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La familia de Miryem se halla al borde de la pobreza, hasta que ella se hace cargo de la situación y no tarda en ganarse la reputación de ser capaz de convertir la plata en oro. Cuando el rey de los staryk, unas criaturas hechas de hielo que amenazan con llevarse el verano para siempre, se entera de tal hazaña le impone una tarea que parece imposible y que hará que Miryem descubra que tiene poderes. Tejerá una telaraña en la que quedarán atrapadas una joven campesina, Wanda, y la desdichada hija de un noble local que pretende casarla con el joven y apuesto zar Mirnatius.

Enter a school of magic unlike any you have ever encountered. There are no teachers, no holidays, friendships are purely strategic and the odds of survival are never equal. Once you’re inside, there are only two ways out: you graduate or you die. El Higgins is uniquely prepared for the school’s many dangers. She may be without allies, but she possesses a dark power strong enough to level mountains and wipe out untold millions - never mind easily destroy the countless monsters that prowl the school. Except, she might accidentally kill all the other students, too.

You define life or it defines you. In Shawn Speakman’s case, it was both. Lacking health insurance and diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2011, Shawn quickly accrued a massive medical debt that he did not have the ability to pay. That’s when New York Times best-selling author Terry Brooks offered to donate a short story that Shawn could sell to help alleviate those bills—and suggested he ask the same of his other writer friends. Unfettered is the result: An anthology built in order to relieve that debt, featuring short stories by some of the best fantasy writers in the genre.

Lacking health insurance when he was diagnosed with cancer, Shawn Speakman asked friends in the science fiction and fantasy writing community to donate short stories he could use to counter mounting medical debt. The result was Unfettered, an anthology offering tales from some of the best authors working today. Now, in Unfettered III, Speakman continues to pay forward the aid he received, raising money to combat medical debt for SF&F artists and authors.

The deadly campaign in Russia has cost both Napoleon and those allied against him. Napoleon has been denied his victory . . . but at a terrible price. Laurence and the dragon Temeraire pursue the fleeing French army west but are demoralized when Napoleon makes it back to Paris unscathed. Worse, they soon learn that the French have stolen Temeraire and Iskierka’s egg. Now it is do or die, as our heroes need not only to save Temeraire’s offspring but also to stop Napoleon for good.

Convicted of treason despite their heroic defense against Napoleon’s invasion of England, Temeraire and Captain Will Laurence have been transported to a prison colony in distant Australia—and into a hornet’s nest of fresh complications. The colony is in turmoil after the overthrow of military governor William Bligh—aka Captain Bligh, late of HMS Bounty. And when Bligh tries to enlist them in his bid to regain office, the dragon and his captain are caught in the middle of a political power struggle.

The one thing you never talk about while you’re in the Scholomance is what you’ll do when you get out. Not even the richest enclaver would tempt fate that way. But it’s all we dream about: the hideously slim chance we’ll survive to make it out the gates and improbably find ourselves with a life ahead of us, a life outside the Scholomance halls. And now the impossible dream has come true. I’m out, we’re all out. We saved everyone. So much for my great-grandmother’s prophecy of doom and destruction. Ha, only joking! Actually, it’s gone all wrong.

From the dragon-filled Temeraire series and the gothic magical halls of the Scholomance trilogy, through the realms next door to Spinning Silver and Uprooted, this stunning collection takes us from fairy tale to fantasy, myth to history, and mystery to science fiction as we travel through Naomi Novik’s most beloved stories.

From the dragon-filled Temeraire series and the magical gothic halls of the Scholomance trilogy to the fairy tale worlds of Spinning Silver and Uprooted, this stunning collection takes us from fairy tale to fantasy, myth to history, and mystery to science fiction as we travel through Naomi Novik's most beloved worlds. Within this anthology, we move from ancient Greece and Rome, through the Middle Ages and the Black Death, and into the modern era.

Die Welt zu retten, ist eine Aufgabe, auf die dich keine Zauberschule vorbereiten kann... Nahezu im Alleingang – wenn auch unterstützt von einer wachsenden Zahl echter Freunde – hat El die Scholomance für immer verändert. Nun ist sie zurück in der realen Welt und muss sehen, wie sie mit dem zurechtkommt, was sie in der Schule gelernt hat. Noch immer hängt die düstere Prophezeiung ihrer Großmutter wie ein Damoklesschwert über ihr.

Patiente et intrépide, Agnieszka parvient toujours à glaner dans la forêt les baies les plus recherchées, mais chacun à Dvernik sait qu'il est impossible de rivaliser avec Kasia. Intelligente et pleine de grâce, son amie brille d'un éclat sans pareil. Malheureusement, la perfection peut servir de monnaie d'échange dans cette vallée menacée par la corruption. Car si les villageois demeurent dans la région, c'est uniquement grâce aux pouvoirs du "Dragon".

Déterminée à sauver sa famille du naufrage financier, Miryem reprend avec succès l'activité de prêteur de son père, mais elle attire rapidement l'attention du roi des Staryk, une créature effroyable qui exige d'elle l'impossible. Wanda, fille de ferme miséreuse aux prises avec un père violent et alcoolique, lutte pour sa survie et celle de ses deux frères.

The one thing you never talk about while you're in the Scholomance is what you'll do when you get out - not even the richest enclaver would tempt fate that way. But that impossible dream has somehow come true for El and her classmates. And what's more, she didn't even have to become the monstrous dark witch she's prophesised to become to make it happen. Instead of killing enclavers, she saved them, and now the world is safe for all wizards. Peace and harmony have enveloped all the enclaves of the world. Just kidding.

Willkommen zurück an der Scholomance - der zweite Band der grandiosen neuen Fantasyreihe von Naomi Novik. Scholomance ist eine Magierschule, wie es sie noch nie gegeben hat: keine Lehrer, keine Ferien, Freundschaft nur als Mittel zum Zweck und sehr ungleiche Überlebenschancen. Es gibt nur zwei Wege heraus aus der Schule - die Abschlussprüfung oder den Tod. Für El und Orion beginnt das letzte Jahr an der Scholomance und das tödliche Ritual der gefürchteten Abschlussprüfung wirft seine Schatten voraus. El setzt alles daran, dass ihre Gruppe überlebt.

Scholomance ist eine Magierschule, wie es sie noch nie gegeben hat: keine Lehrer, keine Ferien, Freundschaft nur als Mittel zum Zweck und sehr ungleiche Überlebenschancen. Es gibt nur zwei Wege heraus aus der Schule - die Abschlussprüfung oder den Tod. Galadriel, genannt El, ist bestens vorbereitet auf die Gefahren der Schule: Sie hat zwar niemanden, der ihr hilft, aber eine starke dunkle Gabe, mit der sie problemlos auf einen Schlag die Monster auslöschen könnte, die überall in der Schule lauern. Aber das würde auch ihre Mitschüler treffen.

There are no teachers, no holidays; friendships are purely strategic, and the odds of survival are never equal. Once you're inside, there are only two ways out: you graduate, or you die. El, Orion and the other students are faced with their final year—and the looming spectre of graduation. El is determined that her chosen group will survive, but it is a prospect that is looking harder by the day as the savagery of the school ramps up. Until El realises that sometimes winning the game means throwing out all the rules....

Napoleon’s invasion of Russia has been roundly thwarted. But even as Capt. William Laurence and the dragon Temeraire pursue the retreating enemy through an unforgiving winter, Napoleon is raising a new force, and he’ll soon have enough men and dragons to resume the offensive. While the emperor regroups, the allies have an opportunity to strike first and defeat him once and for all - if internal struggles and petty squabbles don’t tear them apart.

Former Aerial Corps captain Will Laurence and his faithful dragon, Temeraire, have been put out to pasture in Australia - and it seems their part in the war has ended just when they are needed most. The French have invaded Spain, forged an alliance with Africa’s powerful Tswana empire and brought revolution to Brazil. With Britain’s last desperate hope of defeating Napoleon in peril, the government that sidelined Laurence swiftly offers to reinstate him, convinced that he’s the best man to enter the fray and negotiate peace.

Laurence and Temeraire made a daring journey across vast and inhospitable continents to bring home a rare Turkish dragon from the treacherous Ottoman Empire. Kazilik dragons are firebreathers, and Britain is in greater need of protection than ever, for while Laurence and Temeraire were away, an epidemic struck British shores and is killing off her greatest defence - her dragon air force is slowly dying. The dreadful truth must be kept from Napoleon at all costs.

Convicted of treason and stripped of rank and standing, Temeraire and Lawrence are transported to the prison colony at New South Wales. With them travel three dragon eggs destined to be handed over to second-rate officers willing to accept so remote an assignment - including one former acquaintance, Captain Rankin, whose cruelty once cost a dragon its life. They arrive at a young Australian colony in turmoil after the overthrow of the military governor, William Bligh - formerly Captain Bligh, late of HMS Bounty.