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What would you do if the sun became your enemy? That’s exactly what happens to Viola Li after she returns from a trip abroad and develops a sudden and extreme case of photosensitivity — an inexplicable allergy to sunlight. Thanks to her crisis-manager parents, she doesn’t just have to wear layers of clothes and a hat the size of a spaceship. She has to stay away from all hint of light. Say goodbye to windows and running outdoors. Even her phone becomes a threat when its screen burns her.

Seventeen-year-old Hylee Williams didn’t ask to disappear. She didn’t ask to move from Kansas City, Kansas out to the suburbs in Missouri. But she did disappear, and not only that, but when she vanished from our world, she materialized in a dark, twisted version of the night that changed her life forever: the night her older brother went missing. Just as Hylee realizes this moment could be the key to unraveling the truth about her brother, she’s yanked away from the dark place back to our world.

Merritt Wenner has been self-destructing ever since the tragic deaths of her grandmother and her horse, and after an epic all-night bender she walks out of the SAT and disappears. Her parents, looking for a quick fix, ship her off to a residential equine therapy program. At Good Fences, Merritt meets Red - a failed racehorse and a terror in the barn. Red has never bonded with anyone, but Merritt is not afraid of him, which makes all the difference.

Some doors are better left unopened. Some doors, you don’t want to find out what lies behind them. In the Forbidden Doors series by bestselling author Bill Myers, teenager Rebecca “Becka” Williams, her younger brother Scott, and her friend Ryan Riordan are swept into heart-stopping...

For fans of E. Lockhart, this atmospheric coming-of-age story asks, How do you find someone you never really knew? “Perfect for those who reminisce on the melancholic feelings [of] John Green's Looking for Alaska.” —USA Today "Will have you hooked from the start and guessing till the very...

An Ruhe ist nach der ersten Ratssitzung nicht zu denken, denn schon erschüttern die nächsten Ereignisse die Lehrerschaft. Moose möchte jedoch nicht auf die Entscheidung des Rates warten, sondern macht sich selbst auf die Suche - und stößt dabei auf ein großes Geheimnis. Währenddessen quartieren sich Mikael und Farrah am Palast der Träume ein, um endlich eine Antwort auf Mikaels wichtigste Frage zu bekommen. Doch so kurz vor dem Ziel haben sie nicht damit gerechnet, dass sich Emmas Begeisterung darüber in Grenzen hält.

Emma versucht, Schadensbegrenzung zu betreiben. Willem ist ihr eine große Stütze, doch dann droht der Rat ein großes Geheimnis zu lüften, welches alle Bemühungen zunichte machen könnte. Derweil findet Mikael heraus, dass seinen Preis jemand anders gezahlt hat. Sein größter Wunsch ist in greifbare Nähe gerückt. Nur eins fehlt noch... Lass dich verzaubern und tauche ein in eine Welt von Gut und Böse.