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A collection of short stories from one of the most critically acclaimed authors in the fantasy genre, Robin Hobb. Including work written under her pseudonym, Megan Lindholm. Bingtown heiresses rub shoulders in this wonderful collection with vampires and alien musicians, tramps and feral cats. In...

History will unravel. Death will rise. Blood will stain the foundation of Nimbria. Who will survive? Redelvtum has fallen. The realms stand at the edge of war. And something far darker lurks beneath the chaos, waiting to seize control. Hyacinth never asked for this power, never wanted to bear...

A demon attack leads us to Glinda. The dark witch with more blood on her hands than anyone on the Council wants to admit. While I’m trying to track her down, and find Brutus before someone else does, the Council betrays me. They hire a bounty hunter to take out my dragon. But this hunter is not what anyone expected. Least of all me. Now I’m being hunted by demons, witches, and one man with a reputation for killing the unkillable. Can I outsmart them all or am I about to lose my five-ton scaled baby?

Die große Stadt Ebora liegt in Trümmern, ihr Glanz ist vergangen, und ihre Bewohner zerfallen im Schatten alter Schuld. Tormalin der Schwurlose, einst Krieger seines stolzen Volkes, sucht Erlösung fern der Ruinen – bis er auf die exzentrische Entdeckerin Lady Vincenza »Vintage« de Grazon trifft. Mit unstillbarer Neugier und unerschütterlichem Charme zieht sie ihn in eine Expedition, die mehr birgt als nur Artefakte und Legenden.

Time is running out before the king gets ahold of the treasure, so the court of Larindana acts quickly. Twarence, Onyx, Aria, Arkon, Jaras, and Barina, are called to not only retrieve the stone but to do what nobody else has been able to and end the reign of King Toler. Each of them are masters of their skills and trades, and have managed to keep a low profile so they can travel without suspicion. Their guide, the thief Barina, does her best to navigate them past dangers both magic and mortal.

In an age of violence, when berserkers prowl the seas of Scandinavia, a new terror cleaves a path through the north ... After escaping my grandfather and a gruesome death-sentence, I need be on the first ship out of Hålogaland. If I can find a crew who hasn't heard I've got blood on my hands. The problem is up here in the Lofoten Isles everyone knows everyone. And I've got a reputation for trouble. The last thing any man wants at sea.

Prince Sigurd of Xanten is one man I wish I never met. He's slaughtered my crew and made me his slave. But when he says he's turning me over to King Gizur, I wish I'd chosen to die on the beach with the others. At least then my death would have been quick. Because when Gizur finds out about my father, quick is the last thing it will be. Fortunately, Sigurd is on truly perilous a mission and he needs Gizur to help him.

Ryan Foster is a young man with no memory of his past who has spent the last few years of his life as an outcast in the village of Sorsan, but when an army of bloodthirsty creatures called the Wulven attack, he is pushed into unleashing a power he was unaware he had. While being hunted by Emperor Syban for unknown reasons, Ryan and his teacher Nicholas travel to the Land of Eternal Rain, where they will risk their lives to atone for the destruction caused by members of their civilization and try to answer the question Ryan has been haunted by for the last four years: Who am I?

I'm sixteen this year, and my mother says I should marry soon. Loki. I already would be married if any chieftains' sons were man enough to have me. When I do find a husband though, I'll inherit the village of Borg, which as the Princess of Lofoten is my birthright. We'll have several farms and command a fleet of viking ships. I'll give birth to mighty warrior sons or a fierce shieldmaiden like myself.