She memorized the mark that killed her father. She never expected to find it on the boy the ancient magic chose for her.Three years ago, seventeen-year-old Eveline Ashford lost her father to a shadowy assassin known only as the Hunter — a killer bound to a centuries-old blood oath and controlled by someone powerful enough to bury the truth. Before he died, Commander Aldric Ashford pressed a single drawing into his daughter's hands: a compass-rose mark, four points, ...

Ama Calloway knows the rules. Don't stand out. Don't react. Don't let them see the fire. As a scholarship ward student at Ashveil Academy. one of five common-born students admitted each year to an institution built for the magical elite. Ama has survived by staying invisible. She's brilliant, she's careful, and she has absolutely no intention of letting anyone discover the forbidden Fireborn magic burning beneath her skin.Then a fire-sigil appears scorched into the academy wall ove...

She wasn't supposed to get through the gate.Veilmoor Academy has kept humans out for three hundred years. Ancient wards, pack magic, a school hidden somewhere in the Scottish Highlands that the ordinary world simply cannot find. Seventeen-year-old Cora Ellis wasn't supposed to walk straight through those wards, uninvited, on a grey October morning with one bag and a letter she never applied for.But she did. And now she can't leave.Stuck inside a supernatural boarding s...

SHORTLISTED AS A 2025 BRAM STOKER AWARD NOMINEE FOR SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN LONG NON-FICTIONContributions by Katrin Althans, Jayson Althofer, Naomi Simone Borwein, Persephone Braham, Krista Collier-Jarvis, Shane Hawk, Jade Jenkinson, June Scudeler, and Sabrina ZachariasGlobal Indigenous Horror is a collection of essays that positions Indigenous Horror as more than just a genre, but as a narrative space where the spectral and social converge, where ...

Cultural Analysis, Cultural Studies, and the Law is a field-defining collection of work at the intersection of law, cultural analysis and cultural studies. Over the past few decades the marked turn toward claims and policy arguments based on cultural identity—such as ethnicity, race, or religion—has pointed up the urgent need for legal studies to engage cultural critiques. Exploration of legal issues through cultural analyses provides a rich supplement to other approaches—includin...

Aerial combat brings a thrilling new dimension to the Napoleonic Wars as valiant warriors rise to Britain’s defense by taking to the skies . . . not aboard aircraft but atop the mighty backs of fighting dragons.When HMS Reliant captures a French frigate and seizes its precious cargo, an unhatched dragon egg, fate sweeps Capt. Will Laurence from his seafaring life into an uncertain future–and an unexpected kinship with a most extraordinary creature. Thrust into the rarefied...

Temeraire * Book 2When Britain intercepted a French ship and its precious cargo–an unhatched dragon’s egg–Capt. Will Laurence of HMS Reliant unexpectedly became master and commander of the noble dragon he named Temeraire. As new recruits in Britain’s Aerial Corps, man and dragon soon proved their mettle in daring combat against Bonaparte’s invading forces.Now China has discovered that its rare gift, intended for Napoleon, has fallen into British ha...

Temeraire * Book 4Tragedy has struck His Majesty’s Aerial Corps, whose magnificent fleet of fighting dragons and their human captains valiantly defend England’s shores against the encroaching armies of Napoleon Bonaparte. An epidemic of unknown origin and no known cure is decimating the noble dragons’ ranks–forcing the hopelessly stricken into quarantine. Now only Temeraire and a pack of newly recruited dragons remain uninfected–and stand as the only means of an ai...

Temeraire * Book 3After their fateful adventure in China, Capt. Will Laurence of His Majesty’s Aerial Corps and his extraordinary dragon, Temeraire, are waylaid by a mysterious envoy bearing urgent new orders from Britain. Three valuable dragon eggs have been purchased from the Ottoman Empire, and Laurence and Temeraire must detour to Istanbul to escort the precious cargo back to England. Time is of the essence if the eggs are to be borne home before hatching....

Naomi Novik’s triumphant debut, His Majesty’s Dragon, introduced a dynamic new pair of heroes to the annals of fantasy fiction: the noble fighting dragon Temeraire and his master and commander, Capt. Will Laurence. Now in the latest novel, they soar to new heights of breathtaking action and brilliant imagination.It is a grim time for the dragon Temeraire. On the heels of his mission to Africa, seeking the cure for a deadly contagion, he has been removed from military servi...

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From the New York Times bestselling author of A Deadly Education comes the seventh volume of the Temeraire series, as the Napoleonic Wars bring Will Laurence and Temeraire to South America.“An absorbing adventure.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)The French have invaded Spain, forged an alliance with Africa’s powerful Tswana empire, and brought revolution to Brazil. Captain Will Laurence and his indefatigable f...