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Marshall's experiences with ghosts and the supernatural are legendary, but when a boy 100 years dead turns up in his bedroom with the cryptic message "Blackford Manor", Marshall realizes his adventures with the other side have only begun. As more specters appear to Marshall, he begins to assemble the pieces of a puzzle that leads him to Graymoor Mansion and a set of crimes more heinous than those of a modern day serial killer.

Connor Reeves ist erst 14 Jahre alt, als er für eine weltweit agierende Bodyguard-Agentur akquiriert wird. Und bereits sein allererster Auftrag hat es in sich: Er soll keine Geringere als Alicia Rosa Mendez beschützen – die Tochter des amerikanischen Präsidenten! Schon bald gerät Alicia in große Gefahr und Connor muss unter Beweis stellen, dass er zu Recht für diese heikle Mission ausgewählt wurde.

Der Bestseller ALEX RIDER - die Vorlage zur actiongeladenen TV-Serie! Der MI6 schleust Alex Rider in ein Schweizer Eliteinternat ein - eine Schule für die missratenen Söhne superreicher Eltern. Das Internat ist abgeschottet wie ein Gefängnis für Schwerverbrecher. Doch noch mehr alarmiert Alex, dass die Schüler gar nicht rebellisch, sondern schrecklich brav sind. Bei seinen Nachforschungen macht Alex eine grauenhafte Entdeckung.

Red thought she had everything figured out. It has been a month since the Shadow Pack chased Darius Hawker out of Laschion. The police have begun their investigations and Red Lake is settling into a routine. She can finally get her magic under control. Yet fate has other ideas. Two days before her family leave for a tour of Faelosergon, Red discovers her kidnapper has escaped. She’s also given an ultimatum where she has to battle logic and instinct to prevent history from repeating itself. Can Red learn to trust those closest to her, or will her decisions lead to her downfall?

Lorna has been dead long enough to know the Rules. But that doesn't stop her showing up at her little sister's high school production of Hipster Hamlet. But when she arrives, a lighting rig comes crashing down on the lead cast member mid-performance. All fingers point to Lorna's little sister, Emma, and it's up to The Dead Girls Detective Agency to find the real culprit. Unless Em's not as innocent as she looks? Charlotte wants to help Lorna prove her sister's innocence, but she's completely distracted.

Tom Henderson (a.k.a. King Dork, Chi-mo, Hender-fag, and Sheepie) is a typical American high school loser until he discovers the book, The Catcher in the Rye, that will change the world as he knows it.

When a lion cub is mysteriously stolen from the Houston Zoo, the police are too busy to help. Fifteen-year-old Alexandria Christina Maxwell, who everyone calls AC, is determined to solve the mystery. After all, her father is the renowned private investigator Alex Maxwell, and her mother is the famed investigative reporter Christy Madaris Maxwell. That means solving mysteries is in her blood.

Ever heard of Fenton Pareto? He's only the coolest private investigator around. But when the Bay Area turns into a nightmare of disappearing jewels, tormented pets, and mysteriously glitching cellphones, even he needs some backup. Enter Charlie and Clarke Pareto, his super-smart daughters, ready to take on the mystery that's stumping their dad.

When a threat like no other can only be stopped by a perfect assassin team, the organization recruits these two unlikely vigilantes with complementary skill sets. Too bad they can’t stand each other. He’s dangerous. She’s peaceful. He’s loud. She’s meditative. They don’t see eye to eye, but they’ll have to fight side by side. As their target hunts the innocent and threatens to destroy the delicate balance of magic, everything rests on the duo’s ability to work together.

À la fin du XIIe siècle, un pèlerin de Saint-Jacques est retrouvé assassiné dans l'enceinte de l'abbaye de Hautefage. Peu après, un homme qui détenait de précieuses informations sur le crime meurt à son tour, noyé. Qui est le meurtrier ? Plus l'enquête avance, plus on se demande s'il y a encore des innocents...

È un pomeriggio come tanti alla scuola Deepdean, quando Hazel trova nella palestra il cadavere della signorina Bell, l'inflessibile insegnante di scienze. Ma poco dopo, quando lei e l'amica Daisy tornano sul luogo del delitto, il corpo della professoressa è scomparso. Per la Wells&Wong, neonata società investigativa fondata da Daisy e Hazel, non si tratta solo di scovare l'assassino, ma anche di dimostrare che un omicidio è avvenuto davvero... il tutto cercando di battere la polizia sul tempo!

Sixteen-year-old Quinn is a liar, but she isn’t a murderer. When her sleepy town of Boiling Springs, North Carolina is roused by the murder of a local teen, Quinn is thrust into a life of danger, disrupting her normally unnoticeable existence. Now romantically involved with Gilly, the best friend of the dead girl who also happens to be the sheriff’s daughter, Quinn must navigate a budding relationship in the midst of all the chaos surrounding Gilly and her friend group.

Poderosamente relevante e imposible de dejar de escuchar, Algo absolutamente extraordinario trata grandes temas de actualidad como las redes sociales, la radicalización de los discursos y la deshumanización que conlleva la fama. La vida de April May nunca volverá a ser la misma. Volviendo a casa a las tres de la mañana, April se encontró con una escultura gigante, sobre la que colgó un vídeo. Ahora los Carls, las misteriosas estatuas que aparecen y desaparecen en el mundo entero, se han hecho virales, y April May con ellas.

De achttienjarige Isobel 'Izzy' Stanhope heeft geheimen. Zo is ze smoorverliefd op een jonge hertog die niet eens weet dat ze bestaat. Ook is haar familie berooid achtergebleven nadat Izzy's vader overleed, maar niemand uit de hogere elite mag dat weten. En dan is er nog haar baan bij de Aviary (Volière), een onderzoeksbureau volledig gerund door vrouwen en gespecialiseerd in het opgraven van schandalen en louche zaken van machtige mannen.

This daughter of a rock star has it all - until murder crashes her world. The exciting and suspenseful Rayne Tour series features 16-year-old Shaley O'Connor, on tour with her mother's popular band. Shaley lives in a whirlwind of backstage secrets, hotels, and limos. With beauty and fame of her own, Shaley wants for nothing... except the one thing she can't have. During a concert, sixteen-year-old Shaley O'Connor stumbles upon the body of a friend backstage. Is Tom Hutchens' death connected to her? Frightening messages arrive. Paparazzi stalk Shaley.

Set in New Mexico and California, the novel features three teens who fall through a cave at Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico while on a field trip. They are plunged into a frightening parallel universe - seven weeks in the past, in which their "normal" worlds of family and high school remain the same...except for the fact that no medicine exists and when people die in the street they are picked up and disposed of.

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.

Mitten in den kanadischen Wäldern liegt das Solomon-College, Ausbildungsschmiede für Hochbegabte. Doch seltsame Dinge gehen in dem abgeschlossenen Tal vor sich: Warum ist der Ort nicht auf Google Earth zu finden? Was hat es mit den Jugendlichen auf sich, die Mitte der 70er in den Bergen verschwanden? Julia und ihre Clique sind ahnungslos, als sie ihr erstes College-Jahr beginnen.

High school senior Tara Luna's got all the usual teen problems: a new school, her attraction to a hunky guy, feuds with the Mean Girls, being regarded as an oddball outsider - PLUS she has psychic powers, a duo of protective, meddlesome ghosts AND an angry, threatening teen girl ghost who wants Tara to solve her murder - or else. Now you know why she calls this "my lunatic life"....

Danny Jordan is one of two lucky winners of the US Basketball Writer's Association's contest for aspiring journalists. His prize? A trip to New Orleans and a coveted press pass for the Final Four. It's a basketball junkie's dream come true! But the games going on behind the scenes between the coaches, the players, the media, the money-men, and the fans turn out to be even more fiercely competitive than those on the court.