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Nightshade
WINNER OF THE BEST DANISH FANTASY NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD Nightshade is the exciting and dramatic culmination of the Rosenholm fantasy trilogy, the bestselling Danish series full of magic, Nordic mythology, mystery and love, which takes the classic boarding school setting and turns it into its very own.Four girls. Four fates. A hunt for the truth. The first will go into darkness. The second must choose between those she loves. The third must give an offering. And the fourth will pass judgement. In this final book of the Rosenholm trilogy, the four friends have finally found out who murdered the young woman Trine in the 80s. However, it quickly turns out that the murder was only a small part of a dark and macabre past at Rosenholm, and several puzzles must be solved before Trine can get her revenge. They do their best to work around the new guidelines Jens has put in place in order to make room for the darm branches of magic. Nightshade draws on myth, folklore, and history, making for a compelling story from start to finish.
A Couple
A stirring and touching reminder that lasting love can exist after all, against all odds. Told in reverse chronology, this novel follows Alice and Jules, who are eighty-five years old. They meet on a bench in the Jardin du Luxembourg in Paris. Children are playing by the pool, a ray of sunshine breaks through the leaves of the trees. Is it déjà vu? Because what they now risk forgetting, and what began sixty years ago, started here: their life together. Step by step, from the end to the beginning. Age, routine, affairs, jealousy, becoming parents, marriage, passion: the two of them experienced all of this against the backdrop of Paris and the major historical upheavals of the last decades. This hopeful and tender book asks how love can endure and what holds us together.
The Secret of the Oceans
Dive into the international bestselling ecological fantasy where a young girl unravels her mysterious heritage—she is a descendant of the Sea People, beings who command the ocean''s depths and transform into mermaids.A powerful tingling sensation spread through her whole body, flooding from her head to her toes like a raging tsunami. She wished more than anything that the world beneath the waves would awaken to new life. Could she be the one to make this dream reality? Alea has a dream: she wants to bring all the merchildren scattered around the world back to the ocean. But how is she supposed to bring the extinct underwater world back to life if no one besides her and Lennox else can survive in the contaminated water? The Alpha Cru sets course for Iceland, where they have heard that there are still surviving merpeople living in the hot springs. There Alea wants to finally find her father – and the answers to all her pressing questions. Can Alea''s father help her make her dream come true? Answers await in the third volume of the great mer-girl Saga from bestselling author Tanya Stewner.
Mannaz
The Whisper of the Ravens series has taken readers by storm with its mix of crime, fantasy, humor, love and Norse gods. Now comes the long-awaited final volume in the trilogy: Part thriller, part fantasy, this book will appeal to anyone looking for supernatural stories, murder mysteries, or Norse mythology.For fans of The Raven Boys Anne''s near-death experience triggers the dreaded Fimbul Winter, heralding the arrival of Ragnarok. Now, as eternal winter grips the Nordic region, Anne and her allies are thrust into a desperate battle to thwart the end of the world. But treachery lurks within their ranks—one of her closest has betrayed her, yet she remains in the dark about their identity. As some begin to ponder if Ragnarok might be the lesser of evils, Anne faces a crucial choice: to seek aid from a place she vowed never to revisit, and from those she has wronged deeply. Will they come to her aid? Time is running out, and Anne is prepared to make unimaginable sacrifices to prevent catastrophe. Can she stop the apocalypse in time?
The Colors of the Sea
Alea has found out she is a mermaid! She finally knows why she always felt so strange. But what happened to her mother more than ten years ago? And why does the entire underwater world seem almost extinct? Alea can''t possibly be the last of her Sea People in the world. She sets off with her friends, the Alpha Cru, to a mysterious lake. Alea isn''t the only one hoping to find answers there. Lennox wonders whether he is a merman. Is that why he and Alea both feel magically attracted to one other?
The Ghosts of Pandora Pickwick
Welcome to Pandora''s Antiques, with rarities for every occasion. Nowhere does Mia feel so at home as in her Aunt Harriet''s antique shop. How wonderful that she can spend her summer holiday there! But something is wrong in the shop. Things disappear as if by magic, furniture that has just been wiped dusts up again in seconds, and there is an eerie number of clatter at night. However, her aunt acts as if this is completely normal. Mia, on the other hand, suspects that Harriet is hiding something from her - just like the question of who her birth parents are.
Iron Wolf
Juva hates female blood readers. They are celebrated for their clairvoyance, but are nothing but commoners who play on people''s fears. Juva is a descendant of blood readers, but has vowed never to be one of them. However, when her family is threatened by the Vardari - those who are immortal and never-ageing - she goes on a hunt for a dark secret that once changed the world and possibly will again. But to survive, Juva has to confront the terrifying childhood memory she fought to forget: she saw the devil as a child... Iron Wolf is a new spellbinding fantasy mystery from Siri Pettersen, built on a Norse foundation, about blood, desire, and addiction. It''s the first book in the trilogy VARDARI, an independent series set in the universe of the award-winning fantasy phenomenon THE RAVEN RINGS.
Silver Throat
The second book in the International bestselling Vardari series, Silver Throat continues where book one left off. After Juva lets Grif out into the world and he escapes Naklav, it seems the Vardari should no longer be able to live, without their source of eternal life, and the city should finally be free of wolf disease. But Juva''s plan has failed and the epidemic is now spreading. Caught between an idle city council and the immortals desperate fight for the last drops of life-giving blood, Juva must team up with a fanatic priest to save Naklav from destruction. But she soon realizes she may have trusted the wrong person, and the scar left by Grif''s leaving is deeper than she thought.
The Wound
Feel the rush of the game as you dash around the ping-pong table, laughter and shouts filling the air. Your heart races. Then, a sudden stumble sends you tumbling down, and the world pauses - a sharp pain, a bloody knee. For a moment, for a week, you''re the centre of attention. You bask in a warm glow of sympathy and curiosity from your peers. But as days pass and the wound heals, the whispers fade and the crowd shrinks. But what happens when life returns to normal? The fleeting spotlight, once thrilling, leaves you wondering about who you''ll be once the bandage comes off... International picture book star Emma AdBage is a master at capturing life on a schoolyard: the games, friends, and group dynamics. The Wound, honoured as the Best Swedish Picture Book of 2022, is now available in English for the first time.
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