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Dani Lionet is no stranger to working hard. But now she's attending her dream magic university, and must manage classes, shifts at the local cafe, and maintaining her partial scholarship—all while trying to keep her unique ability under wraps. That way, no one else can take advantage of it like her parents used to. So when a visiting professor calls Dani out on her ability, she's terrified. Yet, it seems Professor Silva just wants to pay Dani to use it to investigate a soon-to-be-released lucid dreaming product with horrible side effects.

Une plongée au cœur d’une ascension hors norme et des bouleversements qu’elle provoque. Caroline Paquin explore l’ambition, la stratégie et le prix du pouvoir à travers la figure de Napoléon et une Europe en mutation. Entre fracas des campagnes et enjeux politiques, le récit met en perspective décisions fulgurantes, triomphes et conséquences durables, sans jamais perdre de vue l’homme derrière le mythe. Un regard vivant et éclairant sur la fabrication d’une légende et sur ce que conquérir signifie—hier comme aujourd’hui.

Caroline George once again transports readers with lush, evocative prose, leading them to ask the question: what happens when we can’t even trust ourselves? Some memories are better left forgotten. Darby and Morgan haven’t spoken for two years, and their friend group has splintered. But when...

Choices do matter and forgiveness is possible. Jack Fountain knows that what's happened to his family sounds like the most horrible soap opera anyone could ever write. But it happened to Jack; his parents; his sisters, Smithy and Madison - and to his baby brother, Tris. What made it worse was that the media wanted to know every detail. Now it's almost Tris' third birthday, and every thing's starting again.

The fall of the Awesome Threesome is the talk of the junior class. The three friends - Jennie, Emily, and Hillary - thought they’d be a trio forever. But what with Jennie’s relentless ambition, Emily’s jealousy, and Hillary’s building resentment, it seems the Awesome Threesome is over.

When her father is murdered and the police obtain an e-mail confession that implicates her, Alice Robie realizes she will have to flee and prove her innocence.

Janie Johnson's life has been in turmoil ever since she discovered she was kidnapped as a young child. Visiting and getting acquainted with her birth family was difficult. As the story spread throughout high school, facing her curious classmates was even worse. Maybe this year will be better now that she's no longer the focus of attention and she will be a mature junior. But late one night she hears her friend Reeve hosting a call-in program on a college radio station. To her horror, he reveals her story to his fans.

When Janie first realized she was the missing child on the milk carton, her whole world fell apart. At first, she wondered if the parents she loved so much had actually kidnapped her, but it turns out that they were only trying to protect her. Now that the mystery of Janie's kidnapping has been unraveled, she is caught on the horns of a huge dilemma.

When 15-year-old Janie Johnson sees her own face in the missing children box on a milk carton, her world begins to blur. Was she kidnapped when she was a baby? Who are her parents? And who are Mr. and Mrs. Johnson? Janie’s search for the answers will lead her back twelve years into memories of another house, another family, another life. Her questions threaten to destroy the love she feels for her parents and the security they have given her. But it is a search she cannot ignore. The Face on the Milk Carton has been extremely popular ever since it was first released.

Through their love for people, yet ignorance of the unknown, the Finch Family has joined alongside their church and opened their home to an African refugee family who are moving to Connecticut. The Amabo family of four Andre, Celestine, Mattu, and Alake: father, mother, and teenage son and daughter arrive in great hope as they have escaped the tyranny of Africa. What the Finch Family doesnt know is that there are not just four refugees in this Amabo family, but five.

From the author of the multimillion-copy bestseller The Face on the Milk Carton, comes a new riveting page-turner. Murder. One of the Allerdon sisters has been charged with a pre-meditated killing and taken to jail. It doesn't seem possible--but it's happening. What was supposed to be a typical...

Selma er levende. Hun har forbrændinger i ansigtet og en fod, der gør ondt. Hun ved, hvad det var, hun var i gang med at sige til Vik, da bilen kørte galt. For at få sit liv tilbage har hun brug for at finde ud af, hvem hende pigen var, som Vik mødtes med, lige inden alt blev slået i stykker. Selma længes efter tiden før ulykken og en verden i alfabetisk orden. Men der mangler et V, et I og et K. ""Hvem var hun?" siger jeg. Han drejer hovedet og ser på mig. En sur smag i min mund. Den får spyttet til at klæbe til tungen, tungen til ganen. Jeg hader fornemmelsen af at kaste op.

"Siden for evigt" er en usentimental og lydhør roman om at gå i ottende klasse og ikke føle, man har noget som helst til fælles med de andre; om trangen til at starte på en frisk med helt nye venner et helt nyt sted; og om ikke at vide, hvem ens far er. Der er 23 dage, til Cecilie fylder 15. Men hvad er der at fejre, når hun bare vil væk fra det hele? Fra sin mor, der ikke fatter, at man faktisk har krav på at vide, hvem ens far er. Fra Sandra og Nadja fra klassen, der pludselig vil lege veninder. Fra Mikkel, som hun lige kom til at kysse.

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Twins Mary Lee and Madrigal are living double lives - with some shocking secrets. Mary Lee and Madrigal are twin sisters, beautiful and deeply attached to each other. Then in high school, Mary Lee and Madrigal's parents decide to send Mary Lee away to boarding school - cruelly separating the girls. The twins have only been apart a handful of times in their lives. Mary Lee is devastated at first, and then horrified as Madrigal betrays her by approving of their parents' shocking plan.

A terrorist’s bomb killed her brother - is Laura the next target? Laura and Billy are all-American expat kids living in London with their parents. Charming eleven-year-old Billy wants to be an entrepreneur and is making a good start with his paper route and by selling American macaroni-and-cheese to his British friends. Pretty teenaged Laura is so boy-crazy she hopes her unique crush-ranking system will be attractive to college admissions boards. But their carefree lives change forever when Billy is handed a mysterious package in a London Underground station.

A fast-paced story set in a city hospital places two young volunteers at the center of life-and-death situations, as Diana and Seth struggle to find their places in the emergency room.

Christmas is coming and everyone around 16-year-old Liz Kitchell is busy with preparations. The big houses in her neighborhood are shimmering inside and out with luxurious decorations. And her parents are trying to impress all their friends with extravagant parties and expensive gifts. But Liz feels empty inside. In her English class, her group has to write a composition: How do you get what you want for Christmas?

"Venus Fluefanger" er en roman om køn og identitet, venskab og kødædende planter. Om at være Alex og kæmpe for at passe ind i en verden bygget af lidt for firkantede kasser. Men mest af alt om at turde stå ved sig selv. En dag køber Alex en Venus fluefanger. Den mærkelige plante står i blomsterbutikken og tigger om at blive taget med hjem. Så får Isa, der ellers er den eneste, der altid plejer at kunne forstå Alex, en kæreste. Og gradvist begynder det at gå op for Alex, at tingene måske er nødt til at ændre sig.