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Danny Tozer has a problem: She just inherited the powers of Dreadnought, the world's greatest superhero. Until Dreadnought fell out of the sky and died right in front of her, Danny was trying to keep people from finding out she's transgender. But before he expired, Dreadnought passed his mantle to her, and those secondhand superpowers transformed Danny's body into what she's always thought it should be. Now there's no hiding that she's a girl.

When Michael is uprooted to his mum’s hometown of Belfast, he isn’t just hoping for a fresh start. He’s determined to discover the truth about his dad’s mysterious absence. But from the moment he arrives, he’s plagued with visions of the city’s troubled past. Michael begins settling into his new life and even meets a boy who helps erase the painful memories of his ex. But as the visions grow stronger and more intense, the only person he can really confide in is his new friend Meg.

A boy washes up on the beach of a quiet seaside town, soaked, shaken, and wearing nothing but pyjamas. He insists he's from here, but the whole place feels... not quite right. Then he meets David, a stranger who offers to help. What begins as an act of kindness soon becomes something far stranger. Questions multiply, and a chain of events set in motion centuries ago tightens its grip on the present.

In a world where Saints are monsters and Wonderland is the dark forest where they lurk, it’s been five years since young witches and lovers Caro Rabbit and Iccadora Alice Sickle were both sentenced to that forest for a crime they didn’t commit—and four years since they shattered one another’s hearts, each willing to sacrifice the other for a chance at freedom. Now, Caro is a successful royal Saint-harvester, living the high life in the glittering capital and pretending not to know of the twisted monster experiments that her beloved Red Queen hides deep in the bowels of the palace.

With just a touch, George experiences a person's future death. High school is hard enough, but sixteen-year-old death witch Georgiana “George” Colburn can’t seem to catch a break. Even Jen’s ghost, the recently deceased popular girl who ignored George in life, won’t leave her alone. George is convinced her life can’t get any worse. That is until she bumps into the new student and experiences his death at her hand.

A secret beats inside Anna Thatcher's chest: An illegal clockwork heart. Anna works cog by cog - donning the moniker Technician - to supply black market medical technology to the sick and injured, against the Commissioner's tyrannical laws. Nathaniel Fremont, the Commissioner's son, sets out to capture the Technician - determined to earn his father's respect. But the more he learns about the outlaw, the more he questions whether his father's elusive affection is worth chasing at all. Their game of cat and mouse takes an abrupt turn when Eliza, a skilled assassin and spy, arrives.

Six months after Noam Álvaro helped overthrow the despotic government of Carolinia, the Atlantians have gained citizenship, and Lehrer is chancellor. But despite Lehrer's image as a progressive humanitarian leader, Noam has finally remembered the truth that Lehrer forced him to forget - that Lehrer is responsible for the deadly magic infection that ravaged Carolinia.

Jane Doe is in more danger than ever before. There are sandstorms. There are scorpions. There are new friends and foes. And every soul in every world hangs in the balance.

Sam Jones and Zoe Miller have one thing in common: they both want an escape from reality. Loner Sam flies under the radar at school and walks on eggshells at home to manage her mom’s obsessive-compulsive disorder, wondering how she can ever leave to pursue her dream of studying aerospace engineering. Popular, people-pleasing Zoe puts up walls so no one can see her true self: the girl who was abandoned as an infant, whose adoptive mother has cancer, and whose disabled brother is being sent away to live in a facility.

Solange Evander denken kann, lebt er wie ein Geist in den vergessenen Winkeln von Hazelthorn Manor. Als Evanders milliardenschwerer Vormund Byron plötzlich stirbt, erbt Evander dessen Vermögen und das riesige gotische Anwesen. Evander ist sich sicher, dass Byron ermordet wurde – und Laurie ist der Einzige, der ihm helfen kann, den Mörder zu finden. Denn der verwilderte Garten streckt bereits seine Ranken in Richtung Hazelthorn Manor aus. Und er hat Hunger.

Sogar die Toten haben ihre eigenen Schauergeschichten. Gemeinsam haben Charlie und Sam die Geister von York gerettet. Nun können sie endlich ein normales Paar sein – wenn es so etwas denn gibt. Doch dann werden sie Zeugen eines brutalen Angriffs und erkennen, dass eine neue Gefahr in den Schatten lauert. Eine Gefahr, die größer ist als jede zuvor – und die es auf die Lebenden abgesehen hat. Außerdem treibt sich die geheimnisvolle Organisation "Die Hand" in der Stadt herum. Bald schon geraten Charlie und seine Freunde zwischen die Fronten und dieses Mal steht das Leben aller auf dem Spiel ...

Jane Doe is no ordinary girl. A child of three ancient gods, she can control the Manor, a sacred realm between worlds. Lately, though, it seems the Manor’s been controlling her – and she’s terrified of what that could mean. But when Jane discovers she’s the rightful heir to a powerful, long-lost relic, she must cast her fears aside and journey through the Manor to find it. The relic – the Phantom Quill – is said to grant visions of every future in every world. In the right hands, a tool for good. In the wrong hands, a weapon of chaos. And a dangerous cult is already hot on its trail …

Die Toten zu sehen, hat einen Preis. Der 16-jährige Charlie hat ein Geheimnis: Seit ihn eine Krankheit nicht nur seine Beine, sondern fast das Leben gekostet hat, kann er Geister sehen. Eine Tatsache, die er am liebsten ignoriert – bis immer mehr Seelen aus York spurlos verschwinden. Gemeinsam mit dem mysteriösen Seher Sam und seinen Freunden muss sich Charlie auf die Suche machen. Bald ist klar: Ohne Hilfe erwartet die Geister ein grauenvolles Schicksal. Und während Sam und Charlie sich langsam näherkommen, geraten sie selbst in zunehmend große Gefahr.

Der 17-jährige Arek hat die Prophezeiung erfüllt, den grausamen Herrscher des Königreichs Ere zu töten - aber was nun? Matt - Magier und bester Freund von Arek - rät ihm, selbst den Thron einzunehmen, bis die rechtmäßige Königin befreit ist. Doch der Plan geht schief, und Arek gerät in große Schwierigkeiten: Als neuer König muss er bis zu seinem 18. Geburtstag einen Gefährten finden - ansonsten stirbt er. Ihm bleiben nur drei Monate, und so sucht er verzweifelt nach einem Partner.

All Casper Bell has ever wanted is to belong. But now, abandoned by his friends and family after being outed, he has nothing left to lose when the people of Novilem abduct him.

What does it take to survive in a world built on lies?Sixteen-year-old Rubric loves her pampered life in the Academy dormitory. She’s dating Salmon Jo, a brilliant and unpredictable girl. In their all-female world, non-human slaves called Klons do all the work. But when Rubric and Salmon Jo break into the laboratory where human and Klon babies are grown in vats, they uncover a terrifying secret that tears their idyllic world apart.

Hrafn has seen too much. He welcomes death as the flames lick at the staves carved into his skin. Until a stranger pulls him out. Siggi has never left his village. He longs to go in search of his missing brother. Perhaps that's why he pulls the witch boy from the fire. Bound by a blade of bone and indebted to the village boy, Hrafn agrees to use his powerful magic to help the oaf who saved him from the pyre. Across (and sometimes under) a rugged and unforgiving landscape, the unlikely pair will travel in search of answers, crossing paths with druids, darkwolves, and the dreaded Huldu.

Award-winning writer Patrick Ness’s bold and irreverent novel powerfully asks what if you weren't the Chosen One? The one who's supposed to fight the zombies, or the soul-eating ghosts, or whatever this new thing is, with the blue lights and the death? What if you were like Mikey? Who just wants to graduate and go to prom and maybe finally work up the courage to ask Henna out before someone goes and blows up the high school. Again.

The best teen zombie werewolf witchy faerie fantasy murder mystery you've ever heard, by debut author Hal Schrieve. Genderqueer 14-year-old Z Chilworth has to adjust quickly to their new status as a zombie after waking from death from a car crash that killed their parents and sisters. Always a talented witch, Z now can barely perform magic and is rapidly decaying. Faced with rejection from their remaining family members and old friends, Z moves in with their mother's friend, Mrs. Dunnigan, and befriends Aysel, a loud would-be goth classmate who is, like Z, a loner.

Seventeen-year-old Aidan Lockwood lives in the sleepy farming community of Temperance, Ohio - known for its cattle ranches and not much else. That is, until Jarrod, a friend he hasn't seen in five years, moves back to town and opens Aidan's eyes in startling ways: to Aidan's ability to see the spirit world; to the red-bearded specter of Death; to a family curse that has claimed the lives of the Lockwood men one by one...and to the new feelings he has developed for Jarrod.