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Homeland meets Marie Lu's Legend in Blackout, which #1 New York Times bestselling author Ally Condie called "a thrilling combination of Wells's trademark twists and terror. Fantastic!" Laura and Alec are highly trained teenage terrorists. Jack and Aubrey are small-town high school students...

Becca's ability to hear the broken thoughts of others has not turned out to be a fabulous gift after all. It has got in the way of her being able to function in the world normally. More seriously, it makes her think she knows things that she doesn't know at all. Becca's friends are also dealing with stressful situations and coming to terms with troubling discoveries about themselves. Seth Darrow's learning disability makes him vulnerable. The girl he loves is not what she appears to be.

On Whidbey Island, secrets never stay buried. A mysterious girl who won't speak; a coal-black seal named Nera that returns to the same place every year; a bitter feud of unknown origin - strange things are happening on Whidbey Island and Becca King is drawn into the maelstrom of events. But Becca, first met in The Edge of Nowhere, has her own secrets to hide. Still on the run from her criminal stepfather, Becca is living in a secret location.

The third novel in Elizabeth George's young-adult series. This genre-bending work combines Elizabeth's flair for crime and suspense novels with the paranormal. Late summer on Whidbey Island after nine weeks of no rain and fire season has arrived...along with a fire starter who soon begins tormenting the residents of this peaceful Pacific Northwest idyll with fires that escalate in intensity. Becca King and her friends, Jenn and Derric, are at the county fair when the third fire starts in a shed housing animals.

A New York Times bestseller The bestselling sequel—and conclusion—to Victoria Schwab’s instant #1 New York Times bestseller This Savage Song. Kate Harker is a girl who isn’t afraid of the dark. She’s a girl who hunts monsters. And she’s good at it. August Flynn is a monster who can...

In the second brilliant, action-packed book in the Charlotte Holmes series, Jamie Watson and Charlotte Holmes are in a chase across Europe to untangle a web of shocking truths about the Holmes and Moriarty families. Jamie and Charlotte are looking for a winter break reprieve in Sussex after a...

Full of "can't look away" moments, Dear Killer is a psychological thriller perfect for fans of gritty realistic fiction such as Dan Wells's I Am Not a Serial Killer and Jay Asher's Thirteen Reasons Why, as well as television's Dexter. Rule One—Nothing is right, nothing is wrong. Kit looks like...

The hotly anticipated and explosive third book in the New York Times bestselling Charlotte Holmes series. It’s been a year since the shocking death of August Moriarty, and Jamie and Charlotte haven’t spoken. Jamie is going through the motions at Sherringford, trying to finish his senior year...

International phenomenon Angie Thomas revisits Garden Heights seventeen years before the events of The Hate U Give in this searing and poignant exploration of Black boyhood and manhood. A Printz Honor Book! If there’s one thing seventeen-year-old Maverick Carter knows, it’s that a real man...

One fateful night, an altercation in a gentrifying neighbourhood escalates into tragedy. ‘Boys just being boys’ turns out to be true only when those boys are white. Suddenly, at just 16 years old, Amal Shahid’s bright future is upended: he is convicted of a crime he didn’t commit and sent to prison. Despair and rage almost sink him until he turns to the refuge of his words, his art. This never should have been his story. But can he change it? 

Jack was sporty and outgoing. Alice was bookish and introverted. Their lives were on completely different paths. That is before the day they were in the wrong place at the wrong time: before the day their lives were torn apart in a bombing. Struggling to cope with their new worlds, their unlikely new friendship helps them find hope. But can they help each other rebuild their lives and start again?

Some days it's just easier not to go to school at all. Adam has been slacking off lately, but today he stuck around to see his girlfriend. When Josh, who has been bullied mercilessly, brings a gun to school, the building is locked down and Adam is forced to risk everything to save himself and to find Zoe before Josh does. Calling on reserves he didn't know he had, Adam could end up a hero—or a victim.

Jill took a job which sounded perfect for the summer, guiding tourists on trail rides in the beautiful mountains. She didn't realize that the money was terrible, the hours long and the coworkers insufferable. After a blow-up with her boss, she takes a single man into the mountains for a ride, only to find that he is a dangerous killer. When Jill fights back and manages to escape, she is in a desperate race to survive and make it to safety.

Premio Edebé de Literatura Juvenil 2023. No hay territorio más desconocido que el infierno de la humillación. Cuatro años atrás, un incendio destruyó el almacén de Alberto Soler en Hondares. En la caja fuerte se encontraron unos huesos humanos...

Mein Name ist Nikka. Ich wurde ermordet. Aber das war erst der Anfang... Als die 16-jährige Nikka in einem Krankenhaus zu sich kommt, hat sie Mühe, sich zu erinnern, was passiert ist. War sie nicht eben noch mit ihrer Freundin Zoe auf dieser Party? Dann plötzlich ... Filmriss. Nikka erfährt, dass sie tot war – schockierende 21 Minuten lang. 21 Minuten ohne Herzschlag, aber keineswegs ohne Erlebnisse. Denn sie erinnert sich an einen dunklen Tunnel, in dem sie einem Licht entgegenirrte und in dem auch Zoe war.

Prickelnde Romantik, dekadenter Luxus und dunkle Geheimnisse satt – exklusive Storys aus der Welt der The Inheritance Games-Reihe als Hörbuch. Vier Brüder, durch ein unzertrennbares Band miteinander verbunden, aufgewachsen in einem Haus voller Rätsel und Geheimnisse, umgeben von Freundschaft und Verrat, Liebe und Rache, Macht und unermesslichem Reichtum. Brandneue Geschichten aus der schillernden Welt der Familie Hawthorne enthüllen bislang unbekannte Details und Hintergründe aus dem Leben der vier Hawthorne-Brüder und der Erbin ihres Vermögens, Avery Grambs.

Drei Tage, drei Casinos, drei Leichen - Band 3 der spannenden Jugendthrillerreihe als Hörbuch. Als in Las Vegas eine Reihe brutaler Morde geschieht, sollen Cassie Hobbes und der Rest des Teams ermitteln. Doch trotz ihrer besonderen Talente stellen diese Morde das Team vor ein Rätsel: Alle Opfer wurden in der Öffentlichkeit getötet, ohne dass der Mörder auf einem der Überwachungsvideos zu sehen ist. Und dann sind da noch die Nummern, die der Täter jedem Opfer aufs Handgelenk tätowiert hat.

Rosario Gomez gave up gang life after his brother was killed in a street fight. Now all he wants to do is finish night school, be a good father and work hard enough at his job at the supermarket to get promoted. But when an old friend shows up to ask him why he left the gang, Rosario realizes he was fooling himself if he thought his violent past would just go away. When his pregnant girlfriend is hit in a drive-by shooting, Rosario has to make some hard choices. Revenge means a return to his old ways. But unless he takes action, his enemies won't rest until they've settled the score.

Jojo's back, released from jail, and people are tense and afraid all over again. They wonder if his friends will start showing up again. They wonder if they'll be walking down the street one day and they'll run into Jojo and Jojo will give them attitude or shove them around, just for fun. Jojo's friends have a way of making it hard—really hard—on people who decide to press charges against Jojo. Then there are the people who have hate in their hearts. These people wish something bad would happen to Jojo. Something really bad. Ardell Withrow is one of those people.

En los lugares más bellos pueden cometerse los asesinatos más deleznables. Cuenta la leyenda del parque del Monasterio de Piedra que este surgió tras una batalla entre ángeles y demonios, una lucha que ganó el bien sobre el mal... hasta la reciente aparición de un cadáver en una de sus grutas. Un asesino y un equipo de investigación de la Guardia Civil revivirán ahora esa contienda en este thriller policíaco ambientado en uno de los lugares más turísticos de la provincia de Zaragoza. ¿Quién vencerá esta vez?