It’s far simpler to gain power than it is to keep it. When Jude traded control over the evil king Cardan for unimaginable power, she discovered this lesson. Jude is now helpless and inconsolable as the banished mortal Queen of Faerie as a result of Cardan’s treachery. She bides her time with the intention of recovering all he took. Her deceitful twin sister Taryn, whose mortal life is in danger, represents opportunity.
If Jude wants to save her sister, she will have to take the risk of returning to the perilous Faerie Court and face her unresolved love for Cardan. But Elfhame is not the same as when she departed. War is on its way. Jude becomes caught up in the deadly dynamics of the fight when she infiltrates enemy territory. Additionally, she is forced to choose between her ambition and her humanity when a tremendous yet dormant curse is released, causing terror across the nation. The jaw-dropping conclusion to Holly Black’s #1 New York Times bestselling trilogy, The Folk of the Air, is eagerly awaited.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Come home and shout at me. Come home and fight with me. Come home and break my heart, if you must.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing
“By you, I am forever undone.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing
“Mock me all you like. Whatever I imagined then, now it is I who would beg and grovel for a kind word from your lips.” His eyes are black with desire. “By you, I am forever undone.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing
“Jude, you can’t really think I don’t know it’s you. I knew you from the moment you walked into the brugh.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing
“I feel like a constellation of wounds, held together with string and stubbornness.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing
Nikolai Lantsov, the dashing young king, has always had a talent for the impossibly difficult. Nobody is aware of what he went through during the brutal civil war in his nation, and he wants to keep things that way. Nikolai now has to figure out how to replenish Ravka’s finances, form new alliances, and fend off a growing threat to the once-powerful Grisha Army as foes amass at his vulnerable frontiers.
However, a terrible power that resides in him intensifies day by day and poses a threat to everything he has accomplished. Nikolai will travel to Ravka’s locations where the most powerful magic still exists with the aid of a young monk and a legendary Grisha general in order to defeat the dreadful legacy he carries. He will do anything to protect both himself and his country. However, certain secrets shouldn’t be kept hidden, just as some wounds shouldn’t be allowed to mend.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Stop punishing yourself for being someone with a heart. You cannot protect yourself from suffering. To live is to grieve. You are not protecting yourself by shutting yourself off from the world. You are limiting yourself.”
“Most women suffer thorns for the sake of the flowers, but we who wield power adorn ourselves with flowers to hide the sting of our thorns”
“Nikolai had been told that hope was dangerous, had been warned of it many times. But he’d never believed that. Hope was the wind that came from nowhere to fill your sails and carry you home.”
“The monster is me and I am the monster.”
“Zoya of the lost city. Zoya of the garden. Zoya bleeding in the snow. You are strong enough to survive the fall.”
Shanghai is humming to the sound of excess in 1926. The city is defenseless as mayhem grips it as a result of a blood feud between two gangs that have turned the streets crimson. Juliette Cai, 18, a former flapper who has returned to take up her position as the proud successor of the Scarlet Gang—a group of criminals beyond the law—is at the center of it all. The White Flowers, who have opposed the Scarlets for ages, are their only real political adversaries. Their heir, Roma Montagov, Juliette’s first love—and first betrayer—is also at the center of every action.
However, people start to murmur as gangsters on both sides display signs of instability, culminating in them ripping out their own necks. of madness or a disease. of a phantom in the darkness. In order to halt this mayhem, Juliette and Roma must put their guns—and resentments—aside and cooperate. If they can’t, there won’t be any cities left for either of them to command.
This breath-taking debut is a visionary Romeo and Juliet retelling set in 1920s Shanghai, with competing gangs and a monster in the depths of the Huangpu River. It is ideal for fans of The Last Magician and Descendant of the Crane.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“The stars incline us, they do not bind us.”
“Do you not listen to me when I speak?” he answered shakily, his lip quirking up. “I love you. I have always loved you.”
“Memories were beastly little creatures, after all—they rose with the faintest whiff of nourishment.”
“You know me. Running around. Living life. Committing arson.”
“I was raised in hatred, Roma. I could never be your lover, only your killer.”
The top magical academicians in the world are members of the Alexandrian Society, a secret society. They are stewards of knowledge from the most ancient civilizations that have been lost. And those who succeed in joining them will enjoy lives of unimaginable wealth, influence, and prestige. Here are the six magicians with the greatest individual talent in the world who were chosen for initiation each decade.
The applicants are informed by the enigmatic Atlas Blakely that they must live together for a year in order to be eligible for initiation. They will be evaluated on their contributions to obscure fields of knowledge throughout this time and given access to the Society’s archives. They are informed that five will be initiated. One will be taken out. They will live if they can demonstrate that they are the best.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“The problem with knowledge, is its inexhaustible craving. the more of it you have, the less you feel you know”
“they were binary stars, trapped in each other’s gravitational field and easily diminished without the other’s opposing force”
“Really, there was nothing more dangerous than a woman who knew her own worth.”
“We are the gods of our own universes, aren’t we? Destructive ones.”
“Knowledge is carnage. You can’t have it without sacrifice.”
The graduating cadets of Aurora Academy are given their first assignments in the year 2380. Tyler Jones, a star student, is prepared to assemble the team of his dreams, but due to his own foolish acts of bravery, he is forced to work with the lowest-ranking members of the Academy. The girl he recently saved from interdimensional space, Aurora Jie-Lin O’Malley, is actually his biggest concern, not Ty’s team. Auri is a young woman out of her element having spent two millennia trapped in cryo-sleep. However, she might be the spark that ignites a conflict that has been simmering for millions of years, and Tyler’s band of losers, discipline cases, and misfits might well be the galaxy’s last hope. They don’t deserve to be our heroes. These are simply the ones we can locate. Nobody is scared.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Who am I to deny gravity, Aurora? When you shine brighter than any constellation in the sky?”\
“Do moons choose the planets they orbit? Do planets choose their stars? Who am I to deny gravity, Aurora? When you shine brighter than an constellation in the sky?”
“Who wants to be normal when you can be interesting instead?”
“But they have not seen their sun die. Their people burn. Their world end. And they do not know, yet, that there are some breaks that cannot be fixed.”
“Just because you’re not saying it doesn’t mean you’re not thinking it.”
Scarlett Dragna and her sister Tella reside on a small island with their ruthless and powerful father. Scarlett now believes that her aspirations of attending Caraval—the distant, yearly play in which the audience takes part—have been dashed because her father has arranged for her to get married.
Scarlett’s long-awaited invitation does, however, finally arrive this year. Scarlett is taken to the event by Tella with the aid of an enigmatic sailor. However, as soon as they get there, Legend, the genius behind Caraval, abducts Tella. It turns out that Tella is the center of this season’s Caraval, and the winner is the person who finds her first.
Scarlett has been informed that everything that occurs during Caraval is merely a well-produced act. Despite this, she finds herself caught up in a game of adoration, heartbreak, and magic. Whether Caraval is genuine or not, Scarlett should locate Tella before the game’s five nights are out to avoid a terrible chain reaction of events that will cause her cherished sister to vanish forever.
Welcome to Caraval, and be careful not to get carried away.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Every person has the power to change their fate if they are brave enough to fight for what they desire more than anything.”
“She imagined loving him would feel like falling in love with darkness, frightening and consuming yet utterly beautiful when the stars came out.”
“Hope is a powerful thing. Some say it’s a different breed of magic altogether. Elusive, difficult to hold on to. But not much is needed.”
“Some things are worth pursuit regardless of the cost.”
“Dreams that come true can be beautiful, but they can also turn into nightmares when people won’t wake up.”
An expedition of eight American geologists is inexplicably and brutally murdered in a matter of minutes deep in the African rain forest, close to the fabled ruins of the Lost City of Zinj. A camp is destroyed, tents are torn apart, equipment is scattered alongside dead bodies in the mud, and all of this can be seen on a horrific video transmission being watched by Karen Ross, the Congo Project Supervisor, who is located 10,000 miles away. The only thing that is moving is a grainy, dark, man-shaped blur.
Amy is a gorilla that primatologist Peter Elliot works with in San Francisco. She has an impressive vocabulary of 620 “signs,” which is the most any primate has ever acquired. Amy also enjoys finger painting. Recently, though, she has exhibited erratic behavior, and her drawings are remarkably accurate, matching the fragile pages of a Portuguese print from 1642—a picture of a long-lost city. Amy is part of a new expedition that is dispatched into the Congo, where they explore a secret world from which they may only be able to die a horrific end.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“No one escapes from life alive.”
“The purpose of life is to stay alive. Watch any animal in nature–all it tries to do is stay alive. It doesn’t care about beliefs or philosophy. Whenever any animal’s behavior puts it out of touch with the realities of its existence, it becomes extinct.”
“It’s hard to decide who’s truly brilliant; it’s easier to see who’s driven, which in the long run may be more important.”
“His management philosophy, tempered in his rain-dancing days, was always to give the project to whoever had the most to gain from success–or the most to lose from failure.”
“Today we are surrounded by man and his creations. Man is inescapable, everywhere on the globe, and nature is a fantasy, a dream of the past, long gone.”
In 1665, Jamaica is a ragged outpost of the English crown, a little colony resisting the great dominance of the Spanish empire. There are no niceties in Port Royal, the capital of Jamaica, a cutthroat town of pubs, grog shops, and bawdy houses where life can end abruptly from dysentery or a dagger in the back. However, if Captain Charles Hunter follows the island’s code, it is a life that can also bring him wealth. Gold in the possession of the Spanish is available for acquisition in the name of His Majesty King Charles II of England. And those who decide to make law in the New World do so of their own volition.
The Spanish treasure galleon El Trinidad recently returned from New Spain and is rumored to be stranded in neighboring Matanceros harbor undergoing repairs. King Philip IV’s favorite commander, the well-constructed, impregnable Spanish fortress is defended by the blood swilling Cazalla. Hunter gathers tough company with the governor’s support in order to sneak onto the adversary island and seize the galleon with its wealth of Spanish treasure. Hunter will lose more than one man during the attack before reaching the island’s shoreline, where only a deep jungle and the Spanish infantry’s weaponry stand between him and the wealth. The raid is as dangerous as the bloody stories of Matancero’s promise.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“I do so think well of a man who dies with finesse.”
“There are no pirates in Port Royal”
“but one never really understood life in the New World until confronted with the actual rude experience.”
“The mosquitoes were a formidable enemy, coming in thick clouds so dense as to be almost palpable, obscuring each man’s vision of those near him. The insects buzzed and whined around them, clinging to every part of their bodies, getting into ears and nose and mouth.”’
Jack Sparrow, a 25-year-old well-groomed merchant seaman working as a first mate for the East India Trading Company, is pursuing a respectable career. He occasionally reflects about his early years of piracy, but he doesn’t miss Teague’s scrutiny or the looming fear of the noose. Additionally, he has little option because he violated the Code when he released a friend who had been charged with rogue piracy and is no longer permitted to enter Shipwreck Cove.
Jack finds himself abruptly in charge after his captain is killed during a pirate attack on his ship. As a result of the crafty sailor’s successful discussions with the pirate captain, who reveals out to be a woman from his past, Jack is now in line for an official promotion.
When Jack arrives at an African port, Cutler Beckett summons him and appoints him captain of the Wicked Wench. Jack receives a task from Beckett. A fantastical island called Zerzura is claimed to have a wonderful treasure, according to a legend he has heard. Ayisha, one of Beckett’s house slaves, is thought to be from Zerzura, according to Beckett. He begs Jack to accompany him on his quest so he can woo her into telling him the location of the island.
Beckett guarantees Jack a portion of the riches as compensation for his assistance. However, it’s not as simple as Jack first thinks. Ayisha demands that Jack bring her to the New World to retrieve her brother, who has been sold as a slave in the Bahamas before she agrees to give the location of her house. As they endure a dangerous storm and a surprise attack from a former pirate adversary throughout their grueling and lengthy journey, Jack comes to respect and appreciate Ayisha’s bravery. Jack’s moral compass revolts at the thought of Beckett enslaving her people after stripping them of their gold.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“All that blood and…stuff. Me, I’ll take intelligent cowardice over foolhardy bravery any day”
“Obedient to her captain’s will, The Black Pearl followed her dark angel over the azure water; as fast as the wind, as free as the men who sailed her. it was almost as though she knew she was a legend in the making, destined for adventures both great and terrible…”
The first novel in a new series by author Stuart Gibbs is about the world’s youngest and smartest genius who is compelled to utilize her incredible code-breaking skills to outwit Einstein.
Charlie Thorne is an absolute genius. Charlie Thorne is a con artist. Charlie Thorne is too young to drive. It is now up to her to safeguard the world. Albert Einstein devised an equation decades ago that might benefit or kill all life on Earth. He hid the equation for fear of what might happen if it came into the wrong hands. However, a demonic force known as the Furies is closing in on its location. A team of CIA agents pulls Charlie into the quest in desperation, relying on her ability to find it first—even if it means putting her life at severe risk!
Best Quotes from this Book:
“I don’t care if she can fly,” Carter snapped. “I own pairs of shoes that are older than this kid.”
“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.”
“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it. —ALBERT EINSTEIN”
“Do you know who else was like that as a child?” Dante asked. “Albert Einstein. As well as Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Benjamin Franklin,”
“Think about the most famous geniuses in history: Einstein, Newton, Galileo, Darwin, da Vinci, Mozart. What do they have in common?” Charlie reflected on that for a moment. “They’re all men.”
From the wind-ravaged Sahara to the untamed steppes of Russia to the steep crags of Scotland, the fight rages across the millennia. Furthermore, only one Immortal can endure. As the Highlander, MacLeod is. He was a 16th-century Scottish clan warrior who learned the lethal techniques from a legendary tutor before being beheaded, the only wound that may claim the life of an Immortal. Seven lives later, MacLeod is now put to the test one last time. His long-ago foe, The Kurgan, has followed him all the way to the streets of New York.
Deputy Marshal Mason Raines gets an emergency distress call from the New Colony just as it seems like he might be able to settle into a life without conflict. His handler has been viciously attacked, but also a sly woman he once loved is at risk of dying. He is once more required to put the needs of others before his own satisfaction after being forced to choose between duty and contentment. But this time, he’d do well to keep in mind that the people who are being saved don’t have the best of intentions.
Tanner and Samantha journey to Fort Knox, Kentucky, where they must face an equally tough task. They want to steal all of the nation’s gold from the Gold Vault, which is a simple yet impossible task. They are hired by an elderly woman who is eager to bury her husband as the journey takes an unexpected turn. However, even that work comes with moral trade-offs that make them wonder what it means to be one of the country’s final survivors.
For Jack, life is not a fairy tale. After all, his grandfather constantly nags him to leave the house and go rescue a princess because his father has been lost ever since that incident involving the giant and the beanstalk. In any case, who would wish to save a haughty, entitled princess? Particularly one who descends from the sky while wearing a shirt that reads “Punk Princess” and insists she is not a princess. May doesn’t even think that magic exists. Yes, what’s up with that? A huntsman is pursuing May, her grandmother has been abducted, and Jack believes it’s all the fault of the Wicked Queen, mainly because May’s grandmother might actually be the long-lost Snow White. May needs assistance, though. The first in an epic new series of novels for the ages, Jack and May’s thrillingly funny adventure blends all the traditional tales, broken as a broken magic mirror.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Once upon a time, Jack wouldn’t have been caught dead in a princess rescue.”
“These are challenges,” Jack told her. “That’s it. We are going to win. You know why? Because it doesn’t matter if you’re in a fairy tale or here in real life, doing the right thing still counts for something. We’re going to win because we’re good, decent people trying to accomplish something noble.”
“He realized that it wouldn’t be much longer before the trees picked themselves up and migrated to the warmer south, leaving their dead, leafless brothers behind.”
“As Jack slid down the wall to the floor a little laugh escaped the wolf’s lips. “One more thing,” he growled. “I hardly care what you do, but try not to wake me with your courting rituals again.” Jack’s face turned bright red as he slipped and fell the rest of the way to the floor.”
“You were half a second away from saying we’re the villains in our story!” May”
The sea is the only place Fable, 17, has ever known as home. She is the daughter of the most influential trader in the Narrows. Four years have passed since the night she witnessed her mother perish in a merciless storm. The following day, her father left her on a storied island populated with robbers and lacking in food. She needs to keep to herself, learn to never trust anyone, and rely on the special abilities her mother taught her if she wants to survive. Her main motivation is the desire to leave the island, locate her father, and claim her rightful place next to him and his crew.
So that she might travel off the island and across the Narrows to her father, Fable enlists the aid of a teenage trader named West. However, since she last saw her father, his business’s risks and rivalries have grown, and Fable soon discovers that West isn’t who he seems. If they want to live, they will have to work together to survive more than just the dangerous storms that frequent the Narrows.
Welcome to a world where the sea and those who want to profit from it have made it dangerous. a little girl who is attempting to survive in a world that was created for males must discover her place and her family. Fable takes you on a breathtaking trip that is full of romance, mystery, and adventure.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“He looked at me with a hundred stories lit behind his eyes.”
“Like a weary bird flying out over the most desolate sea, I finally had a place to land.”
“The only safety that existed was in being completely alone.”
“Isolde was the wind and sea and sky of Saint’s world. She was the pattern of stars that he navigated by, the sum of all directions on his compass. And he was lost without her.”
“Home was a ship that was at the bottom of the sea, where my mother’s bones lay sleeping.”