Fantasy & Sci-Fi

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<b>They told her to go to Hell.<br/> She went, but on her own terms.</b><br/> Lily isn't exactly thrilled with her arrival in the Afterlife, but what awaits her there is more fantastical than she ever could have imagined: Deities wait in line at the coffee shop. Fae flit between realms. Souls find ways to make death a beginning.<br/><br/> As she explores the many corners of the Afterlife, Lily finds herself surprisingly drawn to a place most people would avoid at all costs: Hell. Armed with years of customer service experience and pent-up sarcasm, Lily carves a job out for herself amongst Hell's demons, sending souls to their rightful circles with more than a hint of sass.<br/><br/> Lily's expectations are subverted every day in Hell-especially by Bel, a demon general with a distractingly sexy voice. The two meet by chance and form an immediate, deeply healing friendship, but the undeniable heat between them threatens to combust.<br/><br/> Meanwhile, something stirs beyond the boundaries of their world, threatening to destroy everything they've known and everything that could be...unless they fight like Hell to stop it.<br/><br/><b>This debut novel from BookTok sensation Jaysea Lynn invites you to lose yourself in a world where love ignites in the unlikeliest of places, magic defies the rules, and the Afterlife proves more thrilling than anyone could imagine.</b>

<b>Welcome back to Glimmer Falls!<br/></b><br/>Calladia Cunnington knows she's rough around the edges and her hot temper can get<br/>the best of her. So when she stops a demon attack one night, she's horrified to realize the man she saved is none other than the cold-hearted Astaroth.<br/><br/>Astaroth is a legendary member of the demon high council - or at least he was. Suffering from amnesia after being stripped of his immortality and banished to the mortal plane, Astaroth doesn't know why a demon named Moloch is after him, nor why the angry, hot-in-a-terrifying-way witch hates him so much.<br/><br/>Calladia grudgingly agrees to help Astaroth find the witch who might be able to restore his memory, vowing that once Astaroth is cured, she'll kick his ass. But the more time she spends with the snarky yet utterly charming demon, the more she realizes she likes this new, improved Astaroth... and maybe she doesn't want him to recover his memories after all.<br/><br/>Praise for Sarah Hawley<br/><br/>'Whimsically sexy, charmingly romantic, and magically hilarious' <i>Ali Hazelwood</i><br/><br/>'Reading this book is like standing in the bright heart of magic. I laughed, I swooned, I sighed dreamily, often on the same page. It truly was a sparkling delight, and I can't wait to see what spell Hawley weaves for us next!' India Holton, bestselling author of <i>THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEWOMEN WITCHES</i><br/><br/>'If GOOD OMENS were a small-town, enemies-to-lovers romcom. It's bright, bubbly, sexy, funny, and glorious.' Vivien Jackson

Broken Souls And Bones [Bok / Häftad]

<b>En starkt originell samling berättelser från en av de största stjärnorna inom den nya koreanska litteraturvåg som nu sveper över världen.</b><br/><br/><b>"Bora Chungs noveller är fruktansvärda -- och alldeles, alldeles underbara."</b><br/>Alba Mogensen, Borås tidning m.fl.<b></b><br/><br/><b>"Jag faller handlöst för de bästa novellerna i <i>Förbannad kanin</i>."</b><br/>Rasmus Landström, Aftonbladet<br/><br/><b>"Med en säregen känsla för det oväntade, okända och obehagliga förmår hon som få andra bevisa novellgenrens potential: att på begränsat utrymme veckla ut hela världar." </b><br/>Sebastian Lönnlöv, Svenska Dagbladet<br/><br/><b>"Med sin underskruvade prosa rör hon vid smärtpunkter utan åthävor, och utan att väja för halsbrytande perspektiv. Udden riktas mot förtryck, inte minst av patriarkal sort."</b><br/><b></b>Aris Fioretos, DN<br/><br/><b>"Det är hisnande, obehagligt och samtidigt meningsfullt."</b><br/>Jenny Aschenbrenner, ETC<b></b><br/><br/><i></i><br/><br/><i>En kanin som ruinerar ett företagsimperium</i><br/><i>En man som förälskar sig i sin robot</i><br/><i>En flicka som blöder guld</i><br/>I den sydkoreanska författaren Bora Chungs litte­rära värld kan vad som helst hända. I de här tio visionära och samhällskritiska novellerna rör hon sig med befriande lätthet genom en ständigt förvrängd verklighet. Några av berättelserna tangerar skräck, andra science fiction, fabel eller dystopi -- men i centrum står hela  tiden människans begär efter makt, hämnd, rikedom, evig ungdom och kärlek.<br/><br/><b>Bora Chung</b> är född och bosatt i Seoul. Hon har en doktorsexamen i slavisk litteratur och är vid sidan av sitt eget skrivande även verksam som översättare av rysk och polsk litteratur till koreanska. <i>Förbannad kanin</i> är hennes stora internationella genombrott och har mötts av strålande recensioner världen över och nominerats till en lång rad litteraturpriser.<br/><br/><b>Anders Karlsson och Okkyoung Park</b> har översatt ­koreansk litteratur till svenska i över 20 år. De ligger bland annat bakom några av de svenska  översättningarna av Nobelpristagaren Han Kang.<br/><br/><b>Finalist till Booker International Prize</b><br/><b>Finalist till National Book Awards </b><br/><br/><b></b>"Om du letar efter en kuslig  samling berättelser som kryper  under huden, borrar sig in i  märgen och stannar där för alltid är Bora Chungs samling  ett läskigt, oförglömligt äventyr."<br/><i>Wired Magazine</i><br/><br/>"Läs inte den här boken medan du äter -- men missa för allt i världen inte dessa oförskräckta, intelligenta berättelser heller." <br/><i>Kirkus Review</i> <b></b>

An enthralling, epic fantasy about a world on the brink of war with dragons - and the women who must lead the fight to save it. A world divided. A queendom without an heir. An ancient enemy awakens. The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction - but assassins are getting closer to her door. Ead Duryan is an outsider at court. Though she has risen to the position of lady-in-waiting, she is loyal to a hidden society of mages. Ead keeps a watchful eye on Sabran, secretly protecting her with forbidden magic. Across the dark sea, Tane has trained to be a dragonrider since she was a child, but is forced to make a choice that could see her life unravel. Meanwhile, the divided East and West refuse to parley, and forces of chaos are rising from their sleep.

The fate of an infinite library hangs on one book, a book that holds the power to break the unbreakable. In the face of such forces, fragile things like hearts, family, and the world seem certain to fail. The people most vital to Livira are scattered across time and space, lost, divided into factions, in mortal peril. Somehow, she must bring them together and resolve the unresolvable argument that fuels the library&rsquo;s war. The bond between Livira and Evar has stretched and stretched again. Can it hold at the end, when things fall apart? Can it bring them together against impossible odds? This is the last chapter, the final page. The end threatens and no one, not characters, readers, or even the author, will emerge unscathed.