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When Calypso returns from Los Angeles to her English boarding school for the summer term, she is determined to fit in with the popular crowd. Her plan is to pretend her mother's gay assistant back home is her boyfriend. And to her surprise, the trick works, at least at first. She makes a whole batch of new friends, and even finds herself winning the unwritten contest to woo the prince at the boys' school next door.

Elijah Brighton is the face of the Human Resistance Movement. He's the Olympic-level painter who refused an offer of immortality from the ascenders - the human/machine hybrids who run the world - in solidarity with the legacy humans who will never get a chance to live forever. Worse, Eli's not even entirely human. Few know about the ascenders' genetic experiments that left him...different. Fewer know about the state that creates his transcendent art - as well as a bridge that lets him speak to the dead.

When Talia Lyons was just a child, her parents were murdered before her eyes. Offered a choice between accepting their fate and exacting revenge, Talia trains to become one of the country's deadliest assassins in order to kill the man responsible for their deaths: Ian Crane. Luckily, Talia was born with a gift - the ability to read and influence the minds of others.

Never seen before private diary entries they don’t want you to know about. Peek into the mind of the making of a maverick, a window to the soul of an angry, young girl, who will come of age in a city on the verge of total annihilation.

In this New York Times bestselling memoir, the incredibly talented breakout star of Dance Moms and judge on So You Think You Can Dance brings her uplifting coming-of-age story about following her dreams and working hard to achieve success in both the dance world and in life. Maddie Ziegler knew...

Grammy winning family hip-hop artist Secret Agent 23 Skidoo’s rhyme-writing workshop will get aspiring rhymers ready for the limelight. Skidoo breaks down song writing and performing basics into easy-to-follow examples alongside short chapters featuring cultures that have songs at their core, including West African griots, Australian indigenous songline culture, and Viking rhyme battling.

Autobiographische Aufzeichnungen eines jungen Indianers, der sein Reservat verlässt...

Quinn is an empath; but if anyone finds out, she will be killed. Her father Baron Sammah has used her abilities to fortify his position in the court at the royal city of Everfell. As Quinn starts to question Sammah's motives, the young Lord Eden arrives at the court, and Quinn's life is turned upside down. As Sammah begins to make his move on the crown he has coveted for so long, he threatens to expose Quinn for the outsider she is. Can Quinn stop Sammah before he closes his fist around the Everfell crown, without losing her love - or her life?

Otto Olsens große Leidenschaft ist das Fußballspielen. Damit möchte er Anerkennung finden, und so tut er einfach alles dafür - zur Not sogar dem parteiischen Schiedsrichter einen Stein an den Kopf werfen. Und in den Sommerferien, da fährt Otto nicht nur zusammen mit dem Vater einen Papagei mutterseelenallein im Umzugslaster durch die Gegend, sondern er übt auch unentwegt Fußballtricks... Voller Phantasie, traurig und komisch, warmherzig und unerbittlich genau - so beschreibt Christensen Ottos Kindheit. Vom Autor des hochgelobten und vielfach ausgezeichneten Romans "Der Halbbruder".

You may think you know everything about multiplatform entertainer Matthew Espinosa—but he’s here to tell you so much more in his debut book. You know Matthew is burning up the internet with more than 18 million fans across YouTube, Vine, Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. You know about his...

In the last book of the Jack Templar series, Jack and his friends race to stop Ren Lucre before he launches this Creach army against humankind. But the Lord of the Lesser Creach and the Lord of the Zombies hold the last two Jerusalem Stones Jack needs to have any chance of success. To make matters worse, the Oracle predicts that one of their group will die in the upcoming fight, and Jack discovers betrayal among those he trusts most.

Can a boy who doesn't exist love a real girl? How about a girl who does exist, can she love a pretend boy? Download and listen to find out.

Lenore Lee wants nothing more than to make new friends in her new town of Whitby, Yorkshire, and to forget about the disturbing dreams that hold her captive at night. But what she discovers in Whitby, might be even more disturbing than the dreams. Dreams which may hold the key to her survival in the hidden world of the supernatural.

Er sollte sie trainieren... und ihr nicht den Limettensaft von den Lippen küssen! Schon den ganzen Sommer lang träumt Liza Matthews davon, dass Tony, ihr bester Freund und Star-Spieler des Highschool Fußball-Teams, sie endlich küssen würde. Doch als er schließlich aus dem Trainingslager zurückkommt, stellt Liza mit Entsetzen fest, dass die Dinge zwischen ihnen nicht mehr so sind wie früher. Ein neues Mädchen steht auf dem Spielfeld, das plötzlich seine verliebten Blicke erhält! Liza hasst Fußball, doch um ihre Liebe zurückzugewinnen, lässt auch sie sich für das gemischte Team aufstellen.

Their epic love story has captured the hearts of millions and enchanted readers across the world. Everlasting is the beautiful finale to Alyson Noël's bestselling Immortals series, in which their journey draws to a spectacular conclusion—where all will be revealed. Their darkest enemies now...

En 1988, l'année où fut publié L'Alchimiste , Paulo Coelho et son épouse, Chris, entament un voyage de quarante jours dans le désert de Mojave, en Californie. Là, ils font la rencontre de Vahalla, la première des Valkyries - mystérieuse bande de femmes sillonnant le désert à cheval. Suivant son exemple, Paulo Coelho affronte les démons de son passé, cherche son ange gardien et s'interroge : sommes-nous condamnés à détruire ce que nous aimons le plus ? Comment, à force d'amour et de volonté, pouvons-nous changer notre destin et celui de nos semblables ?

Manfred Mai erzählt von 2000 Jahren deutscher Geschichte mit der ganzen Erfahrung des Historikers und Erzählers...

Nerdy astronomy geek Marsha, "M" to her few friends, has never been anybody special. Orphaned as an infant and reluctantly raised by an overly-strict "aunt", she's not even sure who she is. M's dream of someday escaping tiny Jewel, Indiana, and making her mark in the world seems impossibly distant until hot new quarterback Rigel inexplicably befriends her. As Rigel turns his back on fawning cheerleaders to spend time with M, strange things start to happen....

For 17-year-old Mia Ahlstrom, a world ruled by order is the only world she allows. A lifetime of chore charts, to-do lists, and study schedules have helped earn her a spot at Redwood State University's engineering program. And while her five-year plan includes finding her very own happily-evah-aftah, years at an all-girls boarding school left her feeling woefully unprepared for keg parties and co-ed extracurricular activities.

The New York Times Bestseller! “Absolutely riveting.” —Alexandra Bracken, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Darkest Minds Imagine HBO’s Game of Thrones, but set in the mesmerizing world of the Ottoman Empire. This book sweeps you into a realm of political intrigue, fierce...