Mark Lawrence
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For over 25 years, the Wild Cards universe has been entertaining readers with stories of superpowered people in an alternate history. The saga continues with Mark Lawrence's short story The Visitor.
The visitor comes...but she needs to be invited in.
Ever since she woke up in the hospital with the ability to generate heat, Ruby Johnson, a.k.a the Dragon, has built a reputation as an unstoppable force of nature. She makes her living as an assassin...
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"Winner of the Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations" Mark Atwood Lawrence teaches history at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Assuming the Burden: Europe and the American Commitment to War in Vietnam and The Vietnam War: A Concise International History.
A groundbreaking new history of how the Vietnam War thwarted U.S. liberal ambitions in the developing world and at home in the...
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Dragons, magic, princesses of mighty kingdoms: elements of fantasy that have carried on throughout the many ages, and yet, may one day be forgotten. Enter and delve into the roots of fantasy, rediscovering the fantastic and exploring lost worlds. This is storytelling at its best. Neverland's Library is a collection of original works that will take you back to that moment when you first fell in love with the genre; featuring stories from writers across...
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Nona ist kein gewöhnliches Kind: Sie hat auffällig schwarze Augen und schwarze Haare und kann sich mit übernatürlicher Geschwindigkeit bewegen. Und sie ist erst acht, als sie ihren ersten Mord begeht.
Nona steht schon im Schatten des Galgens, als sie von der Äbtissin des Klosters zur barmherzigen Gnade gerettet wird, wo sie man sie zur Kriegerin ausbildet. Doch der Mann, den sie getötet hat, gehörte einer der mächtigsten Familien des Reiches...
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Das Eis rückt näher, und mit ihm der Krieg. Vor den Toren des Klosters zur süßen Gnade brennen die ersten Ortschaften, und Nona weiß nicht, ob sie den Tag ihrer Ordination noch erleben wird.
Mithilfe eines streng verbotenen Buches will Nona das Schicksal des Reiches in die eigene Hand nehmen. Allerdings braucht sie dafür vier verschiedene magische Schiffsherzen - und solch mächtige Artefakte haben ihren Preis.
Nona trifft auf alte und neue...
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Als Novizin der Mystischen Klasse wird Nona in die tieferen Geheimnisse des Universums eingeweiht. Allerdings gelten im Konvent zur süßen Gnade harsche Regeln, und als dann auch noch die Inquisition den Arm nach dem Kloster ausstreckt, muss Nona fliehen. Ihr auf den Fersen sitzt nicht nur eine ehrgeizige Assassine, sondern obendrein der ebenso einflussreiche wie rachsüchtige Thuran Tacsis. Doch Nona wird in noch größere Konflikte hineingerissen:...
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This collection of fantasy short stories are from the three winners of Remastered Words 2017 audio anthology, including a tale from Mark Lawrence with 'The Dream-Taker's Apprentice' which was first published in the Fantasy Faction's 2015 anthology. Listen to the chilling story of an antique phone before relaxing with a light take on a well-known fairy tale. Then delve into the dark future of online shopping, finally wrapping things up in a mysterious...
8) Red sister
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Book of the Ancestor volume 1
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"The international bestselling author of the Broken Empire and the Red Queen's War trilogies begins a stunning epic fantasy series about a secretive order of holy warriors... At the Convent of Sweet Mercy, young girls are raised to be killers. In some few children the old bloods show, gifting rare talents that can be honed to deadly or mystic effect. But even the mistresses of sword and shadow don't truly understand what they have purchased when Nona...
9) Holy sister
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Book of the Ancestor volume 3
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"The third book in the thrilling and epic Book of the Ancestor trilogy from international bestselling author Mark Lawrence. Powerful novice Nona Grey must fight to survive in "a fantastic world in which religion and politics are dark and sharp as swords, with magic and might held in the hands of wonderful and dangerous women."* *Library Journal"--
"As a young girl, Nona Grey was saved from the noose by the Abbess of Sweet Mercy. But behind the convent's...
10) Prince of thorns
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Broken empire volume 1
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After witnessing the murder of his mother and brother and leading a band of bloodthirsty thugs, Prince Honorous Jorg Ancrath returns to his father's castle and his birthright, but faces treachery and dark magic once he arrives.
11) Prince of fools
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Red Queen's war volume 1
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"Hailed as "epic fantasy on a George R. R. Martin scale, but on speed,"* the Broken Empire trilogy introduced a bold new world of dark fantasy with the story of Jorg Ancrath's devastating rise to power. Now, Mark Lawrence returns to the Broken Empire with the tale of a less ambitious prince... The Red Queen is old but the kings of the Broken Empire dread her like no other. For all her reign, she has fought the long war, contested in secret, against...
12) King of thorns
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Broken empire volume 2
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In book two of the Broken Empire trilogy, the boy who would be king has gained the throne—but the crown is a heavy weight to bear...
At age nine, Prince Honorous Jorg Ancrath vowed to avenge his slaughtered mother and brother—and to punish his father for not doing so. At fifteen, he began to fulfill that vow. Now, at eighteen, he must fight for what he has taken by torture and treachery.
Haunted by the pain of his past, and...
At age nine, Prince Honorous Jorg Ancrath vowed to avenge his slaughtered mother and brother—and to punish his father for not doing so. At fifteen, he began to fulfill that vow. Now, at eighteen, he must fight for what he has taken by torture and treachery.
Haunted by the pain of his past, and...
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Broken empire volume 3
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Desiring to be emperor of the Broken Empire, young King Jorg Ancrath of the seven nations must face an adversary standing in his way, a necromancer unlike any he has ever challenged -- a figure hated and feared even more than himself: the Dead King.
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Library trilogy volume 1
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"Two strangers find themselves connected by a mysterious and vast library, which contains many wonders and even more secrets, in the powerfully moving first book in a new series from the international bestselling author of Red Sister and Prince of Thorns. On a used-up world where civilisations have risen and retreated in an endless tide, leaving a dusty wasteland in their wake, there is one constant: an ancient library, the repository of all knowledge...
15) The liar's key
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Red Queen's war volume 2
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"After harrowing adventure and near-death, Prince Jalan Kendeth and the Viking Snorri ver Snagason find themselves in possession of Loki's Key, an artefact capable of opening any door, and sought by the most dangerous beings in the Broken Empire--including The Dead King. Jal wants only to return home to his wine, women, and song, but Snorri has his own purpose for the key: to find the very door into death, throw it wide, and bring his family back...
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Red Queen's war volume 3
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All the horrors of Hell stand between Snorri Ver Snagason and the rescue of his family, if indeed the dead can be rescued. For Jalan Kendeth, getting back out alive and with Loki's key is all that matters. Loki's creation can open any lock, any door, and it may also be the key to Jalan's fortune back in the living world. Jalan plans to return to the three w's that have been the core of his idle and debauched life: wine, women, and wagering. Fate...
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Library trilogy volume 2
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"The Library of Alexandria died in fire. Others fade away with less drama, ignored, forgotten, left to dust. To the athenaeum though, the great library of which all others are echoes, fires are merely a temporary inconvenience. The only true threat to the library's existence is a book--the one Livira wrote. Livira's book also brought her together with Evar, a young man who was raised in the library itself, and they discovered secrets that no one else...
18) Grey sister
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Book of the Ancestor volume 2
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"From Mark Lawrence, the international bestselling author of the Broken Empire Trilogy, comes the second novel in a dazzling fantasy series set in a dying world. The searing tale of a young woman on the path to becoming the empire's fiercest warrior"--
"From Mark Lawrence, the international bestselling author of the Broken Empire Trilogy, comes the second novel in a dazzling fantasy series set in a dying world. The searing tale of a young woman on...
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At the start of the 1960s, John F. Kennedy and other American liberals expressed boundless optimism about the ability of the United States to promote democracy and development in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. With US power, resources, and expertise, almost anything seemed possible in the countries of the Cold War's "Third World" - developing, postcolonial nations unaligned with the United States or Soviet Union. Yet by the end...