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The room is watching. But Mira and Layla don't know this yet. When the two best friends are stranded on their spring break college tour road trip, they find themselves at the Wildwood Motel, located in the middle of nowhere, Indiana. Mira can't shake the feeling that there is something wrong and rotten about their room. Inside, she's haunted by nightmares of her dead brother. When she wakes up, he's still there.

At age eleven, Sola Mahfouz was told she could no longer attend school. The Taliban threatened that any girl who dared to continue their education would have acid thrown in their face, be kidnapped, or worse. Confined to the walls of her home, Sola watched as the few freedoms of childhood were stripped away. She was forbidden to play, to sing, even to laugh. Her early teenage years were consumed by restrictions. Realising that she would have to either succumb to this life or find a way out, she decided on the latter.

"He who controls the spice controls the universe." Frank Herbert's Dune saga is the epic story of Paul, son of Duke Leto Atreides, and heir to the massive fortune promised by the desert planet Arrakis and its vast reservoirs of a drug called "spice." To control the spice, Paul and his mother Jessica, a devotee of the pseudo-religious Bene Gesserit order, must find their place in the culture of the desert-dwelling Fremen of Arrakis. Paul must contend with both the devious rival House Harkonnen and the gargantuan desert sandworms—the source of the spice.

Amande ne pensait pas que l'on pouvait avoir si mal. En se réfugiant dans une maison isolée en Auvergne pour vivre pleinement son chagrin, elle tombe par hasard sur les calendriers horticoles de l'ancienne propriétaire des lieux. Guidée par les annotations manuscrites de Madame Hugues, Amande s'attelle à redonner vie au vieux jardin abandonné. Au fil des saisons, elle va puiser dans ce contact avec la terre la force de renaître et de s'ouvrir à des rencontres uniques. Et chaque lendemain redevient une promesse d'avenir.

From the award-winning, ALA Notable author of Unsettled and Lailah’s Lunchbox, this is a captivating coming-of-age middle grade novel in verse about seventh grader Aafiyah Qamar, a Pakistani American girl who hatches a special plan to help her family but finds that doing what’s right isn’t always easy.

A daughter and mother: two women miles, years, and dreams apart. One defies traditions and expectations. The other conforms to them, even in a new land. Their emotional distance grows while the daughter, now a wife and mother herself, comes to better understand the woman she’s become and why, as she ruminates on inherited trauma, the need to forgive, and the lengths she’ll go to free herself from the past.

Two months have passed since Book, Cat, Hope, and the two others rescued the remaining Less Thans, but no one is safe yet. The group must leave Liberty for good and escape the wolves, the Brown Shirts and the Hunters. Most important, they need to stop Chancellor Maddox before she executes her Final Solution and grows even more powerful. But for Hope, the battle has become personal; she must seek her revenge, no matter what the cost.

Las vidas de Cyra y Akos se rigen por los destinos que vaticinaron los oráculos el día de su nacimiento. Una vez decididos, los destinos son inmutables. Akos está enamorado de Cyra, a pesar de los designios que aseguran que morirá sirviendo a la familia de la chica. Cuando el padre de Cyra, Lazmet Noavek, reclama el trono de los Shotet, Akos cree que su final está más cerca que nunca. Mientras Lazmet desata una guerra brutal Cyra y Akos están desesperados por detenerlos a cualquier precio.

Three generations of Palestinian-American women living in Brooklyn are torn between individual desire and the strict mores of Arab culture in this heart-wrenching story of love, intrigue and courage. Set in an America at once foreign to many and staggeringly close at hand, A Woman Is No Man is a story of culture and honour, secrets and betrayals, love and violence. It is an intimate glimpse into a controlling and closed cultural world and a universal tale about family and the ways silence and shame can destroy those we have sworn to protect.

Si te llamas Martina y te has enamorado perdidamente de Pablo Ruiz... Si te has dejado llevar y te has soltado la melena... Si juntos habéis hecho y dicho cosas que jamás imaginasteis... Eres la protagonista de esta historia y tu vida está a punto de ser otra. Quedarás a la deriva, perderás el norte, y poco a poco estarás más lejos de tu hogar en tierra firme.

Si te llamas Martina, llevas siempre la melena recogida, eres absolutamente cerebral... Si te has formadopara ser chef y perteneces al equipo de El Mar... Si has sentido un chispazo al conocer a tu jefe, Pablo Ruiz, excéntrico cocinero con estrella... Si no soportas su indumentaria hípster, pero te irías a cualquier parte si él te lo pidiera... Eres sin dudarlo la protagonista de esta historia... Y tu vida, tan ordenada, está a punto de cambiar.

À l'origine du royaume des feys. Un mois s'est écoulé depuis la fuite d'Ivy et d'Odd vers l'Ailleurs. Ils ont trouvé un toit, un emploi et s'accommodent de leur nouvelle vie. Mais c'est sans compter sur les responsabilités d'Ivalie : la reine Mab envoie deux anciennes connaissances de la jeune femme pour la ramener dans les Royaumes immobiles. Hélionie a beau s'être emparée du trône d'Evergrey, elle ne parvient pas à maîtriser le Glimmer qui poursuit sa déliquescence. De son côté, Séline règne sur Radiance où des chimères cauchemardesques peuplent la nuit perpétuelle qu'elle entretient.

Eleven-year-old Mimi Mackson comes from a big Indian American family: Dad's a renowned food writer, Mom's a successful businesswoman, and her three older siblings all have their own respective accomplishments. It's easy to feel invisible in such an impressive family, but Mimi's dream of proving she's not the least talented member of her family seems possible when she discovers a contest at the new bakery in town. Plus, it'll start her on the path to becoming a celebrity chef like her culinary idol, Puffy Fay.

We all have our "down" days occasionally, but clinical depression is quite a different ball game, with persistent and sometimes severe symptoms which can bring about a significant deterioration in quality of life, impairments in day-to-day functioning, and even risk to life. Up to 20 percent of people will suffer from depression at some point in their lifetime. This little book aims to demystify the disorder to some extent, identifying the many possible symptoms of depression, as well as summarising its known causes and recommended treatments.

Thirteen-year-old Blue Broen is on the hunt for a legendary ship of gold, lost centuries ago when her ancestors sailed to New York. Blue knows her overprotective parents won't approve of her mission to find their family's long-lost fortune, so she keeps it a secret from everyone except her constant companion, Otis, an 80-pound diabetic alert dog. But it's hard to keep things quiet with rival treasure hunters on the loose and with Blue's reputation as the local poster child for a type 1 diabetes fundraiser.

Princess Fatale experimentiert mit Lack und Leder, liebt Latex, und sie genießt das Leben in vollen Zügen und dominiert Männer wie Frauen...

This powerful and poignant coming-of-age middle grade debut novel follows an Arab American girl named Yasmeen as she moves to San Antonio with her family and navigates finding friendship—and herself. Perfect for fans of Other Words for Home, Front Desk, and American as Paneer Pie.

Every dawn brings horror to a different family in a land ruled by a killer. Khalid, the 18-year-old Caliph of Khorasan, takes a new bride each night, only to have her executed at sunrise. So it is a terrible surprise when 16-year-old Shahrzad volunteers to marry Khalid. But she does so with a clever plan to stay alive and exact revenge on the Caliph for the murder of her best friend and countless other girls. Shazi's wit and will get her through to the dawn that no others have seen, but with a catch...she may be falling in love with a murderer.

In a land on the brink of war, Shahrzad has been torn from the love of her husband, Khalid, the Caliph of Khorasan. She once believed him a monster, but his secrets revealed a man tormented by guilt and a powerful curse - one that might keep them apart forever. Reunited with her family, who have taken refuge with enemies of Khalid, and Tariq, her childhood sweetheart, she should be happy. But Tariq now commands forces set on destroying Khalid's empire. Shahrzad is almost a prisoner caught between loyalties to people she loves. But she refuses to be a pawn and devises a plan.

Love at first sight isn’t a myth. For seventh graders Olivia and Eden, it’s fate. Olivia is a capital-P Poet, and Eden thinks she wants to be a musician one day, but for now she’s just the new girl. And then Eden shows up to Poetry Club and everything changes. Eden isn’t out, and she has rules for dating Olivia: Don’t call. Don’t tell her friends. And don’t let anyone know they’re together.