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My name is Bird Howsley, and I'm a beautiful disaster. Okay, "beautiful" is probably being generous. But the "disaster" part is right. In a brutal dystopian waterworld, where survival depends on skill and smarts, I'm pretty much always one bad decision away from watching my life go completely down the drain. Luckily, I have a lifeline: my cute, level-headed sailing teacher, Sargo Paz. Did I say cute? I didn't mean cute. He's just a friend. I definitely don't have weird sex dreams about him.

Azetla has served the Maurowan Army for thirteen years. There are seven left to pay. A pariah and a debt soldier, he is a commander with no rank, a soldier without citizenship, and wears a sword that it is unlawful for him to either own or use. He has learned to hold his tongue or risk losing everything. When Azetla’s battalion is sent into the desert to catch a Sahr devil—one of the famously brutal inhabitants of the region—his tenuous position is threatened. He discovers that there is far more to this mission than catching a fiend.

A young royal from the far north, is sent south for a political marriage in an empire reminiscent of imperial China. Her brothers are dead, her armies and their war mammoths long defeated and caged behind their borders. Alone and sometimes reviled, she must choose her allies carefully. Rabbit, a handmaiden, sold by her parents to the palace for the lack of five baskets of dye, befriends the emperor's lonely new wife and gets more than she bargained for.

It is the 14th century, and one of the most apocalyptic events in human history is set to occur - the coming of the Black Death. History teaches us that a third of Europe's population was destroyed. But what if the plague had killed 99 percent of the population instead? How would the world have changed? This is a look at the history that could have been - a history that stretches across centuries, a history that sees dynasties and nations rise and crumble, a history that spans horrible famine and magnificent innovation.

Sam isn't sure where he belongs. A fisherman's son with hands more suited to painting than hauling traps, he's spent his life caught between two worlds—between land and water, duty and passion. He keeps to the tides, drifting through life unseen, unnoticed. His father doesn't recognize him half the time, his estranged brother has returned like he never left, and college is an uphill battle he isn't sure he can win. The only place that feels like home is his father's boat, where the world is quiet enough to think. Then Goldilocks arrives.

Traveling to Saltwater's Weep is a dangerous journey. A powerful coterie of adventurers led by the Warlord rules the city. Their dark fingers extend throughout and nothing is as it seems. Taking his time to plan his attack, Jace seeks to gain control of new allies and servants before he sets out on his Quest. Join him as he takes new lovers, fulfills new temptations and gains in immortal power. Watch villains creep from the sidelines with agendas of their own. Can a fledgling Incubus survive in a dangerous world when might makes right?

"Great, near-future sci-fi...A propulsive, character-driven thriller...I really love this book."—Kelly Link, author of Get in Trouble and Magic for Beginners In the spirit of Station Eleven and California, award-winning novelist Holly Goddard Jones offers a literary spin on the dystopian...

Rose always dreamed of being a pirate. Sailing the high seas, plundering treasure, and exploring the hidden wonders of the world. Born in a backwater fishing village, that dream seemed so close and yet always out of reach. On the eve of her fifteenth birthday, the day where she will be forced to choose one of her parents' careers to follow, she decides to take her destiny into her own hands. She 'borrows' a fishing boat from a family friend and set sail to begin her legend.

Set in the dark days of the Cold War in the 1960s, Salt's War is the first instalment of the truly moving and inspirational story charting Sam Salt's life as he struggles against overwhelming odds to achieve his lifelong ambition of becoming an officer in the Royal Navy. Sam Salt's life is turned completely upside down after he loses his father in an underwater submarine collision while he's out on patrol as captain of HMS Narwhal.

Twenty-six-year-old Jimmy Brennan’s life has taken a turn for the worse, and he’s desperate to numb the pain. When his mother dies and his girlfriend betrays him, it’s the final straw; he boards a plane bound for Bali. But Jimmy’s demons chase him. Sickened by the tourists and the crowded surf spots, he escapes north up the archipelago, driven by a desire for solitude and possessed by a reckless, self-destructive urge.

The Western world's growth started its first major developmental boom in the early 1800s. We all know the typical story: 1803, The Louisiana Purchase; 1845, Texas joins the Union; 1860, The Civil War; 1865, The abolishment of slavery in the US. Seems like the average 2006 class history lesson right? Of course, it does! While these things did happen, there are things that the government keeps out of textbooks, due to fear of civil unrest. Fear of the truth. A truth that is hard to digest.

After six hundred years, the Mednohail Empire lusts for a dominion where the sun never sets. The Mednohail grow restless, ashamed of their loss against the Heokolon Empire thirty years ago. Fueled by insatiable wrath and a greedy thirst for salt, the Empire looks east once again, seeking to spread the scourge of its gods across the world. Roused by a new age of steel and weaponized sin, General Brónmal leads Mednohail’s endless legions east. Driven by the rage of a brutal upbringing by a failure father, he takes up the duty for glory and penance, seeking to surpass his family’s legacy.

What happens when you find a way to save your loved one… but the price might not be worth it—the stunning conclusion to New York Times bestseller Lilith Saintcrow’s The Dead God’s Heart Nat Drozdova has crossed half the continent in search of the stolen Dead God’s Heart, the only thing...

Captain Jack Starr served the Confederate cause with honor for four years. The town of Lost Dog Creek promised an opportunity for the war veteran to rebuild his life-and a woman to share it with. But not everyone is willing to roll out the welcome wagon....

Молодая рок-певица Анна Скворцова мечтает о большой сцене. Неожиданное приглашение на шоу талантов «Активация» заставляет ее пойти на сделку с отцом-известным археологом и взять у него деньги в долг.