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Jack Zipes

"Alas for those girls who've refused the truth: The sweetest tongue has the sharpest tooth". Arranged marriages, trials to win the princess, children lost in the woods, the transformation of humans into beasts, charms and curses, evil stepsisters, tests of love and courage - these are the motifs that touch readers so profoundly as they read these wonderful stories. Along with p...

Gayle Forman

It's been three years since the devastating accident . . . three years since Mia walked out of Adam's life forever.Now living on opposite coasts, Mia is Juilliard's rising star and Adam is LA tabloid fodder, thanks to his new rock star status and celebrity girlfriend. When Adam gets stuck in New York by himself, chance brings the couple together again, for one last night. As th...

Emilio Salgari

El sol iba al ocaso entre grises nubarrones, que, hinchados por el viento del poniente, se habían ido extendiendo poco a poco sobre el Atlántico.Las olas, que relfejaban los últimos fulgores del día, murmuraban, corriendo libremente la extensión inmensa que existe entre las costas americanas y las cuatrocientas Bermudas, islotes colocados en torno de la Gran Bermuda, que es la ...

Verne, Jules (Julio)

El imperio ruso corre peligro, se está gestando una traición y sólo hay una persona idónea para alertar al gobernador de Siberia, pero llegar a ese lugar implica una misión llena de obstáculos, con un recorrido peliagudo.Miguel Strogoff es una historia de aventura e intriga, con un escenario majestuoso.La pluma de Julio Verne no descansaba, porque era empuñada por un genuino li...

Verne, Jules (Julio)

En El Castillo de los cárpatos, Julio Verne finca una novela con una trama desconcertante y pasmosa. Descrita entre hermosos plenilunios, rodeada de fenómenos sobrenaturales, arcanos y tenebrosos, el autor aprovechando los conocimientos científicos de su época, acompaña dichas anormalidades de una explicación lógica construida sobre la ciencia, para forjar el triunfo permanente...

Maud Lethielleux

" Moi j´aime bien l´idée du journal. Il paraît que personne ne lira ce que j´écris alors je peux tout dire, c´est pratique, j´aime bien tout dire quand personne ne peut l´entendre. Je sais pas ce que je peux raconter, si je dois dire mon âge et me présenter, par exemple écrire sur la première page « Bonjour, je m´appelle Malo, je viens d´arriver chez Marlène... » ou si je dois ...

Cassandra Clare

"City of Fallen Angels takes place two months after the events of City of Glass. In it, a mysterious someone's killing the Shadowhunters who used to be in Valentine's Circle and displaying their bodies around New York City in a manner designed to provoke hostility between Downworlders and Shadowhunters, leaving tensions running high in the city and disrupting Clary's plan to le...

Allan Zullo

A collection of gripping true-life accounts of children struggling through and surviving the Holocaust.By her ninth birthday, Halina Litman understood what her Jewish faith meant to the German occupiers of her town: death. Would she be able to escape?Follow Halina's gripping story, along with other incredible, true-life accounts of children in the Holocaust.These survivors put ...

Varios Autores

En una época en que las aldeas son tan pequeñas que todo el mundo se conoce, una muchacha intenta abrirse camino en la vida. Y Valerie no es una «buena chica». Cuando el hombre lobo la elige, ella debe tomar una decisión imposible. Con un matrimonio concertado en su nombre y un amor sincero que la invita a la huida, Valerie no tiene a quién recurrir. Su padre está borracho en e...

John L. Stephens

Kate no ha podido olvidar las palabras con las que se despidió su madre aquella fría Nochebuena: «Cuida de tus dos hermanos». Han pasado diez años y, desde entonces, no ha hecho otra cosa que intentar que Michael y Emma estén bien. No ha sido nada fácil, porque sus vidas han transcurrido de orfanato en orfanato; el último, una vieja mansión medio derruida, regentada por un pers...

Brent Hartinger

Russel Middlebrook is convinced he's the only gay kid at Goodkind High School.Then his online gay chat buddy turns out to be none other than Kevin, the popular but closeted star of the school's baseball team. Soon Russel meets other gay students, too. There's his best friend Min, who reveals that she is bisexual, and her soccer-playing girlfriend Terese. Then there's Terese's p...

Grisham, John

Theodore Boone, el joven aprendiz de abogado, se ve involucrado inesperadamente en el juicio de un sensacional crimen: se hacometido un asesinato a sangre fría y su autor está a punto de salir indemne. Theo es la única persona que conoce la verdad y decide arriesgarlo todo para conseguir que se imparta justicia. Theo había soñado siempre con ser un gran abogado y hacer una gran...

Ally Condie

Society matched them, but love set them free.Cassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her: what to read, what to watch, what to believe. So when Xander's face appears on screen at her Matching ceremony, Cassia knows with complete certainty that he is her ideal mate...until she sees Ky Markham's face flash for an instant before the screen fades to blac...

Mike Lupica

Fourteen-year-old Billy Harriman can feel the changes. The sharpening of his senses. The incredible strength. The speed, as though he can textmessage himself across miles. The confidence and the strange need to patrol Central Park at night. His dad had been a hero, a savior to America and a confidante of the president. Then he died, and the changes began in Billy. What Billy ne...

Ally Condie

In search of a future that may not exist and faced with the decision of who to share it with, Cassia journeys to the Outer Provinces in pursuit of Ky - taken by the Society to his certain death - only to find that he has escaped, leaving a series of clues in his wake.Cassia's quest leads her to question much of what she holds dear, even as she finds glimmers of a different life...

Ann Brashares

From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and The Last Summer (of You and Me) comes an imaginative, inspired, magical book-a love story that lasts more than a lifetime. Daniel has spent centuries falling in love with the same girl. Life after life, crossing continents and dynasties, he and Sophia (despite her changing name and form) hav...

Lev Grossman

Quentin Coldwater is brilliant but miserable. A senior in high school, he's still secretly preoccupied with a series of fantasy novels he read as a child, set in a magical land called Fillory. Imagine his surprise when he finds himself unexpectedly admitted to a very secret, very exclusive college of magic in upstate New York, where he receives a thorough and rigorous education...

Sara Blakley-Cartwright

Sarah Blakley-Cartwright is twenty-two years old and is a recent cum laude graduate of Barnard College, the greatest place on earth. She is the recipient of the 2008-2009 Mary Gordon Fiction Scholarship Award and the 2009-2010 Lenore Marshall Barnard Prize for Prose. She splits her time between New York and Los Angeles. Despite what the book may say, she actually prefers wolves...

Jessica Day George

Tuesdays at Castle Glower are Princess Celie's favorite days. That's because on Tuesdays the castle adds a new room, a turret, or sometimes even an entire wing. No one ever knows what the castle will do next, and no one-other than Celie, that is-takes the time to map out the new additions. But when King and Queen Glower are ambushed and their fate is unknown, it's up to Celie, ...

Esther Hoskins Forbes

Johnny Tremain, winner of the 1943 Newbery Medal, is one of the finest historical novels ever written for children. As compelling today as it was fifty years ago, to read this riveting novel is to live through the defining events leading up to the American Revolutionary War seen through the eyes of a boy who turns in his smithing tools to take up a rifle and fight for the liber...

John Connolly

New York Times bestselling author John Connolly's unique imagination takes readers through the end of innocence into adulthood and beyond in this dark and triumphantly creative novel of grief and loss, loyalty and love, and the redemptive power of stories.High in his attic bedroom, twelve-year-old David mourns the death of his mother. He is angry and alone, with only the books ...

Kate, Lauren

There's something achingly familiar about Daniel Grigori.Mysterious and aloof, he captures Luce Price's attention from the moment she sees him on her first day at the Sword & Cross boarding school in sultry Savannah, Georgia. He's the one bright spot in a place where cell phones are forbidden, the other students are all screw-ups, and security cameras watch every move.Even thou...

Kate, Lauren

In "Torment", fallen angel Daniel and his mortal love Lucinda think they are safe but evil forces are massing against them. As Luce learns more about her past, and discovers that the lives she's already lived hold the key to her future happiness; she starts to wonder if Daniel has told her the whole truth. What if his version of events isn't the way things happened? What if tha...

Scott Westerfeld

Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can't wait. Not for her license -- for turning pretty. In Tally's world, your sixteenth birthday brings an operation that turns you from a repellent ugly into a stunningly attractive pretty and catapults you into a high-tech paradise where your only job is to have a really great time. In just a few weeks Tally will be there.But Tally's ne...

Scott Westerfeld

In Tally's world, your 16th birthday brings an operation that turns you from a repellant Ugly into a stunningly attractive Pretty, and catapults you into a high-tech paradise where your only job is having a really good time. Just before her birthday, Tally discovered that turning Pretty comes with a terrible price. She vowed to accept the operation, but with the understanding t...

Scott Westerfeld

A few years after rebel Tally Youngblood took down the uglies/pretties/specials regime, a cultural renaissance swept the world. Now popularity rules. Everyone craves fame—and fifteen-year-old Aya Fuse is no exception. But her face rank of 451,396 is so low, she's a total nobody. An extra. Aya's only chance to escape extra-land is to find a big story to kick—something wild and u...

Scott Westerfeld

Extras, the final book in the Uglies series, is set a couple of years after the "mind-rain," a few earth-shattering months in which the whole world woke up. The cure has spread from city to city, and the pretty regime that kept humanity in a state of bubbleheadedness has ended. Boundless human creativity, new technologies, and old dangers have been unleashed upon the world. Cul...

Scott Westerfeld

It is the cusp of World War I. The Austro-Hungarians and Germans have their Clankers, steam-driven iron machines loaded with guns and ammunition. The British Darwinists employ genetically fabricated animals as their weaponry. Their Leviathan is a whale airship, and the most masterful beast in the British fleet.Aleksandar Ferdinand, a Clanker, and Deryn Sharp, a Darwinist, are o...

Scott Westerfeld

The behemoth is the fiercest creature in the British navy. It can swallow enemy battleships with one bite. The Darwinists will need it, now that they are at war with the Clanker Powers.Deryn is a girl posing as a boy in the British Air Service, and Alek is the heir to an empire posing as a commoner. Finally together aboard the airship Leviathan, they hope to bring the war to a ...

Scott Westerfeld

Alek and Deryn are on the last leg of their round-the-world quest to end World War I, reclaim Alek's throne as prince of Austria, and finally fall in love. The first two objectives are complicated by the fact that their ship, the Leviathan, continues to detour farther away from the heart of the war (and crown). And the love thing would be a lot easier if Alek knew Deryn was a g...