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Nieve Monroe is devastated after her boyfriend Carter dies saving her from drowning. Even worse she blames herself for his death… and so does his best friend, Max. He was there with them on that fateful day, and he’s never liked Nieve. Unable to pull herself from her grief and wanting to hide from the accusation in his eyes, Nieve goes to stay with her grandmother, who has always had strange stories to tell of uncanny happenings, of magic and make believe. The next morning, Nieve wakes up on the first day of college, the year before.

Sixteen-year-old Charise “Char” Tang is desperate to ditch her dead-end small town. So when she’s invited to a highly selective hackathon at MIT, she seizes the opportunity to jet across the country, spend the summer building an app, and maybe even snag the top prize—a golden ticket to a new life. When she arrives, she teams up with Khoi Astor, coding wunderkind and creator of last year’s biggest mobile game. Khoi, who has soft eyes and a gentle smile. Khoi, who can make anyone laugh. Khoi, who is easy to fall for…and already dating her camp roommate.

Sadie Katz and Cleo Chapman have been rivals since birth. Literally. They entered the world competing to be the first baby born in the new year, and ever since Cleo beat out Sadie for that title, she has been nonchalantly beating Sadie at just about everything—and making it look easy. Now in the fall of their senior year, Sadie and Cleo are neck-and-neck for valedictorian. But then a string of increasingly serious pranks take over their high school, and all signs point to Sadie and Cleo as the perpetrators.

Zora Lyon plays to dominate. And as a no-nonsense, strategic prodigy of Wizzard Gaming’s viral battle royale, she has all the skills she needs to do so. So when Wizzard offers their top players a chance to participate in a summer academy designed to launch them into the world of professional gaming, Zora knows she has what it takes to be the last player standing.

Casey Bennett and Ezra King were never supposed to be friends. Thrown together for a semester-long English project, they start as academic enemies with wildly different lives and an alarming amount of mutual judgment. But a broken backpack, a weird soup conversation, and an accidental group chat start to chip away at their assumptions—and somewhere between cereal heists and detention slips, something real starts to form.

Ellis has a plan: apply to Columbia University, study journalism, set herself up for a respectable career. So when her parents announce they’re separating, and Ellis has to move with her mom from NYC to Bramble Falls, Connecticut, it couldn’t come at a worse time. Especially as Ellis has no time for distractions, and Bramble Falls has the biggest one of all – local barista Cooper Barnett, former best friend and first kiss, now majorly glowed-up and ignoring Ellis completely.

After Jonathan Earl David Iverson watches the first Star Wars movie and realizes his initials spell JEDI, he secretly fancies himself a Jedi warrior. He is determined to protect the women in his life including his single mom, Iris, whose live-in boyfriend, Manny, is speed dating on the side. Also under his protective watch are Aunt Rainbow and her lovelorn 12-year-old daughter, Penny, both of whom struggle under the weight of their own share of drama. And of course Dora, the love of his life.

When a video of Libby “cheating” on her boyfriend, Dan, goes viral, her whole village turns against her. School friends become bullies, leaving rotten eggs in her locker, and the only person who will talk to her is Neha, the new girl everyone ignores. But Dan is oblivious to the drama unfolding around him. He’s lying in a coma in hospital and worries that if he doesn’t wake up soon the secret he’s been carrying around for years will be lost along with him.

If you loved We Were Liars, be the first to listen to this twisty new mystery that dives into the world of teen influencers from the number-one New York Times best-selling author of Pretty Little Liars Sara Shepard and 17-year-old actress and social media personality Lilia Buckingham.

Seventeen-year-old cynic Saoirse Clarke isn't looking for a relationship. But when she meets mischievous Ruby, that rule goes right out the window. Sort of. Because Ruby has a loophole in mind: a summer of all the best cliché movie montage dates, with a definite ending come fall - no broken hearts, no messy breakup. It would be the perfect plan, if they weren’t forgetting one thing about the Falling in Love Montage: when it's over, the characters have fallen in love...for real.

Stella Grant likes to be in control - even though her totally out-of-control lungs have sent her in and out of the hospital most of her life. At this point, what Stella needs to control most is keeping herself away from anyone or anything that might pass along an infection and jeopardize the possibility of a lung transplant. Six feet apart. No exceptions. The only thing Will Newman wants to be in control of is getting out of this hospital. He couldn’t care less about his treatments or a fancy new clinical drug trial. Will’s exactly what Stella needs to stay away from.

The last time Lex was happy, it was before. When she had a family that was whole. A boyfriend she loved. Friends who didn't look at her like she might break down at any moment. Now she's just the girl whose brother killed himself. And it feels like that's all she'll ever be. As Lex starts to put her life back together, she tries to block out what happened the night Tyler died. But there's a secret she hasn't told anyone--a text Tyler sent that could have changed everything.

Princess for president. Student body president, that is. It's all the fault of Princess Mia's power-mad best friend and campaign manager, Lilly, who nominates her in the first place. This is not how Mia imagined kicking off her sophomore year, even if Grandmere thinks ruling her high school makes good practice for ruling Genovia someday.

Never before has the world seen such a princess. Nor have her own subjects, for that matter. Mia's royal introduction to Genovia has mixed results: while her fashion sense is widely applauded, her position on the installation of public parking meters is met with resistance.

Told in dual timelines - half of the chapters moving forward in time and half moving backward - We Used to Be Friends explores the most traumatic breakup of all: that of childhood besties. At the start of their senior year in high school, James (a girl with a boy's name) and Kat are inseparable, but by graduation, they're no longer friends. James prepares to head off to college as she reflects on the dissolution of her friendship with Kat while, in alternating chapters, Kat thinks about being newly in love with her first girlfriend and having a future that feels wide open.

Deaf teen Maya moves across the country and must attend a hearing school for the first time. As if that wasn’t hard enough, she also has to adjust to the hearing culture, which she finds frustrating - and also surprising when some classmates, including Beau Watson, take time to learn ASL. As Maya looks past graduation and focuses on her future dreams, nothing, not even an unexpected romance, will derail her pursuits.

Frances Janvier spends most of her time studying. Everyone knows Aled Last as that quiet boy who gets straight A's. You probably think that they are going to fall in love or something. Since he is a boy and she is a girl. They don't. They make a podcast. In a world determined to shut them up, knock them down, and set them on a cookie-cutter life path, Frances and Aled struggle to find their voices over the course of one life-changing year.

Eighteen-year-old Red and her friends are on a road trip in an RV, heading to the beach for Spring Break. It’s a long drive but spirits are high. Until the RV breaks down in the middle of nowhere. And as the wheels are shot out, one by one, the friends realise that this is no accident. There’s a sniper out there. He’s watching them and he knows exactly who they are. One of the group has a secret that the sniper is willing to kill for.

Jenny didn’t get to be an award-winning, classically trained cellist without choosing practice over fun. That is, until the night she meets Jaewoo. Mysterious, handsome, and just a little bit tormented, Jaewoo is exactly the kind of distraction Jenny would normally avoid. And yet, she finds herself pulled into spending an unforgettable evening wandering Los Angeles with him on the night before his flight home to South Korea.

When Margo Roth Spiegelman beckons Quentin Jacobsen in the middle of the night - dressed like a ninja and plotting an ingenious campaign of revenge - he follows her. Margo’s always planned extravagantly, and, until now, she’s always planned solo. After a lifetime of loving Margo from afar, things are finally looking up for Q...until day breaks and she has vanished. Always an enigma, Margo has now become a mystery. But there are clues. And they’re for Q.

Juliette Ferrars. Ella Sommers. Which is the truth and which is the lie? Now that Ella knows who Juliette is and what she was created for, things have only become more complicated. As she struggles to understand the past that haunts her and looks to a future more uncertain than ever, the lines between right and wrong - between Ella and Juliette - blur. And with old enemies looming, her destiny may not be her own to control. The day of reckoning for the Reestablishment is coming. But she may not get to choose what side she fights on.

When a classmate gets hospitalised with a serious illness, Taylor realises with a shock that she hardly knows a thing about the girl. Would people say that about her if she met the same fate? Taylor couldn’t bear that, so she sets out to make herself memorable! She plunges herself energetically into a new sport, fancy outfits, the launch of the website for her online magazine and major protest in aid of Period Justice at school – all the while feeling unsure how to grab another opportunity she really wants: a second kiss with Duncan!

Tyriq Howell is swearing off of love. After a fight with his cheating ex leads to missing his college scholarship interview, he vows to be done with dating for good. Until Desmond, a boy who works in the scholarship office, approaches with a curious proposal: he’ll get Tyriq another interview if he pretends to be Desmond’s date to a fancy gala in two weeks.

Trendgenre Sports-Romance, leichtherzig und auf den Punkt erzählt von der unverwechselbaren Katy Birchall unter dem Pseudonym Ivy Bailey. Sadie hat nur ein Ziel: Sie will ihre Fußballmannschaft zur dritten Meisterschaft der Uni-Liga führen und ihren an Demenz erkrankten Vater damit stolz machen! Da kann sie Ablenkungen überhaupt nicht gebrauchen – erst recht nicht in Form des charmanten und unverschämt attraktiven Arlo Hudsons. Doch als der Trainer sie zum gemeinsamen Einzeltraining mit Arlo verdonnert, merkt Sadie schnell, dass das Herz nicht immer tut, was der Kopf ihm sagt.

Мелисса Гарсиа — профессиональная хоккеистка и капитан женской сборной, студентка Университета штата Орегон и девушка, не оправдавшая ожидания родителей. Она зациклена на карьере, не нуждается в отношениях и старается избегать внимания парней, особенно одного, которого ненавидит. Эдвард ФлеМинг — капитан хоккейной команды "Орегонские Утки", популярный парень, от которого сходят с ума девчонки, но сердце его уже занято. Осталось только добиться расположения самой неудержимой девушки, которую он только встречал на своем пути.

When Faith Williams almost loses her life during a robbery, Death is there. While he spares her soul, he makes a promise to return when she's eighteen and collect it. Now, it's the eve of that special birthday, and Faith has no recollection of that fateful day. But echoes of Death appear in her art—his intense eyes, his intriguing demeanor—and she can't get him out of her head. When he arrives in person, Faith is drawn into an epic supernatural battle where her very existence is questioned at every turn.

Ein Mädchen. Zwei Brüder. Ein Spiel mit dem Feuer – der zweite Band der spicy Forbidden-Love-Trilogie von Mercedes Ron als Hörbuch. Kamilas beste Kindheitsfreunde sind wieder in ihr Leben getreten. Thiago und seine grünen Augen rauben ihr den Atem. Taylor mit seinen blauen Augen wird sie nie enttäuschen. Kami möchte weder den einen noch den anderen missen. Als ihr Leben aus den Fugen gerät, ihre Eltern sich scheiden lassen und ihre Freundinnen ihr den Rücken kehren, braucht sie die Brüder mehr denn je.

Wenn Liebe alles zu zerstören droht – das atemberaubende Finale der "Forbidden-Love" Trilogie von Mercedes Ron als Hörbuch. Kamila Hamilton muss sich zwischen den beiden Di-Bianco-Brüdern entscheiden: Thiago oder Taylor? Sich für den einen zu entscheiden, bedeutet, den anderen für immer zu verlieren. Wie kann sie einen Teil von sich selbst aufgeben? Thiago lässt sie Unvergleichliches spüren, doch Taylor wird immer für sie da sein.

John Paul Reyes wants to escape the worst truths in his life—other people's pity since his dad died, and everyone else's expectations about what he should do with his life now that he's graduated high school. When he arrives at the Majestic Mountain resort with his Tita Abrigo's wealthy family, he sees a way to escape—he can be JP Abrigo, rich and set, and he can lie his way to feeling fine.

Após sobreviverem a uma tentativa de assassinato e ao caso de um assassino em série que imitava o modus operandi do pai de Dean, os Naturais agora estão autorizados pelo FBI a se juntar em casos ativos, e sua primeira tarefa envolve uma nova série de assassinatos em Las Vegas. Diferente de todos os padrões que estudaram até então, esse assassino não utiliza o mesmo método para cometer seus crimes. A única constância é que as mortes acontecem em público e uma série de números é marcada no punho das vítimas.