It’s
everything I loved about Game of Thrones—a sprawling family saga, a web of
intrigue between warring houses, a nation on the brink of revolution, a complex
world where trade and politics are cutthroat—but with wuxia and gangsters.
The first book is laser-focused on the conflict between two warrior clans
fighting for control of the nation of Kekon’s capital city, but the aperture
widens across the series to encompass the major powers (of which Kekon isn’t
one)… and as we spend time with the members of the Kaul family, it’s impossible
not to see how the dynamics of the family and the war feed into one another.
Just excellently crafted fantasy.
'An epic drama reminiscent of the best classic Hong Kong gangster films but set in a fantasy metropolis so gritty and well-imagined that you'll forget you're reading a book' KEN LIU
'Gripping!' ANN LECKIE, author of Ancillary Justice and The Raven Tower
'Lee's astute worldbuilding raises the stakes for her vivid and tautly-described action scenes' SCOTT LYNCH, author of The Lies of Locke Lamora
*****Shortlisted for the Nebula Awards, the Locus Awards, the Aurora Awards, the Sunburst Awards and an Amazon.com Best Book of the Month*****
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Human Target is a man whose specialty is drawing fire for superheroes and
supervillains who fear for their lives, and living through it—but he’s caught
by something he doesn’t see coming, and he’s only got twelve days to live.
Human Target is Tom King right in his wheelhouse: twisty mysteries and
genuinely heartfelt romances, unearthing the buried emotional possibilities of
the superhero comic in a way that’s so different, and much richer, than the
deconstructions that Frank Miller and Alan Moore made trendy.
King also
continues his unbroken streak of working with visual geniuses; Greg Smallwood’s
retro-Americana art style and his versatility with color are a constant joy
through the twelve issues. It’s a small story, but so worth your time.
Christopher Chance has 12 days to solve his own murder! Superstar writer Tom King and acclaimed artist Greg Smallwood team for a new, noir examination of a classic DC character! 2023 Eisner Nominee - Best Limited Series. 2023 Eisner Nominee - Best Writer, Tom King. 2023 Eisner Nominee - Best Penciller/Inker, Greg Smallwood. Christopher Chance has made a living out of being a human target a man hired to disguise himself as his client to invite would-be assassins to attempt his murder. He s had a remarkable career until his latest case protecting Lex Luthor when things go sideways. An…
I’m a sucker for found narratives, for stories told in
annotations, and for ambiguous endings; there was no way I wasn’t loving this
book.
Art Barbara saw some stuff, or thinks he did, when he was a kid. The
stuff involved his friend, who’s drifted in and out of his life over the
decades. He’s written a memoir, and his friend has found it, and… the blurb
says, “she’s making cuts,” but really what she’s doing is adding her own
opinion, or at least her own spin.
Both voices are engaging and distinct, both
in the prose and in the narration by Graham Halstead and Xe Sands. Tremblay’s
novels are all great, but whether it’s because it was my first or his latest, I
liked this one the best.
“Paul Tremblay delivers another mind-bending horror novel . . . The Pallbearers Club is a welcome casket of chills to shoulder.” – Washington Post
A cleverly voiced psychological thriller from the nationally bestselling author of The Cabin at the End of the World and Survivor Song.
What if the coolest girl you’ve ever met decided to be your friend?
Art Barbara was sonot cool. He was a seventeen-year-old high school loner in the late 1980s who listened to hair metal, had to wear a monstrous back-brace at night for his scoliosis, and started an extracurricular club for volunteer pallbearers at…
It’s the eve of the biggest dragon race in Yemareir. Zaya Shearwater and her wife, Kiriki, have spent the year shooting up the rankings, and now they’re favored to win. But how did a team of women from Yemareir’s roughest precincts become the favorites in a sport where most winners buy their victories?
Doctor of Journalism Shenireen Agama wants to know. Through interviews with Zaya, Kiriki, and the ground crew that’s become their family, she begins to weave a story. Its threads are love, desperation, biology, and magic – bound together with the early history of Yemareir, where Zaya and Kiriki’s ancestors fled centuries ago to escape the pogroms of a mad king, and where the colonists resettling the ruins of an ancient city have just discovered that it's home to dragons…
Space fantasy
adventure where the fate of not one but five worlds are at stake!
Lovable
outcast kid heroes, an insidious villain who grows in power over the series, a
pyrotechnic showdown in book 5! Beautiful, color-drenched comic art that evokes
Moebius and She-Ra! What self-respecting kid could say no?
R. J. Palacio, #1 New York Times bestselling author of WONDER, hails this adventure series as “Mind-blowingly beautiful. . . . A must-read.”
Think Star Wars meets Avatar: The Last Airbender!
The Five Worlds are on the brink of extinction unless five ancient and mysterious beacons are lit. When war erupts, three unlikely heroes will discover there’s more to themselves—and more to their worlds—than meets the eye. . . .
• Oona Lee, the clumsiest student at the Sand Dancer Academy, is a fighter with a destiny bigger than she could ever imagine.
Imagine you’re 10
and you’ve already memorized the attacks, evolutions, and imperial and metric
weights of Pokemon from every region. You’ve watched the D&D movie and
realized there’s a whole world of owlbears, displacer beasts, and gelatinous
cubes out there… and you don’t have the vital statistics for any of them.
Thankfully, Wizards of the Coast has got you covered. (Parent warning: Be
prepared to do things like “explain how to calculate the area of a cone of
fire,” “argue over whether a lich or a demilich should really have a higher
challenge rating,” and “run a D&D campaign.”)
My 12-year-old is
not super free with her opinions, but I read this book and we did talk a lot
about it.
This is a book whose form and components are a fairy tale’s, but
although it stays true to its fairy tale nature, it goes to some very
contemporary places: To the seductions of simple answers, to parents’
best-intentioned misuses of their power over children, to a person’s right to
make their family in the way they want and need. I think she knows enough to
see how those themes connect with the world around her.
(Of course, it doesn’t
hurt that the heroine is a magical girl whose name sounds a lot like hers, or
that she’s friends with a cute little dragon.)
THE NO 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND NEWBERY MEDAL WINNER
'This beautifully written, darkly funny coming-of-age story will enchant and entertain' Daily Mail
Every year, the people of the Protectorate leave a baby as an offering to the witch who lives in the forest. They hope this sacrifice will keep her from terrorizing their town. But the witch in the Forest, Xan, is in fact a good witch who shares her home with a wise Swamp Monster and a Perfectly Tiny Dragon. Xan rescues the children and delivers them to welcoming families on the other side of the forest,…
