From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Queenie.
How do you find the one in a million? ... Sapphire is the hot-headed leader of the Red Roses in an area where gang loyalty is all that matters. But after a tragic event, Sapphire vows to leave her old life, friends and her gang behind. Life without the Red Roses and the violence that always followed them is certainly quieter.
When she meets a boy called Apollo on her way to Notting Hill Carnival, she forms an instant bond with him. She thinks he could be the one. Until she discovers he’s a member of rival gang, the Gold Teeth. Will she ever escape her past with ... |
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New York Times bestselling author.
Who will live forever, and who will die trying? ... Balancing epic and intensely personal stakes, bestselling author Adam Silvera's "Infinity Son" is a gritty, fast-paced adventure about two brothers caught up in a magical war generations in the making.
Growing up in New York, brothers Emil and Brighton always idolized the Spell Walkers-a vigilante group sworn to rid the world of specters. While the Spell Walkers and other celestials are born with powers, specters take them, violently stealing the essence of endangered magical creatures.
Brighton wishes he had a ... |
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Pet is here to hunt a monster. Are you brave enough to look?
There are no more monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of Lucille have been taught. Jam and her best friend, Redemption have grown up with this lesson all her lives. But when Jam meets Pet she begins to question what she's been told. Pet has come to hunt the evil lurking in Redemption's house...
But how do you save the world from monsters if no one will admit the exist?
"Heart-stirring... riveting.... important."
SLJ
"Terrific... a tale that defies categorization... forcing readors to deeply rethink assumptions about ... |
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"Our family tree is full of bad apples. You know the kind. The ones who don't follow the rules. The ones who dress differently, think differently, love differently. The curse of the bad apples has claimed my sister. And now it's coming for me."A powerful, haunting and unforgettable story about women finding their voices, from the critically acclaimed and bestselling author of "The Accident Season". ... |
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A glorious Collector's Edition of New York Times bestselling, epic fantasy novel "Crooked Kingdom", featuring:
intricate gold iconography from the world of the book;
seven pieces of full-color character artwork from Monolime;
a new and exclusive letter of introduction from the author;
deep black sprayed edges;
endpaper maps.
Welcome to the world of the Grisha. Kaz Brekker and his crew of deadly outcasts have just pulled off a heist so daring even they didn't think they'd survive. But instead of divvying up a fat reward, they're right back to fighting for their lives.
Double-crossed ... |
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Raised in isolation and home-schooled by her strict grandparents, the only experience Birdie has had of the outside world is through her favourite crime books. But everything changes when she takes a summer job working the night shift at a historic Seattle hotel.
There she meets Daniel Aoki, the hotel's charismatic driver, and together they stumble upon a real-life mystery: a famous reclusive writer-never before seen in public-is secretly meeting someone at the hotel.
To uncover the writer's puzzling identity, Birdie must come out of her shell, and in doing so, realize that the most confounding mystery of ... |
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The Ultimate battle begins on Ravnica. ... Teyo Verada wants nothing more than to be a shieldmage, wielding arcane energies to protect his people from his world's vicious diamondstorms. When he's buried alive in the aftermath of his first real tempest, the young mage's life is about to end before it can truly begin-until it doesn't. In a flash, a power he didn't know he had whisks him away from his home, to a world of stone, glass, and wonder: Ravnica. Teyo is a Planeswalker, one of many to be called to the world-spanning city-all lured by Nicol Bolas, the Elder Dragon. Bolas lays siege to the city of ... |
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In an age Brexit and Trump, the themes of isolation and fragmentation permeating the west stand in sharp contrast to events in the east, where ties are being streighthend and mutural cooperation established."No reader will leave "The New Silk Roads" with her sense of the world unchanged."
Times Literary Supplement
"Frankopan is a brilliant guide to terra incognita."
Sunday Times
"Frankopan has the gift to perspective - the capacity to see the wood for the trees - which he combines with a Talstoyan knack for weaving little details into the broader sweep of human affairs."
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Can friends save your life? ... A pact is a pact after all.
Mehreen's anxiety and depression are taking over her life and she can't beart the "Chaos" anymore. So she joins a website that matches people with partners and allocates them a date and method of death: the pact.
Mehreen is paired with Cara and Olivia. As the girls meet in secret, the desperation that brought the together leads to a mutually supportive friendship. They start to realise that life can be worth living. Before long, all three want out of the pact. But terrifying twist, the website won't let them stop, and an increasingly ... |
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Bones in the mountains, magic in the blood. ... Sixteen-year-old twins Madeline and Catlin move to a new life in Ballyfrann, a strange isolated Irish town, a place where the earth is littered with small corpses and unspoken truths. A place where, for generations, teenage girls have gone missing.
Catlin has always been the confident one, and Maddy used to being in her shadow. But in Ballyfrann their paths devide, as Catlin falls in love, and Maddy begins to discover powers she never knew she had. maddy will have to find something hidden deep within her if she is going to prevent her sister losing more than her heart to ... |
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"The Third Chimpanzee" was first published in 1991 and has been in print ever since. This new, illustrated edition is aimed at a young readership. In it, Jared Diamond explores what makes us human and poses fascinating questions.
If we share more than 98% of our DNA with chimpanzees, how is it that we can write, read, talk, build telescopes and bombs, while we put our speechless and bomb-less close relatives in cages and zoos? What can woodpeckers teach us about spacecraft? Is genocide a human invention?
Why does extinction matter? Why are we destroying the natural resources on which we depend for survival? ... |
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Der Nr.1-Bestseller und Lieblingsroman aus Schweden: phantasievoll, ergreifend und umwerfend witzig.Wieder ein ganz besonderes Leseerlebnis vom Autor von "Ein Mann namens Ove", Fredrik Backman.
Elsa ist 7, liebt Wikipedia und Superhelden und hat nur einen einzigen Freund: nämlich Oma. In Omas Märchen erlebt Elsa die aufregendsten Abenteuer. Bis Oma sie eines Tages auf die größte Suche ihres Lebens schickt - und zwar in der wirklichen Welt."Die erste und inspirierendste Autorin meines Lebens war und ist Astrid Lindgren "Oma lässt grüßen und sagt, es tut ihr leid& ... |
