In the first book in
a brilliant new fantasy series, books that aren't finished by their
authors reside in the Library of the Unwritten in Hell, and it is up to
the Librarian to track down any restless characters who emerge from
those unfinished stories.
Many years ago, Claire was named
Head Librarian of the Unwritten Wing—a neutral space in Hell where all
the stories unfinished by their authors reside. Her job consists mainly
of repairing and organizing books, but also of keeping an eye on
restless stories that risk materializing as characters and escaping the
library. When a Hero escapes from his book and goes in search of his
author, Claire must track and capture him with the help of former muse
and current assistant Brevity and nervous demon courier Leto.
But
what should have been a simple retrieval goes horrifyingly wrong when
the terrifyingly angelic Ramiel attacks them, convinced that they hold
the Devil's Bible. The text of the Devil's Bible is a powerful weapon in
the power struggle between Heaven and Hell, so it falls to the
librarians to find a book with the power to reshape the boundaries
between Heaven, Hell ... and Earth.
After battling the
impossible, Zélie and Amari have finally succeeded in bringing magic
back to the land of Orïsha. But the ritual was more powerful than they
could’ve imagined, reigniting the powers of not only the maji, but of
nobles with magic ancestry, too.
Now, Zélie struggles to unite
the maji in an Orïsha where the enemy is just as powerful as they are.
But when the monarchy and military unite to keep control of Orïsha,
Zélie must fight to secure Amari's right to the throne and protect the
new maji from the monarchy's wrath.
With civil war looming on the
horizon, Zélie finds herself at a breaking point: she must discover a
way to bring the kingdom together or watch as Orïsha tears itself apart.
Gideon the Ninth is the most fun you'll ever have with a skeleton.
The Emperor needs necromancers.
The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman.
Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead bullshit.
Tamsyn Muir's Gideon the Ninth
unveils a solar system of swordplay, cut-throat politics, and lesbian
necromancers. Her characters leap off the page, as skillfully animated
as necromantic skeletons. The result is a heart-pounding epic science
fantasy.
Brought up by unfriendly, ossifying nuns, ancient
retainers, and countless skeletons, Gideon is ready to abandon a life of
servitude and an afterlife as a reanimated corpse. She packs up her
sword, her shoes, and her dirty magazines, and prepares to launch her
daring escape. But her childhood nemesis won't set her free without a
service.
Harrowhark Nonagesimus, Reverend Daughter of the Ninth
House and bone witch extraordinaire, has been summoned into action. The
Emperor has invited the heirs to each of his loyal Houses to a deadly
trial of wits and skill. If Harrowhark succeeds she will become an
immortal, all-powerful servant of the Resurrection, but no necromancer
can ascend without their cavalier. Without Gideon's sword, Harrow will
fail, and the Ninth House will die.
Of course, some things are better left dead.
The story is supposed to be over.
Simon
Snow did everything he was supposed to do. He beat the villain. He won
the war. He even fell in love. Now comes the good part, right? Now comes
the happily ever after…
So why can’t Simon Snow get off the couch?
What he needs, according to his best friend, is a change of scenery. He just needs to see himself in a new light…
That’s how Simon and Penny and Baz end up in a vintage convertible, tearing across the American West.
They
find trouble, of course. (Dragons, vampires, skunk-headed things with
shotguns.) And they get lost. They get so lost, they start to wonder
whether they ever knew where they were headed in the first place…
With Wayward Son,
Rainbow Rowell has written a book for everyone who ever wondered what
happened to the Chosen One after he saved the day. And a book for
everyone who was ever more curious about the second kiss than the first.
It’s another helping of sour cherry scones with an absolutely decadent
amount of butter.
Come on, Simon Snow. Your hero’s journey might be over – but your life has just begun.
Simon Snow is the worst chosen one who’s ever been chosen.
That’s what his roommate, Baz, says. And Baz might be evil and a vampire and a complete git, but he’s probably right.
Half
the time, Simon can’t even make his wand work, and the other half, he
sets something on fire. His mentor’s avoiding him, his girlfriend broke
up with him, and there’s a magic-eating monster running around wearing
Simon’s face. Baz would be having a field day with all this, if he were
here—it’s their last year at the Watford School of Magicks, and Simon’s
infuriating nemesis didn’t even bother to show up.
Carry On
is a ghost story, a love story, a mystery and a melodrama. It has just
as much kissing and talking as you’d expect from a Rainbow Rowell
story—but far, far more monsters.
In the second Adventure
Zone graphic novel (adapted from the McElroy family's wildly popular
D&D podcast), we rejoin hero-adjacent sort-of-comrades-in-arms
Taako, Magnus, and Merle on a wild careen through a D&D railroad
murder mystery. This installment has a little of everything: a genius
child detective, an axe-wielding professional wrestler, a surly wizard,
cursed magical artifacts, and a pair of meat monsters.
You know, the usual things you find on a train.
Hot
on the heels of "The Adventure Zone: Here There Be Gerblins", the smash
hit graphic novel that launched the series, "Murder on the Rockport
Limited" picks up the saga where volume 1 left off. Both books are based
on "The Adventure Zone," a tabletop RPG comedy podcast with downloads
numbering in the tens of millions and an army of passionately devoted
fans. With art and co-adaptation from Carey Pietsch, the McElroys are
once again turning their raucous freewheeling D&D campaign into some
damn fine comics.
Wunder is gathering in Nevermoor ...
Morrigan
Crow may have defeated her deadly curse, passed the dangerous trials
and joined the mystical Wundrous Society, but her journey into Nevermoor
and all its secrets has only just begun. And she is fast learning that
not all magic is used for good.
Morrigan Crow has been invited to
join the prestigious Wundrous Society, a place that promised her
friendship, protection and belonging for life. She's hoping for an
education full of wunder, imagination and discovery - but all the
Society want to teach her is how evil Wundersmiths are. And someone is
blackmailing Morrigan's unit, turning her last few loyal friends against
her. Has Morrigan escaped from being the cursed child of Wintersea only
to become the most hated figure in Nevermoor?
Worst of all,
people have started to go missing. The fantastical city of Nevermoor,
once a place of magic and safety, is now riddled with fear and
suspicion...
A cursed girl escapes death and finds herself in a magical world - but is then tested beyond her wildest imagination
Morrigan
Crow is cursed. Having been born on Eventide, the unluckiest day for
any child to be born, she's blamed for all local misfortunes, from
hailstorms to heart attacks--and, worst of all, the curse means that
Morrigan is doomed to die at midnight on her eleventh birthday.
But
as Morrigan awaits her fate, a strange and remarkable man named Jupiter
North appears. Chased by black-smoke hounds and shadowy hunters on
horseback, he whisks her away into the safety of a secret, magical city
called Nevermoor.
It's then that Morrigan discovers Jupiter has
chosen her to contend for a place in the city's most prestigious
organization: the Wundrous Society. In order to join, she must compete
in four difficult and dangerous trials against hundreds of other
children, each boasting an extraordinary talent that sets them apart -
an extraordinary talent that Morrigan insists she does not have. To stay
in the safety of Nevermoor for good, Morrigan will need to find a way
to pass the tests - or she'll have to leave the city to confront her
deadly fate.
Welcome to the Adventure Zone!
SEE! The illustrated exploits of three lovable dummies set loose in a classic fantasy adventure!
READ! Their journey from small-time bodyguards to world-class artifact hunters!
MARVEL!
At the sheer metafictional chutzpah of a graphic novel based on a story
created in a podcast where three dudes and their dad play a tabletop
role playing game in real time!
Join Taako the elf wizard, Merle
the dwarf cleric, and Magnus the human warrior for an adventure they are
poorly equipped to handle AT BEST, guided ("guided") by their snarky
DM, in a graphic novel that, like the smash-hit podcast it's based on,
will tickle your funny bone, tug your heartstrings, and probably pants
you if you give it half a chance.
With endearingly off-kilter
storytelling from master goofballs Clint McElroy and the McElroy
brothers, and vivid, adorable art by Carey Pietsch, The Adventure Zone: Here There be Gerblins
is the comics equivalent of role-playing in your friend's basement at
2am, eating Cheetos and laughing your ass off as she rolls critical
failure after critical failure.
The Near Witch is only an old story told to frighten children.
If the wind calls at night, you must not listen. The wind is lonely, and always looking for company.
There are no strangers in the town of Near.
These are the truths that Lexi has heard all her life.
But
when an actual stranger, a boy who seems to fade like smoke, appears
outside her home on the moor at night, she knows that at least one of
these sayings is no longer true.
The next night, the children of Near start disappearing from their beds, and the mysterious boy falls under suspicion.
As
the hunt for the children intensifies, so does Lexi’s need to know
about the witch that just might be more than a bedtime story, about the
wind that seems to speak through the walls at night, and about the
history of this nameless boy.
Delve into the
thrilling, epic tale of the young and arrogant prince Maxim Maresh, long
before he became the king of Red London and adoptive father to Kell,
the lead of A Darker Shade of Magic!
The youthful Maresh is sent
to a violent and unmanageable port city on the Blood Coast of Verose, on
strict orders from his father, King Nokil Maresh, to cut his military
teeth in this lawless landscape.
There, he encounters an unruly
band of soldiers, a lawless landscape, and the intoxicatingly deadly
presence of the newly returned pirate queen, Arisa...
The rite has existed
for as long as anyone can remember: when the prince-who-will-be-king
comes of age, he must venture out into the gray lands, slay a fierce
dragon, and rescue a damsel to be his bride. This is the way things have
always been.
When Ama wakes in the arms of Prince Emory,
however, she knows none of this. She has no memory of what came before
she was captured by the dragon, or what horrors she has faced in its
lair. She knows only this handsome prince, the story he tells of her
rescue, and her destiny to sit on the throne beside him. Ama comes with
Emory back to the kingdom of Harding, hailed as the new princess,
welcomed to the court.
However, as soon as her first night falls,
she begins to realize that not all is as it seems, that there is more
to the legends of the dragons and the damsels than anyone knows–and that
the greatest threats to her life may not be behind her, but here, in
front of her.
The Dead must stay buried.
Karthia
is nothing like it used to be. The kingdom's borders are open for the
first time in nearly three hundred years, and raising the dead has been
outlawed. Odessa is determined to explore the world beyond Karthia's
waters, hoping to heal a heart broken in more ways than she can count.
But with Meredy joining the ocean voyage, vanquishing her sorrow will be
a difficult task.
Despite the daily reminder of the history they
share, Odessa and Meredy are fascinated when their journey takes them
to a land where the Dead rule the night and dragons roam the streets.
Odessa can't help being mesmerized by the new magic--and by the girl at
her side. But just as she and Meredy are beginning to explore the new
world, a terrifying development in Karthia summons them home at once.
Growing
political unrest on top of threats from foreign invaders means Odessa
and Meredy are thrust back into the lives they tried to leave behind
while specters from their past haunt their tenuous relationship.
Gathering a force big enough to ward off enemies seems impossible, until
one of Queen Valoria's mages creates a weapon that could make them
invincible. As danger continues to mount inside the palace, Odessa fears
that without the Dead, even the greatest invention won't be enough to
save their fates.
In this enthralling, heartrending sequel to
Reign of the Fallen, Odessa faces the fight of her life as the
boundaries between the Dead and the living are challenged in a way more
gruesome than ever before.
Harry Potter is midway
through his training as a wizard and his coming of age. Harry wants to
get away from the pernicious Dursleys and go to the International
Quidditch Cup. He wants to find out about the mysterious event that's
supposed to take place at Hogwarts this year, an event involving two
other rival schools of magic, and a competition that hasn't happened for
a hundred years. He wants to be a normal, fourteen-year-old wizard. But
unfortunately for Harry Potter, he's not normal - even by wizarding
standards. And in his case, different can be deadly.
The Darkling rules Ravka from his shadow throne.
Now
the nation's fate rests with a broken Sun Summoner, a disgraced
tracker, and the shattered remnants of a once-great magical army.
Deep
in an ancient network of tunnels and caverns, a weakened Alina must
submit to the dubious protection of the Apparat and the zealots who
worship her as a Saint. Yet her plans lie elsewhere, with the hunt for
the elusive firebird and the hope that an outlaw prince still survives.
Alina
will have to forge new alliances and put aside old rivalries as she and
Mal race to find the last of Morozova's amplifiers. But as she begins
to unravel the Darkling's secrets, she reveals a past that will forever
alter her understanding of the bond they share and the power she wields.
The firebird is the one thing that stands between Ravka and
destruction—and claiming it could cost Alina the very future she’s
fighting for.
The long path to the
throne has only just begun for Aelin Galathynius as war looms on the
horizon. Loyalties have been broken and bought, friends have been lost
and gained, and those who possess magic find themselves at odds with
those who don't.
With her heart sworn to the warrior-prince by
her side, and her fealty pledged to the people she is determined to
save, Aelin will delve into the depths of her power to protect those she
loves. But as monsters emerge from the horrors of the past, and dark
forces become poised to claim her world, the only chance for salvation
will lie in a desperate quest that may mark the end of everything Aelin
holds dear.
In this breathtaking fifth installment of the New York Times
bestselling Throne of Glass series, Aelin will have to choose what—and
who—to sacrifice if she's to keep the world of Erilea from breaking
apart.
Darkness never dies.
Hunted
across the True Sea, haunted by the lives she took on the Fold, Alina
must try to make a life with Mal in an unfamiliar land. She finds
starting new is not easy while keeping her identity as the Sun Summoner a
secret. She can’t outrun her past or her destiny for long.
The
Darkling has emerged from the Shadow Fold with a terrifying new power
and a dangerous plan that will test the very boundaries of the natural
world. With the help of a notorious privateer, Alina returns to the
country she abandoned, determined to fight the forces gathering against
Ravka. But as her power grows, Alina slips deeper into the Darkling’s
game of forbidden magic, and farther away from Mal. Somehow, she will
have to choose between her country, her power, and the love she always
thought would guide her--or risk losing everything to the oncoming
storm.
The queen has returned.
Everyone
Celaena Sardothien loves has been taken from her. But she’s at last
returned to the empire—for vengeance, to rescue her once-glorious
kingdom, and to confront the shadows of her past…
She has embraced her identity as Aelin Galathynius, Queen of Terrasen. But before she can reclaim her throne, she must fight.
She
will fight for her cousin, a warrior prepared to die for her. She will
fight for her friend, a young man trapped in an unspeakable prison. And
she will fight for her people, enslaved to a brutal king and awaiting
their lost queen’s triumphant return.
The fourth volume in the New York Times
bestselling series continues Celaena’s epic journey and builds to a
passionate, agonizing crescendo that might just shatter her world.
Celaena has survived
deadly contests and shattering heartbreak―but at an unspeakable cost.
Now, she must travel to a new land to confront her darkest truth . . . a
truth about her heritage that could change her life―and her
future―forever. Meanwhile, brutal and monstrous forces are gathering on
the horizon, intent on enslaving her world. Will Celaena find the
strength to not only fight her inner demons, but to take on the evil
that is about to be unleashed?
The bestselling series that has captured readers all over the world reaches new heights in this sequel to the New York Times best-selling Crown of Midnight.
Packed with heart-pounding action, fierce new characters, and
swoon-worthy romance, this third book will enthrall readers from start
to finish.
Surrounded by enemies,
the once-great nation of Ravka has been torn in two by the Shadow Fold, a
swath of near impenetrable darkness crawling with monsters who feast on
human flesh. Now its fate may rest on the shoulders of one lonely
refugee.
Alina Starkov has never been good at anything. But when
her regiment is attacked on the Fold and her best friend is brutally
injured, Alina reveals a dormant power that saves his life—a power that
could be the key to setting her war-ravaged country free. Wrenched from
everything she knows, Alina is whisked away to the royal court to be
trained as a member of the Grisha, the magical elite led by the
mysterious Darkling.
Yet nothing in this lavish world is what it
seems. With darkness looming and an entire kingdom depending on her
untamed power, Alina will have to confront the secrets of the Grisha . .
. and the secrets of her heart.
