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The poem of which the following pages offer a prose rendering is contained in a MS., believed to be unique, of the Cottonian Collection, Nero A. X., preserved in the British Museum. The MS. is of the end of the fourteenth century, but it is possible that the composition of the poem is somewhat earlier; the subject matter is certainly of very old date. There has been a considerable divergence of opinion among scholars on the question of authorship, but the view now generally accepted is tha...

Anissa has always known her magic doesn't behave like other witches'.It reroutes. It adapts. It watches.Power moves differently around her—and the institutions meant to govern magic have noticed.When Anissa's abilities draw the attention of forces that prefer order over autonomy, an ancient demon king is called into her orbit. Vaelor does not arrive as a punishment or a warning. He arrives because something in Anissa's magic recognizes him—and someth...

Falcon by day. Girl by night.Eyl has transformed against her will every day for nine years. She and her fellow captives are magically bound to their captor—and the wizard’s mental state is deteriorating. They have nearly given up hope of escape…until the night a stranger arrives at the tower.Natural son of the High Wizard, Fee is bone-tired of war and of being his father’s pet interrogator. When he finds letters to his father offering magical experiments to...

Since he was a boy, Rae Kelthannis has dreamed of being a stormbinder like his father, with an air elemental stitched into the fabric of his soul and the winds of heaven at his command. Those dreams died when his father, through no fault of his own, fell into disgrace and was banned by the justicars of the Iron Council. The family fled to the edge of the Ordered World, to live in fear in the shadow of encroaching Chaos.When Rae defies his father's orders and attempts to stitch an a...

SHADOWBOUNDKingdom Quest Book 5An Allegory of the Book of Job.He was chosen for his loyalty.Now he’ll be tested by betrayal, loss… and silence.A deadly game he never chose to play.Reggie never thought a street magician like him could become a hero. But after catching the eye of the Great King, he rose from orphan to knight—respected, celebrat...

Unbound doesn't mean unbroken. It just means she's got a lot less to lose.After the trauma (and drama) of Beloved's Eve, the witch Affinity Blending would really like a nap—and maybe five minutes to figure out her new gifts without accidentally blowing a hole in the roof. But when a catastrophic run-in with Hell's nastiest ændemon costs her nearly everything and everyone she loves, she's left reeling. And okay, yes—it was pretty much her fault.Now,...

A stunning new chapter of the deathly dark fairy tale begins! From masters of horror Cullen Bunn (Harrow County, The Sixth Gun) and Christopher Mitten (Hellboy and the B.P.R.D), follow two young sisters into a twilight realm haunted by faeries, monsters, and demons in a quest to rescue their parents from an eons-old blood sacrifice . . . Kidnapped by the fae, sisters Sommer and Winter’s parents have disappeared behind the veiled walls of the Autumn Kingdom—mythical borderlands that their f...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts spins a tale that blurs the boundaries between reality and fantasy as a man and woman discover just how deep their bond lies—and how some dreams are meant to be…While on a much-needed vacation in Ireland, world-famous photographer Calin Farrell is bewitched by the ravishingly beautiful Bryna Torrence, even if he refuses to believe in the spell that has brought them together—and could destroy them both...

Welcome to the illogical, idiosyncratic, outrageous linguistic phenomenon known as the English language. The story of how this ragtag collection of words evolved is a winding tale replete with intriguing accidents and bizarre twists of fate. In this eye-opening, fabulously entertaining book, James Essinger unlocks the mysteries that have confounded linguists and scholars for millennia.From the sophisticated writing systems of the ancient Sumerians through the tongue twisters of Mid...

An innocent summer holiday turns out to be anything but for Athene and her younger brother, Zach, when they find themselves caught up in a skirmish between two groups of gnome-like creatures: The Humble Gloam live above ground and get along with humans; the Low Gloam live below ground and despise everyone. But when Zach stumbles into Low Gloam territory, Athene disguises herself to rescue him--and discovers a secret that could bring the two Gloam tribes together--if it doesn't tear them ap...

EPIC FANTASY BY A RISING STAR OF FANTASYSince he was a boy, Rae Kelthannis has dreamed of being a stormbinder like his father, with an air elemental stitched into the fabric of his soul and the winds of heaven at his command. Those dreams died when his father, through no fault of his own, fell into disgrace and was banned by the justicars of the Iron Council. The family fled to the edge of the Ordered World, to live in fear in the shadow of encroaching Chaos.

A Kirkus Reviews Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the year, Blake Charlton's Spellbound is the exciting sequel to the acclaimed epic fantasy debut Spellwright.In a world where one's magical prowess is determined by one's skill with words and ability to spell, Nicodemus is a wizardly apprentice afflicted by a curse that causes him to misspell magical texts. Now, the demon who cursed him has hatched a conspiracy to force Nicodemus to change language...