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Seventeen-year-old Anouk envies the human world, where people known as Pretties lavish themselves in fast cars, high fashion, and have the freedom to fall in love. But Anouk can never have those things, because she is not really human. Enchanted from animal to human girl and forbidden to venture beyond her familiar Parisian prison, Anouk is a Beastie: destined for a life surrounded by dust bunnies and cinders serving Mada Vittora, the evil witch who spelled her into existence. That is, until one day she finds her mistress murdered in a pool of blood - and Anouk is accused of the crime.

Some doors were never meant to be opened. Some tales were never meant to be set free. When seventeen-year-old Sahara O’Saughnessy discovers a rift into the realm of lore, the most haunting stories she’s been telling her friends come to life, and she must find a way to stop them before they tear her world apart.

The Hollow sisters—Vivi, Grey and Iris—are as seductively glamorous as they are mysterious. They have black eyes and hair as white as milk. The Hollow sisters don't have friends—they don't need them. They move through the corridors like sharks, the other little fish parting around them, whispering behind their backs. And everyone knows who the Hollow sisters are. Because one day the three Hollow sisters simply disappeared. And when they came back, one month later, with no memory of where they had been, it was as if nothing had changed.

Mallory Fontaine is a fraud. Though she comes from a long line of witches, the only magic she possesses is the ability to see ghosts. When Armand offers Mallory a large sum of money to rid his ancestral home of its ghost, she can't resist. When murder again comes to the House Saphir, Mallory finds herself at the centre of the investigation. If she has any hope of cashing in on the promised payment, she'll have to both solve the murder and banish the ghost.

Teen rebel and social-media star Robin Hood is in exile in Holland, limited to public campaigning for the rebel cause. In the meantime, the Sherwood Forest rebels have been waging a long bitter war against President Marjorie Kovacevic's troops. And hundreds of thousands of civilians, women and children, have been locked up in squalid open-air prisons. But if the President wants to remain in power, she must do whatever it takes to completely destroy the rebels in Sherwood Forest.

Somebody cursed Lucinda’s Abuelita. But who? And why? And why are the authorities and her family too frightened to investigate? When Lucinda recognizes she is Abuelita’s only hope for survival, she and her best friend enlist the help of the most unlikely ally, the son of the local gang boss… …the gang boss her family killed. Using bruja witchcraft, Lucinda and her friends open a gateway to relive Abuelita’s memories, only to discover terrible secrets and powerful enemies who pose an even greater danger than a single curse.

"Read this one with the lights on!"—Beth Revis, New York Times bestselling author of The Night of the Witch Knives Out meets The Hazel Wood in this twisty contemporary fantasy about an amusement park shrouded in dark secrets—and the family desperate to inherit it at any cost. Welcome to...

From the instant New York Times-bestselling author Aiden Thomas, comes Lost in the Never Woods, an atmospheric, supernatural Peter Pan retelling . . . It has been five years since Wendy and her two brothers went missing in the woods but, when the town’s children start to disappear, the...

Mirabelle’s past is shrouded in secrecy, from her parents’ tragic deaths to her guardians’ half-truths about why she can’t return to her birthplace, Beau Rivage. Desperate to see the town, Mira runs away a week before her sixteenth birthday—and discovers a world she never could have...