Rakuten Kobo

Skip side bar filters

The Country Under Heaven

by Frederic S. Durbin ...

"Best Books of 2025: Science Fiction" Award—The Financial Times"A Best Horror Book of the Year"—New York Public LibraryLouis L’Amour meets H.P. Lovecraft in this thrilling western epic about a former Civil War soldier wracked by enigmatic visions . . .**Set in the 1880s, the story follows Ovid Vesper, a former Union soldier who has been having enigmatic visions after surviving one of the Civil War ... Read more

$12.99 USD

"Best Books of 2025: Science Fiction" Award—The Financial Times"A Best Horror Book of the Year"—New York Public LibraryLouis L’Amour meets H.P. Lovecraft in this thrilling western epic about a former Civil War soldier wracked by enigmatic visions . . .**Set in the 1880s, the story follows Ovid Vesper, a former Union soldier who has been having enigmatic visions after surviving one of the Civil War
... Read more
A Green and Ancient Light

by Frederic S. Durbin ...

A dazzling literary fantasy akin to the work of Nghi Vo and often compared to John Connolly’s The Book of Lost Things, step into a world that parallels our own, during a war that parallels World War II, and be prepared to fall in love with this gorgeous and lyrical Realm Award-winning novel.A young boy's serene summer day is shattered by the crash of a bullet-riddled enemy plane. Further ... Read more

$9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Also available as: Audiobook

A dazzling literary fantasy akin to the work of Nghi Vo and often compared to John Connolly’s The Book of Lost Things, step into a world that parallels our own, during a war that parallels World War II, and be prepared to fall in love with this gorgeous and lyrical Realm Award-winning novel.A young boy's serene summer day is shattered by the crash of a bullet-riddled enemy plane. Further
... Read more

Also available as: Audiobook
The Star Shard

by Frederic S. Durbin ...

Cymbril feels like a bird in a cage. Her task is to sing, to draw crowds to the markets offered by Master Rombol, lord of the Thunder Rake, the only home Cymbril has known. The Rake is a city on wheels, a vast wagon that rolls over the land, its interior a labyrinth of stairways, corridors, chambers, and secret doors.When Cymbril befriends a fellow slave, a boy named Loric, one of the mysterious ... Read more

$5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Cymbril feels like a bird in a cage. Her task is to sing, to draw crowds to the markets offered by Master Rombol, lord of the Thunder Rake, the only home Cymbril has known. The Rake is a city on wheels, a vast wagon that rolls over the land, its interior a labyrinth of stairways, corridors, chambers, and secret doors.When Cymbril befriends a fellow slave, a boy named Loric, one of the mysterious
... Read more
Shadows Out Of Time

by Darrell Schweitzer, Ann K. Schwader, Don Webb, James Chambers, Robert Guffey, Gordon Linzner, Bryan D. Dietrich, John R. Fultz, Frederic S.Durbin, Nicholas Kaufmann, Tim Lees, Adrian Cole, Geoffrey Hart, Harry Turtledove, Will Murray, Robert M. Price, Keith Taylor ...

I hope the title of this book is not misleading. If you are expecting an entire volume of spinoffs from Lovecraft's The Shadow Out of Time, complete with consciousness-swapping across the aeons, cone-shaped scholarly beings compiling their archives while dinosaurs roam outside their cities and some nameless doom threatens them from below, this isn't it. I did indeed include a few stories of that ... Read more

$5.99 USD

I hope the title of this book is not misleading. If you are expecting an entire volume of spinoffs from Lovecraft's The Shadow Out of Time, complete with consciousness-swapping across the aeons, cone-shaped scholarly beings compiling their archives while dinosaurs roam outside their cities and some nameless doom threatens them from below, this isn't it. I did indeed include a few stories of that
... Read more
Audiobook

The Country Under Heaven

A Novel

by Frederic S. Durbin ...

Narrated by Zac Katz-Stein ...

Unabridged

11 hours 44 min

Louis L'Amour meets H. P. Lovecraft in this thrilling western epic about a former Civil War soldier wracked by enigmatic visions . . .Set in the 1880s, the story follows Ovid Vesper, a former Union soldier who has been having enigmatic visions after surviving one of the Civil War's most gruesome battles, the Battle of Antietam. As he travels across the country following those visions, he finds ... Read more

$24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Louis L'Amour meets H. P. Lovecraft in this thrilling western epic about a former Civil War soldier wracked by enigmatic visions . . .Set in the 1880s, the story follows Ovid Vesper, a former Union soldier who has been having enigmatic visions after surviving one of the Civil War's most gruesome battles, the Battle of Antietam. As he travels across the country following those visions, he finds
... Read more
Audiobook

A Green and Ancient Light

by Frederic S. Durbin ...

Narrated by Matthew Lloyd Davies ...

Unabridged

10 hours 9 min

Set in a world similar to our own, during a war that parallels World War II, a young boy who is sent to stay at his grandmother's for the summer in a serene fishing village is met with the adventure of a lifetime. Their tranquility is shattered by the crash of a bullet-riddled enemy plane, the arrival of grandmother's friend, Mr. Girandole—a man who knows the true story of Cinderella's slipper—and ... Read more

$24.99 USD

Also available as: eBook

Set in a world similar to our own, during a war that parallels World War II, a young boy who is sent to stay at his grandmother's for the summer in a serene fishing village is met with the adventure of a lifetime. Their tranquility is shattered by the crash of a bullet-riddled enemy plane, the arrival of grandmother's friend, Mr. Girandole—a man who knows the true story of Cinderella's slipper—and
... Read more

Also available as: eBook

Audiobook

The Door in the Hedge

And Other Stories

by Robin McKinley ...

Narrated by Bianca Amato ...

Unabridged

6 hours 54 min

From ensorcelled princesses to a frog that speaks, an enchanting collection of fairy tales from the Newbery Medal–winning author.The last mortal kingdom before the unmeasured sweep of Faerieland begins has at best held an uneasy truce with its unpredictable neighbor. There is nothing to show a boundary, at least on the mortal side of it; and if any ordinary human creature ever saw a faerie—or at ... Read more

$20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Also available as: eBook

From ensorcelled princesses to a frog that speaks, an enchanting collection of fairy tales from the Newbery Medal–winning author.The last mortal kingdom before the unmeasured sweep of Faerieland begins has at best held an uneasy truce with its unpredictable neighbor. There is nothing to show a boundary, at least on the mortal side of it; and if any ordinary human creature ever saw a faerie—or at
... Read more

Also available as: eBook
Audiobook

Unnatural Magic

by C. M. Waggoner ...

Narrated by Shiromi Arserio ...

Unabridged

13 hours 43 min

Onna Gebowa is determined to become a great wizard. She can write the parameters of a spell faster than any of the young men in her village school. But despite her incredible abilities, she’s denied a place at the nation’s premier arcane academy. Undaunted, she sails to the bustling city-state of Hexos, hoping to find a place at a university where they don’t think there’s anything untoward about ... Read more

$22.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Also available as: eBook

Onna Gebowa is determined to become a great wizard. She can write the parameters of a spell faster than any of the young men in her village school. But despite her incredible abilities, she’s denied a place at the nation’s premier arcane academy. Undaunted, she sails to the bustling city-state of Hexos, hoping to find a place at a university where they don’t think there’s anything untoward about
... Read more

Also available as: eBook
Audiobook

The Malice

by Peter Newman ...

Narrated by Jot Davies ...

Series Audiobook 2 - The Vagrant Trilogy
Unabridged

14 hours 43 min

‘The Malice was entertaining and riveting, with almost never a dull moment. … Do yourself a favour, buy this book. And the first one, too, if you don’t already own it. You will regret nothing.’ – Geeks of DoomIn the south, the Breach stirs.Gamma’s sword, the Malice, wakes, calling to be taken to battle once more.But the Vagrant has found a home now, made a life and so he turns his back, ignoring ... Read more

$31.99 USD

‘The Malice was entertaining and riveting, with almost never a dull moment. … Do yourself a favour, buy this book. And the first one, too, if you don’t already own it. You will regret nothing.’ – Geeks of DoomIn the south, the Breach stirs.Gamma’s sword, the Malice, wakes, calling to be taken to battle once more.But the Vagrant has found a home now, made a life and so he turns his back, ignoring
... Read more
Audiobook

The Tiger and the Wolf

Epic shapeshifter fantasy from the award-winning master of SF/F

by Adrian Tchaikovsky ...

Narrated by Kyla Garcia ...

Series Audiobook 1 - Echoes of the Fall
Unabridged

22 hours 6 min

**In the bleak northern crown of the world, war is coming. The first in the Echoes of the Fall series, The Tiger and the Wolf is an epic fantasy by Adrian Tchaikovsky.‘Addictively brilliant’ – John Gwynne, author of Malice**Maniye hides a deadly secret. Her father is the chieftan of the Wolf clan, whose members can shift into wolves. Her mother was the queen of the Tiger clan, whose members can ... Read more

$22.81 USD

**In the bleak northern crown of the world, war is coming. The first in the Echoes of the Fall series, The Tiger and the Wolf is an epic fantasy by Adrian Tchaikovsky.‘Addictively brilliant’ – John Gwynne, author of Malice**Maniye hides a deadly secret. Her father is the chieftan of the Wolf clan, whose members can shift into wolves. Her mother was the queen of the Tiger clan, whose members can
... Read more
Audiobook

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

by N. K. Jemisin ...

Narrated by Casaundra Freeman ...

Series Audiobook 1 - The Inheritance Trilogy
Unabridged

11 hours 47 min

After her mother's mysterious death, a young woman is summoned to the floating city of Sky in order to claim a royal inheritance she never knew existed in the first book in this award-winning fantasy trilogy from the NYT bestselling author of The Fifth Season.Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned to the majestic ... Read more

$27.99 USD

Also available as: eBook

After her mother's mysterious death, a young woman is summoned to the floating city of Sky in order to claim a royal inheritance she never knew existed in the first book in this award-winning fantasy trilogy from the NYT bestselling author of The Fifth Season.Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned to the majestic
... Read more

Also available as: eBook
Audiobook

A Gathering of Shadows

A Novel

by V. E. Schwab ...

Narrated by Kate Reading, Michael Kramer ...

Series Audiobook 2 - Shades of Magic
Unabridged

16 hours 9 min

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. ... Read more

$32.99 USD

Also available as: eBook

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.
... Read more

Also available as: eBook

Rakuten Kobo

eReaders

Apps

Accessories

What is Kobo Super Points?

Reward Yourself

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Your Shopping Cart is empty

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Recommended For You

“frederic s durbin”

The Country Under Heaven

A Green and Ancient Light

The Star Shard

Shadows Out Of Time

The Country Under Heaven

A Green and Ancient Light

People who read these also enjoyed

The Door in the Hedge

Unnatural Magic

The Malice

The Tiger and the Wolf

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

A Gathering of Shadows

eReaders

Apps

Accessories

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Your Shopping Cart is empty

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Recommended For You

“frederic s durbin”

Show:

People who read these also enjoyed