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A year ago, the March Kingdoms were at peace, the Eddon family held the throne, and all was right in Southmarch Castle Now the family has been shattered King Olin Eddon is a prisoner and his heir is slain The royal twins Barrick and Briony have done their best to hold the kingdom together, but now Barrick has been captured and Briony has been forced to flee the castle...

Where does an angel go when he's been to Hell and back? Renegade angel Bobby Dollar does not have an easy afterlife. After surviving the myriad gruesome dangers Hell oh-so-kindly offered him, Bobby has returned empty-handed - his demon girlfriend Casmira, the Countess of Cold Hands, is still in the clutches of Eligor, Grand Duke of Hell. Some hell of a rescue. Forced to admit his failure, Bobby ends up back at his job as an angel advocate. That is, until Walter, an old angel friend whom Bobby never thought he'd see again, shows up at the local bar. The last time he saw Walter was in Hell, when Walter had tried to warn him about one of Bobby's angel superiors. But now Walter can't remember anything, and Bobby doesn't know whom to trust. Turns out that there's corruption hidden within the higher ranks of Heaven and Hell, but the only proof Bobby has is a single feather. Before he knows it, he's in the High Hall of Heavenly Judgement - no longer a bastion for the moral high ground, if it ever was, but instead just another rigged system - on trial for his immortal soul... "Sleeping Late on Judgement Day" is the third installment of Tad Williams' urban fantasy Bobby Dollar series!

Where does an angel go when he''s been to Hell and back? Renegade angel Bobby Dollar does not have an easy afterlife. After surviving the myriad gruesome dangers Hell oh-so-kindly offered him, Bobby has returned empty-handed his demon girlfriend Casmira, the Countess of Cold Hands, is still in the clutches of Eligor, Grand Duke of Hell. Some hell of a rescue. Forced to admit his failure, Bobby ends up back at his job as an angel advocate. That is, until Walter, an old angel friend whom Bobby never thought he d see again, shows up at the local bar. The last time he saw Walter was in Hell, when Walter had tried to warn him about one of Bobby s angel superiors. But now Walter can t remember anything, and Bobby doesn t know whom to trust. Turns out that there''s corruption hidden within the higher ranks of Heaven and Hell, but the only proof Bobby has is a single feather. Before he knows it, he s in the High Hall of Heavenly Judgement no longer a bastion for the moral high ground, if it ever was, but instead just another rigged system on trial for his immortal soul... "Sleeping Late on Judgement Day" is the third installment of Tad Williams'' urban fantasy Bobby Dollar series!"

At the end of Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, Ineluki the Storm King, an undead spirit of horrifying, demonic power, came within moments of stopping Time itself and obliterating humankind. He was defeated by a coalition of mortal men and women joined by his own deathless descendants, the Sithi.In the wake of the Storm Kings fall, Inelukis loyal minions, the Norns, dark cousins to the Sithi, choose to flee the lands of men and retreat north to Nakkiga, their ancient citadel within the hollow heart of the mountain called Stormspike. But as the defeated Norns make their way to this last haven, the mortal Rimmersman Duke Isgrimnur leads an army in pursuit, determined to end the Norns attacks and defeat their ageless Queen Utukku for all time.Two southern soldiers, Porto and Endri, joined the mortal army to help achieve this ambitious goalthough as they venture farther and farther into the frozen north, braving the fierce resistance and deadly magics of the retreating Norns, they cannot help but wonder what they are doing so very far from home. Meanwhile, the Norns must now confront the prospect of extinction at the hands of Isgrimnur and his mortal army.Viyeki, a leader of the Norns military engineers, the Order of Builders, desperately seeks a way to help his people reach their mountainand then stave off the destruction of their race. For the two armies will finally clash in a battle to be remembered as the Siege of Nakkiga; a battle so strange and deadly, so wracked with dark enchantment, that it threatens to destroy not just one side but quite possibly all.Trapped inside the mountain as the mortals batter at Nakkigas gates, Viyeki the Builder will discover disturbing secrets about his own people, mysteries both present and past, represented by the priceless gem known as The Heart of What Was Lost.

Set in Williams' New York Times bestselling fantasy world, the second book of The Last King of Osten Ard returns to the trials of King Simon and Queen Miriamele as threats to their kingdom loom . . . The kingdoms of Osten Ard have been at peace for decades, but now, the threat of a new war grows to nightmarish proportions. Simon and Miriamele, royal husband and wife, face danger from every side. Their allies in Hernystir have made a pact with the dreadful Queen of the Norns to allow her armies to cross into mortal lands. The ancient, powerful nation of Nabban is on the verge of bloody civil war, and the fierce nomads of the Thrithings grasslands have begun to mobilize, united by superstitious fervor and their age-old hatred of the city-dwellers. But as the countries and peoples of the High Ward bicker among themselves, battle, bloodshed, and dark magics threaten to pull civilizations to pieces. And over it all looms the mystery of the Witchwood Crown, the deadly puzzle that Simon, Miriamele, and their allies must solve if they wish to survive. But as the kingdoms of Osten Ard are torn apart by fear and greed, a few individuals will fight for their own lives and destinies-not yet aware that the survival of everything depends on them. Praise for Tad Williams 'One of my favourite fantasy series' - George R. R. Martin, author of A Game of Thrones 'Ground-breaking . . . changed how people thought of the genre and paved the way for so much modern fantasy, including mine' - Patrick Rothfuss, author of The Kingkiller Chronicle 'One of the main reasons I started writing fantasy . . . Tad Williams' work is an essential part of any science fiction and fantasy library' - Christopher Paolini, author of the Inheritance Cycle series

Darkness has fallen on the lands of the sun as an army of misshapen fey spill out from beyond the Shadowline. At their head is Yasammez, dark creature of nightmare. A furtive bargain was struck at the gates of Southmarch and the castle was spared, but centuries of enmity will not be so easily appeased. Meanwhile Barrick, heir to Southmarch and cursed with madness, has crossed the Shadowline into the realm of his people's ancient enemy. There are stranger things than death here ? stranger and older. Much further south, shadow is also falling over the reign of the Autarch, god-king, and supreme ruler. Quinnitan, junior wife, must flee the royal household or die, her greatest secret as yet hidden even from herself. Ancient blood flows through her veins and she will become a unique weapon in the fight against her greatest terror. And beyond the ken of all but a chosen few, the gods are awakening and the world is changing

Darkness has fallen on the lands of the sun as an army of misshapen fey spill out from beyond the Shadowline. At their head is Yasammez, dark creature of nightmare. A furtive bargain was struck at the gates of Southmarch and the castle was spared, but centuries of enmity will not be so easily appeased. Meanwhile Barrick, heir to Southmarch and cursed with madness, has crossed the Shadowline into the realm of his people's ancient enemy. There are stranger things than death here ? stranger and older. Much further south, shadow is also falling over the reign of the Autarch, god-king, and supreme ruler. Quinnitan, junior wife, must flee the royal household or die, her greatest secret as yet hidden even from herself. Ancient blood flows through her veins and she will become a unique weapon in the fight against her greatest terror. And beyond the ken of all but a chosen few, the gods are awakening and the world is changing

Los ghants son una especie de homínidos quitinosos que habitan en los marjales del Wran. En su laberíntico nido deben adentrarse Miriamele y sus compañeros para luego dirigirse hacia la Roca del Adiós, donde les aguarda Josua con los cada vez mas escasos mienbros de la Liga del Pergamino.

A masterpiece of the imagination, THE WAR OF THE FLOWERS is a truly epic novel that once again pushes the boundaries of fantasy fiction into new and unexplored territory. In the great city, in the dimly lit office of an impossibly tall building, two creatures meet. Gold changes hands, and the master of the House of Hellebore gives an order: ''War is coming. The child must die.'' In our own world, a young man discovers a manuscript written by his great uncle. It seems to be a novel - a strange fairytale of fantastic creatures and magical realms. But it is written as a diary ...as if the events were real ...as if his uncle had journeyed to another world. For the young man, the fantasy is about to become reality.

Esta historia comienza cuando una gran guerra, alimentada por los oscuros poderes de la brujería, está a punto de estallar en la pacífica tierra de Osten Ard, después de la muerte del Rey Supremo que había aniquilado al terrorífico dragón Shurakai. Sólo un pequeño grupo, la Liga del Pergamino, puede intentar salvar el reino mediante la búsqueda de tres espadas de poder, perdidas hacía mucho tiempo, y que lo enfrentará a enemigos salidos de las peores pesadillas de los creadores de leyendas.

El reducido grupo de aventureros que consiguió introducirse en el universo virtual, conocido como Otherland, se ve atrapado en sus múltiples mundos, incapaz de regresar a la realidad. Pero, además, la Hermandad del Santo Grial, creadora y dueña de Otherlan, ha enviado a su mejor asesino para asegurarse de que ninguno de los invasores viva lo suficiente para revelar al mundo la verdad sobre este universo virtual. En la segunda parte de Rio de fuego azul, continuan las aventuras del reducido grupo de aventureros que consiguio introducirse en el universo virtual de Otherland. Rennie sigue buscando a su hermano desaparecido, acompañada por Xabbu, y Paul parece destinado a ocupar el papel de Ulises en una Odisea muy particular. Mientras, el ente conocido como Set, uno de los seres mas terribles de este universo virtual, sigue acechando y buscando la perdicion de los protagonistas.

Corren tiempos de oscuridad para el reino de Osten Ard a causa de la magia maligna y de los crueles aliados de Ineluki, Rey de las Tormentas. El en otro tiempo orgulloso ejército de los humanos, ahora diezmado, emprende la busqueda del ultimo santuario: la Roca del Adios. Mientras el principe Josua trata de reunir a sus desperdigadas fuerzas, Simon y los supervivientes de la Liga del Pergamino luchan por cumplir misiones que los conduciran desde las ciudadelas derrotadas de los humanos hasta la tierra secreta de los sitha para descubrir la verdad tras una leyenda casi olvidada.