In a kingdom where dragons can take human form under a fragile peace, a gifted court musician hides her half-dragon heritage while being drawn into the investigation of a royal murder that threatens to reignite war. Haunted by vivid visions and a secret mental “garden” tied to others like her, she partners with a principled prince to uncover a conspiracy at court, confronting prejudice, tangled loyalties, and the perilous truth about her identity as music and wit become her most powerful tools.

With his strength fading after a fatal overexposure to the sun, a steadfast hero races to complete his final labors: venturing into a collapsing Bizarro world, confronting proud Kryptonian arrivals whose presence threatens Earth, and quietly preparing loved ones for life without him. When his arch-foe steals a day of his powers and allies with a malevolent artificial sun to bring about apocalypse, he counters with ingenuity and compassion, saving the world in a radiant farewell that elevates him to legend while leaving a lasting promise of hope.

A sweeping, retro-styled epic set in the anxious early days of the Cold War, following test pilots, masked adventurers, and emerging superhumans as they navigate government suspicion, social change, and the birth of a new heroic age. As a primordial entity known as the Centre threatens humanity’s existence, disparate figures—from idealistic rookies to weary legends—must overcome mistrust to stand together. The story bridges the gap between eras, celebrating hope, courage, and unity while reckoning with the darker currents of the time.

A junior engineer aboard a centuries-long generation ship convoy, approaching the critical engine flip to decelerate for arrival, sees an impossible figure outside the hull and is thrust into a conspiracy of sabotage, buried history, and bitter factions split between settling a new world and keeping the fleet in perpetual flight. As systems falter and loyalties fracture, he must unravel the ship’s true past and confront forbidden technology before the final burn determines everyone’s fate.

A driven queer teen at a conservative Alabama Christian high school is determined to beat her flawless rival to valedictorian—until the rival kisses her and disappears, leaving a trail of pink-letter clues. Teaming up with the rival’s quarterback boyfriend and a brooding neighbor, both of whom were also kissed, she embarks on a scavenger hunt that exposes the school’s hypocrisies and the town’s secrets. Along the way, they build unlikely friendships, challenge restrictive norms, and navigate messy feelings, leading to a rebellious, honest reckoning with identity, ambition, and love.

A doctor's first encounter with a brilliant, eccentric detective leads to the unraveling of a transatlantic revenge murder rooted in a tragic saga of love, betrayal, and frontier fanaticism; later, the duo tackles a puzzle involving a missing treasure, a secret pact among four convicts, and a chilling trail through London's fog, cementing their partnership as they expose greed, deception, and the limits of justice.

A boy with the rare ability to cross into a parallel realm called the Territories embarks on a perilous quest to recover a mystical object that can save his dying mother and protect both worlds from a power-hungry adversary; decades later, now a retired detective in a Wisconsin town plagued by a series of child murders, he is forced to recover his buried memories and “flip” between realities again to confront an otherworldly predator whose evil threatens to spill across worlds.

Set in a crumbling patriarchal empire, this queer fable blends satire, aphorism, and tender vignettes to show how outsiders and their allies live and love in the cracks “between revolutions.” Eschewing linear plot for fragments and instructions, it celebrates chosen family, pleasure, rest, gossip, and mutual aid as everyday acts of resistance. The result is a mischievous, hopeful blueprint for surviving the present while imagining a freer world.

A gentle, character-driven sequel that follows a tea monk who left the monastery and their curious robot companion as they travel a pastoral, post-scarcity world, visiting towns and meeting people. Through quiet, philosophical conversations and everyday encounters they examine questions of purpose, belonging, work, and care, discovering how small acts of connection and empathy can reshape identities and communities.

A French professor, his loyal servant, and a Canadian harpooner join a naval expedition to hunt a supposed sea monster, only to discover it is a technologically advanced submarine commanded by the enigmatic Captain Nemo. Confined aboard the vessel, they voyage through spectacular undersea landscapes, encounter strange creatures and sunken treasures, and confront Nemo’s brilliance, grief, and simmering vengeance against the surface world. The story mixes scientific imagination and swashbuckling adventure while probing themes of freedom, the limits of knowledge, and the moral costs of isolation.

An alternate-universe retelling in which Harry, raised in hardship, is Sorted into Slytherin. With his brother Jim rumored to be the Boy Who Lived, Harry must navigate new alliances, darker intrigues, and a very different path through Hogwarts—no spoilers.

A comprehensive collection of tales of cosmic horror that chronicle encounters with ancient, indifferent entities and the terrifying realization of humanity's insignificance in an uncaring universe. The stories blend gothic atmosphere, strange science, and forbidden knowledge—featuring decaying New England settings, archaic tomes, and mind-bending revelations—to create lingering dread rather than explicit gore. Together they weave a mythic web of incomprehensible forces and lost knowledge that reshaped modern supernatural fiction.

After a devastating childhood trauma, a young girl is taken to live with her reclusive grandmother on a remote Australian flower farm where she learns the secret language and healing power of plants; as she grows, she uncovers family violence and buried secrets, confronts grief and loss, and ultimately seeks belonging, strength and renewal through her deepening connection to the land, its flowers and the people who tend them.

Ein phantastischer Roman, in dem ein auf einer geheimnisvollen Insel voller Leuchttürme gestrandeter Erzähler auf skurrile Bewohner, seltsame Kreaturen und rätselhafte Geheimnisse trifft; in surrealen, oft humorvollen Episoden entfaltet sich ein labyrinthartiges Geflecht aus Geschichten, Intrigen und metafiktionalen Wendungen, das Fragen nach Sprache, Erinnerung und Identität stellt und zugleich Gesellschaftssatire mit fantasievoller Abenteuerlust verbindet.

In a grim, divided city where violence spawns literal monsters, a mob boss’s driven daughter seeks to prove herself by hunting these Others, while a young Other created to feed on human sin begins to resist his nature. When their paths intersect they form a tense, unlikely alliance that forces both to confront what really makes someone a monster as darker forces rise and the line between predator and protector blurs.

A young seagull rejects the mundane life of scavenging to pursue the art and freedom of perfect flight, practicing daring maneuvers and pushing beyond physical limits. Cast out by his flock for his obsession, he learns from wise mentors that self-perfection, love, and the courage to follow one’s passion lead to transcendence and a deeper purpose beyond conformity.

A sharp-witted former apothecary nicknamed Maomao is seized from the city’s pleasure quarter and pressed into service in the imperial palace, where her knowledge of herbs, poisons, and medicine draws the attention of a perceptive eunuch and drags her into layers of court intrigue. Relying on forensic observation and pharmacological expertise, she quietly unravels mysteries—from subtle poisoning and baffling ailments to conspiracies—while navigating dangerous politics and protecting those she cares for. The story mixes historical mystery, dry humor, and slow-building relationships as she conceals her past to survive and influence the imperial world around her.

A gritty, character-driven fantasy epic following a hardened monster-hunter and the young woman bound to his fate as they navigate brutal wars, court intrigue, and the manipulations of sorcerers; blending folklore, moral ambiguity, and dark humor, the novels explore destiny, prejudice, and the cost of choices in a violent, politically charged world.

A disgraced investigative journalist teams up with a brilliant but troubled female hacker to solve a decades-old disappearance of a wealthy industrialist’s niece, uncovering a web of family secrets, sexual violence, corporate corruption, and a serial killer. Their collaboration exposes systemic misogyny and leads them into dangerous, personal confrontations as they piece together a violent history hidden by wealth and power.

A pair of epic narratives that portray both the climactic rage of a great warrior during a legendary siege—its deadly quarrels, honor-driven combat, and the intervention of gods—and the subsequent arduous homecoming of a wily king, whose decade-long voyage confronts monsters, enchantments, and divine hostility as he struggles to reclaim his family and kingdom, exploring themes of honor, fate, hospitality, cunning, and the human cost of glory.

On a distant, surreal world, tiny human-like beings live under the control of towering, long-lived alien masters who treat them as pets, pests and curiosities; one young captive learns the aliens’ language and science, sparks an awakening among his people, organizes resistance and technological progress, and forces both species to confront questions of power, freedom and coexistence.

When a cruel, wealthy family patriarch is found brutally murdered at his country house during a tense Christmas reunion, the famous Belgian detective is called in to untangle a web of grudges, lies and inheritance motives. The victim’s relatives all had reasons to want him dead, and the apparently impossible circumstances and unusual wounds baffle the police. Through psychological insight and careful deduction, the detective uncovers staged clues, hidden relationships and a surprising method and motive, exposing long-buried family betrayals.

Paks must reconcile her identity as a hardened warrior with her human doubts while undertaking a sacred mission to find a lost elven prince. The quest provokes divine interference and forces her to face moral choices, leadership challenges, and the limits of her endurance. The novel completes her arc with a blend of military realism and mythic conflict, focusing on personal growth and high-stakes adventure.