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"The characters are deeply realized and relatable, the narrative swift, and the story's momentum and pacing never slows down." —PRAIRIES BOOK REVIEW 2163. A World Government controls everything: every planet, every person, every secret. Sixteen-year-old Sierra has spent her days rescuing...

In this fantasy thriller, four teens charged with murder and caught up with the illegal use of magic band together to devise the ultimate jailbreak. Perfect for fans of Six of Crows and How to Get Away with Murder. Ever since his mother was killed, seventeen-year-old Cayder Broduck has had one...

Bestselling author Astrid Scholte, returns with a thrilling adventure in which the dead can be revived...for a price. Seventeen-year-old Tempe was born into a world of water. When the Great Waves destroyed her planet five hundred years ago, its people had to learn to survive living on the water...

Essenslieferantin in Neo-Hongkong zu sein, ist kein leichter Job. Das merkt Maddie spätestens, als sie nach einer Lieferung von vier Jugendlichen angegriffen und aus einem Hochhausfenster gestoßen wird. In ihrer Todesangst meldet sich eine Stimme in ihrem Kopf. Sie nennt sich „Zefira“ und übernimmt die Kontrolle über Maddies Körper. Mit übernatürlichen Kräften rettet Zefira Maddie das Leben. Nur, wer ist Zefira und was hat sie vor? Und warum wird plötzlich Jagd auf Maddie gemacht? Ein geheimnisvoller Hinweis führt Maddie auf der Suche nach der Wahrheit in Neo-Hongkongs gefährliche Unterwelt.

Mason has never known his father, but longs to. All he has of him is a DVD of a man whose face is never seen, reading a children’s book. One day, on a whim, he plays the DVD for a group of comatose teens at the nursing home where his mother works. One of them, a beautiful girl, responds. Mason learns she is part of an experiment intended to render teenagers into autotrophs—genetically engineered, self-sustaining life-forms who don’t need food or water to survive.

Dahlia 16 sees her face in every crowd. She's nothing special - just one of 5,000 girls created from a single genome to work for the greater good of the city. Meeting Trigger 17 changes everything. He thinks she's interesting. Beautiful. Unique. Which means he must be flawed. When Dahlia can't stop thinking about him - when she can't resist looking for him, even though that means breaking the rules - she realizes she's flawed, too. But if she's flawed, then so are all her identicals. And any genome found to be flawed will be recalled.

If Artemis Fowl is “Die Hard with Fairies”, then W.A.R.P. is “Oliver Twist” meets “The Matrix”…The Reluctant Assassin is the first book in the W.A.R.P. series. W.A.R.P. stands for ‘Witness Anonymous Relocation Programme’. The assassin of the title is young Riley who has been apprentice to Albert Garrick, a Victorian illusionist who has fallen on difficult times and taken to using his unique conjuring skills to gain access to victims’ dwellings.

Marshall Seaver is being haunted. In the first installment of this chillingly compelling trilogy, sixteen-year-old Marshall discovers that something beyond our world is after him. The eerie clues pile up quickly, and when people start dying, it's clear whatever this is - it's huge. Marshall has no idea what's happening to him, but he's soon convinced that it has something to do with his best friend, Cooper, who's been missing for over a week.