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The day after anonymous blogger Str-S-d wishes the popular girl would die, Lucy vanishes. The students of Soundview High are scared and worried. Especially frightened and wracked with guilt is Madison Archer, Lucy's friend and the last person to see her the night she disappeared. As days pass with no sign of the missing girl, even the attention of Tyler, an attractive new student, is not enough to distract Madison from her growing sense of foreboding.

What would happen if you accidentally cracked open a dinosaur egg - and the ancient, yellow yolk poured onto your skin? You wouldn't turn into a roaring beast - or would you?

Als Marshall und Tamaya auf dem Nachhauseweg eine Abkürzung durch den Wald einschlagen, geraten sie in ein Schlammloch mit giftigen Erregern. Die Jugendlichen stecken sich dabei lebensbedrohlich an und lösen eine rasante Infektionswelle in Heath Cliff aus. Um sie einzudämmen und ihren Ursprung zu finden, wird eilig ein Untersuchungsausschuss einberufen. Schon bald zeigt sich das Ausmaß der Katastrophe und die Hilflosigkeit der Regierung. Was kann Heath Cliff retten?

So rot wie Blut? So weiß wie Schnee! Es ist sengend heiß. Lumikki ist auf Rucksacktour in Prag. Dort wird sie in einem Café von einem Mädchen angesprochen, das behauptet, ihre Halbschwester zu sein. Lumikkis Eltern scheinen etwas zu verbergen, ein Geheimnis um die Vergangenheit der Familie... Die Behauptung des Mädchens weckt natürlich sofort Lumikkis Neugierde und trotz ihres unberechenbaren Verhaltens schafft es das Mädchen, Lumikki zu überreden, an einem religiösen Kult teilzunehmen. Als aber ans Licht kommt, dass die Anführer des Kults einen Massenselbstmord planen, muss Lumikki um ihr Leben laufen. Der Glaube des Kults ist nicht rein; und die Unschuld nicht so weiß wie Schnee.

Die 18-jährige Saba lebt sehr abgeschieden am Silverlake - bis eines Tages vier bewaffnete Reiter ihren Bruder entführen...

It happened within a week. Survival was just the start of it. It has a plan.... Leon is stuck in England. Grace is on her way to New Zealand and Freya to the 'New United States' in Cuba. The virus has assimilated all of humanity except for these three communities, and now it is prepared to talk with them. How they each choose to respond to the virus will ultimately decide their fate in Plague World, the apocalyptic finale to the Remade trilogy from best-selling author of the TimeRiders series, Alex Scarrow.

An exciting new series from the acclaimed author of Red Glass. Zeeta's life with her free-spirited mother, Layla, is anything but normal. Every year Layla picks another country she wants to live in. This summer they’re in Ecuador, and Zeeta is determined to convince her mother to settle down. Zeeta makes friends with vendors at the town market and begs them to think of upstanding, “normal” men to set up with Layla. There, Zeeta meets Wendell. She learns that he was born nearby, but adopted by an American family.

The real monsters are men. London 1888, and Jack the Ripper is terrorizing the people of the city. Evelyn, a young woman disfigured by her dangerous work in a matchstick factory, with nowhere to go, does not know what to make of her new position as a maid to the Elephant Man in London Hospital. Evelyn wanted to be locked away from the world like he is, shut away from the filth and dangers of the streets. But in Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man, she finds a gentle kindred who does not recoil from her and who understands her pain.

Listen to each 5 Minute Mystery carefully and select which clues either incriminate or exonerate each suspect. Select the guilty suspect from the list once you've found all of the clues. Collect all the 5 Minute Mysteries, including the following: (1) The Crusader’s Robe, (2) A Dream of Old Salem, (3) The Great Musket Mystery, (4) The Liberty Gun, (5) The Hidden Messenger, (6) Death at Andersonville, (7) Mr. Patrick’s History Class, and (8) The Battle of the Bulge.

De havde begge hørt det. Lyden af skridt i gruset udenfor. Det lød, som om de styrede direkte hen mod indgangen til museet. "Tante Mis, åh nej! Låste du efter os?" hviskede Emmy, mens Frederik fik proppet de to bunker ind på hylden igen uden at tjekke, om de kom ind i den rigtige rækkefølge. Han rystede let på hovedet, mens han gjorde tegn til, at hun skulle gå ind i køkkenet til Hannibal. Selv prøvede han at få skabet lukket. I samme øjeblik splintredes en rude, og en brøkdel af et sekund efter fulgte lyden af noget stort og tungt, der landede på gulvet. Bang! Det var ikke tante Mis, der var kommet.

Mik er femten år, langhåret, kluntet og doven. Han irriterer sin far, og selv Janne synes af og til, han er skør - i hvert fald den aften da den gamle mand i S-toget bliver slået ned.

The first time Martha sees the house, she knows it's evil. So she's not surprised when she finds out that someone was murdered in it. She also thinks that someone is watching her. Martha's pretty certain that this Halloween is going to be the scariest of her life, and possibly her last.

Emmy and her friends have been kept after school before - but never this late. The sky has turned to night. The school is dark and empty. Has everyone forgotten about them? The terror gets intense as they begin to wonder if they have been locked in school forever!

Bex has always been her daddy's little girl. After her mother left, it was just the two of them. Sure, he spoiled her with clothes and jewelry, but what father doesn't dote on his daughter? Except Bex's dad is alleged to be a notorious serial killer. Dubbed the Wife Collector by the press, her father disappeared before he could stand trial, and Bex was left to deal with the taunts and rumors. Foster care is her one chance at starting over, starting fresh. But Bex's old life isn't ready to let her go.

Livvy Flynn is a big deal - she's a New York Times-best-selling author whose YA fiction has sold all over the world. She's rich, she's famous, she's gorgeous, and she's full of herself. When she's invited to an A-list writer's conference, she decides to accept so she can have some time to herself. She's on a tight deadline for her next book, and she has no intention of socializing with the other industry people at the conference. And then she hits the detour.

People say New York City is a jungle. Still, P.C. Hawke is a little surprised when his best friend, Mackenzie, invites him to tag along with her police coroner mother to examine a scientist who has been mauled by jaguars at the Bronx Wildlife Conservation Park. But when the two teenage sleuths learn that the scientist actually died because he was given a lethal dose of gorilla blood after the attack, they quickly realize that the most vicious predator imaginable is loose in the park - a human killer!

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.

In this stunning debut, legends collide with reality when a boy is swept into the magical, dangerous world of a girl filled with poison. Everyone knows the legends about the cursed girl - Isabel, the one the senoras whisper about. They say she has green skin and grass for hair, and she feeds on the poisonous plants that fill her family's Caribbean island garden. Some say she can grant wishes; some say her touch can kill.

Don't you trust me? I mean, look at me. Blond, blue eyed, the very image of innocence. Pretty enough, if you care about that kind of thing. I don't. But would a normal person switch identities with some wet mess of a girl at the airport just to get her to stop bawling about being separated from her loser boyfriend and sent to live with some distant relatives? Nope, she wouldn't. Yet I did. I'm not as normal as you think. And you'll just have to trust me.

Running a paranormal detective agency out of your dad's garage: cool. Even though you don't believe any of it: still cool. Getting the biggest case of your life: astonishingly cool. Being forced to partner with the new guy in school: not at all cool. Even if he makes your knees weak: still wildly uncool. Finding your own obituary in your locker: Least. Cool. Of. All.