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The Ballad of Falling Dragons (The Moonfall Series, Book 2)

The Ballad of Falling Dragons (The Moonfall Series, Book 2)

☽ Raeve and Kaan will return in the highly anticipated sequel to the #1 internationally bestselling phenomenon, When The Moon Hatched. Prepare for more danger, magic, romance and dragons!☽ The #1 Sunday Times bestselling sensation When the Moon Hatched continues with the second book in The Moonfall Series, The Ballad of Falling Dragons... Discover the phenomenon everyone's falling for: ‘With dragons, doomed lovers and magic, this will be huge' Stylist 'Hailed as the fantasy phenomenon of 2024... You'll be transported into a world of magic, dragons and love'Sun ‘Terrific [...] A gore-steeped romance of lost gods, lost loves and lost memories' Daily Mail 'An absolutely stunning fantasy world’ Raven Kennedy, author of international bestseller, The Plated Prisoner Series ‘A wild ride that thrills as much as it enchants ... An instant classic’ Thea Guanzon, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Hurricane Wars ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Readers are already calling this the fantasy phenomenon of 2024! ‘The new fantasy romance of 2024 that you NEED to read!!!’ ‘By far the best book I’ve read this year’ ‘👌 Just wow... what did I just read!! I don’t think I’ll be forgetting this book any time soon! What a masterpiece 🥰’ ‘Infinity five stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️’ ‘Whoa, I love this book so much! This is the best fantasy book I read this year’ ‘I'm almost certain I've already read my favourite book of the year’ ‘THIS IS FANTASY ROMANCE. Full stop.’

The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, Book 1)

The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, Book 1)

Darkness Will Bind Them... watch The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 2 on Prime Video The first part of J. R. R. Tolkien’s epic adventure THE LORD OF THE RINGS ‘A most remarkable feat’ Guardian In a sleepy village in the Shire, a young hobbit is entrusted with an immense task. He must make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom, there to destroy the Ruling Ring of Power – the only thing that prevents the Dark Lord Sauron’s evil dominion. Thus begins J. R. R. Tolkien’s classic tale of adventure, which continues in The Two Towers and The Return of the King.

The Royal Quest Series, books 1-3

The Royal Quest Series, books 1-3

A complete series featuring dragons, mages, and two worlds at risk.I wasn’t the kind of girl to believe in magic.Not even with my odd skillset.I stayed that way until magic walked right into my life in the form of a hot, brooding dragon prince.The moment I met Prince Rone was . . . tense to say the least, but after a shocking street-side brawl we had a second chance to get to know one another.And learn we both possessed what the other needs.Now I’m on a wild hunt, trying to find a safe home for dragon eggs while being chased by murderous crazies who want all the dragons dead.The weird thing is that despite the danger, for the first time in my life I finally feel like I might fit in someplace and maybe with someone.I just need to live long enough to find out if my intuition regarding Rone and this strange new world are right.The Royal Quest Series is an upper YA/NA dragon shifter fantasy adventure series. If you like loads of action, a slow-burn romance, and characters who will steal your heart, you’ll love The Royal Quest Series. This series is now complete.Series Tropes: Fish out of waterChosen one(s)Stabby princessBrooding princeFated matesOpposites attractDragons, mages, witches, and vampiresThis boxset contains three books: Dragon PrinceDragon MagicDragon Mates

The Strange Library

The Strange Library

Fully illustrated and beautifully designed, this is a unique and wonderfully creepy tale that is sure to delight Murakami fans. 'All I did was go to the library to borrow some books'. On his way home from school, the young narrator of The Strange Library finds himself wondering how taxes were collected in the Ottoman Empire. He pops into the local library to see if it has a book on the subject. This is his first mistake. Led to a special 'reading room' in a maze under the library by a strange old man, he finds himself imprisoned with only a sheep man, who makes excellent donuts, and a girl, who can talk with her hands, for company. His mother will be worrying why he hasn't returned in time for dinner and the old man seems to have an appetite for eating small boy's brains. How will he escape?'The best novelist on the planet' Observer

The Lord of the Rings

The Lord of the Rings

For the first time ever, a very special edition of the classic masterpiece, with the complete text and illustrated throughout by the author himself. Since it was first published in 1954, The Lord of the Rings has been a book people have treasured. Steeped in unrivalled magic and otherworldliness, its sweeping fantasy and epic adventure has touched the hearts of young and old alike. Over 150 million copies of its many editions have been sold around the world, and occasional collectors’ editions become prized and valuable items of publishing. This one-volume eBook edition contains the complete text and features, for the very first time, thirty illustrations, maps and sketches drawn by Tolkien himself as he composed this epic work. These include the pages from the Book of Mazarbul, reproduced to accompany the famous ‘Bridge of Khazad-dum’ chapter. Also appearing are two full-size maps drawn by Christopher Tolkien revealing all the detail of Middle-earth. Sympathetically packaged to reflect the classic look of the first edition, this new eBook edition will prove irresistible to old and new fans alike.

The Silmarillion

The Silmarillion

For the first time ever, a very special edition of the forerunner to The Lord of the Rings, illustrated throughout in colour by J.R.R. Tolkien himself and with the complete text. The Silmarilli were three perfect jewels, fashioned by Fëanor, most gifted of the Elves, and within them was imprisoned the last Light of the Two Trees of Valinor. But the first Dark Lord, Morgoth, stole the jewels and set them within his iron crown, guarded in the impenetrable fortress of Angband in the north of Middle-earth. The Silmarillion is the history of the rebellion of Fëanor and his kindred against the gods, their exile from Valinor and return to Middle-earth, and their war, hopeless despite all the heroism, against the great Enemy. It is the ancient drama to which the characters in The Lord of the Rings look back, and in whose events some of them such as Elrond and Galadriel took part. The book also includes several shorter works: the Ainulindalë, a myth of the Creation, and the Valaquenta, in which the nature and powers of each of the gods is described. The Akallabêth recounts the downfall of the great island kingdom of Númenor at the end of the Second Age, and Of the Rings of Power tells of the great events at the end of the Third Age, as narrated in The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien could not publish The Silmarillion in his lifetime, as it grew with him, so he would leave it to his son, Christopher Tolkien, to edit the work from many manuscripts and bring his father’s great vision to publishable form, so completing the literary achievement of a lifetime. This special edition presents anew this seminal first step towards mapping out the posthumous publishing of Middle-earth, and the beginning of an illustrious forty years and more than twenty books celebrating his father’s legacy. This definitive new edition includes, by way of an introduction, a letter written by Tolkien in 1951 which provides a brilliant exposition of the earlier Ages, and for the first time in its history is presented with J.R.R. Tolkien’s own paintings and drawings, which reveal the breathtaking grandeur and beauty of his vision of the First Age of Middle-earth.

The Story of Kullervo

The Story of Kullervo

The world first publication of a previously unknown work of fantasy by J.R.R. Tolkien, which tells the powerful story of a doomed young man who is sold into slavery and who swears revenge on the magician who killed his father. Kullervo son of Kalervo is perhaps the darkest and most tragic of all J.R.R. Tolkien’s characters. ‘Hapless Kullervo’, as Tolkien called him, is a luckless orphan boy with supernatural powers and a tragic destiny. Brought up in the homestead of the dark magician Untamo, who killed his father, kidnapped his mother, and who tries three times to kill him when still a boy, Kullervo is alone save for the love of his twin sister, Wanona, and guarded by the magical powers of the black dog, Musti. When Kullervo is sold into slavery he swears revenge on the magician, but he will learn that even at the point of vengeance there is no escape from the cruellest of fates. Tolkien wrote that The Story of Kullervo was ‘the germ of my attempt to write legends of my own’, and was ‘a major matter in the legends of the First Age’; his Kullervo was the ancestor of Túrin Turambar, tragic incestuous hero of The Silmarillion. In addition to being a powerful story in its own right, The Story of Kullervo – published here for the first time with the author’s drafts, notes and lecture-essays on its source-work, The Kalevala, is a foundation stone in the structure of Tolkien’s invented world.

The Children Of Húrin

The Children Of Húrin

One of the three 'Great Tales' of the Elder Days, J.R.R. Tolkien's The Children of Húrin takes place in Middle-earth thousands of years before the events of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.The Children of Húrin is the first complete book by Tolkien since the 1977 publication of The Silmarillion. Six thousand years before the One Ring is destroyed, Middle-earth lies under the shadow of the Dark Lord Morgoth. The greatest warriors among elves and men have perished, and all is in darkness and despair. But a deadly new leader rises, Túrin, son of Húrin, and with his grim band of outlaws begins to turn the tide in the war for Middle-earth—awaiting the day he confronts his destiny and the deadly curse laid upon him.

The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, Book 2)

The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, Book 2)

Darkness Will Bind Them... watch The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 2 on Prime Video The second part of J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic adventure THE LORD OF THE RINGS ‘Among the greatest works of imaginative fiction of the twentieth century.’ Sunday Telegraph The company of the Ring is torn asunder. Frodo and Sam continue their journey alone down the great River Anduin – alone, that is, save for the mysterious creeping figure that follows wherever they go. This continues the classic tale begun in The Fellowship of the Ring, which reaches its awesome climax in The Return of the King.

The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, Book 3)

The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, Book 3)

Darkness Will Bind Them... watch The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 2 on Prime Video The third part of J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic adventure THE LORD OF THE RINGS ‘Extraordinarily imaginative, and wholly exciting’ The Times The armies of the Dark Lord are massing as his evil shadow spreads even wider. Men, Dwarves, Elves and Ents unite forces to battle against the Dark. Meanwhile, Frodo and Sam struggle further into Mordor in their heroic quest to destroy the One Ring. The devastating conclusion of J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic tale of adventure, begun in The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers.

Loner Life in Another World (Light Novel) Vol. 5

Loner Life in Another World (Light Novel) Vol. 5

As the kingdom bears down on the frontier, Haruka steps up to prepare his fellow classmates for war. But getting battle-ready means achieving level 100, a peak reached only by heroes of legend. A harsh path lies before Haruka and his classmates. Will they falter here, or find the strength to make it to the highest level?

Disciple of the Lich: Or How I Was Cursed by the Gods and Dropped Into the Abyss! (Light Novel) Vol. 5

Disciple of the Lich: Or How I Was Cursed by the Gods and Dropped Into the Abyss! (Light Novel) Vol. 5

Leaving the Garden of Dragons behind for Ploroque, Kanata and the gang run into an item crafter: Mel. Her store is stocked with ingenious inventions, so why is it on the brink of bankruptcy? Greed, the company CEO holding the strings of the city, seems to be responsible--but perhaps the shady underbelly of Ploroque is to blame? It's a race against the clock to clear Mel's name and stay one step ahead of the higher beings!