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C'est le cœur brisé que Ceony Twill, 19 ans, débarque chez le magicien Emery Thane. Sortie major de sa promotion à l'école Tagis Praff, elle se voit contrainte d'embrasser la magie du papier, elle qui rêvait de travailler le métal. Or une fois qu'elle sera liée au papier, matériau qu'elle dédaigne, elle sait que c'est pour le restant de sa vie. Dès le début de son apprentissage chez l'excentrique mais si charmant Emery, Ceony découvre un monde merveilleux qu'elle ne soupçonnait pas : animer des créatures de papier, donner vie à des récits grâce aux images qui les illustrent, prédire l'avenir.

Sandis has escaped Kazen’s grasp, but she finds herself unmoored, reeling from her thief friend Rone’s betrayal. Kazen has been hurt but not stopped, and he’ll do anything to summon the monster that could lay waste to the entire world. Sandis knows she must be the one to stop him, but with her own trusted numen now bound to another, and finding herself with no one she can trust, she is in desperate need of allies. Rone seems determined to help her, but Sandis has no intention of letting him get close to her again. What she doesn’t know is how much Rone gave up to protect her.

Sandis has finally freed herself from her master and his plans to use her as a vessel for the ancient beast Kolosos. But her master has found a new, impossible vessel: Sandis’s brother, Anon - a brother she long thought dead. Kolosos is ancient, massive, and seemingly unbeatable. Fortunately, Sandis has her own monster - an ethereal fire horse that she can summon at will. In addition, she and Rone may have discovered the secret to defeating Kolosos: ancient lore that details the creation of magic. It could be the key to victory and the key to saving Anon.

Maire is a baker with an extraordinary gift: she can infuse her treats with emotions and abilities, which are then passed on to those who eat them. She doesn't know why she can do this and remembers nothing of who she is or where she came from. When marauders raid her town, Maire is captured and sold to the eccentric Allemas, who enslaves her and demands that she produce sinister confections, including a witch's gingerbread cottage, a living cookie boy, and size-altering cakes.

It happens in an instant, filling Aija with dread: The Sun is suddenly cast from the sky, throwing the Earth into midday darkness. On the fourth day of endless night, Aija finds an unconscious man by the river. His skin is as hot as her lantern’s glass and just as golden. To Aija, a farmhand with the soul of an artist, this beautiful stranger is an inspiration - and a mystery. He calls himself Saiyon. He bleeds light. His friends are celestial. His enemies, godlings of the moon.

Abandoned by their father for the gold rush, Gentry and her siblings labor to survive alone in the inhospitable West. When bizarre natural disasters begin wreaking havoc on the land, Gentry discovers a world of magic. Desperate for help, she accepts aid from a mysterious stranger. Winn not only sees the magic, but controls its hunger by feeding it gold - the very thing Gentry's father left to acquire. But the earth's unrest only grows worse, and Gentry's fear leads her to a terrible choice: marry a wealthy man she does not love or trust in Winn's unpredictable power to save her family.

Durante il suo lungo apprendistato, Ceony Twill ha tenuto nascosto un segreto al suo stesso mentore, Emery Thane: ha scoperto di poter praticare forme di magia diverse dalla propria, un'abilità da sempre ritenuta impossibile da acquisire. Ormai è giunta al termine del suo percorso e sta per affrontare l'esame finale, ma proprio quando tutto sembra andare per il verso giusto ecco che gli imprevisti si mettono sulla sua strada, complicandole un bel po' la vita.

In this spellbinding dark fantasy from Wall Street Journal bestselling author Charlie N. Holmberg that concludes the Shattered King duology, Nym must escape the clutches of her captors and find her way back to Renn even as forbidden love, magic, and secrets collide with the weight of the crown and the war between kingdoms.

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Tre mesi dopo aver restituito il cuore di Emery Thane, maestro di arti magiche, al suo legittimo proprietario, Ceony Twill è sulla buona strada per diventare una Piegatrice. Adora dare vita alle forme che disegna e creare esseri inanimati da semplici pezzi di carta.

Ceony Twill, giovane e talentuosa allieva dell'accademia di magia Tagis Praff, sta finalmente per cominciare l'apprendistato che la legherà per tutta la vita all'elemento magico che ha sempre desiderato. Eppure, contrariamente a quanto sognava, il suo destino non sarà scritto nel metallo ma sulla carta.

Whether using magic as flavor or as an essential piece of plot, this book will guide fantasy authors, from new to experienced, through the delicate layers of creating, utilizing, and mastering magic systems. With workshops, work pages, and reference materials included, this succinct one-and-done guide to crafting the magical elements of the fantasy genre is a must-have for speculative fiction authors.