From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a historical fantasy epic that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British Empire Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. 1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. There, he trains for years in Latin, Ancient Greek, and Chinese, all in preparation for the day he’ll enroll in Oxford University’s prestigious Royal Institute of Translation—also known as Babel. The tower and its students are the world's center for translation and, more importantly, magic. Silver-working—the art of manifesting the meaning lost in translation using enchanted silver bars—has made the British unparalleled in power, as the arcane craft serves the Empire's quest for colonization. For Robin, Oxford is a utopia dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge. But knowledge obeys power, and as a Chinese boy raised in Britain, Robin realizes serving Babel means betraying his motherland. As his studies progress, Robin finds himself caught between Babel and the shadowy Hermes Society, an organization dedicated to stopping imperial expansion. When Britain pursues an unjust war with China over silver and opium, Robin must decide . . . Can powerful institutions be changed from within, or does revolution always require violence?

Do not touch the sword.Do not turn the key.Do not open the gate.In the land of the unforgiving desert, there isn’t much a girl wouldn’t do for a glass of water.Twenty-four-year-old Saeris Fane is good at keeping secrets. No one knows about the strange powers she possesses, or the fact that she has been picking pockets and stealing from the Undying Queen’s reservoirs for as long as she can remember.But a secret is like a knot.Sooner or later, it is bound to come undone.When Saeris comes face-to-face with Death himself, she inadvertently reopens a gateway between realms and is transported to a land of ice and snow. The Fae have always been the stuff of myth, of legend, of nightmares…but it turns out they’re real, and Saeris has landed herself right in the middle of a centuries-long conflict that might just get her killed.The first of her kind to tread the frozen mountains of Yvelia in over a thousand years, Saeris mistakenly binds herself to Kingfisher, a handsome Fae warrior, who has secrets and nefarious agendas of his own. He will use her Alchemist’s magic to protect his people, no matter what it costs him… or her.Death has a name.It is Kingfisher of the Ajun Gate.His past is murky.His attitude stinks.And he’s the only way Saeris is going to make it home. Be careful of the deals you make, dear child.The devil is in the details...N.B. Quicksilver contains depictions of graphic violence/adult situations and is therefore recommended for readers 17+. For a full list of tropes and TWs, please visit the author's website.

As the day dawns on the fiftieth annual Hunger Games, fear grips the districts of Panem. This year, in honor of the Quarter Quell, twice as many tributes will be taken from their homes. Back in District 12, Haymitch Abernathy is trying not to think too hard about his chances. All he cares about is making it through the day and being with the girl he loves. When Haymitch’s name is called, he can feel all his dreams break. He’s torn from his family and his love, shuttled to the Capitol with the three other District 12 tributes: a young friend who’s nearly a sister to him, a compulsive oddsmaker, and the most stuck-up girl in town. As the Games begin, Haymitch understands he’s been set up to fail. But there’s something in him that wants to fight . . . and have that fight reverberate far beyond the deadly arena.

Tra maestosi draghi e sirene incantatrici, lezioni di storia antica e furiosi duelli, colpi di scena imprevisti e un appassionante slow burn, Giulia Modugno esordisce con un romantasy capace di unire l’adrenalina dei più originali mondi magici alla tensione delle storie d’amore più bollenti. Nailyn, rimasta orfana, ha trovato in Jak la sua unica famiglia. I due, soli al mondo, gironzolano per le strade dei bassifondi di Vartadis vivendo di furti ed espedienti. La loro temerarietà, però, li mette presto in pericolo: quando sottraggono un candelabro d’oro dalla casa di un ricco mercante, diventano subito dei ricercati. Tra depistaggi, inseguimenti e la fuga a bordo di un veliero di pirati, avrà inizio un’avventura rocambolesca che condurrà Nailyn alla scoperta della sua identità: perché i suoi occhi rossi destano tanti sospetti? È davvero lei la famosa Discendente del Ladro, colui che ha rubato le tre Spade in cui sarebbe racchiusa tutta la magia del mondo, adesso costretta in un sonno senza fine? Oltre a scegliere da che parte combattere nella lotta eterna tra luce e oscurità, Nailyn dovrà scendere a patti con i suoi sentimenti, divisi fra lo sbocciare di emozioni impreviste con l’amico fraterno Jak e la pericolosa attrazione che suscita in lei Reywind, giovane e conturbante esperto di combattimento dai fini ambigui.

Long ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister forces are massing beyond the kingdom’s protective Wall. To the south, the king’s powers are failing—his most trusted adviser dead under mysterious circumstances and his enemies emerging from the shadows of the throne. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the frozen land they were born to. Now Lord Eddard Stark is reluctantly summoned to serve as the king’s new Hand, an appointment that threatens to sunder not only his family but the kingdom itself.Sweeping from a harsh land of cold to a summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, A Game of Thrones tells a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim omens. Here an enigmatic band of warriors bear swords of no human metal; a tribe of fierce wildlings carry men off into madness; a cruel young dragon prince barters his sister to win back his throne; a child is lost in the twilight between life and death; and a determined woman undertakes a treacherous journey to protect all she holds dear. Amid plots and counter-plots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, allies and enemies, the fate of the Starks hangs perilously in the balance, as each side endeavors to win that deadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones.

Stella Bloom sa bene che non basta servire tazze di cioccolata calda fumante e accendere lucine scintillanti per salvare dal fallimento la sua piccola fattoria di alberi di Natale. Così, decide di partecipare al contest indetto dalla famosa influencer Evelyn St. James. Oltre alla visibilità e alla pubblicità gratuita, in palio ci sono ben centomila dollari, che potrebbero risanare le malridotte finanze della Lovelight Farm. C’è solo un problema: nel tentativo di far sembrare la fattoria una meta romantica perfetta per le vacanze di Natale e assicurarsi così il primo premio, Stella ha falsificato la domanda di partecipazione, dichiarando di gestirla con il fidanzato… che però non esiste. L’unica speranza, per lei, è il suo migliore amico Luka, che fortunatamente non sembra avere alcun problema a prestarsi al gioco. In fondo, si tratta di fingere soltanto per il periodo delle feste. Niente di troppo difficile. Riusciranno a interpretare una deliziosa coppia di innamorati senza rovinare la loro splendida amicizia? Questo Natale, per Stella, la posta in gioco potrebbe essere ben più alta dei soldi in palio.