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Based on the massively successful CW show, Riverdale, this prequel novel explores what the gang was doing before season one. Why did Jughead and Archie have a falling out? What did Veronica’s life look like in the Big Apple? And how long has Betty really been in love with Archie? Told from multiple points of view, your favorite characters tell their story their way.

Spannungsgeladener Jugendroman, den man nicht zur Seite legen möchte! Ein düsteres Schloss thront hoch über dem Dorf. Dort haust ein wahnsinniger Professor, der sich für den neuen Frankenstein hält. Eine bemitleidenswerte Kreatur wurde von ihm zum Leben erweckt und soll nun töten. Gelingt es Oliver, sie aufzuhalten, kann er sie erlösen? Gemeinsam mit seinen Freunden folgt er der Spur des Monsters bis ins innerste des grauenvollen Schlosses. A.F. Morland ist das Pseudonym von Friedrich Tenkrat.

From the New York Times bestselling author of All the Missing Girls and The Perfect Stranger comes a captivating thriller about two teens who connect when each discovers a mysterious radio frequency, which suggests their family tragedies are mysteriously connected. After surviving an infamous...

Im Jahre 1898 versuchte Dr. Abraham Van Helsing mit einer Gruppe mutiger Freiheitskämpfer die Mächte der Finsternis auszulöschen. In Transsilvanien, in einem düsteren Schloss, in den Karpathen kämpften die Männer gegen Dracula, den Vampirfürsten. Es gelang ihnen den König der Vampire auszulöschen. Die Menschheit war anscheinend gerettet, aber Dr. Abraham Van Helsing täuschte sich. 60 Jahre später kehrte das Grauen zurück und schlug unbarmherzig zu.

Es geschah vor nicht all zu langer Zeit. An der nordöstlichen Küste Schottlands, zwischen den kleinen Städten Fraserburgh und Peterhead, ereigneten sich auf einem Schloss recht mysteriöse Phänomene. So zumindest berichteten es zwei Elektriker. Bob McDuff und Nick Giles erlebten ein atemberaubendes Abenteuer. Es begann alles an einem verregneten Novembertag.

In Juliens Augen zeichnete sich Angst - pure Angst! Seit dem Einzug ins neue Heim, plagten ihn furchtbare Alpträume. Träume, die so wirklich schienen. Träume, die ihn am Einschlafen hinderten. Madame Anguére-Traiseau, Juliens Mutter, war verzweifelt. War es das Haus? Lag ein Fluch auf diesem Gebäude? Welche Rolle spielte der Keller? Und was hatte es mit dem rätselhaften Kind "Jacques" auf sich? Viele Fragen, die sich an jenem Abend aufklären sollten.

Dunkel und groß war der Bau - alt und verfallen. Der fahle Mondschein leuchtete der Villa direkt auf die Front und färbte die Fassade rot... Blutrot! Der modrige Holzzaun vor der Villa schien sich aus seiner Verankerung zu winden und überhaupt konnte man meinen, das Haus würde in wenigen Momenten in sich zusammenstürzen. Vier Menschen standen davor und wollten das alte Gemäuer betreten. Sie ahnten nicht, welches unheilige Grauen sie erwartete!

Es geschah vor nicht allzu langer Zeit, dass sich in Großbritannien zwischen den kleinen Städten Fraserburgh und Peterhead an der nordöstlichen Küste Schottlands auf einem Schloss recht mysteriöse Phänomene ereigneten. So zumindest berichteten es die zwei Elektriker Bob McDuff und Nick Giles. Es begann alles an einem verregneten Novembertag.

Kevin Gandler erstarrte vor Schreck. Auch wenn die kleine Taschenlampe nur wenig Licht ausstrahlte, so erkannte er, dass ein Mensch rücklings im Schnee lag. Die Augen des Mannes waren unnatürlich weit aufgerissen und die Haut aschfahl. Das Gesicht erinnerte an eine versteinerte Maske. Kevin Gandler zitterte! Er erkannte die Wahrheit, und wusste in jenem Moment, als er hilflos auf seinen Kollegen blickte - er existierte nicht mehr. Vor ihm lag eine Leiche!

2004 - Anne und Cole Parell segelten mit ihrer Yacht auf die karibische See zu. Es war dieser mysteriöse Nebel, der sie in ein unglaubliches Abenteuer stürzte. Fortan fanden sie sich im Jahre 1722 wieder - direkt unter Seeräuber und Shade, dem Piraten.

After escaping an assassin who tries to kill him Max Gordon learns that his explorer father is missing. Determined to find him, Max discovers a clue which leads him to the inhospitable wilderness Namibia and the discovery of a potential ecological disaster masterminded by the ruthless Shaka Chang.

ShadowStrike poisoned the water of Trinity Falls two months ago. Now the Trinity Four, the teens most affected by the poison, have been isolated in a remote mansion under 24-hour medical care while scientists on four continents rush to discover a cure. Meanwhile, US operatives scour the world for the bioterrorists responsible for this heinous crime as two teen virtual spies, also infected, hunt for the criminals on the Internet.

Sixteen-year-old Devon Mackintosh has always felt like an outsider at Keaton, the prestigious California boarding school perched above the Pacific. As long as she's not fitting in, Devon figures she might as well pad her application to Stanford's psych program. So junior year, she decides to become a peer counselor, a de facto therapist for students in crisis. At first, it seems like it will be an easy fly-on-the-wall gig, but her expectations are turned upside down when Jason Hutchins commits suicide.

Being a coroners assistant means that Cameryn has seen more gore than your average seventeen-year-old. But even Cammie is shocked when Kyle ONeil, the most popular guy in school, discovers the gruesome corpse of their English teacher murdered in his own bed. As Cammie gets involved in the case, she finds herself drawn to Kyle, and considers trusting him with the secret that she cant even tell her father.

You would think Petronellas 16th birthday would be cause for celebration. After all, fashionable friends are arriving at her country estate near London, teas are being served, and her coming out party promises to be a resplendent affair. Everything is falling nicely into place, until, suddenly, it isnt. For Petronella discovers that her guardian, Uncle Augustus T. Percival, has developed a most unVictorian compulsion: He must eat bugs.

When Cora Holman’s mother dies, she assumes the inevitable: that her mother overdosed on the painkillers she’d been taking for years. So she’s shocked to learn that her mother and a neighbor both died of a brain aneurysm the same night. When Cora and other neighborhood teens become ill with a mysterious flu, and government-type strangers arrive in her small town, they all fear the unthinkable - a terrorist attack. Meanwhile, a world away in Pakistan, a 16-year-old computer genius named Shahzad is working as a virtual spy....

It's been almost a year since Jenna Samuels' stoner brother, Casey, bit the dust and returned as her guardian angel; a year since Casey and his "angel boss", Amber Velasco, saved Jenna's life and helped her foil the bad guys, more or less; a year in which Jenna has solved the true mystery of the universe: how to get one Ryan Sloboda to ask her out.

In the tradition of Memento and Inception comes a thrilling and scary young adult audiobook about blurred reality where characters in a story find that a deadly and horrifying world exists in the space between the written lines. Seventeen-year-old Emma Lindsay has problems: a head full of metal, no parents, a crazy artist for a guardian whom a stroke has turned into a vegetable, and all those times when she blinks away, dropping into other lives so ghostly and surreal it's as if the story of her life bleeds into theirs.

16-year-old Taylor Oh is cursed: if she is touched by the ghost of a murder victim they pass a mark beneath her skin. She then has three weeks to find their murderer and pass the mark to them - letting justice take place and sending them into the Darkness. And if she doesn't make it in time? The Darkness will come for her.... She spends her life trying to avoid ghosts, make it through school where she's bullied by popular Justin, and persuade her father she's not going crazy.

Henry "Hen" Birnbaum's sister, Sarah, missing for over a year, has come home unexpectedly, with no explanation at all. But he can't leave well enough alone; Hen needs to figure out why she disappeared, even if she won't tell him. It's not like he has anything better to do. His girlfriend just dumped him and kicked him out of their band. He can't play the bass worth crap anyway. His social life consists of night after night of VH1 marathons with his best friend and next-door neighbor, the neurotic Emma Wood.