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A Vow In Vengeance [Bok / Inbunden]

<b>THE INSTANT NO. 1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING PHENOMENON. OVER 5 MILLION COPIES SOLD, NOW AVALABLE AS A STUNNING, ULTRA DELUXE HARDBACK EDITION</b><br/><br/><b>This highly collectible edition features a special foiled cover, foiled endpapers, digital sprayed edges, plate section with colour fan artwork from 5 different artists, exclusive letter from Lauren Roberts and a digital signature.</b><br/><br/><br/><i><b>Fourth Wing</b></i><b> meets </b><i><b>The Hunger Games</b></i><b> in this sizzling fantasy romance not to be missed.</b><br/><br/>Only the extraordinary belong in the kingdom of <b>Ilya</b> . . . The exceptional. <b>The Elites</b>. The Elites have possessed powers for decades, gifted to them by the <b>Plague</b>, while those born <b>Ordinary</b> are just that, banished from the kingdom and shunned from society.<br/><br/>No one knows this better than <b>Paedyn Gray</b>, an <b>Ordinary</b> posing as an Elite. When she unsuspectingly saves one of Ilya's princes, <b>Kai Azer</b>, she's thrown into the <b>Purging Trials</b>, a brutal competition to showcase her 'Elite' powers.<br/><br/>If the Trials and the opponents don't kill her, the prince she's fighting feelings for will if he discovers what Paedyn really is . . . completely Ordinary.<br/><br/><b>Be swept away by the first in the smash hit, </b><i><b>dagger-to-the-throat</b></i><b> romantasy trilogy that's taken the world by storm. </b><br/><br/><br/><b>Also Available: </b><i><b>Reckless, Powerful, Fearless </b></i><b>and</b><i><b> Fearful.</b></i><br/><br/><b>Follow Lauren Roberts on TikTok and Instagram @LaurenRobertsLibrary</b><br/><br/><i>*Powerless was UK YA number 1 on TCM w/e 1st June 2024</i><br/><br/><b>Praise for the </b><i><b>Powerless</b></i><b> series: </b><br/><b>'Nothing short of epic' Rosie Talbot, bestselling author of </b><i><b>Sixteen Souls</b></i><br/><b>'A thrilling fantasy with the most delicious slow-burn romance' M.A. Kuzniar, bestselling author of </b><i><b>Midnight in Everwood</b></i><br/><b>'[A] titillating debut' </b><i><b>Publishers Weekly</b></i><br/><b>'A masterpiece' </b><i><b>Goodreads Reader Review</b></i><br/><b>'Everyone needs to read it' </b><i><b>TikTok Review</b></i><br/><b>'The BEST book I've read' </b><i><b>NetGalley Reader Review</b></i><br/><b>'A sizzling slice of fantasy romance' </b><i><b>Booksellers Review</b></i>

The Bond That Burns (deluxe Limited Edition) [Bok / Inbunden]

An omnibus edition of books 1-3 in China's best-selling apocalyptic space opera trilogy, comprising The Three-Body Problem, The Dark Forest and Death's End. The trilogy weaves a web of physics, philosophy and history, taking the reader from the Cultural Revolution to the heat death of the universe.

For the first time, "The Book of the Law" is offered in a deluxe, hardcover edition fittingly issued in celebration of the hundredth anniversary of the holy text.

In the ballrooms and drawing rooms of Regency London, rules abound. From their earliest days, children of aristocrats learn how to address an earl and curtsey before a prince--while other dictates of the ton are unspoken yet universally understood. A proper duke should be imperious and aloof. A young, marriageable lady should be amiable...but not too amiable.<br/><br/>Daphne Bridgerton has always failed at the latter. The fourth of eight siblings in her close-knit family, she has formed friendships with the most eligible young men in London. Everyone likes Daphne for her kindness and wit. But no one truly desires her. She is simply too deuced honest for that, too unwilling to play the romantic games that captivate gentlemen.<br/><br/>Amiability is not a characteristic shared by Simon Basset, Duke of Hastings. Recently returned to England from abroad, he intends to shun both marriage and society--just as his callous father shunned Simon throughout his painful childhood. Yet an encounter with his best friend's sister offers another option. If Daphne agrees to a fake courtship, Simon can deter the mamas who parade their daughters before him. Daphne, meanwhile, will see her prospects and her reputation soar.<br/><br/>The plan works like a charm--at first. But amid the glittering, gossipy, cut-throat world of London's elite, there is only one certainty: love ignores every rule...<br/><br/>This novel includes the second epilogue, a peek at the story after the story.

In the Tale of The Fall of Gondolin are two of the greatest powers in the world. There is Morgoth of the uttermost evil, unseen in this story but ruling over a vast military power from his fortress of Angband. Deeply opposed to Morgoth is Ulmo, second in might only to Manwe, chief of the Valar. Central to this enmity of the gods is the city of Gondolin, beautiful but undiscoverable. It was built and peopled by Noldorin Elves who, when they dwelt in Valinor, the land of the gods, rebelled against their rule and fled to Middle-earth. Turgon King of Gondolin is hated and feared above all his enemies by Morgoth, who seeks in vain to discover the marvellously hidden city, while the gods in Valinor in heated debate largely refuse to intervene in support of Ulmo&apos;s desires and designs. Into this world comes Tuor, cousin of Turin, the instrument of Ulmo&apos;s designs. Guided unseen by him Tuor sets out from the land of his birth on the fearful journey to Gondolin, and in one of the most arresting moments in the history of Middle-earth the sea-god himself appears to him, rising out of the ocean in the midst of a storm. In Gondolin he becomes great; he is wedded to Idril, Turgon&apos;s daughter, and their son is Earendel, whose birth and profound importance in days to come is foreseen by Ulmo. At last comes the terrible ending. Morgoth learns through an act of supreme treachery all that he needs to mount a devastating attack on the city, with Balrogs and dragons and numberless Orcs. After a minutely observed account of the fall of Gondolin, the tale ends with the escape of Turin and Idril, with the child Earendel, looking back from a cleft in the mountains as they flee southward, at the blazing wreckage of their city. They were journeying into a new story, the Tale of Earendel, which Tolkien never wrote, but which is sketched out in this book from other sources. Following his presentation of Beren and Luthien Christopher Tolkien has used the same &apos;history in sequence&apos; mode in the writing of this edition of The Fall of Gondolin. In the words of J.R.R. Tolkien, it was `the first real story of this imaginary world&apos; and, together with Beren and Luthien and The Children of Hurin, he regarded it as one of the three &apos;Great Tales&apos; of the Elder Days.