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An unputdownable, explosive YA thriller from the bestselling, award-winning author of The Colour of Bee Larkham’s Murder, perfect for fans of Karen McManus, Cynthia Murphy and Holly Jackson. Layla. Kai. Liam. Fliss. Terrified big sister. Troubled surfer. Insecure genius. Pampered princess...

"Listening to a rollicking adventure mystery narrated well is a delight, and that's the case with this newest installment in the Enola Holmes series. Payne brings the wry humor, boisterous personality, and incomparable wit of Enola to life so well that listeners will wish they could join her for...

Brought to you by Penguin. The New Cut Gang is a group of urchins ranging from six-year-old Sharky Bob to thirteen-year-old Bridie Malone. They inhabit the streets around Lambeth Walk and the New Cut, in 1892. In this second adventure, £10,000 worth of silver is stolen from the Gas-Fitters'...

Violet's in her element - cosplay at the ready, she can't wait to feel part of her favourite fandom: The Gallow's Dance, a mega-story and movie franchise. But at Comic Con, a freak accident transports Violet and her friends into the The Gallows Dance for real - and in the first five minutes, they've caused the death of the heroine. It's up to Violet to take her place and play out the plot the way it was written. But stories have a life of their own....

Alan can barely hold things together in his personal life. Now he’s expected to convince a hard-edged retired Archangel to once again join the fight. All of this while juggling a love life with heaven’s deadliest angelic warrior. Just when things don’t look like they can get any worse, two more Horsemen are chosen. But instead of helping they only complicate the matter more. One’s lost her way, only interested in her next fix and the other’s being hoodwinked by the enemy.

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In a world where reading is a lost art, a young girl undertakes a perilous quest in order to rescue the one person she has left. “I was spellbound from the first page. This is a book you will not soon forget.”—Renée Ahdieh, #1 New York Times...

When a sentient military android escapes his creators to find his humanity, four teenage spies must choose between following their orders and protecting the "malfunctioning" weapon they’ve come to love. The Gems are back, but their latest mission is anything but routine when a mysterious boy who claims to be a runaway from Nevada, turns out to be a state-of-the-art android designed by the US military for covert operations.

Teen genius Gigi is in a lot of hot water. A whiz with computers, she agrees to help her college RA, David, uncover some top-secret information. After all, she doesn't have any family or many friends, and David has always been nice to her. It doesn't hurt that he's super cute and irresistible, too. All she has to do is hack into the government's main computer system. But a few hours later, her whole life changes. She is caught and taken in for questioning, only this isn't your run-of-the-mill arrest.

Fed up with her wild behavior, 16-year-old Lex’s parents ship her off to upstate New York to live with her Uncle Mort for the summer, hoping that a few months of dirty farm work will whip her back into shape. But Uncle Mort’s true occupation is much dirtier than shoveling manure. He’s a Grim Reaper. And he’s going to teach Lex the family business. She quickly assimilates into the peculiar world of Croak, a town populated by reapers who deliver souls from this life to the next.

Fifteen year old Kai lived a mundane and unsatisfied life—no friends, no family. Even worse, he had no memory of his life before being dropped off at Hope Street School for Boys ten years ago. When the chance to discover his past presents itself in the form of a disheveled man wearing tattered sneakers, Kai sets aside his common sense and follows his heart to an underground village. At The Sanctuary, he meets people like him; those with unique abilities. The government has labeled them as too dangerous for society and has spent the past decade hunting them down.

Orphaned at birth Sushana O' Cuilin grows into a beautiful, clever young woman under the care of her guardian Albert. Drawn into the dangerous world of smuggling as a child, she built on the fortune left by her spice trader grandfather. Then, in an unguarded moment, she is press-ganged and awakes aboard the ship of a sadistic slaver. Amid unspeakable brutality, she emerges as the pirate captain of the ship. A woman in a man's world, she brings fear and death to her enemies but love, compassion and freedom to her friends.

Nora and Sophie Linden may be sisters, but they're not friends. Not since the party last month. Not since the night Sophie's boyfriend, Garrett, disappeared. Half the town thinks Garrett is dead, the other half believes he ran away, but Sophie knows something no one else does -- Garrett left that party with Nora. And straight-A, Ivy-league-bound Nora had never been to a single party before that night.

Set in turn of the century London, The Friday Society follows the stories of three very intelligent and talented young women, all of whom are assistants to powerful men: Cora, lab assistant; Michiko, Japanese fight assistant; and Nellie, magician's assistant. The three young women's lives become inexorably intertwined after a chance meeting at a ball that ends with the discovery of a murdered mystery man. It's up to these three, in their own charming but bold way, to solve the murder....

Return to the enchanting world of The Left-Handed Booksellers of London in this sequel by Garth Nix, bestselling master of teen fantasy, where once again a team of booksellers must fight to keep dangerous magic under cover before the stuff of legends destroys our world. There is often trouble of...

Thoughtfully imaginative and action-packed, Steeplejack is New York Times best-selling A. J. Hartley's YA debut set in a 19th-century South African fantasy world. Seventeen-year-old Anglet Sutonga lives and works as a steeplejack in Bar-Selehm, a sprawling city known for its great towers, spires, and smokestacks - and even greater social disparities. Ang's world is turned upside down when her new apprentice, Berrit, is murdered the same night that the city's landmark jewel is stolen.

Fated to love Luna for the rest of his life, and unwilling to break his solemn vow, Matthew knows the only person who can help Luna is her grandmother. Through the woods they must go, just like a fairy tale. But the forest is filled with deadly peril: poisonous black moss, chimeras, and worst of all, members of their family who don't want them to continue. As they are picked off one by one, Matthew races to get Luna to safety, all the time doubting everything he thought was true.

Sixteen-year-old Adrian Cardin, a young soul constantly yearning for adventure, finds himself in a peculiar situation. Intrigued by a rumor, his teacher shares about a mysterious island in the heart of Dipser Grove, Devil Spider Island. This island is said to be the dwelling place of dreadful spiders, creatures many wish they could erase from their memories. The rumor even suggests that the Devil himself might rest on the island, or perhaps his pet, the Devil’s Spider.

I had plans, all right. The 3 Gs: grad school. Great job. Good, orderly life. Do you see a side helping of private investigating anywhere on that menu? I don't think so. So, how in the world did I find myself plunging headfirst into the dark depths of an underhanded, manipulative corporate scandal - risking life and career alike - when I should have been focused on my impending graduation and precisely planned future?

Kaida Hutchenson isn't exactly psyched for the class trip to Carlsbad Caverns. Fourteen hours in a van with preppy jock Zeke Anderson and high school loner Joy Tallon? No, thank you. But when a tragic and explosive accident turns the journey into a nightmare, Kaida would give anything to be back...

Mireya is back where she started, but everything is different now. She's at the top of her class on the military base, her doting parents are actually proud of her, and she's surrounded by the friends and classmates she's known all her safe, protected, predictable life. Everything would be perfect if it weren't for the troubling dreams and the occasional hallucinations she gets. Mireya knows the visions aren't real, but they feel like memories of a life she never had.