Time is running out for the peculiar children. With a dangerous madman on the loose and their beloved Miss Peregrine still in danger, Jacob Portman and Emma Bloom are forced to stage the most daring of rescue missions. They’ll travel through a war-torn landscape, meet new allies, and face greater dangers than ever. . . Will Jacob come into his own as the hero his fellow peculiars know him to be? This action-packed adventure features more than 50 all-new peculiar photographs.
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In this ‘bewitching supernatural romp,’ (Philadelphia Daily News),
Zelazny created the similar tension between two worlds, the real
and the sinister, as he did in his renown Chronicles of Amber
series. Told from the point of view of Jack the Ripper’s dog Snuff,
each of the 31 chapters in A Night in the Lonesome October is a
diary entry for every night of October. Loyally accompanying a
mysterious knife-wielding gentleman named Jack on his midnight
rounds through the murky streets of London,
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Greta is a Duchess and Crown Princess—and a
hostage to peace. This is how the game is played: if
you want to rule, you must give one of your children
as a hostage. And you must keep the peace; start a
war and your hostage dies.
Greta will be free if she can survive until her
eighteenth birthday. Until then she is prepared to
die with dignity, if she must. But everything changes
when a new hostage arrives, a boy who refuses to play by the rules,
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They exist in two different centuries, but their love
defies time.
Cassandra craves drama and adventure, so the last
thing she wants is to spend her summer marooned
with her mother and stepfather in a snooty
Massachusetts shore town. But when a dreamy
stranger shows up on their private beach claiming
it’s his own—and that the year is 1925—she is
swept into a mystery a hundred years in the making.
As she searches for answers in the present, Cassandra discovers a truth that
puts their growing love—and Lawrence’s life—into jeopardy.
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“A genuinely funny comedy . . . with a Pratchettian mix of gusto and warmth. . . . An assured, even virtuoso performance.”
—The Guardian (U.K.)
Award-winning YA author Philip Murdstone is in trouble. His star has waned. The world is leaving him behind. His agent, the beautiful and ruthless Minerva Cinch, convinces him that his only hope is to write a sword-and-sorcery blockbuster. Unfortunately, Philip—allergic to the faintest trace of Tolkien—is utterly unsuited to the task. In a dark hour, a dwarfish stranger comes to his rescue. But the deal he makes with Pocket Wellfair turns out to have Faustian consequences.
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What does it mean to be fully alive? Magic blends with reality in a stunning coming-of-age novel about a girl, a grandfather, wanderlust, and reclaiming your roots.
Things are only impossible if you stop to think about them. . .
While her friends are spending their summers having pool parties and sleepovers, twelve-year-old Carolina — Carol — is spending hers in the middle of the New Mexico desert, helping her parents move the grandfather she’s never met into a home for people with dementia. At first, Carol avoids prickly Grandpa Serge. But as the summer wears on and the heat bears down,
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