Urban Teen

Camryn Painter's powers come at a steep price. It's one thing to master her chameleon abilities in the ancient forest world she now calls home, but another to use her abilities wisely. With the life or death of an entire civilization in her hands, Camryn must bond with a thunder dragon and join a battle she has little chance of winning...unless she can face down her own inner demons without destroying those she loves.

In the tradition of works like Random Family and Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Sudhir Venkatesh’s The Tomorrow Game is a deeply reported chronicle of families surviving in a Southside Chicago community. At the heart of the story are two teenagers: Marshall Mariot, an introverted video gamer and bike rider, and Frankie Paul, who leaves foster care to direct his cousin’s drug business while he’s in prison.

For 17-year-old actress Kelley Winslow, faeries are just something from childhood stories. Then she meets Sonny Flannery, whose steel-gray eyes mask an equally steely determination to protect her. Sonny guards the Samhain Gate, which connects the mortal realm with the Faerie's enchanted, dangerous Otherworld. Usually kept shut by order of icy King Auberon, the Gate stands open but once a year.

Just when the Soulkeepers think they've established a foothold in the war between Heaven and Hell, the playing field shifts. Enraged by Cord's disappearance, Lucifer replaces his right-hand man with the Wicked Brethren: three Watchers so formidable even their own kind fears them. The Soulkeepers struggle to survive in an increasingly deadly world while continuing to defend human souls.

Katheryne thinks she's just a normal 20-year-old, until her dreams descend into terror and pain. At the edge of the universe, an ancient evil awakens. It wants into our world; and it's coming through her. As the dreams become reality, Katheryne is pitched into a battle that has raged for thousands of years. The fate of all reality rests in her hands.

In "Eye of the Scarab," the stakes are higher than ever for Dogboy, also known as Bronson Black. Tasked with spying using a mystical scarab device, he learns the hard truths about privacy, trust, and betrayal. As Colta City teeters on the brink of chaos, Bronson, entangled in a web of deception involving his closest allies and haunting Lovecraftian monsters, faces a critical lesson: the real danger sometimes lies in the secrets we keep from our friends.

Lainey hasn't had the best start in life. Her mother is neglectful, and her stepfather is a piece of work. Still, she makes the most of life. She loves attending art college and looks forward to a time when she can be on her own. Then one night, she is knocked down by a speeding driver, and she wakes up as a member of the undead. Not only that, she has powerful visions of an ancient evil vampire, but people are out to get her and to use her unique powers for their own gain.

Now that Kala possesses the black magic wand, Penelope, she must learn how to control the enchanted object before it controls her. Meanwhile, Vivian sends Bella and Beldora back to Bayport in search of Juniper, hoping the wand can break the spell that put her inside of the magical globe.

Who will save the circus? Vagabond Circus is in danger. Its ringmaster knows it. The performers know it. And the one person who can save the circus knows it. There are no smoke and mirrors in this show. No nets or wires. The magic is real. And so is the murderer who lurks somewhere under the big top. The ringmaster and the crew must work together to discover who is trying to ruin the place they love more than any other. Full of mystery and intrigue, this circus will transport listeners to another place.

Rocio Lopez and Finn Lockwood survived the deadly trials of the Mages' Exam in a bid to keep their magic. But the world outside presents vicious threats of its own. Forced into the Confed's military special ops unit, Rocio must walk a fine line between complicity and resistance, or everyone she loves could pay the price. With the magic's pleas growing increasingly urgent, can she make her stand in time? Stripped of his talent, Finn is determined to fight the corrupt magical government - and to find his way back to the girl he's fallen for.

A girl’s 16th birthday is supposed to be sweet, but for Summer Flynt, it was the day that her life changed forever. Young, fly, and beautiful, Summer is under the wing of her older sister, Trish. But when Trish steals something that doesn’t belong to her and gets involved in a lifestyle she can’t handle, she pays with her life. Summer soon finds out that she’s expected to pay back her sister’s old debt. With the entire neighborhood gunning for her, she’s a sheep amongst wolves and only 16 on the block.

Hace menos de un año, Evelyn Dasher era una chica normal con una existencia segura y bastante anodina; una vida que era una absoluta mentira. Oculta en la Zona 3, sabe que si vuelve a perder el control de sus peligrosas habilidades, no solo pondrá en peligro a todos los miembros de la comunidad secreta, sino también al guapísimo y terriblemente inhumano Luc. Pero hay verdades para las que ni siquiera Luc puede prepararse, y a medida que las habilidades de Evie evolucionan, las consecuencias de todo lo que él ha hecho se vuelven devastadoras.

After the success of the first edition of Learn by Reading, we decided to bring you the second volume. This book uses the second volume in the Mind Dimensions series as the underlying text. If you haven't listened to volume one, we recommend you start there. Though you could still get the educational benefits by starting from this volume, you will be missing critical information required for enjoyment of the story - and in our opinion, enjoyment is critical to the learning process.

Myrick Kerr, jovial Omega Group agent and last of the merpeople, hungers for a mission requiring his unique underwater abilities. Too bad all of his assignments are on dry land. When he's sent to investigate the sudden reappearance of ships lost in the Bermuda Triangle, he gets his wish.

Willow has the worst luck. First she has to deal with her narcissistic foster mother, Bella. Then, of course, there's her horrid little sister Ivy; not to mention the pack of werewolves that belong to Bella. Now, they have to move and start a new school - again.

Weston College freshman Leesa Nyland has been fascinated by vampires since she was three years old. That's when her mom started acting strange, insisting that sunlight hurt her skin because she'd been bitten by a one-fanged vampire. But fascinated doesn't mean Leesa believes. Any more than she believes in blue fire, people who live for centuries, and kisses that can kill. But when her beloved older brother suddenly disappears, she is forced to consider all these and more. She also has to figure out what to do about her mysterious new boyfriend.

En natt vaknar Harry Potter av att ärret i pannan brinner som eld - ett säkert tecken på att Lord Voldemort befinner sig i närheten. Harry får snart annat att tänka på när världsmästerskapen i quidditch går av stapeln. Och när sommarlovet är slut väntar en överraskning: tillsammans med två andra trollkarlsskolor, Durmstrang och Beauxbatons, ska Hogwarts tävla i en mytomspunnen trekamp. Bara en från varje skola får delta. Alla är lika spända på vems namn som kommer att dras ur den flammande bägaren.

Once, a shadow dragon ravaged the Island-World. Insatiable. Unstoppable. A dragon-killer. Now the shadow dragon has reappeared, on a collision course with Aranya and King Beran's campaign to liberate the islands from the scourge of Sylakian tyranny. He is dark, beautiful and deadly, a predator of untold power.

Die Geschichte von Thresh, Ashkana, Timothy, Ferynn und Kleiner Kerl geht weiter! In Stallen, der geheimen Schule der Übernatürlichen, geht es hoch her. Hier lernt die Elite der Magier, Vampire und Werwölfe ab 16 Jahren, ihre Gaben zu beherrschen. Doch unerwartete Ereignisse stören die Ruhe auf dem Campus und säen Verdacht in den Reihen der Jugendlichen... Man sollte meinen, dass Threshs Leben mit dem Friedensvertrag, der Kontrolle über seinen Wolf und dem Rat der Alphas ausgelastet ist, doch in seinem Kopf dreht sich alles um ein anderes heikles Problem: Garal.

Wolf Bite - Der Aufstand der Vampire. Band 2 der Nummer 1 Bestseller-Serie aus den USA. Die Wölfe und Vampire steuern auf einen Krieg zu und beide Seiten versuchen mich zu benutzen. Mein Leben lang war ich eine Außenseiterin. Doch das änderte sich, als ich ein Vollstipendium für die Elite-Akademie Evergreen erhielt – und Raffe begegnete, meinem düsteren, aber unbestreitbaren Schicksalsgefährten. Auf Evergreen entdeckte ich die Wahrheit über die verborgene Welt der Übernatürlichen und mein eigenes seltenes Erbe. Aber genau das macht mich zur Zielscheibe.