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Matthieu « Pot-au-feu » pensait prendre un peu de repos après une enquête particulièrement périlleuse, mais sa cheffe Brocoli le rappelle en urgence : l'agent Bouillabaisse est portée disparue alors qu'elle était en mission d'infiltration dans un camp de vacances d'été en Australie. Afin de retrouver leur agente manquante, Brocoli décide de reformer le binôme explosif Matthieu Pot-au-feu et Juliette Tartiflette. Force est de reconnaître qu'en dépit de leurs différences de caractère, ces deux agents forment un duo… d'enfer !

Au début, Matthieu croyait qu'il s'agissait d'une mission comme les autres. Mais les deux agents de la Cellule 24 sont envoyés par leur cheffe Brocoli dans un collège sélect', exclusivement réservé aux enfants de personnalités influentes. Dans ce monde doré, une menace plane : entre soirées VIP, conflits et jalousies, les fraternités et sororités des élèves cachent un lourd secret, bien loin du quotidien des collégiens normaux… Le duo explosif Matthieu Pot-au-feu et Juliette Tartiflette est reformé. Les fils et filles à papa n'ont qu'à bien se tenir !

Seit Sel und seine Freunde die Geheimnisse von Sequest gelüftet haben, genießen die Bewohner des Städtchens Tremorglade ihre Freiheit. Die Ripper – zu denen inzwischen auch Sel gehört – streifen in Vollmondnächten frei durch die Straßen und sind höchstens eine Gefahr für Eichhörnchen. Doch dann kehren plötzlich einige Ripper mit schrecklichen Bisswunden aus dem Wald zurück. Gerüchte über ein gruseliges Monster, das nicht getötet werden kann, machen die Runde … Sind Sel und seine Freunde auch diesem Gegner gewachsen?

Partis alerter Mamie Hyda que l'Affreux Jojo rôde dans la région, Billy et Jean-Claude font la connaissance de sa petite-fille, Suzie la fouine. Attention, trio de choc! Le bandit n'a qu'à bien se tenir !

The gang are back in the Wolf's Den and are finally ready to put their abilities toward forces for good. The threat of Roy Lykos has finally been put to rest . . .or has it? His tentacles of power may stretch further than John had initially thought.

Despite coming from different ends of the world, John, Slack, Akane, and Salome, age 12, have plenty in common. They love computers, coding, hacking, gaming—it literally flows through their veins. One more thing: they are all technically dead. The group comes together at the Wolf's Den in deepest Alaska, one of several top-secret schools for technological excellence around the globe. The place seems like a coder's dream come true at first, but things take a dark turn when the group realizes they are not like the other kids there.

Set in a quiet backstreet in a small English town, there is a beautiful vintage store selling curious discs which contain music from bygone days. Strange as this may seem, there are yet stranger happenings beyond the frontage of this charming old-world shop.

Try as they might, the McGinn family can't seem to escape from the clutches of the EXIT 13 Motel. Other guests come and go, totally unaware of the fact that Ash, Willow, and the rest of their family aren't able to leave, no matter how hard they try. But as they attempt to get to the bottom of the mystery of the Motel, things only seem to get more bizarre. Ash is hearing and seeing strange things almost every night, and Willow's attempts to learn more about Kristoff - the dark and brooding Motel receptionist - uncover a massive secret that has so far remained hidden underneath the Motel itself.

Ojalá todo hubiese sucedido de otra manera. No sé si me venció el orgullo o el mal humor por mi discusión con Eric y Esme. Lo que sí sé es que todo se ha liado. ¡Pero bien! El director Lennon, el líder de una misteriosa organización secreta, se presentó hace unos días con una tentadora misión para mí: recuperar una vara vikinga que permite ver el futuro de las manos de Molrovia, un país liderado por una banda de criminales. Por primera vez, iba a trabajar para alguien que no éramos nosotros mismos. Y sin la ayuda de mi mejor amigo. Esperaba no estar cometiendo el mayor error de mi vida.

"Open the box," says Lucas. "Bet there's a body in it." Ruby doesn't want to open the abandoned grey cabinet partially hidden by falling snow but she does. And immediately wishes she hadn't. A grisly discovery starts a chilling chain of events. Can Ruby and Lucas stay one step ahead? Or will they be thrown to the wolves. When Lucas and Ruby find an abandoned trunk covered in snow, Lucas says there's bound to be a body inside. Ruby laughs but what if he's right? Nervously she starts to open it, and immediately wishes she hadn't.

Zenith and her friends may be dead—but lucky for them, even getting ghosted wasn’t enough to tear them apart. The four of them were thick as thieves long before an unfortunate lab accident sent them careening into the afterlife. So when they hear about a machine that could return them to the land of the living, they are determined to steal it. Unfortunately, the magical device belongs to a dangerous necromancer who’s out for their ectoplasm.

Halle dreams of becoming a scream queen. She practices her loudest scream every day and has learned a lot from studying the horror movies of her favorite director, Maximus Price. Maximus lives just outside town, and when the chance to go to his home arises, Halle grabs it with both hands. She doesn’t realize that real life horrors await her at Price Manor.

Mouse, a foundling, loves her pieced-together family at the Moth Theatre fiercely. When their leading man, Walter, is wrongly arrested for murder, Mouse swears she'll free him. But another member of the cast has a secret identity ­- as a ruthless killer. As Mouse's investigation leads her ever closer to their true, deadly nature, can she outwit them without losing everything she holds dear?

The McGinns were supposed to be going on a perfectly normal family vacation. Sure, Ash's older sister Willow was a pain, their dog Daisy was a whiny scaredy cat, and their parents were being kind of lame. All of that was to be expected. Perfectly normal! But when the family decides to make an unplanned stop one night, it quickly becomes clear that this family vacation is about to get more than a little weird, because there is nothing normal about the EXIT 13 Motel.

Creo que nunca había estado en una situación peor. Me explico: me han tirado al Nilo, estoy atada de pies y manos, y me estoy ahogando. Y, por si esto fuera poco, un cocodrilo enorme se acerca a mí. La tía Paula pensó que pasar unos días en El Cairo sería divertido. El plan era ver el Despertar del Nilo, un ritual único que se celebra cada doscientos años.

Los relatos más terroríficos de R. L. Stine, el maestro que nos hizo temblar y disfrutar con Pesadillas.

Swallowtail Island is hosting the Swallowtales Writer’s Conference. Lark’s ecstatic to be chosen as a “page” for her favorite author, Ann E. Keyhart. But they say you should never meet your idols. When Keyhart arrives with her personal assistant in tow, she is nothing but a terror. And within a few hours, the assistant is dead! But the explanation isn’t sitting well. Not when lots of people had reasons to want to be rid of Keyhart, and especially not after it’s revealed the assistant recently completed a hot new novel and the file’s vanished from her computer.

Arun, Donna and Sam are hauled out of Science at 10:42 to be briefed on their next S.T.E.A.L.T.H. mission. They must rescue two British Intelligence operatives who are trapped on a train in an Austrian tunnel. By 11:41, the kids have activated MANDROID and are heading at hypersonic speed for the Alps. But at 12:55 comes the avalanche. S.T.E.A.L.T.H.'s mission just got a whole lot more complicated. And a whole lot colder.

Paris, 1942. When thirteen-year-old Amelie Dreyfus goes into her mother's wardrobe to hide, it's a game. When she comes out, it's a matter of life and death. For Amelie is Jewish, and her parents and brother have been taken by the authorities. With her apartment too dangerous to remain in, Amelie must survive alone on the streets of Paris. Determined to avenge her family and defend her country, she joins the French Resistance. But Amelie will discover that in war, everyone becomes a new person, and some seem to shed their old skin entirely. Even your friends may betray you.

Nach "Der Junge, der Gedanken lesen konnte" und "Entführung mit Jagdleopard" kommt nun der neue Detektivfall von Kirsten Boie: Bei Fee Ranzmeier, Jamie-Lees reicher Freundin, wird eingebrochen! Da versteht es sich von selbst, dass Jamie-Lee sofort in die Ermittlungen einsteigt. Als die beiden Freundinnen dann Mesut und Valentin kennenlernen, ist das Team komplett und die Einbrecherjagd kann beginnen. Die vier Spürnasen nehmen das Umfeld der Familie Ranzmeier unter die Lupe. Und wer hätte das gedacht: Sowohl der Chauffeur als auch der Bodyguard haben mächtig Dreck am Stecken.