Fantasy og science fiction

"What makes a Reaper? What hardships must an innocent child endure to become the vaunted champion of the Eighty-Six? A peek into the past will shed light on his truth. The path he walks is paved with bonds forged in love and broken by tragedy--the shattered fragments of stories untold, committed to memory through the iron will of the one who would shoulder their legacy."--Back cover.

Always practise safe hex . . . New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hawkins, writing as Erin Sterling, follows her sensational TikTok hit, The Ex Hex, and casts a spell with a new spine-tingling romance full of wishes, witches, and cursed kisses.................................................Magic doesn't always play by the rules.Gwyn Jones is perfectly happy with her life in Graves Glen. She's formed a powerful new coven with her family; she's running a successful witchcraft shop, Something Wicked; and she's mentoring some of the younger witches in town. As Halloween approaches, there's only one problem - Llewellyn 'Wells' Penhallow.Wells has come to Graves Glen for two reasons: to re-establish his family's connection to the town and to make a new life for himself away from his father. But when he opens a magic shop of his own just across the street from Gwyn's, he quickly learns that going up against her won't be as easy as he thought . . . especially after an accidental magic-inspired - and very hot - kiss.While Gwyn and Wells are fully committed to their witchy rivalry, they soon find themselves thrown together once again to deal with the sudden appearance of a mysterious new coven and Gwyn's growing concern that something - or someone - is messing with her magic . . .................................................Praise for The Ex Hex, an unmissable treat!'A spooky romantic comedy treat that had me sighing at one page, laughing out loud at the next' TESSA BAILEY 'Sterling's novel is ultimately crisp and sweet, like biting into the perfect caramel apple . . . will sweep readers up into a world of whimsical magic' Kirkus'Filled with delightful witchiness and humor . . . a fluffy Halloween treat' Publishers Weekly 'A delightful and witty take on witchy mayhem' PopSugarReaders ADORED The Ex Hex!'If Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Gilmore Girls had a book baby, it would be THE EX HEX. And yes, it's just as glorious as it sounds!''One of the best rom-coms I've read all year! . . . It's Practical Magic meets Gilmore Girls and I am a hundred percent OBSESSED!''Definite Gilmore Girls vibes but with more magic and sex''This book is pitched as Hocus Pocus, but it bangs and it certainly did'

The long-awaited sequel to the Earthsea Quartet'A masterpiece of chilling narration' GUARDIAN

The Second Great Dune Trilogy contains God Emperor of Dune, Heretics of Dune and Chapter House Dune, and concludes the Dune Chronicles, one of the most influential SF series ever written.Herbert's evocative, epic tales are set on the desert planet Arrakis, the focus for a complex political and military struggle with galaxy-wide repercussions.More than three thousand years have passed since the first events recorded in Dune. Only one link survives with those tumultuous times: the grotesque figure of Leto Atreides, son of the prophet Paul Muad'Dib, and now the virtually immortal God Emperor of Dune. He alone understands the future, and he knows with a terrible certainty that the evolution of his race is at an end unless he can breed new qualities into his species. But to achieve his final victory, Leto Atreides must also bring about his own downfall...Read the series which inspired the 2021 Denis Villeneuve epic film adaptation, Dune, starring Oscar Isaac, Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya and Josh Brolin.

Tessa Gray, a sixteen-year-old American girl, is traveling alone to Victorian London and runs afoul of the city's supernatural underworld. When she's rescued by the Shadowhunters of the London Institute, she finds herself caught up in an intrigue that may destroy her new friends.

Ex-soldier Juzo Inui has one question-who turned him into a cyborg and erased his memories?

A mysterious library contains the secrets to the universe in a visionary fantasy with elements of dark academia. Perfect for fans of Neil Gaiman.

The squad you love is out of time. Prepare for the thrilling finale in the epic, bestselling Aurora Cycle series about a band of unlikely heroes who just might be the galaxy's last hope for survival. Is this the end? What happens when you ask a bunch of losers, discipline cases and misfits to save the galaxy from an ancient evil? The ancient evil wins, of course. Wait . . . Not. So. Fast. When we last saw Squad 312, they were working together seamlessly (aka, freaking out) as an intergalactic battle raged and an ancient superweapon threatened to obliterate Earth. Everything went horribly wrong, naturally. But as it turns out, not all endings are endings, and the team has one last chance to rewrite theirs. Maybe two. It's complicated. Cue Zila, Fin and Scarlett (and Magellan!) making friends, making enemies and making history? Sure, no problem. Cue Tyler, Kal and Auri joining forces with two of the galaxy's most hated villains? Um, okay, yeah. That too. Actually saving the galaxy, though? Now that will take a miracle.

"e;Magnificent in every way."e;-Samantha Shannon, author of The Priory of the Orange Tree"e;A dazzling new world of fate, war, love and betrayal."e;-Zen Cho, author of Black Water SisterShe Who Became the Sun reimagines the rise to power of the Ming Dynasty's founding emperor.To possess the Mandate of Heaven, the female monk Zhu will do anything"e;I refuse to be nothing..."e;In a famine-stricken village on a dusty yellow plain, two children are given two fates. A boy, greatness. A girl, nothingness...In 1345, China lies under harsh Mongol rule. For the starving peasants of the Central Plains, greatness is something found only in stories. When the Zhu family's eighth-born son, Zhu Chongba, is given a fate of greatness, everyone is mystified as to how it will come to pass. The fate of nothingness received by the family's clever and capable second daughter, on the other hand, is only as expected.When a bandit attack orphans the two children, though, it is Zhu Chongba who succumbs to despair and dies. Desperate to escape her own fated death, the girl uses her brother's identity to enter a monastery as a young male novice. There, propelled by her burning desire to survive, Zhu learns she is capable of doing whatever it takes, no matter how callous, to stay hidden from her fate.After her sanctuary is destroyed for supporting the rebellion against Mongol rule, Zhu takes the chance to claim another future altogether: her brother's abandoned greatness.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

From Jeff VanderMeer, the author of Borne and Annihilation, comes the paperback reissue of his cult classic City of Saints and Madmen. In this reinvention of the literature of the fantastic, you hold in your hands an invitation to a place unlike any you've ever visited-an invitation delivered by one of our most audacious and astonishing literary magicians.City of elegance and squalor. Of religious fervor and wanton lusts. And everywhere, on the walls of courtyards and churches, an incandescent fungus of mysterious and ominous origin. In Ambergris, a would-be suitor discovers that a sunlit street can become a killing ground in the blink of an eye. An artist receives an invitation to a beheading-and finds himself enchanted. And a patient in a mental institution is convinced that he's made up a city called Ambergris, imagined its every last detail, and that he's really from a place called Chicago . . .By turns sensuous and terrifying, filled with exotica and eroticism, this interwoven collection of stories, histories, and "e;eyewitness"e; reports invokes a universe within a puzzle box where you can lose-and find-yourself again.

Det episke verket som markerer starten på GAME OF THRONES.I en verden der den kommende vinteren kan strekke seg over tiår, kjemper konger og dronninger, riddere og bastarder om jerntronen, maktsetet i De syv rikene. Da Lord Eddard Stark av Vinterfall reiser sørover for å bli Kongens hånd, blir han involvert i et ormebol av konspirasjoner, kjærlighet, forræderi, drap og grådighet. Krigen truer i sør, og trusselen i nord vokser.

Intriger har blitt til konfrontasjoner, og i De syv riker hersker kaoset.En blodrød komet farer over himmelen. Og fra det eldgamle Drakeberg til det iskalde Vinterfall hersker kaos. Blant kaoset vokser det fram fraksjoner som alle gjør krav på tronen. Samtidig åpner det seg endelig en mulighet for Daenerys Targaryen til å reise over Den smale sjø til De syv riker. Mens kaos og krig råder sør for muren, begynner Jon Snø å innse den virkelige trusselen de syv rikene nå står overfor.Andre bok i EN SANG OM IS OG ILD, bokserien som utgjør grunnlaget for TV-serien GAME OF THRONES.

Maxitugaven av Ringenes Herre 1-3 er nå revidert og oppdatert, og utstyrt med nytt elegant omslag og lesebånd. Å gi en kort beskrivelse av Ringenes Herre er nesten umulig. Det er en overveldende og omfattende historie i en eventyrverden skapt med nøyaktighet ut i minste detalj, og den gir en intens leseropplevelse. Ringenes Herre handler på mange måter om hvordan man drar fra det trygge og velkjente, ut i den store verden med alle dens fristelser og farer. Bilbos nevø Frodo overtar den magiske ringen og blir raskt involvert i hendelser som går langt utover hans snevre hobbit-horisont. Ringen er en utrolig mektig gjenstand som egentlig tilhører den onde Sauron i landet Mordor, en demonisk skikkelse som er i ferd med å tilrive seg herredømmet over hele verden. Sauron bandt en gang for lenge siden mye av sin egen kraft i ringen, og søker nå desperat for å få den tilbake. Hvordan Frodo, med hjelp av hans hobbit-venner og trollmannen Gandalv, klarer seg i denne skjebnesvangre situasjonen, og deres lange ferder gjennom store deler av Midgard, utgjør handlingen i Ringenes Herre. Oversatt av Torstein Bugge Høverstad.

After somehow managing to live through the most grueling battle of their entire careers, Tanya and the 203rd receive a letter from the General Staff. Its contents are, essentially, “Hop on these rockets and go smash up the Republican Army’s HQ. Oh, and be sure to come back from this technologically unprecedented flight alive once you’re done with your absurdly dangerous mission!”