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The trans-dimensional library teeters on the brink of catastrophe – and only one book can save it. The Secret Chapter is the sixth instalment in the Invisible Library series from Genevieve Cogman. As Irene tries to manage a fraught truce between the warring Fae and dragon factions – not to...

For 10 years, I’ve been using a magical sword that I won in battle to ruthlessly slay enemies, break evil artifacts, and open stubborn pickle jars, but I don’t know much about it. That’s about to change. A half-dwarf thief has shown up and says she’s the rightful heir to the sword. I want to believe it’s a scam and can’t possibly be true, but I didn’t get the sword in the most legitimate manner. If I have to give it up, I might not be able to do my job anymore, and just as bad, I’ll be a target for all the bad guys.

When quiet Orrin and his extroverted best friend, Daniel, were transported to a strange RPG-based world, not much changed between them. Daniel became a hero of legend, while Orrin remained his unobtrusive shadow. Only when they faced a particularly lethal foe did Orrin step out of his comfort zone and display his true worth—with powers he didn't know he had. Of course, Daniel got all the glory, but Orrin doesn't mind. He's just happy they're both still alive.

This audiobook explores a grittier, more realistic, and fallible vision of the old myths and fairy tales, and flips the familiar tropes on their heads. The story progresses as a mystery for both the listener and the protagonist, which unfolds through a series of personal challenges, adventures, and moral dilemmas.

I’m Val Thorvald, tough butt-kicking assassin and soon-to-be wife of Lord Zavryd'nokquetal. He’s a dragon from another world, and he’s haughty, arrogant, and has horrible taste in footwear, but I love him. Our wedding is going to be amazing. At least I’d like to think so. But when the coffee shop I’m a co-owner of gets bombed, our youngest employee goes missing, and the entire elven family I didn’t know I had shows up for a visit, my wedding preparations take an alarming turn. What could possibly go wrong?

The Witzel Solstice Party is the highlight of an otherwise quiet winter season in Pigsend. But when Vellora and Ida Witzel start receiving mysterious, threatening letters, the party—and their own safety—may be in jeopardy. Across the street, Bev's got an inn full of suspects—and a freak winter storm to keep them all in one place. They all have their secrets, and it's a race against time and melting snow to figure out who's blackmailing the butchers—and which secret they're threatening to expose.

Despite being an embarrassment to Amazon society due to standing at only five foot one in her boots, Miss Eve clearly has the ear of the queen. When she appoints Eve over a more qualified candidate to become the first Amazon ambassador to Middlemass, a city ruled by men, it becomes the talk of the Royal Court. What game is Queen Anastasia playing? And what possibly possessed her to pick this social outcast to be the one to speak for the Amazon empire?

Die magiebegabte Leslie arneitet im Antiquitätenladen "Pot of Gold", wo sie sich mit lästigen Kunden herumschlägt und iherer Leidenschaft für sarkastische Kommentare und magische Artefakte nachgeht. Letztere wird ihr zum Verhängnis, als sie trotz Warnung ein geheimnisvolles Ouijabrett öffnet. Dass es sich in den dämonischen Nathaniel verwandelt, der einem nervigen Teenager erschreckend ähnelt, hat sie dabei nicht geahnt.

Когда поступаешь в Высшую школу магии, что планируешь? Учиться и показывать себя пусть с немного экспериментальной, но все же лучшей стороны. И зелья готовить по науке, а заклинаниями не сжигать почем зря мишени. Но получается, конечно, все немного не так, а иногда и совсем не так, а бывает, даже вопреки здравому смыслу. В основном потому мы, скромные адепты, варим зелья, для которых нужны специфические ингредиенты. Немного дружбы, толика разборок с синяками, сражения за сердце прекрасной дамы, остроухие проблемы и хмурые преподаватели.

Daisy is turning 40. To make the crises worse, her five sisters pray over her unmarried status, and then her cat begins speaking English with a British accent! Well, no wonder the cat quotes William Shakespeare sometimes! Daisy did name the cat Shakespeare after all.