The emperor's reign has lasted for decades, his mastery of bone shard magic powering the animal-like constructs that maintain law and order. But now his rule is failing, and revolution is sweeping across the Empire's many islands. Lin is the emperor's daughter and spends her days trapped in a palace of locked doors and dark secrets. When her father refuses to recognise her as heir to the throne, she vows to prove her worth by mastering the forbidden art of bone shard magic. Yet such power carries a great cost, and when the revolution reaches the gates of the palace, Lin must decide how far she is willing to go to claim her birthright - and save her people.

Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a perfectly normal boy. Well, he would be perfectly normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the world of the dead. There are dangers and adventures for Bod in the graveyard: the strange and terrible menace of the Sleer; a gravestone entrance to a desert that leads to the city of ghouls; friendship with a witch, and so much more. But it is in the land of the living that real danger lurks, for it is there that the man Jack lives and he has already killed Bod's family. A deliciously dark masterwork by bestselling author Neil Gaiman, with illustrations by award-winning Dave McKean.

The world is ablaze with great deeds and incredible people. The King of Duels battle with the King of Destruction is still ringing across the continent of Chandrar, but more adventures are taking place at sea with Niers' students, and on Izril's shores. The Horns have arrived in Invrisil at last, and they will soon find out that Gold-rankers they might be, but that doesn't guarantee instantaneous respect from other high-level teams. However, a certain [Lady] has also begun her final journey...once again, attention and excitement swings back to The Wandering Inn thanks to a certain magic door! It is a time of fire and men with hats and fantastic moments--and dark ones too, sometimes. However, even the meagerest spark can turn into a roaring flame. Book 17 of The Wandering Inn contains raiders, assassins, magical flames, hats, and...football? Or is it soccer?

The world is ablaze with great deeds and incredible people. The King of Duels battle with the King of Destruction is still ringing across the continent of Chandrar, but more adventures are taking place at sea with Niers' students, and on Izril's shores. The Horns have arrived in Invrisil at last, and they will soon find out that Gold-rankers they might be, but that doesn't guarantee instantaneous respect from other high-level teams. However, a certain [Lady] has also begun her final journey...once again, attention and excitement swings back to The Wandering Inn thanks to a certain magic door! It is a time of fire and men with hats and fantastic moments--and dark ones too, sometimes. However, even the meagerest spark can turn into a roaring flame. Book 17 of The Wandering Inn contains raiders, assassins, magical flames, hats, and...football? Or is it soccer?

Professional heroes kill and loot deadly monsters every day, but Gorm Ingerson's latest quest will be anything but business as usual. Making a Killing in Professional Heroics The adventuring industry drives the economy of Arth, a world much like our own but with more magic and fewer vowels. Monsters’ hoards are claimed, bought by corporate interests, and sold off to plunder funds long before the beasts are slain. Once the contracts and paperwork are settled, the Heroes’ Guild issues a quest to kill the monster and bring back its treasure for disbursement to shareholders. Life in The Shadows Of course, while professional heroics has been a great boon for Humans, Elves, Dwarves, and all the other peoples of light, it's a terrible arrangement for the Shadowkin. Orcs, Goblins, Kobolds, and their ilk must apply for to become Noncombatant Paper Carriers (or NPCs) to avoid being killed and looted by guild heroes. Even after getting their papers, NPCs are treated as second class citizens, driven into the margins of society. An Insane Quest Gorm Ingerson, a Dwarven ex-hero with a checkered past, has no idea what he's getting himself into when he stands up for an undocumented Goblin. His act of kindness starts a series of events that ends with Gorm recruited by a prophet of the mad goddess Al'Matra to fulfill a prophecy so crazy that even the Al'Matran temple doesn't believe it. Money, Magic, and Mayhem But there’s more to Gorm’s new job than an insane prophecy: powerful corporations and governments, usually indifferent to the affairs of the derelict Al’Matran temple, have shown an unusual interest in the quest. If his party of eccentric misfits can stop fighting each other long enough to recover the Elven Marbles, Gorm might be able to turn a bad deal into a golden opportunity and win back the fame and fortune he lost so long ago.