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Jacob Portman, 16 ans, a grandi avec les récits fabuleux de son grand-père, juif polonais, envoyé sur une île du pays de Galles pour échapper à la menace nazie. Recueilli par Miss Peregrine Faucon, la directrice d'un orphelinat pour enfants "particuliers", il a côtoyé des enfants doués de capacités surnaturelles. Un soir, Jacob trouve son grand-père mortellement blessé par une horrible créature. En partant sur l'île en quête de vérité, il découvre l'ancien pensionnat en ruines et n'a plus aucun doute : les enfants particuliers ont existé. Et s'ils étaient toujours en vie ?

Rui has her life back together—or so it seems. Hailed as a hero, she’s finally on her way to becoming an important member of the Exorcist Guild. But she knows the Hybrid Revenants are still out there, and they’re planning something big. Something evil. Zizi is trapped in the underworld. As his mortal body deteriorates, he realizes he can access the Fourth King’s memories, which may be the key to keeping the mortal realm safe. To save the girl he loves, he must defy fate—and escape Hell.

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.

Six teenage witches. One ancient evil. A terrible curse that binds them all. In this spellbinding sequel to The Witches of Willow Cove, Abby Shepherd and her coven of teenage witches must confront an undead terror that threatens the safety of their friends, families, and maybe even the entire world. Now fourteen years old and with a year of witchcraft under her belt, Abby finally feels like things are going her way.

Three years ago, Elle (the “E” in the self-proclaimed L.O.V.E. Club) disappeared from Calendula, an affluent Chinese American suburb in inland California. Soon afterward, Liberty and Vera (“L” and “V”) moved away, leaving O alone with her grief, abandonment, and confusion. . . until Liberty and Vera return for their senior year of high school. Though the L.O.V.E. Club’s three remaining members once bonded as outcasts and gamers, they can’t pick up the pieces of their friendship. But the girls are drawn back to their old clubhouse, where they discover, loaded for them to play, a new game.

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.

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....

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.

Seventeen-year-old Vane Weston has no idea how he survived the category-five tornado that killed his parents. And he has no idea if the beautiful, dark-haired girl who's swept through his dreams every night since the storm is real. But he hopes she is....

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 Jackson n'est pas un garçon comme les autres. Il découvre un jour le secret de sa différence : son père, n'est autre que Poséidon, le dieu de la mer dans la mythologie grecque. Placé pour sa protection dans un camp de vacances pour enfants "sangs mêlés" (mi-humains, mi-divins), Percy se voit injustement accusé d'avoir volé l'éclair de Zeus. Afin d'éviter une guerre fratricide entre les dieux de l'Olympe, il va devoir retrouver l'éclair et démasquer le vrai coupable... au péril de sa vie.

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.

Everleigh Clarkson is half-elf and half-fae, and it shows. Then again, it isn't for most supernatural half-breeds. But that's okay. Who needs magic when you live in a city as exciting as Las Vegas? Magic, however, seems to have other plans. Not only have Everleigh's parents gone missing, but a secret group of vigilante supernaturals is threatening all of Las Vegas–and they want to use Everleigh to do it. Because Everleigh isn't some magically stunted half-breed after all, it turns out. Everleigh is a wizard. But saving her parents will require more than embracing the magic she once rejected.

Ana is far from royalty. She's a foster kid with a dead mom and a deadbeat dad. The only thing she wants is to escape—her hometown and her grief. Ana's plans are derailed when a dangerous family secret is revealed. She is the sole heir to a fallen dynasty on a world where seven families share the crown. Her family was murdered one by one, leaving six families to rule. Now, someone knows Ana's location. With assassins closing in, Ana's life and the crown are at stake.

La suite des aventures de Thresh, Askhana, Timothée, Ferynn et Petit Caïd ! Stallen est une école pour surnaturels, cachée des humains. On y forme l'élite des magiciens, des vampires et des loups-garous. Dès seize ans, les jeunes peuvent intégrer cette prestigieuse académie. On y enseigne comment maîtriser ses pouvoirs magiques, comment contrôler la soif de sang, et comment maîtriser son loup.

For seventeen years, Evan Kiernan’s life has felt like painting by someone else’s numbers, moving and transferring schools every time his mom has a breakup. But when he’s accepted into NYU’s Promising Young Artist program for his senior year, the future suddenly feels like a blank canvas. However, it soon becomes clear that the city has peculiar ties to his past. A thunderstorm finds him under the same umbrella as an eerily familiar green-eyed girl. A visit to an art gallery brings him face-to-face with a heavily tattooed portrait of himself.

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Während Cleo und Lewis versuchen, das Rätsel der aggressiven Wassertentakel zu lösen, überrascht Zane Rikki mit der Idee, ein Motorcross-Rennen zu veranstalten. Der Sieger soll 1.000 Dollar Preisgeld erhalten. Rikki versteht nicht, woher Zane das Geld nehmen will, denn die finanzielle Lage des Cafés ist katastrophal. Aber natürlich hat sich Zane etwas dabei gedacht.

Es ist Valentinstag und alle haben damit so ihre Probleme. Während Cleo gern etwas Romantisches mit Lewis unternehmen würde, will der unbedingt mit ihr angeln gehen und nebenbei muss sie sich auch noch um ihre Schwester Kim kümmern, die plötzlich zwei hartnäckige Verehrer hat.

I will make myself strong. I will find Elias. I will kill Elias. I will never trust a boy with my heart again. These are the vows Charlie Hudson made the day after Elias Everhart betrayed her, nearly killing everyone she loves most. One month later, revenge is still her priority, even as she navigates a harsh new reality: one where her brother and friends can now see Asgard, making them just as susceptible to its dazzling delights—and deadly dangers—as she is.

Verbotene Liebe, uralte Mächte – und ein Schicksal, das alles verändert Als Lehrertochter kennt Aurelia Grey die Hill Cove Boarding School von Kindesbeinen an. Dennoch ist sie in dem altehrwürdigen Internat, wo Menschen und Nachtwesen gemeinsam ausgebildet werden, die Einzige, die ihre Magie nicht unter Kontrolle hat – und damit eine geächtete Außenseiterin. Die elitäre Schwesternschaft, die ihr Dilemma lösen könnte, lässt sie immer wieder abblitzen. Als nach und nach Schülerinnen verschwinden, keimt in Aurelia der Verdacht, dass unter den Gemäuern Düsteres vor sich geht.

As a mortician’s assistant at her parents’ funeral home, Meka’s days are not for the squeamish. Luckily, her boyfriend Noah doesn’t mind, and Meka finally feels ready to say those three little words that will change everything. Then tragedy strikes and Meka’s world is torn apart. Nothing makes sense, especially when strange things start to happen: Strangers follow her. Mysterious items are left at her door. And worst of all...the dead don’t seem to be staying dead.

Lena, Flint and their unique family have discovered what created their extrasensory abilities and hidden memories. When a new opportunity arises to give them answers to a past they thought was lost, an entire world is reopened.

Drawn back to her hometown by her mother's death, Everly hopes it's her chance to reconnect with her childhood sweetheart. Instead, on her first night back, she sees him die. Killed by something she can't explain. Now his body is missing, and his soul is trapped in her dreams. As Everly hunts for answers to the mystery, supernatural creatures lurk around every corner. But they aren't the vampires and werewolves of legend Everly expects.

Sequel to the award-winning teen novel, Spirited Book 1: No Accidents. Since crossing to the afterlife, Cassidy and Sienna have each learned more about Cassidy’s stepfather and soon-to-be mayor, Bruce Williams. Now they are left wondering if Bruce is a good person who sometimes does bad things or a bad person who sometimes does good things—and whether Cassidy should care. Those musings are cut short when they meet Graham, the ember who has his eye on Bruce. Good or bad, Cassidy and Sienna must get through to Bruce before Graham does or everyone in their hometown could suffer.

After a vicious werewolf attack on the night of her seventeenth birthday party, Vanessa Hart loses everything she loves in a split second. Her best friend, her father, and even her home. Bitten and imprisoned without explanation, Vanessa endures an agonizing transformation into the very beast that maimed her, and her captors make it clear she cannot escape: she will either swear her life to the Wolf Queen’s Court, or she will die.

Four months ago, Lena woke up in a dark alleyway with no recollection of who she is. The only clues to her past are a mysterious tattooed symbol and a supernatural power: the ability to see evil in people. While struggling to regain her memory, she follows a strange guiding instinct to a small Colorado town. There she finds other young men and women with similar stories, similar tattoos, and a multitude of extrasensory powers. Among them a man she's intensely attracted to, yet with no memories of him, she has no idea why.

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.