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The Wave nearly ended Tahama. No one knows why it happened. Someone has to find out. A deep patrol Crawler rolls into the Pale. Small crew. Dangerous mission. Mars volunteers without explaining himself, not to the crew, not to anyone. The old world is still down there, broken and buried and full of things that used to be people. That's expected. What isn't: something is organizing those things. Not everyone comes home.

On the run, but divided. Nearly beaten, but not quite broken. Then come the gunshots in the distance. In the direction of Chloe and Daniel. Desperately hoping that they managed to escape with their lives–with Chip, Ellie and Lars by his side–Will must do all he can to get back to them. But with Will’s injured ankle, and the guards closing in, the odds are stacked against them. Not to mention that the exiles now know the truth about their world. That they are up against the power and strength of Project Beta; are living in a land with few allies, and many enemies.

A boy washes up on the beach of a quiet seaside town, soaked, shaken, and wearing nothing but pyjamas. He insists he's from here, but the whole place feels... not quite right. Then he meets David, a stranger who offers to help. What begins as an act of kindness soon becomes something far stranger. Questions multiply, and a chain of events set in motion centuries ago tightens its grip on the present.

A standalone enemies-to-lovers fae fantasy—except she's the only one who thinks they're enemies. With the high-stakes intrigue of The Cruel Prince, the cozy found-family banter of FRIENDS, and the no-spice romantic tension of Pride and Prejudice. Brynn never believed in fairytales—until one stole her mother. Everyone says she ran off, but Brynn saw the truth. Her mother was taken by something not quite human.

Mindwalker is an action-packed YA sci-fi novel with one central question at its core: would you ever surrender control of your mind? DO NOT SURRENDER CONTROL. Eighteen-year-old Sil Sarrah is determined to die a legend. But with only twelve months left before the supercomputer grafted to her...

Simon Snow é o Escolhido. Segundo as lendas, ele é o feiticeiro que garantirá a paz no Mundo dos Magos. Isso seria extraordinário se Simon não fosse desastrado, esquecido e um feiticeiro pouco habilidoso, incapaz de controlar seus poderes. Ele está no penúltimo ano da Escola de Magia de Watford, e, ao lado de sua melhor amiga Penelope e sua namorada Agatha, já se meteu nas mais variadas aventuras e confusões—algumas causadas por Baz, seu arqui-inimigo e colega de quarto, outras pelo Oco, um ser maligno que há tempos tenta acabar com Simon.

Fallon weiß nicht mehr weiter. Verzweifelt versucht sie, ihre immer stärker werdenden dunklen Kräfte zu kontrollieren – erfolglos. Und auch ihr Plan, aus den Fängen der Nachtwandler zu fliehen, geht schief. Doch Fallon muss ihre Prophezeiung erfüllen, auch wenn ihr Leben dafür auf dem Spiel steht. Ariyon Madden steht ebenfalls vor einer Entscheidung: Wie weit ist er bereit zu gehen, um das Mädchen, das er liebt, und die Menschen, die unter seinem Schutz stehen, zu retten?

Hochspannung in Extralänge. Und wieder warten extreme Herausforderungen auf Skulduggery und Walküre Unruh: Bisher völlig unauffällige Sterbliche sind urplötzlich mit magischen Fähigkeiten begabt und die wenigsten können damit umgehen. Aber einige dieser Neu-Magier entwickeln so starke Kräfte, dass sie eine blutige Spur der Verwüstung durch das ganze Land ziehen. Nur ein sehr mächtiger Zauberer kann ihnen diese unglaubliche Macht gegeben haben.

This bundle includes Volume 1: Stars, Volume 2: Seas, and Volume 3: Shadow.

Following a devastating betrayal, Beth Bradley, a sixteen-year-old graffiti artist, is suspended from school. Running from a home that she shares with her father who has never recovered after Beth's mother's death, Beth stumbles into the hidden city and meets Filius Viae, London's asphalt-hued crown prince. And her timing couldn't have been more perfect.

Set in the same world as the extraordinary Mindwalker, Mindbreaker is an action packed young adult science fiction novel asking: what would you sacrifice to survive? They saved her life. But at what cost? Born into a religious, anti-tech cult, seventeen-year-old Indra lives a simple, mod-free...

Space Girl Green was the least confident member of her legendary Space Girl Unit right out of the academy. Of course the universe charged her with saving not just her father’s home world, but a whole pocket universe. Space Girl HQ gave her a flying saucer with a melodious personality, powerful rayguns and told her to go change the galaxy. Perhaps it was a bad idea to visit the destroyed world of Gamalon right off the bat, because a pair of mysterious scientists gave her an epic quest, putting Gamalon’s destiny in her untried hands.

A teen who is The Chosen One in a fantasy realms finds himself a nobody back home—that is, until magic appears in the real world and he must re-enter the portal to save a doomed realm. Months after entering a portal, becoming a powerful mage, and saving a distant realm, disgruntled Asian...

After the cataclysmic world event known as The Fallout, society regresses into city-states and mobs of marauders. Dust covers the now lifeless world. A thick haze hangs over skyscrapers, fading into an abyss of smoke. Since The Fallout, a systematized group known as Congress has taken over. They enforce strict laws, oppressive regimes, and strike down any rebellion that dares stand in the way of their perverted nationalism. They patrol the barren streets at dusk and annihilate anyone they deem a threat to their crooked ideals or their sociopolitical power.

Avery Shaw ist schon ewig in ihren besten Freund Aiden verliebt. Doch als sie ihm endlich ihre Gefühle gestehen will, läuft es ganz und gar nicht nach Plan. Zum Glück weiß sie aber einen Weg, wie sie ihr gebrochenes Herz heilen kann: Nämlich mit Hilfe der Wissenschaft! Für einen Wettbewerb will sie die sieben Schritte der Trauer durchlaufen. Dabei bekommt sie unerwartete Unterstützung von Aidens Bruder Grayson, der sich ihr als Projektpartner anbietet. Im Gegenzug gibt Avery ihm Nachhilfe in Physik, damit er nicht aus seinem Basketballteam fliegt.

Anna loves her peaceful world. Even so, she begins her third year at Quentin Academy with bad premonitions. Carlotta flies to Mongolia to rescue six-year-old Inara, a child with a unique and powerful gift and whose family has been killed. Anna and her family want to do everything for Inara's safety, but can they really protect her? Then disaster strikes. During a flight maneuver with the new express carpets, something happens that never happened before—a carpet crashes. Who are the unseen enemies that threaten Anna's world?

In this 17th science adventure, Rick and Scotty and the Spindrift Science Foundation staff (including Hartson Brant, Hobart Zircon, and Julius Weiss) join forces with South American geoscientists on the resort island of San Luz, off the coast of South America. There, they are faced with the ancient volcano of El Viejo, which shows every sign of getting ready to erupt and consume the entire island in a devastating disaster, like the one that obliterated the island of Krakatoa in 1883.

Book 2 in the all-new Science Adventures of Tom & Huck series! Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn are back—in fast, funny, science-filled adventures for curious kids! While visiting family in Arkansas, Tom and Huck hear a wild tale about a legendary hog called Haggard Hoofs—and Tom, never one to back down, bets they can catch it. The only problem? Huck’s pretty sure the pig doesn’t exist. What begins as a foolish boast soon turns into a hilarious chase through the Ozarks, as the boys risk their summer—and their friendship—on the unlikeliest hog hunt in Benton County.

Ada and Miry didn’t mean to start a city-wide catastrophe. Really, they didn’t. But when a family trip goes awry, the two Mexican-American cousins from opposite sides of the border accidentally unleash an evil spirit from centuries past. The incident unlocks latent magical powers within the girls, who now have to figure out what’s going on.

The gods are back, and they are tearing this world apart. Zeus, Dagon, Loki, Lugh and countless other deities have come back to this Earth and rule over their individual districts with no goal other than satiating their own petty desires. The sole remaining functional province, Hellenica, decides to act. The deities build the Academy and are about to recruit 16 young gods with the hopes of training them to police this world.