Old Fantasy

From California to Colorado, the Old World is filled with complicated women, volatile creatures, and nulls with attitude. This unmissable collection includes the stories that run in between and alongside the Old World novels, allowing listeners to catch up with favorite characters and find clues about the future of this bestselling series.

Twelve-year-old Janie Rutland somewhat grudgingly befriends Reggie Rankin - the weird new kid at school - and finally has someone to investigate her curious sightings in the abandoned house next door. When they find there's an impossible world in danger of total destruction, they face a choice. Do they have what it takes to save it? An eccentric fellowship gathers as they embark on a perilous quest in a race against time and their own fears.

Dungeon. Quest. Adventure. A journey into madness. When John Younger answered the Regent's call to find a missing prince, he thought it would be an easy way to make some coin. He was wrong. Thrust into a life-or-death battle with creatures only heard about in stories long since forgotten, John finds himself in a dungeon of elder ones and old gods. As he descends into the heart of darkness, John must use all of his brains and brawn to successfully make it through each floor of the dungeon, while saving others and gaining the favor of those within.

In this exquisite collection of children’s folktales, Zitkála-Šá shares the legends that were handed down to her through generations of Yankton storytellers. These tales display the wide range of insights and observations that accrue to such stories through repeated iteration, but they also benefit from the sharp ear and finely tuned sensibility of Zitkála-Šá as a writer. Her characters seem to speak to us—often crying out to us—in the same tones that Zitkála-Šá must once have heard.

Don Rucker has seen what Mordecai The Brown is capable of. Now the second in command of his father's syndicate wants Mort's help with an even bigger job: killing Theo Rucker. Initially roped in simply as Mort's handler, Chuck's people skills become invaluable in rooting out loyalists to the old regime when even Don's trusted lieutenants are too close to be objective. Mort trims the ranks quietly, become a boogeyman to any syndicate guys not in on the plot. When the coup takes place, they hope for a quick decisive action that swiftly puts Don on the throne.

Sanctuary beckons but hides a deadly secret within. An archaic power awakens, but the shadows of antiquity conceal a terrible truth. Fugitives from the Conclave, Dormael and his friends flee with the armlet in their possession. Hounded by their former allies, they undertake a dangerous trek to an ancient ruin—a place where the only things older than the stones are the secrets buried beneath them. Pain and darkness wait in the halls of the dead, but something worse may be closing in from behind. With evil stirring, the fate of the world hangs in the balance.

The bone-chilling reality of missing children, including the mayor's three-year-old daughter, grips the small southern town of Barrow. The only hint of their whereabouts hides in the mind of the mayor's preteen son, who believes an unidentified old woman is inexplicably connected to his sister's disappearance.

Amidst the backdrop of a seemingly ordinary world, an ancient chest harbors secrets that transcend time and space. Robbie and Imani, two souls intertwined by fate, find themselves on a journey that takes them beyond the known, challenging their perceptions of reality. As they navigate landscapes of untold beauty and danger, their bond grows stronger, guided by the cryptic writings of Megari, a mysterious figure with knowledge spanning eons.

Aten the Knight has returned to his village, Pallas, after a successful quest. But in the midst of his peoples' praise, Aten hears a large shrill far off in the forest. Another dragon realizing Aten's actions and seeking revenge. Aten warns the people of Pallas, but some are reluctant to believe in a new threat so soon. Aten and his fellow knights are left to come up with a desperate plan to escape the dragon's wrath. With his battle wounds still fresh, can Aten successfully survive and discover a way to defeat something more powerful than Vesta?

Let us have a fair hearing at last for the Twelfth Fairy who has for so long been unjustly accused of sending the Sleeping Beauty to oblivion on her 16th birthday. The Lady Melicia never denied that she played a key part in this unhappy affair but, in her defense, has a question for her accusers: Do you really believe in fairies? In this retelling of a classic fairy tale 12 fairies confer miraculous gifts as proof of God’s existence. Things go wrong when one of the 12 turns unbeliever and declares that fairy gifts are nonsense.

Middle-aged 17-year-old Malila Chiu has no choice but to escape her homeland. Making common cause with the strange subterranean workers of the beltways, Malila perseveres toward freedom in the scorched fields of America. Nearly naked, with no friends, no resources, and only a scant idea of the route, Malila's only real information comes from time in the outlands. While a captive of the old, harsh-and-tender-by-turns Jesse Johnstone, Malila learned of the lies told her by her homeland and the truths shown her by the arrogant and contradictory Jesse. She thinks she may love him.

A mouse who was on the spot on the night of the grand ball is not as taken as humans are with this classic fairy tale of mating success. You are a species that has lost touch with itself, he tells us. Your big brains have outgrown you. They have taken you into a world in which you are not really at home and made you strangers to yourselves there. Any other animal shows more common sense in its daily life than you humans do.

The traitors hiding under the roof of their family home were found and punished. But where do the threads woven into a sophisticated tangle of conspiracy lead? The young Prince Gorchakov will have to confront rogue guardsmen, outraged rebels, the people sent by the German Kaiser to aid the crisis, and one legendary general who went over to the dark side. Sometimes, all of them at once.

With considerable effort, the young prince Alexander Gorchakov managed to prevent a large-scale war between St. Petersburg’s old royal families. However, he got into a lot of trouble in the process and his actions did not go unnoticed by Her Imperial Majesty. Now, as his punishment, Alexander is forced to put on a uniform and enroll at a military school...and not at the most prestigious one, for that matter.

Макс вроде бы смог научиться балансировать между Сопротивлением и Империей, вивисектор жив, но уже не вызывает того ужаса, как раньше.... Вот только кто бы мог подумать, что Асси, Пылающая длань Зании, как выяснилось, не единственный свидетель времен Старой империи.

Linked to his computer at birth, David Klein's brain was a mere add-on enhancement. Absorbing the complete knowledge of humanity was trivial. Solving the problems of the world was easy. But girls and other humans are beyond him. Even with all his knowledge, David needs to learn through trial and error to see himself as anything other than a monster. He gets help along the way.

Mick's life is a lie. He's a menial laborer in Dome City, one of the 15 million lucky people allowed inside the dome amid the extreme climate change of the world. Mick's life takes an unexpected turn when he receives a mysterious communication that puts him on a path to uncover a hidden history, that puts him on the run from Federal Tempest troops. With only his best friend Leland and girlfriend Jolene to turn to, Mick soon finds out that they aren't who they say they are. Eventually finding help in the form of a past love, the one person he may be able to trust.

Ada and Miry didn’t mean to start a city-wide catastrophe. Really, they didn’t. But when a family trip goes awry, the two Mexican-American cousins from opposite sides of the border accidentally unleash an evil spirit from centuries past. The incident unlocks latent magical powers within the girls, who now have to figure out what’s going on.

What happens when the God of Thunder dies? You blame his Orisha comrade, of course. Thor of Asgard is dead. And Shango of the Orishas is to blame. A cosmic war has been waged for countless ages between the deities of Earth and a strange force of shadows known as the God Eaters. Many of Earth’s greatest heroes have fallen to this mysterious enemy, but Thor and Shango stood firm where other champions had failed.

It's the kind of news item you read at least a dozen times a year, wonder about briefly, and then promptly forget about. The real story is the one that an actor turned sleuth is able to uncover - to his peril! The story is a unique combination of mystery and time travel by one of the giants in the field of sci-fi. An actor and a policeman investigate when a number of elderly people are found dead of starvation. The strange things is they all had large bank accounts and a great deal of money in their pockets.