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It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the 10th annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, 18-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able to out charm, outwit, and outmaneuver his fellow students to mentor the winning tribute. The odds are against him. He’s been given the humiliating assignment of mentoring the female tribute from District 12, the lowest of the low.

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Childhood friends Patricia Delfine and Laurence Armstead didn't expect to see each other again after parting ways under mysterious circumstances during high school. After all, the development of magical powers and the invention of a two-second time machine could hardly fail to alarm one's peers and families. But now they're both adults, living in the hipster mecca San Francisco, and the planet is falling apart around them.

Angie Dovage can tell there's more to Reece Fernandez than just the tall, brooding athlete who has her classmates swooning, but she can't imagine his presence signals a tragedy that will devastate her small town. When something supernatural tries to attack her, Angie is thrown into a battle between good and evil she never saw coming. Right in the center of it is Reece—and he's not human.

IN THE SKY, ARE YOU PREDATOR OR PREY? Sixteen-year-old Sparrow Harper feels plain as dirt, with a relentlessly ordinary life. Her only escape is flying dreams that leave her oddly sore. A mysterious camp in Maine offers answers. On the way, she meets the ruggedly handsome and infuriating Heron Cirrus.

The highly anticipated young adult thriller about one girl's race to solve the crimes of her family’s twisted criminal past before it’s too late — from E. Kennedy, aka New York Times bestselling romance author, Elle Kennedy! Perfect for fans of Holly Jackson’s A Good Girl’s Guide to...

Prinzessin Aella, einst aus dem Palast verstoßen, wächst mit anderen Waisenkindern bei einem Orden auf. Doch die Schule, die sie dort besucht, bildet alle im Geheimen zu Spionen des Königreichs aus. Nach Abschluss ihrer Prüfungen wird Aella in das Elite-Team der Absolventen berufen, das ausgerechnet Raven anführt. Alles an ihm zieht sie seit jeher an, er ist mutig, loyal – und tödlich. Die erste Mission ihres Teams wird sie beide an ihre Grenzen führen.

Die Black Bird Academy ist ein Ort, der seines Gleichen sucht. An dieser dunklen Schule werden Exorzisten ausgebildet, deren Aufgabe es ist, die Menschheit vor den Dämonen zu beschützen. Als Leaf Young in einem Kerker der Black Bird Academy erwacht, kann sie nicht glauben, was ein attraktiver Kerl namens Falco ihr erklärt: Ein Dämon hat von ihr Besitz ergriffen, kurz nachdem dieser ihr einen Dolch ins Herz gerammt hat! Falco ist fasziniert von Leaf. Denn noch nie konnte ein Mensch nach einem Dämonenangriff die Kontrolle über den eigenen Körper behalten, ohne dabei seinen Verstand zu verlieren.

“Do you trust me?” An instant bestseller, A Map of Days launched readers into the previously unexplored world of American peculiars, one bursting with new questions, new allies, and new adversaries. Now, with enemies behind him and the unknown ahead, Jacob Portman’s story continues as he...

All I had to do was write one spell to save us - instead, I doomed us all. Stuck in Faery, with her friends in mortal danger, Maddie has no choice but to push herself beyond her limits. Her magic is growing, but so are the secrets behind it. Will she be able to save them? Or has she ruined her chances in redeeming herself? This is it. The final battle. The last chance to save those she loves.

When the monsters came knocking on Thunderbird Academy's doors, I was given one task: Write a spell and send the creatures packing. Instead, I brought the whole school to the faery realm. And now we're stuck. Left with no other choice, the school resumes its regularly scheduled classes. Now that the halls are filled with more fae than I've ever seen, tensions are at an all-time high. And I'm not just talking about what's going on between Aiden and me. I have no time for a forbidden romance, but I can't keep my thoughts off my broody shifter combat trainer.

The King is dead. Chaos reigns… A life of messy politics and war was never what Brianna planned. Now she has to navigate a world where everyone seems set against her while trying to fix the country’s problems. She must show no weakness, for only then can she marry the man she loves and take her place as queen. But while Spirit-Beasts and Borderland nobility argue over alliances, Queen Geraldina works to take everything Brianna loves, and she has been playing this game for a long time.

Der TikTok-Trend Dark Academia trifft auf fesselnde Fantasy-Romance! Das explosive Finale der Black Bird Academy-Trilogie! Nach dem dramatischen Ende der Exorzisten-Wettkämpfe in London muss Leaf die Flucht ergreifen. Gemeinsam mit ihren Mitstreitern taucht sie in Tokio unter. Dort stößt sie schließlich auf eine Untergrundbewegung aus Menschen und Dämonen, die ihre Sicht auf die Welt völlig auf den Kopf stellen. Während Leaf gegen die Dunkelheit ringt, die das letzte Stück ihrer Menschlichkeit zu verschlingen droht, entbrennt der Krieg der Exorzisten.

If she were a normal 15-year-old girl, Ivy Nimiki would only be worried about getting her driver's license, arguing with her dad, and finding time to spend with her friends. She wouldn't be losing sleep over her sudden lack of storm control, the inevitable curse that will claim the life of the boy she loves, and her nightmares of the Great Horned Serpent. Ivy never has been, and never will be, normal. It's up to her to find an amulet to defeat the Serpent and end the curse. But how can she do that when the Thunderbird has disappeared?

Mia has settled into her life with the Della Torres - Milan's premier demon-catching family, accompanying them to exorcisms and even learning some way to be useful in the family trade. Then Bernardo comes into her life, handsome, well-mannered, someone who makes her forget her impossible crush on Emilio, her cousin. But always lurking in the background is the demon who possessed Mia once before, and who has not given up on possessing her again - this time for good.

Blue Riley has wrestled with her own demons ever since the loss of her mother to cancer. But when she encounters a beautiful devil at her town crossroads, it's her runaway sister's soul she fights to save. The devil steals Blue's voice - inherited from her musically gifted mother - in exchange for a single shot at finding Cass.

My power could save my friends - or destroy them.As I start a new semester at Thunderbird Academy, I have a lot to live up to. News of my sisters' courageous fight against the Ancient evil has spread, and now, everyone expects the same greatness from me. But all I want to do is: Find my dad and figure out why my magic has suddenly gone on the fritz. It would be a lot easier if I didn't have to keep dealing with the ever-annoying Aiden Lawson. Shifter, nemesis, ridiculously gorgeous. I don't care how he makes my pulse race, I will not be deterred from my mission.

The queen is dead. But two more are coming. Four months have passed since Queen Magnolia was taken down by Silver and her friends. Silver has been preparing to become queen, but has developed a closeness with Prince Elijah, the winged heir of Sularia, the kingdom that came before Elysia. She has made him a promise: if she helps him rescue his twin sister, Princess Faith, from the brutal clutches of the queen that started Elysia – and ruined everything – they can align Elysia and Sularia, to unify their two broken kingdoms.

Dresden is cursed. His chest houses a hive of bees that he can't stop from stinging people with psychosis-inducing venom. His face is a shifting montage of all the people who have died because of those stings. And he has been this way for centuries—since he was eighteen and magic flowed through his homeland, corrupting its people. He follows harbingers of death, so at least his curse only affects those about to die anyway. But when he arrives in a Midwest town marked for death, he encounters Essie, a seventeen-year-old girl who suffers from debilitating delusions and hallucinations.

From New York Times bestselling author comes The Silent Songbird! Evangeline is gifted with a heavenly voice, but she is trapped in a sinister betrothal until she embarks on a daring escape and meets brave Westley le Wyse. Can he help her discover the freedom to sing again? Desperate to flee a...