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A medieval tale of magic and self-discovery. At 14, Ceridwen is skilled in the art of healing. When Ceridwen is named the royal healer and companion to Elinor, the daughter of a nobleman, a jealous rival accuses her of witchcraft. To face the force of darkness, Ceridwen must face her hidden powers.

There's a first time for everything . . . Layla, Alex, Zoe and Emma are four best friends with not a lot in common. Well, except one thing . . . But they're determined to lose 'that thing' by the time they graduate high school. Yes, the time has come to Do It. To make love. To have all the sex. It's momentous, it's huge, it's important and it's life-changing. Or . . . is it? Although each of the girls sets out with a pretty certain idea of what the Big Moment will be like, as they'll discover,...

'Although it is set in the near future, Hocus Pocus is the most topical, realistic Vonnegut novel to date, and shows the struggle of an artist a little impatient with allegory and more than a little impatient with his own country' - New York Times Book ReviewSome get all the luck - but not Eugene Debs Hartke. Ex-Vietnam vet, ex-college professor, and now a TB-stricken inmate at Tarkington State Reformatory, his life has been warped by one ludicrous farce after another. Here, on scraps of paper p...

Trixie Watson has two very important goals for senior year: to finally save enough to buy the set of Dr. Who figurines at the local comic books store, and to place third in her class and knock Ben West and his horrendous new moustache that he spent all summer growing down to number four. Trixie will do anything to get her name ranked over Ben's, including give up sleep and comic books well, maybe not comic books but definitely sleep. After all, the war of Watson v. West is as vicious as the Doct...

Kick-ass heroine, Malora Ironbound's adventures continue, in another book about survival and friendship in a post-apocolyptic setting with mythical tones.  In this sequel to Daughter of the Centaurs, Malora leaves the safety of Mount Kheironin search of Sky, the stallion who used to lead Malora's herd of horses. She travels with her closest friends through the wild and dangerous bush, and wind up in a city built on the ruins of Cairo--which is wild and dangerous in a different way. This journey...

A new chapter begins for the hit fantasy comic, as New York Times bestseller V.E. Schwab continues to explore the world of her acclaimed fantasy novel series: Shades of Magic.Maxim Maresh has a target on his back. Every thug and thief on the Blood Coast is out to get the exiled prince of Red London, and his soldiers think he’s just another spoilt brat.Yet opportunity knocks – for the Night of Knives is here, an annual trial sure to prove his mettle. The only problem? No-one survives the night…

When magic sleeps, everything changes. For as long as she can remember, Winnie Price has visited another world in her dreams, a magical fae realm caught up in a war of intrigue and sorcery. Where nature is all-powerful and a dark prince will do anything to save his dying clan. She thought this realm was pure imagination, until one midsummer’s eve when the owl who visits her window once a month transforms into a boy before her eyes. And not just any boy, the dark fae prince. With his clan on th...

Neil's life turns upside down when his parents take his retarded sister out of an institution and bring her home to stay.

When Miriam develops bone cancer, she finds herself the focus of a battle between the medical and legal establishments and the small Christian sect to which she and her family belong.