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The highly anticipated next book in the New York Times bestselling, award-winning Graceling Realm series, which has sold 1.7 million copies. For the past five years, Bitterblue has reigned as Queen of Monsea, heroically rebuilding her nation after her father's horrific rule. After learning about the land of Torla in the east, she sends envoys to the closest nation there: Winterkeep--a place where telepathic foxes bond with humans, and people fly across the sky in wondrous airships. But when the envoys never return, having drowned under suspicious circumstances, Bitterblue sets off for Winterkeep herself, along with her spy Hava and her trusted colleague Giddon. On the way, tragedy strikes again--a tragedy with devastating political and personal ramifications. Meanwhile, in Winterkeep, Lovisa Cavenda waits and watches, a fire inside her that is always hungry. The teenage daughter of two powerful politicians, she is the key to unlocking everything--but only if she's willing to transcend the person she's been all her life. The Graceling Realm books are a companion series, not direct sequels, so they can be enjoyed in any order.

The beloved New York Times best-selling YA fantasy by Kristin Cashore is now available as a graphic novel, with stunning illustrations by award-winning artist Gareth Hinds. Katsa is a Graceling, one of the rare people born with an extreme skill. As niece of the king, she lived a life of privilege until the day her ability to kill a man with her bare hands revealed itself during a royal banquet. Now she acts as her uncle's enforcer, traveling the kingdom and threatening those who dare oppose him. But everything changes when she meets Po, a foreign prince Graced with combat skills who is searching for the truth about his grandfather's disappearance. When Katsa agrees to help him, she never expects to learn a new truth about her own Grace—or about a terrible secret that could destroy them all. With "gorgeous storytelling" (School Library Journal, starred review) and characters "crafted with meticulous devotion" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), Graceling is a beloved classic that has continued to resonate with readers for over a decade.

An instant New York Times bestseller--from the award-winning author of the Graceling Realm series--an ambitious novel about grief, adventure, storytelling, and finding yourself in a world of seemingly infinite choices. Jane has lived an ordinary life, raised by her aunt Magnolia--an adjunct professor and deep sea photographer. Jane counted on Magnolia to make the world feel expansive and to turn life into an adventure. But Aunt Magnolia was lost a few months ago in Antarctica on one of her expeditions. Now, with no direction, a year out of high school, and obsessed with making umbrellas that look like her own dreams (but mostly just mourning her aunt), she is easily swept away by Kiran Thrash--a glamorous, capricious acquaintance who shows up and asks Jane to accompany her to a gala at her family's island mansion called Tu Reviens. Jane remembers her aunt telling her: If anyone ever invites to you to Tu Reviens, promise me that you'll go. With nothing but a trunkful of umbrella parts to her name, Jane ventures out to the Thrash estate. Then her story takes a turn, or rather, five turns. What Jane doesn't know is that Tu Reviens will offer her choices that can ultimately determine the course of her untethered life. But at Tu Reviens, every choice comes with a reward, or a price.

Vo svete, v ktorom sa len zopár ľudí vyznačuje mimoriadnou schopnosťou známou ako obdarenie, umožnilo kráľovi Leckovi jeho obdarenie klamať tak, že mu každý bez výnimky veril. Keď sa Bitterblue stala vo veku desať rokov kráľovnou, myslela si, že vražda jej otca navždy ukončila jeho násilnícky a neľudský vplyv na celú spoločnosť. Mýlila sa. Netrpezlivo očakávané pokračovanie bestsellerov podľa denníka New York Times, ktoré na Slovensku vyšli pod názvom Výnimočná a Ohnivá, je dokonca ešte viac „zúrivé, vznetlivé, no miestami aj zádumčivé,“ a plné romantiky. Osemnásťročná kráľovná Bitterblue má pocit, že jej radcovia sa ju snažia príliš ochraňovať pred celým svetom, a tak začne podnikať tajné výlety z hradu. Sama a v prevlečení sa túla nočnými ulicami svojho mesta a riskuje nielen vlastný život, ale aj svoje srdce. Iskrivú si obľúbite aj bez toho, aby ste si predtým prečítali Výnimočnú a Ohnivú. No ak ste ich nečítali, nebudete sa vedieť dočkať, kedy tak budete môcť urobiť.

Dej sa odohráva v krajine kde sa rodia ľudia so zvláštnou schopnosťou výnimočným obdarením. Ostatní sa ich boja pohŕdajú nimi alebo ich zneužívajú. Hlavná hrdinka románu Katsa bola obdarená schopnosťou ktorou sama pohŕda. Je výnimočná v zabíjaní. Jej život ovládol strýko Randa kráľ Middlensu. Mala zaňho vykonávať nekalú prácu trestať mučiť alebo zabíjať každého kto sa mu znepáči. Keď sa prvý raz stretla s princom Poom ktorý bol obdarený schopnosťou bojovať nemala ani tušenie ako sa zmení jej život. Nikdy by jej ani na um nezišlo že sa stane jeho priateľkou. Nikdy by si ani nepomyslela že sa dozvie celú pravdu o svojom výnimočnom nadaní príšernom tajomstve ktorým by dokázala zničiť všetkých sedem kráľovstiev.

The fifth novel in the bestselling and award-winning Graceling Realm series focuses on Hava, Queen Bitterblue's spy, and her harrowing journey back to Monsea after the events of 2021's Winterkeep. In the immediate aftermath of the events of Winterkeep, Bitterblue and her entourage begin the journey back to Monsea with the only copies of the formulas for the zilphium weapon. Bitterblue must decide what she will do with her world-shaping power. But before they've even made it halfway home, storms drive their ship off course and then they wreck in the ice far north of the Royal Continent. The survivors must make a harrowing trek across the ice in order to make it back to Monsea. Seasparrow is told entirely from the point of view of Hava, Bitterblue's personal spy and secret half sister. And while Bitterblue grapples with how to carry the responsibility of a weapon of mass destruction, Hava must decide what she will do with herself in the new world Bitterblue will make.