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Chandrakanta is a romantic fantasy novel written by Devaki Nandan Khatri, a popular writer from the first generation of modern Hindi novelists. This book is considered to be one of his finest works, and it has spawned numerous sequels related to the original story. The story centres around a romantic couple, each of whom came from kingdoms at dissent with each other. Chandrakanta is the princess of Vijaygarh while Virendra Singh is the prince of Naugarh. Kroor Singh, one of the courtiers in the King’s court at Vijaygarh, is a schemester with grand plans of his own.

J. Sutter is a bonafide junketeer - a freelance writer, travelling from city to city, hungry for free meals and the discarded sales receipts of others to claim on his expense account. Travelling into the backwoods of West Virginia to write a piece on the unveiling of the new John Henry postage stamp and the ensuing John Henry Days festival, J. continues his nearly record-setting, three-month junket binge.

Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa, read by George Blagden. The tender feelgood story of a man's journey around Japan with a streetcat. Translated by Philip Gabriel, a translator of Murakami. It's not the journey that counts but who's at your side. Nana is on a road trip, but he is not sure where he is going. All that matters is that he can sit beside his beloved owner, Satoru, in the front seat of his silver van. Satoru is keen to visit three old friends from his youth, though Nana doesn’t know why, and Satoru won’t say.

A 20-something advertising executive receives a postcard from a friend and casually appropriates the image for an insurance company's advertisement. What he doesn't realise is that included in the pastoral scene is a mutant sheep with a star on its back, and in using this photo he has unwittingly captured the attention of a man in black who offers a menacing ultimatum: find the sheep or face dire consequences. Thus begins a surreal and elaborate quest that takes our hero from the urban haunts of Tokyo to the remote and snowy mountains of northern Japan.

Dara is a normal woman living a normal life, as she approaches her 25th birthday. Though her vivid dreams and wild imagination often take her on adventures of her mind, she never expected that one day, she would be roped into a plot of madness and magic by four gorgeous, amazing, pain-in-the-arse guys who come stomping into her life and change everything....

In a forgotten corner of western Kentucky lies a haunted forest referred to locally as "The Deadening", where vampire cults roam wild and time is immaterial. Our protagonist and his accomplice - the one and only Carver Canute - set out down the Old Spur Line in search of the legendary Kudzu House, where an old couple is purported to have been swallowed whole by a hungry vine.

The world of magic is beautiful and enchanting, but there is darkness here too. Dara has been to hell and back trying to discover her destiny. Thrown into a world she didn't know she belonged to, she's completed the first task of claiming Emerald, but lost someone she cares about in the process. She finds her thoughts divided between finding the second stone - Topaz - and rescuing one of her warriors who was captured in battle. More now than ever, she's determined to put her power-hungry uncle and his plans for complete domination down once and for all.

Bist du bereit für das wahre Abenteuer in deinem Leben? Claire Lieblingsschuhwerk sind Gummistiefel, sie spricht mit Pflanzen und ihre besten Freunde sind Bäume. Sie ist Gartendesignerin, ihre Gärten wild und schön, Kraftorte für die Seele. Doch ihr spirituelles Konzept findet kaum Anklang. Darunter leidet nicht nur ihr Selbstbewusstsein - auch ihr Vertrauen zur Welt. Eines Tages erreicht sie die Anfrage eines älteren Unternehmers aus England. Innerhalb eines Jahres soll sie einen großen Garten gestalten. Sie fährt nach Kent und trifft auf der Suche nach Personal auf Lee.

The postcard has been held at the sorting office for 91 years, waiting to be delivered to Joe Tournier. On the front is a lighthouse - Eilean Mor, in the Outer Hebrides. Joe has never left England, never even left London. He is a British slave, one of thousands throughout the French Empire. He has a job, a wife, a baby daughter. But he also has flashes of a life he cannot remember and of a world that never existed - a world where English is spoken in England and not French.

Greyson Till never found a weapon he didn't like. As the immortal Master Gunner of a pirate ship, he's grown his collection for over two hundred years. So when a legendary cursed blade that can cut through any material goes missing from the government's paranormal artifact vault, he's eager to retrieve it. Working with the secret division Department Thirteen has always come with its set of challenges, but this one is the worst yet.

Sarah has some confessing to do. Meanwhile, Ajax is faced with more and more things crossing between the real world and inside the game Legendary Rule. He's forced to confront the idea that the world of LR might be just as real as his own.

Effie Edenson is many things: a bestselling author, a runaway bride, a woman who cannot see the gifts she possesses. Though she is an adult, her mother dominates her life to a point that she feels she will never be able to break free. But Effie lives in Middle Falls, where all things are possible. After an untimely death, Effie wakes up at a critical juncture in her life. The question is, what can she do with this second chance?

'Kid' Wolffe is an up-and-coming boxer in 1920s New York. An honest fighter's got little chance at success on the mob-controlled circuit—until ambitious lieutenant 'Hinky' Friedman starts making moves to take over her boss's business, and sees a use for the kid. Teitelstam is a struggling tattoo artist, whose natural talent for ink magic won't amount to much without formal training. So he's got no idea why Hinky would offer him 10 times what he's worth to come work for her.

Ein Pakt gegen den Dalai Lama? Als der chinesische Staatschef dem tibetischen Oberhaupt überraschend ein Friedensangebot unterbreitet und ihn zu Gesprächen über die Unabhängigkeit Tibets einlädt, werden zwei Amerikaner plötzlich von Visionen heimgesucht, dass es sich um eine Falle handeln könnte. In Tibet angekommen, finden die beiden heraus, dass sie die drohende Katastrophe verhindern können: Der Schlüssel dazu ist ein tibetisches Heiligenbild: Das schwarze Thangka, mit dessen Hilfe sie den Dämonen Kamdhar Gyor bezwingen wollen.

Nella più triste delle città, così triste da aver persino dimenticato il proprio nome, vivono il cantastorie Rashid Khalifa, lo Scià del Bla-bla, e suo figlio Harun. Rashid è dotato del magico dono di saper raccontare, incantando con la sua voce chi lo ascolta. Non appena schiude le labbra, ne sgorgano saghe piene d'amore e di magia, con eroi, battaglie, principesse... Finché un giorno dalla bocca dello Scià del Bla-bla non esce che un orribile verso.

Lautlos bewegt sich der Meisterdieb Robin durch die dunklen Gassen von New Port. Die Welt befindet sich im Wandel: Die Magie verschwindet. Gleichzeitig erwacht der neue Kult der Mechanisten, die mit Hilfe der Dampftechnik die Welt erobern. Im Auftrag einer unbekannten Frau stiehlt Robin einen magischen Kristall und setzt dabei eine Kette von Ereignissen in Kraft, die die Welt für immer verändert. Seine Geliebte wird ermordet, und Robin gerät immer tiefer in ein Netzwerk von Intrigen, die von der Unterwelt bis in die Adelsschicht von New Port reicht.

High school is hard enough for most teens but for Noble, Harlan, Argus and Tora, some days can be a real howl. Born wolves, the shape-shifting siblings have spent most of their lives in human form, taking to the woods to enjoy their animal strength in secret. But all that could change at any moment… For it’s only a matter of time before Harlan pounces on his high school nemesis, revealing his feral nature to all. Before Tora shares the pack’s secret with the classmate she’s got a major crush on.

Everyone at Redstone High is talking about the strange Brock kids. How they keep to themselves at school—and spend way too much time in the woods. But Noble, Argus, Harlan and Tora aren’t normal teens—they were born with the power to become wolves. And the more the siblings try to hide their secret identity, the greater they struggle to fit in. Then Noble falls mysteriously ill, leaving the pack without a leader just when he’s needed the most…

Aranmanoth es una novela de iniciación a la vida y al amor, protagonizada por un muchacho medio humano medio mágico, hijo del Señor del Lines y de un hada de las aguas. En una Edad Media ensombrecida por guerras infinitas, Aranmanoth parte en búsqueda de su destino, alejándose de los demás mortales y obedeciendo a misteriosas señales de las hojas de los árboles y de los pájaros que atraviesan el cielo. Aranmanoth y Windumanoth, su niña amada, esposa de su padre, viajan en pos de un sueño de plenitud, hacia la tierra prometida de su infancia que, poco a poco, revela hallarse en su interior.

Jane and Vincent have finally gotten some much-needed rest after their adventures in Italy - then Vincent receives word that his estranged father has passed away on one of his properties in the West Indies. His brother, who manages the estate, is overwhelmed, and no one else in his family can go. Grudgingly, out of filial duty, the couple decide to go.