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La sete di vendetta di Raeve continua a bruciare, così come il suo amore per Kaan Vaegor, il punto fermo di un passato che non ha ancora trovato il coraggio di affrontare. Con il sangue di Rekk fresco sulle mani, Raeve scopre che il mondo presto dovrà fare i conti con la caduta di lune più devastante di sempre, e si trova costretta a compiere una scelta: inseguire la morte… o la vita.

Il liceale Subaru Natsuki, di ritorno da un konbini, viene trasportato all'improvviso in uno strano mondo. Quando Subaru viene assalito da un gruppo di banditi, rischiando la vita, ecco arrivare la sua salvatrice, una bella ragazza dai capelli argentei con uno spirito dalle sembianze di gatto al suo fianco. Con il pretesto di ricambiare il favore, Subaru decide di aiutarla a recuperare ciò che sta cercando. Ma, proprio quando finalmente trovano un indizio, i due vengono attaccati da uno sconosciuto e perdono la vita.

Seventeen-year-old Fallon Bane was born with a curse: A single touch from another person will always cause her excruciating pain. Thus, she has accepted that she will die without ever being kissed, without even hugging her own father. But when her beloved father falls ill, she breaks into the magical Gilded City to find a healer fae who can save him. When handsome healer Ariyon Madden agrees to help, everything she knows about herself and her curse changes. Because during her father’s healing, Ariyon reaches out and touches her bare skin. She waits for the agony...but it never comes.

It's been five years since the events of City of Heavenly Fire that brought the Shadowhunters to the brink of oblivion. Emma Carstairs is no longer a child in mourning but a young woman bent on discovering what killed her parents and avenging her losses. Together with her parabatai, Julian Blackthorn, Emma must learn to trust her head and her heart as she investigates a demonic plot that stretches across Los Angeles, from the Sunset Strip to the enchanted sea that pounds the beaches of Santa Monica. If only her heart didn't lead her in treacherous directions....

Even under the most normal circumstances, high school can be a painful and confusing time. Unfortunately, Lilianna’s circumstances are anything but normal. Only a few people know what caused her sudden change from model student to the withdrawn pessimist she has become, but her situation isn’t about to get any better. When people begin coming down with a quick-spreading illness that doctors are unable to treat, Lil’s worst fears are realized.

Un ragazzino approda in un mondo di fiabe distorte e deve ritrovare la strada di casa. L’unica compagnia di David sono i libri sul suo scaffale. Ma da un po’ di tempo quei libri hanno iniziato a sussurrargli nell’oscurità. Arrabbiato e in un costante stato di solitudine, si rifugia nei miti e nelle fiabe tanto amati dalla madre defunta e scopre che il mondo reale e quello fantastico hanno iniziato a fondersi tra loro.

"Je tournai la tête vers lui et un nouveau sourire naquit sur mes lèvres. Ils étaient de plus en plus nombreux ces derniers jours. - Parfait, répondis-je. Je claquai des doigts au rythme de la chanson qui passait dans les enceintes de la voiture. Une étincelle attira mon attention. Une étincelle. Dans mes doigts. C'était tout à fait logique. Je claquai à nouveau et cette fois une flamme se mit à danser au creux de ma main. - Je crois qu'il se passe un truc, dis-je.

Fürchtest du dich, bei Mondschein das Grab einer Hexe zu betreten? Unter den Decknamen Schneeweißchen und Rosenrot ziehen die Dämonenjägerinnen Muireann und Rose durch die Lande. Sie bekämpfen Trolle, retten Jungfrauen vor Wassermännern und vertreiben Kobolde aus Mühlen und Bauernhäusern. Als sie von den Bewohnern eines kleinen Dorfes angeheuert werden, den spukenden Geist einer Hexe unschädlich zu machen, geraten sie allerdings in ein alptraumhaftes Abenteuer, das sie an ihre Grenzen führt.

Kappa Rho Nu ist die exklusivste Studentinnenverbindung am Westerly College. Ihre Partys sind legendär, ihre Wohltätigkeitsbälle luxuriös. Doch hinter der glitzernden Fassade haben die "Rabenschwestern", wie sich die Mitglieder nennen, ein dunkles Geheimnis: Sie sind ein Hexenzirkel. Für die Außenseiterin Vivi Deveraux bedeutet die Aufnahme in den Club der Rabenschwestern einen Neustart. Scarlett Winters will unbedingt Präsidentin der Schwesternschaft werden, wie schon ihre Mutter vor ihr. Wäre da nur nicht Scarletts dunkles Geheimnis, dem Vivi bedrohlich nahe kommt.

Co pokolenie, gdy wschodzi Krwawy Księżyc, siedem rodzin z odległego miasta Ilvernath wyznacza mistrza, który walczy w Turnieju na śmierć i życie. Nagroda? Wyłączna kontrola nad tajnym źródłem wysokiej magii. Wygrać może tylko jedna rodzina. W tym roku, dzięki książce ujawniającej informacje o turnieju, siedmiu mistrzów znalazło się w centrum uwagi całego świata.

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...

It is not impossible to rewrite history. In fact, when one computer runs the world, changing history happens faster. Those who were heroes have been labeled villains. The alien Melagorns and Dreth, once friends, are now competitors at best. The Regime works to instill loyalty to humanity. Loyalty to brotherhood. Loyalty to the state. Loyalty to the words preached every night. John Dunn fled into a radioactive wasteland, seeking death rather than work in the Regime. What he learns changes humanity forever.

Band 1 der fesselnden Dark-Academia-Romantasy an der University of Oxford. Play the game or lose your heart! Als Harper an der University of Oxford angenommen wird, scheinen all ihre Träume zum Greifen nah. Vor allem als sie mit der Zusage die Einladung erhält, den berüchtigten Diamonds beizutreten - einer Studentenverbindung, die ihren Mitgliedern Macht und Einfluss verspricht. Auf einmal muss Harper am Spiel der Vier Farben teilnehmen und steht ihrer Vergangenheit gegenüber.

Brought to you by Penguin. A sweeping gothic fairytale romance for fans of A Curse so Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer and Gallant by V.E. Schwab. Raised in a small village near the spirit-wood, Liska Radost knows that Magic is monstrous, and its practitioners, monsters. After Liska unleashes...

In a manor by the sea, twelve sisters are cursed. Annaleigh lives a sheltered life at Highmoor with her sisters. But loneliness fills the grand halls now that four of the girls' lives have been cut short, each death more tragic than the last. Disturbed by a series of ghostly visions, Annaleigh becomes increasingly suspicious that her sisters' deaths were no accident. The girls have been sneaking out every night to attend glittering balls, dancing until dawn in silk gowns and shimmering slippers.

Tre mesi dopo aver restituito il cuore di Emery Thane, maestro di arti magiche, al suo legittimo proprietario, Ceony Twill è sulla buona strada per diventare una Piegatrice. Adora dare vita alle forme che disegna e creare esseri inanimati da semplici pezzi di carta.

An der School of Sky entscheidet kein Notenschnitt über deine Zukunft – sondern dein Seelenstein. Er bestimmt dein Haus, deine Gilde, deine Magie. Und ob du das Schuljahr überstehst. Yanas Seelenstein ist schwarz. Selten. Gefürchtet. Und Träger eines dunklen Geheimnisses, das die Aufmerksamkeit der Mächtigen auf sich zieht: die Hausleiter Taran und Oden.

In un paesino delle Alpi italiane, sul confine italo-franco-svizzero, sorge ciò che rimane del Grand Hotel Bluemillion. Abbandonato da più di trent'anni, l'imponente rudere del lussuoso hotel è adesso infestato dalle anime di coloro che nelle sue sale hanno trascorso i momenti più felici della propria esistenza terrena. Da troppo tempo, le giornate dei fantasmi del Bluemillion scorrono tutte uguali, polverose e monotone, finché la Scuola Anti Mistero non decide di stabilire proprio lì la sua sede.

Luke Hunter pensa di scherzare nel preannunciare a un caro amico il momento esatto - le 8:37 della mattina seguente - e le precise modalità - colpito da un furgone rosso fuori città - della sua morte. Ma quando gli eventi si svolgono proprio come lui aveva previsto, e l'amico muore esattamente come lui gli aveva preannunciato, Luke prova a ignorare la cosa. Decide quindi di allontanare amici e famiglia, e di sottrarsi a fatica alle crescenti attenzioni della cittadina in cui vive.

After unwittingly helping her mother poison King Louis XIV, 17-year-old alchemist Mirabelle Monvoisin is forced to see her mother's Shadow Society in a horrifying new light: They're not heroes of the people, as they've always claimed to be, but murderers. She herself included. Mira tries to ease her guilt by brewing helpful curatives, but her hunger tonics and headache remedies cannot right past wrongs or save the dissenters whom her mother vows to purge.