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Kay’s life is pretty boring. She goes to school, spends quiet evenings at home with her foster mom, and has the occasional brush with mischief thanks to her best and only friend Will. But everything is about to change. One night, Kay tags along on another one of Will’s adventures, and they both end up recruited by a talking fox to become Netherjacks, protectors of all the worlds. Once they arrive at the training academy, though, Will is paired with a legendary Netherwing mount and quickly rises in the trainee ranks, leaving Kay behind with barely a glance.

When his older sister, Quedra Sa-Yool, was brought down by her political enemies, ne'er-do-well and pilot extraordinaire Zham followed her into exile. Quedra, a military genius once known as the Diamond Knife, now commands the mercenary airship Last Stop and its motley crew, and Zham leads its tiny air wing—when he's not roistering in bars and dodging moneylenders, that is.

In this thrilling conclusion to Alice's adventures in The Forbidden Library she must lead her band of friends, magical beings, and creatures against the collected might of the Old Readers—perfect for fans of Story Thieves, Inkheart, Coraline, and Harry Potter. When Alice defeated her uncle...

Il re di Vordan giace sul letto di morte. Presto sua figlia Raesinia Orboan gli succederà al trono, ma il regno è minacciato da uomini ambiziosi, e povertà e speculazione stanno spingendo la popolazione allo stremo. È questo lo scenario che si presenta agli occhi di Janus, Winter e Marcus quando giungono nella capitale dopo essersi separati dal reggimento dei Coloniali.

La sonnolenta quotidianità in cui il capitano Marcus d'Ivoire e il suo piccolo esercito sono risucchiati, rassegnati a finire i propri giorni in un remoto avamposto, è stravolta dallo scoppio di una ribellione ai margini dell'impero Vordanai, che li costringerà alla dura prova della difesa di una fortezza ai margini del deserto. Winter Ihernglass si è arruolata nell'esercito fingendosi un uomo, con il solo scopo di sfuggire al suo passato. Coraggio e determinazione non le mancano, e insieme alla sua umanità le faranno ottenere in breve una promozione a luogotenente.

"The First Kill" is a bit of backstory for the universe of The Shadow Campaigns. The Shadow Throne implies a connection between Andreas, Duke Orlanko's brutally efficient go-to killer, and Sothe, the Gray Rose, his best agent turned bitter enemy. In this story, we get to see these two at an earlier point in their careers, and take a look at how that relationship got started.

Böse, sarkastisch und zum Brüllen komisch – für alle, die sich wünschen, dass die Bösen endlich eine faire Chance bekommen. Davi ist die prophezeite Heldin, welche die Menschheit vor dem Dark Lord retten wird. Doch sie versagt und kommt auf grausamste Art ums Leben, nur um aufzuwachen und ihre Mission erneut anzutreten. Nach ihrem 237. brutalen Tod beschließt sie allerdings, die Regeln zu ändern. Wenn der Böse jedes Mal gewinnt, dann wird eben sie der nächste Dark Lord werden. Das erste, was Davi für dieses Ziel benötigt, ist eine Horde vertrauenswürdiger finsterer Kreaturen.