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It’s spring break in the Outer Banks, and the islands are swarming with rich tourists. The last thing JJ and John B want to do is spend their week watching Kooks in action, so they plan a fishing getaway to the notoriously dangerous Frying Pan Shoals - nicknamed “Graveyard of the Atlantic” for good reason. Turns out they aren’t the only adventure-seekers at sea. Soon after they set sail, the friends run into the captivating Savannah, who hitches a ride aboard the HMS Pogue when the weather worsens and her boyfriend leaves her stranded.

From the author of Some Kind of Animal comes a wildly unique story about an invisible girl struggling to see herself in a world obsessed with appearances. Pie is the ghost in your house. She is not dead, she is invisible. The way she looks changes depending on what is behind her. A girl of glass...

Xenia lucha por sacar las mejores notas, impulsada por la ilusión de entrar en Medicina, pero últimamente su rendimiento está bajando. Y es que Xenia se ha enamorado, aunque no de un chico de su entorno, sino de un fantasma, de una voz surgida de Internet con la que comparte su pasión por la lectura. Como Xenia es decidida y su amor virtual se niega a una cita, se propone sorprenderlo, de modo que inicia sus averiguaciones con los pocos datos de que dispone. Y todo resulta ser falso, una mentira, ni la foto ni el nombre son reales.

The cheerleading squad at Shadyside has always been strong, but now there are rumors that lack of funds may mean the end of cheerleading at Shadyside. That would be a shame for Heather Wyatt, who has just transferred from her old school, where she was a star, and is eager to join the squad. There’s only one other girl who stands in her way - rich, spoiled Devra Dalby, who is also trying out for the one open slot. The competition to join the squad is anything but friendly - and it ends in murder. Will Heather make the squad - if there's even a squad anymore - or will she end up dead?

Poland, July 1944. Sixteen-year-old Maria is making her way home after years of forced labor in Nazi Germany, only to find her village destroyed and her parents killed in a war between the Polish Resistance and Ukrainian nationalists. To Maria’s shock, the local Resistance unit is commanded by her older brother, Tomek - who she thought was dead. He is now a “Silent Unseen”, a special-operations agent with an audacious plan to resist a new and even more dangerous enemy sweeping in from the East.

Hannah Baker will nach einem Schulwechsel ein neues Leben beginnen, doch 13 Begegnungen treiben sie in den Tod. Ein Thriller, der unter die Haut geht, wie kaum ein anderer – denn tote Mädchen lügen nicht... Als Clay Jensen aus der Schule nach Hause kommt, findet er ein Päckchen mit 13 Kassetten vor. Er legt die erste in einen alten Kassettenrekorder, drückt auf "Play" - und hört die Stimme von Hannah Baker. Hannah, seine ehemalige Mitschülerin. Hannah, für die er heimlich schwärmte. Hannah, die sich vor zwei Wochen umgebracht hat.

Something terrible has finally happened. A nuclear holocaust has destroyed civilization. For one whole year, 16-year-old Ann Burden has lived alone on her family’s farm, somehow sheltered from the radiation in the valley. As she hears the final radio station going off the air, she believes she is the only person left alive. But when Ann sees smoke from a faraway campfire, she knows there is at least one other survivor....

Lucy es una niña normal, excepto por una alergia mortal al sol que la ha obligado a pasar toda su vida en las tinieblas. Todo cambia para ella cuando sus padres la envían a la misteriosa Torre Madison, un lugar sin ventanas donde conviven las personas que tienen su misma alergia. Pronto Lucy descubrirá una red de secretos, misterios y engaños dentro de la Torre Madison, de la extraña sociedad que la gestiona y de su propia naturaleza.

La novela debut de Sarah Read nos traslada a un internado inglés que esconde secretos terroríficos. Charley Winslow es un jovencito que acaba de trasladarse a Old Cross, una vieja abadía reconvertida en internado. Cuando desaparece el único amigo que tiene en la institución, Charley se adentrará en los recovecos más sombríos del internado en busca de respuestas.

L’Enric ha patit un accident i es desperta a l’hospital amb el cos totalment adolorit i amb una amnèsia total. No recorda res d’abans de l’accident i té l’habitació vigilada per un policia. Què devia passar? L’única visita que rep és la d’un noi que diu ser el seu company de pis. Es veu obligat a confiar-hi, tot i la seva desconfiança, i aquest només fa que dir-li que "Noel et busca". Qui és en Noel? I quina relació hi té amb ell? A partir de l’accident es desplega una trama delictiva i ell no té ganes de recordar la seva vida anterior.

Logan Hartnett y su banda han dominado la ciudad de Bohane durante años, pero su viejo rival, Gant Broderick, está de vuelta y quiere reconquistar la ciudad y el corazón de Macu, esposa de Hartnett. A la guerra de bandas se unirán también los Cusack de Las Lomas, la adolescente fatal Jenni Ching, su novio Lobato Stanners o la nonagenaria Nena. Estos personajes lucharán para decidir el destino de la ciudad, ignorando que es ciudad Bohane quien decide el destino de todos ellos.

"Oktober er den koldeste måned" er en stemningsfuld spændingsroman, en blanding af Daniel Woodrells Winter's Bone og Kerstin Ekmans Hændelser ved vand, for unge læsere. Men det er også en stærk fortælling om en ung kvindes seksuelle, følelsesmæssige og intellektuelle opvågnen. Vega Gillberg er 16 år. En dag banker politiet på hjemme hos hende og spørger efter hendes storebror. Jakob er forsvundet. Det er længe siden, Vega har hørt fra ham, men hun ved, at hun er nødt til at finde ham, inden politiet gør.

Das Finale des grandiose Abenteuers von SPIEGEL-Bestsellerautor Andreas Gruber. Terry hat das Geheimnis, woran ihre Mutter jahrelang heimlich geforscht hat, so gut wie gelüftet. Umso mehr steht sie jetzt im Fadenkreuz des Pharmakonzerns Biosyde, dem dieses Wissen niemals in die Hände fallen darf. Nachdem Terry die Flucht von der Bohrinsel Mid South View geglückt ist, will ein Informant sie unbedingt im Orient-Express treffen. Doch ist er Freund oder Feind? Terry muss schon bald wieder um ihr Leben fürchten - aber diesmal nicht nur um ihres... Mit einem Prequel als exklusivem Bonus.

Sofia, 15 ans, et Philip, 7 ans, ont été contraints de s'enfuir d'Amory. Ils se retrouvent maintenant plongés en pleine forêt, où ils affrontent de nombreux dangers et risquent la mort chaque jour. Alors que Sofia croit maintenant connaître toute la vérité entourant la véritable identité de ses parents, elle tente de rejoindre une amie de ces derniers, dans la partie nord de l'île, là où une mission de la plus haute importance pour la survie de l'humanité les attend, son frère et elle.

June, 1993. Claire has been dumped in rural Indianola, Texas, to spend her whole vacation taking care of mean, sickly Grammy. There's nothing too remarkable about Indianola: It's run-down, shabby, and sweltering, a pindot on the Gulf Coast. Except there is something remarkable. Memories shimmer and change. Lizards whisper riddles under the pecan trees. People disappear as if they never existed. Yesterday keeps coming unspooled, like a video tape. And worst of all, a red-lightning storm from beyond our world may just wipe the whole town off the map.

Shafeen's father, Prince Aadhish, has had a heart attack and is close to death. Desperately worried, Shafeen and Greer race from Stags to Rajasthan. But Prince Aadhish is in a coma and unresponsive, and they begin to realise that the prince received a terrible shock, triggered by a decades-old guilty secret. But as Shafeen and Greer attempt to unlock the secret, they come to believe the answer lies with the de Warlencourt ancestor, Colonel Montgomery, founder of the T.I.G.E.R. shooting club.

Ten years ago, disaster struck the remote town of Indigo Falls. A horrific event drove the residents underground, into shelters that keep them safe from the danger on the surface. No one speaks about what happened that fateful day, but even the youngest still remember the fear and, most of all, the searing pain when sunlight touched their skin. Now, a handful of families inhabit this bunker together, guided by a charismatic leader named Dr. Imogen Moran.

It wasn't the kidnapping that ruined Cass Adams' life. It was the letters that came after. The pink envelopes that appear in her car, her locker, her bedroom. Notes from the man she escaped, telling her that he's always there, always watching. And that someday, he'll be back for her. The police say there's nothing they can do, and Cass resigns herself to live in fear until she reconnects with three old friends - three girls ready to exact vengeance on those who wronged them.

It's the summer of 1932 in New York City, and word on the street is that Joey Drew Studios is planning something big: a new cartoon character to star alongside the world-famous Bendy! The new addition, Alice Angel, has the halo and sweet disposition to match her name, but the twisted tale of her creation can't be told from just one perspective. From the animators to the voice actresses to the guy who sweeps the floors, everyone has something to say about birth of the little angel who almost brought the most powerful cartoon studio in the big city to its doom.

When Crystal Donavan gets a message on a mysterious app with a picture of her little sister gagged and bound, she agrees to play the kidnapper’s game. At first, they make her complete bizarre tasks: Steal a test and stuff it in a locker, bake brownies, make a prank call. But then Crystal realizes that each task is meant to hurt—and kill—her friends, one by one. But if she refuses to play, the kidnapper will kill her sister.