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Hope Havergale first meets the mysterious teenager Christian
Livingston on her seventh birthday when he saves her from
plummeting into a cradle of water inside a forbidden forest. As he
licks fresh blood droplets from her injured wrist, Hope is
spellbound. Seemingly powerless to his charms, Hope has no idea
that it will be her destiny to embark on a breathtaking, perilous
adventure with this two-hundred year-old vampire.
As Hope grows up and inherits an old house in the Florida Keys
from her estranged grandmother, she secretly pines for
Christian-the man who haunts her dreams. While yearning for his
good looks and succulent tin-cinnamon scent, Hope is clueless that
it is Christian who fell in love with her when she was just seven.
Worse yet, Hope doesn't realize the truth about her own veiled
past-that even she isn't fully human. When Christian reappears one
day, she falls hard, rousing the monster within her. Somewhere
between skin and ink and blood and love, a sinful self-discovery
awaits Hope as she becomes entangled in a conflict between
civilized and savage vampires.
In this seductive tale, bloodlust quickly turns to bloodshed
when the arrival of a new danger threatens to destroy both their
secret love and surreptitious existence.
A prequel to the New York Times bestselling Maze Runner series -
now a series of major movies starring Dylan O'Brien! SEE THE FILMS.
READ THE BOOKS. ENTER THE MAZE ... The world has ended: the earth
is scorched, and fever rages through the population. Out of the
chaos, a boy emerges with the power to change everything: Thomas.
This is the start of his story. An electrifying Maze Runner
prequel, The Fever Code holds all the answers: How did WICKED find
the Gladers? Who are Group B? Whose side are Thomas and Teresa
really on? Lies will be exposed. Secrets uncovered. Loyalties
proven. You'll never see the truth coming ... A prequel to the #1
New York Times bestselling MAZE RUNNER series - starting directly
before the events of The Maze Runner The Maze Runner, The Scorch
Trials and The Death Cure are all major films available to stream
on Disney+ High-octane, dystopian YA adventure, perfect for fans of
The Hunger Games and Divergent Five pulse-pounding books in the
series! Make sure to check out James Dashner's other prequel to the
Maze Runner series, The Kill Order!
George MacDonald is famous for his poignant fairy tales and fantasy
novels. He was a great inspiration to many writers of his time
including C. S. Lewis, who wrote "Picking up a copy of Phantastes
one day at a train-station bookstall, I began to read. A few hours
later, I knew that I had crossed a great frontier." G. K.
Chesterton said that The Princess and the Goblin was a book that
had "made a difference to my whole existence." His three fantasy
novels for children are available here in one volume. They are so
strange and dreamlike that adults often enjoy them as much as the
children. MacDonald says "For my part, I do not write for children,
but for the childlike, whether of five, or fifty, or seventy-five."
So whether you are young or just young at heart this is a book that
will enthral you with its displays of courage and loyalty, and with
the allegories between the fantastic world painted and the
spiritual world MacDonald perceives.
Attempting to avoid the violence and drugs at Hibernia High,
sixteen-year-old Tristen McCoy and his friends have transferred on
a sports scholarship to the elite Curtis Hall boarding school.
Hometown lacrosse heroes, the boys are tested as they attempt to
assimilate into a student body where excelling is the norm.
Tristen hones his leadership skills and sense of humor while
finding his way in this new environment. He and his friends must
rise to the challenge of competing with peers whose skills equal
and perhaps surpass their own. Tristen's attention is soon captured
by the beautiful and alluring Marcella Venier. Despite their
different origins and upbringings, the two are drawn to each other.
Marcella, compelled to live a clandestine life with dark secrets
and a covert research mission, struggles with her desire to further
her own designs and still remain in Tristen's world.
Events spiral out of control, and a student is lost in the
subterranean tunnels beneath the school's campus. Tristen and his
friends stand accused of foul play, and in an effort to make things
right, he enlists Marcella's help in organizing a search party.
During the perilous rescue attempt, danger threatens to not only
sever the bonds of friendship of the group, but take their lives as
well. They hope they can survive until graduation.
Making wishes on snow, dandelions, and shooting stars is perfectly
normal for Polly's family. But when Polly decides to try a
different kind of wish, everything changes. Now she is spending her
entire family vacation thinking she has lost her mind.Maybe Polly
should have stuck with throwing a penny into a wishing well. While
visiting Thomas Jefferson's home, she uses a nickel instead,
silently wishing she knew interesting facts about President
Jefferson to share with everyone on the trip. What happens next is
something beyond Polly's imagination. In a matter of hours, Polly
suddenly realizes that no one else in her group can hear the
strange voices relaying fascinating historical facts.
Unfortunately, her family thinks she is crazy. Could her wish
really have come true? Or are the mysterious voices part of a
clever practical joke?The Jefferson Wish is an entertaining tale
that integrates little-known facts about one of our nation's
founding fathers with the adventures of a girl about to find out
what happens when a wish becomes reality.
Kathryn Samantha King, AKA as Katie King; enabled with powers from
out of this world with which she firmly establishes her place in
history, finance, and the future.
Everyone knows that Hank Whitestone is a genius, but nobody knows
the real story of what he invented and what happened as a result.
But, for readers in years to come, when the story finally comes
out, here is the true story of how Hank came up with his theory of
gravity, and invented the Grav Buster, and how everyone built the
spaceship Pegasus, and how the whole family traveled into space,
and what happened up there. Of course, it wasn't that easy and a
couple of times it was down-right scary--when we had to steal the
nukes, for example--and the whole thing had to be done in secret,
in case JJ figured out what we were doing and took Pegasus away
from us. Anyway, if you have authorized access to "Hank's Idea" you
can read this stuff now, provided, of course, that you don't
breathe a word to anyone. Just to be on the safe side, please eat
this book when you've finished it, in case it falls into the wrong
hands.
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Princess Ice Palace
Sam Hay; Illustrated by Lucy Fleming
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