The god releases a monster shark to shut down trade and lays a sleeping spell on the four kings who hold sway in the lands claimed by the ancient goddess Eurynome.

Mitten in Paris steht ein Haus, das von den Menschen gemieden wird. Darin lebt der alte Henri Delpierre mit seiner Tochter Juliette. Ihre Ruhe wird jedoch gestört, denn in einem alten Lagerhaus am Ufer der Seine geschieht ein Mord, den die Polizei mit dem Haus in der Gasse der flüsternden Schatten in Verbindung bringt. An dieser Stelle gelangt auch Phileas Fogg in das mysteriöse Spiel, denn er vermutet hinter dieser Angelegenheit das Werk seines alten Widersachers Victor Frankenstein.

Miranda dreams of disappearing. That and torturing her younger brainiac of a brother. To sidestep the risk of personal vulnerability (and her much-hated history class), she plays soccer or skips school by escaping to her favorite magic shop whenever she gets the chance. As her truancy creates a rift between her ambitious TV producer mother and misunderstood stay-at-home dad, Miranda begins to covet the unknown destiny of strangers and questions whether she will ever have one of her own worth living. Miranda’s relationships are laced with the strychnine of blame, envy, and doubt.

In Kairo kommt es zu einem Mord an einem Antiquitätenhändler. Phileas Fogg, der sich in der Stadt aufhält, wird hierbei zu Rate gezogen. Er erlebt eine Überraschung, als er feststellt, dass die Leiche des Mannes verschwunden ist. Doch dies bleibt nicht das einzige Rätsel, mit dem es Fogg und seine Freunde zu tun bekommen. Können Tote wiederkehren? Die Antwort auf diese Frage lässt nicht lange auf sich warten. Phileas Fogg wird hineingezogen in einen Strudel von Ereignissen, aus dem es kein Zurück mehr gibt.

In quanto figlia di un potente generale di un vasto impero che riduce in schiavitù i popoli conquistati, la diciassettenne Kestrel ha sempre goduto di una vita privilegiata. Ma adesso si trova davanti a una scelta difficile: arruolarsi nell'esercito oppure sposarsi. La ragazza, però, ha ben altre intenzioni... Nel giovane Arin, uno schiavo in vendita all'asta, Kestrel ha trovato uno spirito gentile e a lei affine. Gli occhi di lui, che sembrano sfidare tutto e tutti, l'hanno spinta a seguire il proprio istinto e comprarlo senza pensare alle possibili conseguenze.

In A Foul Thing, Roma and Juliette have established themselves as the heads of an underground weapons ring in Zhouzhuang, making a living the way they do best while remaining anonymous in their peaceful, quiet life. In This Foul Murder, Benedikt and Marshall have been summoned by Roma to find the elusive scientist, Lourens, and bring him to Zhouzhuang. Time is of the essence aboard the week-long Trans-Siberian Express, but when someone is murdered on board, Benedikt and Marshall convince the officer in charge not to stop the train so that they aren't thrown off-schedule.

Ein unschlagbares Duo wird zur Legende. Die berüchtigten Outlaws Albert und Scarlett sind vor ihren Widersachern in den Norden Englands geflüchtet. Dort plündern sie als eingespieltes Duo die Häuser reicher Städter und teilen ihre Beute mit den Armen des Landes. Als sie den Auftrag bekommen, eine Lieferung mit kostbaren Artefakten auf dem Weg in den Süden zu überfallen, sind sie begeistert. Doch auf dem Weg zurück geraten sie in einen Hinterhalt ihrer alten Feinde und werden vor eine schwere Wahl gestellt.

Jane Delane has always lived an unusual life, having survived a freak wolf accident and then grown up in the woods completely sequestered from 1920s society. But as her 17th birthday draws near, her life becomes even more unusual when her father falls ill and her brother goes missing. When she decides to go searching for her absentee sibling, she joins leagues with a werewolf hunter named Amos Hood. Together they plunge into a world completely new to her - all while she begins to learn of a darker one that has haunted her since childhood.

The Blackbird Battle has left all sides devastated. The wind spirit Suriel has disappeared. A hard winter is coming, and famine stalks the land. Kateiko Rin returns to her people, ready at last to rejoin her community, but the dangers of the unsettled times come raging to her doorstep. Kako is left with no choice but to battle the forces that seek to open a rift between the worlds. Leading an unlikely alliance that includes her new love Airedain and her old one Tiernan, Kako must risk all to try and stop the coming disaster.

Mosca Mye and Eponymous Clent are in trouble again. Escaping disaster by the skin of their teeth, they find refuge in Toll, the strange gateway town where visitors may neither enter nor leave without paying a price. By day, the city is well-mannered and orderly; by night, it's the haunt of rogues and villains. Wherever there's a plot, there's sure to be treachery, and wherever there's treachery, there's sure to be trouble - and where there's trouble, Clent, Mosca and the web-footed apocalypse Saracen the goose can't be far behind.

It has been almost two years since she defeated the vengeful spirit of her mother, but Vanja Ros - no longer Schmidt - has finally made a name for herself. She is a God Daughter, a (reformed) thief, and now a folk hero. She stands up for those with nothing, bringing justice and prosperity where she can. But members of the royal families are turning up dead, found with Vanja's calling card on the bodies. And as old flames, adversaries, and allies resurface, Vanja must face what it took to become the Pfennigist once and for all.

Seventeen-year-old Aurelia Wycherley is entering her debutante season as a witch. Aurelia should be excited about finding the perfect match to tether her magic to. But her magic is cursed – dark, dangerous, and not the kind that her peers want to match with – and, without a tether, she faces losing her magic completely. But when Aurelia learns that enigmatic, aloof Jules, a member of arch enemy family the Nightlys, is searching for a way that a witch can keep their magic without tethering, she realises he may be her only hope.

The Twisting Door is a historical fantasy of an odd youth named Leven in medieval France who is tasked to remove outcasts from his walled city and leave them to die in the woods. But when he learns that not all of them die, and that a hidden village of elves and witches lives nearby raising them, his life turns upside down. Soon Leven sees the city, the outcasts, his family, and God and the Devil and magic and myth in a whole new light.

In uno sperduto villaggio ai confini della tundra russa, l'inverno dura la maggior parte dell'anno e i cumuli di neve crescono più alti delle case. Ma a Vasilisa e ai suoi fratelli non importa, perché adorano trascorrere le notti riuniti accanto al fuoco, ascoltando le fiabe della loro balia. Vasya ama soprattutto la storia di Frost, il demone invernale dagli occhi blu, che appare nelle notti gelide per reclamare le anime incaute. Per questa ragione i saggi russi lo temono e onorano gli spiriti affinché proteggano le loro case dal male.

The death of the family matriarch, Charlotte Atkinson, at Windfell Manor casts a long shadow over Charlotte’s husband, Archie, and her two children, Isabelle and Danny. With big shoes to fill, Isabelle takes over the running of Atkinson’s department store, but her pride - and heart - is tested when her husband, James, brings scandal upon the family and the Atkinsons' reputation. Danny’s wife, Harriet, is still struggling to deal with the death of their first two children - a death she blames Isabelle for.

Gwen has spent the past several years manning the blacksmith’s in place of her father, an open secret in the village in which she lives. A much more covert secret, however, is that she knows not only how to craft but also how to wield a sword, and an incognito stunt at the local jousting tournament manages to catch the eye of the wily Lady Isobelle. Isobelle has secret dreams too, but she’s been promised in marriage to the winner. Desperate to avoid this fate, when she connects the newcomer knight to the female smithy she saw earlier that day, she begins to hatch a scheme…

Was dich liebt, vernichtet dich. In jedem deiner Leben. Evelyn kann sich an jedes ihrer früheren Leben erinnern. Auch daran, dass sie in jedem einzelnen davon ihren 18. Geburtstag nicht erlebt hat – und schuld daran ist jedes Mal ihre große Liebe, der sie unerklärlicherweise nicht entrinnen kann. Nur dass sie ihr aktuelles Leben gerade sehr mag und, noch wichtiger, dass ihre Schwester sie für eine Knochenmarktransplantation braucht. Wenn sie ihre Schwester retten und den tragischen Verlauf ihrer Zeit und Raum überdauernden Liebesgeschichte aufhalten will, muss Evelyn: 1.