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EXCLUSIVE DELUXE EDITION--a beautiful hardcover edition featuring sprayed edges, a foil stamp on the casing, and full-page illustrations! From the New York Times bestselling author of Starling House, Alix E. Harrow, comes a moving and genre-defying adventure through time, and the truth beneath the greatest legend ever told. It begins where it ends: beneath the yew tree--a woman not yet a knight, and a man without a story. That is where she pulls a sword from the heartwood and becomes a legend. And it is where, more than a thousand years later, he will find her--and lose her--and find her--and lose her again. It is where a new story will be written--but whose will it be?

★ 星雲獎、軌跡獎得主 P. Djèlí Clark 暗黑代表作★ 以超自然視角重寫美國歷史最黑暗的一頁在美國，惡魔穿著白色頭罩。1915年，《一個國家的誕生》上映，仇恨如詛咒般席捲全國，壯大三K黨的勢力。白袍之下，不只是人——而是披著人形的惡魔，吞噬恐懼與偏見，計畫把地獄帶到人間。但惡魔，也能被殺死。站在最前線的是瑪莉絲・布德羅，一名火爆直率的神槍手，與她的戰友——曾參戰的哈林地獄戰士。他們以刀刃、子彈與炸藥反擊，獵殺那些自詡為獵人的怪物。然而在梅肯，一場更駭人的陰謀正在醞釀。這場對抗地獄的戰爭，將燃起更猛烈的火焰。當歷史的黑暗被具象為怪物，她們是否能在世界崩壞前阻止它？Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winner P. DJÈLÍ CLARK returns with Ring Shout, a dark fantasy historical novella that gives a supernatural twist to the Ku Klux Klan's reign of terror "A fantastical, brutal and thrilling triumph of the imagination...Clark's combination of historical and political reimagining is cathartic, exhilarating and fresh." --The New York TimesA 2021 Nebula Award WinnerA 2021 Locus Award Winner A New York Times Editor's Choice Pick!A Booklist Editor's Choice Pick! A 2021 Hugo Award FinalistA 2021 World Fantasy Award FinalistA 2021 Ignyte Award FinalistA 2021 Shirley Jackson Award FinalistA 2021 AAMBC Literary Award FinalistA 2021 British Fantasy Award FinalistA 2021 Hurston/Wright

From the breakout SFF superstar author of Murderbot comes the remarkable sequel to the USA Today and Sunday Times bestselling novel, Witch King. A fantasy of epic scope, Queen Demon is a story of power and friendship, of trust and betrayal, and of the families we choose.Dahin believes he has clues to the location of the Hierarchs' Well, and the Witch King Kai, along with his companions Ziede and Tahren, knowing there's something he isn't telling them, travel with him to the rebuilt university of Ancartre, which may be dangerously close to finding the Well itself.Can Kai stop the rise of a new Hierarch?And can he trust his companions to do what’s right?Follow Kai to the end of the world in this thrilling sequel to the USA Today-bestselling Witch King.

Becky Chambers' two award-winning, bestselling, beloved, and uplifting Monk and Robot stories,A Psalm for the Wild-BuiltandA Prayer for the Crown-Shy, together in trade paperback for the first time!Becky Chambers' delightful, post-Utopian, Hugo Award-winning series gives us hope for the future.It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en masse, into the wilderness, never to be seen again; centuries since they faded into myth and urban legend.One day, the life of a tea monk is upended by the arrival of a robot, there to honor the old promise of checking in. The robot cannot go back until the question of "what do people need?" is answered.But the answer to that question depends on who you ask, and how.They're going to need to ask it alot.Becky Chambers' series asks: in a world where people have what they want, does having more matter?This book includes bothA Psalm for the Wild-BuiltandA Prayer for the Cro

Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novella!FromNew York Timesbestselling author T. Kingfisher,Thornhedgeis the tale of a kind-hearted, toad-shaped heroine, a gentle knight, and a mission gone completely sideways.There's a princess trapped in a tower. Thisisn'ther story.Meet Toadling. On the day of her birth, she was stolen from her family by the fairies, but she grew up safe and loved in the warm waters of faerieland. Once an adult though, the fae ask a favor of Toadling: return to the human world and offer a blessing of protection to a newborn child. Simple, right?But nothing with fairies is ever simple.Centuries later, a knight approaches a towering wall of brambles, where the thorns are as thick as your arm and as sharp as swords. He's heard there's a curse here that needs breaking, but it's a curse Toadling will do anything to uphold…"The wayThornhedgeturns all the fairy tales inside out is a sharp-edged delight."―Katherine Addison, author ofThe Goblin EmperorAlso by T. KingfisherNe

The epic fantasy series The Stormlight Archive, by international bestseller Brandon Sanderson, continues in this beautiful hardback edition!The long-awaited explosive climax to the first arc of the Number One New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive.Dalinar Kholin challenged the evil god Odium to a contest of champions with the future of Roshar on the line. The Knights Radiant have only ten days to prepare-and the sudden ascension of the crafty and ruthless Taravangian to take Odium's place has thrown everything into disarray.Desperate fighting continues simultaneously worldwide-Adolin in Azimir, Sigzil and Venli at the Shattered Plains, and Jasnah at Thaylen City. The former assassin, Szeth, must cleanse his homeland of Shinovar from the dark influence of the Unmade. He is accompanied by Kaladin, who faces a new battle helping Szeth fight his own demons . . . and who must do the same for the insane Herald of the Almighty, Ishar.At the same time, Shallan, Renarin, and Rlain work t