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"The King of the Golden River" is the magical story of a boy named Gluck, his evil brothers, and a dangerous quest to find treasure lurking in the Golden River. It is a classic tale and the only fairy tale the famous English author and critic ever wrote. It could also be classified as a fable or parable since it it explains "how things came to be".

The secret contract Daniel accepts to hunt down a powerful and dangerous destroyer should set his career for life. But it’s a lie. Marina is not trying to destroy River’s Edge. She’s trying to save it, but is she willing to give up everything to rescue strangers?

Late at night our friend wanders a little and ponders quite a lot on a long walk along a river looking for a reason to keep on living. He meets up with a troll and a few other all-night ghouls as he drifts along, searching for purpose. They all find it amazing our friend can negotiate his way through the day posing as a teacher.

Grace Brooks is a total and unashamed nerd. She loves her life, her friends, and her little dog Neutrino. That is until one day she’s uprooted to Miller’s Island, North Carolina, to start over as the new kid in school. There she meets Jack, and they quickly bond over their love of science and all things nerdy. Together they embark on an epic adventure, travelling through time to solve the mystery of The Toxic River.

Before he can be reborn, Zan has spent 499 years bound in a 500-year curse to process souls for the monstrous Ferryman—and if he fails, he dies. In Portland, Bastian is grieving. He survived a car accident that took his mother and impulse-purchased a crumbling bookstore with the life insurance money. But in sleep, death’s mark keeps dragging Bastian into Zan’s office. It shouldn’t be a problem to log his soul and forget he ever existed. But when Zan follows Bastian through his memories of grief and hope, Zan realizes that he is not ready for Bastian to die.

A third scar appears, pointing Ret to the Amazon rain forest, the Sahara Desert, and ultimately the City of Gold. Trouble at every turn, in lands where deadly curses abound. Somewhere, between golden arches and ancient ruins, an age-old secret is waiting to be uncovered. Ret’s enemies are multiplying, a grim reality that will try the hearts of his friends. The Oracle is wasting no time now, clearly hastening the gathering of its elements. Things are in full motion; Ret feels this. So does Lye; he is ready - and waiting.

Seventeen-year-old Cardinal has escaped the virus that ravaged his town, leaving its victims alive but without their memories. Choosing to remain in the quarantined zone, he cares for a group of orphaned kids in a mountain camp with the help of the former brutal school bully, now transformed by the virus into his best friend. But then a strong-willed and mysterious young woman appears, and the closed-off world Cardinal has created begins to crumble.

The Betarrinis and the boys they love are back with these two novellas that follow Waterfall, Cascade and Torrent. In Bourne, the story picks up right where Torrent left off... Find out what has happened to wounded warriors returning from battle, to the Betarrinis, fighting for the men who've captured their hearts, and what will happen to them next... A year later, in Tributary, Lia struggles to overcome the fear that constant battle has heaped upon her; Gabi and Marcello face an unexpected crisis.

My name is Kasia Maier. Most girls my age are preparing for college, learning at summer jobs, and trying not to mess up dates. Not me. I'm preparing for life underwater, learning that my voice hypnotizes people, and trying not to kill guys with a kiss. I'm still human… for now. Several things could change that in the next few days.

18-year-old Kasia Maier planned to spend her summer studying turtles in the sand prairie, not trudging through fearsome backwaters with her new coworker, Blayne. And when a monster drags Blayne into the Mississippi River, Kasia never expected herself to jump in after him. She saves him, but soon she's discovering the monstrous in other places... including herself.

Der spannende Kampf um den Thron geht weiter! Nachdem Eva es nicht über sich gebracht hat, ihre Schwester im Kampf um den Thron zu töten, flieht sie aus Ternain – und nimmt Isa gegen deren Willen mit. Begleitet von Aketo und einigen treuen Gefolgsleuten machen sie sich auf den Weg Richtung Norden. Dort will Eva nicht nur Verbündete finden, sondern auch die Familie ihres Vaters, um das Rätsel ihrer Herkunft und ihres magischen Erbes endlich zu lösen.

What do you do when your knight in shining armor lives, literally, in a different world? Most American teenagers want a vacation in Italy, but the Betarrini sisters have spent every summer of their lives among the romantic hills with their archaeologist parents. Stuck among the rubble of medieval castles in rural Tuscany on yet another hot, dusty archaeological site, Gabi and Lia are bored out of their minds … until Gabi places her hand atop a handprint in an ancient tomb and finds herself in 14th-century Italy.

Would you sacrifice your future... for an uncertain past? Gabriella and Evangelia Betarrini are just two normal American teenagers. Normal - except for the fact that they time travel to fourteenth-century Italy, where they’ve lived in castles, become swept up in historic battles, and fallen in love with handsome knights willing to do anything to keep them alive.

Um welches Leben kämpfst du? Um dein eigenes oder das deiner Schwester? Früher war ihre große Schwester Isadore alles für Evalina: ihre beste Freundin, ihre Lehrerin in Hofetikette und ihre Beschützerin. Doch nun, wo ihr siebzehnter Namenstag kurz bevorsteht, sind die beiden nur noch eins füreinander: Rivalinnen im tödlichen Kampf um den Thron ihrer Mutter - ein grausames Geschenk ihrer Vorfahrin Rheina, der ersten Menschenkönigin von Myre. Rheina hatte ihre Magika der Knochen und des Blutes missbraucht, um die Macht über Myre zu erlangen. Sie hatte Tausende dafür getötet. Sogar ihre eigene Schwester.

Soojin kannte die Regeln: Bringe niemals etwas anderes als Kleintiere von den Toten zurück. Aber das war, bevor Mirae letzten Herbst im Fluss ertrank. Außer sich vor Trauer und Einsamkeit, nutzt Soojin die Magie ihrer Vorfahren, um ihre Schwester zurückzubekommen.

In a world where fairy lives are traded for miracles, a river trader receives a mysterious job that could change the shape of his world forever in this thrilling young adult fantasy from New York Times bestselling author Scott Reintgen. Kill a fairy, get a miracle. That was the cruel logic...

Bloomsbury presents River Secrets by Shannon Hale, read by Chris Gaines In this third book in New York Times bestselling, Newbery Honor-winning author Shannon Hale's beloved YA fantasy series Books of Bayern, Razo must become the unlikely hero his country needs. Razo has never considered himself...

Nearly two decades after the fall, the transcendent city of Iris is the only place rumored to have a cure to the disease that decimated the world. Beyond Iris are the remnants of the old world, crawling with the Depraved. Infected with Lethe, they no longer remember the people or dreams they were once willing to fight for, and are left, instead, with familiar voices that whisper dark and unfamiliar words within their minds. Instinct is all that keeps the diseased struggling to exist another day.

A high stakes, action-packed romantasy from bestselling author Emily Varga where a relic-hunter searches for an ancient fae object to restore the magic to her world, but must learn to trust her own powers—and her heart. "[Narrator Safiyya] Ingar commands the listener's attention with her...

*NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* *INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* Discover the high stakes, action-packed romantic fantasy hit of the summer! Featuring a relic-hunter searching for an ancient Fae object to restore the magic to her world - and the cold-eyed Fae captain seeking the same...