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Could you live a perfect life, knowing someone else took on all your pain and despair? Skyla has always lived a perfect, happy life - just like everyone in her community. Even if there are brief moments where she is certain she has experienced pain and regret, those moments are brief and quickly forgotten. But when Aiden, Skyla’s next-door neighbor, reveals the truth of the community and their perfect lives, Skyla is faced with an unexpected choice regarding her future. Will her actions lead her community to a better life? Or will she doom them all?

No siempre se trata de buscar la copa. A veces, se trata de buscar lo que hay dentro de ella. Lance no desea nada más que estar ahí para combatir los dragones de su amada princesa Alexandra. Con su fiel corcel a su lado, se embarca en la búsqueda del elixir mágico que solo se encuentra en el Santo Grial. Con su poder fortalecedor, enfrentarse a una vieja bruja, al bosque hechizado y al extraño ogro que vive bajo un puente debería ser pan comido. Pero cuando se trata de los dragones de Alexandra, las cosas están muy lejos de ser lo que aparentan. ¿Será suficiente el regalo de Lance,...

Sixteen-year-old Hamilton Dinger leads a charmed life. He's got the grades for the top of the class, the abilities of a star athlete and Tetris player, and the charisma to get away with anything. Everything seems to be going along perfectly, including his plans to ask out Gwen Kessler, as he enters into tenth grade at Apollo Central High School.

After joining the Order of the Crystal Daggers, led by her dauntless grandmother, Lady Penelope, Eleanora Svobodová set out to save her kingdom from oncoming devastation. And she failed. Following the attack on Prague Castle, Eleanora is determined to redeem herself. She sets out to win Karl’s trust while distancing herself from Ferdy, whose secrets and lies have done nothing to stop her from falling in love with him.

Years after Sapphira's battle against the Dark Plague, Princess Selene has grown up - and so has her daughter, Terra. Despite her mother's numerous stories and the affirmation of her friends and people, Terra sees the world as a place that still welcomes darkness, and she wonders if the Dark Plague is really gone - and if Pegasus was truly as real as her mother says. When tragedy strikes, Terra is faced with the haunting question of whether or not she can believe - and whether it really matters in the end.

There is nothing like a birthday to give Hamilton Dinger something to look forward to in his busy life. With his new job as a part-time intern at the Mayor's office, being a full-time high school student and Starlight Warrior has its challenges. The arrival of SWORD, the growing demonic activity in Apollo City, and the increasingly negative media attention has sparked ongoing unrest among the city and its inhabitants.

Nightmares slither from the shadows in Scare Street’s latest spine-tingling collection. Thirteen tales of the macabre await in this chilling new volume - a never-ending stream of ghosts, ghouls, and other horrors to haunt your dreams.

Driven by vengeance, Exton Shepherd never set out to save anyone. As he circles the war-torn world in his pirated starship, the Perdition, he only sees his father's ghost lurking around every corner and the looming darkness on the horizon. When Aerie unexpectedly tumbles into his life, he finds he cannot trust her any more than he can ignore her. But just like the raging war down on Earth, it's tempting to think he can...

Long before she took up the title of Starry Knight, Raiya Cole knew she was different. Ever since she survived the car crash that killed her parents, the truth about her supernatural powers - and her destiny as a fallen Star - shaped her life, preparing her for a battle she knew would come one day. With the help of Grandpa Odd, her beloved mentor, Raiya works to maintain control over her power and train as a Starlight Warrior. But the battle she prepared for is not the first one she must face.

Despite the decrease in crime and attacks, Hamilton knows it is only a matter of time before the remaining Sinisters and their mysterious new leader cause more trouble for him. When Alora comes under attack, Hamilton and his team, with help from his new friend, Mary, set off with St. Brendan the Navigator to restore the flow of time. But it is only after they work to save Time do they realize how little of it they have left.

As if Hamilton Dinger needs any more frustration at the moment. Not only has he accepted his duty as a Starlight defender, he's got swim meets to prepare for, his little brother to babysit, and an annoying new girl in his class. Plus he's got his 'mentor' dragon, Elysian, on his back every chance he gets, and his 'co-defender,' Starry Knight, urging him to quit the superhero business after every battle.

Le sirene credono agli esseri umani? Mentre lavora a una missione di immersione in grande profondità per l’Università della California, Jay Bishop, studente di oceanografia, viene risucchiato in un condotto vulcanico, diretto verso il cuore della Terra e verso una morte certa. Ma, con sua grande sorpresa, Jay sopravvive alla caduta. Catturato da una comunità di sirene, viene tenuto in vita come cavia per esperimenti scientifici. Disorientato e sperduto, scopre che la sua unica speranza di tornare in superficie è Paga, un anziano della comunità che vede nell’arrivo inatteso di Jay ...

¿Creen las sirenas en los humanos? Mientras trabaja en una misión de buceo en aguas profundas para la Universidad de California, Jay Bishop, estudiante de oceanografía, es arrastrado a través de un tubo volcánico hacia el núcleo de la Tierra y hacia una muerte segura. Pero, para su sorpresa, Jay no solo sobrevive a la caída, sino que acaba prisionero de una comunidad de sirenas, que lo mantienen con vida como objeto de experimento científico. Confuso y desorientado, el único hilo de esperanza de Jay para regresar a la superficie es Paga, un anciano de la comunidad que cree que la ...

Les sirènes croient‑elles aux humains ? Alors qu’il travaille sur une mission de plongée en grande profondeur pour l’Université de Californie, Jay Bishop, étudiant en océanographie, est aspiré dans un conduit volcanique, en direction du cœur de la Terre et d’une mort certaine. Mais à sa grande surprise, Jay survit à la chute. Capturé par une communauté de sirènes, il est maintenu en vie comme sujet d’expérience scientifique. Désorienté et perdu, il découvre que son seul espoir de remonter à la surface réside en Paga, un ancien de la communauté qui voit dans ...

The end is approaching for Hamilton Dinger and his friends. As the forces of darkness in Apollo City gain power, Hamilton finds himself on trial as the media, the law, and even his friends seem to have turned on him. The souls of the city, and the world, are on the line as the long-fought war against Alkuzor, Draco, and the Seven Deadly Sinisters comes to a crux with SWORD, Wingdinger, and the forces of Adonaias.

As a Ghost Child and Handmaiden to Ceru, the Great Sea Serpent and Guardian of the Laenite Tribe, all 17-year-old Thessa wants is a family of her own. When Ceru tells her she will marry an outsider and bear a child of prophecy, Thessa is more than excited - especially when the boy she loves, Garrison Rico, the son of the Arian Kingdom’s ambassador, agrees to marry her.

It has been many years since that day, the day Hamilton Dinger wishes to forget, along with the ache in his heart. But his desire to let go of the past is usurped when the future comes barreling into his apartment in the form of two young Starlight defenders, Lucas and Lyra, calling for a new mission for the retired Wingdinger. More than reluctantly, Hamilton heads home to Apollo City as Dante Salyards, now a rogue agent from SWORD, seeks his help in dismantling a new administration of evil in Apollo City.

For four years, Princess Aurora of Rhone - Rose, to her friends - has searched the world for a way to break the curse placed on her by Magdalina, the wicked ruler of the fairies at war with her kingdom. Under the curse, Rose is doomed to die on her 18th birthday after pricking her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel. And time is running out.

Sapphira is a desert world with little plant life, where the people live in the shadows of gray sunlight, sickened by the Dark Plague. To cure the people, the Guardian of Dreams sends the Spirit of Truth to bring the light back into his darkened world. In the form of Pegasus, he enters the world through the pure, innocent dreams of Selene, the reluctant princess and heir-apparent to the throne.

The day I fell in love with Kara was the day I accidentally ruined her life, and I was as blindsided by ruining her life as much as I was by falling in love with her. According to my now ex-best friend, Miles, love is supposed to make you feel stupid, but I never thought my stupidity, or anybody else’s for that matter, would lead to such devastation.