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For Tess Kendrick, a student at the elite Hardwicke School, making problems disappear runs in the family. But Tess has another legacy, too, one that involves power and the making of political dynasties. When Tess is asked to run a classmate's campaign for student council, she agrees. But when the candidates are the children of Washington D.C. elite, even a high school election can have life-shattering consequences.

I’m a worrier on my best days, but with a psycho tracking my every move because he’s obsessed with killing me, I’ve graduated to the level of paranoid lunatic. Even if I could forget about the tracker—not happening since he’s figured out the fastest way to get to me is to attack my adopted family—my regular life is also anxiety-inducing as the city of Magiford is brewing with trouble.

A dark bridge to the past . . . Dirk sets out on a long-shot quest to recapture a cherished childhood memory from a unique animatronic pizzeria. Mandy finds something lurking in the files of her favorite horror game and opens herself up to a haunting. In light of her son’s fascination with Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, Sylvia buys her son a unique birthday present—a Freddy Fazbear mask that’s the genuine article . . . in more ways than one.

Danielle Danshov has wanted to be a warrior for as long as she can remember. At 18, that dream is within her grasp–if she can get through her final year of training, master her Fae magic, and work with the enigmatic new trainer who challenges her as no one else has.

Reluctant debutante Sawyer Taft joined Southern high society for one reason and one reason alone: to identify and locate her biological father. But the answers Sawyer found during her debutante year only left her with more questions and one potentially life-ruining secret. When her cousin Lily ropes her into joining a mysterious and elite secret society called the White Gloves, Sawyer soon discovers that someone in the group's ranks may have the answers she's looking for. Things are looking up...until Sawyer and the White Gloves make a disturbing discovery near the family's summer home.

London, 1923. Dragons soar through the skies and protests erupt on the streets, but Vivien Featherswallow isn’t worried. She’s going to follow the rules, get an internship studying dragon languages, and make sure her little sister never has to risk growing up Third Class. By midnight, Viv has started a civil war.

In the eight kingdoms, none have greater strength or influence than the asha, who hold elemental magic. But only a bone witch has the power to raise the dead. Tea has used this dark magic to breathe life into those she has loved and lost...and those who would join her army against the deceitful royals. But Tea's quest to conjure a shadowglass, to achieve immortality for the one person she loves most in the world, threatens to consume her. Tea's heartsglass only grows darker with each new betrayal. They all feed the darkrot that is gradually consuming her heartsglass.

Nicole Cassidy is a witch descended from the Greek gods...but she doesn't know it until she moves to a new town and discovers a dangerous world of magic and monsters that she never knew existed. When the Olympian Comet shoots through the sky for the first time in 3,000 years, Nicole and four others - including mysterious bad-boy Blake - are gifted with elemental powers. But the comet has another effect - it opens the portal to another dimension that has imprisoned the Titans for centuries.

A forbidden artifact from her fiance’s past beckons to Selena. Jessica leads a double-life from her friends and coworkers in the children’s wing of a hospital. Maya can’t resist the temptation to explore an off-limits area of Freddy Fazbear’s Mega Pizzaplex. But in the world of Five Nights at Freddy's, everything comes with a price to pay. In this first volume, Five Nights at Freddy's creator Scott Cawthon spins three sinister novella-length tales from uncharted corners of his series' canon.

For new friends Norman and Margaret, a curious discovery becomes the gateway to something far bigger—dangerous puzzles, a hidden world, and feelings neither of them saw coming. And this is only the beginning.

En el instituto Ernest Hemingway nada es lo que parece a primera vista. Cuando Uve llega a mitad de curso se encuentra con un misterioso grupo de alumnos que se dedica a acosar a sus compañeros. Uve se adentrará en una oscura trama de poder y abusos dentro del instituto. El acoso escolar sistemático se convierte en un peligroso instrumento para intimidar y aterrorizar a los más débiles.

Hoe ellendig kan je leven worden? Sinds hij acht maanden geleden zijn vader zag sterven, worstelt Mickey Bolitar met leugens, duistere geheimen en onbeantwoorde vragen. En hij krijgt alleen maar meer problemen: Spoon ligt in het ziekenhuis, Rachel houdt hem aan het lijntje, zijn basketbalteam haat hem en Ema onthult dat ze een online vriendje heeft dat spoorloos is verdwenen. Hoewel hij zijn twijfels heeft, belooft hij Ema te helpen. Ook een teamgenoot die hem sart laat hij niet stikken. En hij blijkt meer met zijn oom Myron gemeen te hebben dan hij dacht.

Mickey Bolitar doet zijn best om het hoofd boven water te houden op zijn nieuwe school, maar dat wordt bemoeilijkt door iets afschuwelijks: een van zijn klasgenoten, Rachel, wordt zomaar neergeschoten, en Mickey en zijn vrienden blijken opeens midden in een samenzwering te zitten. Mickey moet slim en koelbloedig handelen om uit te zoeken wie Rachel heeft vermoord, en om zichzelf en zijn vrienden te beschermen. Hij weet alleen niet tegen wie of wat.

Ed and Jean Jackson survived the early days of the apocalypse with the help of their close friends, Chief Barnes and Kathy McGinley. Over the years since the infection began, they chose to step back from the battle against the infected dead and remain within the safety of the shelter hidden in Green Cavern. Now, they have embarked on a perilous mission of their own to attempt the rescue of a group of survivors who are clinging to life near Niagara Falls and the Finger Lakes of New York.

Ein winziges Kellerapartment in New York City ist alles, was Amber von ihrer Großmutter geerbt hat. Nach einer geheimnisvollen Sonnenfinsternis erwacht in Amber eine mächtige, uralte Magie. Plötzlich steht sie im Zentrum einer jahrhundertealten Fehde: Ein Königreich der Vampire erhebt Anspruch auf sie, während dunkle Schattenseelen durch die U-Bahn schleichen und alles Leben auslöschen wollen.

Keyliam: alle denken, ich bin verrückt. Und vielleicht bin ich das auch. Immerhin unterdrückt Lightensorrow Castle meine Magie. Dennoch nutze ich welche, die zuvor nie meine war. Niemals hätte ich gedacht, dass ausgerechnet eine Psychiatrie es sein wird, die mir schenkt, wonach ich mich mein ganzes Leben lang gesehnt habe. Lumina, das dunkelste Wesen, dem ich je begegnet bin. Und mit einem Mal spüre ich, dass ich sie um jeden Preis beschützen muss. Doch kann mein Licht ihre Schatten vertreiben? Oder werden am Ende wir beide in ihrer Dunkelheit verloren gehen?

La nuit du meurtre de sa mère, Seraphine, dix-sept ans, s'enfuit pour sauver sa vie. Cherchant un refuge chez les Capes, la jeune femme ne pense qu'à se venger. Mais rien ne peut préparer Sera à sa rencontre avec Ransom, l'héritier de l'Ordre des Dagues, envoyé pour la tuer.

Eighteen-year-old Red and her friends are on a road trip in an RV, heading to the beach for Spring Break. It’s a long drive but spirits are high. Until the RV breaks down in the middle of nowhere. And as the wheels are shot out, one by one, the friends realise that this is no accident. There’s a sniper out there. He’s watching them and he knows exactly who they are. One of the group has a secret that the sniper is willing to kill for.

In the fall of 1991, Zooey Orson transfers to the Blackfriars School for Boys hoping for a fresh start following a scandal at his last school. Before he knows it, he’s fallen in with a group of boys who all share the same secret, one which they can only express openly within the safety of the clandestine gatherings of the Vicious Circle—the covert club for gay students going back decades. But when the boys unwittingly happen upon the headmaster’s copy of an arcane occult text, they unleash an eldritch secret so terrible, it threatens to consume them all.

Pip Fitz-Amobi is not a detective anymore. With the help of Ravi Singh, she released a true-crime podcast about the murder case they solved together last year. The podcast has gone viral, yet Pip insists her investigating days are behind her. But she will have to break that promise when someone she knows goes missing. Jamie Reynolds has disappeared, but the police won’t do anything about it. And if they won’t look for Jamie, then Pip will, uncovering more of her town’s dark secrets along the way, and this time everyone is listening.