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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.

Nicole Cassidy is a witch descended from the Greek gods...but she doesn't know it until she moves to a new town and discovers a dangerous world of magic and monsters that she never knew existed. When the Olympian Comet shoots through the sky for the first time in 3,000 years, Nicole and four others - including mysterious bad-boy Blake - are gifted with elemental powers. But the comet has another effect - it opens the portal to another dimension that has imprisoned the Titans for centuries.

Emi has dedicated her life to preparing for her destiny: to become a living vessel for her goddess’s spirit. With the fulfillment of her divine duty only two months away, she’s never once questioned the strict rules that control every aspect of her daily existence. Until the day she discovers her entire life has been built on lies.

Parfois, les filles sont bénies par la guerre. C'est le cas d'Épine. Espérant venger la mort de son père, elle ne vit que pour se battre. Mais la voilà accusée de meurtre par l'homme qui lui a appris à tuer. C'est alors que Yarvi, ministre du Gettland et maître de la manipulation, lui propose un marché qu'elle ne peut refuser. Contrainte de prendre part à ses manipulations politiques, Épine va traverser la moitié du monde en quête d'alliés contre l'impitoyable Haut Roi. Accompagnée d'un guerrier qui déteste la violence, elle découvre aussi le prix du sang et l'art de la tromperie.

Number one New York Times best-selling author of the Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot knows the difficulties (real or otherwise) of awkward teenage years. In Twilight, Cabot continues her series about Suze Simon, the teenage mediator with an other-worldly boyfriend, Jesse de Silva. But when fellow mediator Paul Slater threatens to send Jesse back to where he came from, can Suze stop him in time?

On a diplomatic mission, Brax and his rider, Carmen the assassin, encounter a ghostly vision of the Nameless Goddess. She's a part leopard, part crocodile deity, who warns them she is coming to conquer their world. Brax, in his usual snarky way, makes fun of her hairy legs and, after she vanishes, dismisses this threat. But things soon get a lot worse... When the duo arrives at the capital of the Akkad empire, they discover the emperor has been horrifically murdered by what looks to be an astral servant of that goddess, and his young nephew ascends to the throne.

Acclaimed author Meg Cabot is the creator of the #1 New York Times best seller The Princess Diaries. This latest edition to the Mediator series is a suspenseful tale of 16-year-old Suze, who acts as the middleman for ghosts and the real world. Unintentionally, Suze has fallen in love with a 19th-century ghost. Will she lose him forever if she solves his murder?

عندما يتوفى مؤسس إمبراطورية بالينجر، يتولى ابنه جيس زمام الأمور ويصبح الزعيم الجديد للإمبراطورية. حتى الممالك المجاورة تخضع لسلطة هذه العائلة الخارجة عن القانون، التي لطالما حكمت وفقًا لقواعدها الخاصة. لكن عصرًا جديدًا يبدأ بقيادة ملكة شابة، مما يجعلها هدفًا لغضب وعداء هذه السلالة. في الوقت نفسه، ترسل الملكة كازي، اللصة الأسطورية السابقة من شوارع الفقر، للتحقيق في الانتهاكات المرتكبة ضد المستوطنات الجديدة. عندما تصل كازي إلى أرض بالينجر القاسية، تكتشف أن جيس ليس كما توقعت.

Under secret orders to assassinate the Widow, Hawkeye, the rough-edged marksman, finds himself caught up in a violent prison break that releases some of the world's most vicious and powerful criminals. Defying his superiors, Hawkeye joins forces with the sultry Russian spy and a mismatched group of personalities that include Spider-Man, Spider-Woman, Luke Cage, Captain America, and Iron Man.

When she was a child, Astrid heard stories about how her mother served on the walls of Humanity's Bulwark to protect their country from their inhuman enemies on every side. With terrifying stories about their many foes, she quickly decided to become a delver in the Dungeon. There, she could gain enough levels and experience to serve as one of Humanity's elites, to protect her borders and countrymen. To do that, she'd need a party, and she had a plan.

Getting dragged into an alien world was not high on Elias Critchley's to-do list. One moment, he's trying to avoid eye contact with people on the school bus. The next, he's suspended mid-air in a bizarre tutorial and dumped—naked—into a dangerous, System-bound world where survival is far from guaranteed. With nothing but his sarcasm, stubborn streak, dry wit and a few skills from his old life, Elias must navigate a world that feels like the games he used to play… only now, dying doesn't come with a respawn.

Welcome to the astounding world of Predator Cities! Emerging from its hiding place in the hills, the great Traction City is chasing a terrified little town across the wastelands. Soon, London will feed. In the attack, Tom Natsworthy is flung from the speeding city with a murderous scar-faced girl. They must run for their lives through the wreckage - and face a terrifying new weapon that threatens the future of the world.

The thrilling finale to #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle L. Jensen's Dark Shores series, which Sarah J. Maas calls "everything I look for in a fantasy novel." This program features multicast narration. Lydia and Killian escaped their enemy’s grasp, but not without consequences...

La primera vez que vi un monstruo pensé que era lo peor que podía pasarme. Me equivocaba. Lo peor fue dejar escapar al ladrón de lo único que nos protegía de ellos. Me llamo Clara Nox, tengo trece años y Nueva York sigue siendo mi hogar… aunque nada es como antes. Entre clases aburridas, compañeros que piensan que el instituto les pertenece y monstruos escondidos en las sombras, he aprendido que hay errores que no se pueden reparar. Ahora, la muestra del aire está en las manos equivocadas y depende de mí recuperarla antes de que sea demasiado tarde.

Fantasy of Freedom is the final action-packed title in the Tainted Accords series. This is the heaviest the veil has ever felt. But I am the strongest I have ever been. The veil is nothing. A part of me knew when I was taken from Osolis that when I returned—if I lived long enough to return—I would carry death and destruction to her doorstep. That is the irony of peace. It comes only after war. Warning: cliff-hanger ending. Recommended for mature young adults.

Stuck in the lethal Outer Rings of Glacium, I must fight to survive. And not just that; my true identity must remain the gravest of secrets. No one can find out I'm the Tatuma of Osolis—the princess of their enemy world—especially now I know why I've been veiled my entire life. I have to believe I can do it, because only then can I continue the search for Prince Kedrick's murderer and navigate my way back to King Jovan's castle.

Kiar, royal daughter of a human father and swanfolk mother, is devastated when her sisters are able to take swan form and she is not. As next in line to the throne, Kiar is responsible for protecting the human kingdom of Valenia; but when three young swanfolk arrive to be fostered in the royal family, her friendship with spirited Willow and growing feelings for tall, thoughtful Tuan make her feel even more different.

Le royaume de Kandala a évité de justesse la catastrophe. Mais la fièvre qui ravage la population continue de sévir et le remède reste une ressource rare. Lorsqu'un émissaire du royaume d'Ostriary débarque avec une surprenante proposition, Tessa et Corrick le suivent dans une aventure périlleuse en mer. Ce pourrait être leur seule chance de maintenir la paix et de venir en aide au peuple de Kandala. Entre mensonges, loyautés mises en doute, divisions et trahisons, ni Harristan, resté seul pour diriger le royaume, ni Tessa et Corrick ne sont à l'abri du danger.

Die Initiation hat Leg überstanden, doch nun muss er beweisen, dass er den Vertrauensvorschuss des Totems verdient hat. Vor dem jungen Mann liegt eine beschwerliche Reise in ein gefährliches Land. Und diejenigen, die über das Nördliche Imperium herrschen wollen, schlafen nicht. Leg muss sich entscheiden, was ihm wichtiger ist: sein persönliches Fortkommen oder der Fortbestand des riesigen Reiches. Allerdings könnte sich auch herausstellen, dass das eine eng mit dem anderen verknüpft ist, jetzt, wo ein wahrer Magier in der Welt erschienen ist.

Once she was Adrienne Satti. An orphan of Davillon, she had somehow escaped destitution and climbed to the ranks of the city's aristocracy in a rags-to-riches story straight from an ancient fairy tale. Until one horrid night, when a conspiracy of forces - human and other - stole it all away in a flurry of blood and murder. Today she is Widdershins, a thief making her way through Davillon's underbelly with a sharp blade, a sharper wit, and the mystical aid of Olgun, a foreign god with no other worshippers but Widdershins herself.