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Beginning with a novella by Spider-Man's co-creator Stan Lee and veteran Marvel writer Peter David retelling the wall-crawler's origin, this exciting anthology has original stories featuring one of the world's most enduring heroes.

Just as Myne gets her foot in the door of making paper, she collapses due to the sickness known as the devouring. She's getting better thanks to the help of those around her, but the devouring remains clouded in mystery. As the world expands, so too does her passion for making books! This volume is the conclusion to Part 1 and shows a glimpse into the future of the series!

Summer Donovan thinks paying her way through her expensive private college is her biggest problem. She’s about to find out how wrong she is. Because when the president of the most exclusive sorority on campus goes off the rails and bullies her, Summer defends herself with something she never knew she had. Magic. It turns out she’s a witch. But that’s only the start of the surprises in store for her. Soon after her magical breakthrough, Summer learns she’s destined to attend Elementals Academy—an exclusive school dedicated to witches descended from the Greek gods.

Five years ago, a group of teenage girls entered the Poison Apple Halloween Carnival for a scavenger hunt, and all but one died at the hand of a masked killer. Now, a copycat killer has emerged and is using a familiar cotton-candy-coated playbook to pick off a new group of girls one by one. Meanwhile, the Scavenge's lone survivor—still haunted by ghosts from the past and unable to move on from her loss—begins receiving disturbing text messages, seemingly from beyond the grave.

Violette, daughter of a duke, committed a terrible, jealous crime against her half sister. As she languishes in prison, something unexpected happens: time is rewound, sending her back to the day her problems began! Armed with the memories of her disastrous first go-round, Violette is determined to live a quiet, unobtrusive life this time...but fate has something else in store!

All that Tacca GloomLily ever wanted to be since she was very little was a fairy assistant to a Dungeon Core. After her negatively portentous birth, however, she was never fully accepted by her superstitious peers and instructors at the Dungeon Assistant Preparatory School. Nevertheless, she persisted in her studies and graduated at the top of her class. Unfortunately for her, the “hands-on” training she was supposed to receive from a mentor and his bonded Dungeon Core didn’t go the way she would’ve hoped.

Sophie Arundel is stranded in history, stuck in a grand house in 1925 England. Thankfully, she has her faithful dog with her. Oh, and fellow student Hugo, fit, privileged, and annoying. Baffled by upper-class rules, courted by boring suitors, Sophie is desperate to get back to the twenty-first century. But the only way home is through a hidden portal — and to unlock its secrets, she must work with Hugo.

When the goddess Hera, wife of Zeus, discovers her husband's mortal son Hercules, she vows to destroy him. Thus begins Hercules's legendary and epic journey in which he is forced to take on a series of seemingly impossible tasks.

In einer stürmischen Nacht taucht ein unheimlicher Gast bei Meggie und ihrem Vater Mo auf. Am nächsten Morgen reist Mo überstürzt mit Meggie zu ihrer Tante Elinor, die eine wertvolle Bibliothek besitzt. Dort macht Meggie eine überraschende Entdeckung. Und schon bald begreift sie, dass ihr Vater in großer Gefahr schwebt...

Ein Dolch, der grenzenlose Macht gewährt. Ein Wettkampf ohne Regeln. Ein Mädchen, das um jeden Preis gewinnen will. Locklyn ist es leid, als einzige an ihrer Schule noch keine magischen Kräfte zu haben. Ständig muss sie von ihren Freunden beschützt werden. Denn zwischen Fae, Shiftern und anderen Kreaturen ist sie ohne Magie machtlos. Als sie vom geheimen Wettkampf »Chaos« erfährt, bei dem der Gewinner einen Dolch mit sagenhaften Kräften erhält, entscheidet sich Locklyn, teilzunehmen.

The Education of Robert Nifkin is the education of a beatnik. Set in 1950s Chicago and conveyed in the form of a college application essay, Robert Nifkin details his journey from a mind-numbing high school that smells to the curriculum-free carnival of a private school ruled by bohemians...

Her missing poster came out a day early.Everybody at Halden North knows the three notes of a Beacon alert. A lost dog. A boil-water advisory. A kid who never came home. Seventeen-year-old Avery Cross has screenshotted every one of them for three years, ever since Forecast flagged her sister a...

On the night they were born, a storm split the sky above Mercy General Hospital—and something impossible entered the world with twin sisters Michelle C. Sin and Tiffany A. Saint.Michelle is fire: volatile, fearless, and always one step from breaking the rules of reality. Tiffany is calm...

Uma fantasia repleta de magia e aventura no mesmo estilo de C.S. Lewis Escondida entre florestas e montanhas, a pequena e calorosa vila de Teith nunca conheceu o inverno. Tradições e regras que ninguém se recorda o motivo de existirem fazem com que o jovem Beor se sinta um estranho no ninho...

Ela pegou o buquê no casamento de sua melhor amiga. Mas será que está pronta para o amor e os outros desafios da vida adulta? Katie Weldon sempre foi vibrante, impulsiva e sincera. O tipo de pessoa que mergulha de cara nas situações — mesmo sem entender completamente onde está se metendo...

Alex Carter is an eighteen-year-old senior and captain of the Rosenburd High baseball team. He dreams of earning a college scholarship and becoming a professional baseball star. When he hits a game-winning grand slam during the first game of the season, college scouts begin paying...

Ein luxuriöser Sonderzug, der L'Ombre d'Or, verschwindet spurlos auf dem Weg von Paris nach Istanbul – mitsamt seiner prominenten Passagiere. Unter ihnen: die furchtlose Journalistin Eleanor March und Passepartout. Phileas Fogg wird in Paris von einem Detektiv kontaktiert. Gemeinsam mit der...

Der Spätsommer in der abgelegenen französischen Provinzstadt Gorge de l' Ours könnte so schön sein, doch es verschwinden Studenten und in der Tiefe uralter Katakomben scheint sich das Böse zu regen. Ist doch mehr an den alten, unheimlichen Legenden des Ortes, als die Menschen bisher...

A wonderful new book is coming from Random House Children's Books...

Margot thought she had escaped the toxic world of her image-obsessed, ultra-elite classmates. But after the death of her ex-best friend, suddenly this teen finds herself as the prime suspect in a mystery where everyone is hiding a secret...including her. A twisty YA psychological thriller debut...