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What if the sleeping beauty never woke up? Once Upon a Dream marks the second book in a new YA line that reimagines classic Disney stories in surprising new ways. It should be simple—a dragon defeated, a slumbering princess in a castle, a prince poised to wake her. But when the prince falls asleep as his lips touch the fair maiden’s, it is clear that this fairy tale is far from over. With a desperate fairy’s last curse controlling her mind, Princess Aurora must escape from a different castle of thorns and navigate a dangerously magical landscape—created from her very own dreams.

When Jafar steals the Genie’s lamp, he uses his first two wishes to become sultan and the most powerful sorcerer in the world. Agrabah lives in fear, waiting for his third and final wish. To stop the power-mad ruler, Aladdin and the deposed Princess Jasmine must unite the people of Agrabah in rebellion. But soon their fight for freedom threatens to tear the kingdom apart in a costly civil war.

Alice is different than other eighteen-year-old ladies in Kexford, which is perfectly fine with her. She’d rather spend golden afternoons with her trusty camera or in her aunt Vivian’s lively salon, ignoring her sister’s wishes that she stop all that “nonsense” and become a “respectable” member of society. Alice is happy to meander to Miss. Yao’s teashop or to visit the children playing in the Square. She’s also interested in learning more about the young lawyer she met there, but just because she’s curious, of course, not because he was sweet and charming.

It’s been five years since the infamous sea witch defeated the little mermaid … and took King Triton’s life in the process. Ariel is now the voiceless queen of Atlantica, while Ursula runs Prince Eric’s kingdom on land. But when Ariel discovers that her father might still be alive, she finds herself returning to a world—and a prince—she never imagined she would see again.

Sixteen-year-old Wendy Darling’s life is not what she imagined it would be. The doldrums of an empty house after her brothers have gone to school, the dull parties where everyone thinks she talks too much, and the fact that her parents have decided to send her away to Ireland as a governess—it all makes her wish things could be different. Wendy’s only real escape is in writing down tales of Never Land. After nearly meeting her hero, Peter Pan, four years earlier, she still holds on to the childhood hope that his magical home truly exists. She also holds on to his shadow.

The behemoth is the fiercest creature in the British navy. It can swallow enemy battleships with one bite. The Darwinists will need it, now that they are at war with the Clanker powers. Deryn is a girl posing as a boy in the British Air Service, and Alek is the heir to an empire posing as a commoner. Finally together aboard the airship Leviathan, they hope to bring the war to a halt. But when disaster strikes the Leviathan's peacekeeping mission, they find themselves alone and hunted in enemy territory.

They call her the Wilder Queen. It’s a title given to Kate Brighton for her role in the war between the wilder rebellion and the Rimish empire. It’s a title that was hard earned: Kate may have saved her people, but many were lost in the conflict, immortalized in the tattoos of fire that grace her arms. And it’s a title that Kate never wanted. The rebellion may have made a home for themselves in a country that wants to cast them out, but the peace will never be safe while Edwin, the illegitimate king of Rime, sits upon its throne. And for that, the Wilder Queen must keep hers.

Dillon has the terrifying power to create massive amounts of destruction with the slightest tweak of his will. Deanna is so consumed by fear, it has become like a black hole, drawing to her the very things that terrify her. Then, when the glare of a supernova 16 light-years away illuminates the night sky, they have a vision: There are six of them out there, all teenagers, and all suffering from supernatural afflictions that disfigure their bodies and souls.

"Es gibt ein großes und doch ganz alltägliches Geheimnis. Alle Menschen haben daran teil, jeder kennt es, aber die wenigsten denken je darüber nach. Die meisten Leute nehmen es einfach so hin und wundern sich kein bisschen darüber. Dieses Geheimnis ist die Zeit." (Michael Ende) Michael Endes Roman aus dem Jahr 1973 ist weit mehr als ein Kinderbuch - er ist Gesellschafts- und Sozialkritik. Verpackt in die spannende Erzählung über ein kleines Mädchen, das den Menschen die gestohlene Zeit zurückbringt, lässt Momo uns über Turbokapitalismus, Selbstoptimierung und Oberflächlichkeit nachdenken.

Nikolai Lantsov has always had a gift for the impossible. No one knows what he endured in his country’s bloody civil war - and he intends to keep it that way. Now, as enemies gather at his weakened borders, the young king must find a way to refill Ravka’s coffers, forge new alliances, and stop a rising threat to the once-great Grisha Army. Yet with every day a dark magic within him grows stronger, threatening to destroy all he has built.

As Fjerda’s massive army prepares to invade, Nikolai Lantsov will summon every bit of his ingenuity and charm - and even the monster within - to win this fight. But a dark threat looms that cannot be defeated by a young king’s gift for the impossible. Zoya Nazyalensky has lost too much to war. She saw her mentor die and her worst enemy resurrected, and she refuses to bury another friend. Now duty demands she embrace her powers to become the weapon her country needs. No matter the cost.

A young adult scifi fantasy that echoes the humor and light-heartedness of the movie versions of Princess Bride and Stardust, the beautiful prose of Spring Maiden tells the magical tale of the birthing of a longed-for yet dreaded Spring Maiden. Old aunties in every village whisper fear into young hearts, murky tales of curses and bedlam at the hands of maniacal Spring Maidens. And yet, occasional whispers hint of great bounty, a healing of the world under the gentle murmurs of benevolent Spring Maidens.

Valerie’s been bounced around the foster care system. No matter how hard she tries things always end in a fiery disaster. Will her new foster family help her reach her full potential?

A gripping fantasy adventure of magic, redemption, and the battle between light and darkness. The Witching Hand was created by a coven of witches, known as the Meres of Sophi, to gain immortality, youth and beauty, and ultimate power. However, when the monstrous, vengeful force was born from a forbidden spell cast by the witches, the Hand rises in fury to destroy all in its path. Ladnar Windweaver, a half-elven novice of the Wizards of Toth, sets out on a desperate quest to stop the Witching Hand.

A long-awaited homecoming stokes a shadowed forest. After a harrowing escape from the Stoneheart palace, Ildri Ederan and Matthew Merrick return to a Treelock darkened by the Raven Queen’s forces. Shadows lurk and the wind whispers as they begin their search for the hidden stonekeeper and the Timberton dragon. As Ildri’s past and present collide, Matthew’s stalwart companionship tugs at her unsure heart. Can she trust that his ties to her are real? Elsewhere, Kirana embarks on a search of her own for her missing father, Gavin Smith, which leads her into a forbidden forest.

Madella the dream land you might have created while you were sleeping if you could have just remembered after you woke up again. The land as a child that you might have built sand castles, or giant palaces reaching to the stars, or maybe using your imagination you created creatures, vehicles, or landscapes of your own design. Let me take you into one of these lands for a short moment. A world James calls Madella. He didn't create it, he didn't cause it's problems, but the creatures who live there now seek him to save them all.

Unable to prove that she’s the missing princess, and unable to bear life under Lady Tremaine any longer, Cinderella attempts a fresh start, looking for work at the palace as a seamstress. But when the Grand Duke appoints her to serve under the king’s visiting sister, Cinderella becomes witness to a grand conspiracy to take the king—and the prince—out of power, as well as a longstanding prejudice against fairies, including Cinderella’s own Fairy Godmother.

You will never know anyone as exciting as the great Jaxyl, warrior princess, born to save the Cosmos. She is daring, naughty, and full of herself, but she is the heroine we have all been looking for. Though her choices might be questionable, she makes no apologies for who she is, and she always delivers.

Gage Black’s presence is a death sentence. Plants wither, magic fades, and elementals die when he gets too close. He's branded as cursed and cast out by society, and things only get worse when he accidentally summons a void dragon—an ancient beast feared for devouring worlds.

Maxwell's Key in the Mirror is a magical tale about a young boy who turns ten years old. While he is visiting his great-grandparents, he takes a tumble reaching for a key that fell off a mirror. The fall renders him unconscious, and when he wakes up, he has been transported to a new world where he is on his own. A girl named Penelope, living in an underground house in the desert, appears and believes Maxwell can help her save her world from the mandatory separation of people caused by the fruit of the walking trees. In return, she would help him find his way home.