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Dead if he loses - damned if he wins. The time has finally come for Darren to face his arch enemy, Steve Leopard, and fight for control of the night. One of them will die. The other will become the Lord of the Shadows …and destroy the world.

The ship was built for one thing: to carry the delegations of two warring nations into neutral waters, where the heads of state would sign a peace treaty and end the war that has been raging for a generation. When it goes down, a pair of survivors—Cora, daughter of a Duran newspaper reporter, and Vivienne, lady’s maid to an Ariminthian princess—wash up on a remote island. At first, it seems like they have nothing in common—not even whether or not they want to be rescued. But the arrival of a pirate ship brings them to the realization that they do have a shared purpose: peace.

At night, Las Mal Criadas own these streets. Sixteen-year-old Nalah leads the fiercest all-girl crew in Mega City. That role brings with it violent throwdowns and access to the hottest "boydega" clubs, but Nala quickly grows weary of her questionable lifestyle. Her dream is to get off the streets and make a home in the exclusive Mega Towers, in which only a chosen few get to live. To make it to the Mega Towers, Nalah must prove her loyalty to the city's benevolent founder and cross the border in a search of the mysterious gang the Ashe Riders.

From beloved fantasy author Mercedes Lackey comes a fresh and feminist reinterpretation of Sleeping Beauty. Miriam may be the daughter of Queen Alethia of Tirendell, but she's not a princess. She's the child of Alethia and her previous husband, the King's Champion, who died fighting for the king...

Dwunastoletni Sigge przeprowadza się wraz z mamą i dwiema młodszymi siostrami ze Sztokholmu do babci mieszkającej w małym, prowincjonalnym szwedzkim miasteczku. Zaczynają się wakacje, a Sigge wyznaczył sobie na nie trudny cel: chce się nauczyć zdobywania sympatii swoich rówieśników. Wie, że w nowej szkole może rozpocząć swoje życie od nowa i nie zamierza po raz kolejny zostać klasowym outsiderem. Nowy dom okazuje się kolorowy i pełen różnych ciekawych rekwizytów, natomiast babcia pomimo zaawansowanego wieku wręcz kipi pozytywną energią.

In Waraka herrscht die Angst: Furcht vor der gottgleichen Großen Schlange, Furcht vor Skarf, ihrem Hüter, Furcht vor den Bestien außerhalb der Stadt. Auch Prinz Arkyn soll lernen, Angst zu verbreiten. Denn die Angst der anderen ist seine Macht. Doch Arkyn rebelliert. Gemeinsam mit seinem Seelentier, einem Säbelzahnjaguar, flieht er aus dem goldenen Käfig. Er trifft auf Saga, die von den windumtosten Inseln der Wulfen aufgebrochen ist, um das legendäre Waraka zu finden.

Nowhere to run, one place left to hide. You're running from bullets through the streets of your own town. Your life's on the line and no-one's there to help. What's happened? When did safety turn to fear, peace turn to war, happiness turn to panic? When did your normal day become a nightmare? Ellie and her friends struggle with the biggest questions life can offer.

Ellie has struggled to put the war behind her and lead a normal life. Although what's normal about your parents having been murdered; trying to run a farm and go to school; and bringing up a young boy who's hiding terrible secrets about his past?

Emily Bell has it all - or so she thinks. She's in love with a boy named Sam, and this summer is destined to be the best they've ever known. No one suspects that Sam's violent father, who blames the Bell family for his incarceration, is planning a jailbreak. Meanwhile Sam and Emily's idyllic romance is under fire from a charismatic new girl in town, and Emily begins to question the loyalty of the person she thought she could trust most.

O audiolivro narra a jornada do garoto Edmundo, um adolescente de dezesseis anos em permanente conflito com o pai. Em busca do amor proibido, o jovem aventura-se em uma viagem repleta de situações inusitadas, perigosas e transformadoras. Uma jornada que fará Mundo, nome que escolhe para si, encontrar novos amigos e reconhecer quem de fato ele deseja ser.

Dieses Jahr ist für Lia auf dem Landsitz ihrer Familie nichts mehr, wie es einmal war: Finn, der Neffe des Wildhüters, verdreht Lia den Kopf. Obwohl er sie mit seinen spöttischen Sprüchen herausfordert, verliebt sie sich Hals über Kopf in ihn. Doch wer ist dieser Junge wirklich, der mit einem wilden Fuchs Ball spielt und ihm Gedichte vorliest? Bald erreichen die Schatten der Vergangenheit die Wildnis von Badfearna. Sie bringen Dinge über Finn ans Licht, die keinen Zweifel lassen: Ein Mädchen wie Lia hat in seinem Leben keinen Platz.

Die Sommerferien stehen vor der Tür. Die schönste Zeit des Jahres. Nicht so für Jean. Die Konflikte mit seinem Vater lassen sich im Urlaub nicht einfach ausblenden. Die alljährliche Eskalation scheint vorprogrammiert. Doch dann taucht ein Fremder auf und bald wird klar: Diesen Sommer wird er das größte Abenteuer seines Lebens eingehen. Gemeinsam mit seinem besten Freund Marcel, begibt er sich auf eine spannende Reise, um die Wahrheit herauszufinden.

Charlotte Nowak will die Sache am liebsten abbrechen: diese Fahrt auf einem Containerschiff nach Marokko. Niemand soll wissen, wo sie und ihre Freundinnen sich aufhalten; die vier sind so verschieden, wie man mit sechzehn nur sein kann, sodass es auch mal kracht; und dann haben sie noch Antonia als blinden Passagier an Bord geschmuggelt. Aber Bea, die sie finden müssen, steckt in Schwierigkeiten und braucht Hilfe. Als das Schiff ablegt, wird Charlotte klar: Sie kann nicht mehr zurück und ist nun Teil dieses Schiffes, auf dem einiges nicht stimmt.

Tania de Batz is most herself with a sword in her hand. Everyone in town thinks her near-constant dizziness makes her weak, nothing but “a sick girl.” But Tania wants to be strong, independent, a fencer like her father—a former Musketeer and her greatest champion. Then Papa is brutally, mysteriously murdered. His dying wish? For Tania to attend finishing school. But L’Académie des Mariées, Tania realizes, is no finishing school.

Karlax has survived numerous encounters with dragons, atorats, and orcs, but now he will face off against his deadliest foe yet: the Emissary of the Void. Even that, though, may pale in comparison to the growing threat that is surfacing within his newly formed alliance.

In Runaway, Emerson Watts continues her fight against the twisted Stark Enterprises while her brain remains trapped inside the body of super model Nikki Howard. Whisked away to Brandon Stark’s secluded love nest, Em has alienated her true love Christopher and her parents, while hoping to learn the terrifying secret Nikki—in her own new body—harbors.

Shy takes the summer job to make some money. A few months on a luxury cruise liner - how bad can it be? Bikinis, free food, maybe even a girl or two...there’s always going to be a fresh crop of passengers, after all. He’ll rake in the tips and be able to help his mom with the bills. But then an earthquake more massive than any ever recorded hits California, and Shy’s life is changed forever. The earthquake is only the beginning. Twenty-four hours and a catastrophic chain of events later, Shy is lost at sea, fighting to survive - and stuck with her....

While Ellie and her friends are away in the bush, the world changes. Suddenly they are in the toughest situations humans can confront, facing life and death decisions. They are thrown into a world where they find courage, initiative, spirit and wisdom, or they die.

The last place you'd expect to find a team of criminals is at a prestigious Philadelphia prep school. But on a class trip to the US Mint - which prints a million new coins every 30 minutes - an overlooked security flaw becomes far too tempting for a small group of students to ignore. United by dire circumstances, these unlikely allies - the nerd, the slacker, the athlete, and the perfect student - band together to attempt the impossible: rob the US Mint.

A cataclysmic explosion has given earthly teens astronomical powers-when the star Mentarsus-H went supernova at their conceptions, the teens absorbed the shattered soul of the star and inherited unimaginable abilities. Now the Star Shards have become like gods, drunk on their own power-and ripe for manipulation by The Bringer, a creature who would turn them against one another and transform the planet into his own personal feeding ground. But who is more dangerous: The Bringer or the Star Shards?