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Life was pretty great. I had two amazing parents, a super cool best friend, and things were pretty simple in general. Then, I got attacked by a troll, found out my best friend was a sort of magical sheriff, and that monsters and magic were all real. Why couldn't this have happened after midterms? Wizardry and Myths follows the misadventures of Ashleigh and her friends as she learns to navigate a world a lot larger than she ever thought before.. Volume one sets the stage of her coming to accept it, learn the truth about her fellow students and adopted parents, and maybe even herself.

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.

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! * The Coldest Girl in Coldtown is a wholly original story of rage and revenge, of guilt and horror, and of love and loathing from bestselling and acclaimed author Holly...

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...

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.

In a nation on the brink of war, a young art student's star-crossed love begins to bloom in the first book of the New York Times bestselling epic fantasy trilogy by award-winning author Laini Taylor. Around the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers...

SOME LEGACIES ARE MEANT TO BE BROKEN. "I love the feeling of a magical world existing just beneath the surface of our own and this story gave me everything I wanted: incredible characters, ancient lore and secret societies – all grounded in our very real, very flawed world . . ." –Leigh...

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.

Calling all fans of Tahereh Mafi’s New York Times bestselling Shatter Me series! This gorgeous paperback bind-up includes Shadow Me and Reveal Me, the third and fourth novellas in the series, both in print for the first time ever. In Shadow Me, Juliette is still reeling from Warner's betrayal...

Deirdre always thought she was a human—until her destructive faerie magic was unlocked. Seventeen-year-old Deirdre leaves the orphanage behind to study in Neo-London, a city teeming with conflict between humans and Fae. She crosses paths with two brothers, Iain and James Callaghan. Iain is a soldier in the Iron Guard trying to keep his broken family together. Fourteen-year-old James is fascinated by faeries and plans to run away to find his disappeared mother.

Worlds collide, secrets are laid bare, and nothing is sacred in this highly anticipated finale to the #1 New York Times bestselling series, Immortal Dark! Beware the monster, beware the girl. They feed on wild devotion. Kidan Adane stands at the edge of a world on the brink—where ancient rules...

Winner of Audiobook of the Year at the 2019 Audie Awards. Named one of AudioFile's best audiobooks of 2018 Winner of the Tonight Show Summer Reads with Jimmy Fallon. Tomi Adeyemi conjures a stunning world of dark magic and danger in her West African-inspired fantasy debut Children of Blood and...

What if you had powers beyond human comprehension, but the one thing you wanted was always just out of reach? For four years, Sarah hasn’t stopped searching for her beloved sister even amidst being hunted by the Darkness and their desperate attempts to turn her. Sarah recruits more Light Bearers, training them to wield the Light against the Terrobah lurking at every turn, but the clock never stops ticking. When she finally finds Amelia, will she already be too far gone to save?

Als die 17-jährige Carrie ihre magischen Kräfte durch einen tragischen Unfall verliert, muss sie auf eine gewöhnliche französische Privatschule wechseln. So richtig eingewöhnen kann sie sich nicht und der sonst so charmante Klassenliebling Francis scheint sie zu verabscheuen. Doch als er erfährt, wer ihre Vorfahren sind, verwandelt sich seine Ablehnung in verdächtig intensives Interesse.

Prinzessin Elisa, die einstige Gänsemagd-Königin, wird von ihrer Lüge eingeholt. Ihre Magd Agnes, die vor Jahren mit Elisas Hilfe an ihrer Stelle Königin wurde, ist tot und der Bastardbruder des Königs erhebt Anspruch auf den Thron. Die einzige Lösung, bevor ein Bürgerkrieg ausbricht: Elisa soll den König heiraten und ihm einen Nachkommen schenken, um den Thron zu sichern. Bloß, was wenn Agnes ihren Tod nur vorgetäuscht hat?

Seventeen-year-old Maggie Sawyer can attest to that. After losing her parents during the last red moon, Maggie's life is finally somewhat normal. Living with her uncle has been great, and her friends are amazing. The last thing she wants to deal with is local vampire legends. But when her best friend Rae goes missing during a party, she's thrown into a life that her family has kept hidden. Her uncle is part of the Coffin Society, a secret vampire hunting organization that operates during the blood moon—the same group her parents belonged to before their deaths.

Author Rochelle Hassan delivers a pulse-pounding conclusion to her dangerous and alluring trilogy, The Buried and the Bound, inviting listeners into the realm of witches that churns beneath the surface of the mundane—just as it threatens to boil over....

Die vierzehnjährige Mona hält sich für eine untalentierte Zauberin. Ihr Begleiter ist ein Sauerteigstarter, denn ihre Magie funktioniert nur bei Brot. Doch Monas Leben wird auf den Kopf gestellt, als sie eine Leiche in der Backstube findet. In den Straßen der Stadt treibt ein Mörder sein Unwesen, der es auf die Magier abgesehen hat, und ausgerechnet Mona scheint sein nächstes Ziel zu sein. Doch in einer umkämpften Stadt, in der es mit einem Mal keine Zauberer mehr gibt, ist der Attentäter plötzlich Monas geringste Sorge.

The thrilling sequel to Ellen Poe: The Forgotten Lore in which every mystery Ellen solves uncovers another buried secret about her family and the infamous poet, Edgar Allan Poe. Ellen Poe is no longer plagued by nightmares of scary restless spirits, and she’s even come to a truce with the...