Magic School For Adults

Time is running out. Everything was going fine in Elise's life. Still a family outcast? Check. Surviving her summer job? Double check. Leaving for her dream school in the fall? Triple check. Weird heirloom changing color the night of her birthday forcing her to hunt down the one guy who's supposed to be her one true love and finding two who fit the bill? Yeah, so not part of the plan. Or any plan for that matter! Suddenly Elise is forced to balance work, school, family, internships and finding her Prince Charming! How's a girl supposed to cope, especially with the clock ticking towards her ...

In a world where everyone has their role, Aara has never fit in. When she is assigned to apprentice in her mysterious father's guild, she gains a longed-for opportunity to earn a place for herself... if she can just manage to follow the rules. As she struggles to learn the dangerous art of channeling, Aara is confronted with a choice. Will she do what it takes to fit in? Or will she take the risks necessary to learn who she truly is?

When Mr. Tipkins, a gift-giver from the Department of Wishes of Faerie, arrives to give a wish to a newborn baby in the village of Widdershins, he isn't in the best of moods. His uncharacteristic burst of bad temper begins a chain reaction that has consequences no one can foresee. The Truth About Magic is a story of mistakes and of deception, of wizards (good and bad), and of what happens when perfectly ordinary wishes go wrong.

❤ A sexy and sparkling New Romance that will make your heart beat to the rhythm of gypsy drums ❤ A gypsy circus, an icy stare... What if love had the eyes of a lion tamer? After Italy, Morgane's adventure continues as she flies to the mysterious Eastern lands. In a Romanian traveling circus, she meets Maeva, an enchanting gypsy dancer with fiery eyes who invites her to join her troupe. But it's another performer who will turn her world upside down: Enzo, a wild and beautiful lion tamer... who seems to hate her from the very first magnetic, ice-cold glance. Between the glitter of ...

It's one thing to learn to curtsy properly. It's quite another to learn to curtsy and throw a knife at the same time. Welcome to finishing school. Fourteen-year-old Sophronia is a great trial to her poor mother. Sophronia is more interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than proper manners - and the family can only hope that company never sees her atrocious curtsy. Mrs. Temminnick is desperate for her daughter to become a proper lady. So she enrolls Sophronia in Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality. But Sophronia soon realizes the school is not quite what her mother might have hoped.

The fourth and final book in a steampunk YA adventure series from Orbit's New York Times best-selling author of the Parasol Protectorate series.When a dastardly Pickleman plot comes to fruition, only Sophronia can save her friends, her school and all of London...but at what cost? Our proper young heroine puts her training and skills to the test in this highly anticipated conclusion of the rousing, intriguing and always polished New York Times best-selling Finishing School series!

Beck and Vivian never could stand each other, but they always tried their best for their mutual friend, Cassie. After the town moves on from Cassie’s murder too fast, Beck and Vivian finally find common ground: vengeance. They memorialize Cassie by secretly painting murals of her around town, a message to the world that Cassie won’t be forgotten. But Beck and Vivian are keeping secrets, like the third passenger riding in Beck’s VW bus with them - Cassie’s ghost.

Alison, the Drow princess, can’t even make it back to the School of Necessary Magic for her junior year without tripping across trouble hunting for her. Underground bullet trains, battles with dark magic, growing dragons, Louper tournaments, school dances, and job fairs. Growing up magical can be tough on a social life. Thank goodness she’s got her friends beside her.

Twiggy Rattlesnake can’t believe how much his life has changed. While hoping for a peaceful year ahead at The School of Time and Space, it doesn’t take long for strange things to begin happening. People left floating, students discovering new skills to shield themselves, and Twiggy must learn to handle a real danger inside his own Corridor. With a mysterious gang on the move, Twiggy and his friends are searching for answers. The Echoes Of Greatness once again spreading fear and chaos. Students going missing. Yet most frightening of all, is Twiggy finally about to be exposed?

Drow Princess Alison Brownstone begins her senior year ready to finally graduate and start her new life, fully trained and ready to kick ass. But still reeling from the attack last semester and the absence of her best friend, Alison is desperate for some kind of distraction to make the days pass quicker. And trouble in paradise with boyfriend Tanner makes it even more vital. When books start disappearing, she can’t resist digging deeper. But going down the rabbit hole leads to truths far more dangerous than petty theft.

Sophronia continues her second year at finishing school in style - with a steel-bladed fan secreted in the folds of her ball gown, of course. Such a fashionable choice of weapon comes in handy when Sophronia, her best friend Dimity, sweet sootie Soap, and the charming Lord Felix Mersey stowaway on a train to return their classmate Sidheag to her werewolf pack in Scotland. Because no one would have suspected what - and who - they would find aboard the suspiciously empty train.

When Raine finds a hidden message in some old yearbooks that can't be ignored, she finds herself racing to solve a deadly puzzle before everyone at her school dies.

In the ancient kingdom of Menyamar, Raidia, the 19-year-old Royal Daughter, grapples with her identity as a weakly Talented mage amidst the looming threat of the Goluk, relentless invaders who have besieged her people for over four centuries. As the magical ward protecting Menyamar weakens, Raidia's mother, the formidable Matriarch, seeks to forge an alliance by arranging Raidia's marriage to a foreign prince in hopes of securing aid against their enemy. Refusing to be a pawn in her mother's political machinations, Raidia makes a daring choice: she escapes her gilded cage, determined to ...

Seventeen-year-old Maya knows everything. When she looks at someone, she instantly knows their history, their private thoughts, their secret desires, their most tragic failures. Combine these private miseries with the general state of the world, and it's easy to see why Maya's power starts to get her down… Which is why she was sent to the Whispering Pines Psychiatric Facility, and also why starting at a new school is going to be such a challenge. Now, faced with Tyler, a cute guy she actually wants to know everything about, Maya realizes that maybe her power isn't so horrible after all.

H.I.V.E. is a top-secret school of villainy, where children with a precocious talent for wrongdoing are sent to develop their talents and become criminal masterminds. After all, "Villains have the best lines and wear the best costumes."

"Nikki, the Mowgli girl, is caught in the strife of the two global forces. Her only way to survive is to ruin their game and turn into the third global force. Her young shoulders are pressed down by the unbearable weight of decisions that would shape the future of the human race. If, in order to save the world, you have to forfeit your love and sacrifice the life of your best friend – is it worth it?" “One of the most interesting books in AstroNikki. It’s written for young adults, but is of great interest for the young and the grown-up people. It’s a piece of educational fiction ...

Nikki, the Space Mowgli, has spent her early years on an uninhabited asteroid. Back in the human world, she’s being manhunted by some powerful enemies. Not only does she survive and get into an elite Lunar College, she also becomes a Queen! The only problem is that queens have even more enemies. On a trip to Mars, Nikki and her friend Jerry learn the truth about the death of Nikki’s parents, and narrowly escape death in a polar ice cave. “The Space Mowgli is extremely intelligent (she had enough time, resources and motivation for her development), and completely free of all the ...

Together with her friends, Nikki, the Space Mowgli, builds Greenwich College on the Moon and Greenwich City around it. The main personality in the new world is the artificial intellect, the Great Inca, who tries to help each and every one. Yet the outlawed King Ditbit turns his huge space cruiser on the domes of the city, to destroy it together with all the inhabitants… over and over again, the book’s protagonists survive against all odds, on Earth and on the Moon, amid the pools of melted serum on Io, and on the coast of the methane sea on Titan. “Here’s the new dawn, Nick ...

Her name is Nikki. She is a Space Mowgli. After her parents’ death, she is stranded on a tiny asteroid, where her only friend and mentor is the computer that saved her life and became part of her body. After years of seclusion she is rescued and returned to the world of people, where she is hunted by a mysterious killer. But to kill Nikki is not an easy task. This young and fragile girl has an iron will, a sharp mind and, above it all, she knows how to make friends. True friends... “Nikki is a genius at many things, but sometimes she is incredibly naive and rude. After a series of ...

Together with her friends, the Space Mowgli lives on the Moon, at the topmost school in the entire Solar System. She’s a fighter and a scholar, and sometimes proves to be more knowledgeable than her professors, why not with the only truly intelligent computer at her back. She can captain the space yachts, and hopes that her equation of the future would change the world. But she has enemies, the ones who had once killed her parents and won’t stop trying. "This book altered my outlook. It was one of my favorite when I was 14." "To say that this book filled me with vivid emotions is to say...