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Lucien has always been able to spin a bad situation to his advantage. From his childhood on the dangerous streets of Shadycreek Run to his years living off the grid and learning blood magic from the Claret Orders, the charismatic blood hunter will find a way to get the upper hand. When Lucien is on a job in the frozen wastelands of Eiselcross with his fellow mercenaries, a rough-and-tumble crew called the Tombtakers, fate leads him to a mysterious journal in the ruins of an ancient city. The book speaks of the Somnovem, nine beings who can grant Lucien power beyond imagining.

In an England where monsters have spilled into the world out of myth, only London is magically protected from the monstrous threat. The University runs the city, allowing family of graduate Hunters, Healers, Scholars, and Artificers to live behind the wards.

In un'Inghilterra invasa dai teras, mostri spietati dalle sembianze mitologiche, soltanto Londra rimane un luogo sicuro. La città, protetta magicamente da una frontiera che i teras non possono oltrepassare, è governata dall'Università, un'élite di studiosi e guerrieri che ha il compito di classificare queste creature ibride e annientarle. Tutti ambiscono a vivere all'interno delle mura, ma si tratta di un privilegio riservato solamente alle famiglie degli studenti che hanno superato le selezioni e l'addestramento dell'Università, seguendo una delle quattro specializzazioni.

An amazing array of the most popular and exciting names in Fantasy are set to appear in the first in a brand new series of Fantasy anthologies featuring original fiction, from the master editor Jonathan Strahan. The authors appearing in the launch volume include Trudi Canavan, Elizabeth Bear, Daniel Abraham, Kate Elliott, Saladin Ahmed, Glen Cook, Scott Lynch, Ellen Klages, Ellen Kushner & Ysabeau Wilce, Jeffrey Ford, Robert Redick, and KJ Parker.

喜歡聽故事嗎? 尤其是那種聽起來讓人寒毛直豎、頭皮發麻的犯罪故事。 喜歡看推理小說嗎?還記得上次猜到謎底時，那種全身舒暢的痛快感嗎? 「惡之根：你的犯罪研究日誌」是由Lucien和Troy共同經營的podcast節目， 內容探討真實犯罪與推理文學，以及兩者間所擦出的火花。 節目中以說故事的方式，將真實犯罪案件娓娓道來，並不時穿插無厘頭和爆笑的評論，讓聽眾能和我們一起深入探討案件的始末。 此外節目也同時介紹推理小說，讓聽眾對於歐美...

Lucien is a marine engineer on a Canadian tanker. While on one-month leave in Halifax, he meets Olivia, a brilliant philosophy student at Dalhousie University, who takes an immediate dislike to him. What begins as mutual antipathy changes when they discover how compatible their oddities are. Charged by Olivia not to say he loves her, Lucien returns to sea and to a job characterized by its plodding predictability. Here he discovers that not everything in his life is foreseeable, including his feelings for Olivia. This is a fascinating and different work of fiction.

Three generations have passed since the whispers of demons first spread across the lips of man. Since that first fateful night above Oakenfall, a kingdom has fallen, a god has died, and the streets have begun to pile with bodies, but nothing that Oakenfall has experienced so far can prepare it for what will befall it as Lucien returns from his travels. What started as a routine investigation of a haunted village, an easy task for a Mage Hunter like Lucien, sends him on a voyage that will see him set against old enemies of Oakenfall.

This book contains foul language and fouler descriptions of life as a zombie. It will offend most anyone, so proceed with caution or not at all. And be forewarned: This is not a zombie book. This is a different sort of tale. It is a story about the unfortunate, about those who did not get away. It is a human story at its rotten heart. It is the reason we can't stop obsessing about these creatures, in whom we see all too much of ourselves.

When a team of scientists discovers the deadly consequences of a human gene they dub “the evolution gene", they quickly realize that the human race is on the brink of extinction. As pandemic after pandemic ravages the world, symptomatic of the looming eradication of all humankind, this team heads to the Amazon for one last chance to save humanity.

Lucien, auteur prolifique du IIe siècle apr. J.-C., est né à Samosate, aux confins orientaux de l'Empire romain. Dans les "Histoires vraies", un de ses ouvrages les plus célèbres, il invite le lecteur à un voyage extraordinaire sur la Lune, dans le ventre d'une baleine, sur une île peuplée des grands héros du passé et sur des récifs défendus par des monstres effrayants. Entre fantaisie et pastiche des grandes références littéraires et mythologiques, on peut voir dans les "Histoires vraies" le premier récit de science-fiction de la littérature occidentale.

Come prowl the lonely, sometimes violent streets of American's most exotic city, the city that care forgot, New Orleans, with a lone-wolf private-eye named Lucien Caye. Unlike most 40s PIs, Caye rarely drinks, doesn't smoke or wear a hat (it messes up his hair). He's six feet tall with wavy, dark brown hair and standard-issue Mediterranean-brown eyes, a sly smile and a clever mind that often gets him into trouble. Caye lives and works in the run-down New Orleans French Quarter of the late 1940s.

EIN neues, faszinierendes Buch. SIEBEN Fragen, um herauszufinden, warum in diesem Buch eigentlich alles so ist, wie es ist. DREI Macher*innen, die Bücher lieben und manchmal hassen, sie verschlingen oder auch einfach wieder weglegen. Im neuen Festivalpodcast eins.sieben.drei. wird in jeder Folge ein Buch abseits des Mainstreams vorgestellt. Die Macher*innen fordern die Autor*innen heraus und stellen sich selber dabei auf die Probe. Anregend, humorvoll und auf jeden Fall erbarmungslos ehrlich präsentieren Lucien Haug, Christoph Keller und Marion Regenscheit ihre Lieblinge aus dem Bücherjahr,...

Three full-length sweet and clean romances filled with flirty, fun-loving, unforgettable characters and a setting that will leave you ready to pack up and move to Nestled Hollow. Each interconnected stand-alone novel has its own happily ever after. These are the feel-good romances you've been hoping for.

Les heures de Roc-du-Cap sont comptées. Damian Ragellan reçoit la plus haute distinction militaire de l’armée. Il devient Arcaporal à dix-sept ans. Du jamais vu. Personne ne sait d’où provient son talent exceptionnel pour le combat. Pas même lui. Mais ça n’a plus d’importance. Dans une semaine, la cité qu’il a juré de protéger pourrait disparaître à jamais. Une maladie mortelle décime la population à une vitesse effarante. Les infectés connaissent leur destin : des larmes noires déchireront leur visage jusqu’aux os.

S’il a abandonné tout espoir de réussir au cinéma ou à la télévision, François Desrosiers, scénariste peu prospère, n’avait apparemment pas réussi à faire le deuil de ces gens qui habitent toujours un recoin de son esprit.

Lorsque Thomas et Émilie quittent Rosemont pour la banlieue, ils réalisent un rêve. Souhaitant que leur fille adorée Mégane devienne une grande sœur prochainement, ils choisissent un quartier tranquille dans une maison qui, même si elle a besoin d’amour, deviendra bientôt leur nid bien à eux. Là, dans la simplicité, le bonheur et la joie, ils pourront laisser leur bulle familiale s’épanouir. À l’école, Mégane fera une rencontre salutaire pour son adaptation à sa nouvelle vie.

The worldwide disappearance of all living creatures, after the catastrophic storm, brings Kyara to the brink of despair as she and her siblings go on a miraculous journey through time. Everything changes the day of the storm. Time is lost. People are taken. And an unnatural silence settles over the land. Kyara and her three siblings seem to wake up to a normal life, but what is normal can never be normal again after that night’s storm. Not when everyone in the world disappears, except Kyara and her three siblings;the only ones left in the sacred world. As they try to find out why everyone disappeared, they come across a time machine disguised in a cell phone.

Fun-loving Whitney Brennan enjoys being in the middle of every town gathering in Nestled Hollow - and writing about it all in the town paper that she owns. But she’s terrified of making any real or deep connection with anyone because she knows that if she does, they’ll end up leaving like everyone else did. Like her high school best-friend-turned-boyfriend, Eli, did on graduation night. Eli Treanor skipped out of Nestled Hollow 12 years ago and created a new life and a thriving team-building business he thoroughly enjoys in Sacramento.

For years, Lady Chastity Neville has stood in the shadows of her dour older sister. But while bluestocking Prudence might be content to wile away her hours alone with a book, Chastity secretly yearns to shed her wallflower ways. When she finds an old letter indicating her mother may have had a scandalous past, Chastity is drawn to the mystery of the woman she never knew. This Christmastide, she’s determined to uncover the truth - and start a scandal of her own.

Dylan comes home three times a year to Highland Lake because his mother demands it. But big city life is more his style, until he stumbles upon the beautiful Lila. Will an interesting business opportunity and this quirky librarian be enough to make even this big city bachelor want to settle down?