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Als Oliver und Jessica aus den Ferien zurückkehren, ist etwas Seltsames geschehen: Die Zwillinge haben ihren Vater vergessen! Geblieben ist nur eine beunruhigende Leere! Von ihm selbst fehlt jede Spur. Eines Tages finden die Geschwister das Tagebuch ihres Vaters auf dem Dachboden. In den Aufzeichnungen lesen sie von Quassinja, dem Reich der verlorenen Erinnerungen, und von Xexano, dem Gott dieser geheimnisvollen Welt...

Zwei anonyme Briefe findet die 14-Jährige Sofie in ihrem Briefkasten...

The good news is I survived the murderous fae prince. I also found my aunt and embraced my inner dragon. Everything should be going great, right? If only. My aunt has disappeared again, I haven't heard from Draven in months, and the Fae Court wants to question me about their prince's death. To make matters worse, there's a gargoyle terrorizing my customers, my savings are running out, and I may lose the bookstore unless I can find a second job.

Il primo romanzo per ragazzi dell'autore noir. Nel 1984 la città di Stonebridge è stata colpita da una tragedia: in una sola notte tutti i bambini al di sotto dei tredici anni sono scomparsi senza lasciare traccia. Nel corso degli anni qualcuno racconta di averli sentiti giocare al limitare del bosco, ma di aver visto soltanto le loro ombre, come se fossero dei fantasmi. Trent'anni dopo, Jake Mitchell, dodici anni, scopre che suo zio Ben era uno di loro. Per la prima volta si ritrova a pensare a quello zio che non ha mai conosciuto e che ora sente più vicino che mai.

Carmen Martín Gaite nos recrea magistralmente esta historia y la adapta a la sociedad en la que vivimos, con una Caperucita que es una niña de hoy y que se mueve en un bosque muy diferente (Manhattan), aunque también se encontrará con los personajes del famoso cuento, aquí completamente diferentes: miss Lunatic, mister Wolf, etc.

Chace, a teenage orphan with the power to see the future, saves people anonymously by leaving them a letter to find in their moment of crisis. When his friends are in danger, he is there. He saves them but cannot predict the consequences. He can see their future, but he cannot see his own. Chase is interrupted while writing to save his best friend, Sarah. With an incomplete letter, her rescue feels equally incomplete inside. Sarah cannot rest until she speaks to the one person who helped her want to go on living.

What would you do if you had the chance to rewrite your greatest failures? After eight years of brutal war, victory is finally in sight. The forces of North America stand united, one final enemy stronghold left to conquer. Santiago Silva—Santi to those who know him—leads the charge, his magic commanding the winds. But just as the end seems near, a desperate enemy ritual goes awry, flinging Santi back in time.

Of all her sisters, only Riya inherited the full powers of their peri ancestor, a fey creature specializing in emotion magic…especially the sacred power of love. Riya has never been interested in love—much to the disappointment of her best friend, Mel, who really, really wants Riya to get Mel and her crush together before senior year’s over. The only thing Riya cares about, truthfully, is forgetting the last, disastrous time she used her powers.

Unheimlich, spannend, sein bestes Werk: So äußern sich Presse und Leser*innen über diesen Klassiker ab 12 Jahren von Otfried Preußler, seiner Geschichte vom magischen Spiel um die Freiheit des Menschen. Da verwundert es nicht, dass »Krabat« mit vielen Preisen ausgezeichnet wurde und zu den Hörbüchern gehört, die lange nachklingen, egal wie alt man ist. Dem 14-jährigen Krabat erscheinen in einer Winternacht elf Raben in seinen Träumen. Er kann ihrem Ruf nicht widerstehen und macht sich auf den Weg zur gefürchteten Mühle am Koselbruch.

Jude has tricked Cardan onto the throne, binding him to her for a year and a day. But the new High King does everything in his power to humiliate and undermine her, even as his fascination with her remains undimmed. Meanwhile, a traitor in the court is scheming against her. Jude must fight for her life and the lives of those she loves, all while battling her own complicated feelings for Cardan. Now a year and a day seems like no time at all....

Tana lives in a world where walled cities called Coldtowns exist. In them, quarantined monsters and humans mingle. But once you pass through Coldtown's gates, you can never leave. One morning, after a perfectly ordinary party, Tana wakes up surrounded by corpses. The only other survivors are her exasperatingly endearing ex-boyfriend, infected and on the edge, and a mysterious boy burdened with a terrible secret. Shaken and determined, Tana enters a race against the clock to save the three of them by going straight to Coldtown's opulent heart.

Steven’s mother is the greatest grim reaper in the afterlife. Steven? Not so much. Dead 14 years and counting, he’s brash, headstrong, and definitely still in training. While shadowing his mom at work, a chance encounter with a dangerous demon leaves her gravely injured and Steven stranded

Юной канадке Тарге полагалось бы учиться в выпускном классе родной школы, но она — сирена, элементаль воды, а по совместительству — наследная владелица польской «Судоходной компании Новаков» и останков затонувшего судна «Сибеллен». И вот девушка в Гданьске, с возлюбленным Антони и мамой Майрой купается в балтийских водах, но кое-что сильно омрачает ей жизнь. Мама-русалка больше не может оставаться на суше, ее влечет к себе океан, а объяснить Антони, куда подевалась Майра, Тарга не может: русалочья природа — ее великая тайна.

In Inferno, the fourth novel in the bestselling Chronicles of Nick series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon, the heat is on, and a new threat to humanity has risen . . . Nick has his driver's license and he's not afraid to use it. But turning sixteen isn't what he...

A war is on the horizon for the kingdom of Prost. But for those from Krader, their lives were already turned upside down amidst the Collapse. Reeling from his loss and unsure what to do next, Terrence will need to refocus to earn his first Rank as a Dungeoneer. For everyone else, recruitment for the war is bringing the kingdom to its knees. Trying his best to stay out of the conflict, Tom is eager to reunite with his friends and family in the Capital. Storylines converge as everyone's Affinities progress further every day.

Wyatt Westlock has one plan for the farmhouse she's just inherited—to burn it to the ground. But during her final walkthrough of her childhood home, she makes a shocking discovery in the basement—Peter, the boy she once considered her best friend, strung up in chains and left for dead. Unbeknownst to Wyatt, Peter has suffered hundreds of ritualistic deaths on her family's property. Semi-immortal, Peter never remains dead for long, but he can't really live, either. Not while he's bound to the farm, locked in a cycle of grisly deaths and painful rebirths.

Nicole and Kyan are playing a dangerous game. Nicole is on the run, hiding from The Wake as she attempts to track down her mother’s last artistic clue and the truth of her death. Kyan is pretending to still be The Wake’s loyal Empyreal assassin, even though his feelings for Nicole—and the mate bond that ties them together—have changed everything. Separated, yet determined to be together, Nicole and Kyan must embark on a quest that will take them from the most powerful Vampire in England, to ancient Celtic treasures, and lost Druid sites.

Yang Mina, descended from a Japanese dragon god, was born with the power to travel through time, and has spent her life training to take her place in the Descendants, a secret organization whose purpose is to protect the timeline. But since moving to Seoul, everything is falling apart. Mina has discovered that the Descendants are corrupt, that her sister has been erased from existence, and that she can’t pass Calculus, which puts her mission to kiss the cutest boy in her year at risk.

If I Stay meets Taylor Swift’s Midnights album in this breathtaking love story about a girl who sees the same boy every night in her dreams. Every night at midnight, time stops and Aria wakes up somewhere she’s never been: under a sparkling waterfall in Bali, in the romantic Italian...

Léa voit sa vie basculer lorsqu'elle fait la rencontre d'Édine et de Kayle alors qu'elle attend son copain dans un bar un vendredi soir ordinaire. Kayle lui révèle l'existence d'Éléria, un monde parallèle magique dont les habitants manipulent les 4 éléments. Tiraillée entre deux mondes et deux amours, Léa doit bientôt maîtriser ses nouvelles capacités et affronter les dangers qui la guettent pour protéger ceux qu'elle aime et percer les mystères de son passé.