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Eight hours. Six friends. Five survive. Red Kenny is on a road trip for spring break with five friends: Her best friend – the older brother – his perfect girlfriend – a secret crush – a classmate – and a killer. When their RV breaks down in the middle of nowhere with no cell service, they soon realize this is no accident. They have been trapped by someone out there in the dark, someone who clearly wants one of them dead. With eight hours until dawn, the six friends must escape, or figure out which of them is the target. But is there a liar among them? Buried secrets will be forced to light and tensions inside the RV will reach deadly levels. Not all of them will survive the night...

Charlotte Davis is in pieces. At seventeen she's already lost more than most people do in a lifetime. But she's learned how to forget. The broken glass washes away the sorrow until there is nothing but calm. You don't have to think about your father and the river. Your best friend, who is gone forever. Or your mother, who has nothing left to give you. Every new scar hardens Charlie's heart just a little more, yet it still hurts so much. It hurts enough to not care anymore, which is sometimes what has to happen before you can find your way back from the edge. A deeply moving portrait of a girl in a world that owes her nothing, and has taken so much, and the journey she undergoes to put herself back together. Kathleen Glasgow's debut is heartbreakingly real and unflinchingly honest. It's a story you won't be able to look away from.

Journey to the ruthless and romantic world of Sabaa Tahir's New York Times bestselling fantasy series, An Ember in the Ashes quartet, available as a stunning paperback box set!

The perfect gift for any epic fantasy fan, this collectible paperback box set with a gorgeous series look includes all four books of the beloved and bestselling Ember series.

Bound into each book is a stunning character portrait!

An Ember in the Ashes Set in a rich, high-fantasy world inspired by ancient Rome, Laia is a slave fighting for her family, and Elias is a young soldier fighting for his freedom.

A Torch Against the Night After the events of the Fourth Trial, Martial soldiers hunt the two fugitives as they flee the city and undertake a perilous journey through the heart of the Empire.

A Reaper at the Gates All Empires fall. Beyond the Martial Empire and within it, the threat of war looms ever larger.

A Sky Beyond the Storm Prepare for the jaw-dropping finale and discover: Who will survive the storm?

Praise for the books One of TIME Magazine's 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time "One of the best YA fantasy series of the last decade." -BUZZFEED "A captivating, heart-pounding fantasy." -Us Weekly "Full of twists and turns." - NPR

For all of Emory's life she's been told who she is. In town she's the rich one--the great-great-granddaughter of the mill's founder. At school she's hot Maddie Ward's younger sister. And at home, she's the good one, her stoner older brother Joey's babysitter. Everything was turned on its head, though, when she and Joey were in the car accident that killed Candy MontClaire. The car accident that revealed just how bad Joey's drug habit was. Four months later, Emmy's junior year is starting, Joey is home from rehab, and the entire town of Mill Haven is still reeling from the accident. Everyone's telling Emmy who she is, but so much has changed, how can she be the same person? Or was she ever that person at all? Mill Haven wants everyone to live one story, but Emmy's beginning to see that people are more than they appear. Her brother, who might not be "cured," the popular guy who lives next door, and most of all, many "ghostie" addicts who haunt the edges of the town. People spend so much time telling her who she is--it might be time to decide for herself. A journey of one sister, one brother, one family, to finally recognize and love each other for who they are, not who they are supposed to be, You'd Be Home Now is Kathleen Glasgow's glorious and heartbreaking story about the opioid crisis, and how it touches all of us.

Once, Lan had a different name. Now she goes by the one the Elantian colonizers gave her when they invaded her kingdom, killed her mother, and outlawed her people's magic. She spends her nights as a songgirl in Haak'gong, a city transformed by the conquerors, and her days scavenging for what she can find of the past. Anything to understand the strange mark burned into her arm by her mother in her last act before she died. The mark is mysterious-an untranslatable Hin character-and no one but Lan can see it. Until the night a boy appears at her teahouse and saves her life. Zen is a practitioner-one of the fabled magicians of the Last Kingdom. Their magic was rumored to have been drawn from the demons they communed with. Magic believed to be long lost. Now it must be hidden from the Elantians at all costs. When Zen comes across Lan, he recognizes what she is: a practitioner with a powerful ability hidden in the mark on her arm. He's never seen anything like it-but he knows that if there are answers, they lie deep in the pine forests and misty mountains of the Last Kingdom, with an order of practitioning masters planning to overthrow the Elantian regime. Both Lan and Zen have secrets buried deep within-secrets they must hide from others, and secrets that they themselves have yet to discover. Fate has connected them, but their destiny remains unwritten. Both hold the power to liberate their land. And both hold the power to destroy the world. Now the battle for the Last Kingdom begins.

From the author of the National Book Award finalist The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks comes the story of the kids of a distinguished family whose friendship turns toxic because of a generations-old secret.

This novel is a harrowing, haunting reminder of what it means to be human and how hope might be kindled in the midst of oppression and fear. The Washington Post An Ember in the Ashes could launch Sabaa Tahir into JK Rowling territory It has the addictive quality of TheHunger Games combined with the fantasy of Harry Potter and the brutality of Game of Thrones. Public Radio International An Ember in the Ashes glows, burns, and smolders as beautiful and radiant as it is searing. Huffington Post A worthy novel and one as brave as its characters. The New York Times Book Review A deft, polished debut ( Publishers Weekly, starred review), Sabaa Tahir s AN EMBER IN THE ASHES is a thought-provoking, heart-wrenching and pulse-pounding read. Set in a rich, high-fantasy world with echoes of ancient Rome, it tells the story of a slave fighting for her family and a young soldier fighting for his freedom. Laia is a slave.Elias is a soldier.Neither is free. Under the Martial Empire, defiance is met with death. Those who do not vow their blood and bodies to the Emperor risk the execution of their loved ones and the destruction of all they hold dear. It is in this brutal world, inspired by ancient Rome, that Laia lives with her grandparents and older brother. The family ekes out an existence in the Empire s impoverished backstreets. They do not challenge the Empire. They ve seen what happens to those who do. But when Laia s brother is arrested for treason, Laia is forced to make a decision. In exchange for help from rebels who promise to rescue her brother, she will risk her life to spy for them from within the Empire s greatest military academy. There, Laia meets Elias, the school s finest soldier and secretly, its most unwilling. Elias wants only to be free of the tyranny he s being trained to enforce. He and Laia will soon realize that their destinies are intertwined and that their choices will change the fate of the Empire itself.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Reckoners series, Words of Radiance, the Mistborn trilogy, and the Stormlight Archive comes the sequel to Skyward. The epic adventure continues in this story of a girl with a secret in a dangerous world at war for humanity's future.

All her life, Spensa has dreamed of becoming a pilot. Of proving she's a hero like her father. She made it to the sky, but the truths she learned about her father were crushing. The rumors of his cowardice are true--he deserted his flight during battle against the Krell. Worse, though, he turned against his team and attacked them.

Spensa is sure there's more to the story. And she's sure that whatever happened to her father in his starship could happen to her. When she made it outside the protective shell of her planet, she heard the stars--and it was terrifying. Everything Spensa has been taught about her world is a lie.

But Spensa also discovered a few other things about herself--and she'll travel to the end of the galaxy to save humankind if she needs to.

Fallon möter Ben samma dag hon ska flytta tvärs över landet. Deras sprakande attraktion och oerhörda kemi får dem att spendera hela sista dagen i Los Angeles tillsammans. Eftersom de precis träffats och inte är redo för en distansrelation bestämmer de sig för att ses på samma plats, samma datum, varje år. Fallon flyttar till New York för att satsa på skådespelarkarriären hon tidigare varit tvungen att ge upp och Ben vill skriva en roman. De kommer överens om att han ska skriva om deras möten och färdigställa sin bok. Så varje år ses de. Tills den dag Fallon börjar tvivla på om Ben är ärlig eller om han bara spelar en karaktär, för att få till den perfekta ploten i sin kärleksroman. Finns deras relation utan romanen och kan det bli en kärlekshistoria om den slutar med att någon får sitt hjärta krossat?

En stark skildring av terrorattackerna i New York som skakade en hel värld. Fotboll är det viktigaste i Lucas liv, men efter en tredje hjärnskakning bestämmer föräldrarna att det är för farligt att fortsätta, han måste sluta spela. Lucas är förtvivlad men helt säker på att farbror Benny kan övertala mamma och pappa att ändra sig. Istället för att gå till skolan tar Lucas tåget in till Manhattan för att söka upp Benny som arbetar som brandman inne i city. Men när Lucas hör ett öronbedövande dån, och ser hur ett flygplan kraschar in i ett av tvillingtornen, hamnar han mitt i vad som ska komma att bli en av de mest fruktansvärda terrorattackerna i modern tid. Hur ska Lucas hinna ta sig bort från World Trade Center innan tornen rasar och överleva terrorattacken?     

Jag överlevde-serien är lättlästa, illustrerade romaner som berättar om hur modiga och uppfinningsrika barn både upplevt och överlevt världsomvälvande händelser i historien.  

Passar såväl historienördar som spänningsläsare!  

LAUREN TARSHIS är författare och redaktör på det amerikanska förlaget Scholastic. Hon bor med sin familj i Connecticut.

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