Jäälohe oli legendaarne ja hirmuäratav olevus, sest ühelgi inimesel polnud õnnestunud teda taltsutada. Kui ta kuskilt üle lendas, jäi maha kõle külm ja jäätunud maa. Kuid Adara ei kartnud. Adara oli talvelaps, sündinud kõige karmima pakase ajal, millest hullemat ei mäletanud ka kõige vanemad inimesed. Adara ei teadnud, millal ta esimest korda jäälohet nägi. Tundus, nagu oleks lohe tema elus kogu aeg olemas olnud. Algul eemal, kui ta üksi külmas lumes mängis, samal ajal kui teised lapsed olid...
A tale of high adventure and derring-do set in the same Victorian-style world as the acclaimed The Court of the Air and The Secrets of the Fire Sea.Thanks to his father's gambling debts, young Jack Keats finds himself on the streets and trying to survive as a pickpocket, desperate to graft enough coins to keep him and his two younger brothers fed.Following a daring bank robbery gone badly awry, Jack narrowly escapes the scaffold, only to be pressed into Royal Aerostatical Navy. Assigned to the...
Coś ściga Tiffany… Tiffany Obolała jest gotowa, by rozpocząć naukę czarownictwa. Spodziewa się zaklęć i magii – nie nudnych prac domowych i złośliwych kóz. Na pewno czarownictwo to coś więcej. Czego Tiffany nie wie? Że podąża za nią bezcielesna, podstępna istota. Tym razem ani pani Weatherwax (najpotężniejsza czarownica na świecie), ani waleczni, sześciocalowi Wolni Ciut Ludzie nie zdołają jej ochronić. W końcu będzie potrzebowała całej swej wewnętrznej siły, by się uratować… o ile to w ogóle...
Two sisters born to serve… The sorcerers of Lladrana have already Summoned three women to help fight the evil attacking their world. Yet their fourth Summoning brings the unexpected–twin sisters. And ones with strong ties to Earth. Both have a special gift to heal.But while Brigid Drystan has explored that gift through unorthodox means, Elizabeth has poured herself into getting a medical degree and denying her powers. Now, stuck in a strange land, fighting a plague sent by the Dark to weaken...
Megan adalah seorang remaja indigo, tidak ada satu orang pun yang bisa membantu memahami kekuatannya… tidak ada yang hidup seperti itu. 'Kesalahpahaman' adalah sebuah kisah pendek tentang kehidupan nyata seorang gadis muda yang mampu melakukan hal-hal yang tidak bisa dilakukan juga oleh keluarganya, meskipun beberapa teman sekolahnya mengatakan memiliki kemampuan mata batin tidak biasa yang serupa dengannya. Namanya adalah Megan dan dia berusia dua belas tahun di sini, di buku yang pertama ini....
A smart, kick-arse Urban Fantasy from a new master of the genre. Kill City Blues is the fifth book in the fantastic Sandman Slim series.James Stark, aka Sandman Slim, has managed to get out of Hell – again – renounce his title as the new Lucifer, and settle back into life in LA. But he's not out of trouble yet. Somewhere along the way he misplaced a weapon from the banished older gods who now want it back.The hunt leads Stark to an abandoned shopping mall – a multi-storey copy of LA – infested...
Supernatural fantasy's best antihero returns, in the high-octane follow-up to Richard Kadrey's acclaimed Sandman SlimJames Stark, a.k.a. Sandman Slim, crawled out of Hell, took bloody revenge for his girlfriend's murder, and saved the world along the way. After that, what do you do for an encore? You take a lousy job tracking down monsters for money. It's a depressing gig, but it pays for your beer and cigarettes. But in L.A., things can always get worse.Like when Lucifer comes to town to...
A smart, kick-arse Urban Fantasy from a new master of the genre. KILLING PRETTY is the seventh book in the fantastic Sandman Slim series.James Stark has met his share of demons and angels, on earth and beyond. Now, he’s come face to face with the one entity few care to meet: Death.Someone has tried to kill Death – ripping the heart right out of him – or rather the body he’s inhabiting. Death needs Sandman Slim’s help: he believes anyone who can beat Lucifer and the old gods at their own game is...
The second follow-up to Barbara Hambly’s enormously successful Dragonsbane.John Aversin and Jenny have returned to the Winterlands, where Jenny’s depression has deepened. Unable to help their son, Ian, through his own grief over separation from his demon, she returns alone to Frost Fell. Then, together with the great Black Dragon Morkeleb, they journey south to investigate rumours that someone has been raising the dead.Meanwhile, John is drawn into a dangerous bargain with the Demon Queen, whose...
The second follow-up to Barbara Hambly’s enormously successful Dragonsbane.John Aversin and Jenny have returned to the Winterlands, where Jenny’s depression has deepened. Unable to help their son, Ian, through his own grief over separation from his demon, she returns alone to Frost Fell. Then, together with the great Black Dragon Morkeleb, they journey south to investigate rumours that someone has been raising the dead.Meanwhile, John is drawn into a dangerous bargain with the Demon Queen, whose...
17 year old Ceres, a beautiful, poor girl from the Empire city of Delos, finds herself alone at sea, drifting towards the mythic Isle Beyond the Mist—and towards the mother she never met. She is ready to complete her training, to finally understand her power, and to become the warrior she was meant to be. But will her mother be there to greet her? Will she teach her all she needs to know? And will she reveal all of the secret of Ceres’ identity? In Delos, Thanos, thinking Ceres is dead, finds...
Śmierć zaginął, zapewne już… gdzieś odszedł. A to prowadzi do chaosu, jaki pojawia się zawsze, kiedy ulega załamaniu ważny społecznie sektor usług. Pan Reg Shoe, aktywista Martwych Praw – „Połączmy swe siły, bo inaczej leżymy„ – nagle ma więcej pracy, niż mógłby sobie wymarzyć. A niedawno zmarły mag Windle Poons budzi się w trumnie i odkrywa, że powrócił na świat jako zwłoki. Ale to właśnie Windle i członkowie niezbyt przerażającej grupy nieumarłych z Ankh-Morpork muszą uratować świat dla...