Gwen has a destiny to fulfill, but no one will tell her what it is. She's only recently learned that she is the Ruby, the final member of the time-traveling Circle of Twelve, and since then nothing has been going right. She suspects the founder of the Circle, Count Saint-German, is up to something nefarious, but nobody will believe her. And she's just learned that her charming time-traveling...

Or, you can call it a gun. That’s what fifteen-year-old Will has shoved in the back waistband of his jeans. See, his brother Shawn was just murdered. And Will knows the rules. No crying. No snitching. Revenge. That’s where Will’s now heading, with that gun shoved in the back waistband of his jeans, the gun that was his brother’s gun. He gets on the elevator, seventh floor, stoked. He knows who...

grants wishes. It is World War II, and Franny and her parents, Sina and Old Tom, enjoy a quiet life on a farm on Vancouver Island. Franny writes, Sina sculpts, and Old Tom tends to their many gardens?including the ancient, mysterious night garden. Their peaceful life is interrupted when their neighbor, Crying Alice, begs Sina to watch her children while she goes to visit her husband at the...

Ten-year-old Rupert Brown inadvertently finds himself spending Christmas with the wealthiest family in town and is astonished to discover a world he never knew existed. Rupert lives with his parents and many siblings in a small house in the poorest section of Steelville, Ohio. When he spends Christmas with his classmate Turgid Rivers, he is offered all the food he can eat, and the opportunity...

12-year-old Billy fears the dark more than anything else. One evening, he leaves the house and finds himself in the dark Kingdom of Night. The Kingdom of Night is a whole world ruled by a Magician with his retinue of witches, sorcerers and Shadow People. A completely new world, memorable characters and cool locations! Billy is the most ordinary boy, the same as you. If he managed to overcome...

Liam has always felt a bit like he's stuck between two worlds. This isprimarily because he's a twelve-year-old kid who looks like he's about thirty. Sometimes it's not so bad, like when his new principal mistakes him for a teacher on the first day of school or when he convinces a car dealer to let him take a Porsche out on a test drive. But mostly it's just frustrating, being a kid trapped in...

dubious, ready-made people hunt for the canvas of the unknown Alexander Berg? How is the image of an unremarkable house connected with the fate of the disappeared father, a lover of riddles, ciphers and hidden meanings? The 19-year-old hero, a journalism student, became interested in the picture only in order to write an educational report, and as a result, he was drawn into a detective story....

Seven days. Seven keys. Seven virtues. Seven sins. One mysterious house is the doorway to a very mysterious world -- where one boy is about to venture and unlock a number of fantastical secrets.This is another thrilling, triumphantly imaginative series from Garth Nix, the best-selling author of The Seventh Tower, Sabriel, Lirael, Frogkisser!, and the Troubletwisters series.

Приезд Нэнси и ее подруги Хелен к их общим друзьям в «Сиреневую гостиницу» не предвещал ничего плохого, скорее наоборот: их друзья, хозяева гостиницы, помолвлены и готовятся к свадьбе. Совсем скоро они собираются заново открыть отель после обновления. Но странное напряжение и тревога в лицах друзей и работников гостиницы наводят Нэнси на мысль, что не все так хорошо, как кажется на первый...

Приезд Нэнси и ее подруги Хелен к их общим друзьям в «Сиреневую гостиницу» не предвещал ничего плохого, скорее наоборот: их друзья, хозяева гостиницы, помолвлены и готовятся к свадьбе. Совсем скоро они собираются заново открыть отель после обновления. Но странное напряжение и тревога в лицах друзей и работников гостиницы наводят Нэнси на мысль, что не все так хорошо, как кажется на первый...

Приезд Нэнси и ее подруги Хелен к их общим друзьям в «Сиреневую гостиницу» не предвещал ничего плохого, скорее наоборот: их друзья, хозяева гостиницы, помолвлены и готовятся к свадьбе. Совсем скоро они собираются заново открыть отель после обновления. Но странное напряжение и тревога в лицах друзей и работников гостиницы наводят Нэнси на мысль, что не все так хорошо, как кажется на первый...

Orphan Elizabeth Somers's malevolent aunt and uncle ship her off to the ominous Winterhouse Hotel, owned by the peculiar Norbridge Falls. Upon arrival, Elizabeth quickly discovers that Winterhouse has many charms most notably its massive library. It's not long before she locates a magical book of puzzles that will unlock a mystery involving Norbridge and his sinister family. But the deeper she...