Urban Teen

Ernestine “Ernie” Terwilliger has put her dreams aside to look after her eccentric mother. Case in point: saving her from a mysterious stranger who’s just stormed the terrified woman’s antique store wearing a rattlesnake tattoo, leveling threats, and brandishing the weirdest deck of cards Ernie’s ever seen. When Ernie grabs some of the cards and runs, she’s launched into a world she never knew existed - one her mother may know more about than she’s revealing. With a handful of stolen cards, Ernie has just been made an unwilling player in a game of good versus evil.

Nach ihrem Sieg über den Leichenkönig scheint das Leben für Nicole und ihre Freunde endlich wiederhergestellt zu sein. Doch Nicole sieht immer wieder Visionen von Melanie. Sie kann sogar mit ihr sprechen. Immer stärker wächst in Nicole der Verdacht, dass Melanie noch am Leben sein könnte. Also begibt sich Nicole zusammen mit ihren Freunden auf die Suche nach Melanie. Nicole ist sich sicher, dass sie Recht hat. Auch wenn ihre Suche sie in die tiefen der Unterwelt führt.

"Ihr müsst mir eure Namen nicht nennen. Denn ich bezweifle, dass ihr die erste Woche überleben werdet." Seit Magie die Welt übernommen hat, schicken die Menschen ihre Erstgeborenen durch das Runentor an die Firstborn Academy. Dort müssen sie sich einer Reihe von magischen und in der Regel tödlichen Prüfungen unterziehen. Niemand weiß welchem Zweck diese Prüfungen dienen. Die Menschen wissen nur, dass keines ihrer Kinder jemals zurückkehrt. Jedenfalls bis jetzt.

An dieser Akademie endet die erste große Liebe tödlich. Noch heute liegt auf den Familien von Romeo Montague und Julia Capulet ein Fluch: Alle siebzehn Jahre muss sich ein Liebespaar aus ihren beiden Häusern opfern. Joy ahnt von ihrem gefährlichen Erbe nichts, bis sie an eine Akademie entführt wird. Als Capulet darf sie sich auf keinen Fall in einen Montague verlieben, doch die Fürsten beider Häuser lassen ihr Herz höherschlagen. Auf dem Ball, auf dem das tragische Liebespaar ausgewählt wird, bringen Joys Gefühle nicht nur sie selbst in Gefahr.

Neo Beijing, 2201. Two years after the Battle of Neo Seoul, eighteen-year-old telepath Ama works in a cafe by day and moonlights as a lounge singer in a smoky bar at night. She’s anonymous, she’s safe from the seemingly never-ending war, and that’s how she’d like to stay. But then PHNX, a resistance group specializing in espionage, approaches her with an offer to expose a government experiment exactly like the one she fled. Soon, Ama is traveling with PHNX on a series of dangerous assignments, using her telepathic powers to bring down the authoritarian Alliance.

Amel hat ihre Freunde gerettet, aber zu einem hohen Preis. Sie hat alle Regeln der Drachenschule gebrochen und jetzt droht ihr der Ausschluss aus der Schule und sogar der Tod ihres Drachen. Als sich ihr ein Ausweg aus dieser misslichen Lage eröffnet, zögert sie darum nicht diesen Weg zu ergreifen. Amel soll die Schülerin des legendären Drachenreiters Hubric Wolkenwandler werden. Hubrik ist ein harter Lehrmeister, aber hinter seiner schroffen Art verbergen sich oft Güte und eine beinahe väterliche Zuneigung. Amel verspricht Hubrics Lektionen ernst zu nehmen. Und das muss sie auch.

"Nimm es nicht persönlich, aber niemand von uns will sich mit dir anfreunden. Wir wissen alle, dass du in den ersten paar Stunden sterben wirst." Seit sie als Kind einen Unfall erlitt, hat Amel ein steifes Bein. Und seit diesem Tag dreht sich ihr ganzes Leben um diese Tatsache. Andere ignorieren, verachten, oder schlimmer noch bemitleiden sie. Aber keiner lässt sie auch nur für eine Sekunde vergessen, dass sie das Mädchen ist, das nicht richtig laufen kann. Amel hat genug davon. Sie entscheidet sich etwas Radikales zu versuchen.

Mina doesn't realize she is a changeling, switched at birth, until two warring near-immortal brothers crash her party and burn her nana's house to the ground. Stolen from her home, the two brothers fight for her attention. They tell her that she is their reincarnated faerie leader who fell and was reborn in the midst of a great battle. Now they expect her to lead. To destroy the other side. But she just wants to go home. As Mina seeks a way back to her human family, she finds herself becoming caught up in a war she cannot stop.

Now that Marcus and the Gutter Gang have established themselves in the Wastelands, things are looking up. There are more dungeons to create, more experiments to be done, and more adventurers to enlist.

Niamh Brennan is magical. Or a superhero. Or maybe an alien changeling. Whatever she is, her impossible abilities are out of control and growing. When her younger sister is kidnapped in her place, Niamh must break down the walls between our world and another and fight against malicious political factions and her own inexperience to win her sister back.

Sam, a sin eater, is asked to absolve the sins of Rebel Walker, a deceased billionaire infected with a lifetime of evil. Now Reb's corpse has vanished with Sam being the last to see it. But who'd snatch it and why? The dead can't get up and walk out. Or can they?

Nothing is safe around Kristyl Barnette. Windows break. Books rocket across the room. Lights flicker. Strange occurrences follow the 16-year-old everywhere. She's an outcast at her school, but everything changes in the blink of an eye.When tragedy forces her to move in with her estranged aunt Jodi in the small town of Clearwater, Michigan, Kristyl tries to leave her past behind. She makes friends and catches the attention of Owen Marsh, who accepts her without question and who may be able to understand her better than anyone.

There are people born in this world with a powerful connection to the Earth itself. They have an unbreakable and extraordinary bond. Every seven years, five people are born on the same day, at the exact same time. The elements bind them; earth, fire, wind, water, and spirit. They call them, Elementris. Ava Vangeretta is 17 years old and different. Unlike most born of the element, she was born alone. She has the power of all five elements. Ava is the first True Elementris to be born in many years.

Quinn Robbins has just returned from spending ten days in Eirentheos, a world she had never known existed. Trying to settle back into her familiar life and establish a relationship with her new boyfriend, Zander, is more of a challenge than she ever dreamed it would be. Things are just beginning to feel normal again when Thomas shows up in her world, and invites her back to Eirentheos for a royal wedding. She's excited at the chance to reconnect with the people and places she had begun to fall in love with.

Two minutes after the shocking end to A Wild Epidemic of Magic, this third book in the series finds Kelley and Jeroan stranded in Dubuque, Iowa, after losing their parents - and all the sorcerers they met in the past two months - to the vengeful Druid. Apparently, the Druid did not enjoy his 200-year banishment.

To Faedra, faeries were nothing more than the figurines she collected and displayed in her curio cabinet. She was in for a surprise. Faedra had no idea that faeries controlled nature, and with a book no less. Nor did she know that her ancestors had protected an ancient fae amulet for thousands of years. An amulet that, if ever was reunited with the book, would give the wearer power to control the weather, too.

Years ago, Tula Bane was beaten and left for dead on a remote space station far from Earth, her home planet. She started with nothing and had no one, but over time she found a home, a family, and even love. When it's discovered that the abandoned planet beneath the station is abundant with a rare and valuable resource, aliens from across the galaxy race over to strike it rich.

The chemistry between Oxford University students Evelyn Lakewood and Jared Calmburry was immediate. After uncovering their shared and magical legacy - that they are the sole descendants of Merlin and the Lady of the Lake - their connection seems fated. When Jared sacrifices himself to save Evelyn's life and is carried off by his demon nemesis, Morgana, Evelyn must marshal every ounce of courage she possesses.

Roseline is left with questions that refuse answers and only the memory of a man she vows to hunt and kill. But to do so, she must call a truce with her sworn enemy. Together Roseline and Nicolae track Fane to the underbelly of London in search of Gabriel's kidnappers. Yet when Malachi - an Immortal with mystifying origin - presents himself as their guide, Roseline discovers she is not the only one looking for Gabriel.

Can 18 things save a life? Olga Gay Worontzoff thinks her biggest problems are an awful name (after her grandmother's of course) and not attending prom with Conner, her best friend and secret crush since kindergarten. Then Conner is killed in a freak boating accident and Olga feels responsible. When she downs an entire bottle of pills to deal with the emotional pain, her parents force her into counseling. There, her therapist writes a prescription in the form of a life list titled 18 Things.