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Paris, 1942. Servane a dix-sept ans. La faim, le rationnement et la peur des arrestations règlent ses journées. Pour elle, endurer, c'est rester du bon côté. Paul, ancien militaire désabusé, trafique avec tous. Pour lui, profiter, c'est se maintenir. Mais en 1943, le marché noir, combattu par Vichy, change de statut. Les livraisons deviennent plus laborieuses pour certains, plus nobles pour d'autres.

Can one girl survive? An easy mission promises to be Risuko’s last. Kano Murasaki (called Risuko), Emi, and Toumi are accompanying a spoiled young noblewoman to her wedding. What should be a simple assignment—get the bride to the wedding, make sure she’s properly dressed—is anything but. Because someone wants the lady dead. And because Risuko and her friends aren’t just lady’s maids. They are kunoichi. Trained spies, assassins—and in this case, bodyguards.

Read the timeless classic about the fiery orphan Anne Shirley, now a school principal, behind the hit Netflix series Anne with an E—nowcelebrating a hundred years of this children’s favorite. Anne Shirley has left Redmond College behind and is ready to start a new job and a new chapter of...

As Benjamin Franklin launched his kite into the lightning-streaked, rumbling skies of Philadelphia, a chicken was there. When Paul Revere rode out into the cloudless night to warn the patriots that an army marched at their doorsteps, a chicken was there. As a woman knelt on the cold, hard floor of a Baltimore brewery, stitching together the flag that would inspire a nation, a chicken was there. Now, for the first time ever, the chickens who witnessed the birth of a nation will tell their stories.

Wartime Kent. Devastated, Juliet returns to her mother's ancestral home in Dungeness to stay with her sister and recover from the loss of her fiancé, Xander, a dashing Spitfire pilot. However, while sheltering with a group of young airmen during an air raid, she uncovers a truth about Xander that challenges everything she believed she knew about him. To restore her faith in herself and love, she must solve the tragic murder of local girl Minnie Munday, with the help of the spirit of Samphire House and an unlikely hero...

Bloomsbury presents Bridget and Gabe Are Not Okay by Lex Croucher, read by Theodora Taylor and Kishore Walker Return to Camelot in the much anticipated and funny follow-up to the instant New York Times bestselling and YA Book Prize winning Gwen & Art Are Not in Love They fell in love. They won a...

All the odds are against her. She's young. She's female. She's from the rough end of town. But there's nowt ordinary about Lena Matthews. When thirteen-year-old Lena is taken from Manchester's back-to-back terraces to the imposing Norfolk House in the Derbyshire mill town of Glossop after a family tragedy, she expects safety. Instead, she finds a house full of secrets, whispered conversations and people who seem determined to hide the truth. The servants watch everything. The family keep their own counsel.

Maya, Kendra, and Destiny thought their day off from school would be all fun and freedom. They had no idea history had other plans. Maya Johnson has one plan for October 11th, Black Girls Day Off. She and her best friends Kendra and Destiny are going to ditch school, explore Orlando’s Black owned bookstores, and spend a day made for girls like them. Then they walk into Sankofa Books. A mysterious book falls open. And nothing will ever be the same. A portal pulls all three girls through time, dropping them with no way back into the most defining moments in Black American history.

Thomas Kendrick hat eine Vertretungsstelle als Arzt im hohen Norden Kanadas angenommen. Das Leben in der Wildnis fordert ihn heraus: Welches Geheimnis verbirgt der Trapper, der ihn von seinem Grundstück jagt? Welche Absichten verfolgt der „Mann mit dem Raubvogelgesicht"? Und wie begegnet man einer Grippe-Epidemie, besonders wenn die Medizin knapp wird?

Something is stalking the queen of England, and Irene Adler is ready to find whatever monster may lurk behind this new gruesome string of murders—with or without the help of Sherlock Holmes. Irene Adler and Sherlock Holmes were both sent away from Oxford’s All Souls class after uncovering a...

Bei diesem Drachenjäger schlägt Lysaras Herz höher … bis ein einziger Moment sie zu seiner Beute macht, einer Drachenträgerin. Senric ist alles, was sie nun hassen sollte: diszipliniert, tödlich und seinem Schwur gegenüber bedingungslos loyal. Ein Jäger, ausgebildet, das Feuer auszurotten, das ganze Städte verschlingt. Und doch ist sie es, die sein Herz in Brand setzt. Während in ihr ein störrischer Drache erwacht, muss Lysara nicht nur lernen, seine Launen unter Kontrolle zu bringen, sondern auch gegen die Männer anzukommen, die sie als Bedrohung sehen.

Bill möchte mehr sein als der Junge, über den alle lachen. Obwohl er als Pferdeflüsterer außergewöhnliches Talent besitzt, haftet ihm auf der Shiloh-Ranch noch immer der Ruf des ungeschickten Außenseiters an. Nur sein Großvater Old John und der Indianer Kajika glauben an ihn und sind überzeugt, dass er seinen eigenen Weg finden wird. Als Trail-Boss James Averill einen großen Viehtrieb nach Miles City übernimmt, erhält Bill die Chance, sich unter erfahrenen Cowboys zu beweisen.

Jeder Traum hat ein Ende. Effy hat es geschafft: Endlich darf sie als erste Frau in Llyr Literatur studieren! Doch die Ereignisse der letzten Zeit lasten schwer auf ihr. Zumal ihre männlichen Kommilitonen sie alles andere als herzlich willkommen heißen. Einzig Preston gibt ihr Halt – der jedoch selbst zu kämpfen hat.

Remember the Alamo—And Its Secret Treasure! What was supposed to be a week of summer fun in San Antonio, Texas, for high school seniors Ben Prescott, Porter Rockwell, and Latch McRae soon turns into another deep dive into forgotten American lore—and clues to a lost treasure! By now, it’s instinct: Ben plans. Porter charges. Latch fixes what breaks. At an auction house in San Antonio, they come across an antique powder horn from the Texas Revolution covered in strange scrimshaw symbols. These point to frontiersman and Alamo defender Jim Bowie.

History remembers kings and conquerors. But the real story was happening in the shadows. A spy hiding a red cord in a doomed city. A left-handed assassin walking into a tyrant’s palace. A foreign girl gathering scraps to survive. A woman racing through the night to stop a future king from destroying his own legacy. These are not the stories you were taught. In The God of the Outcasts, Lorcan Pike brings the lesser-known figures of the Old Testament into sharp, gritty focus —stripping away the polish to reveal stories of survival, tension, and quiet defiance. Each story stands alone.

Sitting hidden in the branches of an oak tree, Cecily de Malet watches a woman die slowly in the window of a great manor house. The woman's face is her own. She would rather vanish from time itself than become her. Cecily has fourteen days to escape a forced marriage to a man old enough to be her grandfather—a powerful lord who collects young wives the way other men collect land. Her only option is her grandfather Anton’s forbidden machine, a device she was warned never to touch. She touches it anyway.

In the future, major corporations become more powerful than nations and lead the expansion into space. Many have their own military to protect their assets across the galaxy. When a young man facing a bleak future leaps into action during an assault on his home planet, he is recruited by the company to join their elite Mech division. But Ace Evans is more than just a soldier... and he'll face a rising threat with plans to dominate the entire galaxy.

In the misty lowlands of post-war Scotland, near the winding River Nith, an ancient castle looms. Its north tower casts long shadows over the townsfolk who dare not enter. They call it cursed. People disappear. Whispers of betrayal and blood echo through its crumbling halls, and even in daylight, Doomfrys Castle feels alive with watchful eyes. Michael, a weary American soldier fresh from the battlefields of World War II, sets out to tour the British countryside before returning home to Virginia.

One of the last families to live at the edge of the swamplands, Elnora Comstock and her widowed mother struggle to make ends meet, without giving up their land and the memories it holds. As she starts high school in town, Elnora realizes that her poverty, unusual upbringing, and love of nature...

A deliciously twisted, fast-paced YA horror, where debutante dreams become bloody nightmares—perfect for fans of House of Hollow and Their Vicious Games. It’s 1921, and Mrs. Caroline Reginald Kane, the last surviving descendant of a family of oil barons, has invited four young debutantes to...