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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Fantasy
Witty, haunting, and kind, Under the Whispering Door is a gift for
troubled times. TJ Klune brings us a warm hug of a story about a
man who spent his life at the office - and his afterlife building a
home. From the author of joyous New York Times bestseller The House
in the Cerulean Sea. Welcome to Charon's Crossing. The tea is hot,
the scones are fresh and the dead are just passing through. When a
reaper comes to collect Wallace from his own sparsely-attended
funeral, Wallace is outraged. But he begins to suspect she's right,
and he is in fact dead. Then when Hugo, owner of a most peculiar
tea shop, promises to help him cross over, Wallace reluctantly
accepts the truth. Yet even in death, he refuses to abandon his
life - even though Wallace spent all of it working, correcting
colleagues and hectoring employees. He'd had no time for
frivolities like fun and friends. But as Wallace drinks tea with
Hugo and talks to his customers, he wonders if he was missing
something. The feeling grows as he shares jokes with the resident
ghost, manifests embarrassing footwear and notices the stars. So
when he's given one week to pass through the door to the other
side, Wallace sets about living a lifetime in just seven days. Fans
of A Man Called Ove and The Good Place will fall for this queer
love story by TJ Klune. Praise for TJ Klune: 'I loved it. It is
like being wrapped up in a big gay blanket. Simply perfect' - V. E.
Schwab, no.1 New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible
Life of Addie LaRue 'A modern fairy tale about learning your true
nature and what you love and will protect. It's a beautiful book' -
Charlaine Harris, no.1 New York Times bestselling author 'A
whimsical, warm-hearted fantasy' - Guardian 'Fans of queer fantasy
won't want to miss this' - Publishers Weekly
A gorgeous illustrated edition of the fourth book in the beloved A Song
of Ice and Fire series, the inspiration for HBO's Game of Thrones
With a special foreword by Joe Abercrombie
Here is the fourth book in the landmark series that has redefined
imaginative fiction and become a modern masterpiece in the making. This
special edition of A Feast for Crows features 24 original color
illustrations from artist Jeffrey R. McDonald.
A FEAST FOR CROWS
After centuries of bitter strife, the seven powers dividing the land
have beaten one another into an uneasy truce. But it's not long before
the survivors, outlaws, renegades, and carrion eaters of the Seven
Kingdoms gather. Now, as the human crows assemble over a banquet of
ashes, daring new plots and dangerous new alliances are formed while
surprising faces--some familiar, others only just appearing--emerge
from an ominous twilight of past struggles and chaos to take up the
challenges of the terrible times ahead. Nobles and commoners, soldiers
and sorcerers, assassins and sages, are coming together to stake their
fortunes . . . and their lives. For at a feast for crows, many are the
guests--but only a few are the survivors.
A GAME OF THRONES - A CLASH OF KINGS - A STORM OF SWORDS - A FEAST FOR
CROWS - A DANCE WITH DRAGONS
Saving the world is a test no school of magic can prepare you for in the triumphant conclusion to the New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with A Deadly Education and The Last Graduate.
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—and I didn’t even have to turn into a monstrous dark witch to make it happen. So much for my great-grandmother’s prophecy of doom and destruction. I didn’t kill enclavers, I saved them. Me and Orion and our allies. Our graduation plan worked to perfection: We saved everyone and made the world safe for all wizards and brought peace and harmony to all the enclaves everywhere.
Ha, only joking! Actually, it’s gone all wrong. Someone else has picked up the project of destroying enclaves in my stead, and probably everyone we saved is about to get killed in the brewing enclave war. And the first thing I’ve got to do now, having miraculously gotten out of the Scholomance, is turn straight around and find a way back in.
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Apocalypsia
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Jerry J. C. Veit
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