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Who could do such a thing? Certainly not someone like Devon DavenportÑa straight-A student-athlete with everything going for her. But in a moment of denial, desperation, and sheer panic, she did something that most people couldnÃt even imagine. And now Devon is being charged with...

A witty, fresh romantic comedy, set on one fateful prom night, about two high-schools seniors who can’t quite admit they are in love. Think E. Lockhart meets Katie Cotugno. It’s the end of senior year, and Rose Regnero is over it. She’s over chasing stories for a school newspaper no one...

Var der bladan i saftevandet? Kan man i det hele taget presse gift ud af en hugorm? Og mener de tre søskende Anne, Jan og Tina i ramme alvor, at de vil slå deres fætter, problembarnet Peter, ihjel?

After witnessing an act of domestic terrorism while training on his bike, Jake is found near death, with a serious head injury and an inability to remember the plane crash or the aftermath that landed him in the hospital. A terrorist leader’s teenage daughter, Betsy, is sent to kill Jake and eliminate him as a possible witness. When Jake’s mother blames his head injury for his tales of attempted murder, he has to rely on his girlfriend, Laurissa, to help him escape the killers and the law enforcement agents convinced Jake himself had a role in the crash.

Moses and his cousin Charlie were best friends, wisecracking pranksters, unstoppable forces of teenage energy - until the night they became accidental arsonists and set in motion a chain of events that left Moses alone, guilt-stricken, and most likely trapped in his dead-end town. Then Moses gets a lucky break: the chance to volunteer as a camp counselor for a week and prove the incident at the bowling alley should be expunged from his record. And since a criminal record and enrollment at Duke are mutually exclusive, he’s determined. But tragedy seems to follow him wherever he goes.

A high-stakes story of star-crossed lovers from Simone Elkeles, the New York Times bestselling author of the Perfect Chemistry series To escape his abusive stepdad, bad boy Ryan Hess runs from his tiny Texas border town to Mexico. But his plans to keep his head down and stay out of trouble are...

National Book Award Longlist Title * Booklist Editors’ Choice * CYBILS Young Adult Fiction Finalist * Nerdy Book Club Award for Best Young Adult Fiction * Paste Magazine Best Book * YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults “A compelling and raw story.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)...

Zart wie die Liebe, bitter wie die Schuld

Mia ist in dem kleinen Chocolaterie-Geschäft ihrer Eltern aufgewachsen - mit den wunderbaren Rezepten, aber auch mit dem Familienfoto, auf dem ihr Urgroßvater Jakob und sein Lehrherr zu sehen sind. Der Lehrherr ist weiß, Jakob schwarz. Mia weiß, dass ihr Vorfahr als kleiner Junge aus dem damaligen Deutsch-Südwestafrika nach Deutschland gekommen ist. Aber warum? Und wie?

Samantha ist schön. Sie ist mit dem coolsten Jungen der ganzen Schule zusammen. Sie hat alles, wovon die anderen Mädchen träumen. Dann verschwindet sie für vier Tage. Als sie wieder auftaucht, ist nichts mehr, wie es einmal war: Sie hat ihr Gedächtnis verloren. Und ihre beste Freundin Cassie wird vermisst. Ist sie einem Verbrechen zum Opfer gefallen? Und trägt Samantha etwa die Schuld daran? Samantha bleibt nur wenig Zeit, ihre Erinnerungen zurückzugewinnen.

November is usually quiet in Holcomb, Kansas, but in 1959, the town is shattered by the quadruple murder of the Clutter family. Suspicion falls on Nancy Clutter's boyfriend, Bobby Rupp, the last one to see them alive. New Yorker Carly Fleming, new to the small Midwestern town, is an outsider. She tutored Nancy, and (in private, at least) they were close. Carly and Bobby were the only ones who saw that Nancy was always performing, and that she was cracking under the pressure of being Holcomb's golden girl.

Sixteen-year-old Day Connor views life through the lens of her camera, where perspective is everything. But photographs never tell the whole story. After Day crosses paths with Julian, the world she pictures and the truths she believes - neatly captured in black and white - begins to blur. Julian is not the "armed and dangerous" escapee the police are searching for, but his alibis don't quite add up, either. There is more to his story. This time, Day is determined to see the entire picture...whatever it reveals. Did he? Or didn't he?

'They think I hurt someone. But I didn't. You hear? Coz people are gonna be telling you all kinds of lies. I need you to know the truth.' Joe hasn't seen his brother for 10 years, and it's for the most brutal of reasons. Ed is on death row. But now Ed's execution date has been set, and Joe is determined to spend those last weeks with him, no matter what other people think....

Seventeen-year-old Yvette doesn't know what's worse: being locked up on a high-security psych ward for a crime she's not sure she committed or having to see the vacant eyes of her fellow patients. All she wants is her sister back, her parents to get a clue, her brother to quit dealing drugs, the murder trial to be over, and, most of all, to be reunited with the pretty little pills that change the gory red on her hands to a much more pleasant hazy blue. Well that and serious, hard-core, merciless revenge.

Als Diebin hat Lila Merriweather eine Begabung für drei Dinge: Erstens, sich in den Schatten zu verbergen. Zweitens, überall unbemerkt einzubrechen. Und drittens, Geheimnisse zu lüften. Diese Talente kommen ihr auch bei ihrer Arbeit als Bodyguard der Sinclair-Familie zugute - immerhin eine der mächtigsten magischen Mafiafamilien in Cloudburst Falls. Jeder weiß, dass Victor Draconi sie und die anderen Familien einkassieren will - und vorhat, jeden einzelnen Sinclair umzubringen.

Marnie Wells knows that she creeps people out. It's not really her fault; her brother is always in trouble, and her grandmother, who's been their guardian since Mom took off, is...eccentric. So no one even bats an eye when Marnie finds an old tea-leaf-reading book and starts telling fortunes. The ceremony and symbols are weirdly soothing, but she knows - and hopes everyone else does, too - that none of it's real. Then basketball star Matt Cotrell asks for a reading.

Liv hiver spraydåsen frem og sprayer Mads' gule tag på graffitien. Hun ser med tilfredshed, at de fire bogstaver står lysende klart i det blå felt. Liv gemmer dåsen under jakken og skynder sig væk. Jørn Jensen, født 1946, yderst produktiv og prisbelønnet børnebogsforfatter, uddannet guldsmed og lærer. I sin tid som skolelærer mødte Jørn Jensen mange børn med læsevanskeligheder og fandt, at der var mangel på læsemateriale til de små nye læsere, der kunne vække ægte læseglæde.

Livs hjerte banker heftigt, mens hun tjekker mobilen. Efter overfaldet har drengene forsøgt at skræmme hende til ikke at sladre til politiet. Containeren i brand er også en advarsel. Skal hun melde dem til politiet eller tage kampen op? Jørn Jensen, født 1946, yderst produktiv og prisbelønnet børnebogsforfatter, uddannet guldsmed og lærer.

Tourmaline Harris's life hit pause at 15, when her mom went to prison because of Tourmaline's unintentionally damning testimony. But at 18, her home life is stable, and she has a strong relationship with her father, the president of a local biker club known as the Wardens. Virginia Campbell's life hit fast-forward at 15, when her mom "sold" her into the services of Hazard, a powerful attorney: a man for whom the law is merely a suggestion.

Lucky Girl is an unflinching exploration of beauty, self-worth, and sexual assault, from the author of the acclaimed Tease. Rosie is a beautiful girl—and it’s always been enough. Boys crush on her, men stare at her, girls (begrudgingly) admire her. She’s lucky and she knows it. But it’s...

Everybody likes Chris Goodman. Sure, he's a little odd. He wears those funny bell-bottoms and he really likes the word ennui and he shakes your hand when he meets you, but he's also the kind of guy who's always up for a good time, always happy to lend a hand. Everybody likes Chris Goodman, which makes it especially shocking when he's murdered.