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Le dernier tome de la grande saga de fantasy baroque VAMPYRIA, cycle de Jeanne : un final magistral. " Lorsque sonnera la dernière note du requiem des souvenirs, le Temps lui-même s'anéantira. ". A Versailles, Diane de Gastefriche est la plus proche écuyère de Louis XIV, le Roy des Ténèbres. Elle se nomme en réalité Jeanne et elle sert la Fronde qui lutte secrètement contre le despote.

Después de ver a sus hermanas sufrir durante años a manos de un príncipe maltratador, Marra —la tímida hermana menor criada en un convento— se da cuenta por fin de que nadie vendrá a rescatarlas. Nadie, excepto ella misma. Entonces, una poderosa bruja le ofrece a Marra los medios para matar al príncipe, si primero es capaz de completar tres tareas imposibles. Pero, como es habitual en los cuentos de príncipes, brujas e hijas marginadas, lo imposible es sólo el principio.

Unlike most of her classmates, Laila Bansal doesn’t roll out of bed and head to school. Instead, she wakes up early and trains in hand-to-hand combat with her adopted aunts who, when not tending to their thriving vineyard, are immortal Rakshasi demons sworn to protect Laila.

With her sister back at her side, Cora discovers that their infiltration into Empira'an turned the many eyes of the Capital in their direction. With only a primitive grasp of her powers and unsure how to heal the Affliction, she sets out on a journey to find other fungus spirits, dragging Gillean, Mahara, and True along for the ride. Pursued by bounty hunters and at odds with her friends, Cora learns that trust is a tenuous thing, especially when navigating a world and relationships she doesn't truly understand.

Uncle Chip Proctor deserves a pat on the back. Sure it was touch and go for a little while there, but he’s pleased to have settled quite nicely into his role as a stay-at-home human guardian for two royal half-fae kids. But he’s soon rushing to whisk the thirteen-year-old queen-to-be away for summer break when unruly puberty angst delivers a dose of magical chaos.

Für die Erfüllung ihres innigsten Wunschs verspricht Evie einem unbekannten Jungen im magischen Spiegelkabinett ihrer Großmutter ihr Herz – und zahlt dafür einen hohen Preis: Seither bringen ihre Hände jedem, den sie berührt, den Tod. Erst als sie Jahre später dem charmanten Arthur begegnet, scheint sich ihr Wunsch nach jemandem, der sie liebt, endlich zu erfüllen. Doch Evies Fluch macht es den beiden unmöglich zusammen zu sein. Und als sie der Versuchung, sich nahezukommen, nicht länger widerstehen können, zahlt Arthur einen zu hohen Preis für seine Liebe zu Evie.

The Greek gods will regain control of Earth in seven days, but they suck at everything after 3,000 years in retirement. Zeus is blacking out cities with stray lightning bolts; Athena is falling in love with Google as though it’s a real person; and Dionysus is gobbling down more drugs in one day than Arizona State's entire campus.

In Carry On, Simon Snow and his friends realized that everything they thought they understood about the world might be wrong. And in Wayward Son, they wondered whether everything they understood about themselves might be wrong. In Any Way the Wind Blows, Simon and Baz and Penelope and Agatha have to decide how to move forward.

Dreading her first day at a new school, Alex is stunned when she walks through a doorway and finds herself stranded in Medora, a fantasy world full of impossibilities. Desperate to return home, she learns that only Professor Marselle can help her...but he's missing. While waiting for him to reappear, Alex attends Akarnae Academy, Medora's boarding school for teenagers with extraordinary gifts.

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.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Half Wild, the stunning sequel to Half Bad by Sally Green, read by Carl Prekopp. After finally meeting his elusive father, Marcus, and receiving the three gifts that confirm him as a full adult witch, Nathan is still on the run. He needs to find his friend, Gabriel, and rescue Annalise, now a prisoner of the powerful Black witch Mercury. Most of all he needs to learn how to control his Gift - a strange, wild new power that threatens to overwhelm him.

Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she's struggling to conceal her power, and a curse that has haunted her family. But even within the overgrown gardens, murky swamps, and crumbling graveyards of the forgotten South, a secret cannot stay hidden forever. Ethan Wate, who has been counting the months until he can escape from Gatlin, is haunted by dreams of a beautiful girl he has never met. When Lena moves into the town's oldest plantation, Ethan is inexplicably drawn to her and determined to uncover the connection between them.

Percy et ses amis Annabeth, Grover et Thalia se retrouvent face à un horrible manticore. Ils n'ont la vie sauve que grâce à l'intervention de la déesse Artémis et de ses chasseresses. Mais lorsque Annabeth puis Artémis disparaissent, une nouvelle quête semée d'embûches s'annonce : Percy devra plus que jamais se méfier des manipulations et des pièges de Cronos, le seigneur des titans.

In the city of Puck's Port, where motorized vehicles fill the streets and new technological marvels abound, something rotten is lurking under the surface. A violent murder at the docks seems to point to a fey killer, igniting a powder keg of distrust between the city's humans and its fey inhabitants—folks who wield wonderful but often uncontrollable magical power.

Witches and humans have always had issues. Cayden is well aware of that: her witch mom was shunned by her high-society parents when she fell in love with Cayden’s human dad. Now, the family business is in trouble due to wealthy witches gentrifying her historic Texas neighborhood. So Cayden is appalled when she realizes she unknowingly went on a date with Coven it-boy Khy Carter. But when her father’s bakery has an influx of new customers, she realizes Khy might just be a solution to her family’s problems: Cayden absolutely cannot be with a Coven boy, but that doesn’t mean she can’t pretend.

The Strand: A disused, broken red telephone box inexplicably starts to ring. A voice, a small girl, cries out for help. “He is coming…” Whitechapel: A dark stranger approaches an elderly tour guide enjoying a post-show drink. He places a child’s necklace, twisted and broken, alongside the pint glass. “We have your granddaughter. You will do exactly as I command.”

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Olivia und Darragh haben Ja gesagt. Ihre Flitterwochen wollen sie fernab magischer Verpflichtungen verbringen, zu zweit, in einem kleinen Dörfchen in England, ohne Sorgen und vor allem ohne Prophezeiungen …. Doch statt entspannter vierzehn Tage purer Romantik beginnt ein spannendes Detektivabenteuer, nachdem Olivia eine Vision von Darraghs Tod ereilt.

When immortal Hope makes a promise she has no business to make, she finds herself drawn into a dangerous game with her cousin and arch enemy, Trouble. If she fails to take care of the two mortal children she has pledged to protect, she will be thrown into the everlasting Void. With her twin sister Despair and her great uncle Mordred (you might know him better as Death) lurking in the wings, the task is made ever more challenging. Can she triumph over Trouble? Or will she be forced to leave behind a world without Hope?

It's dangerous to go alone. Even for superheroes. Laleh Ashe has found her first real friends at Camp Sable, a refuge for at-risk superpowered teens, but her politically ambitious mother has other plans. Mrs. Ashe is determined to send Laleh to a fancy, overseas boarding school—far from her friends and the life she's come to love. To drown her sorrows, Laleh agrees to a table top role playing game with her friends, Marco and Jake, as well as the new girl at camp—shy, withdrawn Rian. Too bad no one warned her about Rian's reality bending superpowers.

Somebody cursed Lucinda’s Abuelita. But who? And why? And why are the authorities and her family too frightened to investigate? When Lucinda recognizes she is Abuelita’s only hope for survival, she and her best friend enlist the help of the most unlikely ally, the son of the local gang boss… …the gang boss her family killed. Using bruja witchcraft, Lucinda and her friends open a gateway to relive Abuelita’s memories, only to discover terrible secrets and powerful enemies who pose an even greater danger than a single curse.

All cryptids know: stay away from humans. Never be seen. And if you can’t run? Hide. It’s the only way to survive. Cleo was raised with these rules under the kind, gentle feet of her adoptive Papá, the immortal forefather of all Sasquatch. As a blood-drinking Chupacabra herself struggling to prove her place in the pecking order of a new pack, she’s uncomfortably familiar with the threat of mankind’s ambitious traps, hidden trail cams, and lethal hunting techniques.

Alexis ist verzweifelt. Jeder Versuch, Wraith, den Mare in ihrem Körper, unter Kontrolle zu bringen, ist kläglich gescheitert. Für sie scheint es nur noch einen Ausweg zu geben. Und auch wenn Alexis mit dieser Entscheidung Nate verletzt, bleibt ihr keine andere Wahl. Ihr Weg führt sie ausgerechnet in die Fänge jener Gegner, die von den Dreamcatchern seit Jahrhunderten mit aller Macht bekämpft werden. Schon immer hat Morpheus damit gedroht, ihre Heimat zu zerstören, doch nun sind sie Alexis’ letzte Hoffnung, sich von Wraith zu befreien.

Gefangen, verraten und gejagt – Alexis’ Welt liegt in Trümmern. Nach ihrer Flucht aus den Fängen eines mächtigen Feindes wird sie erneut in eine grausame Gefangenschaft gestoßen: als Aschewandlerin, eine der vielen Seelen, die zur Arbeit in den düsteren Minen verurteilt sind. Doch Alexis kämpft entschlossen gegen dieses Schicksal an. Zwischen Verrat und Verlust bleibt ihr ein Funken, an den sie sich klammert – die Hoffnung, Cael wiederzusehen, den Mann, den sie liebt. Jeder Schritt könnte sie ihrem Ziel näher bringen oder alles zerstören.

Love between a Fate and a Grim Reaper is forbidden. Good thing he's just using her. High school sophomore MaKayla Colfax was perfectly happy with her life until she inherited a mysterious pair of scissors. They don’t cut, but when holding them, MaKayla experiences visions, like lines between people, connecting them. With the scissors, she uncovers the ancient power of her lineage of Greek Fates. If Grim Reaper-in-training Cain Morrigan messes up one more soul harvest, he’ll remain a disgusting human for the rest of his existence. But his new target has supernatural connections tied to Earth.

Enter a world where it's Halloween every day and where the monsters are normal, and the normal are monsters... I'm Ali Welson, and I'm the most normal, goody-two-shoes girl you'll meet. It's how I survive a strict home, far from the mysterious Dark Corruption that converts people into B-movie monsters on contact. But after a close call, Monstreuse, the monster academy, sends an obnoxious sorcerer to claim an unwilling new student--me. Only it's a mistake, I swear. I never touched the Corruption, as much as Byron insists otherwise. But when my family disowns me, I have no choice but to go.

Teil 3 der spannenden PERCY JACKSON-Reihe. Die Götter des Olymps befürchten das Schlimmste, denn die Titanen rüsten zum Krieg! Percy und seine Freunde müssen bis zur Wintersonnenwende die Göttin Artemis befreien, die in die Klauen der finsteren Mächte geraten ist. Dabei müssen sie gegen die gefährlichsten Monster der griechischen Mythologie antreten - und geraten selbst in tödliche Gefahr. Aber mit Percy haben die Titanen nicht gerechnet. Dabei weiß doch inzwischen jeder, dass er mit allen Wassern gewaschen ist - schließlich ist er der Sohn des Poseidon!

Teil 2 der spannenden PERCY JACKSON-Reihe. Percys siebtes Schuljahr verläuft einigermaßen ruhig - einigermaßen. Wenn da nicht diese Albträume wären, in denen sein bester Freund in Gefahr schwebt. Und tatsächlich: Grover befindet sich in der Gewalt eines Zyklopen. Zu allem Übel ist Camp Half-Blood nicht mehr sicher: Jemand hat den Baum der Thalia vergiftet, der die Grenzen dieses magischen Ortes bisher geschützt hat. Nur das Goldene Vlies kann da noch helfen. Wird es Percy gelingen, Grover und das Camp zu retten? Das dürfte für einen Halbgott wie ihn eigentlich kein Problem sein.

Die Mitglieder der Allianz der Pechvögel hatten nicht einmal die Chance, sich in ihrem neuen Zuhause am dreiköpfigen Berg einzurichten, bevor ihr neuer Zufluchtsort von Feinden entdeckt wurde - sowohl von neuen als auch von alten. Das verlorene immergrüne Tal, das von schneebedeckten Berggipfeln umgeben war, war eine verlockende Beute, die sofort die neidische Aufmerksamkeit aller Nachbarn auf sich zog.

The world has moved on. With the missing death god restored to the underworld, it appears that equilibrium has been regained. But the Nothing continues to threaten the underworld—and the mortal realm. Trapped in Hell, Zizi fights the takeover of his soul by Four's. As he begins to access Four's memories, he discovers a tragic love story that could be the key to keeping the mortal realm safe. Now, Zizi must defy his fate and escape Hell once more.