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Existe bajo el agua. Muévete despacio. En una tierra desértica, cada nuevo amanecer cubre los secretos que se ocultan entre las dunas. Día tras día, una joven protege los suyos a costa de la lealtad de quienes confiaban en ella. Cuenta historias. Miente. No muy lejos de allí, un rey reconstruye lo irreparable y un chico recurre a la magia para desentrañar el enigma de un viejo castigo. Pero hay verdades que es arriesgado desvelar. Algunas están más seguras tras un candado y una llave...

Naomi, ein 12-jähriges jüdisches Mädchen, musste während des Zweiten Weltkriegs mit seiner Mutter aus Frankreich nach New York fliehen; den Vater haben die Nazis vor ihren Augen getötet. Dieses Erlebnis hat Naomi zutiefst verstört. Das ehemals fröhliche und kluge Mädchen spricht nicht mehr, zerreißt Papier in kleine Schnipsel und versteckt sich hinter seiner Puppe. Nun wird Alan, ein sportbegeisterter Junge, der im selben Mietshaus lebt, von seinen Eltern gebeten, sich ein wenig um sie zu kümmern. Alan übernimmt anfangs nur widerwillig diese Aufgabe.

A través de una serie de relatos, contados como si fuera un diario, el autor comparte diversas historias de amores pasajeros que nunca llegan a concretarse.

Kaum hat die 16-jährige Belly das Herz ihres ewigen Schwarms Conrad erobert, fällt ein Schatten auf die junge Beziehung. Conrads Mutter Susannah stirbt. Der Schicksalsschlag trennt die Verliebten: Conrad zieht sich zurück, und Belly fühlt sich vernachlässigt; die Beziehung zerbricht. Conrad hat nicht nur mit dem Verlust seiner Mutter zu kämpfen, sein Vater will das geliebte Strandhaus tatsächlich verkaufen. Mit vereinten Kräften gelingt es, den Vater der Jungs zu überreden, das Haus nicht zu verkaufen.

Callie is the daughter of a rich but heartless industrialist in Baltimore. She witnessed the heartbreaking death of her neglected mother, and now her father insists she marry to extend his business empire. Plucky Callie refuses, insisting that she would rather marry a poor railroad worker than become the plaything of a rich man. Frederick Cameron, the intended match for poor Callie, determines to test the young lady's noble insistence that she marry for love and not money. His grand scheme causes him to travel and step down from the high place of privilege, with startling results.

There are only two rules to becoming part of the Hemlock crew: You have to be single. You have to be invited. Karissa is definitely single, and now that she caught the eye of Jasper, she just might get the invite. Nothing about him is her type, except for the fact that he's drop-dead gorgeous and every sophomore girl’s dream boyfriend. Add in his killer personality and piercing blue eyes along with his blonde hair and a skateboard hanging from his bag and she just might reconsider—but dating him is a slippery slope that she's not sure she wants to walk.

Die Sommerferien stehen vor der Tür. Die schönste Zeit des Jahres. Nicht so für Jean. Die Konflikte mit seinem Vater lassen sich im Urlaub nicht einfach ausblenden. Die alljährliche Eskalation scheint vorprogrammiert. Doch dann taucht ein Fremder auf und bald wird klar: Diesen Sommer wird er das größte Abenteuer seines Lebens eingehen. Gemeinsam mit seinem besten Freund Marcel, begibt er sich auf eine spannende Reise, um die Wahrheit herauszufinden.

Dieses Jahr ist für Lia auf dem Landsitz ihrer Familie nichts mehr, wie es einmal war: Finn, der Neffe des Wildhüters, verdreht Lia den Kopf. Obwohl er sie mit seinen spöttischen Sprüchen herausfordert, verliebt sie sich Hals über Kopf in ihn. Doch wer ist dieser Junge wirklich, der mit einem wilden Fuchs Ball spielt und ihm Gedichte vorliest? Bald erreichen die Schatten der Vergangenheit die Wildnis von Badfearna. Sie bringen Dinge über Finn ans Licht, die keinen Zweifel lassen: Ein Mädchen wie Lia hat in seinem Leben keinen Platz.

Immer schon gab es nur zwei Jungs, die Bellys Herz erobern konnten: Conrad und Jeremiah. In diesem Sommer muss Belly eine Entscheidung treffen und sich über ihre Gefühle endgültig klar werden. Seit zwei Jahren ist sie mit Jeremiah zusammen, als er ihr plötzlich einen Heiratsantrag macht. Belly stürzt sich überglücklich in die Hochzeitsvorbereitungen. Doch ihre Eltern halten die Hochzeit für völlig verfrüht, und nach einem Streit mit ihrer Mutter bricht Belly zu dem Ort auf, an dem sie so viele glückliche Sommer verbracht hat. Dort trifft sie Conrad, der ihr seine Liebe gesteht.

After falling into mage’s oblivion, Dawn wakes to a nightmare. All of Amaria’s magic is out of balance from Ryze’s return, and at Necromancer Academy, unruly magic could mean death. That’s one constant Dawn is prepared for, though. What she isn’t prepared for is how far Ryze’s minions will go to protect The Staff of Sullivan. It’s hidden in the academy’s catacombs, and it must be important. But how? With the skin-walker thwarting her every step, Dawn must find the staff and stop the skin-walker once and for all. Unless it stops her first.

When the lights go out during a kissing game at a summer party, Darcy experiences the kiss of a lifetime—one that offers an adrenaline rush like she’s never known before. Determined to find the mystery kisser, she devises the Kiss Contest. If she’s lucky, the mystery guy will show up and knock her socks off again. But unexpected feelings for her best friend complicate Darcy’s plan, proving there’s much more to life than living on the edge. Can Darcy figure out what she wants before she loses everything, or will losing everything help her find out who she really is?

Evie was pregnant and forced to give up the baby. But she can't just leave the child with strangers, especially when she thinks the baby is being neglected. With her boyfriend waiting in the truck, Evie snatches the baby and convinces him to drive her to Montreal where she plans to start a new life with her child. But when the baby won't eat and she and Justin argue, she ends up alone in a small town. As the baby becomes sicker, Evie must decide whether to admit her mistake and turn herself in, or to keep running.

Cady has always wanted to be a reporter, like her hero Nellie Bly, so after a fire burns down the orphanage she lives in, she’s ready to leave small-town Ontario and make her mark as a newspaperwoman. A crumbling newspaper clipping leads her to Orrenstown, Indiana, where her investigation into a long-ago murder earns her a hard lesson in race relations. Smart and determined, and more than a little headstrong, Cady pokes a stick into a wasp’s nest of lies, dirty politics, corrupt law enforcement and racial tension—and ends up fearing for her life.

Miles Derkach is in trouble. Along with two friends, he stole a car and went joyriding. When the dust clears, he is all alone and his friends have left, leaving him to take the blame—and the punishment—while maintaining his silence. Placed on probation and sentenced to community service, Miles begins working for a man who, after suffering a stroke and not being able to drive, has kept his beloved hot rod under wraps in the garage. Seeing a chance to learn more about cars and pursue his dream of becoming a mechanic, Miles helps to restore the car.

Bobbie Jo didn't set out to buy a limping blue roan mare—she wanted a colt she could train to barrel race. But the horse is a fighter, just like Bobbie Jo. Now all she has to do is train the sour old mare that obviously has a past. While she nurses the horse back to health, Bobbie Jo realizes that the horse, now called Blue Moon, may have more history than she first thought. With the help of the enigmatic Cole, she slowly turns the horse into a barrel racer.

Malou has just turned sixteen—hardly old enough to be out in the world on her own—and all she knows for sure is that she’s of mixed race and that she was left at an orphanage as a newborn. When the orphanage burns to the ground, she finds out that she may have been born in a small town in Ontario’s cottage country. Parry Sound turns out to have quite a few young brown faces, but Malou can’t believe they might be related to her. After she finds work as a cleaner in the local hospital, an Aboriginal boy named Jimmy helps her find answers to her questions about her parents.

Sara has never been out of the tiny town of Hope, Ontario, where she has been in an orphanage all her life. After a fire destroys the orphanage, clues about her parentage—a medical certificate and a Star of David—lead her to Germany. Despite her fears—she doesn’t speak the language, she knows no one in Germany, and she’s never been on an airplane—Sara arrives in Germany determined to explore her newly discovered Jewish heritage and solve the mystery of her parentage. What she encounters is a country still dealing with the aftermath of the Holocaust.

Beverly is in Hawaii, helping her uncle at his dive shop, learning how to dive and trying to lose weight and get a boyfriend. When Garth, an accomplished diver, shows an interest in her, Beverly is ecstatic, until it turns out Garth is only interested in one thing. Struggling with failing strength from her self-imposed starvation diet, Beverly finds herself in deep trouble when she has to fight Garth off underwater.

Declan Taylor is furious at the world. After winning state as a freshman starting pitcher, he accidentally messes up his throwing arm. Despite painful surgery and brutal physical therapy, he might never pitch again. And instead of spending the summer with his friends, Declan is forced to get a job to help his family out. On top of that, it seems like his best friend, Jake Lehrer, is flirting with Declan’s crush and always ditching him to hang out with the team or his friends from synagogue. So Declan ends up playing a lot of Imperialist Empires online and making new friends.

When Ian and his classmates watch a documentary about the health concerns of eating fast food, Ian decides to start a boycott and stop everyone he can from eating at Frankie's, a huge fast-food chain with a questionable menu. The boycott takes off, and Frankie's gets concerned. The company's lawyers threaten Ian and his friends and try to force them to stop the boycott. Ian must convince others that the boycott is a good idea. Can Ian stand up for what he believes in? Can you take on a corporate behemoth and win?