Nico had warned them. Going through the House of Hades would stir the demigods' worst memories. Their ghosts would become restless. Nico may actually become a ghost if he has to shadow-travel with Reyna and Coach Hedge one more time. But that might be better than the alternative: allowing someone else to die, as Hades foretold. Jason's ghost is his mother, who abandoned him when he was little. He may not know how he is going to prove himself as a leader, but he does know that he will not break promises like she did. He will complete his line of the prophecy: To storm or fire the world must fall. Reyna fears the ghosts of her ancestors, who radiate anger. But she can't allow them to distract her from getting the Athena Parthenos to Camp Half-Blood before war breaks out between the Romans and Greeks. Will she have enough strength to succeed, especially with a deadly hunter on her trail? Leo fears that his plan won't work, that his friends might interfere. But there is no other way. All of them know that one of the Seven has to die in order to defeat Gaea, the Earth Mother. Piper must learn to give herself over to fear. Only then will she be able to do her part at the end: utter a single word. Heroes, gods, and monsters all have a role to play in the climactic fulfillment of the prophecy in The Blood of Olympus, the electrifying finale of the best-selling Heroes of Olympus series.

An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney. Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common. Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties—successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women—his enduring first love, Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke. Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined. For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude—a period of desire, despair, and possibility; a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.

Tutto accade in una notte, la Vigilia di Natale. In una lussuosa clinica psichiatrica fuori Berlino, mentre la neve scende copiosa rendendo il luogo ancora più isolato, medici e pazienti si rendono conto con orrore che il maniaco che da tempo terrorizza la città, il cosiddetto "Ladro di anime", si trova all'interno della struttura. Di lui si conoscono soltanto i tremendi effetti provocati da un misterioso trattamento in grado di spezzare la volontà delle sue vittime, riducendole a meri involucri umani, e gli ambigui indovinelli che lascia dietro di sé come macabra firma. L'unica via di salvezza sarà affrontarlo tutti insieme: ma il piccolo gruppo, guidato da Caspar, ricoverato in seguito a un'inspiegabile amnesia che ha cancellato completamente il suo passato, si troverà a far fronte a qualcosa di assolutamente inaspettato e terribile. Mentre il tempo scorre inesorabile nel tentativo di neutralizzare il Ladro di anime, Caspar viene folgorato con sempre maggior frequenza da scene della sua vita precedente, che progressivamente fanno luce sulla sua identità e sulla sua drammatica storia personale, costringendolo a uno sconvolgente viaggio negli abissi più oscuri della propria psiche...