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The Empire of the Abyss has come for Havenmoor, and Finn Tempest is out of time. Three months ago, he was just a fisherman's son who dreamed of adventure. Now he commands a legendary sentient ship and leads a crew who've become his chosen family. But when dark vessels gather beyond the horizon and corruption spreads like poison through the waters, the academy that gave him everything faces annihilation.

Indebted to a cruel duke, Aidan and his older brother make ends meet by tending sheep out in the country. It's a bit boring, and the sheep can get really stinky, but Aidan wouldn't have it any other way. His brother is the only family he has left. When his brother is taken, Aidan refuses to sit by and do nothing. He enrolls in Mountainfall Academy to become a powerful Mage or Adventurer. From the moment he enters the academy, it's clear the deck is stacked against him. He's an outcast with little knowledge of magic and a rival who'll stop at nothing to get him expelled.

In a world devastated by climate change and overconsumption, sixteen-year-old Joe's survival hangs by a thread. Living in a shack beneath towering piles of waste with his father and grandfather, the town's revered storyteller, their community faces constant danger. After a deadly avalanche of rubbish, six-year-old Lily is left deathly ill, and Joe sets out on a quest for help. As Joe journeys towards the city of Madera, the lines between reality and the magical stories his grandfather passed down begin to blur.

Better Than the Movies meets Beach Read in this young adult rom-com about a girl whose heartbreak pact with her crush’s brother turns into something she never expected. Andie has had a hard year. With her parents now divorced, it’s just her and her mom at their lake house for the summer. But...

Expelled from three schools, Joey is sent to the country to live with his aunt. She asks him to help an old man recovering from an accident, and now he has a choice. It sounds like a crazy idea, but he chooses to help. What else is there to do, a million miles from anywhere?

Dans "Les légendes terrifiantes d'ici—La dame blanche", Josée Marcotte nous entraîne dans un voyage fascinant à travers les mythes et les mystères entourant les Dames blanches.

Sous la brume du lac Memphrémagog, on murmure qu’une créature veille dans les profondeurs. Entre clapotis et silences lourds, la légende se répand et refuse de mourir. Avec une écriture qui fait monter la tension, Jonathan Reynolds nous fait longer la frontière trouble entre mythe et réalité, là où les histoires d’ici prennent vie au bord de l’eau noire. Porté par une atmosphère envoûtante, ce livre audio vous plonge au cœur d’un mystère tenace. Osez tendre l’oreille… et décider vous‑même ce qui se cache sous la surface.

Dans "Les feux follets" de Johanne Dallaire, les mystères de la forêt québécoise prennent vie à travers des créatures légendaires et dangereuses. Maëlle, une adolescente intrépide, célèbre son quinzième anniversaire avec ses amis Alice et Benjamin. Leur soirée, initialement marquée par l'insouciance d'un film d'horreur, bascule dans l'étrange lorsqu'ils traversent un parc et aperçoivent des lumières mystérieuses. Ces lumières, que Maëlle identifie comme des feux follets, captivent Alice, qui s'en approche et en subit les conséquences.

Plongez dans l'univers mystérieux et inquiétant de "Les légendes terrifiantes d'ici - La croix maudite de Causapscal" de Dominic Bellavance. Ce récit captivant vous transporte dans les profondeurs des légendes québécoises, où le surnaturel et le quotidien se rencontrent. Découvrez une histoire où les secrets enfouis et les malédictions anciennes ressurgissent pour hanter les habitants de Causapscal.

全てを蹂躙する、砂海の白き伝説ダンテを倒し、異世界≪ウォーズ≫直下を支配から解放したテンドウ海賊団は、覇者集う六大会議に参加するため、カンパニーへと航路をとる。その前に姿を現したのは、砂海の伝説と呼ばれる超巨大生物・白鯨。壊滅的な被害を受けながらも騎士ネビュラの助力で難を切り抜けたレイメイ達だったが、それはカンパニーで待ち受ける戦いの序章に過ぎなかった。

クロス、攫われる！？【満月が最も高く昇る晩に”アルメリアの至宝”をいただきに参上する】大怪盗セラスから学長宛に届いた予告状。バスクルビアは騒然とし、勇者の子孫エリシアに厳重な警備がつくことに。クロスたちアラカルト派も護衛任務につくのだが――セラスの狙いは、まさかのクロスだった！！

Das "Karl May-Hörspielset" enthält drei spannende Hörspielklassiker nach den bekannten Büchern von Karl May: Winnetou, Der Schatz im...

Long ago, a mysterious event known as The Great Forget ravaged the Earth. Magic was born. Millennia later, a baby with red eyes is abandoned at the gates of a small kingdom whose sole mandate is to guard the Pass of Death. The young orphan, Chip, is condemned by a spiteful king to a life of misery in the castle kitchens, where he is looked upon with disdain and treated as an outcast. In a twist of fate, everything changes when Chip befriends the princess and catches the eye of the wise wizard Xander, who sees something special in the boy.

My whole world changed when I stepped inside the academy. Nothing is right about this place or the other students in it. Here I am, a mere mortal among gods...or monsters. I still can't decide which of these warring factions I belong to, if I belong at all. I only know the one thing that unites them is their hatred of me. Then there's Jaxon Vega. A vampire with deadly secrets who hasn't felt anything for a hundred years. But there's something about him that calls to me, something broken in him that somehow fits with what's broken in me. Which could spell death for us all.

One moment, a certain salaryman is on cloud nine, that promotion finally within his grasp, and the next, he’s keeled over pain, and that was all she wrote. Luckily for him, fate had a bit more to say. A world of magic, monsters, and other such life-shortening entities await his newly reincarnated self for a second shot at life. With nothing but his past-life experiences and sharp business skills to guide him in the foreign lands of Galdardia, he takes up the name Luciel and vows that his (next) demise will be from naught but old age.

Sixteen-year-old Cameron Walsh dreads the haunted Victorian mansion across the street, where the ghost of the White Lady roams the halls. When he sees her through the bay window, his ghost-hunting friend Abby wants to investigate. But then the new owners pull up, and Cameron is captivated by the brooding, handsome boy moving in. He longs for a boyfriend, but years of bullying have shattered his self-esteem.

The New York TImes bestselling series! Dark forces are on the rise in this sweeping second book in The Black Witch Chronicles by critically acclaimed fantasy author Laurie Forest. Elloren Gardner and her friends were only seeking to right a few wrongs when they rescued a Selkie and freed a...

The final installment of Scott Westerfeld’s New York Times bestselling and award-winning Uglies series—a global phenomenon that started the dystopian trend. A few years after rebel Tally Youngblood takes down the Specials regime, a cultural renaissance sweeps the world. “Tech-heads”...

Leigh Bardugo’s Six of Crows meets Alexandra Bracken’s Passenger in this spellbinding conclusion to the “vivid and compelling” (BCCB) New York Times bestselling Last Magician series. Unite the Stones Free the City Remake the World Once, Esta believed that she could change the fate of...

New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson weaves a delicate tale of murder and mystery in the first book of a striking new series, perfect for fans of Agatha Christie and E. Lockhart. Ellingham Academy is a famous private school in Vermont for the brightest thinkers, inventors, and...