Fantasy genre books (761)


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Darkdawn by Jay Kristoff EN

Rating: 5 (2 votes)
Country: Oceania / Australia flag Australia
Description:
The thrilling and heart-breaking conclusion to Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling Nevernight Chronicle.


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Das Gespenst von Canterville und andere Märchen by Oscar Wilde DE

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Country: Europe / Ireland flag Ireland
Description:
"Das Gespenst von Canterville" erzählt die Geschichte der amerikanischen Familie Otis, die in ein englisches Herrenhaus zieht und dort auf das Gespenst Sir Simons trifft. Doch anstatt vor Angst zu erstarren, begegnet die Familie dem Geist mit Pragmatismus und Humor, was Sir Simon an seine Grenzen bringt. Wilde vereint hierin meisterhaft die klassischen Elemente einer Geistergeschichte mit satirischem Witz und Tiefgang. Zusammen mit "Der glückliche Prinz", "Die Nachtigall und die Rose" "Der eigensüchtige Riese" und "Das Sternenkind" versammelt dieser Band eine Auswahl der berühmtesten Märchen u... continue



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Datura by Leena Krohn EN

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Country: Europe / Finland flag Finland
Description:
The narrator works as an editor and writer for a magazine specializing in bringing oddities to light, a job that sends her exploring through a city that becomes by degrees ever less familiar.

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Daughter from the Dark by Sergey and Marina Dyachenko EN

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Country: Europe / Ukraine flag Ukraine
Description:
In this extraordinary stand-alone novel, the authors and translator of Vita Nostra--a "dark Harry Potter on steroids with a hefty dose of metaphysics" (award-winning author Aliette de Bodard)--return with a story about creation, music, and companionship filled with their hallmark elements of subtle magic and fantasy. Late one night, fate brings together DJ Aspirin and ten-year-old Alyona. After he tries to save her from imminent danger, she ends up at his apartment. But in the morning sinister doubts set in. Who is Alyona? A young con artist? A plant for a nefarious blackmailer? Or perhaps a l... continue

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Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor EN

Rating: 4.6 (15 votes)
Description:
DAUGHTER OF SMOKE AND BONE is a book unbounded by genre but located at a magical crossroads where THE PASSAGE meets PHILIP PULLMAN and TWILIGHT meets PAN'S LABYRINTH. Errand requiring immediate attention. Come. The note was on vellum, pierced by the talons of the almost-crow that delivered it. Karou read the message. 'He never says please', she sighed, but she gathered up her things. When Brimstone called, she always came. In general, Karou has managed to keep her two lives in balance. On the one hand, she's a seventeen-year-old art student in Prague; on the other, errand-girl to a monstrous c... continue

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Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan EN

Rating: 4 (8 votes)
Country: Asia / Malaysia flag Malaysia
Description:
A captivating debut fantasy inspired by the legend of the Chinese moon goddess, Chang'e , in which a young woman's quest to free her mother pits her against the most powerful immortal in the realm and sets her on a dangerous path--where choices come with deadly consequences, and she risks losing more than her heart. Growing up on the moon, Xingyin is accustomed to solitude, unaware that she is being hidden from the powerful Celestial Emperor who exiled her mother for stealing his elixir of immortality. But when Xingyin's magic flares and her existence is discovered, she is forced to flee her h... continue

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Daytripper Deluxe Edition by Gabriel Ba EN

Rating: 5 (2 votes)
Description:
The Eisner Award winning DAYTRIPPER follows Bras de Olivias Dominguez during different periods in his life, each with the same ending: his death. DAYTRIPPER follows the life of one man, Bras de Olivias Dominguez. Every chapter features an important period in Bras' life in exotic Brazil, and each story ends the same way: with his death. And then, the following story starts up at a different point in his life, oblivious to his death in the previous story-and then also ends with him dying again. In every chapter, Bras dies at different moments in his life, as the story follows him through his ent... continue