Fledgling, Octavia Butler's new novel after a seven-year break, is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly inhuman needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: She is in fact a genetically modified, 53-year-old vampire.

Forced to discover what she can about her stolen former life, she must at the same time learn who wanted—and still wants—to destroy her and those she cares for, and how she can save herself.

Fledgling is a captivating novel that tests the limits of "otherness" and questions what it means to be truly human.

Ellen never expected the Hallendorf school to be quite so unusual. Her life back in England with her suffragette mother and liberated aunts certainly couldn't be called normal, but buried deep in the beautiful Austrian countryside, Ellen discovers an eccentric world occupied by wild children and even wilder teachers, experimental dancers, and a tortoise on wheels.

And then there is the particularly intriguing, enigmatic, and very handsome Marek, part-time gardener and fencing teacher. Ellen is instantly attracted to the mysterious gardener, but Hitler's Reich is already threatening their peaceful world. Only when she discovers Marek's true identity and his dangerous mission does Ellen realize the depth of her feelings for him—and the danger their newfound love faces in the shadow of war.

Tuesdays at Castle Glower are Princess Celie's favorite days. That's because on Tuesdays, the castle adds a new room, a turret, or sometimes even an entire wing. No one ever knows what the castle will do next, and no one—other than Celie, that is—takes the time to map out the new additions.

But when King and Queen Glower are ambushed and their fate is unknown, it's up to Celie, with her secret knowledge of the castle's never-ending twists and turns, to protect their home and save their kingdom.

This delightful book kicks off a brand-new series sure to become a modern classic.

From the author of Flights of Angels comes the fourth book in the Exit Unicorns series. It is the winter of 1975 in Northern Ireland, and the Troubles are at their darkest hour. Casey Riordan is missing and Jamie Kirkpatrick has just returned home from two years in a Russian gulag.

Desperate to find her missing husband, Pamela Riordan makes a devil’s bargain with the one man she believes can help her, forming an alliance which will have grave consequences for her and those she loves. For Pamela and her family, caught in the quagmire of eight hundred years’ worth of hate and betrayal, compromise—both that of body and soul—is inevitable.

All of them face an uncertain future in Northern Ireland—a country of shadows, where nothing is as it seems and the slightest misstep can have deadly consequences. Shimmering historical detail and masterful storytelling combine in a tale which sweeps us across continents and seas from the bloody events of the Troubles to the rough streets of post-Vietnam San Francisco, making this fourth book a journey of both turbulent intensity and heartbreaking choices.

A telepathic girl is the key to an unknown world—and it’s up to her to save it—in the Keeper of the Lost Cities series. The first three books are now available as a collectible paperback boxed set!

Sophie Foster has never quite fit into her life. The reason? Sophie’s a Telepath, someone who can read minds. No one knows her secret—at least, that’s what she thinks…

It turns out the reason Sophie has never felt at home is that, well…she isn’t. And as she sets out for a new life that is vastly different from what she has ever known, telepathy is just the first of many shocking secrets that will be revealed.

This complete boxed set collection of the Keeper of the Lost Cities series includes Keeper of the Lost Cities, Exile, and Everblaze.

Daring mission... or deadly mistake?

Winter has been a disappointment to his royal IceWing family his whole life. When his sister, Icicle, runs away from Jade Mountain Academy, fleeing terrible crimes and possibly planning to commit more, Winter knows that they both need a second chance to make things right — if only he can find her.

Winter’s new clawmates, Moon, Qibli, and Kinkajou, won’t let him make this dangerous journey alone. They don’t seem to understand that IceWings, the most superior of all dragon tribes, can fix their own problems. When their search leads the dragonets straight into Queen Scarlet’s vicious talons, Winter is grateful to have some help. But even the bravest dragons can’t follow him to the Ice Kingdom, where he’ll have to face the greatest threat of all: his own family.

Forget vampires! Only angels know that true love is worth falling for...

One wrong may impact a lifetime, but for an angel, it can have repercussions for eternity. Exiled from Heaven, Ashrafel must walk the earth as a fallen angel, until he can right the wrong that cost a human life. He waits patiently for the soul of the woman he loves to be reborn, never knowing if this will be the last time, or if he will be doomed to repeat the mistakes of his past and lose her again.

Kate, fixated on the past and reluctant to live in the present, discovers a hidden casket beneath the floor of her local church and is compelled to discover the secret it contains. When she does, she is faced with the most important dilemma of her life. Can she overcome the past and find a way to send Ashrafel home or will she succumb to the evil that stalks her and send him to Hell? Either way, she will lose the man she loves.

Both of them need saving, from themselves, from evil, from Hell, but the past and the man that wants Ashrafel's soul for himself, is catching up with them and time is running out.

Blackfeather is a fast-paced supernatural romance with historical elements, vividly brought to life with well-researched detail. A cast of strong characters pull the reader along through a thrilling and sophisticated philosophical drama that unfolds against the backdrop of a five hundred year long love story.

It's time to choose sides...

On the surface, Sorry-in-the-Vale is a sleepy English town. But Kami Glass knows the truth. Sorry-in-the-Vale is full of magic. In the old days, the Lynburn family ruled with fear, terrifying the people into submission in order to kill for blood and power. Now the Lynburns are back, and Rob Lynburn is gathering sorcerers so that the town can return to the old ways.

But Rob and his followers aren’t the only sorcerers in town. A decision must be made: pay the blood sacrifice, or fight. For Kami, this means more than just choosing between good and evil. With her link to Jared Lynburn severed, she’s now free to love anyone she chooses. But who should that be?

A darkly humorous take on Gothic romance, Sarah Rees Brennan's Lynburn Legacy weaves together the tale of a heroine desperate to protect those she loves, two boys hoping to be saved, and the magical forces that will shape their destiny.

Liliana felt she had to leave - although madly in love with Stuart, she’s hurt by his continued interactions with his ex-girlfriend, Lina, and scared by how important he has become to her. But a love as strong as Lily’s and Stuart’s doesn’t wither easily. They eventually find their way back to one another, and it is even more intense than before.

As they continue to try and unravel the mystery of who is trying to ruin Stuart and hurt Lily, they delve deeper into their sexual and emotional connection and forge a life together despite everything. Will their commitment be enough to combat the forces aligned against them?

This book contains explicit depictions of sex, including BDSM.

Never tease anything that wants to eat you.

My name is April Tate and my blood is the new gold. Vampires and hybrids have overrun my world, once vibrant with life, but now a graveyard of death shrouded in shadows. I fight to survive; I fight for my mother and brother. The journey is full of turns that I am quite unprepared for. And I'm just hoping to make it to the next Vegas sunrise...

In a post-apocalyptic world, a viral epidemic has wiped out most of the earth’s population, leaving behind few humans but untold numbers of mutated vampires. April is a seventeen-year-old girl who lives in the remains of Las Vegas one year after the outbreak. She has become a ferocious vampire killer and after her family is abducted, she goes searching for them.

What she finds is a new breed of vampire, unlike any she has seen before. Unsure of whom she can trust, she discovers that her view of the world is not as black and white as she once thought, and she's willing to bend the rules to rescue her family. But in trying to save them, she may only succeed in bringing her fragile world crashing down around her.

For Callista, joining the Elite Guard will give her the means to find the murderer who killed her family. With the sword of her ancestors, she enters the Academy and soon discovers latent powers only heard of in legends.

Her uncanny skills do not go unnoticed, and when her first assignment goes terribly wrong, she is saved by a man whose destiny becomes entwined with her own. Soon, she is forced to re-consider who her enemies really are.

As her power awakens, she is drawn into a web of deceit that will ultimately shake everything she believes in. With a new sense of her identity, she must confront a dark evil hidden behind an unspeakable secret. This evil threatens to destroy her and the man she has come to love.

Will she be strong enough to withstand this power, or will she become the very thing she has sworn to destroy?

Under Heaven is an innovative novel by the award-winning author Guy Gavriel Kay, which evokes the dazzling Tang Dynasty of 8th-century China in a story of honor and power.

It begins simply. Shen Tai, son of an illustrious general serving the Emperor of Kitai, has spent two years honoring the memory of his late father by burying the bones of the dead from both armies at the site of one of his father's last great battles. In recognition of his labors and his filial piety, an unlikely source has sent him a dangerous gift: 250 Sardian horses.

You give a man one of the famed Sardian horses to reward him greatly. You give him four or five to exalt him above his fellows, propel him towards rank, and earn him jealousy, possibly mortal jealousy. Two hundred and fifty is an unthinkable gift, a gift to overwhelm an emperor. Wisely, the gift comes with the stipulation that Tai must claim the horses in person. Otherwise, he would probably be dead already...

As a curious six-year-old, Clayton didn’t resist the bite—he asked for it. But surviving as a lone child-werewolf was more than he could manage—until Jeremy came along and taught him how to straddle the human-werewolf worlds, gave him a home…and introduced him to the Pack. So begins this volume, featuring three of the members of the American Pack—a hierarchical founding family where bloodlines mean everything and each day presents a new, thrilling, and often deadly challenge. For as Clayton grows from a wild child to a clever teen who tests his beloved mentor at every turn, he must learn not only to control his animal instincts but to navigate Pack politics—including showing his brutal archnemesis, Malcolm, who the real Alpha is…Links to the individual short stories and novellas on Goodreads:"Infusion" (1946) Savage (1967) Ascension (1972)"Kitsunegari" (2007)

The Fade introduces readers to a subterranean world of vast caverns, underground seas, and crystalline forests. It is a civilization born of darkness, in darkness, protected by shadows. This is a city of merchants, whose eyes have turned upward to the surface, where the lethal light of day beats down on their world.

A conspiracy so vast that it will swallow them all unfolds in this stunningly original fantasy from multi-award winning author Chris Wooding. With a beautiful baroque world, sharp characterization, and Wooding's trademark insight into the fantasy genre, the dawning of Halflight is an event more than worth waiting for.

Five Winters have passed since young king Bridei ascended the throne of Fortriu. Five years, in which the people have felt a contentment unknown for generations. But the security of a people can vanish in a heartbeat, for wolves are often drawn to fields filled with fattened sheep. Bridei is determined to drive the Gaelic invaders from his lands once and for all. And so, with his land secure and his house in order, he prepares for war.

One of Bridei's plans to win the war to come involves the beautiful young Ana. A princess of the Light Isles, she has dwelt as a hostage at the court of Fortriu for most of her young life. Despite being a pawn of fortune, she has bewitched all at court and is dearly loved by Bridei and his queen. But Ana understands her duty. And so she will travel north, to make a strategic marriage with a chieftain she has never seen, in the hopes of gaining an ally on whom Bridei's victory relies.

For secrecy's sake, Ana must travel at a soldier's pace, with a small band led by the enigmatic spymaster Faolan. Bridei implores Ana to trust and see the good in Faolan, but Ana cannot see beyond his cold competence and killer's eyes. Then, when she arrives at the chieftain Alpin's stronghold in the mysterious Briar Woods, her discomfort and unease increase tenfold, for this is a place full of secrets and her betrothed is an enigma himself.

The more Ana tries to uncover the truth of her new life, the more she discovers a maze of polite diversions that mask deadly lies. She fears Faolan, but he may prove to be the truest thing in her world. Or her doom.

The Sword of Truth Boxed Set III is a thrilling collection that includes books seven through nine in Terry Goodkind's bestselling Sword of Truth series. This boxed set is a must-read for fans of epic fantasy adventures.

Book 7: The Pillars of Creation
Tormented her entire life by inhuman voices, a young woman named Lauren seeks to end her intolerable agony. She discovers a way to silence the voices, but for everyone else, the torment is about to begin. With winter descending and an army of annihilation occupying their homeland, Richard Rahl and his wife Kahlan must venture deep into a strange and desolate land. Their quest turns to terror when they find themselves the helpless prey of a tireless hunter. Meanwhile, Lauren is drawn into a struggle for conquest and revenge, realizing that the voices were real.

Book 8: Naked Empire
Richard Rahl has been poisoned, and saving an empire from annihilation is the price of the antidote. With the shadow of death looming, Richard is offered his own life and the salvation of a people in exchange for delivering his wife, Kahlan, into bondage to the enemy.

Book 9: Chainfire
After being gravely injured in battle, Richard awakes to find Kahlan missing. To his disbelief, no one remembers the woman he is frantically searching for. Worse, no one believes she exists. Alone, he must find the woman he loves more than life itself... if she is even still alive.

Discover breathtaking adventure and true nobility of spirit in this lavish collection by New York Times bestselling author Terry Goodkind.

Annika has never had a birthday. Instead, she celebrates her Found Day, the day a housemaid and a cook to three eccentric Viennese professors found her and took her home. There, Annika has made a happy life in the servants' quarters, surrounded with friends, including the elderly woman next door who regales Annika with stories of her performing days and her countless admirers – especially the Russian count who gave her the legendary emerald, the Star of Kazan.

And yet, Annika still dreams of finding her true mother. But when a glamorous stranger arrives claiming to be Annika's mother and whisks her away to a crumbling, spooky castle, Annika discovers that all is not as it seems in her newfound home...

Dicen que los indios jamás olvidan una ofensa, que la venganza entre ellos es cosa sagrada y que todo lo que tienen de agradecidos y humanitarios lo tienen de rencorosos y vengativos. Y aunque Lorenzo Rosas vista a la última moda parisina y hable tres lenguas, en su fuero íntimo sigue siendo Nahueltruz Guor, el ranquel que seis años atrás juró destruir a la culpable de su desdicha: Laura Escalante.

En la sociedad porteña ella es conocida como la viuda de Riglos, una mujer hermosa, rica, inalcanzable. Dueña de una editorial, se mide ideológicamente con figuras de la talla de Sarmiento y MansÜla y escribe un folletín que mantiene en vilo a muchas lectoras. Se le atribuyen, además, varios affaires, el más resonante con el general Julio Roca, quien se apresta para su conquista del indio. Pero lo cierto es que, detrás de esa imagen de mujer fatal, Laura esconde un alma sensible y un corazón destrozado.

El rencor de Nahueltruz parece tan profundo como el amor que ella siente por él. En medio de esta lucha de voluntades poderosas, los fantasmas del pasado reaparecen para complicar la situación y se interponen nuevos obstáculos y malentendidos. ¿Podrá Nahueltruz vencer el odio que lo domina y perdonarla?

Following the death of her husband, Sir Florian, the beautiful Lizzie Eustace mysteriously comes into possession of a hugely expensive diamond necklace. She maintains it was a gift from her husband, but the Eustace lawyers insist she give it up. While her cousin Frank takes her side, her new lover, Lord Fawn, states that he will only marry her if the necklace is surrendered.

As gossip and scandal intensify, Lizzie's truthfulness is thrown into doubt, and in her desire to keep the jewels, she is driven to increasingly desperate acts.

The third in Trollope's Palliser series, The Eustace Diamonds bears all the hallmarks of his later works, blending dark cynicism with humor and a keen perception of human nature.

In the future, in a place called Satellite City, fourteen-year-old Cosmo Hill enters the world, unwanted by his parents. He's sent to the Clarissa Frayne Institute for Parentally Challenged Boys, Freight class. At Clarissa Frayne, the boys are put to work by the state, testing highly dangerous products. At the end of most days, they are covered with burns, bruises, and sores.

Cosmo realizes that if he doesn't escape, he will die at this so-called orphanage. When the moment finally comes, Cosmo seizes his chance and breaks out with the help of the Supernaturalists, a motley crew of kids who all have the same special ability as Cosmo—they can see supernatural Parasites, creatures that feed on the life force of humans.

The Supernaturalists patrol the city at night, hunting the Parasites in hopes of saving what's left of humanity in Satellite City. Or so they think. The Supernaturalists soon find themselves caught in a web far more complicated than they'd imagined, when they discover a horrifying secret that will force them to question everything they believe in.

Eoin Colfer has created an eerie and captivating world—part Blade Runner, part futuristic Dickens—replete with non-stop action.

A marine archaeologist and a salvager join forces to search for a legendary treasure in this novel that takes readers to the depths of the Caribbean and the heights of passion and suspense.

Tate Beaumont has a passion for treasure-hunting. Over the years, she and her father have uncovered many fabulous riches, but one treasure has always eluded them: Angelique’s Curse—a jeweled amulet heavy with history, dark with legend, and tainted with blood.

In order to find this precious artifact, the Beaumonts reluctantly form a partnership with salvagers Buck and Matthew Lassiter. As the Beaumonts and Lassiters pool their resources to locate Angelique’s Curse, the Caribbean waters darken with shadowy deceptions and hidden threats. Their partnership is placed in jeopardy when Matthew refuses to share information—including the truth behind his father’s mysterious death.

For now, Tate and Matthew continue their uneasy alliance—until danger and desire begin to rise to the surface…

Beauty Meets Beast in San Francisco

Accepting employment as a governess after hard times hit her family, medieval scholar Rosalind Hawkins is surprised when she learns that her mysterious employer has no children, no wife, and she is not to meet with him face to face. Instead, her duties are to read to him, through a speaking tube, from ancient manuscripts in obscure, nearly-forgotten dialects.

A requirement for the job was skill in translating medieval French, and she now understands the reason for that requirement, assuming her unseen employer’s interest in the descriptions of medieval spells and sorcery is that of an eccentric antiquary. What she does not realize is that his interest is anything but academic. He has a terrible secret and is desperately searching for something that can reverse the effects of the misfired spell which created his predicament.

Set in the bleak Fen Country of East Anglia, and spanning some 240 years in the lives of its haunted narrator and his ancestors, Waterland is a book that takes in eels and incest, ale-making and madness, the heartless sweep of history, and a family romance as tormented as any in Greek tragedy.

Waterland, like the Hardy novels, carries with all else a profound knowledge of a people, a place, and their interweaving. Swift tells his tale with wonderful contemporary verve and verbal felicity. A fine and original work.

ΕΥ-ΠΟ; ΛΥ-ΠΟ; είναι η συνθηματική ερώτηση που ανταλλάσσουν μεταξύ τους η Μέλια και η Μυρτώ λίγο πριν κοιμηθούν. Δυο μικρές αδερφές που ζουν σ' ένα νησί του Αιγαίου το 1936 ακούνε τον παππού τους να τους μιλάει ώρες ατέλειωτες για τους "αρχαίους" του, ανυπομονούν να ανταμώσουν με τους φίλους και τις φίλες τους από τα τσαρδάκια σαν έρχεται το καλοκαίρι, μα πάνω απ' όλα τρελαίνονται με τις μαγικές ιστορίες του καπλανιού που τους διηγείται ο ξάδερφός τους ο Νίκος, φοιτητής από την Αθήνα.

Το καπλάνι -όπως το λένε στο νησί-, ένας βαλσαμωμένος τίγρης, που βρίσκεται κλειδωμένο μέσα στη βιτρίνα της μεγάλης σάλας του σπιτιού, πότε κοιτάει με το γαλάζιο και πότε με το μαύρο του μάτι, ανάλογα με τη διάθεσή του. Τι συμβαίνει μια ζεστή μέρα του Αυγούστου που αναστατώνει τη ζωή των κοριτσιών και των δικών τους; Ποιος θέλει να βλάψει το καπλάνι;

Alexandria, 3rd century. The splendors of Egypt have faded, and the country has become a gray province of a decaying Roman Empire. The era is changing: Christianity is the official religion, but it has not taken root among the people. The old gods resist death, and magic and science, administration and sacred worship coexist in the narrow streets of the sprawling metropolis beneath the famous lighthouse.

Indifferent to the changes and decay, and oblivious to the barbarian invasions that are crumbling the borders of the Western Empire, life in the court and palaces is polarized by the two great human passions: love and power.

This is the magnificent setting where the particular destiny of three characters is played out: Ahram, a powerful navigator, emblem of courage and masculine strength; Krito, an androgynous philosopher, symbol of rationality and character consistency; and an elusive and sensual woman who possesses the ability to change her name. A woman who will enter Ahram's life when Anoptis, the great steward of the villa of Tanuris, buys her for his master in the slave market.

Ahram falls suddenly in love with the girl, who claims to be called Irenia, and between them begins an intense love story full of sensuality.

But, as Krito will soon suspect, behind Irenia lie mysterious circumstances, more enigmatic than her rescue on the coast by coral fishermen, even more so than her initiation into a group of religious women who believe in the feminine nature of Jesus: a fantastic and almost blasphemous transformation that could take the love story with Ahram beyond death or destroy it prematurely.

Ruin wakes up on Earth knowing only one thing: to Judge and Execute.

As an Angel of Judgment with no memory of his origins and no ability to communicate, he seeks help from Isadore, the first human he comes into contact with. Without realizing, he binds molecularly with the OCD Neuroscientist, and slowly becomes permanently attached to her.

But, there is a mission he's sent to accomplish and it isn't about Isadore. Or is it? Something about the eccentric and beautiful woman seems to be preventing him from remembering what he must do in order to complete his task on Earth.

In the breathtaking third book of the Ruin Series, The Judgment, Ruin tackles missions designed to bring him face to face with the answers he desperately needs. Soon, however, he discovers that the clues he gains to unravel the mysteries of his mission will declare war on his heart and soul.