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Under the blazing sun, an elite troupe of dancers are trained to harness their magic. They are the queen's most formidable assassins. Aasira has one of the rarest talents—for she is a flame-wielder. Feared by all and envied by some, she uses her power to execute enemies of the crown. Aasira's greatest wish is to serve her queen. But on the eve of her graduation, with tensions rising among the dancers and secrets stirring in the shifting sand dunes, she begins to question whether she was truly born to kill…

When four strange, and strangely talented, youngsters are brought to Winding Circle by master sorcerer Niko they find themselves drawn together in a Circle of Magic - a circle that binds them despite their differences.

Enter the explosive world of the blockbuster Shatter Me series by #1 New York Times bestselling author Tahereh Mafi! This audio bundle includes the first three books in the captivating series: SHATTER ME: A girl with the ability to kill with a single touch is held hostage as an evil regime...

In a world on the brink of the next Great Dying, no amount of training can prepare us for what is to come.... A young heir will raise the most powerful phantom in all of Baiseen. A dangerous High Savant will do anything to control the nine realms. A mysterious and deadly Mar race will steal children into the sea. And a handsome guide with far too many secrets will make me fall in love. My name is Ash. A lowly scribe meant to observe and record. And yet I think I'm destined to save us all.

Serpent and Dove meets These Hollow Vows in this all-new YA fantasy series about a druid and the Fae royal she's been tasked to protect.

In Compound Eleven, the hierarchy of the floors is everything. My name is Eve Hamilton, and on my floor, we fight. Which at least is better than the bottom floor, where they toil away in misery. Only the top floor has any ease in this harsh world; they rule from their gilded offices. Because four generations ago, Earth was rendered uninhabitable—the sun too hot, the land too barren. Those who remained were forced underground. While not a perfect life down here, I’ve learned to survive as a fighter. Except my latest match is different. 

Wendy Darling has a perfectly agreeable life with her parents and brothers in wealthy London, as well as a budding romance with Booth, the neighborhood bookseller's son. But one night, while their parents are at a ball, the charmingly beautiful Peter Pan comes to the Darling children's nursery, and - dazzled by this flying boy with god-like powers - they follow him out of the window and straight on to morning into Neverland, an intoxicating island of freedom.

In the future, mankind has learned to manipulate their DNA, harnessing only the good genes, like intelligence, strength, and height. They called this prime DNA and humans rushed to get these new pDNA injections, which gave them superhuman-like qualities. Centuries later, however, their DNA became so engineered that humans rarely lived past the age of 30, thanks to a new deadly disease called the Kiss. The only cure is to receive an injection of oDNA, DNA from an Original human that hasn't been genetically altered. Problem is there aren't many Originals left.

It's not until Dez's father shows up, wielding a gun and knowing more about Kale than he should, that Dez realizes there's more to this boy - and her father's "law firm" - than she realized. Kale has been a prisoner of Denazen Corporation - an organization devoted to collecting "special" kids known as Sixes and using them as weapons - his entire life. 

Zera is a Heartless - the immortal, unaging soldier of a witch. Bound to the witch Nightsinger, Zera longs for freedom from the woods in which they hide. With her heart in a jar under Nightsinger's control, she serves the witch unquestioningly. Until Nightsinger asks Zera for a prince's heart in exchange for her own, with one addendum: If she's discovered infiltrating the court, Nightsinger will destroy Zera's heart rather than see her tortured by the witch-hating nobles.   

Au royaume d'Oricalis, la magie du tarot est réservée à une élite formée à la mystérieuse Académie des Arcanes. Clara le sait bien, ce qui ne l'a pas dissuadée d'en faire un usage illicite pour survivre dans les bas-fonds de la cité d'Éclipse. Mais lorsque Clara est capturée et condamnée à la prison à vie, l'énigmatique directeur de l'académie, le prince Kaelis, lui offre son salut – à certaines conditions. Il voit en elle l'outil parfait pour dérober au roi les lames de tarot dont il a besoin afin de recréer une carte ultime, perdue depuis des temps reculés.

Khalani Kanes has never stood on the surface of the earth. In the underground city of Apollo, faith and dreams are as absent as the sun. She longs to visit Genesis, the infamous Domed City and the final place where humanity lives aboveground. But when Khalani is given a life sentence and thrown into prison for a theft she didn't commit, that wish shatters into oblivion.

Seventeen-year-old Evie Dasher knows firsthand the devastating consequences of humanity's war with the aliens. When she's caught up in a raid at a notorious club known as one of the few places where humans and the surviving Luxen can mingle freely, she meets Luc, an unnaturally beautiful guy she initially assumes is a Luxen...but is in fact something much more powerful. Her growing attraction for Luc will lead her deeper and deeper into a world she'd only heard about, a world where everything she thought she knew will be turned on its head.... 

From the world of the best-selling YA series Red Rising comes a story of love and loss and rage! In the future, when mankind has spread across the stars, the hierarchy of man is dictated by the color of one’s caste. The Golds rule all, but what will happen when one falls for a lowly Red? See how a forbidden love will set the course of events for the future and lead to the formation of the formidable Sons of Ares! 

Lucinda, déesse de la lune et de la nuit, refuse de plier sous le poids d'une responsabilité qu'elle n'a pas choisie. Pour échapper à son destin, elle quitte Athesea et se réfugie sur Terre, où elle goûte enfin à une liberté fragile mais précieuse. Pendant un siècle, elle évolue parmi les mortels, loin des autres divinités et des intrigues célestes. Mais son exil touche à sa fin. Lucinda comprend que le dieu de la mort l'a retrouvée, lorsqu'un familier au regard perçant surgit pour la ramener à son maître. Rhory. L'homme qu'elle hait le plus, celui qu'elle a toujours fui.

Drachenmagie existiert. Amy will die Existenz von Magie nachweisen, doch als der letzte Drache in Gefangenschaft stirbt, steht das Forschungsprojekt vor dem Aus. Eine Jagdexpedition in das Umland der Menschenstadt soll den Durchbruch bringen. Dort trifft sie auf den Drachenwandler Dian, der sich mit Zähnen und Klauen gegen die Gefangennahme wehrt. Dian hasst Menschen; trotzdem braucht er nichts dringender als eines dieser verabscheuungswürdigen Wesen. Als sein Herz sich zunehmend nach der Menschenfrau Amy sehnt, steht er vor einem Problem.

From Dan Wells, author of the New York Times bestselling Partials Sequence and the John Cleaver series, comes the second book in a dark, pulse-pounding sci-fi-noir series set in 2050 Los Angeles. Overworld. It s more than just the world s most popular e-sport for thousands of VR teams around...

In this gripping follow-up to Melissa Marr s lush Seven Black Diamonds, Lily and her friends are forced to reckon with the truth of their own lineage and to protect one of their own, no matter what or who comes between them. Now that Lilywhite Abernathy is the heir to the Hidden Lands...

Da Ophelia og Genevieves mor dør, er der ingen tid til at sørge. Ophelia har nemlig både arvet morens nekromantiske evner og en monumental gæld. Genevieve ser kun én udvej: i al hemmelighed at tilmelde sig Phantasma – en konkurrence til døden, hvor vinderen får sit højeste ønske opfyldt. Phantasma finder sted i et hjemsøgt palæ fyldt med labyrintiske korridorer, overdådige balsale og forførende dæmoner. Hvis Ophelia vil redde sin søster, må hun selv både igennem spillets ni prøvelser og se sin værste frygt i øjnene.

It’s been over three months since my friends and I took down Cyrus. Three months where my biggest fear was what paper was due next...but I should have known it was too good to last. Now everything is falling apart. The Vampire Court has no king, the Dragon Court has no heart, and the Gargoyle Court has me—a teenager in way over her head. And it’s the worst possible timing, because a threat is brewing just as the Circle is collapsing.