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It's my second year training to become a Sentry of the South at Spellslingers Academy of Magic and I'm still fighting a reputation I don't deserve. It was my grandmother's addiction to magic that tarnished our family name - a grandmother I still love and adore. When she asks a favor of me, I can't refuse her dying wish...and it sets off a chain of events I never expected. With the help of a charming and sexy druid, I set out to locate a missing professor, but what we discover is far worse than we ever imagined.

The iron wheel began to spin, slowly at first, then faster and faster. The room grew darker. As the light lessened, so did the sound. Deeba and Zanna stared at each other in wonder. The noise of the cars and vans and motorbikes outside grew tinny. The wheel turned off all the cars and turned off all the lamps. It was turning off London.... Zanna and Deeba are two girls leading ordinary lives, until they stumble into the world of UnLondun, an urban Wonderland where all the lost and broken things of London end up.

Wednesday is a sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday Addams’ time as a student at Nevermore Academy. Follow along with her as she attempts to master her emerging psychic ability, thwart a monstrous killing spree that has terrorised the local town and solve the supernatural mystery that embroiled her parents 25 years ago — all while navigating her new and very tangled relationships at Nevermore Academy. Relive the excitement and intrigue in this amazing novelisation of the phenomenal first season.

Everleigh Clarkson is half-elf and half-fae, and it shows. Then again, it isn't for most supernatural half-breeds. But that's okay. Who needs magic when you live in a city as exciting as Las Vegas? Magic, however, seems to have other plans. Not only have Everleigh's parents gone missing, but a secret group of vigilante supernaturals is threatening all of Las Vegas–and they want to use Everleigh to do it. Because Everleigh isn't some magically stunted half-breed after all, it turns out. Everleigh is a wizard. But saving her parents will require more than embracing the magic she once rejected.

Ana is far from royalty. She's a foster kid with a dead mom and a deadbeat dad. The only thing she wants is to escape—her hometown and her grief. Ana's plans are derailed when a dangerous family secret is revealed. She is the sole heir to a fallen dynasty on a world where seven families share the crown. Her family was murdered one by one, leaving six families to rule. Now, someone knows Ana's location. With assassins closing in, Ana's life and the crown are at stake.

La suite des aventures de Thresh, Askhana, Timothée, Ferynn et Petit Caïd ! Stallen est une école pour surnaturels, cachée des humains. On y forme l'élite des magiciens, des vampires et des loups-garous. Dès seize ans, les jeunes peuvent intégrer cette prestigieuse académie. On y enseigne comment maîtriser ses pouvoirs magiques, comment contrôler la soif de sang, et comment maîtriser son loup.

Piper’s job is simple: Take the children. Don’t get caught. The rules she binds on herself, however… Well, they’re a tad more complicated. Kidnapped as a child for her connection with the Old Magic—the one that grants her the ability to enchant others with her music—Piper knows good and well the rules of the Coup, the underground organization intent on bringing down the fae regime. As the Coup’s first “recruiter,” she’s supposed to take the strong, the good-boned, the clever, the healthy. Except Piper doesn’t always do what she’s supposed to. Instead, she makes a few rules of her own

For seventeen years, Evan Kiernan’s life has felt like painting by someone else’s numbers, moving and transferring schools every time his mom has a breakup. But when he’s accepted into NYU’s Promising Young Artist program for his senior year, the future suddenly feels like a blank canvas. However, it soon becomes clear that the city has peculiar ties to his past. A thunderstorm finds him under the same umbrella as an eerily familiar green-eyed girl. A visit to an art gallery brings him face-to-face with a heavily tattooed portrait of himself.

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Während Cleo und Lewis versuchen, das Rätsel der aggressiven Wassertentakel zu lösen, überrascht Zane Rikki mit der Idee, ein Motorcross-Rennen zu veranstalten. Der Sieger soll 1.000 Dollar Preisgeld erhalten. Rikki versteht nicht, woher Zane das Geld nehmen will, denn die finanzielle Lage des Cafés ist katastrophal. Aber natürlich hat sich Zane etwas dabei gedacht.

Es ist Valentinstag und alle haben damit so ihre Probleme. Während Cleo gern etwas Romantisches mit Lewis unternehmen würde, will der unbedingt mit ihr angeln gehen und nebenbei muss sie sich auch noch um ihre Schwester Kim kümmern, die plötzlich zwei hartnäckige Verehrer hat.

Jacob Portman, 16 ans, a grandi avec les récits fabuleux de son grand-père, juif polonais, envoyé sur une île du pays de Galles pour échapper à la menace nazie. Recueilli par Miss Peregrine Faucon, la directrice d'un orphelinat pour enfants "particuliers", il a côtoyé des enfants doués de capacités surnaturelles. Un soir, Jacob trouve son grand-père mortellement blessé par une horrible créature. En partant sur l'île en quête de vérité, il découvre l'ancien pensionnat en ruines et n'a plus aucun doute : les enfants particuliers ont existé. Et s'ils étaient toujours en vie ?

A war is on the horizon for the kingdom of Prost. But for those from Krader, their lives were already turned upside down amidst the Collapse. Reeling from his loss and unsure what to do next, Terrence will need to refocus to earn his first Rank as a Dungeoneer. For everyone else, recruitment for the war is bringing the kingdom to its knees. Trying his best to stay out of the conflict, Tom is eager to reunite with his friends and family in the Capital. Storylines converge as everyone's Affinities progress further every day.

I will make myself strong. I will find Elias. I will kill Elias. I will never trust a boy with my heart again. These are the vows Charlie Hudson made the day after Elias Everhart betrayed her, nearly killing everyone she loves most. One month later, revenge is still her priority, even as she navigates a harsh new reality: one where her brother and friends can now see Asgard, making them just as susceptible to its dazzling delights—and deadly dangers—as she is.

Verbotene Liebe, uralte Mächte – und ein Schicksal, das alles verändert Als Lehrertochter kennt Aurelia Grey die Hill Cove Boarding School von Kindesbeinen an. Dennoch ist sie in dem altehrwürdigen Internat, wo Menschen und Nachtwesen gemeinsam ausgebildet werden, die Einzige, die ihre Magie nicht unter Kontrolle hat – und damit eine geächtete Außenseiterin. Die elitäre Schwesternschaft, die ihr Dilemma lösen könnte, lässt sie immer wieder abblitzen. Als nach und nach Schülerinnen verschwinden, keimt in Aurelia der Verdacht, dass unter den Gemäuern Düsteres vor sich geht.

As a mortician’s assistant at her parents’ funeral home, Meka’s days are not for the squeamish. Luckily, her boyfriend Noah doesn’t mind, and Meka finally feels ready to say those three little words that will change everything. Then tragedy strikes and Meka’s world is torn apart. Nothing makes sense, especially when strange things start to happen: Strangers follow her. Mysterious items are left at her door. And worst of all...the dead don’t seem to be staying dead.

Lena, Flint and their unique family have discovered what created their extrasensory abilities and hidden memories. When a new opportunity arises to give them answers to a past they thought was lost, an entire world is reopened.

Drawn back to her hometown by her mother's death, Everly hopes it's her chance to reconnect with her childhood sweetheart. Instead, on her first night back, she sees him die. Killed by something she can't explain. Now his body is missing, and his soul is trapped in her dreams. As Everly hunts for answers to the mystery, supernatural creatures lurk around every corner. But they aren't the vampires and werewolves of legend Everly expects.

In this stunning sequel to the highly acclaimed Daughter of Smoke and Bone, Karou must come to terms with who and what she is, and how far she'll go to avenge her people. Filled with heartbreak and beauty, mysteries and secrets, new characters and old favorites, Days of Blood and Starlight brings the richness, color and intensity of the first book to a brand new canvas.

Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she's struggling to conceal her power and a curse that has haunted her family for generations. Ethan Wate, who has been counting the months until he can escape from Gatlin, is haunted by dreams of a beautiful girl he has never met. When Lena moves into the town's oldest and most infamous plantation, Ethan is inexplicably drawn to her and determined to uncover the connection between them.