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Essun - once Damaya, once Syenite, now avenger - has found shelter, but not her daughter. Instead there is Alabaster Tenring, destroyer of the world, with a request. But if Essun does what he asks, it would seal the fate of the Stillness forever.

This is the way the world ends...for the last time. It starts with the great red rift across the heart of the world's sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the sun. It starts with death, with a murdered son and a missing daughter. It starts with betrayal, and long dormant wounds rising up to fester. This is the Stillness, a land long familiar with catastrophe, where the power of the earth is wielded as a weapon. And where there is no mercy.

A barely employed tech worker has never felt they belonged. Not in society, not even in their own family. Their days are filled with loneliness, a struggle to survive and a desperate search for connection—even if that connection is merely virtual. Now, a black-market hacker promises to open a new world for them, and it works—in ways no human has ever experienced. They find a world of wonder, of possibilities and of danger—where their new virtual reality could mean the end of their physical reality. And what they discover could change the fate of humankind—forever.

Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian North. But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned to the majestic city of Sky. There, to her shock, Yeine is named an heiress to the king. But the throne of the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is not easily won, and Yeine is thrust into a vicious power struggle with cousins she never knew she had. As she fights for her life, she draws ever closer to the secrets of her mother's death and her family's bloody history.

This is the way the world ends...for the last time. It starts with the great red rift across the heart of the world's sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the sun. It starts with death, with a murdered son and a missing daughter. It starts with betrayal, and long dormant wounds rising up to fester. This is the Stillness, a land long familiar with catastrophe, where the power of the Earth is wielded as a weapon. And where there is no mercy.

For some, it’s the end of the world. For others, it’s just the beginning. With brilliant imagination, today’s most visionary writers point to the future in a collection curated by bestselling author Blake Crouch. These stories range from darkly comic to deeply chilling, but they all look forward. Featuring stories by Andy Weir, Amor Towles, Veronica Roth, N. K. Jemisin, Paul Tremblay, and Blake Crouch; with narration by Evan Rachel Wood, David Harbour, Jason Isaacs, Rosa Salazar, Steven Strait, and Janina Gavankar.

For two thousand years the Arameri family has ruled the world by enslaving the very gods that created mortalkind. Now the gods are free, and the Arameri's ruthless grip is slipping. Yet they are all that stands between peace and world-spanning, unending war. Shahar, last scion of the family, must choose her loyalties. She yearns to trust Sieh, the godling she loves. Yet her duty as Arameri heir is to uphold the family's interests, even if that means using and destroying everyone she cares for.

Booktrack Edition: The moon will soon return. Whether this heralds the destruction of humankind or something worse will depend on two women. Essun has inherited the power of Alabaster Tenring. With it, she hopes to find her daughter, Nassun, and forge a world in which every orogene child can grow up safe. The Stone Sky: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience.

What will become of our self-destructed planet? The answer shatters all expectations in this subversive speculation from the Hugo Award - winning author of the Broken Earth trilogy. An explorer returns to gather information from a climate-ravaged Earth that his ancestors, and others among the planet’s finest, fled centuries ago. The mission comes with a warning: A graveyard world awaits him. But so do those left behind - hopeless and unbeautiful wastes of humanity who should have died out ages ago.

The visionary writer and director of Get Out, Us, and Nope, and founder of Monkeypaw Productions, curates this groundbreaking anthology of all-new stories of Black horror, exploring not only the terrors of the supernatural but the chilling reality of injustice that haunts our nation. Featuring an introduction by Peele and an all-star roster of beloved writers and new voices, Out There Screaming is a master class in horror, and—like his spine-chilling films—its stories prey on everything we think we know about our world . . . and redefine what it means to be afraid.

The Moon will soon return. Whether this heralds the destruction of humankind or something worse will depend on two women. Essun has inherited the power of Alabaster Tenring. With it, she hopes to find her daughter Nassun and forge a world in which every orogene child can grow up safe. For Nassun, her mother's mastery of the Obelisk Gate comes too late. She has seen the evil of the world, and accepted what her mother will not admit: That sometimes what is corrupt cannot be cleansed, only destroyed.

In Manhattan, a young grad student gets off the train and realizes he doesn't remember who he is, where he's from, or even his own name. But he can sense the beating heart of the city, see its history, and feel its power. In the Bronx, a Lenape gallery director discovers strange graffiti scattered throughout the city, so beautiful and powerful it's as if the paint is literally calling to her. In Brooklyn, a politician and mother finds she can hear the songs of her city, pulsing to the beat of her Louboutin heels.

In this stunning sequel to The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, one blind woman will challenge the will of the gods and change the fate of the world. In the city of Shadow, beneath the World Tree, alleyways shimmer with magic and godlings live hidden among mortalkind. Oree Shoth, a blind artist, takes in a strange homeless man on an impulse. This act of kindness engulfs Oree in a nightmarish conspiracy. Someone, somehow, is murdering godlings, leaving their desecrated bodies all over the city. And Oree's guest is at the heart of it....

All is not well in the city that never sleeps. Even though the avatars of New York City have temporarily managed to stop the Woman in White from invading—and destroying the entire universe in the process—the mysterious capital "E" Enemy has more subtle powers at her disposal. A new candidate for mayor wielding the populist rhetoric of gentrification, xenophobia, and "law and order" may have what it takes to change the very nature of New York itself and take it down from the inside.

This is the way the world ends, for the last time. The season of endings grows darker, as civilization fades into the long cold night. Essun - once Damaya, once Syenite, now avenger - has found shelter, but not her daughter. Instead there is Alabaster Tenring, destroyer of the world, with a request. But if Essun does what he asks, it would seal the fate of the Stillness forever. Far away, her daughter Nassun is growing in power - and her choices will break the world.

ಪರಮ ಶಿವಭಕ್ತ ಏಕಾಂತ ರಾಮಯ್ಯನ ಕಥೆಯ ಹಿನ್ನೆಲೆ ಬಲು ರೋಚಕ. ತಾನೇ ಕತ್ತರಿಸಿಕೊಂಡ ತನ್ನ ರುಂಡ, ಮತ್ತೆ ತನ್ನದೇ ದೇಹಕ್ಕೆ ಸೇರುವ ಹಿಂದೆ ಇರುವುದು ರಾಮಯ್ಯನ ಭಕ್ತಿಯೆ? ಯುಕ್ತಿಯೇ? ಪವಾಡವೇ? ತಂತ್ರವೇ? ಇದಾವುದೂ ಅಲ್ಲವಾದರೆ, ಯಾರ ತ್ಯಾಗದ ಫಲವದು?

ತನ್ನ ಸಾಧನೆಯ ಹಪಾಹಪಿಗೆ ಹೆಣೆದ ಷಡ್ಯಂತ್ರಕ್ಕೆ ತಾನೇ ಸಿಕ್ಕು, ಮುಕ್ಕಾದ ವಿದ್ಯಾರ್ಥಿಗೆ ಬೇಕಿದ್ದದ್ದು ತಾಳ್ಮೆ. ಆದರೆ ಮೇಲುಗೈ ಸಾಧಿಸಿದ ಪಾಪ ಪ್ರಜ್ಞೆ, ಅವಳ ಗುರುವನ್ನೂ ಬಿಡದೇ ಕಾಡಿದಾಗ ಹುಟ್ಟಿದ ಕತೆ.

ಎರಡು ಅಸ್ಥಿಪಂಜರಗಳಿಂದಾಗಿ ಬಿಚ್ಚಿಕೊಂಡ ರಾಜಾ ದೇವರಾಯನ ಕಾಲದ ದುರಂತ. ಸುರಸುಂದರಿ ನೇಹಲಳಿಗಾಗಿ ಕಾದಾಡಿದ ಅರಸರಲ್ಲಿ ಯಾರಿಗೂ ದಕ್ಕದ ಅವಳು, ಕೈಗೆ ಸಿಕ್ಕಷ್ಟು ಸಂಪತ್ತು ಕಟ್ಟಿಕೊಂಡು ಮಲಯಾಬಾದಿಗೆ ಬಂದು ಗೆದ್ದಳೇ? ಸೋತಳೆ?

ಜಗತ್ತಿನ ಈ ಮೂಲೆಯ ವಿಜ್ಞಾನಿ, ಆ ಮೂಲೆಯ ವಿದ್ಯಾರ್ಥಿ, ಒಂದೇ ಜನ್ಮದ ಎರಡು ಬಗೆಯ ಸಂಬಂಧಗಳಿಗೆ ಸಿಕ್ಕು, ಅವರ ಜೀವನವೂ ಸಿಕ್ಕುಸಿಕ್ಕಾಗಲು ಕಾರಣರ್ಯಾರು? ಸಮಾಜದ ಕಟ್ಟುಪಾಡುಗಳೇ? ಮಡಿವಂತಿಕೆಯ ಮನಸ್ಥಿತಿಯೇ? ಏನು ಆ ಎರಡು ಬಗೆಯ ಬಂಧ?

ನಾನು' ಎಂದರೆ ಯಾರು? ದೇಹವೇ? ಆತ್ಮವೇ? ಇಂಥ ಪ್ರಶ್ನೆಗೆ ಗುರಿಯಾಗುವ ಮಹಾಸಂಸ್ಥಾನದ ರಾಜಗುರು ನಿಜಕ್ಕೂ ಯಾರು? ಆಧ್ಯಾತ್ಮದ ಪರದೆ ಕಟ್ಟಿ ಆಡುತ್ತಿರುವ ನಾಟಕಕಾರರ ಸೂತ್ರಧಾರಿಯೆ ಅವನು? ಇಲ್ಲ ಅದೇ ನಾಟಕದಲ್ಲಿ ಪಾತ್ರಧಾರಿಯೆ?