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THE #2 SUNDAY TIMES AND #1 NYT BESTSELLER ‘One for Philip Pullman fans’ THE TIMES ‘This one is an automatic buy’ GLAMOUR ‘Ambitious, sweeping and epic’ EVENING STANDARD ‘Razor-sharp’ DAILY MAIL ‘An ingenious fantasy about empire’ GUARDIAN 'Literary super-stardom doesn't seem...

Rimasto orfano a Canton e portato in Inghilterra da un misterioso tutore, Robin Swift credeva che Babel fosse un paradiso. Fino a che non è diventata una prigione... Può uno studente lottare contro un impero?

Babel-17, winner of the Nebula Award for best novel of the year, is a fascinating tale of a famous poet bent on deciphering a secret language that is the key to the enemy's deadly force, a task that requires she travel with a splendidly improbable crew to the site of the next attack.

In a society mired in godlessness and humanism, parents are given the high calling of raising children who will know the Truth, live the Truth, and take the Truth into the next generations. In Creation to Babel, today's Christian family will find a unique commentary on Genesis 1 - 11 to ensure the biblical foundation is established in their children’s hearts.

From the very first hour Cayden had set foot inside the massive, real-life game that was the Tower of Babel, nothing had gone according to plan. A unique skill, a handful of new friends, and the wrath of an ultra-wealthy, patricidal lunatic were just some of the complications to his best laid plans.
So why was he even surprised when a special event trapped him, his companions, and dozens of other players inside the tower, squaring them off against a murderous army of stone-faced warriors?

Mild-mannered headmaster, Thomas Senlin prefers his adventures to be safely contained within the pages of a book. So when he loses his new bride shortly after embarking on the honeymoon of their dreams, he is ill-prepared for the trouble that follows. To find her, Senlin must enter the Tower of Babel - a world of geniuses and tyrants, of menace and wonder, of unusual animals and mysterious machines. And if he hopes to ever see his wife again, he will have to do more than just survive...this quiet man of letters must become a man of action.

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As Marat's siege engine bores through the Tower, Senlin can do nothing but observe the mayhem from inside the belly of the beast. Edith and her crew are forced to face Marat on unequal footing, with Senlin caught in the crossfire, while Adam attempts to unravel the mystery of his fame inside the crowning ringdom. And when the Brick Layer's true ambition is revealed, neither the Tower nor its inhabitants will ever be the same again.

1828. El Instituto Real de Traducción de Oxford, también conocido como Babel, es la institución mágica más importante del mundo. La magia con plata capaz de revelar significados ocultos perdidos en la traducción que allí se practica le ha otorgado al Imperio británico un poder sin parangón. Robin, un huérfano cantonés que ha terminado siendo alumno en Babel, se ha dado cuenta de que servir a Babel significa traicionar a su país de origen. 

Auf zehn steinernen Tafeln kündigt der "Kult des goldenen Kalbs" in verschlüsselten Botschaften seine geplanten Aktionen an und eröffnet damit für Auguste Dupin, Edgar Allan Poe und Irene Adler ein Wettrennen gegen die Zeit.

Après deux ans et sept mois à se morfondre sur l'arche d'Anima, Ophélie a décidé d'agir. Sous une fausse identité, Ophélie rejoint Babel, arche cosmopolite et joyau de modernité. Ses talents de liseuse suffiront-ils à déjouer les pièges d'adversaires toujours plus redoutables ? A-t-elle la moindre chance de retrouver la trace de Thorn ?

1828. Robin Swift, den ein Cholera-Ausbruch im chinesischen Kanton als Waisenjungen zurücklässt, wird von dem geheimnisvollen Professor Lovell nach London gebracht. Dort lernt er jahrelang Latein, Altgriechisch und Chinesisch, um sich auf den Tag vorzubereiten, an dem er in das Königliche Institut für Übersetzung der Universität Oxford - auch bekannt als Babel - aufgenommen werden soll. Oxford ist das Zentrum allen Wissens und Fortschritts in der Welt. Für Robin erfüllt sich ein Traum, an dem Ort zu studieren, der die ganze Macht des britischen Empire verkörpert.

After her husband becomes violent, Frederica Potter flees with her young son to London. There, she secures a teaching position in an art school and finds herself surrounded by painters and poets with dreams of rebellion. Then Frederica meets Jude Mason, the strange and charismatic author of a wildly controversial novel. When her husband files for divorce and Jude becomes the target of a high-profile court case, Frederica’s life threatens to spiral out of control.

Launch day. That was what they called it. The day when over four million people vanished in an instant from the island of Manhattan. The day earthquakes ravaged the east coast. The day a 101-kilometer tall tower rose from the wreckage of the now empty city. The day every screen, newspaper, and smart phone displayed a single message from an unknown source: The Great Emperor has issued his challenge.

The third novel in the highly acclaimed Books of Babel series, set in a labyrinthine world of menace and wonder. On the orders of the mysterious Sphinx, Thomas Senlin and his crew are dragged ever further into the Tower's conspiracies. Meanwhile, the hods climb the Black Trail in darkness and whisper of their king.  

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1828. Un jeune orphelin chinois est recueilli à Canton par un professeur et conduit à Londres. Rebaptisé Robin Swift, le jeune garçon consacre ses journées à l'étude des langues dans l'optique d'intégrer le prestigieux Institut royal de traduction de l'Université d'Oxford, plus connu sous le nom de Babel. Berceau de l'argentogravure, les étudiants y exploitent le sens perdu des mots à l'aide de barres d'argent enchantées.

After two years and seven months biding her time on Anima, her home ark, it is finally time to act, to put what she has discovered in the Book of Faruk to use. Under an assumed identity, Ophelia travels to Babel, a cosmopolitan and thoroughly modern ark that is the jewel of the universe. Will her talent as a reader suffice to avoid being lured into a deadly trap by her ever more fearful adversaries? Will she ever see Thorn, her betrothed, again?

A visionary retelling of the story of the Tower of Babel...More than a century after the worldwide flood, Noah, now the forefather of the living world, works peacefully in his vineyard until tragedy tears apart his relationship with his son, Ham. Years later, dark prophetic dreams inextricably link him with a young man carrying scars from a painful past, and a young woman who longs for acceptance yet harbor secrets darker than either of them imagine.

When a mechanical war dragon crash lands in his village and declares itself king, Will le Fey is forced to become its lieutenant. Although he eventually breaks his enslavement, Will is banished by the townspeople, who no longer trust him. While he travels, he befriends a superhuman con artist and an immortal girl with no memory. And when the trio winds up in the extraordinary Faerie metropolis of Babel, Will becomes a champion to the tunnel dwellers below the city....