Bøger af Holly Black

A runaway queen. A reluctant prince. And a quest that may destroy them both.Eight years have passed since the Battle of the Serpent. But in the icy north, Lady Nore of the Court of Teeth, has reclaimed the Ice Needle Citadel. There she is using an ancient relic to create monsters of stick and snow who will do her bidding and exact her revenge.Suren, child queen of the Court of Teeth, and the one person with power over her mother, fled to the human world, where she lives feral in the woods. Lonely, and still haunted by the merciless torments she endured in the Court of Teeth, she bides her time by releasing mortals from foolish bargains. She believes herself forgotten until the storm hag Bogdana chases her through the night streets. Suren is saved by none other than Prince Oak, heir to Elfhame, to whom she was once promised in marriage and who she has resented for years.Now seventeen, Oak is charming, beautiful and manipulative. He's on a mission that will lead him into the north, and he wants Suren's help. But if she agrees, it will mean guarding her heart against the boy she once knew and a prince she cannot trust, as well as confronting all the horrors she thought she had left behind.

Holly Black is the bestselling author of the Spiderwick series, here she returns with her unique modern fantasies. Faeries, werewolves, vampires, ghosts, and all sorts of weird and wonderful and creepy creatures, there's even a glimpse of a unicorn. Holly's teen fans will love these!

Warned away from magic all of his life, Callum endeavors to fail the trials that would admit him to the Magisterium only to be drawn into its ranks against his will and forced to confront dark elements from his past.

"A delicious, dark, adrenaline rush of a book. I'm already dying to see Charlie Hall's next con." - New York Times bestselling author, Alix E. Harrow#1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black makes her stunning adult debut with Book of Night, a modern dark fantasy of betrayals, secret societies, and a dissolute thief of shadows, in the vein of Neil Gaiman and Erin Morgenstern.Charlie Hall has never found a lock she couldn't pick, a book she couldn't steal, or a bad decision she wouldn't make.She's spent half her life working for gloamists, magicians who manipulate shadows to peer into locked rooms, strangle people in their beds, or worse. Gloamists guard their secrets greedily, creating an underground economy of grimoires. And to rob their fellow magicians, they need Charlie Hall.Now, she's trying to distance herself from past mistakes, but getting out isn't easy. Bartending at a dive, she's still entirely too close to the corrupt underbelly of the Berkshires. Not to mention that her sister Posey is desperate for magic, and that Charlie's shadowless, and possibly soulless, boyfriend has been hiding things from her. When a terrible figure from her past returns, Charlie descends into a maelstrom of murder and lies.Determined to survive, she's up against a cast of doppelgangers, mercurial billionaires, gloamists, and the people she loves best in the world-all trying to steal a secret that will give them vast and terrible power.

In this companion to "Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You," the authors present an in-depth look at sprites: their names, appearances, and habits that make them such unique house guests. Full color.

An instant bestseller from #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author Black--the first book in her Folk of the Air series about a mortal girl who finds herself caught in a web of royal faerie intrigue.igue.

"Cassel Sharpe comes from a family of curse workers, people who have the power to change emotions, memories, and luck with the slightest touch of their hands. And since curse work is illegal, they're also all criminals. Many become mobsters and con artists, but not Cassel. He doesn't have magic, so he's an outsider, the straight kid in a crooked family--except for the small detail that he killed his best friend, Lila, three years ago. Cassel has carefully built up a facade of normalcy, blending into the crowd. But his facade starts to crumble when he finds himself sleepwalking, propelled into the night by terrifying dreams about a white cat that wants to tell him something. He's noticing other disturbing things, too, including the strange behavior of his two older brothers, who are keeping secrets from him. As Cassel begins to suspect he's an unwitting pawn in a huge con game, he must unravel his past, and his memories. To find the truth, Cassel will have to out-con the conmen"--

More mayhem on the horizon with the eagerly awaited return of Spiderwick ~ Their world is closer than you think!

Cardan bliver Elfhames undergang, så måske er det på tide, at en dronning tager over!3. og sidste bind i Folk of the Air-trilogien af fantasygenrens eminente fortæller Holly Black. Klassisk fantasy, hvor magt og begær kolliderer i en historie om menneskepigen Jude, der er en udstødt, men tålt, outsider i elvernes land.Jude er sendt i eksil i menneskeverden og sidder nu som dronning af intet. Hun ulmer af had og vil hævne sig på dem, der har fået fjernet hende fra den magtfulde position i Faerie. Der kommer uventet hjælp fra hendes tvillingesøster, der opsøger hende, da hendes liv i Faerie er i fare, og kun Jude kan hjælpe hende. Jude bliver smuglet ind i Faerie og oplever en verden, hvor meget er sket i hendes fravær. Der er varslet krig, og konflikterne synes at brede sig med raketfart. En gammel forbandelse vækkes til live og spreder rædsel overalt i Faerie og tvinger Jude til at vælge mellem sine ambitioner og sin menneskelighed. Og så er der selvfølgelig Cardan. Den forræderiske, magtsyge, selvoptagede, arrogante og ... uimodståelige konge, som Jude må tage et endeligt opgør med. Folk of the Air-trilogien består af:Prinsen af ondskabKongen af mørkeDronningen af intet Folk of the Air-serien er en del af CarlsenPuls-imprintet.

Callum Hunt's life has been difficult ever since he was admitted to the Magisterium, since his father suspects him of being evil, and his closest companion is a Chaos-ridden wolf--but when he discovers that his father may be trying to destroy both him and Havoc, he escapes back to the magical world and he and his friends Aaron and Tamara, become involved in the search for the stolen Alkahest, a copper gauntlet with dangerous powers.

Iskoldt hjerte og skarpe knive!Judes ambitioner på sin lillebror Oaks vegne har kastet hende ud i en kamp for tronen, Oaks sikkerhed og hendes eget liv. Jude har sat alt på spil - selv sin egen familie - og hun er nødt til at stole på den ondskabsfulde prins Cardan, der er sat ind som midlertidig konge, indtil Oak er gammel nok til at herske.Men forholdet mellem Jude og Cardan er sprængfarligt. Hadet ulmer og truer med at antænde et livsfarligt begær hos dem begge, som de desperat kæmper imod.Og ikke nok med det, så er der forrædere blandt Judes nærmeste, som gerne ser at hun fejler.Klassisk fantasy, hvor magt og begær kolliderer i en historie om menneskepigen Jude, der er en udstødt, men tålt, outsider i elvernes land. Bind 2 i serien Folk of the Air er af fantasygenrens eminente fortæller Holly Black. Serien henvender sig til unge og voksne, og byder på samme rå men elegante fremstilling af magtbegær og uforløste følelser, som HBO-serien Game of Thrones, der lagde gaderne øde, da den kørte over skærmen. Folk of the Air-serien er en del af CarlsenPuls-imprintet, og henvender sig til læsere fra ca. 14 år.

The stakes have never been higher than in the final installment of Magisterium from the bestselling powerhouses of Holly Black and Cassandra Clare.

The Lumberjanes short stories collected for the first time in paperback!

A sinister, chilling fantasy about ancient power struggles, menacing villains and beautiful dark heroes from the author of The Spiderwick Chronicles.