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A pirate, a pixie, and a plot to foil Peter Pan… James Hook never meant to become a pirate, and never dreamed that he would turn against best friend, Peter Pan. Every adventure and eternal youth awaited them… until a pixie exposes a shocking revelation. Tinkerbell’s information forces James into acknowledging that, far from being the benevolent hero he painted himself to be, Peter Pan was kidnapping innocent children. After accepting the traumatic loss of his hand and of the family he can barely remember, James deserts Pan.

Her name is Odd. Twelve-year-old Audrey Wyatt bears the unfortunate nickname "Odd", a name even her bar-hopping, alcoholic mother uses when she's sober enough to recognize the girl. Cowed by life, Odd doesn't protest, not when she's deformed as she is. Born with a combination of rare birth defects, Odd's eyes are a startling and dreadful red. Demon eyes is the first thought that springs to mind. The little girl takes care to hide them behind dark sunglasses, something her mother insists on, except when she's trading freak-show peeks for dollars or drinks.

Captain Hook has reason and wit behind his hatred for Peter Pan...If only someone would listen.

Adopted as a child by a noble family, Lizabeth is in search of her origins. Endowed with a fiery temper, she fights against the injustices and injunctions of her time. Also, when her best friend, Millie, a servant, is humiliated by Stelian Rakoczy, an arrogant and full of himself aristocrat, Liz provokes a scandal in retaliation. This scandal will lead her to the gentle Peter Rakoczy, whom everything opposes to his older brother. The young man then decides to help Lizabeth in her research, but their discovery will quickly overtake them...

Nach dem plötzlichen Tod ihrer Mutter werden die zwölfjährigen Zwillinge Zac und Lu zu ihren Großeltern nach England geschickt. Dort entdecken sie hinter einem Torbogen eine Welt voller Fabelwesen. Was sie nicht wissen: Wer diesen Fabelzoo betritt, wird mit dem Fluch des Phönix belegt. Er muss für immer hinter den Toren der Fabelwelt bleiben. Nur wenn der Verfluchte bereit ist, alles für den Phönix zu riskieren, kann er in sein normales Leben zurückkehren.

Sixteen-year-old Will has been raised to distrust technology. After a cataclysm known as the Devastation, his isolated community rejected the old world—shunning electricity, machines, and the progress they once promised. But Will yearns for more. When he's cast out for questioning the rules, he sets off alone on a perilous journey to Coal City, the last place his estranged father was seen—and a place rumored to hold the key to a better life. Armed with only his survival skills and relentless determination, Will navigates treacherous terrain and encounters unlikely allies.

Jackson is an astronaut testing a prototype interstellar craft in deep space. When he returns home, there's no one to greet him. Earth has fallen silent. Now he must decide: stay in orbit, watching a dead planet roll slowly by beneath his windows, or land on Earth and fight for life.

Vengeance is within reach for the Highlanders. But will a brutal betrayal ensure their defeat? Although outnumbered, the Highlanders have seized the momentum, reclaiming the Territory peak by peak from the Governor’s slavers and the Stalkers. However, a traitor in their midst threatens everything. Reeling from the betrayal, Jakob realizes he can’t stop what he’s put in motion. Is he leading his people into a trap that could cost the lives of those closest to him? Talia finally gets what she desires most -- the chance to challenge Governor Roosarian one on one.

A dark, scorched surface. A black mist that destroys on contact. A serum that keeps you young. The reality as explained in the Global Divide. A sci-fi series that will have you in suspense while you immerse yourself into a world unrecognized by our current standards. A world deep in the future where the apocalypse has taken place and society has destroyed itself leaving a small group of survivors in its wake. In this new aftermath, survivors must adhere to their new subjectors. The elites that are now in control demand loyalty without compensation.

Three young children, pit their wits in this exciting adventure. After witnessing a family tragedy, the three children are taken into an old orphanage, where they must engage in games of chance to try and win the Siscal stone. Why? Delve into this story to find out.

Richard Harrison was the last person to see his friend Melanie alive. She vanished when they were six, and while the police never found her, a part of her remained - a living shadow that became Richard’s closest friend. For 10 years, Richard has never questioned the shadow that keeps him company...until a new girl moves to town, claiming to be Melanie. All Those Broken Angels is a story of buried bones and shadowy secrets and the freedom that can only come from a journey through darkness.

维多利亚时代的女孩温蒂，梦想着有一天能够学会在天上飞，这样就可以飞离讨厌的家了…… 維多利亞時代的女孩溫蒂，夢想著有一天能夠學會在天上飛，這樣就可以飛離討厭的家了……

To a 10-year-old, death is far from kind: It is imprisonment! To help the living get to their next day, Peter is required to work in the Conservatory, a library where every person is represented by a LifeBook. Turning the pages of LifeBooks is excruciatingly dull, so Peter plots his escape! However, that would ruin Apius’ evil plan to obtain an Ancient Hourglass that controls time. With the hourglass in hand, all of the guarded souls in the LifeBooks could be his, making him unstoppable.

A near-tragic incident at the hands of his psychotic mother left Declan Peters alone and with so many questions. Years later Declan is determined to find a way to be closer to his mother and takes a job at the institution where she's being held. That fateful decision will be the impetus for a chain of events so terrifying that Declan will question his own grasp on reality. What he finds will be more horrifying than anything he's ever experienced and more dangerous than anything he's yet known.

"Schwere Wolken ziehen über den Himmel. Es regnet seit Tagen und ich habe das Gefühl, dass es nie mehr aufhören wird. Verloren stehe ich hinter den Bäumen, gegenüber dem Friedhof, und sehe zu, wie der Leichenwagen vorfährt.“. Florian, der Sohn des Friedhofswärters, fühlt sich den Dingen des Todes oft näher, als es für einen Jungen seines Alters gut zu sein scheint. Begleiten wir ihn auf seinen Wegen über Grüfte und Gräber. Treten wir mit ihm an den offenen Sarg und lauschen den Grabreden des Pfarrers. Stehen wir Florian in seinem Kampf gegen Untote, Ungeheuer und finstere Mächte bei!

Hi. I am Paul. I died and went to the other side. Then I came back. And now I know things that people don't normally know.

The necklace is safely stowed in the Temple of Harmony. Josh’s epilepsy is cured and he no longer has visionary powers. But the "Rebel Prince" is growing more and more powerful and looks increasingly likely to succeed in his mad plan to drive the colonists out of the Western Isles. What’s more, he has made a pact with the empress of Neustria, the great southern continent—where the colonists originally came from—and is sending his prisoners in barges to work as slaves on her estates. But Josh can’t understand why the Prince is still trying to kill him.

Josh Flagsmith is a brave, epileptic pirate boy. Born with visionary powers, Josh is chosen as the Pirate Guardian, and entrusted with the onyx Stone of Truth, which he uses to control his epilepsy. But when a cruel colonist dictator seizes power and throws Josh’s parents in prison, Josh has to escape and sail to the island of Amaryllis to seek aid from the Pirate Council. Helped by his friends, Sandy and Megs, and the dictator’s cunning stepdaughter, Lavinia, Josh must find a way to rescue his parents and overthrow the evil dictator.

Cryptocurrency Adventures: Exploring the World of Digital Money is an audiobook that takes young listeners on an exciting journey through the fascinating realm of cryptocurrency.

Abby never expected life to be easy. The daughter of a father she's never met and a mother who works three jobs just to get by, she walks herself to her middle school in Chicago, fixes her own dinners, and keeps herself company. Despite all the disadvantages stacked against her, however, Abby manages to keep a smile on and even dedicates her time to helping others who have even less than her. But one July day, something happens in the city that causes a mass panic while she's out grocery shopping, and Abby's life is forever changed.