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In Compound Eleven, the hierarchy of the floors is everything. My name is Eve Hamilton, and on my floor, we fight. Which at least is better than the bottom floor, where they toil away in misery. Only the top floor has any ease in this harsh world; they rule from their gilded offices. Because four generations ago, Earth was rendered uninhabitable—the sun too hot, the land too barren. Those who remained were forced underground. While not a perfect life down here, I’ve learned to survive as a fighter. Except my latest match is different.

Claire Danvers is concerned when three vampires vanish from Morganville without a trace. The last person seen with them is someone new to town - a mysterious individual named Magnus. Claire is convinced creepy Magnus isn't human... but is he a vampire or something else entirely? Claire's hunt for answers leads her to solving another mystery that's long been puzzling her: why do vampires live so far out in a sunny desert when they're sensitive to sunlight?

Ella’s life was picture perfect. She had a circle of close friends, a jam-packed social life, and an amazing boyfriend. But then something completely unexpected happened: a car accident after a Valentine’s Day dance. When Ella woke up in the hospital, she couldn’t remember the accident...or anything about the weeks before it, including the reason she broke up with her boyfriend.

Jacky Faber makes waves, even when docked in her adopted city of Boston to attend to the business of Faber Shipping Worldwide. With big dreams and perhaps too much exuberance for the Puritan populace, she quickly finds herself at odds with the Women's Temperance Union and a town roiling over the arrival of hundreds of Irish laborers, brought in on Jacky's Lorelei Lee.

Sang Sorenson’s father abandoned her and her sister, leaving them to fend for themselves for months. He’s returned, and finds Sang is missing. He demands she return. Right now. Will he call the police if she doesn’t? Her Academy team doesn’t want to risk losing her ghost status and she doesn’t want to put them in danger, so she reluctantly returns home, but is comforted that she will still be monitored by them.

The summer is coming to an end, and I’m barely surviving. Dad’s gone. Mom spends more time passed out on the couch than doing anything else. Thankfully, I have school and soccer to keep me distracted. Until Logan Cartwright walks back into my life. He’s acting like his family didn’t ruin mine and confusing me more than ever. I’m supposed to hate him, but he’s nice and everywhere I don’t want him to be.

My name is Eve Hamilton. I spent my entire life in Compound Eleven as a fighter. Surviving in an underground city filled with violence, oppression, and tyranny. We were told the world above was scorched, an immediate death sentence. I should have died never knowing the truth. Instead, when I fought Wren—a boy from the top floor, a Preme—I fell for him. And eventually learned that my reality was an insidious lie. Escaping Compound Eleven nearly killed me and Wren. Now we’re aboveground, where the world is anything but a toxic, burning wasteland.

Grace MacKinnon’s widowhood promises little but a life of drudgery under her father-in-law’s oppressive rule. When quiet rebellion turns to opportunity, she books passage on an Atlantic steamer only to face near disaster in Halifax harbor. Her future looks doomed from the start until, with the help of a sympathetic stranger and a chance meeting with Lucy Maud Montgomery, she changes destination and arrives on Prince Edward Island. Her newfound independence drives her to undertake a brave new adventure in a male-dominated world.

Nach der Halloweenparty will sich Zoe nur noch verkriechen. Sie leidet unter der Trennung von Ryan. Vor allem, weil sie niemandem davon erzählen darf. Doch ihr bleibt keine Zeit für eine Verschnaufpause. Denn die Weihnachtsexamen rücken stetig näher. Melissa braucht dringend Zoes Hilfe. Und dann ist da auch noch Ruben... Ein weiterer Teil der fesselnd romantischen Fantasy-Serie von Miriam Baldauf. Jeden Monat erscheint eine neue Episode der 12-teiligen Reihe.

Elena Gilbert e i suoi amici sono riusciti a salvare Fells Church dalle forze del male. Ma hanno domito pagare un caro prezzo: la morte di Damon. l'affascinante vampiro che ha lottato con tutte le forze contro suo fratello Stefan per conquistare il cuore dell'amata Elena. Ora Elena e Stefan sono finalmente insieme e nulla sembra poter ostacolare la loro felicità. Eppure Elena non riesce a dimenticare Damon, e di notte continua a sognarlo.

Donner Lake is famous for its dazzling waters, dramatic mountains, and the travelers trapped there long ago who did unspeakable things to survive. But for lonely Nora Sharpe, Donner was where a girl named Grace glided into her life one night and exploded her world.

In Berufen, kämpft die sechzehnjährige Scarlet Paine darum, zu verstehen, was mit ihr passiert ist, als sie aufwacht und erkennt, dass sie sich in einen Vampir verwandelt hat. Von ihren Eltern und Freunden entfremdet ist die einzige Person, an die sie sich noch wenden kann, Sage, der mysteriöse Junge, der schnelle zur Liebe ihres Lebens geworden war. Aber Sage, dessen Haus sie mit Brettern vernagelt wurde, ist nirgendwo zu finden.

Alvin Smith Junior, von allen nur Cringel genannt, hat es satt, sein Elfendasein damit zu verbringen, den Mist der Rentiere zu entsorgen. Als er die Chance bekommt, in der IT-Abteilung von Santa Claus zu arbeiten, ist er begeistert. Doch die Sache hat einen Haken... Schneeflocken vor dem Fenster, Dates auf dem Weihnachtsmarkt, gemütliches Plätzchennaschen – Weihnachten steht vor der Tür.

Nach dem dramatischen Kampf vor dem Rathaus Neukölln kehren Ella und ihre Freunde zur Akademie zurück. Doch dort will niemand helfen, Mo und Adrian aus den Fängen des Schattenzirkels zu befreien. Keno kann seinen Unmut über die Unfähigkeit der Akademieleitung nicht länger verbergen und zettelt einen Aufstand an. In der folgenden Nacht fliehen Ella und ihre Freunde heimlich aus der Akademie, um die Sache selbst in die Hand zu nehmen.

Elizabeth's father had told her that her dreams meant nothing. They were just the tormented imaginings of a young woman serving as a nurse in a traumatic battlefield. But she knew better. And when Robert arrived to rescue her, a rebel in a sea of Union uniforms, her dreams became reality. Civil War Destiny is book 11 of a gently cliff-hangered short story series. The sequence leads up to a happily-ever-after ending. From Renaissance Venice to troubled Scotland, from the Civil War to the Wild West, Elizabeth and Robert find and re-find each other.