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Mother Nature struggles to maintain equilibrium in a changing world while fire, disease, logging, human displacement, and war repeatedly destroy forests of centuries-old trees. Split Toe, a deer chosen at birth for a unique education, travels through time to understand the interconnected workings of a Michigan forest. He meets humans along the way: Ice Age hunters who trap and kill a mastodon; Mukwoh, a young Ojibwe hunter who stalks Split Toe through swamp and forest; loggers clear-cutting Michigan’s white pines; Edra, a woman advocating for the trees…

London 1848: Zur Heiratssaison stehen die jungen Adligen Schlange vor Fae-Königin Moryens Thron. Denn ein mit ihr geschlossener Rose Bargain verheißt Schönheit und Reichtum – für einen Preis. Als Kronprinz Bram verkündet, in dieser Saison seine Braut zu wählen, schafft es die in Ungnade gefallene Ivy überraschend unter die sechs Favoritinnen. Doch aus dem eleganten Wettstreit wird schnell blutiger Ernst. Und Ivy darf auf keinen Fall Brams Bruder Emmett zu nahe kommen, wenn sie ihr Herz – und ihren Kopf – behalten will.

Elara Flameborn has always kept to the quiet edges of the room, certain magic belonged to braver apprentices. But when a warm living fire awakens in her palms, everything she believes about herself begins to change.

Aiko has a rare gift—the ability to see into the invisible spiritual realm and battle the demonic forces attacking young people through despair and suicide. With her friends beside her, she answers heaven’s call to confront evil on the streets of her city every day. But when they’re sent to rescue Kenji—the son of the city’s most powerful drug lord—they’re thrust into a high-stakes war between heaven and hell that could shift the spiritual balance of the entire region. As the team is drawn deeper into the city’s darkest places, every victory comes with a greater cost.

Ven Kochin hat zu viel verloren. Traumatisiert und voller Verzweiflung sucht er einen Weg zum einzigen Ort, der ihm jetzt noch Antworten geben kann: Yarong, die Insel der Heartsooths und Heimat seiner Vorfahren. Um sie zu erreichen, kann Kochin dem lauernden Krieg jedoch nicht weiter entfliehen und muss als Sanitäter ins Militär eintreten. Monate später ist die Welt eine andere. Der Krieg hat Theumas erreicht und Kochin hat Dinge erfahren, die kein Mensch je wissen sollte. Nun steht er vor der alles entscheidenden Frage: Wie viel kann ein Heartsooth ertragen, um den Tod zu umgehen?

After a hard-fought and masterfully orchestrated victory, Teodor stands crowned King of Sas Darona and King of Earth. The Dome Militant holds the field. The tribes have bent the knee. The banners are his. But at the very moment of triumph, Tomas Storm and his Magpies descended—bringing poison, blood, and betrayal. Teodor survived only because Nuria Valvanchi gave everything to save him. Now she lies cold and still, her fate unknown. Tomas is captured but unbroken. His clones are fallen—but are they truly gone? And far beyond the field of battle, the Empire watches with wary eyes.

Nachdem sich Elouise eigenständig aus einem verlorenen Traum befreien kann, muss sie feststellen, dass die Schatten Einzug in jedermanns Herz genommen zu haben scheinen. Ein neuer Patron ist auf der Bildfläche erschienen und mit ihm ein unbekannter Traumwandelnder. Elouise bleibt nichts anderes übrig, als die Geheimnisse der Vergangenheit zu lüften und alles zu überdenken, woran sie jemals geglaubt hat.

Als der Dämon Nitalok die Welt der Engel versklavte, waren die Lyrees gezwungen, ihre geliebte Heimat Lyrell zu verlassen. Sie flüchteten durch magische Portale in die Welt der Menschen. Ellie ist siebzehn Jahre alt und die Ziehtochter der hohen Priesterin. Als sich endlich ihre Bestimmung zeigt, überhäufen sich die Ereignisse. Nitaloks Krieg scheint sie auf einmal einzuholen und Ellies heile Welt ist in Gefahr. Dazu kommen verwirrende Träume und Visionen, die immer wieder mit diesem verflucht gutaussehenden Magier im Zusammenhang stehen.

In InstaVania, life is all about the perfect post, the perfect look, and the perfect following. But for Cindy, stuck managing her stepfamily's influencer dreams and their chaotic Airbnb, the world of likes and hashtags feels more like a digital prison. When the kingdom announces a lavish royal ball—complete with reality TV coverage—Cindy is swept up in a whirlwind she never asked for. With the spotlight suddenly on her and a pair of glittery Crocs at her feet, she soon discovers that life outside the screen isn’t always what it seems.

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.

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.

Determined to pass junior year, Logan won’t let Henry distract him—much. Logan’s focusing on all things human, which means his swoony vampire ex-boyfriend will have to file his own fangs for a change. When he goes to the school bonfire and runs into Henry, wandering into the woods seems like a great escape. Until he’s bitten by a wicked Crone with some twisted magical munchies.

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.

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.

Yesterday I was a teenager waiting tables in Manhattan, and today, monsters exist and I can see them. Overnight I’m thrown into the realm of the Watchers, a society of earthbound angels split into two factions: the Shades, whose powerful dark magic is given to them by the fallen angels, and the Lumens, whose abilities are bestowed on them by the archangels of Avalon. They’re on opposite sides of a brutal war, and I only have a few days to pick which side I want to join. I’m ready to choose when the Shades force my hand by cursing someone I love.

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.

Now that the ley lines around Cabeswater have been woken, nothing for Ronan, Gansey, Blue, and Adam will be the same. Ronan, for one, is falling more and more deeply into his dreams, and his dreams are intruding more and more into waking life. Meanwhile, some very sinister people are looking for some of the same pieces of the Cabeswater puzzle that Gansey is after....

Mia lives in hiding, and Ven goes back to Harvard, thinking she's dead, but a visiting professor slips him a message. Mia is alive. Not only that, but Zein Huan is alive too, and he has gotten away.

King Uthar has been defeated in the Frozen Continent. Wounded, he retreats to Norghania to regroup his forces and shield himself behind the walls of the capital. Lasgol and his friends will try to pass the fourth and final year of instruction and graduate as Rangers on their own merits. To do this they will have to take part in deeply dangerous missions and help the king against the invaders.