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When eighteen-year-old aspiring scientist Elinor Dashwood discovers her beloved father slumped over the desk of his office study, she knows his death means dire straits for the Dashwood women. To make matters worse, an outdated will entails his estate—including Norland & Company, the private investigation firm where her younger sister Marianne worked as her father’s partner and protégé—to their half-brother and his haughty wife, who waste no time in forcing the Dashwoods out of their home and into a cramped apartment on London’s Barton Street.

Wren knew her sweet treats could work wonders, but she never knew they could work magic. She barely has time to wrap her head around the stunning revelation when the head of the prestigious Confectioner’s Guild falls down dead before her. Poisoned by her cupcake. Now facing murder charges in a magical world she doesn’t understand, Wren must discover the true killer or face the headsman’s axe. But when her search for clues leads to a deep-rooted conspiracy that goes all the way to the top, she realizes that the guild master isn’t the only one at risk of death by chocolate.

Violet Ambrose is grappling with two major issues: Jay Heaton and her morbid secret ability. While the 16-year-old is confused by her new feelings for her best friend since childhood, she is more disturbed by her "power" to sense dead bodies or at least those that have been murdered. Since she was a little girl, she has felt the echoes the dead leave behind in the world . . . and the imprints that attach to their killers.

Would you ever cut corners to get what you want? . . . Outsourcing their storytelling to artificial intelligence comes with unintended results for the executives of the Fazbear Entertainment board of directors. . . Taking some creative liberties in a series of articles for his school newspaper shows Drew that truth really can be stranger than fiction . . . And Abe's journey to find the first generation animatronics causing problem for his Bobbiedot home assistants lead him to believe he should have never moved into his new apartment . . .

Mara Dyer once believed she could run from her past. She can’t. She used to think her problems were all in her head. They aren’t. She couldn’t imagine that after everything she’s been through, the boy she loves would still be keeping secrets. She’s wrong.

Enola Holmes es la hermana de Sherlock y Mycroft. Y al igual que ellos, posee inteligencia, habilidades e inclinaciones detectivescas. Cuando la señorita Letitia Glover, una mujer emancipada, acude a Sherlock para pedirle que averigüe qué ha ocurrido con su hermana gemela, es Enola quien la recibe. Al parecer, y según dice el breve mensaje que ha recibido, su hermana Felicity, casada con el conde de Dunhench, ha muerto. Pero Letitia Glover está convencida de que eso no es cierto: si su hermana hubiera fallecido, lo habría sabido, lo habría sentido en su interior.

"Milan is in a race against time and terror to get to her parents’ one trusted friend before she ends up dead, too… readers will be intrigued and thrilled to see how it all turns out." —Booklist New York Times bestselling author April Henry delivers a thrilling murder mystery featuring a...

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.

Cool, spannend & wahnsinnig witzig! Im vierten Abenteuer um die Geisterjägeragentur bekommen Anthony Lockwood und George es mit einem besonders schrecklichen Verbrechen zu tun. Um den Fall meistern zu können, bitten sie die in Geisterdingen hochbegabte Lucy in die Agentur zurückzukehren. Doch die Freunde ahnen nicht, dass sie mit ihren Nachforschungen Kräfte auf den Plan rufen, die selbst sie nicht mehr kontrollieren können.

Working homicides in New York City, there will always be disquieting cases, but this one has me in a cold sweat. When Bishop and I discover a high-ranking wizard has been tied down and tortured as part of some unhinged ritual, we know all hell is about to break lose. What’s worse, our lead suspect is a member of the Arcane Council, and when you cross the Council, you tend to disappear without a trace. Victims deserve justice—it’s my job—but one wrong move will see me share their fate. Curl up with One Foot in the Grave and discover the motive behind this unusual case.

Booktrack Edition: Following the grief and horror of her discovery of Jack the Ripper's true identity, Audrey Rose Wadsworth has no choice but to flee London and its memories. Together with the arrogant yet charming Thomas Cresswell, she journeys to the dark heart of Romania, home to one of Europe's best schools of forensic medicine...and to another notorious killer, Vlad the Impaler, whose thirst for blood became legend.

In this bone-chilling digital original story set in the world of Madeleine Roux's New York Times bestselling novel Asylum, a Louisiana teen tries to make tuition money working for a sinister organization but finds that leaving comes at a terrible cost. When Dan, Abby, and Jordan meet Oliver in...

Stalking Jack the Ripper: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! * INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Seventeen-year-old Audrey Rose Wadsworth was born a lord's daughter, with a life of wealth and privilege stretched out before her. But...

""A quick read that history lovers will easily devour.""—Teen Vogue ""Get ready to be transported to Paris in Taylor's incredible debut novel.""—Seventeen, Editor's Choice Code Name Verity meets Jennifer Donnelly’s Revolution in this gripping debut novel. NOW: Sixteen-year-old Alice is...

When a winter storm traps eight teens in a remote ski cabin, they find themselves stranded with a killer—who may be one of their own. From the acclaimed author of The Ivies and Pretty Dead Queens comes a YA thriller that will make your blood run cold. The trip of a lifetime might be the death...

When Cat overhears a conversation about a diamond hidden somewhere in the theatre, she's determined to find the treasure. Ably assisted by Pedro, a musician in the company orchestra, she is thrust into a world of drama and intrigue, where she encounters Covent Garden street gangs, boxing matches, theatre riots and spectacular stage productions. En route, she learns a lot about who she is, and who her real friends are.

You have been given access to secret files buried deep within the archives. Disturbing stories never meant for the light of day. Stories of evil grandparents and unsettling homework. A string of deaths, seemingly unrelated. Walls squirm, as if alive. A cursed wish comes true. Ordinary people behave oddly, even family and your closest friends. These stories share a common fate. All the children are met with tragedy. Coincidence? Or could these nightmares be connected by something more sinister than you dare to imagine? A dark and chilling mystery awaits.

Sixteen-year-old Jack Moreno is managing to hold his life together. Barely. After a terrible car accident leaves his father unable to work, Jack makes ends meet by dropping out of school and covering his dad’s custodial shifts at a school for troubled teens, high in the Wasatch Mountains. Everything is going all right until the night Jack finds Sarah Watson—yes, descendant of that Watson—dead.

Riley has accepted that her special gift is to help dead people with their unfinished business. But she never thought she'd be tasked with helping the spirit of a convicted criminal who died in prison. He may lead her on the scariest mission yet, but helping him could mean saving the life of a child. The convict's daughter needs a liver transplant, and the one person who could still be a match is his brother...who also happens to be a gang leader.

Ed Kennedy leva uma vida medíocre, sem arroubos. Trabalha, joga cartas com cúmplices do tédio, apaixona-se por uma amiga que dorme com todos os vizinhos do subúrbio e divide apartamento com um cão velho. O pai alcoólatra morreu há pouco; a mãe parece desprezá-lo. Certo dia, ele impede um assalto a banco e é celebrizado pela mídia. O ato heróico tem conseqüência. Logo depois, Ed recebe enigmáticas cartas de baralho pelo correio: uma seqüência de ases de ouros, paus, espadas, copas, cada qual contendo uma série de endereços ou charadas a serem decifradas.