Books to read in Spring
But love works in surprising ways, and Nick is more interested in Charlie than either of them realised.
By Alice Oseman, winner of the YA Book Prize, Heartstopper is about love, friendship, loyalty and mental illness. It encompasses all the small moments of Nick and Charlie's lives that together make up something larger, which speaks to all of us.
And now, something with wicked claws and deepwater teeth has begun to hunt at night...Feeling responsible for her neighbors, Dina decides to get involved. Before long, she has to juggle dealing with the annoyingly attractive, ex-military, new neighbor, Sean Evans—an alpha-strain werewolf—and the equally arresting cosmic vampire soldier, Arland, while trying to keep her inn and its guests safe. But the enemy she’s facing is unlike anything she’s ever encountered before. It’s smart, vicious, and lethal, and putting herself between this creature and her neighbors might just cost her everything.
Seit der Ermordung ihrer Familie vor über zwölf Jahren lebt die junge Wicca Valea Patel fernab ihrer Heimat Ardeal bei den Menschen. Nichts wünscht sie sich sehnlicher, als zurückzukehren und herauszufinden, was in der Nacht, in der ihr Leben brutal in Stücke gerissen wurde, vorgefallen ist. Doch erst als wieder eine Wicca ermordet wird, lässt ihr Großvater sie holen, denn Valea besitzt die seltene Gabe, Erinnerungen zu sehen - selbst die der Toten.
Nach ihrer Ankunft findet sie sich jedoch in einem unentwirrbaren Geflecht aus Lügen, Intrigen und Verrat wieder. Denn in Ardeal tobt seit Jahrhunderten ein Krieg zwischen den Wicca, den Strigoi und der Hexenkönigin, der erst beendet sein wird, wenn zwei der drei Völker endgültig vernichtet sind.
19-year-old mage Lady Lyriana Batavia is third in line to the Seat of Power in Bamaria: a position of wealth and privilege, but not safety. Bamaria falls under the rule of the Lumerian Empire, survivors of a celestial war whose island sank in the Drowning. Now all Lumerians submit to the Emperor and his strict laws about magic. He decides what magic can be practiced and what powers remain forbidden. He decides who will die for possession of forbidden magic.
Lyr’s own cousin was executed for wielding the wrong kind. And for years, Lyr has sworn to protect her older sisters, helping them conceal their own illicit magic.
But when Lyr must participate in the ceremony that reveals her power, she uncovers something else entirely. Something that means banishment from the Empire.
Faced with death in exile, and leaving her sisters behind, Lyr has no choice but to accept a deadly contract. She has seven months to train as a warrior and pass the Emperor’s brutal test of strength—all without magic.
But when she’s forced to train with Lord Rhyan Hart, the man she’s secretly loved since she was a girl—a feared warrior in exile himself, forbidden to her in every way—she’s in danger of losing far more than her family, life, and country.
Rebel forces, and an invading army, are destabilizing Bamaria, just as her family’s secrets threaten to reveal themselves.
Surviving the training, and saving her sisters may mean sacrificing her own heart.
In this Age of myth and legend, the Wheel of Time turns. What was, what may be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.
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