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When Tea accidentally resurrects her brother from the dead, she learns she is different from the other witches in her family. Her gift for necromancy means that she's a bone witch, a title that makes her feared and ostracized by her community. But Tea finds solace and guidance with an older, wiser bone witch, who takes Tea and her brother to another land for training.

When the fae king of Naenden returns home to his palace only to find that his human queen has committed treason by conspiring to assassinate him, he has the queen executed and decrees that once every mooncycle, he’ll marry a human woman from the kingdom, only to execute her the following morning. Unless one woman offers herself as a sacrificial bride for the rest.

No empty child has ever reached a year of age, yet I am now 13. It has been a long and miserable 13 years, where the best I can manage to do is walk with difficulty. Sometimes, I cannot even manage that.

Ihr größter Feind ist ihre größte Versuchung! Kidan wuchs weit entfernt von der Uxlay Universität auf. Einer Eliteuniversität, in der Menschen und Vampire Seite an Seite leben und an der altehrwürdige Häuser um die Vorherrschaft kämpfen. Intrigen und Machthunger regieren den Alltag – und genau deshalb wollte Kidan nie dorthin. Doch als ihre Schwester von niemand geringerem als dem berühmt-berüchtigten Vampir Susenyos entführt wird, bleibt ihr nichts anderes übrig, als ihm genau an jene Universität zu folgen.

Eine magisch-düstere Enemies-to-Lovers-Fantasy-Dilogie: Sechs Teenager und ein magischer Wettkampf um die Ewigkeit. Seit sie nach ihrem Tod an der Blackwood Academy gelandet ist, muss Wren verlorene Seelen auf die andere Seite begleiten. Nur alle zehn Jahre gibt es die Möglichkeit, einen magischen Wettkampf zu gewinnen und von dieser Aufgabe erlöst zu werden – um zur Elite aufzusteigen oder für immer auf die andere Seite zu gehen. Wren tut alles dafür, sich die Nominierung zu sichern. Doch mit diesem Wunsch ist sie nicht allein.

Winnie Wednesday möchte nichts sehnlicher, als sich den Luminaries anzuschließen, dem uralten Orden, der Hemlock Falls – und den Rest der Menschheit – vor den Monstern und Albträumen schützt, die jede Nacht aus dem Wald kommen. An ihrem sechzehnten Geburtstag kann sie an den tödlichen Prüfungen der Luminary-Hunter teilnehmen und beweisen, dass sie treu und loyal ist – und den guten Ruf ihrer Familie wiederherstellen.

Fifteen winters old, Hirka learns that she is an Odin's child—a tailless rot from another world. Despised. Dreaded. Hunted. She no longer knows who she is, and someone wants to kill her to keep it a secret. But there are worse things than humans, and Hirka is not the only creature to have broken through the gates…

A YA fantasy title based off the best-selling manga Attack on Titan. With Wall Maria breeched, communities within the Quinta district have been cut off from each other creating famine and chaos. A young field commander named Rita is tasked with a mission to reconnect transit across the massive...

When a pilot with no name breaks through a rift to a dying world, he and his experimental fighter plane become the only things in the way of a horrific army of monsters that is marching to burn down the mystical world tree and kill its keeper as the final symbol of their grim victory.

Maddison James is about to discover some truths about the world. Firstly...supernaturals exist. WTF? Secondly...she is one, even though no one seems to know exactly what kind. Double WTF. Thirdly...she’s about to go back to school. Well, things just got a little more interesting. The Supernatural Academy is where shifters, vampires, magic users, and fey are educated. Where they are taught about their abilities, and how to function in the human world. Maddison already has the human part down, but this supernatural thing is an entirely new dangerous game.

17-årige Anne kan se hændelser i fortiden, og en nat genoplever hun et uhyggeligt gammelt mord. Pludselig er den lille by fuld af fremmede. De har mystiske kræfter, og de kredser om Anne, som ikke er vant til at have folk tæt på. En vil hun forelske sig i. En vil blive hendes bedste ven. En vil redde hendes liv. En vil slå hende ihjel.

A soul from Earth awakens as Seventh Princess Adelheid of the Vuldar Empire. With a weak body but a monstrous reservoir of mana that threatens her very life, Adelheid engraves an oath into her very soul. She shall seize the throne at all costs, but with ambitious cousins and discontent nobles, her father and brother are far from her only rivals.

Figlia del più potente trafficante dello Stretto, la giovane Fable ha conosciuto un solo luogo che possa chiamare "casa": una nave ormai colata a picco. Quattro anni prima ha visto la madre annegare durante una terribile tempesta; il giorno seguente il padre l'ha abbandonata su un'isola covo di furfanti. Per sopravvivere Fable ha dovuto imparare a badare a se stessa, senza fidarsi di nessuno e contando solo su ciò che sua madre le ha insegnato. A tenerla viva è il desiderio di lasciare l'isola, ritrovare il padre e rivendicare il proprio posto al suo fianco.

Disillusioned businessman, John Lawrence Locke, finds himself summoned as a hero to another world, filled with monsters and magic! With his body reverted to the age of 15, the 33-year-old's mind is filled with the possibility of battles and adventures, like the ones in his favorite video games.

Sera è finalmente libera da Kolis ed è tornata da coloro che le vogliono bene, eppure i ricordi di ciò che ha passato continuano a perseguitarla, anche ora che finalmente può sperare in un futuro con l'altra metà del suo cuore e della sua anima. Nyktos l'ama, la desidera e la accetta senza riserve, e non dubita che sia adatta a essere la Regina degli Dei, ma Sera deve trovare quella stessa fiducia dentro di sé, se vuole convincere le altre Corti a sostenerla contro Kolis per rendere Iliseum e il regno mortale luoghi migliori e più sicuri per tutti.

Disillusioned businessman, John Lawrence Locke, finds himself summoned as a hero to another world, filled with monsters and magic! With his body reverted to the age of 15, the 33-year-old's mind is filled with the possibility of battles and adventures, like the ones in his favorite video games.

Every light casts a shadow. Ronan Renzo is that shadow. Ronan Renzo lives a somewhat pampered life as the son of a merchant, but all that changes when his family home is visited by a strange, black-clad man. This man's clothing is so dark that it seems to swallow light, and he bears the symbol of the crescent moon upon his breast. He is, according to Ronan, a member of the Night Guild. A guild of thieves and assassins, who commit dark deeds in homage to the one they serve: the Night God.

Bienvenido a Rocavarancolia. Bienvenido al reino de los portentos y el espanto, de los monstruos y las pesadillas. Bienvenido a un reino a las puertas de la muerte. Tras la guerra, Rocavarancolia languidece convertida en una ciudad en ruinas. Ya no hay dragones en el cielo, los vampiros mueren...

Der Weltbestseller von Suzanne Collins als Hörbuch-Gesamtausgabe! Alle Hörbücher der Bestsellertrilogie um Katniss, die gegen das Kapitol und um ihre Liebe kämpft, und dabei niemals ihre Ideale verrät. Große Gefühle in großartigen Hörbüchern! Die Gesamtausgabe umfasst die drei Einzelbände: Die Tribute von Panem 1. Tödliche Spiele; Die Tribute von Panem 2. Gefährliche Liebe; Die Tribute von Panem 3. Flammender Zorn.

Alessandra è stanca di essere trascurata e ha escogitato un piano per diventare potente: corteggiare il Re delle Ombre, sposarlo, ucciderlo ed ereditare il regno. Nessuno conosce il vero potere del Re delle Ombre. Alcuni sostengono che può far eseguire i suoi ordini alle ombre che gli danzano intorno. Altri dicono che le ombre gli parlano, sussurrandogli i pensieri dei suoi nemici. In ogni caso, Alessandra ha un obiettivo ambizioso e farà di tutto per raggiungerlo. Non è la sola, però, a voler uccidere il Re. Quando qualcuno attenta alla vita del sovrano, Alessandra si ritrova costretta a proteggerlo.