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With just a touch, George experiences a person's future death. High school is hard enough, but sixteen-year-old death witch Georgiana “George” Colburn can’t seem to catch a break. Even Jen’s ghost, the recently deceased popular girl who ignored George in life, won’t leave her alone. George is convinced her life can’t get any worse. That is until she bumps into the new student and experiences his death at her hand.

Sophia Briggs has passed the entrance exam and is a freshman at the famous School of Roots and Vines. The young magical is an Elemental with a twist. She can help everything that grows out of the ground—and then some. Her magic is a kind that hasn't been seen in generations. A secret even to her, but not for long. In the center of the boarding school stands an oversized oak tree that stretches across the campus and houses the classrooms—and is still alive. Even the tree holds a powerful secret that is being protected by a few.

One second, Gem Hawkins is on her way to being the number one drag racer in the state, and the next, she's burying her father, a badass demon hunter. The agency calls it a fluke. The official report claims some low level demon caught him off guard while out on patrol. But Gem knows that's a lie. When the dirty Nephilim running the investigation refuses to help, Gem takes matters into her own hands.

Das Finale der Romantasy-Dilogie von Bestsellerautorin Bianca Iosivoni! Die Welt steht am Abgrund. Alles, was Blair wichtig ist, und alle Menschen, die sie liebt, sind in Gefahr. Denn die uralte Prophezeiung hat sich erfüllt: Ragnarök ist angebrochen - und es ist ganz allein Blairs Schuld. Verzweifelt versucht sie, ihren Fehler wiedergutzumachen, und muss dabei nicht nur gegen alte Feinde, sondern auch gegen ihre Freunde antreten. Als der Fenrirwolf und die Midgardschlange auftauchen, weiß Blair nicht, ob sie das Ende der Welt überhaupt noch verhindern kann.

Seventeen-year-old Frankie doesn't trust easily. Not others and not even herself. Found in an alley when she was a child, she has no memory of who she is or why she was left there. Recurring dreams about a hundred-year-old carnival side show, a performer known as Alligator Girl, and a man named Monsieur Duval have an eerie familiarity to them. Frankie gets drawn deeper into Alligator Girl's world and the secrets that keep the performers bound together. But a startling encounter with Monsieur Duval when she’s awake makes Frankie wonder what’s real and what’s in her head.

Flame ist gelungen, was niemand je zuvor vollbracht hat: Die Insel der Seligen lebend zu verlassen. Während Ziva weitere Gefangene in ihre Gewalt bringt, wächst ihre Armee und Dark steht noch immer unter ihrem dunklen Bann. Um ihn und die anderen zu befreien, müssen Flame und ihre Freunde die Gunst einer Titanin gewinnen und einen der mächtigen sechs Urgegenstände Viridis finden. Nur so haben sie eine Chance, Ziva zu besiegen, doch den Artefakten wohnt eine uralte Macht inne und diese Finsternis verschlingt selbst die reinsten Seelen …

"Avi Roque is the perfect narrator for this queer YA fantasy...The novel hits all the expected beats of YA fantasy, and Roque infuses it with even more life and drama." —AudioFile Godly Heathens is the first book in H.E. Edgmon's YA contemporary fantasy duology The Ouroboros, in which a teen...

"A tense and beautiful tale about the monsters we make and the memories that haunt us." —Kate Alice Marshall, author of I Am Still Alive and Rules for Vanishing Rose Colter is almost home, but she can't go back there yet. When her car breaks down in the Nevada desert, the silence of the night...

She may be down . . . but her fangs are out. After defeating Lucifer and saving the world, Schuyler Van Allen woke up in an entirely different reality and learned she had to do it all over again. Find the villain, take him down, save the world. But after losing her only allies, Jack Force—who ran off to protect her—and Kingsley Martin—who was captured and killed by the enemy, Schuyler has to face facts. She's going to have to do this alone . . . or is she?