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"Everyone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her first year at Basgiath War College--Violet included. But Threshing was only the first impossible test meant to weed out the weak-willed, the unworthy, and the unlucky. Now the real training begins, and Violet's already wondering how she'll get through. It's not just that it's grueling and maliciously brutal, or even that it's designed to stretch the riders' capacity for pain beyond endurance....

Alliana spends her days tending to her stepfamily's inn at the edge of the abyss, but when she rescues an orphaned nightdragon and later helps an apprentice witch, she seizes her chance to escape her stepmother's tyranny and find her own happily ever after.

A city of Whos on a speck of dust are threatened with destruction until the smallest Who of all helps convince Horton's friends that Whos really exist.

While at The Academy for the Unbreakable Arts, Kelcie receives a warning from her goddess mother that The Heart of Danu, the legendary source of all light and warmth, will be stolen, so Kelcie and her friends set off to prevent their world from falling into darkness.

Fairy-tale detectives Sabrina and Daphne Grimm face their first case without Granny Relda's help when the future gets mixed up with the past in Ferryport Landing, and because some of the future does not look bright, Puck helps them try to make some changes.

After her home is attacked by shapeshifting vampires, twelve-year-old Serwa Boateng is sent to live with her aunt and cousin in Maryland, but the aspiring vampire hunter discovers that middle school is harder than it appears on television, especially when she has to avoid detention and turn her classmates into warriors before they become vampire food.

El nuevo libro de Tonya Hurley, autora de la serie superventas Ghostgirl. Wren Grayson odia los pajaros. Los odia porque la despiertan cada manana. Los odia porque su padre, ornitologo, esta obsesionado con ellos. Los odia porque se llevaron a su madre. Y porque suena con ellos y le hablan. Y porque cuando lo hacen, ella los entiende. Pero solo los pajaros podran coser las heridas que han roto su familia, y devolverle a su madre, perdida en las marismas...

"Living a life of loneliness and questioning his existence, Sinji struggles to accept responsibility for mankind's battle for survival in this visually striking rebuild of one of the most important anime of all time. Shinji will fight the angels alongside the only person who might understand his plight, Rei Ayanami, the elusive and frail pilot of Eva Unit 00. Experience not to be missed, Shinji and Rei will struggle to learn a simple truth"--Container....

Adjusting to life in Isolte after fleeing Coroa, Hollis must help the Eastoffe family unseat a tyrannical king before war erupts. After fleeing Coroa and leaving the memory of her beloved Silas behind, Hollis is unsteadily adjusting to life in Isolte. The Eastoffe family's affection is a balm on her weary spirit, though Etan, a surly cousin with a deep distaste for Coroans, threatens to upset the uneasy peace she has found. The Eastoffes may have...

Mr. J. Thadeus Toad has got himself into a bit of money trouble - from buying fancy new cars to dealing with some weaselly weasels. Now his beloved home, Toad Hall, is at risk of being lost. It will take the help of his dear friends Ratty, Moley and Angus MacBadger, and a promise to change his ways, for Mr. Toad to set things right again.