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It is freezing in the churchyard, even before the dead arrive. Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue herself never sees them - not until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks directly to her. His name is Gansey, and Blue soon discovers that he is a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Known as Raven Boys, they can only mean trouble. But Blue is drawn to Gansey, in a way she can't entirely explain.

Ronan Lynch is a dreamer. He can pull both curiosities and catastrophes out of his dreams and into his compromised reality. Jordan Hennessy is a thief. The closer she comes to the dream object she is after, the more inextricably she becomes tied to it. Carmen Farooq-Lane is a hunter. Her brother was a dreamer...and a killer. She has seen what dreaming can do to a person. And she has seen the damage that dreamers can do. But that is nothing compared to the destruction that is about to be unleashed....

Now that the ley lines around Cabeswater have been woken, nothing for Ronan, Gansey, Blue, and Adam will be the same. Ronan, for one, is falling more and more deeply into his dreams, and his dreams are intruding more and more into waking life. Meanwhile, some very sinister people are looking for some of the same pieces of the Cabeswater puzzle that Gansey is after....

Blue Sargent has found things. For the first time in her life, she has friends she can trust, a group to which she can belong. The Raven Boys have taken her in as one of their own. Their problems have become hers, and her problems have become theirs. The trick with found things, though, is how easily they can be lost. Friends can betray. Mothers can disappear. Visions can mislead. Certainties can unravel.

Jedes Jahr im April empfängt Blue die Seelen derer, die bald sterben werden, auf dem verwitterten Kirchhof außerhalb ihrer Stadt. Bisher konnte sie sie nur spüren, nie sehen - bis in diesem Jahr plötzlich der Geist eines Jungen aus dem Dunkel auftaucht. Sein Name lautet Gansey, und dass Blue ihn sieht, bedeutet, dass sie der Grund für seinen nahen Tod sein wird.

All her life, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love's death. She doesn't believe in true love and never thought this would be a problem, but as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she's not so sure anymore.

Every summer Sam spends a few precious months being human, until the cold causes him to shift to a wolf once again. Discover what happens when he meets Grace in this chilling romance.

With her trademark lyricism, Maggie Stiefvater turns to a new world, where a pair are swept up in a daring, dangerous race across a cliff—with more than just their lives at stake should they lose.

An enchanting story from Maggie Stiefvater featuring Opal, Ronan, and Adam from her best-selling Raven Cycle, taking place after the events of The Raven King.

High in the Appalachian mountains is a place quite unlike any other. The Avallon Hotel and its enigmatic General Manager, June Hudson, are famed for offering unrivalled luxury, season after season, to those who come from far and wide to indulge in its beautiful hot springs and take the healing waters. Everything is perfect. Perhaps too perfect.

January 1942. The Avallon Hotel & Spa has always offered elegant luxury in the wilds of West Virginia, its mountain sweetwater washing away all of high society’s troubles. Local girl-turned-general manager June Porter Hudson has guided the Avallon skillfully through the first pangs of war. The Gilfoyles, the hotel’s aristocratic owners, have trained her well. But when the family heir makes a secret deal with the State Department to fill the hotel with captured Axis diplomats, June must persuade her staff to offer luxury to Nazis. With a smile.

Everybody thinks they know Cole's story. Stardom. Addiction. Downfall. Disappearance. But only a few people know Cole's darkest secret - his ability to shift into a wolf. One of these people is Isabel. At one point, they may have even loved each other. But that feels like a lifetime ago. Now Cole is back. Back in the spotlight. Back in the danger zone. Back in Isabel's life. Can this sinner be saved?

Something is happening to the source of the dreamers' power. It is blocked. Diminished. Weak. If it goes away entirely, what will happen to the dreamers and those who depend on them? Ronan Lynch isn't planning to wait and find out. Backed by his mentor, Bryde, he is ready to do what needs to be done to save the dreamers and the dreamed...even if it takes him far from his family and the boy he loves.

The war between dreams and reality intensifies... with Ronan at its center.

Januar 1942. Für June Porter Hudson ist die Führung des Avalon und seines ihm treuen Personals kein Beruf, sondern Berufung. Umgeben von der magischen Einsamkeit der Appalachen, steht das legendäre Grand Hotel für Luxus, Raffinesse und für sein besonderes Heilwasser. Doch als die Wirrungen des Krieges in seine Welt einbrechen, muss June sich einer harten Prüfung stellen, denn nur sie kennt die Kräfte, die aus den Quellen hinter den Fassaden wirken. Sind das Hotel und die ihm verschriebenen Menschen zu retten und eine Katastrophe aufzuhalten?

Enero de 1942. Cuando exigen al lujoso hotel Avallon colaborar en la guerra alojando a trescientos diplomáticos y simpatizantes nazis, la prioridad de June Hudson, la directora, es convencer a sus trabajadores de seguir como si nada, y sin perder la sonrisa. Sin embargo, también debe lidiar con Tucker Minnick, el agente del FBI cuya investigación para destapar los secretos que guardan los alemanes amenaza el delicado equilibro que ella se desvive por mantener.

Noord-Amerika, 1942. June Hudson is de manager van het Avallon Hotel & Spa, een luxehotel in de bergen van West-Virginia waar de high society graag vertoeft en het zoete bergwater dat uit de kranen stroomt alle zorgen kan wegspoelen. Terwijl listige plannen worden gesmeed en onverwachte allianties ontstaan, wordt June geconfronteerd met de werkelijke prijs van luxe.

Agli studenti della Aglionby Academy, conosciuti come Ragazzi Corvo, non manca nulla: soldi, bellezza, macchine costose. Gansey, però, è in cerca di qualcosa di più: Owen Glendower, un antico re gallese che, secondo le leggende, giace addormentato sotto una montagna. Nella sua ricerca è affiancato da Adam, che frequenta la scuola con una borsa di studio ed è pieno di risentimento verso l'ambiente privilegiato che lo circonda; da Ronan, un'anima selvaggia divisa tra rabbia e disperazione; e da Noah, tanto attento a cogliere i dettagli quanto taciturno.

Etwas Furchtbares geschieht mit der Quelle, aus der die Träumer ihre Macht ziehen: Sie wird von etwas blockiert und scheint immer schwächer zu werden. Was wird aus Träumern und Geträumten, sollte die Quelle ganz versiegen? Der Träumer Ronan Lynch hat nicht vor, abzuwarten und es herauszufinden, auch wenn ihn das weit weg führt von seiner Familie und dem Jungen, den er liebt. Die Diebin Jordan Hennessy weiß, dass sie nicht überleben wird, wenn die Träumer scheitern.

Die Träumer wandeln unter uns - und die Geträumten auch... "Wie der Falke fliegt" ist der 1. Teil der neuesten Urban-Fantasy-Reihe von Bestseller-Autorin Maggie Stiefvater - und entführt erneut in die geheimnisvolle Welt der "Raven Boys"-Reihe. Ronan Lynch ist ein sogenannter Träumer. Er kann sowohl Wunderbares als auch Entsetzliches aus seinen Träumen in die fragile reale Welt holen. Jordan Hennessy ist eine Diebin. Je näher sie dem Traum-Objekt kommt, hinter dem sie her ist, desto untrennbarer ist sie mit ihm verbunden. Carmen Farooq-Lane ist eine Jägerin, die Träumer jagt.