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Die 7B war eine scheinbar ganz normale Schulklasse am Großenburger Gymnasiums. Mark Wendler, der Außenseiter der Gemeinschaft, treibt ein ganz eigenes Spiel mit manchen seiner Kollegen. Während eines Schulausfluges geschieht ein tödliches Unglück am Großenburger See. Plötzlich ist für Mark alles anders, sein Leben dreht sich um 180 Grad. Kurz darauf stirbt noch ein Klassenkamerad, diesmal nicht durch einen Unfall, sondern durch eiskalten Mord. 25 Jahre sollen sich die Schüler der 7B nicht mehr sehen. Bis zum Klassentreffen hält der Killer still, doch nun schlägt er erneut zu. Wieder tötet er schnell, leise und präzise.

Everyone loves senior Carson Toliver, the captain and quarterback of the football team, heartthrob of South Burlington County Regional High - especially the girls. Even Jack's best friend, Weezy, has a crush on him. But Jack is surprised when Weezy tells him that Carson took her on a date and attacked her. Jack tries to convince her to report Carson, but Weezy would rather just forget it ever happened. But then Carson starts telling his own version of what happened that night, and suddenly everyone is calling her "Easy Weezy". Jack's concern turns to rage. 

When his 5-year-old neighbor goes missing, Jack can't help feeling responsible. He should have taken Cody home when he found him riding his bicycle near the Pine Barrens. And then a lost man wanders out of the woods after being chased all night by...something. Jack knows, better than anyone, that the Barrens are dangerous - a true wilderness filled with people, creatures, and objects lost from sight and memory. Like the ancient, 15-foot-tall stone pyramid he, Weezy, and Eddie discover. Jack thinks it might have been a cage of some sort, but for what kind of animal, he can't say. 

Ever come across a situation that simply wasn't right - where someone was getting the dirty end of the stick and you wished you could make things right but didn't know how? Fourteen-year-old Jack knows how. Or rather he's learning how. He's discovering that he has a knack for fixing things. Not bikes or toys or appliances - situations...It all starts when Jack and his best friends, Weezy and Eddie, discover a rotting corpse - the victim of ritual murder - in the fabled New Jersey Pine Barrens. Beside the body is an ancient artifact carved with strange designs.

All Vera wants is to survive her wedding day and fade into the rhythms of a normal life. No easy task for a quarter-mage like her. But her worst fears come to pass when her faulty magic once again lets her down—only this time, she's branded a criminal.

In a vast African landscape, four teenagers and a journalist vanish without trace. As Ella, the sister of one of the missing girls, helps the police piece together what happened, she realises there are terrifying possibilities for her sister and the others.

Felicity Vane may be a mathematical genius, but getting her family to understand her academic ambition is proving difficult. As her first social season is fast approaching, it might be time to take matters into her own hands. Infiltrating the glamorous world of The Lucky Penny and winning her university fees over a game of cards could be the perfect plan. if only it weren't for the interference of Ash, the piratical and frustratingly handsome owner who accuses her of cheating.

Ruth is not thrilled to be spending the weekend at the family farm visiting the ancient GG, her coolly distant step-grandmother. With no internet or phone coverage, Ruth occupies herself by re-reading old Agatha Christie novels, eavesdropping on the adults, and definitely not daydreaming about her sort-of-cousin Dylan. But when GG dies under suspicious circumstances, Ruth's dull weekend turns into an enforced-family-holiday-slash-possible-murder-investigation – and she's not about to let the police get in the way of her chance to solve a real-life murder mystery.

When Marigold Bloom finds her family business in trouble a chance encounter with the devastatingly handsome and extremely bad-tempered Oliver Lockhart leads her to the Aviary—a secret agency of women who specialize in blackmailing troublesome men. Soon, Mari is the agency's newest recruit, sent to investigate the mysterious return of Oliver's long lost sister. Forced to masquerade as a newly engaged couple, it is up to Mari and Oliver to determine if there is an imposter in their midst. But what happens when the line between truth and fiction starts to blur?

Spannungsgeladener Jugendroman, den man nicht zur Seite legen möchte! Ein düsteres Schloss thront hoch über dem Dorf. Dort haust ein wahnsinniger Professor, der sich für den neuen Frankenstein hält. Eine bemitleidenswerte Kreatur wurde von ihm zum Leben erweckt und soll nun töten. Gelingt es Oliver, sie aufzuhalten, kann er sie erlösen? Gemeinsam mit seinen Freunden folgt er der Spur des Monsters bis ins innerste des grauenvollen Schlosses. A.F. Morland ist das Pseudonym von Friedrich Tenkrat.

Mit dem neuen Schüler Nicolai Groza zieht das Grauen in die Baconville Highschool ein. Stets trägt er schwarze Klamotten und eine dunkle Sonnenbrille. Seine Haut ist so bleich wie die einer Leiche. Kevin und seine Freundin Kelly müssen hilflos mit ansehen, wie ein Schüler nach dem anderen in seinen teuflischen Bann gerät. Gemeinsam mit dem alten Russen Gregorij nehmen sie den Kampf gegen diese Kreaturen auf, die nach Blut lechzen. A.F. Morland ist das Pseudonym von Friedrich Tenkrat. Der Autor wurde 1939 in Wien geboren.

It’s been five years since Rose’s mother, Kathy, went missing, and all Rose wants to do is get on with her life. Then police officer Henry Thompson comes calling: a body has been found buried in the garden of Rose’s old house. The body of a missing teenage girl. Rose and Joshua have one last chance to clear their parents’ names. But if they fail, the consequences will be deadly…

Joshua's uncle has survived a near fatal accident and Rose and Joshua drive to Newcastle to visit him, along with their friend Skeggsie. Joshua is convinced they are being followed. Can it be true, or is it just his paranoia? And then the precious murder notebooks are stolen. Somebody out there really does not want Rose and Joshua to find their parents. But who? And why?

Nostalgex: a drug that stimulates memory. In small doses, a person can remember the order of a deck of cards. In larger doses it allows the user detailed access to their past, to focus on previously unnoticed details. On New Year's Day, Jess' and Cooper's worlds collide. They must work together to look into their pasts to uncover what really happened on that fateful New Year's Eve. But what they find is that everything is a lie....

Kassandra Black is sent to work in her great-uncle Brian's lab at Henley University. She's helping with his HEAR (Henley Engineering Anomalies Research) program. Whilst there, Kass discovers she really can communicate telepathically; she can even see the future. When one of her fellow HEAR students is murdered, Kass must try to forget everything she knows about herself and trust those who share her gift. A psychological thriller that entwines teenage angst blended with a classic whodunit.

In the second of the Paul Faustino novels by Carnegie Medal-winning author Mal Peet, teenage football prodigy El Brujito, 'the Little Magician', has vanished without a trace, and Paul finds himself reluctantly drawn into the mystery. As the city of San Juan pulses to summer's sluggish beat, Paul gets more than he bargained for as a story of corruption and murder unfolds, forcing him to confront a bitter history of slavery and the power of the occult.

Im Jahre 1898 versuchte Dr. Abraham Van Helsing mit einer Gruppe mutiger Freiheitskämpfer die Mächte der Finsternis auszulöschen. In Transsilvanien, in einem düsteren Schloss, in den Karpathen kämpften die Männer gegen Dracula, den Vampirfürsten. Es gelang ihnen den König der Vampire auszulöschen. Die Menschheit war anscheinend gerettet, aber Dr. Abraham Van Helsing täuschte sich. 60 Jahre später kehrte das Grauen zurück und schlug unbarmherzig zu.