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The Book of Elsewhere
The legendary Keanu Reeves and inimitable writer China Mieville team up on this genre-bending epic of ancient powers, modern war, and an outcast who cannot die.
Long Live Evil
A fantasy for anyone who ever had a crush on the villain of the tale. This 'delicious, subversive treat of a book' (Leigh Bardugo) is the first adult novel from beloved YA author Sarah Rees Brennan.
A TALE FOR EVERYONE WHO'S EVER FALLEN FOR THE VILLAIN...
When her whole life collapsed, Rae still had books. Dying, she seizes a second chance at living: a magical bargain that lets her enter the world of her favourite fantasy series.
She wakes in a castle on the edge of a hellish chasm, in a kingdom on the brink of war. Home to dangerous monsters, scheming courtiers and her favourite fictional character: the Once and Forever Emperor. He's impossibly alluring, as only fiction can be. And in this fantasy world, she discovers she's not the heroine, but the villainess in the Emperor's tale.
So be it. The wicked are better dressed, with better one-liners, even if they're doomed to bad ends. She assembles the wildly disparate villains of the story under her evil leadership, plotting to change their fate. But as the body count rises and the Emperor's fury increases, it seems Rae and her allies may not survive to see the final page.
This adult epic fantasy debut from Sarah Rees Brennan puts the reader in the villain's shoes, for an adventure that is both 'brilliant' (Holly Black) and 'supremely satisfying' (Leigh Bardugo).
Expect a rogue's gallery of villains including an axe wielding maid, a shining knight with dark moods, a homicidal bodyguard, and a playboy spymaster with a golden heart and a filthy reputation.
Beneath These Cursed Stars
When the stars promise ruin, will love be worth the risk?
Princess Jasalyn seeks revenge.
Armed with an enchanted ring bestowing death's kiss, she's been sneaking away at night to assassinate her enemies.
Felicity needs a miracle.
Fated to kill her father, she's been using her ability to shape-shift to evade a fatal prophecy.
But when rumours begin circling that the evil king Mordeus is still alive, Jasalyn teams up with the handsome Kendrick - a rebel once imprisoned alongside her. While Felicity must take Princess Jasalyn's form, and her place at court - drawing irresistibly closer to the Wild Fae King, Misha.
Soon, their mission is at risk right alongside their hearts.
The future of the human and fae realms hangs in the balance. Between perilous tasks, grim secrets, and forbidden romances, Jasalyn and Felicity find that perhaps their stars are the most cursed of all.
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lexi Ryan comes a romantic fantasy in which a human princess armed with death's kiss and a fae shifter on the run become unlikely allies when a mission to assassinate an evil king collides with a fatal prophecy.
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Illusion of Stars - Enmity of Hearts 1
She's stealing more than secrets.
As the royal physician of a tiny, windswept island, Isabel spends her days trying to keep the queen from dying and the mad king from streaking naked down the halls. But when her best friend is found murdered on the beaches, her world is ripped apart. Desperate for answers, she discovers a stash of letters that reveal a terrifying truth: the neighboring kingdom of Volgaard possesses a kingdom-shattering weapon and is poised to conquer everything in its path.
Seeking vengeance, Isabel infiltrates the enemy. Her mission? Woo Erik Lothgarson, the general's steamy, illusion-magic wielding son, and steal the dangerous weapon. She can bring Volgaard to its knees-if she isn't caught.
But as Isabel dances along the knife edge of deception, the lines between truth and fiction blur, and she must wrestle her quest for vengeance against her undeniable attraction to the enemy.
The sexy enemies-to-lovers tension of THE BRIDGE KINGDOM meets the snarky banter of A DAWN OF ONYX in this swoon-worthy romantasy.
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36,95 €
Queen B
The next enchanting instalment of the sensational #1 SUNDAY TIMES bestselling Her Majesty's Royal Coven fantasy series takes us back to the reign of Henry VIII and the origins of Her Majesty's Royal Coven under the beautiful, the bewitching, Anne Boleyn.
It's 1536 and the Queen has been beheaded. Lady Grace Fairfax, witch, knows that something foul is at play - that someone had betrayed Anne Boleyn and her coven. Wild with the loss of their leader - and her lover, a secret that if spilled could spell Grace's own end - she will do anything in her power to track down the traitor. But there's more at stake than revenge: it was one of their own, a witch, that betrayed them, and Grace isn't the only one looking for her.
King Henry VIII has sent witchfinders after them, and they're organized like they've never been before under his new advisor, the impassioned Sir Ambrose Fulke, a cold man blinded by his faith. His cruel reign could mean the end of witchkind itself. If Grace wants to find her revenge and live, she will have to do more than disappear.She will have to be reborn.In this gripping, propulsive, sultry novella, Juno Dawson takes us back to the bloody beginnings of Her Majesty's Royal Coven to show us the strength, steel and sacrifice it takes to make a sisterhood.
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17,95 €
Hrdinky Budoucnosti 2: Dev - Příběh Devory Sharpové
Svět po třetí světové válce není jako dřív, balancuje na hranici pokroku a regrese. Devora nemá na růžích zrovna ustláno, už v dětství jí život uštědřil několik nelítostných ran. O svém domově nemůže říct nic hezkého, útočiště nachází v opuštěné továrně a její rodinou se stává parta kamarádů. Ale ani v dospělosti to nevypadá, že by se na ni mělo usmát štěstí. Jedna pohroma střídá druhou a ona se pod tíhou nepříznivých událostí ocitne úplně na dně. Jenomže ta největší katastrofa se na svět teprve řítí a Devora se nachází přímo v jejím centru. Dokáže přežít to, co ostatní zabilo? A pokud ano, jak se vypořádá s následky, které jsou pro obyčejného smrtelníka nepředstavitelné?
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21,45 €
Le Fay
The second instalment in the feminist retelling of the story of the formidable and misunderstood villainess Morgan le Fay, nemesis of the sorcerer Merlin
‘They should fear me, the power I possessed, and the bright, ravenous rage that now fuelled my every breath… Even I did not know what I was capable of.’
Lady Morgan surveys her life at Camelot: she is safe, valued for her intelligence, and has the love and respect of her brother King Arthur, despite a growing conflict with Queen Guinevere.
It’s not enough. For, between the strict rules of court, a vengeful husband determined to snatch their son away, and a jealous rival in sorcerer Merlin, Morgan desires freedom. And when a face from her past arrives, igniting old memories and new desires, the future she is planning becomes fraught with danger.
Morgan must break the shackles of expectation to seek true happiness. In doing so, she discovers dark new powers that promise control of her life is within reach. But it’s at the risk of destroying everything…
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21,95 €
Lacná kniha Lokýnka ze Smaragdového moře (-25%)
Ve světě, kde moře neznamená vodu, ale nekonečné množství kypících, smrtonosných spor, žije jedna zdánlivě obyčejná dívka Lokýnka. Netouží po dobrodružství, uvažuje prakticky a předpokládá, že stráví celý svůj život na pustém ostrově zvaném Skála. Svým naprosto pragmatickým způsobem miluje chlapce Káju, který je však synem místního aristokrata. A právě rozdíl ve společenském postavení a překážky v lásce z něj plynoucí způsobí, že Kája skončí na opačné straně světa v zajetí Čarodějky. Tehdy se všedním životem žijící Lokýnka rozhodne opustit ostrov a vydat se na dlouhou a zakázanou výpravu, jejímž cílem má být Kájova záchrana. Netuší, že při tom změní sebe i svět.
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19,43 €
25,90€
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The Sky on Fire
Enter a world ruled by dragons . .
The Sky on Fire is a daring new fantasy heist adventure from Jenn Lyons that will thrill fans of Temeraire, Fourth Wing and Dragonriders of Pern.
Anahrod lives only for survival, forging her own way through the harsh jungles of the Deep with her titan drake by her side. Even when an adventuring party saves her from capture by a local warlord, she is eager to return to her solitary life.
But this is no ordinary rescue. It’s Anahrod’s past catching up with her. These cunning misfits – and their frustratingly appealing dragonrider ringleader – intend to spirit her away to the dragon-ruled sky cities, where they need her help to steal from a dragon’s hoard.
There’s just one problem: the hoard in question belongs to the current regent, Neveranimas – and she wants Anahrod dead.
From the acclaimed author of the Chorus of Dragons series, this soaring stand-alone fantasy combines conniving dragons, lightning banter, high-stakes intrigue and a little bit of heat.
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18,95 €
Štvrté krídlo – Špeciálne vydanie
Špeciálne vydanie s oriezkou a bonusovými kapitolami v limitovanom počte kusov.
Dvadsaťročná Violet Sorrengailová mala vstúpiť do Pisárskeho kvadrantu a prežiť pokojný život medzi knihami a dejinami. Veliaca generálka a zhodou okolností aj jej tvrdohlavá matka ju však donútila zúčastniť sa na výbere medzi elitných dračích jazdcov. No ak ste útlejší a nižší než stovky ostatných kandidátov, smrť vám doslova dýcha na krk. Draci si totiž málokedy vyberajú "krehkých" ľudí. Tých pália na popol.
Keďže drakov, čo by si vybrali Violet, je ako šafranu, väčšina kadetov by ju najradšej zniesla zo sveta, len aby zvýšili vlastné šance. Pre iných, napríklad pre mocného a nemilosrdného veliteľa krídla v Jazdeckom kvadrante Xadena Riorsona, je tŕňom v oku Violetin pôvod.
Ak chce Violet prežiť, musí sa spoľahnúť na svoj dôvtip. S každým dňom je však vojna za hranicami akadémie čoraz krvavejšia, obrana kráľovstva zlyháva a počet mŕtvych narastá. Navyše sa zdá, že velitelia skrývajú hrôzostrašné tajomstvo.
The Spellshop
Perfect for fans of Travis Baldree and TJ Klune, The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst is a cosy fantasy tale full of stolen spellbooks, unexpected friendships, sweet jams and even sweeter romance.
Reading this book was like sitting in the sun . . . a warm, peaceful delight of a novel – Katherine Arden, author of The Bear and the Nightingale
Every home needs a little magic . . .
Kiela has always had trouble dealing with people, and as librarian at the Great Library of Alyssium, she hasn’t had to.
She and her assistant, Caz, a sentient spider plant, have spent most of the last eleven years sequestered among the empire’s precious spellbooks, protecting the magic for the city’s elite. But a revolution is brewing and when the library goes up in flames, Kiela and Caz steal whatever books they can and flee to the faraway island where she grew up. But to her dismay, in addition to a nosy – and very handsome – neighbour, she finds the town in disarray.
The empire has slowly been draining power from the island, and now Kiela is determined to make things right. But opening up her own spellshop comes with its own risks – the consequence of sharing magic with commoners is death. And as Kiela starts to make a place for herself among the townspeople, she realizes she must break down the walls she has kept so high . . .
From award-winning author Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop is a cottagecore cosy fantasy following a womans unexpected journey through the low-stakes market of illegal spell-selling and the high-risk business of starting over.
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20,90 €
The Lost Story: The gorgeous, heartwarming grown-up fairytale by the beloved author of The Wishing Game
From the author of the bestselling novel The Wishing Game comes a Narnia-inspired fairy tale for grown-ups who still knock on the back of wardrobe doors . . . just in case.
Once upon a time, two boys went missing in the woods. Six months later, they reappeared, with no explanation for where they'd been or how they'd survived.
Fifteen years on, Rafe is a reclusive artist with no memory of what happened during those months, despite the scars he bears. Meanwhile, Jeremy is a famed missing persons investigator. With his uncanny abilities, he is the one person who can help vet tech Emilie Wendell find her long-lost sister, who vanished in the very same forest as Rafe and Jeremy.
Jeremy also keeps a secret: the fantastical truth about the magical realm they made home for those six months. And it's there they may find Emilie's sister.
Alongside Emilie, Rafe and Jeremy must return to the enchanted world they left behind - for only then can they get back everything and everyone they've lost.
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18,95 €
The Black Bird Oracle
Diana Bishop journeys to the darkest places within herself - and her family history - in the highly anticipated fifth novel of the beloved Number One Sunday Times bestselling All Souls series.
Deborah Harkness first introduced the world to Diana Bishop, Oxford scholar and witch, and vampire geneticist Matthew de Clairmont in A Discovery of Witches. Drawn to each other despite long-standing taboos, these two other-worldly beings found themselves at the centre of a battle for a lost, enchanted manuscript known as Ashmole 782. Since then, they have fallen in love, travelled to Elizabethan England, dissolved the Covenant between the three species, and awoken the dark powers within Diana's family line.
Now, Diana and Matthew receive a formal demand from the Congregation: They must test the magic of their seven-year-old twins, Pip and Rebecca. Concerned with their safety and desperate to avoid the same fate that led her parents to spellbind her, Diana decides to forge a different path for her family's future and answers a message from a great-aunt she never knew existed, Gwyneth Proctor, whose invitation simply reads: It's time you came home, Diana.
On the hallowed ground of Ravenswood, the Proctor family home, and under the tutelage of Gwyneth, a talented witch grounded in higher magic, a new era begins for Diana: a confrontation with her family's dark past, and a reckoning for her own desire for even greater power - if she can let go, finally, of her fear of wielding it.
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18,95 €
Navola
Navola is a city built on trade.
Its palazzos and towers are conjured from its merchant wealth: barley and rice, flax and wool, iron and silver, arms, armies, lives and kingdoms are all traded here.
And presiding over it all, the Regulai bank. By guile, force of arms and the cast-iron might of their money and promises, in just three generations the Regulai family have risen far from their humble origins: merchants beg their backing, artists their patronage, princes an invitation to dine at their table. The Regulai say they are not political, but their wealth buys cities and topples kingdoms.
Soon, Davico di Regulai will take the reins of power. But the boy is not well-suited for his role. His heart is soft where it should be hard. He is credulous when he should be suspicious. He is tired of being tested and trained to inherit a legacy he is not sure he wants.
But Davico is inextricably tangled in fate's net and his doubts can only summon ruin.
In the shade of Navola's colonnaded porticoes, his family's enemies gather and plot.
In the shadows of its deep catacombs, assassins sharpen their stiletto knives.
In the kingdoms of Cerulean Peninsula, princes and despots muster their armies.
Davico's only hope rests in the heart of a girl whose own family was destroyed by the Regulai, and in a crystalline orb the size of a human head, said to be the eye of a long-dead dragon.
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21,95 €
The End Crowns All
The second fierce, fresh and gloriously romantic YA Greek myth re-imagining, from Bea Fitzgerald, growing TikTok superstar and Sunday Times bestselling author of GIRL, GODDESS, QUEEN.
Love caused this war. At least, that's what the stories will say.
When Cassandra's patron god, Apollo, offers her the gift of prophecy - and all the power that comes with it - she seizes the opportunity. But when she fails to uphold her end of the agreement, she discovers just how very far she has to fall. No one believes her visions. Which all seem to be of one girl - and she's going to start a war.
Helen fled Sparta in pursuit of love - though that's proving more elusive than she'd hoped. Far from home, Helen's navigating all the politics and backstabbing of the Trojan court.
And one princess seems particularly intent on driving her from the city. . .
But when war finally strikes, it's more than the army at their walls they must contend with. Cassandra and Helen might hold the key to reweaving fate itself - especially with the prophetic strands drawing them ever closer together.
But how do you change your future when the gods themselves are dictating your demise?
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16,95 €
The Bright Sword
No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of the Magicians trilogy returns with a triumphant reimagining of the King Arthur legend for the new millennium.
When gifted young knight Collum arrives at Camelot to compete for a place on the Round Table, he quickly discovers that he’s too late:The king died two weeks ago at the Battle of Camlann, and only a handful of the knights of the Round Table are left.
And the survivors aren’t the heroes of legend either, like Lancelot or Gawain. They’re the oddballs of the Round Table, like Sir Palomides, the Saracen Knight, and Sir Dagonet, Arthur’s fool, who was knighted as a joke. They’re joined by Nimue, who was Merlin’s apprentice until she turned on him and buried him under a hill.
But it’s up to them to rebuild Camelot in a world that has lost its balance, even as God abandons Britain and the fairies and old gods are returning, led by Morgan le Fay. They must reclaim Excalibur and make this ruined world whole again.
But first they’ll have to solve the mystery of why the lonely, brilliant King Arthur fell.
The first major Arthurian epic of the new millennium, The Bright Sword is a story about imperfect men and women, full of strength and pain, who are looking for a way to reforge a broken land in spite of being broken themselves.
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PILÍŘE, PŘEDCHŮDCI I VĚČNÝ DÉŠŤ. PROŽIJTE SI SVŮJ SEVERNÍ DEN…
Před dvěma sty lety lidé uprchli z Kontinentu a usadili se na nehostinném ostrově Nordtag přezdívaném Severní den. Na troskách opuštěných skulptur postupně vybudovali nová města, aniž by cokoli tušili o stále funkčních mechanických konstruktech i jejich záhadných tvůrcích.
To vše se má nyní změnit. Julius Birma, prospektor s dluhy a složitou minulostí, přijímá riskantní zakázku doručit neznámému klientovi šifrovanou depeši. Na jiném místě prchá Hana Polach z okovů zlaté klece despotického muže. Pokud se jí to ale má podařit, musí spáchat ten nejhorší zločin. A Vicram Bagley, hlava zločineckého Syndikátu, uzavřel smlouvu, která může zapříčinit pád celého Nordtagu.
Do toho všeho se z nebe spouští nekonečný déšť a spolu s ním přicházejí ti, které dosud nikdo nespatřil. A hlavně – nikdy spatřit neměl.
„Tahle výbušná směs sci-fi & fantasy vás uhrane drzou fantazií, temnou atmosférou i cynickou dramatičností.“ – PEVNOST
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27,44 €
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PRO SPRAVEDLNOST JE OCHOTNA OBĚTOVAT VŠE. VČETNĚ SVÉ DUŠE…
Patřit k slavnému rodu Madridů má být čest, protože právě oni jsou Ohaři: elitní královská stráž. Pro Tempest je to ale prokletí, které z ní učiní sirotka vyrůstajícího mezi cvičenými zabijáky.
Jen touha po pomstě jí pomůže překonat náročný výcvik a stát se první Ohařkou v historii. Současně tím však zaujme krále Destina, který ji postaví před takřka nemožný úkol. Má vypátrat Šprýmaře, lišáckého vůdce povstání měňavců, a přinést panovníkovi jeho srdce. Pokud neuspěje, skončí její kariéra Ohařky dřív, než vůbec začala.
Tempest nehodlá obětovat roky dřiny jen tak. Hon na nejhledanějšího zločince v zemi je vynikající příležitost, jak se prosadit a zároveň vypátrat vraha své matky. Jenže tentokrát si ukousla příliš velké sousto. Lovkyně se stává lovnou zvěří…
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Sci-fi žáner poznáme aj pod pojmom vedecko-fantastická literatúra, poprípade science fiction. V týchto dielach sa dostaneme do budúcnosti, pričom dej sa opiera o súčasnú vedu, techniku a o predpoklady jej ďalšieho vývoja. Medzi hlavné témy sci-fi patrí pokročilá veda a technológia, prieskum vesmíru, cestovanie v čase, paralelné vesmíry a mimozemský život. Sci-fi má pravdepodobne svoje korene v antickej mytológii. Súvisí s fantasy, hororom a fikciou o superhrdinoch. Sci-fi v literatúre, filme, televízii a iných médiách sa stala populárnou a vplyvnou vo veľkej časti sveta. Nazýva sa tiež „literatúra myšlienok“ a často skúma potenciálne dôsledky vedeckých, sociálnych a technologických inovácií.
Medzi najznámejších autorov sci-fi žánru patrí Isaac Asimov, Octavia E. Butler, Arthur C. Clarke, William Gibson, Herbert Frank, Robert A. Heinlein, Ray Bradbury, Margaret Atwoodová a Karel Čapek.
Fantasy literatúra sa zaoberá fiktívnymi svetmi, bytosťami a udalosťami Tento žáner obsahuje prvky nadprirodzena, mágie, mýtov, legend a imaginárnych bytostí, ako sú napríklad draci, víly, čarodejníci, orkovia a ďalší.
Fantasy literatúra vytvára bohaté a detailné fiktívne svety, ktoré sa líšia od realistického prostredia. Príbehy z tohto žánru sa často zameriavajú na hrdinské cesty, dobrodružstvá, boje medzi dobrom a zlom, epické konflikty a príbehy o nadprirodzených schopnostiach a magických predmetoch. Fantasy literatúra má dlhú a bohatú históriu, pričom mnohé jej klasické diela vznikli už v 19. a 20. storočí.
K najznámejším autorom fantasy pattrí J. R. R. Tolkien, autor kultového fantasy Pán prsteňov. Určite poznáte tiež J.K. Rowlingovú, ktorá vytvorila zázračný svet Harryho Pottera.ďalšími známymi autormi sú napríklad George R.R. Martin a jeho Pieseň ľadu a ohňa známejšia pod názvom sfilmovaného seriálu Hry o tróny, C.S. Lewis, ktorá napísal Kroniky Narnie, Terry Pratchett, Ursula K. Le Guin, či Robert Jordan.
