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From Sunday Times bestselling author of Ninth House, Hell Bent and the Shadow and Bone series comes a highly anticipated, gorgeously written novel with a dusting of magic brimming with peril and dark deeds In a shabby house in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil. But when her scheming mistress discovers her scullion is hiding a talent for little miracles, she demands Luzia use those gifts to win over the royal court. Determined to seize this chance to better her fortunes, Luzia plunges into a world of power-hungry nobility, desperate kings, holy men and seers, where the lines between magic, science and fraud blur. With the pyres of the Inquisition burning, she must use every bit of her wit and resilience to win fame and hide the truth of her ancestry - even if that means enlisting the help of an embittered immortal familiar, whose own secrets could cost her everything. From Sunday Times bestselling author comes a bewitching novel, brimming with peril in a world where a woman's ambition can prove deadly.

<p><b>A warrior princess trained in isolation, Lara is driven by two certainties. The first is that King Aren of the Bridge Kingdom is her enemy. And the second is that shell be the one to bring him to his knees.</b> </p><p>The only route through a storm-ravaged world, the Bridge Kingdom enriches itself and deprives its rivals, including Lara's homeland. So when shes sent as a bride under the guise of peace, Lara is prepared to do whatever it takes to fracture its impenetrable defenses. And the defenses of its king.</p><p>Yet as she infiltrates her new home and gains a deeper understanding of the war to possess the bridge, Lara begins to question whether shes the hero or the villain. And as her feelings for Aren transform from frosty hostility to fierce passion, Lara must choose which kingdom shell save and which kingdom shell destroy. </p><p><b>Passionate and violent, The Bridge Kingdom is a seductive fantasy perfect for fans of From Blood and Ash and A Court of Thorns and Roses.</b></p>

<p>The branch he sat on was creaking under his weight, but he didn´t seem to notice or care. He was shouting about being angry at his brother. I stood by the trunk and cried and begged him to come down, but he wouldn´t listen. </p><p>I will not come down until Gregoris has apologised to you! he insisted. There were two birds in the tree with my grandfather, one on each side of him. One of the birds was a dove, the other some sort of bird of prey, like a hawk or a falcon. </p><p>"If you won´t come down, will you at least save the dove? And look out for the other bird!" I cried out. Just as my grandfather reached out to the dove, the branch snapped.</p>

<p><b>A genre-bending story about love and loss, hope and heartbreak, and the healing to be found in lifes little limbos, those in-between spaces where youre no longer who you were and not yet the person you will be  </b></p><p>Following a breakup, Kate and Finn decide to keep sharing their house until the lease runs out in twelve weeks, alternating week by week so that they are occupying the same space but never at the same time. Practically, the plan makes sense, but coming back each Sunday to a home where Finn has been feels far too much like living with a ghost. Soon Kate finds herself adrift in her own subconscious, trapped in the liminal space between loving someone and letting go.</p>

<p><b>Marnie is stuck.<br/></b>Stuck working alone in her London flat, stuck battling the long afternoons and a life that increasingly feels like it's passing her by.<br/><br/><b>Michael is coming undone.<br/></b>Reeling from his wife's departure, increasingly reclusive, taking himself on long, solitary walks across the moors and fells.<br/><br/>When a persistent mutual friend and some very English weather conspire to bring them together, Marnie and Michael suddenly find themselves alone on the most epic of walks and on the precipice of a new friendship.<br/><br/><b>But can it survive the journey?<br/></b><br/>A new love story by beloved bestseller David Nicholls, <i>You Are Here</i> is a novel of first encounters, second chances and finding the way home.</p>

<p>A taut and electrifying novel from celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, about one spirited girl alone in the wilderness, trying to survive </p><p>"Lauren Groff just reinvented the adventure novel."-- Los Angeles Times </p><p>"Glorioussurroundings come alive in prose that lives and breathes upon the page." -- Boston Globe </p><p>"I know of few other writers whose sentences are so beautiful and so propulsive." -- New York Times Book Review </p><p>A servant girl escapes from a colonial settlement in the wilderness. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few possessions, and the spark of god that burns hot within her. What she finds in this terra incognita is beyond the limits of her imagination and will bend her belief in everything that her own civilization has taught her.</p><p>Lauren Groff's new novel is at once a thrilling adventure story and a penetrating fable about trying to find a new way of living in a world succumbing to the churn of colonialism. The Vaster Wilds is a work of raw and prophetic power that tells the story of America in miniature, through one girl at a hinge point in history, to ask how-and if-we can adapt quickly enough to save ourselves. </p>

<p><b>From the No. 1 international bestselling author, film producer and Wattpad platform icon Anna Todd - the continuation of her bestselling love story AFTER in Volume Two of After: The Graphic Novel.</b><br/><br/><b>Fall in love all over again in volume two of the graphic novel adaptation of the global phenomenon AFTER! Uncover </b><b>Tessa and Hardin's love story as you've never seen it before . . .</b><br/><br/><b>There was the time before Tessa met Hardin, and then there's everything AFTER . . .</b><br/><br/>As good girl Tessa Young embarks on her first year of college at Washington Central University, she has direction, ambition and a new circle of friends who are always trying to push her beyond her comfort zone. Chief among them is fellow student, campus bad boy - and son of the University's Chancellor - Hardin Scott, who has simultaneously enraged and seduced her. Tessa can hardly abide Hardin's antics and ex-girlfriends yet, despite their differences, Tessa and Hardin are undeniably, passionately drawn to one other, and willing to risk a bumpy ride for a romance that will consume and change them both.<br/><br/><b>Anna Todd's original story comes to life with breathtaking illustrations by Pablo Andres. Featuring twelve pages of behind-the-scenes and character profile bonus content, Volume Two of After: The Graphic Novel is the ultimate collector's item for fans everywhere!</b></p>