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A disturbance at her neighbor's house piques Eilida's curiosity. What she discovers is so shocking it sends her running through the mountainous woods during a thunderstorm. She slips on the wet ground, plummets down Mount Wilde, and slams into a large boulder beside River Freedom. Eilida is transported to Lyden, where Sunshine, a receptionist at the local paper becomes engrossed in her story. The further Sunshine delves into Eilida's life, the more entangled their lives become.

While watching a play in Zink Garden, a mechanical actor goes haywire and steals a box that Lady Rachel holds dear. When Edna goes after the machine, she realizes its actually an urchin in disguise. He leads her into the cursed Zink Hotel. Edna doesn't believe in curses. But, maybe, she should.

Fabi Fuchs, Polly, Hendrix, Pips und das neue, feste Team-Mitglied Milo reisen per Vogelexpress von Afrika nach Australien. Am Uluru treffen die Freunde Jack Jumper. Er gehört zu den giftigsten Ameisen der Welt, weshalb viele Angst vor ihm haben. Fabi und Co. geht es auch nicht anders - bis Jack sie vor einem Unglück rettet. Und Jack führt die Freunde noch weiter, durch die Wüste bis in den Norden des Landes. Es kreucht und fleucht, blüht und zirpt. Doch selbst im Idyll kommt es manchmal zum Streit. Einige Krokodile sind aneinandergeraten und haben Revierstreitigkeiten.

When 15-year-old Edna Mather tears an expensive and unfamiliar pocket watch off her little brother's neck, he crumbles into a pile of cogs right before her eyes. Horrified, Edna flees for help, but encounters Ike, a thief who attempts to steal the watch before he realizes what it is: A device to power Coglings-clockwork changelings left in place of stolen children who have been forced to work in factories. Desperate to rescue her brother, Edna sets off across the kingdom to the hags' swamp, with Ike in tow.

Benson Rimer has had one goal since his brother’s death, 30 years ago: seek out his mate and make her pay for all the pain she inflicted on him. Being forced out of an adult body and into a child’s again did not allow for a lot of freedom. It turns out that he did not need to seek her out. His mate found him on her own.

Traci Quarterman thinks her marriage is over. Her husband, Rick, is determined to prove her wrong. He'll need a blindfold, a few scarves, and a whole lot of trust from Traci to make things right between them.

Princess Lisha has been assigned to lead a troop of serpent riders in protecting her kingdom. The nobles who join her ranks want little to do with her. She’s an outsider to be protected, not a fighter meant to defend her people. When ancient mysteries surface, she knows she can’t ask her family or peers for help deciphering them. There is a duke, though, one who skirts the edges of society.

In the near future, teleportation chambers called ZIPs are revolutionizing the world. Now, they are being hacked to add augmentations. When Nick asks his friend Amber to join him in a little size fun, she is quite willing. But when he shows up, he’s not quite the size he expected....

After finding a strange pendant in the forest, Venus learns that she can grow. While short most of her life, she decides that being big is the ultimate power trip and she needs worshipers. But the pendant's power isn't just for her - she's able to make her boyfriend grow, also! When Venus is gigantic, she gains a new perspective of the world...

Twenty-seven-year-old Taylor Quinn rocks the three I's. She's immature, impulsive, and totally inappropriate. Now that she's been admitted to the Sweet Water Circle, a group of longtime friends now in their 30s and 40s who love to push each other to be their best selves, Taylor is tasked with growing up. After calling for a Sweet Water Circle intervention, fellow Circle member and Taylor's boss, Shelly, puts Taylor on the clock: figure out what she wants to do with her life or join the unemployment line. Who knew getting paid to do nothing wasn't a long-term career option?

Chastity Michaels doesn’t want to review the hottest new rock band, A Mythical Dilemma. When sexy and enigmatic Cyprian Agrios first crosses her path, they clash horribly. They don’t have a thing in common, but he becomes a challenge that’s all too exciting to ignore, especially when she has nothing else to do during the Christmas holiday.

Are you gazing adoringly at your cat? Have you ever wondered what is going through their mind as they innocently wash their face? Well, Ollie the rag doll cat can tell you. His imagination will be running riot! He is plotting all sorts of mischief. In his book, Ollie lets us into his world. In a diary entry form, we travel with him through the seasons of the year. We follow Ollie and his two cat friends - Darcey who lives nearby and Lucy, his distance penfriend.

Herbal tea is made from infusing herbs and spices in hot water and is usually not caffeinated. These drinks are different from other teas, like black, green, white, oolong, and yellow, which use cured leaves from the tea plant, Camellia sinensis. In this book you'll learn what teas are best to add herbs and spices to and how to create a good herbal tea depending on your mood and energy levels. This is a rough guide to mixing and choosing what to add to tea using what can be found in your own backyard.

When Nate loses his job in the entertainment industry, he leaves behind his best friend and fellow player Moe, moving to New York City to work for one of the hottest urban magazines and finds his wild past catching up with him when he gets in too deep.

Die Blaubeerwaldbewohner und Milo sind auf dem Weg durch die raue Pampa zur südlichsten Stadt Argentiniens: Ushuaia. Von den Gauchos, die sie ein Stück mitnehmen, lernen sie das Reiten und Lassowerfen. Doch als die Freunde auf ihrer Weiterreise das Meer erreichen, sehen sie etwas Schreckliches: Das Glattwalbaby Ballenito ist gestrandet! Fabi, Pips, Polly, Hendrix und Milo lassen sich schnell etwas einfallen, um das schwere Jungtier zurück in den Atlantik zu bugsieren.

De bijzondere Pippi Langkous is zonder twijfel een van de meest geliefde personages uit de Scandinavische kinderliteratuur en heeft een speciale plek in de harten van zowel volwassenen als kinderen veroverd. Het eerste verhaal in deze verhalenbundel onthult hoe Pippi in Villa Kakelbont kwam wonen en hoe ze vrienden werd met Tommy en Annika. In het tweede verhaal gaan Pippi, Tommy en Annika op een leuk schoolreisje en wordt Pippi bezocht door haar vader, Kapitein Efraïm Langkous.

Alea liebt es, Feenwesen aus sicherer Entfernung zu beobachten. Besonders beim Anblick eines bestimmten Feenmannes kann sie den Hass, der ihr in ihrem Dorf entgegenschlägt, für einen Moment vergessen. All ihrer Vorsicht zum Trotz, bloß nicht in einen Feenpakt getrickst zu werden, landet sie durch unerwartete Umstände im Feenreich. Schnell findet sie sich in einem Machtkampf zwischen zwei verfeindeten Feenkönigen wieder. Dabei ist ihr Feenmann an ihrer Seite. Wobei … ist er an ihrer Seite oder ist er viel eher für die Schwierigkeiten verantwortlich, die auf sie einprasseln?

In a distant land in the northern part of Africa, there is a quaint little kingdom that rivals the Wakanda legacy ruled by an African King with an iron thumb like a Yellowstone patriarch. Little does he know that a royal flower is about to blossom and upset all of his plans for eternal dominance and it all starts with an untold love story….

Weil Fabi, Pips, Polly, Hendrix und Milo sich nicht einigen konnten, welches Land sie als nächstes bereisen wollen, hat die Schlagzeuger-Eidechse Chénlóng sie am Dreiländereck abgesetzt. Irgendwo zwischen Argentinien, Brasilien und Paraguay. Fabi und Co. schnappen sich vor Ort ein Boot und folgen mit ihm der Strömung – bis ein Faultier sie stoppt. Calma ist während des Mittagsschlafs von einem Baum ins Wasser gefallen und treibt inmitten von Piranhas vor ihrem Boot. Klar, dass Fabi und seine Freunde sofort eine Rettungsaktion starten.

Es ist Weihnachten. Aber warum sind weit und breit keine Geschenke zu sehen? Das kann nicht mit rechten Dingen zugehen, findet Fabi. Gleich machen sich unsere abenteuerlustigen Freunde auf den Weg, um beim Weihnachtsmann nach dem Rechten zu sehen. Nur: Wo wohnt der eigentlich? Das Rentier Rudolph, das nur ganz zufällig so heißt, und die weise Eisbärin Nanuq, geben den entscheidenden Hinweis. Auf ihrer Suche geraten Fabi und Co auf eine Eisscholle, auf der sie hilflos umhertreiben.