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Through the Looking-Glass Series

Embark on an epic fantasy journey to a world of floating sky islands, each ruled by an immortal ancestral spirit. Follow a resourceful young woman with extraordinary abilities as she navigates a treacherous landscape of political intrigue and ancient secrets among powerful clans. This series offers a captivating blend of magic, mystery, and self-discovery, where courage and wit are essential to uncovering hidden truths in a world fractured by a cosmic cataclysm.

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The Missing of Clairdelune
The Memory of Babel
Das Gedächtnis von Babel
The Storm of Echoes
A Winter's Promise

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    A Winter's Promise

    • 492 pages
    • 18 hours of reading
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    Long ago, following a cataclysm called 'The Tear,' the world was shattered into many floating celestial islands. Known now as Arks, each has developed in distinct ways and at a different pace; each seems to possess its own unique relationship to time. Ophelia lives on Anima, an ark where objects have souls, with which Ophelia can communicate. When she is promised in marriage to Thorn, from the powerful Dragon clan, Ophelia must leave her family and follow her fiancee to the floating capital on the distant Ark of the Pole. Though she doesn't know it yet, she has become a pawn in a deadly plot.

    A Winter's Promise
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    The Missing of Clairdelune

    • 516 pages
    • 19 hours of reading
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    Book Two in the Internationally Bestselling Mirror Visitor Quartet WINNER of the 2021 Prix Albertine Jeunesse In book two of the bestselling Mirror Visitor Quartet, "the plots multiply, the world of the Arks gains depth, details abound, and the story envelops the reader as the pages fly by." (Le Monde des ados) When Ophelia is promoted to Vice-storyteller by Farouk, the ancestral Spirit of Pole, she finds herself unexpectedly thrust into the public spotlight. her gift--the ability to read the secret history of objects--is now known by all, and there can be no greater threat to the nefarious denizens of her icy adopted home than this. Beneath the golden rafters of Pole's capitol, she discovers that the only person she may be able to trust is Thorn, her enigmatic and emotionally distant fiancé. As one influential courtier after another disappears, Ophelia again finds herself unintentionally implicated in an investigation that will lead her to see beyond Pole's many illusions to the heart of a formidable truth.

    The Missing of Clairdelune
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    Das Gedächtnis von Babel

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    Fast drei Jahre hat Ophelia Thorn nicht mehr gesehen. Auf ihre Heimatarche Anima verbannt, fristet sie ein ereignisloses Dasein. Bis sie auf eine Postkarte stößt, die ihr einen wertvollen Hinweis gibt. Und so reist sie heimlich nach Babel, einer Arche mit strikten Vorschriften und argwöhnischen Bewohnern, die Robotern mehr gleichen als Menschen. Dort angekommen, muss sie sich als \"Lehrling\" beweisen und sieht sich plötzlich in eine tödliche Geschichte verstrickt ... Auf einer Arche, die aus tausend Inseln besteht und wo Menschen mechanisch absurden Gesetzen folgen, muss sich Ophelia allein durch ein immer bedrohlicheres Geflecht an Lügen kämpfen - und kommt auf ihrer Suche nach Thorn der \"letzten Wahrheit\" riskant nah.

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    The Memory of Babel

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    In this third volume of the Christelle Dabos's bestselling saga, Ophelia, the mirror-traveling heroine, finds herself on the ark of Babel guarding a secret that may provide a key both to the past and the future. After two years and seven months biding her time on Anima, her home ark, it's finally time to act, to put what she has discovered in the Book of Farouk to use. Under an assumed identity she travels to Babel, a cosmopolitan and thoroughly modern ark that is the jewel of the universe. Will Ophelia's talent as a reader suffice to avoid being lured into a deadly trap by her ever more fearful adversaries? Will she ever see Thorn, her betrothed, again?

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