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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...

Les Romains sont en train d'envahir la Gaulle. Teutagonos, un guerrier celte chevauchant un griffon est placé au service de Vercingétorix.

Half a decade into a nuclear winter that was expected to end five summers ago, a 16-year-old Korean boy is doing his best to survive and keep his family alive on the southern half of the peninsula. Over the course of the year, he and his uncle will serve as scouts for their family compound and meet 21 other groups of post-war survivors who will test the boy’s own sense of values and what it means to be alive in the first place.

In the aftermath of King Arthur Pendragon’s death, Britain stands on the edge of ruin. The once-united Knights of the Round Table are fractured and lost without their king. Determined to protect Arthur’s legacy, the legendary wizard Merlin embarks on a mission to ensure his king’s memory endures. But Merlin’s journey is far from simple.

Ein Ingenieur aus dem 21. Jahrhundert findet sich im Körper eines Lehrjungen aus der Zeit Peters des Großen wieder. In einer Zeit, gezeichnet von Schmutz, harter Arbeit und einem blutigen Krieg gegen Schweden. Dabei will er einfach nur überleben und in der Welt vorankommen. Ach ja, und den Fortschritt vorantreiben … alles für den Fortschritt und die Weiterentwicklung! Gesprochen von Dominik Steffens Toningenieure: Matthew Badrin, Vlad Badrin Editorin: Vivienne Schiefner. Musik: audionautix.com. ISBN: 979-8-89858-103-9

Gerade erst aus Hongkong zurückgekehrt, erhält Phileas Fogg einen Hilferuf: Der berühmte Forscher Sir Ethan Ramsay ist spurlos verschwunden. Seine Spur führt Fogg und die Archäologin Elena Vargas in die nebelverhangenen Anden Perus, auf der Suche nach der sagenumwobenen Stadt Paititi. Inmitten alter Tempel, tödlicher Fallen und verfolgt von gnadenlosen Schatzjägern, stoßen sie auf ein uraltes Vermächtnis: Die goldene Tafel der Inka, die den Weg zu einer Stadt aus Licht und Legenden weist.

Bloomsbury presents A Beautiful Lie by Irfan Master, read by Neil Shah An extraordinarily rich debut novel, set in India in 1947 at the time of Partition, touching on the importance of tolerance, love and family. The main character is Bilal, a boy determined to protect his dying father from the...