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As unexpected strangers enter their lives, children in hiding quickly find themselves swept up in a whirlwind of increasing trouble. With the help of new companions and allies, the children discover their origins, strengthen bonds of fellowship, and journey to a faraway galaxy to find purpose and a home. Upon arrival, however, a galactic war that will determine the fate of their lives awaits them.

Light is being stolen, immortals are waking, wombats are untrustworthy and a dead body is rising. Prophecies are unearthed, lives lost, and lines of loyalty blurred. Stella's body begins to break down slowly, while Lake loses her immortality. After a long time of wishing they could jump into the battle, the Unrest finally has their day in the Sun. Unfortunately, that day is filled with certain death.

In a quaint New England village, the Glynn siblings gather to mourn the unexpected death of their brother Henry. As they convene in the dimly lit family home, old tensions and secrets begin to surface, intertwining with an unsettling presence that lurks within the house. The siblings soon discover eerie shadows cast upon the walls—shadows that seem to move of their own volition, whispering untold tales of the past. As the family grapples with their own guilt and grief, the mysterious shadows grow darker, revealing a truth more sinister than any of them could have imagined.

Lia und Rafe konnten aus Venda fliehen, doch verletzt und durchgefroren liegt ein ungewisser Weg vor ihnen. Während sie Rafes Heimat, dem Königreich Dalbreck, Stunde um Stunde näherkommen, spürt Lia, dass sie schon viel zu lang weit weg ist von Morrighan, ihrem Zuhause. Dabei deutet alles darauf hin, dass das Land kurz vor einem Krieg steht. Und obwohl Rafe ihr eine Zukunft als Königin an seiner Seite verspricht, ahnt Lia, dass sie ihrer Bestimmung folgen muss.

Lia wird in den Palast von Venda verschleppt und muss um ihr Leben fürchten. Eine Flucht wäre der einzige Ausweg, scheint jedoch unmöglich. Stattdessen setzt sie alles daran, sich im Palastleben zurechtzufinden. Sie hat längst ihr Herz verloren und auch erfahren, wer der Mann, den sie liebt, wirklich ist. Doch Gut und Böse sind nicht eindeutig verteilt. Denn auch der Mann, der eigentlich ihr Feind sein müsste, stellt sich plötzlich ein ums andere Mal auf ihre Seite. Warum?

What's left of the Delegation fights to keep the Order with a man down, and the Unrest in hiding. Three keepers work tirelessly to safely harbor the restless immortals, maintain their elements, and counter Red Flame's insatiable attacks. The Unrest's light is dwindling as they remain hidden from Vespera on earth.

Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (October 31, 1852¿March 13, 1930) was a prominent 19th century American author. Up until recently she was known primarily as a "feminist" writer, for her classic stories like "A New England Nun" and "The Revolt of Mother". However, she also wrote many well-crafted supernatural stories which have only recently begun to attract appreciative critical attention. These stories combine pragmatism and supernaturalism and are very much in the tradition of an "Americanized" Gothic.

Over the past decade, new oil plays have unsettled U.S. energy landscapes and imaginaries. Settling the Boom studies how the disruptive forces of an oil boom in the northern Great Plains are contained through the extension of settler temporalities, reassertions of heteropatriarchy, and the tethering of life to the volatility of oil and its cruel optimisms.

It was at a masked ball at the Palais Royal that my fatal quarrel with my first cousin André de Brissac began. The quarrel was about a woman. The women who followed the footsteps of Philip of Orleans were the causes of many such disputes; and there was scarcely one fair head in all that glittering throng which might not have seemed bedabbled with blood.

Endlich müssen sich Kazi und Jase nicht mehr verstecken. Sie fühlen sich stärker als jemals zuvor, bereit für ein neues Leben. Doch auf dem Weg nach Hause geraten sie in einen Hinterhalt und werden auseinandergerissen. Während sie nicht wissen, ob der andere noch lebt, müssen sie kluge Entscheidungen treffen: Wer ist Feind, wer Verbündeter? Vom Tod bedroht, setzen sie alles daran, ihre Freiheit zurückzuerlangen - um endlich ihre Liebe leben zu können.

When the vampires are tired of being tolerated instead of accepted, tensions between the two races begin to boil over. With her life at stake, Colette has to decide if staying in Mayfield is worth the toll it will take on her family and her heart. Escaping the violence of Mayfield seems to be the only option, but there is no telling if all she has fought for will be worth the sacrifice in the end. If the city cannot reclaim the best parts of itself, Colette is prepared to leave the city to its ruin, and turn her back on everyone she has fought to save.

On her own in Germany in 1891, an ambitious 16-year-old English music student dreams of becoming a concert violinist at a time when women rarely performed in public. At the prestigious Leipzig Conservatory, Violet faces the challenges of fickle tutors, quirky landladies, and demanding professors. Then she falls in love with a young Canadian pianist, a match her Victorian papa deems unsuitable.

A rich anthology of classic tales of ghosts and the supernatural written by women. 'The Operation' by Violet Hunt; 'On the Northern Ice' by Elia W. Peattie; 'Afterward' by Edith Wharton; T'he Missing Model' by Lettice Galbraith; 'The Cold Embrace' by Mary E. Braddon; 'Room Number Ten' by Bessie Kyffin-Taylor; 'Pomegranate Seed' by Edith Wharton; 'Mrs. Raeburn's Waxwork' by Eleanor Smith; 'The Mystery of the Semi-Detached' by Edith Nesbit.

Die Welt der Londonerin Hope Turner steht Kopf, seit sie mit Hilfe des unwirschen Rufus Walker in die Welt ihrer Lieblingsbücher reisen kann! Doch die magische Bücherwelt wird von einem mysteriösen Feind bedroht, der alles daransetzt, sich des BUCHES DER GELÖSCHTEN WÖRTER zu bemächtigen. Ebenjenes Buches, das in sich alle hasserfüllten Wörter sammelt, die im Internet geschrieben und dann wieder gelöscht wurden.

Nichts ist für die Londonerin Hope Turner schöner, als sich in die Bücher ihrer Lieblingsautorin Jane Austen zu träumen. Denn ihr eigenes Leben ist alles andere als spannend und romantisch. Das ändert sich, als sie sich eines Tages in die Buchhandlung "Mrs. Gateway's Fine Books" verirrt und dort einem mysteriösen Gentleman begegnet. Der attraktive Fremde geht ihr nicht mehr aus dem Kopf. Doch da ist auch der grimmige und unnahbare Rufus Walker, der sie regelrecht zu verfolgen scheint. Bis er ihr schließlich Unglaubliches offenbart.

Letitia Hopkins has always been curious about the peculiar green door in her Aunt Peggy's cheese room. But whenever she asks about it, she is always forbidden to open it or go through it. And the door is always locked. But one day, she finds a small black key on a green ribbon. And when she is left alone in the house, she cannot resist the temptation to try the door. Immediately Letitia finds herself in a strange, unfamiliar world full of wild animals, hostile natives, and a frontier life of hardship and hard work in the company of her pioneer ancesters. But how is she to find her way back to her own time?

Behind the scenes of our spinning earth are keepers of the elements who make sure that tornadoes don't destroy cities, fires don't ravage forests, earthquakes don't decimate towns, and floods don't take out humanity. They wrestle with the natural elements to ensure that the world keeps spinning smoothly on its axis. Since the beginning of time, the sun has been fading, causing the elements to be more volatile and impossible for the keepers to control. Now they must enlist the help of one man, Finn, to help them bring the light back to the sun.

Discover the stunning second book in the Courting of Bristol Keats fantasy duology, from New York Times bestselling author Mary E. Pearson.

Mary Rackham was born in Norwich on 14th August 1848 to a merchant family. Little is known of her early life and her biography only re-appears in September 1871 with marriage to Fairman Joseph Mann, a farmer with 800 acres. She took up writing, partly to offset the dreary village life of her surroundings, in the 1880s and published her first novel, ‘The Parish of Hilby’ (1883) at her own expense. It was well received by the critics. Thus began a career that spanning three decades provided thirty-three novels, hundreds of short stories, and fourteen plays.

Mary Rackham was born in Norwich on 14th August 1848 to a merchant family. Little is known of her early life and her biography only re-appears in September 1871 with marriage to Fairman Joseph Mann, a farmer with 800 acres. She took up writing, partly to offset the dreary village life of her surroundings, in the 1880s and published her first novel, ‘The Parish of Hilby’ (1883) at her own expense. It was well received by the critics. Thus began a career that spanning three decades provided thirty-three novels, hundreds of short stories, and fourteen plays.