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季節は秋。DS研でコトリバコの呪いを辛くも退けた空魚と鳥子は裏世界探検の日々へと復帰する。

季節は夏、空魚と鳥子は互いの仲を深めながら探検を続けていく。

仁科鳥子と出逢ったのは〈裏側〉で“あれ”を目にして死にかけていたときだった

Ever since her aunt died four months ago, seventeen-year-old Vivian (Viv) Spry is aching to figure out where she belongs. Her father has become emotionally distant and even her best friend has found a new sense of identity in her theater group. Unfortunately, nobody in her rural West Virginia town has time for an assertive, angry girl, especially a girl dubbed “Ice Queen” for refusing to sleep with her popular boyfriend.

In Marley's town, senior student pranks are a rite of passage. They start out simple: Marley and her friends - Atlas, Lucia and Jesse - egg houses, fill the headteacher's office with glitter-filled balloons and set chickens loose in the halls. But when Jesse accepts a dare to drive Danger Alley, a ten-mile stretch of winding road that's notorious for car crashes, with no headlights, things take a turn for the worse. With her friends never backing down, Marley is caught between keeping the peace and keeping herself safe.

Penny's trying to forget about her ex, Nash. Ever since his father was arrested as the brutal serial killer who traumatized their small town last Halloween, Penny's parents have forbidden her to have anything to do with Nash or his family. As Halloween draws near, it's hard not to think of him, and what happened, but she's trying. That proves impossible when she goes shopping with her friends for a costume. What she finds instead is ripped straight from a horror movie: her classmate, Noah, stabbed to death on the floor behind the clothing racks.

After their parents divorced, 10-year-old twins Ivy and Iris were split up - Ivy lived with Dad, Iris with Mum. But after a tragic accident takes their mum's life, the devastated sisters are reunited when Iris moves in with Ivy and their dad. Iris takes their mum's death especially hard, unwilling to speak to anyone except Ivy. Unable to stand seeing Iris so sad, Ivy promised her that she can share her life now. After all, they're sisters. Twins.

No elegí nacer. En otras palabras, no elegí existir. No elegí a mis padres ni mis circunstancias. Definitivamente, no elegí mi aspecto ni mi personalidad. Y, sin embargo, todo eso parece definirme. No elegí que sucedieran cosas malas. Pero me marcaron. Me hicieron temer, luchar, sentirme inseguro e incluso hacer cosas que desearía no haber hecho. Y ahora esas cosas parecen definirme. ¿Cómo puedo salir de este laberinto? ¿Quién soy realmente? ¿Adónde pertenezco? Dios dice: ‘Con amor eterno te he amado’, y, ‘antes de que nacieras, ya te había apartado’.[1] En este breve ...

IL DESTINO DEL MONDO GIACE SUL FILO DI UNA LAMA. Combattendo insieme alla sua banda di improbabili compagni, Corayne sta imparando ad abbracciare l'antico potere che le scorre nelle vene e a comprendere lo straordinario potere della spada ereditata dal padre. Ma il suo viaggio è tutt'altro che concluso. L'esercito della regina Erida, infatti, sta marciando attraverso Allward spalleggiato da Taristan, che lungo il cammino apre portali su mondi da incubo radendo al suolo interi regni. Se vuole salvare il mondo che conosce, Corayne non ha altra scelta se non radunare un esercito tutto suo.

A beautiful and distinguished family. A private island. A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy. A group of four friends—the Liars—whose friendship turns destructive. A revolution. An accident. A secret. Lies upon lies.

Deep into the coldest, Midwest winter on record, an electromagnetic pulse has taken out the nation’s power grid, plunging St. Louis into frigid darkness. Can ordinary people survive the apocalypse? Pre-med student Raine Caldwell is about to find out. The government isn’t coming to rescue her. If Raine and her group are going to make it, they must save themselves. After finding themselves in a community terrorized by ruthless and dangerous people, Raine and the others in her group must pull together to find justice, when one of their own is taken.

It's a familiar tale: A kind and beautiful young girl, reeling from loss. A doting father, frantic to bring a mother's love back into his daughter's life. And the selfish, cruel woman who insinuates herself into that family - a woman so unfeeling, so cold hearted, that when her new husband dies, she makes the girl a servant in her own home.

Kirito has faced innumerable hardships in the two long years since he first awoke in the Underworld, but his greatest battle yet lies ahead. As they near Administrator's chamber at the top of Central Cathedral, Kirito and Alice confront a heartrendingly familiar foe on the ninety-ninth floor. The final obstacle standing before them is none other than Eugeo...wearing the armor of an Integrity Knight! Can Kirito's cries reach Eugeo in the tortured recesses of his mind? Or will Administrator have the last laugh?!

When nineteen-year-old Belle King turns herself in for murder, the last thing she expects to see is her abusive husband standing outside her Dodge City jail cell, impossibly alive. He was the first man she ever meant to kill, but certainly not the last. She’s since woven a bloody tapestry across the Midwest—tearing the hearts out of men who couldn’t imagine her as more than a lamb.

Había muchas cosas de las que Diego no estaba seguro en la vida, pero sí tenía claro que enamorarse de Iván era un gran error. Por dos razones. La primera, y quizá la menos importante, porque era demasiado joven para él. Y la segunda, porque Iván era heterosexual. Iván llevaba mucho tiempo viviendo una mentira para poder sobrevivir, pero cuando su realidad saltó en pedazos y su vida dio un giro de ciento ochenta grados, lo último que esperaba es que fuera Diego, el hermano mayor de su mejor amigo, el que estuviese ahí para apoyarle de un modo incondicional.

Dragons are extinct in the wild, but the Makepeace Institute of Integrated Dragon Studies in Smokehill National Park is home to about two hundred of the world's remaining creatures. Until Jake discovers a dying dragon that has given birth - and one of the babies is still alive.

No one knows death like Tea. A bone witch who can resurrect the dead, she has the power to take life...and return it. And she is done with her self-imposed exile. Her heart is set on vengeance, and she now possesses all she needs to command the mighty daeva. With the help of these terrifying beasts, she can finally enact revenge against the royals who wronged her - and took the life of her one true love. But there are those who plot against her, those who would use Tea's dark power for their own nefarious ends.

Earth's century of peace as a colony of an alien race has been shattered. As the alien-run government navigates peace talks with the human terrorist group Sapience, Donovan tries to put his life back together and return to his duty as a member of the security forces. But a new order comes from the alien home planet: withdraw. Earth has proven too costly and unstable to maintain as a colony, so the aliens, along with a small selection of humans, begin to make plans to leave. Suddenly Earth becomes vulnerable to a takeover from other alien races....

Trey may have saved Luke's life, but he still thinks of himself as a coward who can barely stand to be outdoors. Now Trey finds out Luke has been taken prisoner at Population Police headquarters. Trey is terrified, but he knows that if he doesn't rescue his friend, no one will. At police headquarters, Trey impersonates an officer to try getting to Luke. But just when it looks like he's close, Trey suddenly finds himself in danger of exposing not just himself but all shadow children.

You may think you know the story. Penniless orphan Jane Eyre begins a new life as a governess at Thornfield Hall, where she meets one dark, brooding Mr. Rochester - and, listener, she marries him. Or does she? Prepare for an adventure of Gothic proportions in this standalone follow-up to My Lady Jane, which was called “an utter delight” (ALA Booklist, starred review), and “an uproarious historical fantasy that’s not to be missed” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).