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When Mum gives her the notebook, Scarlet should be happy. It's beautiful, with its shiny scarlet cover and its blank pages full of promise. But Scarlet is absolutely not in the mood for a peace offering. Does Mum really think she can tear their family apart and expect Scarlet to be happy about it? And it's Dad's fault too. Why didn't he fight to keep them all together? Now Scarlet has to start a new life and none of it was her choice.

Identical twin sisters Summer and Winter live alone on a remote island, sheltered from the fallout of a mysterious event that has laid waste to the rest of the world. They survive on rations stockpiled by their father and spend their days reading and rereading their mother’s collection of classic literature - until the arrival of a mysterious stranger upends their carefully constructed reality.

Charlotte Perkins is seven years old and can't wait to grow up - if only she could decide what she wanted to be! Luckily, no dream is too big for little Lottie Perkins. Emerging listeners will fall in love with this adorable and collectable new series from award-winning Australian author Katrina Nannestad. Includes the books Movie Star, Ballerina, Pop Singer and Fashion Designer.

There's power in stories. And power comes at a price. Detective Cora Gorderheim has found the man who strangled the Wayward storyteller. But he was just a small part of a much bigger tale. Someone powerful ordered a murder on Cora's patch. That someone still lurks in the shadows. But as she continues her investigations, Cora is warned not to pry into the great and the good of Fenest. Too stubborn to know better, Cora keeps digging and begins to piece together a conspiracy that reaches from the gutter dwellers of the Union of Realms right to the top: the Chambers.

Die fälschlich inhaftierte Whistleblowerin Rachel Pierce nimmt lieber das Risiko eines Berufungsverfahrens in Kauf, als ihren vorbestimmten Platz als erste Interstellare Braut auf der Kolonie hinzunehmen. Sie ist dickköpfig und fest entschlossen, Gerechtigkeit - und ihre Freiheit - auf der Erde zu erlangen...aber ihre Gefährten sind nicht bereit, ihr Leben oder ihre Zukunft auf ein System zu setzen, das sie für primitiv und korrupt halten.

Saber befürchtet, dass er sich nie vollständig von seinen ihn lähmenden Verletzungen erholen wird, und er weiß, dass er seine Amate nicht verdient hat, wenn er sie nicht beschützen kann. Sie sollte sich für einen Krieger entscheiden, nicht für einen Krüppel, der ständig ihre Hilfe braucht. Also tut Saber alles, was in seiner Macht steht, um die zarte Frau, in die er sich verliebt hat, von sich zu stoßen.

Dagger ist ein Trivatorkrieger, der sich vor nichts und niemandem fürchtet, bis er eine junge, zierliche Menschenfrau trifft, die sein Herz erweckt. Ihre sanften Berührungen, die zarte Stimme und ihr schüchterner Humor berühren ihn in einer Weise, wie er es nie für möglich gehalten hätte. Der Gedanke, dass einer solche Schönheit Leid zugefügt werden könnte, erfüllt ihn mit Angst.

Eve and Maggie Abbott are desperate. Out of money, and options, they are forced to move into one very old house. It happens to have belonged to their dead grandmother, but the rent is cheap, and the location is killer. That last sentence is a joke, unless you're into a "middle of nowhere" vibe - and cows.

Haley Patterson has had a crush on golden boy Bryce Colton for ages. But when she hears a rumor that he hooked up with her, she gives him a choice: be her boyfriend for a month to show other guys that she’s dateable - despite her overprotective and very intimidating brothers - or deal with the angry, cage-fighting boyfriend of the girl with whom he actually did hook up.

Miranda Fitch’s life is a waking nightmare. The accident that ended her burgeoning acting career left her with excruciating chronic back pain, a failed marriage, and a deepening dependence on painkillers. And now, she’s on the verge of losing her job as a college theater director. Determined to put on Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well, the play that promised and cost her everything, she faces a mutinous cast hellbent on staging Macbeth instead. Miranda sees her chance at redemption slip through her fingers.

One frosty winter's night, a pure white calf is born on an ordinary muddy farm in the light of a silver moon. This is the legendary Mooncalf, whose arrival has been foretold since the dawn of time. Hare knows immediately that if the calf is not saved, it will be the end of all things. According to a dream passed down from animal to animal, if the calf dies, a great terribleness will come - rising seas, a plague, skies raining down fire... and Hare vows to protect Mooncalf with his life.

From the self-proclaimed Queen of the Stunted Late Bloomers and one of the most exciting emerging voices in comedy comes an honestly funny memoir about the awkward, cringeworthy, hilarious, and longest possible journey of coming of age and into her own.

For the past two years, Lee has been laser-focused on two things: her job as a sound tech at a local coffee shop and her podcast Artists in Love, which she cohosts with her boyfriend, Vincent. Until he breaks up with her on the air right after graduation. When their unexpected split, the loss of her job, and her parent’s announcement that they’re separating coincide, Lee’s plans, her art, and her life are thrown into turmoil.

Last summer, Link Miller drowned on dry land in the woods, miles away from the nearest body of water. His death was ruled a strange accident, and in the months since, his friends and family have struggled to make sense of it. But Link's close friend Noemi Amato knows the truth: Link drowned in an impossible lake that only she can find. And what's more, someone claiming to be Link has been contacting her, warning Noemi to stay out of the forest.

At Jonesville High, casual misogyny runs rampant, slut-shaming is a given, and school athletes are glorified above all else. Best friends Suze, Nikki, Ani, and Lydia swear they'll always have each other's backs against predatory guys - so when Suze suddenly starts dating wrestling star and toxic douchebag Tarkin Shaw, it's a big betrayal. Turns out, it's not a relationship - it's blackmail. At first, Suze feels like she has no choice but to go along with it, but when Tarkin starts demanding more, she enlists the help of intelligent misfits DeShawn and Marcus....

In the age of Trump and Brexit, every crisis is instantly overridden by the next. The turbulent political weather of the 21st century generates anxiety and makes it difficult to know how to react. Laing makes an inspiring case for why art matters more than ever, as a force of both resistance and repair. Art, she argues, changes how we see the world. It gives us X-ray vision. It reveals inequalities and offers fertile new ways of living. Funny Weather brings together a career's worth of Laing's writing about art and culture, and their role in our political and emotional lives.

Makarios von Kronos ist ein Rebell, ein Schmuggler, der sich von niemandem etwas sagen lässt, nicht einmal von den Anführern auf Rogue 5. Doch als Opfer eines Verrates landet er in der Gefängniszelle eines Koalitionsschiffes und erleidet dadurch ein Schicksal, das schlimmer ist als der Tod - eine Gefangenschaft beim Hive. Er kann entkommen, tauscht aber lediglich ein Gefängnis gegen ein anderes. Nun lebt er auf der Kolonie, verseucht und gilt als Risiko.

Kampflord Anghar hat als Gefangener beim feindseligen Hive die Hölle durchlebt. Überzeugt davon, dass er niemals freikommen würde, wählt er lieber den Tod als die Entehrung. Als das Aufklärungsteam der Koalition, das ihn töten sollte, ihn stattdessen befreit, beginnt seine lange, qualvolle Reise zurück zu einem Dasein als wahrer Atlane. Als Krieger, der auf sein Biest, auf seinen Dienst im Krieg, stolz ist.

Caroline Jane (CJ) Ellison ist eine begabte Börsen-Analystin. Als ein Deal an der Wall Street schiefgeht, fällt ihr die Wahl zwischen Gefängnis und dem Interstellaren Bräute-Programm nicht schwer. Sie geht. Sie lässt die Erde, ihre Vergangenheit und ihre Fehler hinter sich. Ihre Entscheidung ist eine logische, keine emotionale. Bis sie auf einer anderen Welt aufwacht, neben einem riesigen atlanischen Kampflord: ihrem zugeordneten Gefährten, der sich weigert, sie anzunehmen.

In ancient Rome, all the best stories have one thing in common - murder. In one 50-year period, 26 emperors were murdered. But what did killing mean in a city where gladiators fought to the death to sate a crowd? In A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Emma Southon examines a trove of real-life homicides from Roman history to explore Roman culture, including how perpetrator, victim, and the act itself were regarded by ordinary people. Inside ancient Rome’s darkly fascinating history, we see how the Romans viewed life and death and what it means to be human.