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Five Broken Blades
Five ruthless killers. Five deadly motives. One King - who must die. Game of Thrones meets Kill Bill in a feast of treason and seduction set against a dazzling fantasy backdrop of Korean history and folklore.
The king of Yusan must die.
The five most dangerous liars in the land have been mysteriously summoned to work together for a single objective: to kill the God King Joon.
He has it coming. Under his merciless immortal hand, the nobles flourish, while the poor and innocent are imprisoned, ruined . . . or sold.
And now each of the five blades will come for him. Each has tasted bitterness-from the hired hitman seeking atonement, a lovely assassin who seeks freedom, or even the prince banished for his cruel crimes. None can resist the sweet, icy lure of vengeance.
They can agree on murder.
They can agree on treachery.
But for these five killers - each versed in deception, lies, and betrayal - it's not enough to forge an alliance. To survive, they'll have to find a way to trust each other . . . but only one can take the crown.
Let the best liar win.
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Can't Spell Treason Without Tea - Tomes & Tea 1
A heart-warming cosy fantasy featuring a murderous queen, dragons and a sapphic romance - best enjoyed with a cup of tea.
They discovered a world of adventure. Reyna and Kianthe dream of opening a friendly book shop together, serving the very best tea and cakes.
Worn wooden floors, plants on every table, firelight drifting between the rafters – all complemented by love and good company.
But Reyna is an elite bodyguard to a vengeful queen, and Kianthe is the most powerful mage in existence.
Leaving their lives behind seems . . . impossible. Yet they flee to Tawney, a town nestled in the icy peaks of dragon country.
There, they open the bookstore theyd always wanted. What follows is a tale of mishaps, mysteries, dragons, and a murderous queen throwing the realm’s biggest temper tantrum.
Through it, these two women will discover what they mean to each other – and their world. Cant Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne is a gorgeous treat of a book, filled with cosy adventure, sapphic romance and good feelings.
The story continues in the swashbuckling A Pirates Life for Tea.
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The Ministry of Time
Kaliane Bradley's dynamic debut is a great many things — science fiction, thriller, humor, literary, romance — but above all else, this is a fiercely unique story that delivers on so many levels. With unforgettable characters to bring this wild ride to vibrant life, it's an easy story to love even as it defies all genre boundaries in the name of superior storytelling.
A time travel romance, a spy thriller, a workplace comedy, and an ingenious exploration of the nature of power and the potential for love to change it all: Welcome to The Ministry of Time, the exhilarating debut novel by Kaliane Bradley.
In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what project she’ll be working on. A recently established government ministry is gathering “expats” from across history to establish whether time travel is feasible—for the body, but also for the fabric of space-time.
She is tasked with working as a “bridge”: living with, assisting, and monitoring the expat known as “1847” or Commander Graham Gore. As far as history is concerned, Commander Gore died on Sir John Franklin’s doomed 1845 expedition to the Arctic, so he’s a little disoriented to be living with an unmarried woman who regularly shows her calves, surrounded by outlandish concepts such as “washing machines,” “Spotify,” and “the collapse of the British Empire.” But with an appetite for discovery, a seven-a-day cigarette habit, and the support of a charming and chaotic cast of fellow expats, he soon adjusts.
Over the next year, what the bridge initially thought would be, at best, a horrifically uncomfortable roommate dynamic, evolves into something much deeper. By the time the true shape of the Ministry’s project comes to light, the bridge has fallen haphazardly, fervently in love, with consequences she never could have imagined. Forced to confront the choices that brought them together, the bridge must finally reckon with how—and whether she believes—what she does next can change the future.
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A Crane Among Wolves
A devastating and pulse-pounding tale that will feel all-too-relevant in today's world, based on a true story from Korean history.
Hope is dangerous. Love is deadly.
1506, Joseon. The people suffer under the cruel reign of the tyrant King Yeonsan, powerless to stop him from commandeering their land for his recreational use, banning and burning books, and kidnapping and horrifically abusing women and girls as his personal playthings.
Seventeen-year-old Iseul has lived a sheltered, privileged life despite the kingdom's turmoil. When her older sister, Suyeon, becomes the king's latest prey, Iseul leaves the relative safety of her village, traveling through forbidden territory to reach the capital in hopes of stealing her sister back. But she soon discovers the king's power is absolute, and to challenge his rule is to court certain death.
Prince Daehyun has lived his whole life in the terrifying shadow of his despicable half-brother, the king. Forced to watch King Yeonsan flaunt his predation through executions and rampant abuse of the common folk, Daehyun aches to find a way to dethrone his half-brother once and for all. When staging a coup, failure is fatal, and he'll need help to pull it off-but there's no way to know who he can trust.
When Iseul's and Daehyun's fates collide, their contempt for each other is transcended only by their mutual hate for the king. Armed with Iseul's family connections and Daehyun's royal access, they reluctantly join forces to launch the riskiest gamble the kingdom has ever seen:
Save her sister. Free the people. Destroy a tyrant.
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20,90 €
Necronomicon: Dagon (gamebook)
Vydejte se na dobrodružství, ve kterém na vlastní kůži zažijete hrůzy nejslavnějších příběhů H. P. Lovecrafta a jeho Mýtu Cthulhu: Dagon, Slavnost a Pes.
Vyprávěné příběhy jsou věrné knižní předloze, abyste si mohli plnými doušky vychutnat atmosféru, kterou pro vás připravil Mistr nadpřirozena. Děsivá rozhodnutí vás čekají na každém kroku. Vydáte se do ulic Kingsportu, potkáte děsivá monstra, překročíte hranice mezi realitou a sněním a prozkoumáte krajiny, ve kterých ožívají vaše nejhorší noční můry. To vše musíte zvládnout ozbrojeni pouze tužkou a kostkou. Podaří se vám zastavit rituál zimního slunovratu a zachránit lidstvo před hrůzným osudem? Nebo se z toho všeho zblázníte?
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10,95 €
Dragon Rider
FROM THE ASHES OF AN EMPIRE, A HERO WILL RISE…
Jai has spent his life forced to serve the cruel empire that killed his family and now rules his people.
To grow ever more powerful, the emperor’s young son is betrothed to Princess Erica of the Dansk Kingdom. An unconquerable realm, where ancient beasts roam. The princess brings with her a priceless gift: dragons. Only Dansk Royalty can bond with these magical beasts to draw on their power and strength. Until now.
When the betrothal goes wrong, a bloody coup leads to chaos at court. Finally, Jai has a chance to escape. He flees with a fierce Dansk warrior, Frida, but not before stealing a dragon egg.
To vanquish the empire, he must do the impossible: bond with a dragon. Only then he can seize his destiny, and seek his revenge . . .
An epic new fantasy from New York Times bestselling author Taran Matharu, where dragons fly and empires fall.
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17,95 €
Necronomicon: Carcosa (gamebook)
Vydej se na napínavé literární dobrodružství a na vlastní kůži zažij hrůzy vylíčené v příbězích největších mistrů nadpřirozena. Pusť se do osobitého příběhového zpracování původních knižních textů Ambrose Bierce, Roberta W. Chamberse a Howarda P. Lovecrafta a vstup do spletitého knižního labyrintu, v němž budeš vyzbrojen tužkou a kostkou na základě vlastních rozhodnutí vzdorovat obludným tvorům, objevovat neznámé cizí země a překračovat hranice mezi snem a realitou. Podaří se ti uspět proti hrozivým silám Krále ve žlutém a uchránit lidstvo před děsivým osudem, nebo v tajuplném království Carcosa přijdeš o rozum?
V tomto samostatném svazku budeš čelit nočním můrám z děl Nyarlathotep, The Haunter of the Dark, The Whisperer in Darkness, What the Moon Brings, The King in Yellow a An Inhabitant of Carcosa.
Metal Heroes: The Fate of Rock
Tvoje jméno je Taylor a láska k metalu je to jediný, co tvýmu životu dává aspoň náznak smyslu. Všechno se ale změní, když si tě za svýho potenciálního nástupce vybere rockovej bůh, kterej už má všeho dost. Vzhledem k okolnostem ti nezbejvá než se výzvě postavit čelem a pomoct jedný marný garážový kapele k hvězdný kariéře. Pokud se ti při tom podaří zachránit svět, tím líp.
Metal Heroes – and the Fate of Rock je gamebook plný trapnosti, klišé, slavných rockerů a vůbec všeho, co metalová scéna nabízí. Se spisovností si nikdo hlavu neláme, zato o humor není nouze. Na své si přijde každý fanoušek tvrdší hudby, který nehledá jen další klasický fantasy gamebook.
Testosteronem zmítané metaláky pomáhají usměrňovat mimo jiné Jill Janus, která se proslavila v americké skupině Huntress, nebo frontmanka nizozemské symphonicmetalové kapely Delain Charlotte Wessels. Kéž ti jejich hlasy pomůžou na tvé cestě!
Vaják II. - The Witcher - A végzet kardja
Az utolsó kívánság nagy sikerű folytatásában Geralt további novellákban küzd szörnyekkel, démonokkal és emberi gonoszsággal...
Geralt a vajákok közé tartozik: mágikus képességeinek köszönhetően, amelyeket hosszan tartó kiképzése és egy rejtélyes elixír csak még tovább csiszolt, zseniális és könyörtelen harcos hírében áll. Ugyanakkor nem hétköznapi gyilkos: célpontjai vérszomjas szörnyetegek és aljas fenevadak, amelyek mindenütt hatalmas pusztítást végeznek, és megtámadják az ártatlanokat. A birodalmat járva azonban fokozatosan ráébred, hogy bár prédái egy része kétségtelenül elvetemült szörnyeteg, mások azonban bűn, ármány vagy egyszerű ostobaság áldozatai.
Sága ohňotvůrců 1: Král popela
Garn tvořilo původně pět království. Pak však přišla zrada. Královskou rodinu Rudovlasů nezachránila ani jejich spřízněnost s ohněm: král Sandury je popravil do posledního. Zbývají tedy čtyři království, která se ale potácejí na pokraji války. Proslýchá se ale, že svému osudu mohl uniknout novorozený dědic. Čtyři králové proto vypsali za hlavu nevinného dítěte odměnu, aby zabránili tomu, že někde vyroste královský potomek s pomstou v srdci.
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Witcher Box Set white cover
Meet Geralt of Rivia - the Witcher - who holds the line against the monsters plaguing humanity in the bestselling series that inspired the Witcher video games and a major Netflix show.
The Witcher's magic powers and lifelong training have made him a brilliant fighter and a merciless assassin.
Yet he is no ordinary killer: he hunts the vile fiends that ravage the land and attack the innocent.
But not everything monstrous-looking is evil; not everything fair is good . . . and in every fairy tale there is a grain of truth.
Translated by Danusia Stok and David French.
Andrzej Sapkowski, winner of the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement award, started an international phenomenon with his Witcher series. This boxed set contains all eight books: THE LAST WISH, SWORD OF DESTINY, BLOOD OF ELVES, TIME OF CONTEMPT, BAPTISM OF FIRE, THE TOWER OF THE SWALLOW, THE LADY OF THE LAKE, SEASON OF STORMS.
A Letter to the Luminous Deep
A charming fantasy set in an underwater world with magical academia and a heartwarming pen pal romance, perfect for fans of A Marvellous Light and Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries.
A beautiful discovery outside the window of her underwater home prompts the reclusive E. to begin a correspondence with renowned scholar Henerey Clel. The letters they share are filled with passion, at first for their mutual interests, and then, inevitably, for each other.
Together, they uncover a mystery from the unknown depths, destined to transform the underwater world they both equally fear and love. But by no mere coincidence, a seaquake destroys E.'s home, and she and Henerey vanish.
A year later, E.'s sister Sophy, and Henerey's brother Vyerin, are left to solve the mystery of their siblings' disappearances with the letters, sketches and field notes left behind. As they uncover the wondrous love their siblings shared, Sophy and Vyerin learn the key to their disappearance - and what it could mean for life as they know it.
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21,95 €
Do podivna
Do podivna, to je hra na hrdiny s jednoduchými, leč vycizelovanými pravidly a silnou atmosférou industriálních hrůz a kosmických podivností. Přichází v nádherném vydání s pevnou vazbou s množstvím plnobarevných ilustrací.
Vydejte se vstříc podivným dobrodružstvím do Bastionu, jediného města, na kterém záleží. Prozkoumejte kouřem průmyslu zahalené centrum lidstva, obklopené světem číhajících děsů a vesmírných vlivů.
Pod vámi se rozprostírá nekonečné podzemí a shůry shlíží nespočet hvězd...
Rychlá tvorba postav - stačí pár minut a můžete vyrazit na svou první expedici.
Minimalistická pravidla - ultralehký systém, který hru neustále posouvá vpřed.
Podivné věci - potkáte hrůzostrašná nebezpečí, nikoli soupeře, s nimiž by se bojovalo pro sport.
Součástí pravidel je i rozsáhlé, vskutku podivné dobrodružství.
Podivnopedie - 26 stránek extrémně praktických náhodných tabulek, které vám pomohou rozvinout svět a nakopnout hru.
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49,45 €
The Book That Broke the World
The second volume in the bestselling, ground-breaking Library Trilogy, following THE BOOK THAT WOULDN'T BURN.
We fight for the people we love. We fight for the ideas we want to be true.
Evar and Livira stand side by side and yet far beyond each other's reach. Evar is forced to flee the library, driven before an implacable foe. Livira, trapped in a ghost world, has to recover her book if she's to return to her life. While Evar's journey leads him outside into the vastness of a world he's never seen, Livira's destination lies deep inside her own writing, where she must wrestle with her stories in order to reclaim the volume in which they were written.
And all the while, the library quietly weaves thread to thread, bringing the scattered elements of Livira's old life – friends and foe alike – back together beneath new skies.
Long ago, a lie was told, and with the passing years it has grown and spread, a small push leading to a chain of desperate consequences. Now, as one edifice topples into the next with ever-growing violence, it threatens to break the world. The secret war that defines the library has chosen its champions and set them on the board. The time has come when they must fight for what they believe, or lose everything.
The Library Trilogy is about many things: adventure, discovery, and romance, but it's also a love letter to books and the places where they live. The focus is on one vast and timeless library, but the love expands to encompass smaller more personal collections, and bookshops of all shades too.
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Cloud Atlas
A SPECIAL SIGNED ANNIVERSARY EDITION CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF CLOUD ATLAS
With an introduction by Gabrielle Zevin (author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow) and a new afterword by David Mitchell
With unmissable sprayed edges and endpapers, beautiful turquoise foil, a bespoke case design, ribbon marker, peelable sticker and signed by the author, this stunning 20th anniversary hardback of Cloud Atlas is the perfect gift for fans
Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies . . .
A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific Ocean in 1850.
A disinherited composer conning his way into the home of a dying genius in interwar Belgium.
A high-minded journalist in Governor Reagan's California.
A vanity publisher fleeing his gangland creditors.
The testament of a genetically modified 'dinery server' on death-row.
And Zachry, a young Pacific Islander witnessing the nightfall of science and civilisation.
The narrators of Cloud Atlas hear each other's echoes along the corridor of history - echoes that change destinies in ways great and small.
In a globe-encircling narrative reaching from the nineteenth century to a post-apocalyptic future, Cloud Atlas erases the boundaries of time, genre and language to offer an enthralling vision of humanity's will to power, and where it will lead us.
*Please note that p. 40 is intentionally blank*
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Arthur C. Clarke Award, winner of Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year and a BBC Two Between the CoversBook Club pick
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38,95 €
A Curse of Blood and Wolves
A dark and steamy fairytale re-imagining of Little Red Riding Hood. Perfect for romantasy readers and lovers of smuttok
Is it possible to be drawn to someone you’ve never met?
When Ruby feels the eyes of a stranger in the woods, she knows she should be scared, that she should run away, but she can’t. Instead, she feels a thrill, feels drawn to this stranger who follows her in the woods. Yearns for his eyes on her every night as she walks home, hoping to hear the crunch of leaves under his feet that signals he’s there.
Will he ever reveal himself?
After all, fate doesn’t make mistakes . . .
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24,90 €
Cesta
Svět pohltila apokalypsa. Trosky, popel a mrtví lidé. A otec se synem tlačí pustinou nákupní vozík se vším jejich majetkem. Deštěm, sněhem a mrazem kamsi na jih, na pobřeží, snaží se proklouznout mezi kanibaly a divokými tlupami. Manu Larcenet (Brodeckova zpráva) se bravurně zhostil adaptace románu Cormaca McCarthyho Cesta ověnčeného v roce 2007 Pulitzerovou cenou. Zážitek z neobyčejného příběhu je v jeho podání možná ještě silnější než samotná kniha.
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38,39 €
Vaják - The Witcher - Viharidő
Ríviai Geralt, a vaják, egyike azoknak, akik képesek legyőzni az embereket fenyegető szörnyetegeket. Feladatában varázsjelek, főzetek és a vajákok büszkesége segíti - valamint egy acél és egy ezüst kard.
Amikor egyik megbízatása balul sül el, Geralt elveszíti kardjait. Vissza kell szereznie a különleges fegyvereket, mert boszorkánymesterek szőnek ellene ármányokat, és az egész világban sötét fellegek gyülekeznek.
Közeleg a vihar…
Andrzej Sapkowski 1948-ban született Lengyelországban. Hazája egyik leghíresebb és legsikeresebb szerzőjének számít. A World Fantasy Életműdíjjal kitüntetett szerző Vaják-sorozatával nemzetközi sikert aratott, könyvei alapján képregények és számítógépes játékok is készültek, 2019-ben pedig a Netflix forgatott belőlük sorozatot Henry Cavill főszereplésével.
The Familiar
In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers the lump of a servant cowering in the kitchen is actually hiding a talent for little miracles, she demands Luzia use those gifts to better the family's social position.
What begins as simple amusement for the bored nobility takes a perilous turn when Luzia garners the notice of Antonio Perez, the disgraced secretary to Spain's king. Still reeling from the defeat of his armada, the king is desperate for any advantage in the war against England's heretic queen-and Perez will stop at nothing to regain the king's favor.
Determined to seize this one chance to better her fortunes, Luzia plunges into a world of seers and alchemists, holy men and hucksters, where the lines between magic, science, and fraud are never certain.
But as her notoriety grows, so does the danger that her Jewish blood will doom her to the Inquisition's wrath. She will have to use every bit of her wit and will to survive-even if that means enlisting the help of Guillen Santangel, an embittered immortal familiar whose own secrets could prove deadly for them both.
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Ninth House, Hell Bent and creator of the Grishaverse comes a bewitching novel set in the Spanish Golden Age, brimming with peril and dark deeds.
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.
