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Full of magic and danger, Children of Virtue and Vengeance is the breathtaking sequel to Tomi Adeyemi's ground-breaking, bestselling West African-inspired fantasy Children of Blood and Bone, soon to be a major movie starring Wicked's Cynthia Erivo. After battling the impossible, Zélie and Amari...

It's been six months since Deka freed the goddesses in the ancient kingdom of Otera and discovered who she really is...but war is waging across the kingdom, and the real battle has only just begun. For there is a dark force growing in Otera—a merciless power that Deka and her army must stop. Yet hidden secrets threaten to destroy everything Deka has known. And with her own gifts changing, Deka must discover if she holds the key to saving Otera...or if she might be its greatest threat.

For fans of The Librarian Of Auschwitz, This Light Between Us is a powerfully affecting story of World War II about the unlikeliest of pen pals—a Japanese American boy and a French Jewish girl—as they fight to maintain hope in a time of war. “I remember visiting Manzanar and standing in...

TJ Young spent last summer fighting to unlock the secrets behind his sister's mysterious death but found himself battling the magic of the ancient Orishas instead. And some of the answers he sought came with a promise he may not be able to keep: to dismantle new human construction on the coastline of Lagos, Nigeria, by the start of spring. But how does a teenager do away with decades of infrastructure in only half a year? He’ll need to enlist the help of new allies, mortal and immortal alike.

Yuki Nakahara is an American. But it's the start of World War II, and America doesn't see it that way. Like many other Japanese Americans, Yuki and his family have been forced into an internment camp in the Utah desert. But Yuki isn't willing to sit back and accept this injustice - it's his country, too, and he's going to prove it by enlisting in the army to fight for the Allies.

Lou und Reid haben gleich mehrere Verfolger. Die gefährlichen Dames Blanches, die Vertreter des Königs von Belterra und die Chasseure sind allesamt hinter ihnen her. Zusammen mit ihren Freunden Ansel und Coco verstecken sie sich in den finsteren Wäldern. Doch um zu überleben, brauchen sie neue mächtige Verbündete. Während Lou verzweifelt versucht, die Menschen zu schützen, die sie liebt, steuert sie unweigerlich auf die dunkle Seite der Magie zu. Doch damit bringt sie Reid in Gefahr, den sie doch mehr liebt als alles andere.

Despite hard-won victories, the revolutionary forces known as the Red Hand are more endangered than ever: the Planetary Alliance Commission—the PAC—has branded them public enemy number one, ramping up their efforts to eliminate the Red Hand’s remaining members even as the pandemic rages on. In order to protect the progress they have made, the team must adopt new tactics. Ashiva, armed with a new bionic upgrade, leads a team back into the fray on a dangerous mission across a toxic wasteland wracked by storms.

Eleanor van der Berg ist die Prinzessin der Eastside: ambitioniert, höflich und gutaussehend. Als ihr Wagen auf dem Highway liegen bleibt, lernt sie den Mechaniker Kai kennen, der das genaue Gegenteil von ihr zu sein scheint. Und ausgerechnet bei Kai fühlt Eleanor sich endlich komplett. Ihre Beziehung steht jedoch unter keinem guten Stern, denn Kai und seine Freunde haben schon oft Bekanntschaft mit dem Gesetz gemacht - und das ist niemand Geringeres als Eleanors Vater.

London is a whirl of balls and teas, alliances and rivalries. Rose has never felt more out of place. With the Season in full swing, she can't help but still feel a servant, dressed up in diamonds and silk. Then she meets Alexander Ross, a young Scottish duke. She has heard the rumors about Ross' sordid past just like everyone else has. Yet he alone treats her as a friend. Rose knows better than to give her heart to an aristocrat with such a reputation, but it may be too late.

Gracey's come home to Cunningham on holidays. But now she's a state athletics champion and a private school student, and everything looks different - even frightening. Part history, part mystery, Gracey is a challenging story about the past and the present, murder and compassion, and black and white identity.

Miracle’s fingers roam through her hair as memories of her brother, Andre, float into her subconscious. His death changed her. It changed everything. All she wants to do now is try to survive life without him. But memories of her best friend, Kim, blaming Andre for his own death, linger in her mind. Her body tenses at the thought. “I saw him point the gun at the officers.” Kim’s words sink deep inside Miracle’s soul, shattering the love that once existed.

Fresh off her racial profiling mystery in Boston, Gabbie comes home to discover her parents have divorced and her little sister, Khadi's getting on everyone's nerves; becoming a young horror around the house. On top of the drama, a new guy, Maleek, Ummi's co-worker is trying to hit on her mother, quickly which adds to this urban nostalgia.

Veronica hates that people assume she's prejudiced just because she looks white, even though her mother is black. Can she handle being rejected again? Can she get through the day fearing people will make another racial slur? When school finally ends, Veronica's excited to escape the small town and spend the summer on Cape Cod with her friend Sally. But as soon as they drive off, she learns a terrible secret about Sally's family. Once they arrive at the cottage, things go from weird to worse.