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Devil’s Backbone dirt road weaves through tall East Texas trees. The eerie Claymore mansion sits silently along the path. Thirteen-year-old Kevin Bishop and friends plan to spend their summer swimming, playing baseball, and erecting a massive fort in the nearby woods. Their daily journey requires a bike ride down that road and by that mansion—the site of a gruesome unsolved murder near the turn-of-the-century. They stumble upon evidence to solve the mystery as unforeseen adversaries make this a summer they’ll never forget.

سلسلة ألغاز بوليسية للناشئة للأديب د.نبيل فاروق بطلاها التوأم عماد و علا تجمع ما بين الغموض والإثارة والحركة، في كل مغامرة يسعي أبطال السلسلة إلى مكافحة الجريمة و تحقيق العدالة، وجميعهم يحملون شعاراً واحداً .. شعار ع×2

Marissa has always been reckless, wild, and drawn to trouble. Phillip has always been steady, loyal, and willing to chase after her no matter where she leads. But when Marissa finds herself entangled with the dangerous and mysterious Jerome Bonovich, the world she thought she knew unravels.

When she discovers her father's plane crash wasn't an accident, sixteen-year-old Emma wants to punish those responsible. Even if it means becoming a spy for a mysterious organization known as The Authority. They want Emma to join the Gems...four teenage girls with unique skills who know how to handle dangerous spy missions around the world. The Authority thinks Emma is the missing link to make this team work. Emma thinks The Authority is her only chance for revenge.

When Astrid is attacked by a creep calling himself a Slayer, it seems like a cruel prank the universe is pulling on her already crappy life. Then Kaden, the most infuriating, stunning boy she’s ever met, arrives and tells her she’s a dragon-kin like him—part dragon, part human. Then Astrid actually shifts into a dragon.

My twin brother, Damon, and I grew up in the shadows of the supernatural, trained by our father, a legendary hunter and an Elder in a world you wouldn't believe exists. But now, Dad's gone missing, and we're on a treacherous path to find him. We thought we knew the drill-stake 'em, salt 'em, save the day. That was until we met our newest nightmare: vampires, or so we thought, leaving nothing but skeletons in their wake. Then there's Justice, a vampire fighting his own kind, a guy from some group called the Paranormal Mercenary Corp. Trusting a vampire? Not exactly in our playbook.

Eva träumt davon, in Oxford Literatur zu studieren. Doch das offizielle Programm wird schnell zum manipulativen Spiel, als ein anonymes Online-Forum namens Oxford Slays die Bewerber dazu bringt, sich gegenseitig auszubooten. Dann findet Eva George tot am Fuß einer Statue. Sie ist sich sicher, dass es Mord war – und steht prompt selbst unter Verdacht. Ihr bleibt nur eine Woche Zeit, um ihre Unschuld zu beweisen.

Cor und seine Freundin Ro haben es geschafft, den König der Diebe zu besiegen, der ganz Parnass in Chaos gestürzt hat. Nun machen sie sich gemeinsam auf den Weg in die Stadt Granadis. Bei der Magierin Carmen und ihrem Mann, einem Kräuterkundler, werden sie als Lehrlinge angenommen. Doch die beiden merken schnell, dass in der Stadt des Gesangs und der Magie etwas Bedrohliches vor sich geht. Eine mysteriöse Krankheit fordert immer mehr Opfer.

"Bring It On", but with murder, this heart-pounding YA thriller follows Jonty, a star cheerleader forced to track down a killer and achieve her dream—before it's too late. With competition this fierce, bodies are bound to hit the mat... All Jonty has ever wanted is to lead her cheerleading...

في اليوم الذي مات فيه فنسنت بليك -في اليوم الذي وجدته فيه إيف ميتًا بنوبة قلبية ثانية بعد أقل من خمسة أشهر من النوبة الأولى- اتصلت بالطوارئ. وتعاملت مع السلطات ومع الجثة، وبعد ذلك، في تلك الليلة، خبأت نفسها في أعماق قصر بليك وفتحت التلفزيون. في خدر. لقد كان عائلتي، وقد مات. لقد رحل. وأنا وحدي. وعلى شاشة التلفزيون، لم تكن إيفري وحدها. بل كانت تجري مقابلة ليراها العالم كله. "أنا هنا اليوم مع إيفري جرامبس. الوريثة. فاعلة الخير. التي غيرت العالم؛ وهي في التاسعة عشرة من عمرها وحسب. إيفري، أخبرينا، ما شعورك وأنت تتولين مثل هذا المنصب في هذه السن الصغيرة؟".

As I approach my first-year anniversary in Monstreuse, I'm wishing that my fellow students were the only danger...But when you're secretly the reason everyone in the monster reserve is no longer normal, and you can't help it, life is more complicated. I still don't know our admin's plans for me, and worse, the Society wants revenge on me. Rumblings from the normal world tell us we could all be in grave danger soon.

When sisters Chloe and Lily from Upland, California discover a cryptic artifact called the Obsidian Eye, their small-town lives erupt into a race against time. As they unravel clues tied to secret societies, ancient mysteries, and local legends, danger lurks at every turn. With help from a martial artist, a hacker, and a robotics genius, the sisters' courage and bond are pushed to the limit. From Upland's quiet streets to Mt. Baldy's shadowy trails, the stakes couldn't be higher.

From the author of Escape Room comes a thrilling whodunnit. Three people all confess to murdering the same person, they all have motives…but only one is the true killer. Maria's life spirals into chaos after she provides testimony that puts her brother behind bars, a decision that has...

In Chicago, a man whispers into a telephone: “The cat is ready.” With those four words, a chain of perilous events begins—pulling Rick Brant and his friend Don Scott into ten days of danger, intrigue, and suspense. Their official mission takes them to Egypt, where they join radio astronomers struggling to decipher strange, otherworldly signals. The anomalies defy explanation—neither terrestrial interference nor natural phenomena can account for them. The signals appear to come from light-years away, pulsing with a rhythm unlike any known star, and moving at an impossible speed.

Rick and Scotty fly off to the Philippines, along with Dr. Zircon, to search for missing Doctors Briotti and Shannon. It's a similar setting to the tenth book, The Golden Skull, but takes place mainly on Sulu Sea and the island of Shan. Some of the characters from The Golden Skull reappear in this one, as does the ever helpful and cunning Chahda.

Die temperamentvolle Caféinhaberin Lena freut sich auf ein ruhiges Leben zusammen mit ihrem Sohn Florian und ihrer zehn Monate alten Enkelin Naomi. Stattdessen entwickelt sich ihr Café zu so einer Art Selbsthilfetreff für die dauerjammernde Yvonne. Die blonde Barbie hat es im Gegensatz zu Lena nicht nötig, für ihren Lebensunterhalt zu arbeiten. Sie nervt Lena ebenso wie Florian, der es sich zum Ziel gesetzt zu haben scheint, ihr kleines Reihenhaus ins Dauerchaos zu stürzen. Selbst ihr Lieblingskater Misti macht seinem zweiten Namen Mistvieh alle Ehre.

Cassie, dix-sept ans, a un talent inné pour lire les pensées et les sentiments sur le visage ou dans le comportement des gens. Quand le FBI lui propose d'intégrer un programme ultrasecret pour résoudre d'anciennes affaires non élucidées, elle croit à une mauvaise blague. Mais son don exceptionnel pourrait se révéler essentiel dans la traque des criminels. Plongée dans un monde dangereux, entourée d'adolescents aux aptitudes uniques, Cassie devient bientôt la cible d'un mystérieux tueur.

When eleven-year-old Finn notices that his shadow no longer follows the rules, his ordinary days in a quiet town unravel into something extraordinary. What begins as a trick of light soon becomes a secret friendship—and a dangerous curiosity. Each time Finn trades shadows with the creatures around him, he borrows a piece of their life: a sparrow’s flight, a lion’s courage, a cat’s grace, a fisherman’s patience. But every borrowed gift leaves his own shadow thinner, until one morning, it disappears completely.

"John’s Wacky Wayland" invites listeners on a spine-tingling journey into the heart of darkness lurking within an abandoned amusement park. In this thrilling tale, seven intrepid teenagers, led by the bold and adventurous Georgia, stumble upon the existence of John’s Wacky Wayland, a long-forgotten attraction rumored to be haunted by its past. Despite ominous warnings and the palpable sense of danger, the allure of adventure proves irresistible as the group ventures into the eerie depths of the deserted park.

When Beatrice wakes in a magical swamp called Ebenezer, she's met with the baffling wit and curious whims of the swamp's single other human inhabitant, the boy "king," Tom. But something is haunting Ebenezer, and Beatrice must solve the mystery of the swamp before a lurking terror devours them both.