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From the coauthor of the New York Times bestselling The Shape of Water comes the “utterly riveting” (Entertainment Weekly) tale of a murdered teen who is resurrected to walk the earth for more than a century. May 7, 1896. Dusk. A swaggering seventeen-year-old gangster named Zebulon Finch is...

Lana Crewe is a strong, fiercely driven 17-year-old living in a village ruled by fear. With their king and queen both dead, strife and division have taken hold. Ruthlessly attacked by an order called Talons, Lana's father is fatally stabbed. Before he dies, he imparts upon Lana a directive to save the statue of Saint Peter and tells her that the queen yet lives. Now it is up to Lana to unravel the mystery of Saint Peter and bring an end to all of the war by finding the queen.

Sixteen-year-old Bette loves watching horror movies, seeing local bands play, and hanging out with her best friend Rose. Jay, a student at Bette and Rose's school, has done his best to build a new life for himself after the devastating events of his childhood. When Bette and Jay's lives crash headlong into the alluring, lethal underworld of the city's vampires, they're not afraid, but rather fascinated: could this subculture of hunters and predators, villains and heroes, finally be somewhere that they fit in? And if it's not, can they get out alive?

Murdered in a Tokyo alley, a gamer is reborn as Noctis Ashworth in a world ruled by a System. Gifted with the dark powers of World Eater and Shadow Manipulation, his vow to never be powerless again is tested when his adoptive family is massacred by soldiers of King Valerius. Now, Noctis lives a double life: unremarkable academy student by day, terrifying Void Monarch by night. While hunting for revenge and clues to the monstrous Project Chimera, he finds himself entangled with the enemy king's daughter and targeted by suspicious instructors.

Die Redaktion der Schülerzeitung – kurz SZ – recherchiert Ausgabe für Ausgabe spannende Storys am Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium. Die Chefredakteure Adrian, Kathi und Anna sind nicht nur privat gute Freunde, sie leiten auch die Redaktion der zehn Schülerinnen und Schüler. Band 1: Im Zeichen des Sonnenkreuzes Das neue Team wird direkt bei der ersten Redaktionssitzung mit mysteriösen Graffiti-Zeichen konfrontiert, die seit den Sommerferien überall an der Schule auftauchen.

Days before her marriage to the king of the neighboring Sunruta Kingdom, Princess Annabel of Najir is abruptly betrayed by her fiancé and thrown into prison with her magic knight under suspicion of being a spy. After being held captive for months and informed her kingdom is no more, Annabel passes out in a burst of destructive magic, only to awaken as her 12-year-old self, six years before her political marriage. Armed with knowledge of the dark future to come, she now has another chance to bring about a new fate.

In a world where the lines between the living and the dead blur, a young boy named X witnesses his mother's brutal murder at the hands of his own father. Consumed by a thirst for revenge, X dedicates his life to finding and confronting the man who shattered his world. This dystopian reality is forever altered by the emergence of magical beings. Governed by the O-7 Council—ancient deities who oversee the delicate balance of life and death—the world is inhabited by reapers and demons enforcing celestial laws.

Holly learns that her Uncle Steve, who her drunken parents refuse to believe molested her, is moving into her brother's old room. She decides she must move. So she gets a job at Rule the Night and feels she has finally found a place where she fits in. The cute guy from school, Parker, becomes more than just a fellow employee. But then she notices some strange behavior at the nightclub. Despite Parker's distracting presence, she realizes something is wrong. Too late she realizes the secret is a nest of vampires....

As a young boy, Ryder lived with his family, deep in the caves underneath the Kadin Forest, unaware of the horrors of the world. His simple world was turned upside down one horrible night when Grishma attacked his family, killing his father and kidnapping his mother and younger sister.

Seventh-grader Dawn Hibana has an aloof dad, one odd friend, and a generally unremarkable life. Dawn often feels like the little island town of Downbeat, cloaked in a fog that rises from the surrounding river, is all there is to the magical world of Aria. One day, on the walk to school with her depressed-yet-handsy best friend, they spot a shooting star. Although a skeptic, Dawn makes a private wish at her friend’s insistence. She gets much more than she asked for when a nine-foot-tall giantess on a flying motorcycle drops out of the sky and bashes her face in with a bass guitar.

A telepathic dog. An ancient prophecy. Two devious faeries. Abby Fletcher must unravel their connection when she is thrown into a world of unknowns after receiving a mysterious message from a frightening beast: The Red King must set me free. Determined to discover the meaning of this puzzling phrase, Abby sets off to explore a nearby Scottish mountainside in search of clues.

The world as we know it is gone. The ice caps have melted and shifted south, devastating the northern territories and eradicating major cities such as New York and London, which are now underwater and frozen. Humans died off during an epidemic prior to the ice disaster, and many more died during the floods at the start of this new ice age. These events have forced vampires out of hiding. In order to ensure that their food source wouldn't completely die off, the vampires have sequestered the remaining humans into farms and taken control of all that remains of civilization.

For 17-year-old Genevieve most of her life has been fairly mundane. With a blended family with a stepfather and brother she likes more than her cynical mother; a demonstrative best friend; and Bishop, the one guy who seems to appreciate her sarcasm, life is truly predictable. When the new girl, Ellie, shows up at school and beguiles herself into Genevieve's world, even the place Genevieve finds the most alluring, the White Pines Cemetery, will become anything but ordinary.

Dans ce monde où coexistent humains, elfes et inferniths – êtres hybrides mi-humains, mi-démons comme des muses et des vampires –, un danger ancien s'éveille. À l'aube de ses 19 ans, JudyAnn découvre sa véritable identité : elle est une géminie, héritière d'une lignée magique presque éteinte. Elle et trois autres géminis, les derniers de leur espèce, sont réunis et conduits à la grande cité de Godwynn pour y apprendre les bases de la magie et découvrir leurs pouvoirs uniques avec Vincent, un énigmatique sorcier-vampire.

When Kira Dawson moves to South Carolina, she meets Luke, a blond goofball who quickly becomes her best friend, and Tristan, a mysterious bad boy who sends shivers down her spine. Kira knows they're keeping secrets, but when she discovers Tristan's lust for blood and her own dormant mystical powers, Kira is forced to fight for her life and make the heartbreaking decision between the familiar comfort of friendship and the fiery passion of love.

La mer a bercé Justine Robert jusqu’au sommeil éternel, laissant avec son cadavre une panoplie de questions. Comment est-elle morte ? Qui l’a tuée ? Mais surtout… pourquoi ? Et en quoi tous ces éléments sont-ils liés aux cauchemars qui hantent soudain Milane, une jeune fille pourtant sans histoire ? Plongez dans son univers, explorez les mystères qui tourmentent l’Île-aux-Veuves.

On her 13th birthday, Claudia Quash receives a mysterious letter. It unlocks an unsolved crime, and Claudia has to clear her family name. Little does she know that she'll be transported back in time into a magical world, where she also discovers special powers of her own. On her journey, she'll be chasing criminals, making new friends, and facing a dark terror that hovers over the land. If she can't solve the mystery, she might never return home.

Lorsque Maëlla-Rose, Naomi et Juliette arrivent au camp de vacances Cité-Sauvage, elles ne se doutent pas que l’été leur réserve bien des surprises. C’est en découvrant la mystérieuse légende d’une cité disparue qu’elles se retrouvent au cœur d’une sombre forêt en compagnie de Zak, un garçon qui en sait plus que ce qu’il laisse croire. Réussiront-ils à trouver la cité d’Éléalix et à percer tous ses secrets ? Une chose est certaine, l’expédition s’annonce dangereuse et les quatre amis devront faire preuve d’un grand courage pour y arriver.

Jane Delane has always lived an unusual life, having survived a freak wolf accident and then grown up in the woods completely sequestered from 1920s society. But as her 17th birthday draws near, her life becomes even more unusual when her father falls ill and her brother goes missing. When she decides to go searching for her absentee sibling, she joins leagues with a werewolf hunter named Amos Hood. Together they plunge into a world completely new to her - all while she begins to learn of a darker one that has haunted her since childhood.

Ace Reed is a 13 year old young man that has been labeled the "ultimate outcast" by his peers, his newest and only friend is the school janitor named Pete, he's always been overlooked and completely ignored, not to mention the constant torment he receives on a weekly basis by the school bully Trent Davis. Living in a world where all of his classmates are tweeting, texting, or posting their latest pictures to numerous social media accounts, Ace is yet to cross that threshold since he has been gifted his dad's very old side scroll BlackBerry "smartphone".