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In the violent country of Ludania, the language you speak determines what class you are, and there are harsh punishments if you forget your place - looking a member of a higher class in the eye can result in immediate execution. Seventeen-year-old Charlaina (Charlie for short) can understand all languages, a dangerous ability she's been hiding her whole life. Her only place of release is the drug-filled underground club scene, where people go to shake off the oppressive rules of the world they live in.

En Astralis, les étoiles dictent les lois et orchestrent les mariages royaux. Alors, quand elles décrètent l'union de Pandia, douce princesse Piscies, avec le prince d'un territoire banni depuis un millénaire, sa sœur jumelle Dia prend sa place pour lui éviter un destin funeste. Mais un secret court sous sa peau, et il pourrait bien bouleverser tout l'ordre d'Astralis. Lesath, prince Scorpio, accepte cette union par devoir.

La vida de l'Evangeline no ha estat mai fàcil: ha perdut dues famílies i ha après que confiar en el destí pot costar-li molt car. Ara comença de zero treballant com a donzella per una família cruel. Per sort, al seu costat té en Tim, el seu millor amic i l'única persona que la fa sentir segura i feliç. Fins que en Rob irromp a la seva vida i li fa descobrir un món ple de riures, de complicitats i d'un desig que no havia sentit mai abans. L'Eve es troba atrapada entre dues lleialtats: la del noi que sempre ha estimat i la del noi amb qui no deixa de somiar.

Brielle ist aus der Hölle entkommen – und Luzifer kocht vor Wut. Er plant, seinen Ärger an den Bewohnern der Erde auszulassen. Währenddessen ist Chaos in Angel City ausgebrochen, und die Armee der Fallen Academy versucht alles, um die Stadt vor dem Untergang zu bewahren. Währenddessen trainiert Brielle für den Kampf ihres Lebens: Sie ist endlich bereit, die Prophezeiung zu erfüllen – und Luzifer ein für alle Mal zu vernichten.

Eury llega al Bronx como una niña atormentada. Atormentada por haberlo perdido todo en el huracán María y por un espíritu maligno llamado Ato. No duda de que la tragedia que los azotó a ella y a su familia en Puerto Rico la perseguirá hasta Nueva York. Sin embargo, por un momento, puede casi olvidar el miedo gracias a la presencia de este chico....

¿Qué harías si tu mejor amiga se enamorase del rompecorazones oficial de tu ciudad? La fiesta que da inicio a las vacaciones parece sacada de una peli: una casa enorme y un montón de chicos bebiéndose el último verano antes de la universidad. No es el ambiente de Lana, ella preferiría estar con la cabeza metida en sus ilustraciones. Pero Ciro, el blogger anónimo del momento y su mejor amigo, la ha arrastrado hasta allí porque dice que es donde está la emoción.

Obra ganadora de la 6ª edición del Premio Literario "La Caixa" Plataforma. "A pesar de mi fe ciega en las estrellas, no creía en los cuentos de hadas y tampoco estaba segura de si alguna vez había creído en ellos." Si hay algo que caracteriza al pequeño pueblo costero de Melía es la creencia popular de que las estrellas pueden influir en la vida de sus habitantes.

Als die 16-jährige Hexenjägerin Elizabeth mit einem Bündel Kräuter gefunden wird, das ihr zum Schutz dienen soll, wird sie in den Kerker geworfen und selbst der Hexerei angeklagt. Doch wider Erwarten retten weder Caleb, ihr engster Freund und heimlicher Schwarm, noch ihr Lehrmeister Blackwell sie vor dem Scheiterhaufen. Stattdessen befreit sie in letzter Sekunde ein ganz anderer: Nicholas Perevil, der mächtigste Magier des Landes und Erzfeind aller Hexenjäger. Nun muss sich Elizabeth entscheiden, wo ihre Loyalitäten liegen.

New York, 2118: Die glänzende Fassade des höchsten Wolkenkratzers der Welt verbirgt eleganten Luxus und düstere Abgründe. Für vier Jugendliche wird nichts mehr so sein wie vor der schlimmsten Nacht ihres Lebens. Denn einer von ihnen hat ein Menschenleben auf dem Gewissen. Und die anderen haben die Tat verheimlicht. Um ihr dunkles Geheimnis zu verbergen, müssen sie den schönen Schein um jeden Preis wahren. Doch das ist alles andere als einfach. Denn einer von ihnen kämpft mit gefährlichen Gefühlen für ein gefährliches Mädchen.

Seit Brielles Mutter ihre Seele an die Dämonen verkauft hat, ist auch das Schicksal der 18-Jährigen besiegelt. Deshalb erwartet sie bei ihrer Erweckungszeremonie, die über ihr weiteres Leben entscheidet, keine großen Überraschungen. Es ist klar, dass sie an der dämonischen Tainted Academy ausgebildet wird. Als dann jedoch pechschwarze Flügel aus ihrem Rücken wachsen, wird sie wider Erwarten an der Fallen Academy der Engel aufgenommen. Mit ihren schwarzen Flügeln ist Brielle dort allerdings eine Außenseiterin.

En 2310, Madrid es una ciudad convulsa que agoniza. Los túneles del metro son el hervidero de una revolución social que amenaza con resquebrajar los cimientos de todo el sistema. Rebeca, una intrépida legisladora, no dudará en enfrentarse a las ambiciones del Alcalde, que trama un oscuro proyecto. Interponerse en su camino es muy peligroso, pero cuando Adán irrumpe en su vida descubrirá que hay amenazas mucho mayores.

Uma vida normal e tranquila seria tudo que uma adolescente odiaria ter, certo? Não para Nina! Por que tinha que viver como uma nômade (ou fugitiva!), mudando de cidade ou país a cada piscar de olhos? Por que não podia saber nada sobre o paradeiro de seu pai? Por que sua mãe era tão neurótica e supersticiosa? As perguntas eram muitas, porém sem respostas.

When 17-year-old Anais Butt is expelled from her fifth boarding school in three years, she expects her parents to slap her on the wrist and send her to another expensive school. However, her fed-up parents have other ideas. They decide to exile her to the isolated mountain town of Glenorie to labour for her child-hating maternal grandmother, Nanny Pam, and her hostile cousin, Josephine, who operate a riding school on her 3,000-acre ranch on the Turon River.

In this romantic and evocative fantasy, Najwa is a jinni, training to be a spy in the war against the humans. Zayele is a human on her way to marry a prince of Baghdad - which she’ll do anything to avoid. So she captures Najwa and makes a wish. With a rush of smoke and fire, they fall apart and re-form - as each other. A jinni and a human, trading lives. Both girls must play their parts among enemies who would kill them if the deception were ever discovered - enemies including the young men Najwa and Zayele are just discovering they might love.

Cory Graff is not alone in her head. Bound to a deal of desperation made when she was a child, Cory’s mind houses the Furies - the hawk and the serpent - lingering always, waiting for her to satisfy their bloodlust. After escaping the asylum where she was trapped for years, Cory knows how to keep the Furies quiet. By day, she lives a normal life, but by night, she tracks down targets the Furies send her way. And she brings down Justice upon them.

Jane Montjoy is tired of being a lady. She's tired of pretending to live up to the standards of her mother's noble family - especially now that the family's wealth is gone and their stately mansion has fallen to ruin. It's hard enough that she must tend to the animals and find a way to feed her mother and her little sister each day. Jane's burden only gets worse after her mother returns from a trip to town with a new stepfather and stepsister in tow. Despite the family's struggle to prepare for the long winter ahead, Jane's stepfather remains determined to give his beautiful but spoiled child her every desire.

Piper’s world is dying. Each day brings hotter temperatures and heat bubbles which threaten to destroy the Earth. Amid this Global Heating Crisis, Piper lives under the oppressive rule of her mother, who suffocates her even more than the weather does. Everything changes on her eighteenth birthday, when her mother is called away on a mysterious errand and Piper seizes her first opportunity for freedom. Piper discovers a universe she never knew existed—a sphere of gods and monsters—and realizes that her world is not the only one in crisis.

Charlie, otherwise known as Queen Charlaina of Ludania, has become comfortable as a leader and a ruler. She’s done admirable work to restore Ludania’s broken communications systems with other Queendoms, and she’s mastered the art of ignoring Sabara, the evil former queen whose Essence is alive within Charlie. Or so she thinks. When the negotiation of a peace agreement with the Queendom of Astonia goes awry, Charlie receives a brutal message that threatens Ludania, and it seems her only option is to sacrifice herself in exchange for Ludanian freedom.

I always wanted to know where I came from. Now that knowledge could destroy me. Dez thought she knew who her mother was, who she was. Thought she had friends, a boy who loved her, and a school where she finally fit in. But across the veil linking our world and the next lurks a monster which can annihilate. . .or liberate her. Now she must confront it there with help from one boy who loves her and one who can't stand the sight of her.

At the luminous conclusion of The Pledge, Charlaina defeated the tyrant Sabara and took her place as Queen of Ludania. But Charlie knows that Sabara has not disappeared: The evil queen’s Essence is fused to Charlie’s psyche, ready to arise at the first sign of weakness.