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'Magnificent' Tim Winton In the distant highlands, a puma named Dusk is killing shepherds. Down in the lowlands, twins Iris and Floyd are out of work, money and friends. When they hear that a bounty has been placed on Dusk, they reluctantly decide to join the hunt. As they journey up into this...

The Caldwells have one goal in life: to be left alone. They’ve been living on the backwater planet of C’dar for years, smuggling and scavenging their way to a comfortable life on their homestead. But you know the saying about all good things - they come to an end. The civilization wasn’t content with falling apart the first time and has finally caught wind of the ol’ boys and girls on their little rock in the middle of nowhere.

Eli has survived war, betrayal, dark magic, and the long scars of memory—but survival has come at a terrible price. Bound by an unspoken debt to Nyx, the dark goddess who spared his life, Eli is no longer entirely his own. And when she calls, refusal is not an option. Eli is wrenched onto a new path—one that leads north into lawless, burning lands where kings are dead, power is contested, and the mysterious Crown of Dusk stands empty. Behind him, war spreads. Ahead of him, something far worse is waiting.

Velik was changed by a childhood encounter he still struggles to understand. Now he’s something else—faster, deadlier, and armed with a unique class built for one thing: hunting monsters. For ten years, he’s braved the frontier alone, cutting down every beast that threatens the border towns. With each kill, he’s grown stronger, gaining levels and sharpening his skills on the thousands of monsters infesting the wild lands.

After years of abuse in a loveless relationship, Leo Grayson secretly packs up his life and heads west to Varcross, Oregon. But there’s a problem: Varcross doesn’t exist—well, not in Oregon. Strange lights over the highway send Leo careening into an impossible realm with no way to escape. While struggling to cope with being the only human in a cursed and derelict town, he finds love and companionship with the very monsters who may one day lose control and spread their affliction to him.

Avarath was lucky that the final king of faerie turned a blind eye to the first war, but Avarath's luck has run out. One by one, the princes of Avarath fall to the glamour, to duty, to fate-until even a king crumbles, too. By the time that war is truly upon them, Delphine has finally come to understand what it is to now be fae, too. If only she'd been cursed, instead. That would have been simpler. Then, at least, the whole of fate wouldn't rest on her shoulders, and hers alone.

When darkness means certain death and survival depends on reaching the dawn, the woman whose magic broke the world will carve another path: defy the dusk. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Bridge Kingdom comes the first book in a gritty post-apocalyptic fantasy duology...

Velik left the frontier behind after finally destroying the source of the endless monsters that plagued it. But life in the Monster Hunters Guild isn’t the fresh start he imagined. People and politics bring a different set of challenges—and Velik has never been good at playing by the rules.

It's been nearly a decade since Rakta Velbrun of Gelvurt battled the evil Zactrik. Eight long years, to be exact, during which he slept the sleep of death, and those who loved and relied on him were forced to grieve, cope, and move on as best they could. Now, revived by a mysterious force, Rakta awakens to a world that is at once achingly familiar and dangerously broken.

Fearful of the future and haunted by the past, the Holders set sail for the Isle of Dusk. As they leave the capital of Tur-Loghan behind, an ancient enemy is reborn in the city of Eyeshorn. Fed the blood of innocent children, Count Dilgreshar rises from the grave. His only desire? To exact revenge upon his niece, Ang Saroth…

Gastha—along with her siblings Dha, Vela, Zuja, Aara, and Exater—embarks on her own journey of discovering her own path, power, and eventually, destiny, leaving destruction and chaos in her wake. As she faces the curse of her power and the torment of her siblings' apathy, she struggles to find love, build a normal family, and hope for a normal life away from her cursed existence.

For Scorpion agents Day and Knight, their relationship is slow to develop, and trust is hard to build. Then Day’s brother, Stephen, goes missing, and Day finds out more about him than he ever dreamed. Day’s first reaction to Stephen’s disappearance is to try to get to him as fast as possible. Knight initially holds him back so they can attempt to find out what they’re walking into. But when Knight sees Day’s desperation, he steps in to help and tries to calm the man he’s growing to care about, even though the trail is cold and clues are scarce.

Chester Oake is a nocturnal, pensive young man who, one summer, is invited by his best friend, Ryan "Reef" Carrick, to join him and some mutual friends in a string of home robberies. Seeing an opportunity to make some easy money, Chester agrees to join. After a series of successful break-ins, they plan one final heist, but the late-night robbery quickly takes a turn for the worse when they discover that there's someone else in the house: A girl named Kate, who sees Reef's face after he thoughtlessly takes off his mask.

Dusk of the Sicario reaches its dramatic and satisfying conclusion as Ramona and Rafael track down their target, Colda. However, their mission takes an unexpected turn when they uncover Colda's hidden secret: a daughter. With their formidable fighting prowess, they infiltrate Colda's opulent mansion for an epic showdown.

The people of a desert town found a girl’s body in the sacred river. When she started breathing, they thought it was incredible. When that same girl healed a crippled boy, the townspeople thought it was a miracle. When the girl grew up to command the dead to do her bidding, the townspeople knew she was the legendary pharaoh returned. But when Ashira’s divine abilities reveal her to the powerful Alvari Emperor, she must flee her town and find a way to claim her throne and liberate her people.

"Становление охотника" - фантастический роман Макса Вальтера, первая книга цикла "Сумрак", жанр героическая фантастика, попаданцы.

For detective Johan DeGraaf, the morning of April 29th, 1904 began with a foreboding gale wind, a kidnapping, and a homicide - all before arriving at the station house. The search for the abductee, a young H.P. Lovecraft, leads DeGraaf on the trail of a mysterious Prince Khan, a bizarre crystal, and a clandestine underworld of intrigue and debauchery centered around an ancient alien evil older than humanity itself.