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Winner: 2017 Hugo AwardWinner: 2017 Alex AwardWinner: 2017 Locus AwardWinner: 2016 Nebula AwardNominated: 2017 World Fantasy AwardNominated: 2017 British Fantasy Award2016 Tiptree Honor List"e;A mini-masterpiece of portal fantasy - a jewel of a book that deserves to be shelved with Lewis Carroll's and C. S. Lewis' classics"e; -NPREleanor West's Home for Wayward Children No Solicitations No Visitors No QuestsChildren have always disappeared under the right conditions; slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe, tumbling down rabbit holes and into old wells, and emerging somewhere... else.But magical lands have little need for used-up miracle children.Nancy tumbled once, but now she's back. The things she's experienced... they change a person. The children under Miss West's care understand all too well. And each of them is seeking a way back to their own fantasy world.But Nancy's arrival marks a change at the Home. There's a darkness just around each corner, and when tragedy strikes, it's up to Nancy and her new-found schoolmates to get to the heart of things.No matter the cost.The Wayward Children SeriesBook 1: Every Heart a DoorwayBook 2: Down Among the Sticks and BonesBook 3: Beneath the Sugar SkyBook 4: In an Absent DreamPRAISE FOR EVERY HEART A DOORWAY"e;Seanan McGuire has long been one of the smartest writers around, and with this novella we can easily see that her heart is as big as her brain. We know this story isn't true, but it is truth."e; - Charlaine Harris, New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse series (TV's True Blood)"e;Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire is one of the most extraordinary stories I've ever read."e; - V. E. Schwab, New York Times bestselling author of A Gathering of Shadows"e;Seanan McGuire once again demonstrates her intimate knowledge of the human heart in a powerful fable of loss, yearning and damaged children."e; - Paul Cornell, author of London Falling and Witches of Lychford"e;So mindblowingly good, it hurts."e; - io9"e;With Every Heart a Doorway, McGuire has created her own mini-masterpiece of portal fantasy - a jewel of a book that deserves to be shelved with Lewis Carroll's and C. S. Lewis' classics, even as it carves its own precocious space between them."e; - NPRAt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

SPIDER-GEDDON rocks Gwen Stacy's world! As her fellow Spiders battle the vicious Inheritors, Gwen finds herself exiled to a parallel dimension! Can she help stop the Inheritors from wreaking havoc across the Web of Life and Destiny? Or will she fall before one of her most personal enemies yet: the Gwen Goblin?! Meanwhile, Mary Jane's perfectionist vision for their band is driving Gwen crazy¿her father is pressuring her to return to school¿and something sinister is stalking the streets of New York. Can Gwen track down the thing that goes bump in the night? Or will she become one more victim of the Man-Wolf?! Plus: Gwen teams up with Spider-Man - and finally embraces her new codename! Collecting SPIDER-GEDDON: GHOST-SPIDER VIDEO COMIC and SPIDER-GWEN: GHOST-SPIDER #1-10.

Wanda and Peter Parker embrace great responsibility in the next adventure of an epic multiversal series that reimages iconic Marvel origin stories.So many worlds, so little time. Infinite possibilities, creating infinite realities. Long have I watched death court the Scarlet Witch. But ... what if Wanda didn't have to suffer her grief alone?All Wanda has ever known is her friendly little neighborhood in Queens. As an infant, after her parents died, she was adopted into a family where her doting Aunt May and Uncle Ben will always be at the breakfast table. One that includes her idiot brother, Peter Parker, who thinks hiding a spider bite, joining a secret fight club, and becoming a super hero are somehow good ideas.When Wanda's own powers emerge, blood, chaos, and suspicion follow in their wake. But as she harnesses her power under the guidance of Doctor Strange, Peter is standing beside her in the Sanctum Sanctorum. And as they try to protect New York City, the Parker siblings learn that with great powers, there must also come great responsibilities-and greater loss.Reeling from tragedy, Wanda finds herself truly alone for the first time in her life. Peter is lost to his own grief, and so she must strike out on her own. But on her first solo outing, she runs into a mysterious speedster - a man named Pietro. And everything she has ever known shatters like glass.Faced with unbelievable truths, Wanda is forced to choose between the life she knows and the life she could have.

Wanda and Peter Parker embrace great responsibility in the next adventure of an epic multiversal series that reimagines iconic Marvel origin stories.So many worlds, so little time. Infinite possibilities, creating infinite realities. Long have I watched death court the Scarlet Witch. But . . . what if Wanda didn’t have to suffer her grief alone?All Wanda has ever known is her friendly little neighborhood in Queens. As an infant, after her parents died, she was adopted into a family where her doting Aunt May and Uncle Ben would always be at the breakfast table. One that includes her idiot brother, Peter Parker, who thinks hiding a spider bite, joining a secret fight club, and becoming a super hero are somehow good ideas.When Wanda’s own powers emerge, blood, chaos, and suspicion follow in their wake. But as she learns to harness her power under the guidance of Doctor Strange, Peter is standing beside her in the Sanctum Sanctorum. And as they try to protect New York City, the Parker siblings learn that with great powers, there must also come great responsibilities—and greater losses.Reeling from tragedy, Wanda finds herself truly alone for the first time in her life. Peter is lost to his own grief, and so she must forge ahead on her own. But on her first solo outing, she runs into a mysterious speedster—a man named Pietro. And everything she has ever known shatters like glass.Faced with unbelievable truths, Wanda is forced to choose between the life she knows and the life she could have.

Every night, a Moon shines down on the Impossible City...New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire takes us back to the world of the award-winning Alchemical Journeys series in this action-packed follow-up to Middlegame and Seasonal Fears.All across the world, people look up at the moon and dream of gods. Gods of knowledge and wisdom, gods of tides and longevity. Over time, some of these moon gods incarnated into the human world alongside the other manifest natural concepts. Their job is to cross the sky above the Impossible City-the heart of all creation-to keep it connected to reality.And someone is killing them.There are so many of them that it's easy for a few disappearances to slip through the cracks. But they aren't limitless.In the name of the moon, the lunar divinities must uncover the roots of the plot and thwart the true goal of those behind these attacks-control of the Impossible City itself.

Portals and danger, and a girl who can find both in the next book in the Hugo and Nebula Award-Winning Wayward Children series from Seanan McGuire.Antsy is the latest student to pass through the doors at Eleanor West's School for Wayward Children.When the school's (literally irresistible) mean girl realizes that Antsy's talent for finding absolutely anything may extend to doors, Antsy is forced to flee in the company of a small group of friends, looking for a way back to the Shop Where the Lost Things Go to be sure that Vineta and Hudson are keeping their promise.Along the way, they will travel from a world which hides painful memories that cut as sharply as its beauty, to a land that time wasn't yet old enough to forget-and more than one student's life will change forever.Mislaid in Parts Half-Known is a story that reminds us that getting what you want doesn't always mean finding what you need.

Collects SPIDER-GWEN: GHOST-SPIDER #1-10, SPIDER-GEDDON: GHOST-SPIDER VIDEO COMIC, GHOST-SPIDER #1-10 and ANNUAL #1, KING IN BLACK: GWENOM VS. CARNAGE #1-3, WEB WARRIORS #1-11 and material from AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (2015) #1. Gwen Stacy returns¿as Ghost-Spider! But the interdimensional events of Spider-Geddon are about to rock her world, and soon, she will face her own evil self: the Gwen Goblin! Meanwhile, Mary Jane's vision for their band is driving Gwen crazy, her father is pressuring her to return to school and something sinister stalks the New York City of Gwen's Earth-65. So Gwen enrolls in classes in the Marvel Universe instead! But the newest student at ESU has caught the Jackal's deadly eye! And when the King in Black plunges Gwen's adoptive home into darkness, get ready for Gwenom vs. Carnage! Plus: Whatever happened to the Susan and Johnny Storm of Earth-65? And look back to Gwen's time with the dimension-hopping Web-Warriors!

Two fan favourite planeswalkers, Ajani Goldmane and Nahiri The Lithomancer, take centre stage in this standalone collection!

Winner: 2022 Hugo Award for Best SeriesIn Where the Drowned Girls Go, the next addition to Seanan McGuire''s beloved Wayward Children series, students at an anti-magical school rebel against the oppressive faculty"Welcome to the Whitethorn Institute. The first step is always admitting you need help, and youΓÇÖve already taken that step by requesting a transfer into our company."There is another school for children who fall through doors and fall back out again.It isn''t as friendly as Eleanor West''s Home for Wayward Children.And it isn''t as safe.When Eleanor West decided to open her school, her sanctuary, her "Home for Wayward Children," she knew from the beginning that there would be children she couldnΓÇÖt save; when Cora decides she needs a different direction, a different fate, a different prophecy, Miss West reluctantly agrees to transfer her to the other school, where things are run very differently by Whitethorn, the Headmaster.She will soon discover that not all doors are welcoming...

When the mask comes off, can you handle what's underneath?

The first instalment of the highly praised Toby Daye series.The world of Faerie never disappeared; it merely went into hiding, continuing to exist parallel to our own. Secrecy is the key to Faerie's survival: but no secret can be kept forever, and when the fae and mortal worlds collide, changelings are born.Outsiders from birth, these children spend their lives fighting for the respect of their immortal relations. Or in the case of October 'Toby' Daye, rejecting the fae completely. Toby has retreated into a 'normal' life - spending her nights stocking shelves at a San Francisco grocery store and her days asleep in her downtown apartment.But when Countess Evening Winterroseis murdered, Toby finds herself drawn abruptly back into the world she thought she'd left behind. It's going to take everything she's got just to stay alive, and the stakes are higher than anyone has guessed . . .