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Number one New York Times best-selling author of the Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot knows the difficulties (real or otherwise) of awkward teenage years. In Twilight, Cabot continues her series about Suze Simon, the teenage mediator with an other-worldly boyfriend, Jesse de Silva. But when fellow mediator Paul Slater threatens to send Jesse back to where he came from, can Suze stop him in time?

Acclaimed author Meg Cabot is the creator of the #1 New York Times best seller The Princess Diaries. This latest edition to the Mediator series is a suspenseful tale of 16-year-old Suze, who acts as the middleman for ghosts and the real world. Unintentionally, Suze has fallen in love with a 19th-century ghost. Will she lose him forever if she solves his murder?

“Utterly swoony…an endearing reminder that true love can change the world” —J. Elle, New York Times bestselling author of Wings of Ebony To save a galactic kingdom from revolution, Kindred mind-pairings were created to ensure each and every person would be seen and heard, no matter how...

Fortsetzung der Zodiac-Chroniken von Spiegelbestsellerautorin Marah Woolf – Kehre zurück in Averies dystopisch fantastische Welt Wärst du bereit, dein Herz zu opfern für eine Schuld, die nicht gesühnt werden kann? Averie hat versagt, obwohl sie verhindert hat, dass Eternity stirbt. Aber nun beanspruchen die Aionen ihre Welt für sich. Sie werden sie verdunkeln und den Menschen die noch verbliebene Zeit stehlen. Um das zu verhindern, beschließt Averie, an den Zeitenspielen teilzunehmen, die einmal pro Dekade auf Destiny veranstaltet werden.

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.

Die Geschichte um die verschwundenen Bücher geht weiter. "Ich möchte, dass du gehst. Ich will dich nie wieder sehen. Du hast mich benutzt“, flüsterte Lucy. "Ich weiß“, antwortete Nathan. "Aber bitte, lass es mich gutmachen. Allein hast du keine Chance. Du musst dir von mir helfen lassen. Du musst mir vertrauen.“. "Geh einfach“, bat sie. Nathan hat Lucy verraten. Aber kann sie es stattdessen riskieren, ihre Freunde um Hilfe zu bitten? Kampflos wird sie dem Bund die Bücher nicht überlassen. Sie muss ihre Aufgabe erfüllen, bevor die Welt der Worte verloren geht.

When Penny Zale vanishes from the psychiatric hospital where she's being held against her will, only her chopped-off braid and cryptic letters remain. If her friends Raven, Aarya, Dawn, and Elle have any chance of finding Penny, they must enter a world where money and power mean everything, and life is expendable.

Rune ist auf der Flucht: Seit ihre wahre Identität als Hexe ans Licht gekommen ist, ist ihr Leben in Gefahr. Am meisten schmerzt der Verrat durch den Hexenjäger, der ihr Herz in Flammen gesetzt hat. Doch trotz allem, was zwischen ihnen steht, müssen Rune und Gideon erneut zusammenarbeiten, denn nur so können sie verhindern, dass eine alte Feindin die Macht ergreift.

In a race against the clock, I not only have to figure out his identity, but I'll have to outwit a voice from the future telling me to kill him. Because I'm starting to realize no one is telling the truth. But how can I play chess with someone who already knows the outcome of my every move? Someone so filled with malice they've lost all hope in humanity? Well, I'll just have to find a way - because now they've drawn a target on the only boy I've ever loved....

In 1916, Emma O'Neill is frozen in time. After sampling an experimental polio vaccine brewed on a remote island off St. Augustine, Florida, she and her family stop aging, as do the Ryans, her family's business partners. In a way this suits Emma fine, because she's in love with Charlie Ryan. Being 17 forever with him is a dream. But soon a group of religious fanatics, the Church of Light, takes note. Drinking the elixir has made the O'Neills and Ryans impervious to aging, but not to murder.

Justin Hawthorne's bloodline has protected Four Paths for generations from the Gray - a lifeless dimension that imprisons a brutal monster. After Justin fails to inherit his family's powers, his mother is determined to keep this humiliation a secret. But Justin can't let go of the future he was promised and the town he swore to protect. Ever since Harper Carlisle lost her hand to an accident that left her stranded in the Gray for days, she has vowed revenge on the person who abandoned her: Justin Hawthorne.

Now that life has finally given her everything she's ever wanted, Mattie Lowe has one thing on her mind: prom. Determined to throw the most epic prom ever, Mattie sets out to plan a memorable and magical event - one that would make the late John Hughes proud. But when her gorgeous and perfect boyfriend, Jake Kingston, hasn't popped the most creative promposal of all time, Mattie starts to worry. Actually, Jake hasn't asked her at all - he's been distant and quiet. And Mattie isn't about to go to her senior prom solo.

Seventeen-year-old Lake spends her days searching a strange, post-apocalyptic landscape for people who have forgotten one very important thing: This isn’t reality. Everyone she meets is a passenger aboard a ship that’s been orbiting Earth since a nuclear event. The simulation that was supposed to prepare them all for life after the apocalypse has trapped their minds in a shared virtual reality and their bodies in stasis chambers.

I am Anda, and the lake is my mother. I am the November storms that terrify sailors and sink ships. With their deaths, I keep my little island on Lake Superior alive. Hector has come here to hide from his family until he turns 18. Isle Royale is shut down for the winter, and there's no one here but me. And now him. Hector is running from the violence in his life, but violence runs through my veins. I should send him away, to keep him safe. But I'm half human, too, and Hector makes me want to listen to my foolish, half-human heart.

When Ren Sharpe was 14, she was kidnapped by a shadowy organization called FATE and trained to be a human weapon. Now, four years later, she receives her assignment: protect Gareth Young at all costs. Currently a student at Texas A&M, Gareth will someday change the world. FATE calls people like Gareth "FIPs" - future important people - and they're everywhere, each with a FATE-trained shadow.

Lulu and Jek are science nerds, and have been best friends since they were young...or at least they used to be. Lately Jek has been pulling away from Lulu, just as she's coming to terms with how she really feels about him. Just as she was ready to see if there could be something more between them. But Lulu's thoughts are derailed by a mysterious new guy who's showing up at local parties. Hyde is the definition of a bad boy, and everybody knows it...but no one can seem to resist his charms.

Kathleen freut sich darauf, endlich ihre Freundin Claudia wiederzusehen und bei ihr im Dorf Urlaub zu machen. Sie bekommt auch tatsächlich das, was sie sich erhofft: Meer, Strand, Party, Spaß! Und noch viel mehr, denn sie lernt den mysteriösen Marcello kennen, den ein Geheimnis umgibt. Zusammen mit ihm und seinen Freunden fangen ein paar wilde, unberechenbare Tage an. Doch trotz der Leichtigkeit des Sommers spürt Kathleen eine Bedrohung in der Luft liegen, ist Marcello in Gefahr? Und was hat es mit Abschnitt B auf sich?

Kathleen freut sich darauf, endlich ihre Freundin Claudia wiederzusehen und bei ihr im Dorf Urlaub zu machen. Sie bekommt auch tatsächlich das, was sie sich erhofft: Meer, Strand, Party, Spaß! Und noch viel mehr, denn sie lernt den mysteriösen Marcello kennen, den ein Geheimnis umgibt. Zusammen mit ihm und seinen Freunden fangen ein paar wilde, unberechenbare Tage an. Doch trotz der Leichtigkeit des Sommers spürt Kathleen eine Bedrohung in der Luft liegen, ist Marcello in Gefahr? Und was hat es mit Abschnitt B auf sich?

After seven months as a captive of Minerva, the insane Alpha queen, Lyric Walker has escaped to the surface. Her only goal is to warn the world about the Great Abyss. When she finally arrives back in Coney Island, she discovers a world she never expected, one where humans and Alpha are finally working hand in hand to rebuild the country. But she soon discovers that an old enemy allied with an old friend may kill them all before the monsters get their turn.

He isn't everything he says he is. He's even more... Who is Chase Tallman, the newest member of Shadow Falls? What made him into the sexy, mysterious vampire he is today? And what led him to Della Tsang? Step back in time and unearth the secrets that haunt him. The secret of how he became a...