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Meg Cabot, the number-one New York Times best-selling author of the Airhead novels, offers up this second exciting installment in her Abandon trilogy. In Underworld, John Hayden is holding 17-year-old Pierce Oliviera captive in the world between heaven and hell - supposedly to keep her safe from the vengeful Furies. But Furies aren’t the only danger in this ominous place. Somehow, Pierce has got to find a way to escape - before she’s trapped there forever.

Katie Ellison is not a liar. It's just that telling the truth is so...tricky. She knows she shouldn't be making out with a drama club hottie behind her football-player boyfriend's back. She should probably admit that she can't stand eating quahogs (clams), especially since she's running for Quahog Princess in her hometown's annual Quahog Festival.

High school junior Jenny Greenley is good at solving other people's problems, so good that she's the school newspapers' anonymous advice columnist. But when 19-year-old screen sensation Luke Striker comes to Jen's small town to research a role, he creates havoc that even levelheaded Jenny isn't sure she can repair...especially when he asks her, and not Jenny's Luke Striker-groupie best friend, to the Clayton High Spring Fling.

With Awaken, number-one New York Times best-selling author Meg Cabot brings her reimagining of the Persephone myth to a thrilling conclusion. Pierce Oliviera doesn't regret her decision to accept John Hayden and live in the Underworld. But then John revives a human soul, disrupting the balance between life and death - and to restore the balance, someone must die.

Nicola Sparks, 16 and an orphan, is ready to dive headlong into her first glittering London society season. She's also ready to dive headlong into the arms of handsome and debonair Lord Sebastian Bartholomew. Nicola's dream is a proposal from the viscount, a dream she's about to realize at last! So naturally, Nathaniel Sheridan's insinuations about her fiance's flawed character annoy her mightily.

Growing up in far-off India, wealthy young heiress Lady Victoria Arbuthnot is accustomed to handling her own affairs. But in her sixteenth year, Vicky is unceremoniously shipped off to London to find a husband. She may be in a strange new city, but Vicky knows one thing: her own mind. And she has decided that handsome, worldly Hugo Rothschild will suit her needs admirably in the matrimonial department.

Carly, an unassuming receptionist at Guru Fashion Agency, is shocked when sexy new guy Jake texts her to say he needs her help - fighting off zombie models! Soon she discovers New York is under siege and she's the chosen one who can save them all.

Allie Finkle's starting her first day of school a Pine Heights Elementary! Plus, she's getting a new kitten, the first pick of show cat Lady Serena Archibald's litter! But being the New Girl is turning out to be scary, too, especially since one of the firls in Allie's new class - Rosemary - doesn't like her. In fact, Rosemary says she's going to beat Allie up after school. Everyone seems to have an opinion on how Allie should handle the situation. How can Allie tell who's right? Who knew it was going to be so hard being the New Girl?

Mia cree que su vida no puede ir a peor: es la más alta de la clase, plana como una tabla de planchar, no para de suspender álgebra, su madre tiene una cita con uno de sus profesores (¡y para más inri, con el de álgebra!), el chico que le gusta no le hace ni caso... No hay nada emocionante en su día a día. O eso piensa, hasta que de un día para otro le anuncian que es la heredera al trono de Genovia, un diminuto país europeo.

Molly Montgomery couldn't be more thrilled about starting her new life working at Little Bridge Island's brand-new library. Happy to have left her problematic ex behind on the mainland, her new life feels like heaven...at least until she finds a newborn baby in the library's restroom. When Sheriff John Hartwell answers Molly's 911 call, things begin to look up. He couldn't be kinder (or better looking) and handles the baby - and the hunt for its missing mother - with far more sensitivity and understanding than Molly would have expected from someone who never reads fiction.

Parce que ses parents ont décidé de déménager, Allie va devoir abandonner sa belle chambre rose, ses meilleures amies, son école, et tout ça pour quoi ? Pour une vieille maison délabrée, toute grise et grinçante. Sans parler de la nouvelle école qu'elle ne connaît pas ! Comment empêcher ce désastre ? Pour se faciliter la vie, Allie invente des règles folles, qu'elle note précieusement dans son carnet. Règle no. 1 : ne pas parler de déménagement à une enfant de neuf ans, sauf s'il s'agit d'Allie Punchie !

Last year, 17-year-old Pierce died - just for a moment. And when she was in the space between life and death, she met John: tall dark and terrifying, it's his job to usher souls from one realm to the next. There's a fierce attraction between them, but Pierce knows that falling for John means a life of shadows and loneliness in the underworld....

Emerson Watts was pretty sure there couldn't be anything worse than being a straight A student whose brain had been transplanted into the body of a teenage supermodel. But it turned out she was wrong. Because that supermodel could turn out to have a mother who's mysteriously gone missing, a brother who's shown up on her doorstep demanding answers, ex-boyfriends crawling out of the woodwork who want more than just a photo op, and a British heartthrob who's written a song about her.

Changer d'école en cours d'année n'est pas facile. Surtout lorsqu'une camarade de classe vous rend la vie impossible dès le premier jour. Allie doit vite trouver une solution pour empêcher Rosemary, sa nouvelle ennemie, de la réduire en bouillie. Doit-elle écouter les conseils de l'oncle Jay, et ne pas se laisser intimider ? Ou se confier à Mme Hunter, la nouvelle institutrice ? Allie, heureusement, a toujours une idée en poche. Règle numéro 2 : toujours relativiser et voir le bon côté des choses... même quand on doit changer d'école en cours d'année !

Escape to Little Bridge Island in the first full-length novel in a brand-new series from Meg Cabot. The storm of the century is about to hit Little Bridge Island, Florida - and it's sending waves crashing through Sabrina 'Bree' Beckham's love life. When a massive hurricane severs all power and cell service to Little Bridge Island - as well as its connection to the mainland - 25-year-old Bree Beckham isn't worried...at first. She's already escaped one storm - her emotionally abusive ex - so a hurricane seems like it will be a piece of cake.

When Allie Finkle turns 10 years old, her parents announce that they are moving her and her brothers from their suburban split-level into an ancient Victorian in town. Allie's not at all happy about having to give up her wall-to-wall carpeting for creaky floorboards and creepy secret passageways - not to mention leaving her modern, state-of-the-art suburban school for a rundown, old-fashioned school in the city, populated not, as her old school was, with popular suburban kids, but creative city types.

Olivia kann es immer noch nicht fassen: Sie ist jetzt eine richtige Prinzessin! Nun lebt sie im Palast von Genovien und besucht die königliche Akademie. Derweil plant ihre Schwester, Prinzessin Mia, die Hochzeit mit ihrem Verlobten. Doch je näher der große Tag rückt, desto mehr scheint schiefzulaufen. Daran dürfte nicht zuletzt Grandmère schuld sein - und dann tauchen auch noch Olivias neue Cousinen auf und benehmen sich nicht sehr königlich! Kann Olivia die Hochzeit retten und ihren Platz in der königlichen Familie finden? Witzig, frech und liebenswert berichtet Dagmar Bittner live aus dem königlichen Hochzeitschaos.

Die 12-jährige Halbwaise Olivia lebt bei Tante und Onkel und hat ihren Vater noch nie gesehen. Ihr Leben ändert sich von einem Moment auf den anderen, als eines Tages eine Limousine vor der Schule hält und Prinzessin Mia von Genovia Olivia einlädt, ihren gemeinsamen Vater kennenzulernen. In Wahrheit ist Olivia nämlich Mias Halbschwester und somit von königlicher Herkunft. Damit rückt sie in das Rampenlicht der Öffentlichkeit und hält ihre aufregenden Erlebnisse in einem Tagebuch für ihre beste Freundin fest.

Death has her in his grasp. And he’s gorgeous… Seventeen-year-old Pierce Oliviera isn’t dead. Not this time. But she’s been taken by John Hayden, Lord of the Underworld, to the place between heaven and hell where spirits gather before their final journey. John claims it’s to protect her from the Furies, who are hell-bent on vengeance against him. But could he have other reasons for keeping Pierce close?

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