Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice’s life on the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels. But when Alice’s grandmother, the reclusive author of a cult-classic book of pitch-dark fairy tales, di

To inherit billions, all Avery Kylie Grambs has to do is survive a few more weeks living in Hawthorne House. The paparazzi are dogging her every step. Financial pressures are building. Danger is a fact of life. And the only thing getting Avery through it

Avery Grambs chce przetrwać szkołę średnią, zdobyć stypendium i uciec od swojego dotychczasowego życia. Ale jej losy zmieniają się w jednej chwili, gdy umiera miliarder Tobias Hawthorne i zostawia jej praktycznie cały swój majątek. To jakaś pułapka? Avery nie ma pojęcia, nigdy na oczy nie widziała Tobiasa Hawthorne’a. Aby otrzymać swoje dziedzictwo, Avery musi przenieść się do rozległego,...

Every year the people of the Protectorate leave a baby as an offering to the witch who lives in the forest. They hope this sacrifice will keep her from terrorizing their town. But the witch in the forest, Xan, is kind and gentle. She shares her home with

Wdoligłaźno. To było urokliwe miasteczko, aż do pożaru… Wybuchł pewnej straszliwej nocy i pochłonął Bibliotekę. Od tamtej pory miasto zaczęło chylić się ku upadkowi. Kolejne pożogi strawiły Szkołę, domy i sklepy. Wdoligłaźno na przemian nękały susze i powodzie. Mieszkańcy zamknęli swoje domy dla sąsiadów i serca dla potrzebujących. Coraz częściej myśleli: Lepiej pilnować własnego nosa.

When Andrew stumbles upon Jamie’s house, he’s injured, starved, and has nothing left to lose. A deadly pathogen has killed off most of the world’s population, including everyone both boys have ever loved. And if this new world has taught them anything, it

The crime story takes place in 1992, just after the political transformation in former Czechoslovakia. Commissioner Krauz ("very young, cheeky, quick and inexperienced, but promising") investigates a murder. The clues lead to the former communist politica

Helena Pelletier has a loving husband, two beautiful daughters, and a business that fills her days. But she also has a secret: she is the product of an abduction. Her mother was kidnapped as a teenager by her father and kept in a remote cabin in the marsh

Monique is a preacher’s daughter who detests the impossible rules of her religion. Everyone expects her to wait until marriage, so she has no one to turn to when she discovers that she physically can’t have sex. After two years of trying and failing, her

Emily and her mom were always lucky. But Emily’s mom’s luck ran out three years ago when she succumbed to cancer, and nothing has felt right for Emily since. Now, the summer before her senior year, things are getting worse. Not only has Emily wrecked thin

Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, instead finds men shot dead, a load of heroin, and more than $2 million in cash. Packing the money out, he knows, will change everything. But only after two more men are murdered does a victim’s burning

A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they