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The Wings That Bind (deluxe Edition) [Bok / Inbunden]

<strong>"Brilliant new vampire lore.... Spine-tingling!"<br/>-L.J. Smith, #1 <em>New York Times </em>bestselling author of </strong><em><strong>The Vampire Diaries</strong></em><br/><br/><strong>Preorder now to get a deluxe limited edition of <em>Hollow</em>! This special-edition hardcover will include beautifully designed endpapers and sprayed edges, a gorgeous foiled cover, and a brand-new author's note.</strong><br/><br/><strong>From TikTok sensation Celina Myers comes a fresh, intriguing novel about a woman who finds her destiny and her family after being turned into a vampire.</strong><br/><br/>Mia Adair isn't even twenty-five yet, but she's starting to wonder if her peak has already passed. She's spent years working at her local bookstore, a job that was supposed to be temporary. As a kid, she experienced a strange sort of fame within the paranormal community thanks to her inclusion in a book that revealed Mia's ability to talk with the dead. But that was then, and Mia's "gift" dried up once adolescence set in. These days, she feels like she's nobody special.<br/><br/>Until she dies in a tragic car crash and reawakens as a vampire...<br/><br/>Forced to leave behind everything she knew, Mia must choose to live with one of two rival vampire families. The Bellamy and Sutton clans share a dark, complicated history that spans centuries. As Mia learns about their age-old traditions and extraordinary powers, along with their forbidden romances and betrayals, she's drawn toward two very different loves. And as she feels her gift returning, more potent than ever before, Mia realizes she'll need it to protect innocent lives-and save the only family she has left.

<b>The essential activity book for fans who can't get enough of KPop Demon Hunters.</b><br/><br/>Dance your way into the Huntr/x fandom with <i>The Unofficial KPop Demon Hunters Activity Book</i>! You'll find plenty of supernatural fun in sketching stage outfits worthy of a demon slayer, thinking up new storylines for the sequel, searching for favourite lyrics, testing your knowledge of key moments from the movie and more.<br/><br/>Whether you're obsessed with the fierce demon battles, the heartfelt friendships, or the magical K-pop musical moments, <i>The Unofficial KPop Demon Hunters Activity Book</i> lets you doodle, write, solve and dream your way deeper into the story that's captured imaginations worldwide.<br/><br/>Packed with:<ul><li><b>Quizzes</b></li><li><b>Puzzles</b></li><li><b>Drawing prompts</b></li><li><b>Trivia</b></li><li><br/><br/><b>Space to journal</b><br/><br/><b>AND LOTS MORE!</b></li></ul>

<b>'Fabulous... What a ghost story! A ripping read.' IAIN SINCLAIR, author of <i>London Orbital</i></b><br/><br/><b>'Vividly celebrates Bowie as not just a chameleonic visionary, but a nomadic one, a creature informed by place and circumstance.' STUART MACONIE</b><br/><b><br/><i>'Bowieland </i>will make you want to take your very own pilgrimage, accompanied by the great man's songs.' ALEXANDER LARMAN, <i>THE OBSERVER</i></b><br/><b><br/>'A sublime, time-travelling quest.' TIFFANY MURRAY, author of <i>My Family and Other Rock Stars</i></b><br/><b><br/>'A joyful and fascinating journey which anchors Bowie's genius in the pavements.' KEVIN LOADER, producer of <i>The Buddha of Suburbia<br/><br/></i></b><b>BOWIE IS STILL OUT THERE...</b><br/><br/>Following open heart surgery, Peter Carpenter was given one instruction - walk if you want to stay alive. So, when his hero died in 2016, he knew what he had to do. The figure who was to so many a companion and guide had left no single focal point for homage. To reconnect with him, Carpenter would take a walk into the past, to the places where David Jones became something more: David Bowie.<br/><br/>Leaving behind well-known shrines to Bowie, he journeyed through South London edgelands to obscurer haunts. Carpenter's quest, a series of happy accidents and chance meetings, took him to Bickley as well as Berlin and Brixton, to Eel Pie Island as well as Heddon Street and Beckenham.<br/><br/>Carpenter's perambulations echo Bowie's own wandering creative spirit. They reveal multiple influences, both conscious and unconscious, in Bowie's creative development. Ultimately, Carpenter reaches a fresh understanding of where Bowie sits in the culture, not as an outlier, but as part of a tradition, informed by those artists, poets and musicians who passed on their wisdom to him. A celebration of the revelatory powers of walking, and by no means just for Bowie obsessives, BOWIELAND opens up our geography in ways rarely seen or so well understood.

During the latter part of the nineteenth century, so-called esoteric movements became increasingly popular in cultural and intellectual circles in Europe, not least in Sweden. Secret teachings, rituals and practices in alchemy, astrology, occultism and theosophy were predominant, with a belief in correspondences in the cosmos, living nature and transmutations. But esotericism goes back much further in time in Swedish history. Although such esoteric ideas were long considered heresy by the Church and thus driven underground, they have had a significant impact on Swedish culture.<br/><br/>In this anthology, we bring together some of Sweden s foremost experts on the subject to explore the history of esotericism in Sweden and how its rituals, practices and traditions came to influence writers and artists such as August Strindberg, Selma Lagerlöf, Viktor Rydberg, Hilma af Klint, Tyra Kleen and Carl Milles.

<strong>This special edition of<em> Empire of the Damned</em> includes full-colour illustrations by Bon Orthwick, a stunning new cover design, and head and tail bands.</strong> 'Bloody brilliant' V.E. Schwab 'A ripping read' Joe Abercrombie <br/><br/>Gabriel de Leon has saved the Holy Grail from death, but his chance to end the endless night is lost. <br/><br/>After turning his back on his silversaint brothers once and for all, Gabriel and the Grail set out to learn the truth of how Daysdeath might finally be undone. <br/><br/>But the last silversaint faces peril, within and without. Pursued by children of the Forever King, drawn into wars and webs centuries in the weaving, and ravaged by his own rising bloodlust, Gabriel may not survive to see the truth of the Grail revealed. <br/><br/>A truth that may be too awful for any to imagine.

You have to take life for granted, the artist thinks, the whole thing: sunrises and slow Sunday mornings and water balloons and another person&rsquo;s breath against your neck. That&rsquo;s the only courageous thing a person can do. In the corner of one of the most famous paintings in the world three tiny figures sit at the end of a pier. Most people don&rsquo;t even notice them. Most people think it&rsquo;s just a depiction of the sea. But Louisa, an aspiring artist herself, knows otherwise. Twenty-five years earlier, in a distant seaside town, a group of teenagers seek refuge from their bruising home lives by spending long summer days together. They tell jokes, they share secrets, and they commit small acts of rebellion. These lost souls find in each other a reason to get up each morning, a reason to dream, a reason to love. Out of that summer emerges a transcendent work of art, a painting that will unexpectedly be placed into 18-year-old Louisa&rsquo;s care. Determined to learn how it came to be and to decide what to do with it, Louisa embarks on a cross-country journey. But the closer she gets to the painting&rsquo;s birthplace, the more nervous she becomes. In this stunning testament to the transformative, timeless power of friendship and art, Louisa is proof that happy endings don&rsquo;t always take the form we expect.