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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.

Hidden high above the mortal world, Domus Academy is a secret sanctuary for cambions—the half-human, half-demon children despised by every realm. For Cassia, the academy has always been her home…and her prison. Born with wings and a past shrouded in secrecy, Cassia has spent her life under the protection of the Elders, isolated from other students and haunted by dreams she can’t explain. When she’s finally thrust into her final year among her peers, she’s determined to prove she belongs—even if that means facing the academy’s fiercest students and their dangerous magic.

Emily Joiner was once part of an inseparable group—she was a sister, a best friend, a lover, and a rival. Summers without Emily were unthinkable. Until the fire burned the lake house to ashes with her inside. A year later, it’s in Emily’s honor that Chelsea and her four friends decide to return. The house awaits them, meticulously rebuilt. Only, Chelsea is haunted by ghostly visions. Loner Ryan stirs up old hurts and forces golden boy Chase to play peacemaker. Which has perfect hostess Kennedy on edge as eerie events culminate in a stunning accusation.

Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price - and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But he can't pull it off alone.

Auf einer abgeschiedenen Waldlichtung führt die junge Lorea mit ihrer wegen Hexerei verstoßenen Familie ein recht ruhiges Leben. Doch eines Nachts fällt ihr Haus einem Feuer zum Opfer, welchem nur Lorea und ihre Mutter knapp entrinnen. Um jenen Verfolgern zu entkommen, die hinter dem Brand stecken und ihnen nach dem Leben trachten, flüchten sie in den Süden ihrer englischen Heimat. Welche Gefahren noch auf sie lauern, ahnt Lorea erst, als sie auf Räuber und einen mysteriösen Fremden trifft.

It’s the 1950s when Johnny Dixon’s mother dies, his father goes to fight in the Korean War, and he goes to live with his grandparents. Although life in a new house is strange, Johnny’s “Grampa” listens to his favorite ballgames, takes him on long walks, and tells him stories of the strange mysteries that lurk in the shadows. Best of all, he’s friends with Professor Childermass, an eccentric academic who’s about to take Johnny on the adventure of a lifetime.

Schizophren oder paranormal begabt? Harper Green, die Heldin der neuen Fantasy-Reihe von Carola Lowitz und Susanna Mewe ist anders. Und gefangen in einem System, das Menschen skrupellos manipuliert und als Waffen benutzt. Die 20-jährige Harper nimmt Dinge wahr, die anderen verborgen bleiben. Durch Zufall findet sie heraus, dass ihre vermeintliche Krankheit eine Gabe ist – und hinter dem Tod ihres Vaters mehr steckt, als gedacht. Der Wahrheit auf der Spur, taucht Harper nach und nach ein in ein Geflecht von Lüge und Manipulation, bei dem die Drahtzieher ganz oben sitzen.

The novel is narrated by Oro and offers a window into his complex identity: that of a king torn between desire for justice and passion for the woman he loves more than anything. It includes key moments from the ruler’s love story with Isla, told in his own voice.

It is freezing in the churchyard, even before the dead arrive. Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue herself never sees them - not until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks directly to her. His name is Gansey, and Blue soon discovers that he is a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Known as Raven Boys, they can only mean trouble. But Blue is drawn to Gansey, in a way she can't entirely explain.

I'm hiding in my father's closet, desperately picking the lock on a box containing an ancient evil...when he emerges. He doesn't seem all that evil, but neither did my friends before they turned into monsters. I'd like to think that I don't need him. But I love books and he loves battles. I'm used to drinking tea and he's used to drinking the blood of his enemies....or whatever his kind drink. In a world stricken by plague, all my friends have become terrifying monsters, and I have no other option but to trust him to keep me safe.

Two teens are pitted against each other in a magical duel for revenge, but they’ll have to fight their growing attraction first, in this YA fantasy thriller from the author of These Deadly Prophecies. Eighteen-year-old Samantha Chan wants only one thing: revenge for her brother’s death in an...

Flo lives an eccentric life - she travels with a popular circus in which the main acts star orphaned children with secret shape-shifting abilities. Once Flo turns 16, she must perform, but she's not ready. While practicing jumping a flaming hurdle in a clearing beside the circus, she spots a dark figure in the trees and fears he saw her shift. The news sends the circus into a panic.

Sixteen-year-old Jimi knows people change, but nothing could prepare her for what's about to happen to her best friend, Del. Del is obsessed with becoming a chimera: a person who pays back-alley geneticists, known as "genies", to illegally splice animal genes into their own. The resulting physical changes have scared lawmakers into drafting legislation declaring chimeras officially nonpersons, so when Del goes missing, Jimi is desperate to find him before he alters himself forever.

Teenie-Detektive auf gefährlichen Spuren: Mit dem ungleichen Duo Basti und Sabse schickt Hörspiel- und Comicautorin Frauke Schmickl zwei übersinnlich begabte Kids auf geheime Missionen, um neben Schule, Fußball und Serienmarathon mal eben schnell die Welt zu retten. Besuch? Ist nicht immer willkommen. Vor allem, wenn er aus einem Paralleluniversum anklopft und gleich ganz Schafsbüttel übernehmen will. Wie gut, dass es "Weltenwächter" gibt, die unschöne Überraschungen abwehren – ohne, dass wir Normalos etwas davon mitbekommen.

Seventeen-year-old RJ always gets what she wants. So when her soul is accidentally collected by a distracted Grim Reaper, somebody in the afterlife better figure out a way to send her back from the dead, or heads will roll. But in her quest for mortality, she becomes a pawn in a power struggle between an overzealous archangel and Death Himself. The tribunal presents her with two options.

SOMETHING DARK AND EVIL HAS AWAKENED. . . . Evie O’Neill has been exiled from her boring old hometown and shipped off to the bustling streets of New York City—and she is pos-i-tute-ly ecstatic. It’s 1926, and New York is filled with speakeasies, Ziegfeld girls, and rakish pickpockets. The...

After sending the evil librarian, Mr. Gabriel, back to the demon world once and for all at theater camp last summer, Cynthia is ready to enjoy a completely demon-free senior year of high school, especially once she learns the fall musical will be Les Misérables. But down in the demon realm, an epic mishandling of Mr. Gabriel’s essence leads to his escape—and soon he’s gathering strength, bent once again on revenge against Cyn and everyone she loves.

In the eight kingdoms, none have greater strength or influence than the asha, who hold elemental magic. But only a bone witch has the power to raise the dead. Tea has used this dark magic to breathe life into those she has loved and lost...and those who would join her army against the deceitful royals. But Tea's quest to conjure a shadowglass, to achieve immortality for the one person she loves most in the world, threatens to consume her. Tea's heartsglass only grows darker with each new betrayal. They all feed the darkrot that is gradually consuming her heartsglass.

Left injured on the side of the road with no memories at ten years old, Lia has never known anything but the foster care system. Now that she's aging out, she's ready to write her own story for her life with a job and apartment all lined up . . . until she loses the job before even starting. Desperate to not become homeless, she ends up accepting an offer for a job she doesn't remember applying for at a hotel she's not sure exists. Once she arrives, she discovers a hotel catering to supernatural beings, as well as a captivating hotel owner who hates her on sight.

No one knows death like Tea. A bone witch who can resurrect the dead, she has the power to take life...and return it. And she is done with her self-imposed exile. Her heart is set on vengeance, and she now possesses all she needs to command the mighty daeva. With the help of these terrifying beasts, she can finally enact revenge against the royals who wronged her - and took the life of her one true love. But there are those who plot against her, those who would use Tea's dark power for their own nefarious ends.