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Summer, 1518. A strange sickness sweeps through Strasbourg: women dance in the streets, some until they fall down dead. As rumors of witchcraft spread, suspicion turns toward Lavinia and her family, and Lavinia may have to do the unimaginable to save herself and everyone she loves. Five centuries later, a pair of red shoes seal to Rosella Oliva’s feet, making her dance uncontrollably. They draw her toward a boy who knows the dancing fever’s history better than anyone: Emil, whose family was blamed for the fever 500 years ago.

Tormod MacLeod's brother Torquil has been captured and locked in a dungeon hidden in the depths of the French royal castle. Tormod and Aine journey to France, hoping to save him. But the search is proving more difficult than they ever imagined, and getting out alive seems impossible.

For Clara Stahlbaum, this Christmas means the end of her youth. A daughter of the aristocracy, Clara is expected to give up her dreams of adventures and the extraordinary for more normal days as the wife of a cruel viscount. But when magical Uncle Drosselmeyer returns with his wondrous, dancing contraptions and one special gift for Clara, she is beckoned to the land of Winter Dream, where she is thrust into the greatest adventure of her wildest dreams.

The Blackbird Battle has left all sides devastated. The wind spirit Suriel has disappeared. A hard winter is coming, and famine stalks the land. Kateiko Rin returns to her people, ready at last to rejoin her community, but the dangers of the unsettled times come raging to her doorstep. Kako is left with no choice but to battle the forces that seek to open a rift between the worlds. Leading an unlikely alliance that includes her new love Airedain and her old one Tiernan, Kako must risk all to try and stop the coming disaster.

Miranda dreams of disappearing. That and torturing her younger brainiac of a brother. To sidestep the risk of personal vulnerability (and her much-hated history class), she plays soccer or skips school by escaping to her favorite magic shop whenever she gets the chance. As her truancy creates a rift between her ambitious TV producer mother and misunderstood stay-at-home dad, Miranda begins to covet the unknown destiny of strangers and questions whether she will ever have one of her own worth living. Miranda’s relationships are laced with the strychnine of blame, envy, and doubt.

Die Gestaltwandlerin Yumeko hat eine gefährliche Mission: Sie muss eine hochgeheime Pergamentrolle in Sicherheit bringen. Gerät das Schriftstück in die falschen Hände, könnte ein einziger böser Wunsch das ganze Reich für immer in die Finsternis stürzen. In dem wortkargen Samurai Tatsumi hatte sie einen starken Begleiter gefunden, der ihr Freund und Vertrauter wurde - und sogar ein wenig mehr. Doch Yumeko hat auch einen unberechenbaren Feind: den Dämon Hakaimono, der Jahrhunderte lang in das Samuraischwert Tatsumis gebannt war.

By day, actor John Wilkes Booth is a charming Confederate spy; by night, a tragic and troubled figure leading a double life. As he attempts to uncover Abraham Lincoln’s habits by speaking with his medium, Booth becomes tormented by a malevolent spirit and devises a plan to assassinate the President. In the midst of his murderous plan, Booth falls in love with the beautiful actress, Alice Grey. As their growing love tests their loyalties, will death or duty prevail?

In Kairo kommt es zu einem Mord an einem Antiquitätenhändler. Phileas Fogg, der sich in der Stadt aufhält, wird hierbei zu Rate gezogen. Er erlebt eine Überraschung, als er feststellt, dass die Leiche des Mannes verschwunden ist. Doch dies bleibt nicht das einzige Rätsel, mit dem es Fogg und seine Freunde zu tun bekommen. Können Tote wiederkehren? Die Antwort auf diese Frage lässt nicht lange auf sich warten. Phileas Fogg wird hineingezogen in einen Strudel von Ereignissen, aus dem es kein Zurück mehr gibt.

Young Robin Longbow, subapprentice forester in the King's Forest of Nottingham, must contend with the dislike of the Chief Forester, who bullies Robin in memory of his popular father. But Robin does not want to leave Nottingham or lose the title to his father's small tenancy, because he is in love with a young lady named Marian - and keeps remembering that his mother too was gentry and married a common forester. Robin has been granted a rare holiday to go to the Nottingham Fair, where he will spend the day with his friends Much and Marian.

Reid has spent her whole life pretending to be a man so she can inherit her father’s estate, but when a chance encounter threatens to expose her lie, she is forced to risk everything. In the kingdom of Marsden, women are subservient to men, and land can only pass from father to son. So, when Reid Ellington is born, the fifth daughter to one of the wealthiest landholders in the kingdom, it’s announced that Reid is a boy.

Whosoever wields the Sword of Power shall be the one true King. But what if the Sword has chosen a queen? Nimue grew up an outcast. Her connection to dark magic made her something to be feared in her Druid village, and that made her desperate to leave.... That is, until her entire village is slaughtered by Red Paladins, and Nimue’s fate is forever altered. Charged by her dying mother to reunite an ancient sword with a legendary sorcerer, Nimue is now her people’s only hope. Her mission leaves little room for revenge, but the growing power within her can think of little else.

In the realms of The Memory Thief, memories are currency that can be traded for goods, services, skills, and experiences. A group of people—the Gifted—can steal and redistribute memories. Etta is secretly one of them, but she hasn’t used her Gifted abilities since she left the rebel Shadows following her mother’s accident two years ago. But when her mother is again in danger, Etta has no choice but to return to the underground group in order to complete her greatest heist and save her mother’s life.

When Frankie’s mother died and her father left her and her siblings at an orphanage in Chicago, it was supposed to be only temporary - just long enough for him to get back on his feet and be able to provide for them once again. That’s why Frankie's not prepared for the day that he arrives for his weekend visit with a new woman on his arm and out-of-state train tickets in his pocket. Now, Frankie and her sister, Toni, are abandoned alongside so many other orphans - two young, unwanted women doing everything they can to survive.

Seventeen-year-old Aderyn ("Ryn") only cares about two things: her family and her family's graveyard. And right now, both are in dire straits. Since the death of their parents, Ryn and her siblings have been scraping together a meager existence as gravediggers in the remote village of Colbren, which sits at the foot of a harsh and deadly mountain range that was once home to the fae. The problem with being a gravedigger in Colbren, though, is that the dead don't always stay dead.

As the realm struggles to maintain an uneasy peace after years of civil war and tyranny, a 12-year-old orphan called Mosca Mye and her loyal companion, a cantankerous goose, are about to become the unlikely heroes of a radical revolution. Mosca is on the run, heading for the city of Mandelion. There she finds herself living by her wits among cut-throat highwaymen, spies and smugglers. With peril at every turn, Mosca uncovers a dark plot to terrorise the people of Mandelion, and soon merry mayhem leads to murder....

When Triss wakes up after an accident, she knows that something is very wrong. She is insatiably hungry; her sister seems scared of her and her parents whisper behind closed doors. She looks through her diary to try to remember, but the pages have been ripped out. Soon Triss discovers that what happened to her is more strange and terrible than she could ever have imagined, and that she is quite literally not herself.

-Przybyłeś w samą porę-powiedział staruszek. -W samą porę, by co uczynić?-zapytał Ronin. -W samą porę, by uratować wioskę. -Uratować wioskę? A przed czym?-zapytał zdezorientowany Ronin.

Jeszcze jedna strzała wbiła się w drzewo. Tym razem tylko kilka milimetrów od jego twarzy. Ronin wyciągnął Gôsuto Mêkâ. Miecz zaświszczał ze szczęścia. Ronin zamknął oczy i skoncentrował się. - Znajdź go - szepnął do zimnej jak lód stali. Miecz zwrócił się natychmiast w kierunku wielkiego kamienia. Twarz Ronina rozpromieniła się uśmiechem. -Wiem, gdzie jesteś-krzyknął. Ronin nadal nie wie, kim jest. Uczy się kierować swoim mieczem, spotkał tajemniczą dziewczynę i dziwnego, starego człowieka, który powiedział mu coś ważnego o jego przyszłości. Historia toczy się dalej...

Godzinami stali spokojnie Ronin spojrzał na Azami. Opuściła łuk - Łaaaa! Jakaś postać wyskoczyła z nicości. Metal przeciął powietrze i Azami padła na ziemię. Znowu zapadła cisza, taka jak dotychczas. Tak szybko jak się pojawiła, tak zniknęła. To był chyba jakiś mężczyzna. Ronin rozejrzał się dookoła. Nikogo nie ma. Ronin jeszcze się nie dowiedział, kim jest napastnik. Ale wiedział, co ma robić. Tajemniczy, niebezpieczny mężczyzna ukrywa się w lesie. Ronin odnajdzie go, żeby pomścić śmierć swojego ojca. Jednak mężczyzna jest szybki jak zwierzę i atakuje niepostrzeżenie swoją włócznią.

Ronin wiedział, że nie minie nawet sekunda, a demony będą znowu gotowe. Nie miał chwili do stracenia. Bolała go prawa ręka, ale nie zważał na ból, znalazł miecz Gôsuto Mêkâ i wyciągnął go. Miecz był w pochwie przez cały pościg, kipiał wściekłością. Ryczał niczym smok. Został uwolniony i dostrzegł wściekłość Ronina. - Bij! - szepnął Ronin do Gôsuto Mêkâ. Król Cieni wysłał całą armię demonów za Roninem, ale na szczęście z pomocą przyszli mu czterej samuraje. Wspólnie ruszyli przeciwko państwu śmierci, żeby ratować najlepszą przyjaciółkę Ronina i dowiedzieć się, kim Ronin jest naprawdę.