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Bienvenue à Stallen, l'école de magie élitiste ! Il y a quelques semaines encore, Ashkana, 16 ans, ignorait tout de son existence. Nous retrouvons notre héroïne pour la suite de ses aventures dans le deuxième volet de la série Magic Academy. Que va-t-il se passer ? Magie, loups-garous, vampires, actions, intrigues, relations entre adolescents : bienvenue dans l'univers de Magic Academy !

Il secondo volume della serie Grishaverse "Il re delle cicatrici". Anche in questo secondo e ultimo volume della dilogia ritroviamo tre dei personaggi più amati del GrishaVerse: Nikolai Lantsov, Zoya Nazyalensky e Nina Zenik. I tre, re, generale e spia di Ravka, dovranno continuare insieme la loro lotta per strappare all'oscurità il futuro del loro paese. Altrimenti non potranno che assistere al suo disfacimento definitivo.

Gewinner des Selfpublishing-Buchpreises 2021 in der Kategorie "Kinder- und Jugendbuch". "Meine Nacht ist ein Gemälde aus Acryl. Schwarz und weiß, in hektischen Pinselstrichen zu Kampf und Chaos vereint. Eine Schicht Blutrot, das auf den Schmerz folgt, überdeckt vom Aschegrau deiner Augen, das mich Nacht für Nacht in Dunkelheit ertrinken lässt." Seit dem Tod ihrer Mutter leidet die 18-jährige Noelle unter verheerenden Albträumen, gegen die es kein Mittel zu geben scheint.

Eric Bergman ist es gewohnt, als Außenseiter, Krüppel und Freak behandelt zu werden. Manche hatten Mitleid mit ihm, andere fühlten sich in seiner Nähe unwohl, und wieder andere verhöhnten ihn offen. Sogar er selbst glaubte, unter einem Fluch der Götter geboren worden zu sein. Doch nach und nach veränderte sich das alles. Was ein Makel oder ein Gebrechen zu sein schien, entwickelte sich zu einem Vorteil, und langsam lernte Eric, das auszunutzen.

I’m Jinx, a private investigator, a truth seeker, and a wizard. You'd think of all those skills would make it so easy for me to get to the heart of things. And honestly? I thought I knew what had happened to my parents that night. But I've taken a tumble down the rabbit hole and everything I thought I knew was topsy turvy. I'm trying to get my head screwed on right, but some rude SOB keeps trying to kill me. Worse, I think it's the same guy that targeted my parents. I need to stay alive long enough to bring him to justice. The problem with that is that it looks like we've got a mole.

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.

Humorvolles Fantasy-Abenteuer ab 12 Jahren. Ein mutiger Held stellt sich den Göttern der Maya-Mythologie entgegen – Hörspaß garantiert! Von "Percy Jackson"-Autor Rick Riordan persönlich ausgewählt und empfohlen. Wer mit den Göttern verwandt ist, braucht echt keine anderen Feinde... Zane hat es endlich geschafft! Er hat alle Gottgeborenen aufgespürt und sicher an die SCHAFOMA – die Schamanenschule für Fortgeschrittene Magie – gebracht. Doch dann der Schock: Alle Maya-Götter sind plötzlich verschwunden! Ein miserables Timing, denn die böse Göttin Ixkik' läuft gerade zu Hochform auf.

Wer aus dem Reich der Schatten entkommen will, muss ein Opfer bringen – das hat Laire auf grausame Weise erfahren. Ihre folgenschwere Entscheidung im Palast des dunklen Lords hat Alaric, Prinz des Feuers und Liebe ihres Lebens, für immer von ihr getrennt. Verflucht, gefangen und halb wahnsinnig schwört Alaric all jenen tödliche Rache, die ihn verraten haben. Als Laires Heimat Nemija im Chaos versinkt, erkennt sie, dass sie nur eine Chance hat, die Menschen, die sie liebt, zu beschützen: Sie muss sich dem Schicksal selbst entgegenstellen und erneut ein unmenschliches Opfer bringen.

Vera has unusual dreams—anything she dreams comes alive. Dream traveling, her family calls it. Doing it all her life, dream traveling doesn't affect Vera as much as it used to. She has her rules and her methods—as long as she follows them, all is fine until she sees something she discovered she couldn't handle. Now, her dreams are plagued by the Hunter, a deadly character that wants nothing more than to haunt her mind and leave behind a bloody spree. Vera must find a way to get the Hunter out of her head before he makes sure she never wakes up again. So much for "sweet dreams".

Seventeen-year-old Aten the Knight has been waiting his entire life to slay Vesta the Dragon, a monster who has been terrorizing his village for years. But when he finally meets Vesta, he discovers the dragon is nothing like he imagined. Thrown off and in shock, Aten fails to kill it. After this encounter, he faces a new struggle: Can he keep the vow to his village and slay the so-called dragon that has been hurting the people of his hometown, or refuse and take the consequences of his revenge-hungry village?

Athena Longfellow and Doni Halliday are granddaughters of one of Neighborlee's guardians, Ford Longfellow. When danger threatens Neighborlee, the girls awaken to their duties and their gifts, and slowly grow into their heritage.

Allen Liebeleien abgeschworen erlebt Pepper nach einem schmerzlichen Vertrauensbruch eine fantastische Reise durch London und die Zeit. Daran schuld ist eine kleine harmlose Taschenuhr. Harmlos? Die Zeit spielt verrückt und Pepper versucht alles wieder geradezubiegen und verstrickt sich immer mehr in der Zeit. Die einzige Konstante in dieser verrückten Zeit ist der geheimnisvolle YouTube-Star Noah, der in Peppers Bauch die Schmetterlinge flattern lässt.

Tala, Alex, and the rest of their friends are safe for now, but they know the Snow Queen is still out there. They have to be prepared for when she eventually attacks—and they all decide to do so in their own way.

WER BIST DU? Die vierzehnjährige Anna kämpft mit den Anforderungen der Schule, leidet unter der Trennung der Eltern und trauert um ihren kürzlich verstorbenen Großvater. Sie muss ihr geliebtes Zuhause verlassen und ihre bisher heil geglaubte Kindheit liegt in Scherben. Nichts scheint ihr zu gelingen. WOVON TRÄUMST DU? Wäre da nicht ihr Auge für die vielen kleinen wunderschönen Dinge dieser Welt und ihre grenzenlose Phantasie.

Beneath the streets of York, the goblin market calls to the Wickett women—the family of witches that tends to its victims. For generations, they have defended the old cobblestone streets with their magic. Knowing the dangers, they never entered the market—until May Wickett fell for a goblin girl, accepted her invitation, and became inextricably tied to the world her family tried to protect her from. The market learned her name, and even when she and her sister left York for Boston to escape it, the goblins remembered.

Almost sixteen years ago, Mateo Matisse's island homeland disappeared into the sea. Weary and hopeless, the survivors of San Madrigal's sinking escaped to New York. While the rest of his tight-knit Brooklyn diaspora community dreams of someday finding a way back home, Mateo—now a high school junior and piano prodigy living with his two aunts (one who's alive, the other not so much)—is focused on one thing: getting the attention of locally-grown musical legend Gerval.

Growing up in Ember Grove, Bitsy Clark knows better than to break the rules around the Revelry, the mysterious end-of-year party in the woods. So when her best friend, Amy, persuades her to sneak in, Bitsy is full of misgivings. Misgivings that she should have listened to, because it's after the Revelry that Bitsy's luck turns and her life starts to unravel. For Amy, it's the opposite, as if she's been blessed with good fortune. Soon Bitsy is convinced that the Revelry has tied the two friends together in a curse that only she can break.

After thwarting the man behind the gruesome ironborn murders—and breaking several fae laws to do so—all Arlo wants is a quiet summer. As the deity of luck's Hollow Star, capable of bringing about endless possibilities, this shouldn't be too much to ask, right? But someone is still trying to summon the mythical Seven Deadly Sins. All signs point to immortal meddling, and if this is the gods' attempt at returning to the Mortal Realm, it's Arlo they're going to use to do it.

Did you ever dream of traveling to an alternate universe? I actually did it. I am the Bear, high school kid. My lifelong wish has been to find my mother, who disappeared when I was a baby. And Indian medicine man told me it was possible to find her, but I would have to look in the magical kingdom of his ancestors. My friends said they would go with me if I gave it a shot. So I did. Be careful what you wish for. We promptly found ourselves in a fantasy land, where we met Uriah, a talking cocker spaniel.

Nach allem, was Farrah mitgemacht hat, um Mikael seinen größten Wunsch zu erfüllen, benötigt sie dringend eine Pause – doch die Mauern des Palastes halten eine unangenehme Überraschung für sie bereit. Sowohl sie als auch Emma haben mit aufkeimenden Erinnerungen zu kämpfen. Währenddessen reisen Hayet und Mikael in die Traumwelt, in der die Lösung seines Fluches auf ihn warten soll. Dort angekommen machen sie eine unerwartete Entdeckung... Lass dich verzaubern und tauche ein in eine Welt von Gut und Böse!