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Johannes liebt seine Geige, aber spielen kann er leider noch nicht so gut. "Geigenhansel" nennen ihn die anderen Kinder und lachen ihn aus, wenn er wieder mal seiner Lieblingsbeschäftigung nachgeht und vor sich hin träumt. Eines Tages verfolgen die Kinder ihn sogar quer durch die Stadt. Verzweifelt flüchtet Johannes in einen kleinen Laden, der ihm auf Anhieb nicht geheuer ist.

Larkin lost two years of her life to post-concussion syndrome. As she stands at the beginning of her new life, she wonders if she’s even the same person she once was. Abandoned by friends when she was injured, she takes her first step toward her future: alone. Was it a mistake for her to go back to school for her senior year? Will they laugh at her panic attacks? Will they notice she isn’t eating? Will she even make it through the first day?

Kyle Thorne has everyone's back. His classmates and friends know they can count on him, but the pressure to be perfect after the chaos brought into Arda Academy when Merith Leigh brought her personal battle into the school is overwhelming. The two most important girls in his life have the power to both devastate and defend him: his younger sister Clare, always unreachable and distant; and his best friend Danica, strong and sure, and also completely unaware of his love for her.

Not all wizards were born to be heroes. Things not to do when you find out you’re a wizard.

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In this coming-of-age story set in a medieval kingdom, Andrea is a headstrong princess longing to be a knight who finds her way to modern-day California. But her accidental return to her family's kingdom and a disastrous romance brings war, along with her discovery of some dark family secrets. Listeners will love this mix of traditional fantasy elements with unique twists and will identify with Andrea and her difficult choices between duty and desire.

In The Mall Fairies: Exile, the first of the Mall Fairies trilogy, Swoop the fairy lives hidden in the attic of a shopping mall. She loves the safety and ease of living in the fairies' town of High Haven, despite the adults insisting she give up her dream of becoming a Flight Instructor. She's terrified of Outside, where fairies can and do die. Swoop discovers her best friend One Wing in the company of a human, breaking the first law: Never Let the Humans Know Fairies Exist.

Lee's tried her best to downplay her extraordinary swimming abilities. Who needs more attention when you're already six feet tall at 15? Can you say "bully magnet"? So when she's sent to a land-locked town in British Columbia to train with an elite swim team, Lee's beyond horrified. Her summer is over before it even began. Now all she wants to do is get through it.

Sixteen-year-old Julia Corona is a Daughter of Fate, destined to travel through time to battle the creatures of Mythos who seek to change history. Julia would rather use her powers to ditch PE than fulfill her duties as the daughter of Present, but her best friend Angie, the daughter of Past, can't stand the thought of their magic fading away, which is what will happen if they can't find the third daughter soon. Then, they discover the daughter of Future is Kaitlyn, the bullying bad girl who tried to steal Angie's boyfriend.

Amateur sleuth Annie Tillery has been warned to stay away from Nevshehir, Turkey, where she is heading to meet her boyfriend Ty Egan, and Cedric Zeeks, Ty's best friend. Intent on helping the two excavate an archeological site where they hope to link human remains to the first African ancestors, Annie does her best to shakes her foreboding feelings as her plane lands in Istanbul and she prepares to embark on her next adventure.

Eli, Lucia's half-demon love interest, has been stabbed with a true-cross dagger and captured by Cyrus, master of the possessor demons. The Chosen Knights must work together once again, not only to save Eli, but also to decipher a clue to find the second missing page of Jacques de Molay's journal. Meanwhile, Uncle Davin informs Crossroads' Divine Elders of the danger ahead and learns there is much to fear. Countless children are being taken from all over the world to be turned into demons. Michael, one of the Divine Elders, has no choice but to intervene.

Darkness falls so quickly in Howland that the people there have no word for evening. But for 13-year-old Annie, the dark is almost soothing compared to the misery of her cruel aunt and uncle's house. When Annie finally escapes, she finds herself on a journey that will take her deep into the forest - where fearsome creatures lurk - and to the glittering halls of a palace. Hints of the Brothers Grimm add magic to this spellbinding and beautifully told story.

Late one evening, Alex Whittemore awoke to discover his ability to control light. Kidnapped and forced into servitude with the NighGuard, protectors of the Royals and keepers of the Light, he befriends Daamen, NighGuard Overseer, who helps him develop his true potential.

Shape shifter Alec Graves has spent nearly a decade trying to keep his family from being drawn into open warfare with a larger pack. The new girl at school shouldn't matter, but the more he gets to know her, the more mysterious she becomes. Worse, she seems to know things she shouldn't about his shadowy world. Is she an unfortunate victim or bait designed to draw him into a fatal misstep? If she's a victim, then he's running out of time to save her. If she's bait.

Unable to avoid her destiny any longer, Emariya has become the leader her mother always envisioned. Before she can focus on embracing her gifts to unify her three lands, she must first stop her own land from dissolving into civil war. Spurred by her brother's devious policies and thirst for power, the people of the Uplands have surged into revolt. If Emariya cannot convince her own people to stand down and follow her, she will never convince her uncle she can lead all three lands. And he's only given her half a year to do it.

True love was the last thing David Cooley expected to find in the Bahamas, but the moment he laid eyes on Faren Sands, he knew he had found the girl of his dreams. How could he know she was a mermaid from the lost island of Atlantis?

The first night in their new house across town, she awakens to find him at the foot of her bed just like every other night. However, now he is following her other places and is asking for her help. Desperate to rid herself of the pesky apparition, she finds an unexpected ally in the girl next door, who just happens to be a psychic. Answers lie in the past Tawny has worked so hard to put behind her, and lies are uncovered when she finds the ghost's connection to the mysterious death of her father.

Everyone has a soul. Some are just worth more than others. Farley Hope has no idea who she really is. Not until she meets Daniel, anyway. He has answers to the painful questions that plague her life, and once she learns the truth, there is no going back. She is thrust into a world of darkness, where she must learn to fight to survive; where your soul is your only true currency; where the promise of love is marred by the promise of death. Farley Hope is prophesied. Her coming has been awaited for hundreds of years. She is destined to end the tyranny of the Soul Reavers forever.

Lucia, an angst-plagued teenager, finds herself sent away from home when she and her mother get into a deadly fight. Shipped off to an hamlet in Germany she discovers the stories that her father told her about fairies are true. She winds up smack dab in the middle of an all-out war between Merlin's children and the fae. She will have to grow up and decide which side she's on or live with the choices others will make for her.

Malyn Reed meets, and quickly falls in love with, Beau Brogan, who seems to be perfect in every way...except for the fact that he died in 1910. Malyn Reed has been able to see spirits her entire life. Now that she's almost 17, she has learned to differentiate between the living and the dead, making her gift feel less like an evil curse. She ignores the spirits she encounters on a daily basis, which has made living side by side with them slightly easier...until she moves to Dandridge, the second oldest town in Tennessee.