The war against the Neuroi seems endless. For a young rookie Witch who is just learning to use her magic to protect her homeland and the people she loves, magical power can seem boundless. But all things must come to an end. In the concluding volume of One-Winged Witches, the Isle of Wight Detachment helps fight a pivotal battle that proves to be a major turning point in the war against the Neuroi. Unfortunately, one Witch must come to terms with the loss of her magic and everything that loss entails. Fly with Wilma Bishop and the one-winged witches of the Isle of Wight Detachment one last time!

The war against the Neuroi seems endless. For a young rookie Witch who is just learning to use her magic to protect her homeland and the people she loves, magical power can seem boundless. But all things must come to an end. In the concluding volume of One-Winged Witches, the Isle of Wight Detachment helps fight a pivotal battle that proves to be a major turning point in the war against the Neuroi. Unfortunately, one Witch must come to terms with the loss of her magic and everything that loss entails. Fly with Wilma Bishop and the one-winged witches of the Isle of Wight Detachment one last time!

In humanity's fight against the alien Neuroi, it's not just the super-aces and movie stars of the 501st Joint Fighter Wing who have stories worth telling. In this volume, Sergeant Wilma Bishop―the first character ever introduced from the Strike Witches world!―is transferred to the Isle of Wight detachment. It's the sister detachment to the famous 501st, but instead of aces, the Isle of Wight is filled with awkward, insecure newbies and the walking wounded. And yet, while these “one-winged Witches” may not be ready to soar with the aces, each one has her own story to tell.

From #1 New York Times bestselling author V.E. Schwab "Addictive and immersive, A Gathering of Shadows cements this series as a must-read." —Entertainment Weekly, grade A Four months have passed since the shadow stone fell into Kell's possession. Four months since his path crossed with Delilah Bard. Four months since Rhy was wounded and the Dane twins fell, and the stone was cast with Holland's dying body through the rift, and into Black London. In many ways, things have almost returned to normal, though Rhy is more sober, and Kell is now plagued by his guilt. Restless, and having given up smuggling, Kell is visited by dreams of ominous magical events, waking only to think of Lila, who disappeared from the docks like she always meant to do. As Red London finalizes preparations for the Element Games-an extravagant international competition of magic, meant to entertain and keep healthy the ties between neighboring countries-a certain pirate ship draws closer, carrying old friends back into port. But while Red London is caught up in the pageantry and thrills of the Games, another London is coming back to life, and those who were thought to be forever gone have returned. After all, a shadow that was gone in the night reappears in the morning, and so it seems Black London has risen again-and so to keep magic's balance, another London must fall...in V.E. Schwab's A Gathering of Shadows. Shades of Magic series 1. A Darker Shade of Magic 2. A Gathering of Shadows 3. A Conjuring of Light At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.

In a culture where the supernatural possessed an immediacy now strange to us, magic was of great importance both in the literary mythic tradition and in ritual practice. In this book, Daniel Ogden presents 300 texts in new translations, along with brief but explicit commentaries. Authors include the well known (Sophocles, Herodotus, Plato, Aristotle, Virgil, Pliny) and the less familiar, and extend across the whole of Graeco-Roman antiquity.