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Evie doesn’t have a choice. One day she’s an ordinary 17-year-old, grieving for her mother. The next, she’s a Shield, the result of a decades-old experiment gone wrong, bound by DNA to defend her best friend from an unknown killer. The threat could come at home, at school, anywhere. All Evie knows is that it will be a fight to the death. And then there’s Jamie. Irresistible. Off-limits.

Seit Scyth und seine Freunde aus der Sandbox in die große Welt von Disgardium gewechselt sind, lassen die Verhinderer sie nicht aus den Augen. Die stärksten Clans der Welt sind nicht nur Scyth, sondern auch der bereits entdeckten "Gefahr" Crag auf den Fersen, dem neuesten Mitglied des Clans der Erwachten. Das ist jedoch nur eines ihrer vielen Probleme. Der Schlafende Gott hat eine weitere nahezu unmögliche Quest für sie, ihr Erzfeind Big Po sinnt auf Rache und der Nukleus der Vernichtenden Seuche will grausame Vergeltung an dem früheren Herold üben.

They say that the Sphere of Worlds has no limits and that its players enter a new universe brimming with mysteries. And this universe is now readying to defend itself. Whoever has got involved in the game just can't stop anymore. In the search for the Keys, Cat and Weldy set off for the Abyssthe...

Brought to you by Penguin. A mesmerising episode from the universe of His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust, giving us an extraordinary insight into this world and its characters. When Lyra is studying at Oxford University, she comes across the story of Lee Scoresby and Iorek Byrnisson's first...

In the endless game of Sphere of Words, the trader named Cat continues searching for the Keys hidden by the dead creators of the virtual reality...

Kyra, 16 ans, a travaillé toute sa vie pour intégrer Améthyste, qui abrite l’académie des dragons. Son rêve ? Devenir chevaucheuse de dragons. Petit problème : aucun dragon n’a été aperçu depuis plusieurs années. En débarquant sur le campus, je n’imaginais pas les dangers qui me menaçaient : le cursus des créatures magiques est… mortel. Au sens littéral du terme. Les élèves n’ont pas de limites : brimades, bizutages, accidents tragiques, ils sont prêts à tuer pour se lier à l’un de ces animaux fantastiques.

Seventeen-year-old Krescent Dune is buried under the weight of her dead parents’ debt and the ruinous legacy they left behind. The only way she can earn enough money to escape her unforgiving island is by battling monstrous creatures in an underground fighting pit. After a fight goes terribly wrong, she’s banned from the pits. Now hopeless, she is offered a deal: in exchange for the erasure of her debts, she must join and protect a hunting party for a rescue mission deep within the mining caves beneath the island.

After battling creatures of the void in the Voidmare Dungeon, Astrid fused with her new Class—Voidmare. It answered some questions about her Awakening but left her with many more. With monsters, corrupt nobles, and pirates conspiring against Astrid’s home ship HMS Rebirth, she heads out onto the great oceans in search of greater strength to weather the coming storms. Astrid finds herself in a new world, where she meets a strange, psychotic tribe of people who want nothing more than to have their eyes ripped from their skulls.

In a country divided between humans and witchers, Venus Stoneheart hustles as a brewer making illegal love potions to support her family. Love potions is a dangerous business. Brewing has painful, debilitating side effects, and getting caught means death or a prison sentence. But what Venus is most afraid of is the dark, sentient magic within her. Then an enemy's iron bullet kills her mother, Venus's life implodes. When the powerful Grand Witcher, the ruthless head of her coven, offers Venus the chance to punish her mother's killer, she has to pay a steep price for revenge.

Una bambina, Sophia, una bizzarra signora, Lady Margaret Prima Stelante, e un elegante e arrogante topo, Lord Buddy Butler, sono i protagonisti di questa grande avventura alla ricerca di Alvin, un Senzatempo. Per ritrovarlo, Sophia viaggerà - grazie alla Spitofora, una clessidra magica - in terre lontane chiamate Mondi Storti, tra personaggi spaventosi, docili e saggi, fino ad affrontare l’orribile Barone Jukor. Una storia delicata e profonda sulla timidezza e sul timore di non essere all’altezza, e un inno alla solidarietà e al coraggio.

"Mezi okamžikem, kdy oceány pohltily pyšnou Atlantidu, a vzestupem synů Aryových, bylo údobí o němž se dnešním lidem ani nesní. Do něj se zapsal Conan, černovlasý, se zasmušilým pohledem a mečem v pěsti, zloděj, nájezdník a zabiják, plný velkých zármutků i bezuzdného veselí, aby srazil drahokamy zdobené trůny Země pod podrážky svých kožených sandálů.“ Legendární válečník stvořený divokou fantazií texaského spisovatele Roberta E. Howarda je dokonalým archetypem hrdiny – barbar, který se vymanil ze svého kmene, dobrodruh a zkušený cestovatel.

Espen Vetsby ist zutiefst beunruhigt. Seine Zwillingsschwester Pernille ist spurlos verschwunden, und die einzige Spur ist ein erschreckendes TikTok-Video, in dem sie sich unkontrolliert verhält und von der »brennenden Braut« spricht, einem alten Familienfluch. Was hat sie an den Rand des Wahnsinns getrieben? Seine Nachforschungen führen ihn in ein Sanatorium in Weston, um das sich düstere Gerüchte ranken. Er stößt auf die Geschichte von der Roten Tür, einem angeblichen Tor zu einer fremden Welt, aus der noch kein Mensch zurückgekehrt ist.

After a brief respite, Kirito and Eugeo set off again to climb Central Cathedral-but the powerful Integrity Knights are not about to let them reach the top. Meanwhile, Kirito has learned the dark history of the Underworld and the true stakes of the battle they're fighting, and every step toward...

En 2105, deux classes sociales existent : les privilégiés - qui à l'adolescence reçoivent un sérum leur permettant de vivre 400 ans - et les ordinaires. Une fois par an, un grand concours est organisé pour permettre à des ados ordinaires de recevoir le précieux sérum. Les épreuves portent sur leurs capacités cérébrales. La jeune So décide de participer, mais des événements incroyables vont lui faire comprendre qu'une bactérie révélatrice de souvenirs de 2015 est nichée dans son cerveau. Et certains sont prêts à tout pour connaître ses souvenirs.

"A perfect mix of MAGIC, VAMPIRES, STAR-CROSSED LOVE, and writing as SHARP AND DEADLY a spear." - Nisha J. Tuli, author of Trial of the Sun Queen THE THRILLING ROMANTASY FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR LAUREN BLACKWOOD! One vampire to kill. Another to love. War doesn’t scare Jerusalem...

After surviving and defeating a plot to plunge the continent into war, Nate loves his new life. He has been awarded a knighthood and a position in the Royal Guard, where he has made good friends, as close as family. Unfortunately, he is torn by the need to get back home to save his sister from the consequences of his mysterious disappearance. Given a chance to petition the most powerful mage in the kingdom for help, he may soon have to decide between magic and the sword, thanks to guild politics, or face dire consequences.

The Snow Panthers will have to protect the future queen of Norghana. Not a pleasant job and a very dangerous one. There are political interests at stake, and some kingdoms and factions do not see the new alliance between Norghana and Irinel with good eyes. There are those who want the Druid Queen not to reach the throne. As if that weren't enough, another, greater danger looms over Norghana and all of Tremia. A danger of enormous dimensions that threatens to descend from the skies and destroy entire kingdoms.

Who are you if you've never seen another face like yours? Where do you belong if you don't know where your home is? What do you call yourself when others call you 'freak'? Skrimsli is the only flame-coloured tiger born in a litter of white cubs. He and his friends, Owl and Kal, must escape the clutches of tyrannical circus owner Kobret Majak and his twin assassin-acrobats, stop a war, and save an ancient forest. They're helped by the Palatine and her eagle, a chihuahua who thinks she's a wolf, a horse with a heart of gold - and the crew of a very unusual ship.

Von Millionen Fans sehnsüchtig erwartet: Cornelia Funkes Fortsetzung der Tintenwelt-Reihe. Fünf Jahre sind seit den Geschehnissen in „Tintentod“ vergangen. Fünf glückliche Jahre. Aber dann wird Eisenglanz gesichtet, der Glasmann von Orpheus, dem erbitterten, silberzüngigen Feind von Meggie, Mo und Staubfinger. Der Grund: Orpheus plant Rache an allen, die ihn zu Fall gebracht haben, doch vor allem an Staubfinger, und er nutzt einen furchtbaren Zauber. Sind Bilder mächtiger als Worte? Staubfinger zieht aus, die Antwort zu finden. Der Schwarze Prinz aber macht sich auf die Jagd nach Orpheus.

When a magic ritual goes disastrously wrong, Jaden is exiled to the heart of the desert and left to die. Battered and bruised, Jaden encounters the outcast Nomadwater Sect, who grant him a second chance at life as a mysterious arcane cultivator. With its savage beasts and cryptic mysteries, survival in the sprawling desert of Southfall is a dangerous game. Yet Jaden and the Nomadwater Sect persevere, growing closer and forming bonds over the course of a long summer.