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Lukan Gardova is a cardsharp, academy dropout, and - thanks to a duel that ended badly - the disgraced heir to an ancient noble house. His life consists of cheap wine, rigged card games and wondering how he might win back the life he threw away. When Lukan discovers that his estranged father has been murdered in strange circumstances, he finds fresh purpose. Deprived of his chance to make amends for his mistakes, he vows to unravel the mystery behind his father's death. His search for answers leads him to Saphrona, fabled city of merchant princes.

Quel fourbe ce Léo, mais je ne me laisserai pas faire ! Il a oublié que dans mes veines coulent la rébellion de ma mère et la ténacité de mon père. J'aurais pu me morfondre dans une mélancolie funeste pour l'éternité. Malheureusement, je ne suis toujours pas maîtresse de ma vie. Alors, je ressurgis d'entre les morts, pour le meilleur et pour le pire. Nos ennemis semblent avoir disparu, c'est le moment de démarrer une nouvelle existence.

The New York Times best-selling author of The Black Jewels Trilogy transports readers to a world of magic and political unrest - where the only chance at peace requires a deadly price.... The Others freed the cassandra sangue to protect the blood prophets from exploitation, not realizing their actions would have dire consequences. Now the fragile seers are in greater danger than ever before - both from their own weaknesses and from those who seek to control their divinations for wicked purposes.

Book 6 in the Rivers of London series, from Sunday Times Number One bestselling author Ben Aaronovitch. Suspicious deaths are not usually the concern of PC Peter Grant or the Folly, even when they happen at an exclusive party in one of the most expensive apartment blocks in London. But Lady Ty's...

Assoiffée de vengeance, Derla - une personnalité des bas-fonds de Castelvarin - n'a d'autre choix que d'entrer au service du machiavélique roi Janus. Chargée de protéger Sentes Mustor, illustre ivrogne et joueur invétéré, Derla engage une partie à haut risque avec le tristement célèbre Borgne, chef en devenir de la pègre castelvarine.

Let's get one thing straight - Ivy Wilde is not a heroine. In fact she's probably the last witch in the world you'd call if you needed a magical helping hand, regardless of her actual abilities. If it were down to Ivy, she'd spend all day every day on her sofa, where she could watch TV, munch junk food, and talk to her feline familiar to her heart's content. However, when a bureaucratic disaster ends up with Ivy as the victim of a case of mistaken identity, she's yanked very unwillingly into Arcane Branch.

Around midnight, under a lonely street lamp in a provincial town in Japan, lies a white woman, a blonde, alone, robbed of all four limbs, yet undead. Indeed, a rumor's been circulating among the local girls that a vampire has come to their backwater, of all places. Koyomi Araragi, who prefers to...

A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. He is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock. Forty years earlier, a man committed suicide in a stolen car at this farm at the end of the road. Like a fuse on a firework, his death lit a touchpaper. The darkness was unleashed, something scary and thoroughly incomprehensible to a little boy. And Lettie - magical, comforting, wise beyond her years - promised to protect him, no matter what.

In the fourth powerful novel in Stephen King's best-selling fantasy quest, the Dark Tower beckons Roland, the Last Gunslinger, and the four companions he has gathered along the road. And having narrowly escaped one world, they set out on a terrifying journey across the scarred urban wasteland to brave a new world, where hidden dangers lie at every junction: a malevolent computer-run monorail hurtling towards self-destruction, Roland's relentlessly cunning old enemy, and the temptation of the wizard's glass ball.

'One hundred percent delightful!' SARAH BETH DURST 'Warm, cozy, and eminently hopeful' OLIVIA ATWATER What if love is the best magic of all? A witch has a second chance to get her magical powers - and her life back on track in this feel-good, whimsical new cozy fantasy from the author of The...

Temeraire * Book 2 When Britain intercepted a French ship and its precious cargo–an unhatched dragon’s egg–Capt. Will Laurence of HMS Reliant unexpectedly became master and commander of the noble dragon he named Temeraire. As new recruits in Britain’s Aerial Corps, man and dragon soon...

Lys Striker , autrefois une redoutable tueuse, ne tire aucun plaisir à faire couler le sang. Hélas pour elle, les ennuis ont la fâcheuse tendance à la poursuivre... Tout comme les vampires. Même si elle en a fini avec la destruction de créatures magiques, Lys est contrainte d'entrer dans les dangereuses manigances de Rosarius, un immortel aussi séduisant que rusé. La jeune femme se voit alors embarquée dans un périple plein d'action et de rebondissements. Échappera-t-elle aux griffes de ses terribles ennemis ?

Entre vengeance et alliances inattendues, Darcy doit faire l'ultime sacrifice pour sauver Somerbury. De retour parmi les loups-garous, Darcy n'a qu'une obsession : débarrasser Somerbury de l'emprise vampirique qui l'étouffe. Pour y parvenir, elle doit percer les secrets de la légendaire Pierre de Lunombre, une arme antique capable de tout changer.

A cozy, magical, slice-of-life holiday romance set in a village adjacent to a magic school—if the Dream Harbor series were set at Hogsmeade! Get whisked away by Karen Cass and James Meunier in this dual narration audiobook! I solemnly swear not to fall in love… Silas Birchwood wasn’t sure...

Mathias, un jeune homme d'une trentaine d'années, vient de perdre sa mère. Sur le parking de l'hôpital, il rencontre un géant qui l'aide à accepter de vivre malgré cette disparition et l'invite à un voyage fantastique dans le pays des morts. Cette évasion dans l'imaginaire lui permettra de passer d'un monde enfantin peuplé de super héros rassurants au monde plus cru et cruel des adultes.

Two cops. One killer. Hundreds of gods. The instant Times Top Ten bestseller that's The Bridge meets Vikings, exploring contemporary themes of religious conflict, nationalism, prejudice... and the delicate internal politics of the office coffee round. 21st Century London. The Norman conquest...

YOU'RE HERE BECAUSE OF A STORY . . . It starts with a class in an old movie theatre. Folklore 517: Local Legends and Urban Myths, taught by a woman called the Professor. Most students believe the Professor's stories are just fiction, but Holland St. James has always been convinced that magic is...

Linus Baker mène une vie tranquille et solitaire. À 40 ans, il vit dans une petite maison avec un chat caractériel et ses vieux disques. En tant qu'agent du Ministère de la Jeunesse Magique, il doit s'assurer du bien-être des enfants dans les orphelinats supervisés par le gouvernement...

The final volume in Robin Hobb's popular Rain Wilds fantasy series, Blood of Dragons completes the story of the dragons, their keepers, and their quest to find the lost city of Kelsingra—and the mythical silver wells that the dragons need to survive. Can Tintaglia and the Elderlings unlock the...

The enemy unknowingly opened a portal to the Netherworld, and our world’s only wizard somehow managed to close it. Unfortunately, something got through. Something big. A dragon. Now Kaz Wolfe, with help from his dog Duke who is channeling the spirit of a wizard from ancient Babylon, and with no help from Azib the Cowardly Genie, must find the dragon before someone gets a cellphone video of the thing, and the world learns that magic is real. Or, you know, before the dragon eats someone.