Videssos was beset by enemies. A pretender held the throne--a despot who cared little that barbarian hordes and rival realms carved away at his empire, so long as the wealth and booty of the land satisfied his unbridled appetites.Few stood against him. And those few soon found their heads on pikes.Only one name held hope for freedom: Maniakes. And from his exile on the very edge of the civilized world, young Maniakes took up the challenge, rallied his forces, and sailed off to topple the tyrant.But the tyrant would use every means at his disposal--fair or most hideously foul--to destroy the crusading upstart. And even if Maniakes could stay alive, he would still have to pull together a battered, divided land as well as fend off a host of enemies--and thwart the former friend who had become his empire's most deadly foe!
Thor, the Norse god of thunder, is worse than a blowhard and a bully — he's ruined countless lives and killed scores of innocents. After centuries, Viking vampire Leif Helgarson is ready to get his vengeance, and he's asked his friend Atticus O'Sullivan, the last of the Druids, to help take down this Norse nightmare.One survival strategy has worked for Atticus for more than two thousand years: stay away from the guy with the lightning bolts. But things are heating up in Atticus's home base of Tempe, Arizona. There's a vampire turf war brewing, and Russian demon hunters who call themselves the Hammers of God are running rampant. Despite multiple warnings and portents of dire consequences, Atticus and Leif journey to the Norse plain of Asgard, where they team up with a werewolf, a sorcerer, and an army of frost giants for an epic showdown against vicious Valkyries, angry gods, and the hammer-wielding Thunder Thug himself.
Once Jenny Casey was somebody’s daughter. Once she was somebody’s enemy. Now the former Canadian special forces warrior lives on the hellish streets of Hartford, Connecticut, in the year 2062. Racked with pain, hiding from the government she served, running with a crime lord so she can save a life or two, Jenny is a month shy of fifty, and her artificially reconstructed body has started to unravel. But she is far from forgotten. A government scientist needs the perfect subject for a high-stakes project and has Jenny in his sights. Suddenly Jenny Casey is a pawn in a furious battle, waged in the corridors of the Internet, on the streets of battered cities, and in the complex wirings of her half-man-made nervous system. And she needs to gain control of the game before a brave new future spins completely out of control.
War has erupted among the five Old Races, and Margrit is responsible for the death that caused it. Now New York City's most unusual lawyer finds herself facing her toughest negotiation yet. And with her gargoyle lover, Alban, taken prisoner, Margrit's only allies—a dragon bitter about his fall, a vampire determined to hold his standing at any cost and a mortal detective with no idea what he's up against—have demands of their own.Determined to rescue Alban and torn between conflicting loyalties as the battle seeps into the human world, Margrit soon realizes the only way out is through the fire.…
A world had collapsed around this man—a world that would never shout his praises again. The burned-out cities were still and dead, the twisted bodies and twisted souls giving him their last salute in death. And now he was alone, alone surrounded by memories, alone and waiting ...
Times are hard for newly minted vampire Merit. Ever since shapeshifters announced their presence to the world, humans have been rallying against supernaturals--and they're camping outside of Cadogan House with protest signs that could turn to pitchforks at any moment. Inside its doors, things between Merit and her Master, green-eyed heartbreaker Ethan Sullivan are ... tense. But then the mayor of Chicago calls Merit and Ethan to a clandestine meeting and tells them about a violent vamp attack that has left three women missing. His message is simple: get your House in order. Or else. Merit needs to get to ...
Mistrz zagadek Morgan nadal nie zna celu, dla kt?rego ?yje ani znaczenia gwiazdek, widniej?cych na jego czole. Kr?lestwo dr?y w posadach, pustosz? je hordy tajemniczych zmiennokszta?tnych, kt?rzy wydali wojn? rodzajowi ludzkiemu. Wobec zupe?nej bierno?ci Najwy?szego, Morgan zmuszony jest wzi?? na siebie odpowiedzialno?? za ca?y ?wiat.Nominowana do nagrody Hugo w 1980.
In the midst of conflict and unrest the Prince of Hed solves the puzzle of his future when he learns to harp the wind, discovers who the shape changers are, and understands his own relationship to Deth, harpist of the wizard Ohm.Nominated for Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1980.
P??b?h pln? div? a h???ek, v n?m? nepochybn? najdou zal?ben? v?ichni fantastov? od dev?ti do devades?ti dev?ti let i v?ce. Nezn?mou mladou britskou autorku u?inila jej? prvotina r?zem slavnou, kdy? za ni v roce 1997 dostala presti?n? Zlatou cenu (Smarties Book Prize) a jej? Harry Potter se rozlet?l na triumf?ln? turn? do sv?ta. A? do sv?ch jeden?ct?ch narozenin si o sob? tento hrdina myslel, ?e je jen oby?ejn? chlapec. Pak ale dostal sov? po?tou dopis, kter?m byl zv?n ke studiu na presti?n? soukrom? ?kole ?ar a kouzel v Bradavic?ch, a jeho ?ivot se r?zem zm?nil. Leccos se dozv?d? o minulosti sv?ch zem?el?ch rodi??, z?sk? p?r dobr?ch kamar?d?, nau?? se mistrovsky hr?t famfrp?l a kv?li Kameni mudrc? podstoup? smrteln? souboj se zloduchem Voldemortem…
Harry se vrac? do ?koly a netu??, ?e tentokr?t mu hroz? smrteln? nebezpe??. V Bradavic?ch se za??naj? d?t prapodivn? v?ci, p?i kter?ch tuhne krev v ?il?ch, a nikdo z ??k? netu??, ?e prad?vn? legenda se stala skute?nost?…Tajemn? komnata se znovu otev?ela!
Harry Potter a jeho kamar?di Ron a Hermiona jsou u? ve t?et?m ro?n?ku bradavick? ?koly ?ar a kouzel. Harry se nemohl do?kat za??tku ?koln?ho roku, kdy? ale p?ijede do Bradavic, panuje tam napjat? atmosf?ra a strach. Pro?? Na svobodu uprchl v?ze? z Azkabanu, nebezpe?n? vrah Sirius Black — pr? n?stupce lorda Voldemorta, P?na zla. A stopa vede — kam jinam ne? do ?koly v Bradavic?ch. Proto je na obranu povol?n str??ce Azkabanu, kter? sly?el Siriuse Blacka mluvit ze span?. ??kal: „ON je v Bradavic?ch.“ Harry je v nebezpe?? a neochr?n? ho ani zdi bradavick? ?koly, ani jeho p??tel?. Zr?dce se m??e skr?vat p??mo ve ?kole…
