Daring scoundrels open up a trade route to the haunted deathlands beyond the city's lightning walls. This industrial fantasy Noir is an epic that explores the interior lives of bold criminals, the city they inhabit, and the wasteland beyond. Follow their exploits as they recruit, set up operations, secure clients, and learn the hard way about the threats within and beyond the boundaries of civilization. "Sleet Rising" is set in the world of the tabletop role playing game Blades in the Dark...

The River Stallions plot to dominate the criminal underworld in North Port, a newly reclaimed ruin in the Deathlands. Then Lord Malicoat hires the crew of scoundrels to track down a dangerous secret--while they make their move to organize crime. Can they handle corrupt cops, ancient secrets, powerful cults, insane patrons, hardened criminals, and the Spirit Wardens all at once?

Uppercut and Scarecrow handle espionage and haunting as they race a crew of thieves to steal a mystical treasure. The heist draws them into a shadowy conflict between ancient ghosts and enigmatic occultists. The scoundrels must outwit a spy, decipher tattoos, and unravel secrets to stay alive.

A heist goes wrong, somebody important gets stabbed, and crime in Silkshore loses its balance. As a gang war looms, two criminal crews maneuver through the haunted and corrupt city of Doskvol, using crime and diplomacy to survive and get paid. Based in the setting of John Harper's tabletop role playing game Blades in the Dark.

Daring thieves steal from one of the most important aristocrats in Doskvol, and a blood curse is awakened. As the city's elite focus on retribution, the scoundrels try to steal their lives back.

This landmark collection of essays by one of the world's greatest living authors makes Durs Grünbein's wide-ranging and multifaceted prose available in English for the first time, and is a welcome complement to Ashes for Breakfast, his first book-length collection of poetry in English.Covering two decades, The Bars of Atlantis unfurls the entire breadth and depth of Grünbein's essayistic genius. Memoiristic and autobiographical pieces that introdu...

Although running is becoming one of the most popular sports, learning to run properly can take time, energy and consistency.You need to do it regularly to become good at it and until you have achieved a certain level of competence, it is unlikely that you will enjoy it very much, or for very long. For many runners physical and mental barriers can stop progress.This book’s ultimate aim is to help you enjoy to run – to enjoy the feeling of movement, to overcome inertia, to re...

Chalice was once the center of a trade empire, but now it is crumbling. Three stories unfurl in the shadows of the cobbled streets. Spies, problem solvers, thieves, and occultists get tangled in various deadly mysteries. Red-headed twins help a student trapped in a duel with larger political implications. A spy returns from exile, racing his murderous shadow to find a lost woman. An occult scholar was nearly destroyed by reading a book, so he hid it--but a powerful noble found it, and thre...

For the first time as an Orbit special edition, Brent Weeks's blockbuster novella Perfect Shadow tells the origin story of the Night Angel trilogy's most enigmatic character: Durzo Blint. Also includes the short story, I, Nightangel.Gaelan Starfire is a farmer, happy to be a husband and a father; a careful, quiet, simple man. He's also an immortal, peerless in the arts of war. Over the centuries, he's worn many faces to hide his gift, but he is a ...

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BUZZFEED• ALEX AWARD WINNER • New York Times bestselling author Joe Abercrombie’s thrilling series continues in the follow-up to Half a King, which George R. R. Martin hailed as “a fast-paced tale of betrayal and revenge that grabbed me from page 1 and refused to let go.”“The Shattered Seas trilogy has worked its way into a very exclusive group of my favorite fantasy novels of all time.”—...

(Readers who recently downloaded the briefly available incorrect product can re-download this correct edition, or contact the author via her web page for an emailed copy.)The Wolverine’s Daughter is hard-tempered by her struggle to survive in the hostile Keturan mountains; she knows nothing of the Outlands, or of her father...or of the curse behind her puzzling clumsiness. But she’s about to find out what it means to visit those Outlands...and they’re about to find out what it mean...

A dark lord will rise. Such is the prophecy that dogs Ringil Eskiath—Gil, for short—a washed-up mercenary and onetime war hero whose cynicism is surpassed only by the speed of his sword. Gil is estranged from his aristocratic family, but when his mother enlists his help in freeing a cousin sold into slavery, Gil sets out to track her down. But it soon becomes apparent that more is at stake than the fate of one young woman. Grim sorceries are awakening in the land. Some speak in whispers of...