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Tief unter dem Meer, in den heißen Schluchten der Welt, schließt eine unglücklich verliebte Meerjungfrau einen verhängnisvollen Pakt: Sie verkauft ihre Seele für Beine–und die Hoffnung auf ihre große Liebe. Doch an Land stößt sie auf eine dunkle Wahrheit: Sie kann nur überleben, indem sie Blut trinkt. Doch statt bei ihrem Prinzen landet sie auf einem Piratenschiff–und ihr Hunger wird täglich größer.

Bellamy Merriweather Larousse isn’t like the other fairies at Harmswood Academy, with her giant wings and their magical dust. “Southern Bell” works as a barista at The Hallowed Bean to help pay her tuition and remains active on the cheering squad, despite her insistence on associating with the unpopular crowd. Every day is sunny in Bellamy’s world and every cloud has a silver lining. The only way to upset Bell’s stalwart optimism is to threaten one of her misfit friends…or try to take one of them from her.

Like many paranormals of Greek descent, Kai Xanthopoulos will not know her true nature until her young powers fully manifest. Unlike her parents - and much to the dismay of her stray cat best friend - Kai has chosen not to spend the rest of her life at the diner in Nocturne Falls. She takes a job at Delaney's Delectables instead, a decision that puts her directly in the path of a fugitive werewolf that could change her destiny....

Rough-and-tumble Saturday Woodcutter thinks she's the only one of her sisters without any magic - until the day she accidentally conjures an ocean in the backyard. With her sword in tow, Saturday sets sail on a pirate ship, only to find herself kidnapped and whisked off to the Top of the World. Is Saturday powerful enough to kill the demon witch who holds her captive and save the world from destruction? And, as she wonders grumpily, “Did romance have to be part of the adventure?”

Heather Hayden has everything a young witch could desire: beauty, money, popularity, and exceptionally strong magical powers. Too bad she’s also got a dysfunctional family that couldn’t care less about her and a Head Witch who’s watching her every move. Heather has no idea what she wants. But she’s pretty sure it’s not some low-rent cat shifter boy from goddess-knows-where, despite the fact that their paths keep crossing again and again...and again.

Annaleigh Elizabeta Morales hatte nicht damit gerechnet, an diesem Abend zu sterben. Schon gar nicht mit dem Tod persönlich. Wer denkt schon daran, ein Engel zu werden und alles zu vermasseln?

It isn’t easy being Sunday’s child, not when you’re the rather overlooked and unhappy youngest sibling to sisters named for the other six days of the week. Sunday’s only comfort is writing stories, although what she writes has a terrible tendency to come true. When Sunday meets an enchanted frog who asks about her stories, the two become friends. Soon that friendship deepens into something magical. One night, Sunday kisses her frog goodbye and leaves, not realizing that her love has transformed him....

In this delightful third book, Alethea Kontis weaves together some fine-feathered fairy tales to focus on Friday Woodcutter, the kind and loving seamstress. When Friday stumbles upon seven sleeping brothers in her sister Sunday's palace, she takes one look at Tristan and knows he's her future. But the brothers are cursed to be swans by day. Can Friday's unique magic somehow break the spell?

Messenger is the deleted last chapter from Dearest (Woodcutter Sisters, book three). Spoiler alert. Proceed with caution!

Es war einmal, vor langer Zeit, als eine bezaubernde Prinzessin das Licht der Welt erblickte. Ihr Haar war schwarz wie tiefstes Ebenholz, ihre Lippen leuchtend rot wie frisches Blut und ihre Haut so zart und weiß wie frisch gefallener Schnee. Nachdem der Jägersmann sie allein im dichten Wald zurückließ und lange bevor sie den Zwergen begegnete, kreuzte ein Dämon ihren Weg - ein Jäger der Einhörner.

Space explorers Kat Savage and Blu Valentine land their ship on a planet in response to a distorted message from a damaged emergency beacon. In their quest to find the source of the beacon, they find a lush world filled with beautiful plants and various insect life, but no inhabitants. And then they discover the horrific reason why....

Peter, Quinn, Romeo, and Sam are four (lame) shapeshifters (platypus, mosquito, piranha, sloth) who also happen to be best friends and members of a (terrible) garage band. But the local Battle of the Bands is happening on the full moon, and the boys are forced to turn to Sam's non-were (Goth) sister Natalie to help them out.

Beware the Sock Monkey. "In a world where monsters and fairies roam the backyard, one gnome seeks to save his true love from an experiment gone terribly awry! You will find within this audiobook the diary entries of one Dr. Harry Gnome, mad scientist. Here there be sock monkeys. You have been warned."

Annaleigh Elizabeta Morales did not expect to die tonight. She did not expect to meet Death. She did not expect to become an angel. She certainly did not expect to screw it up so badly. Fans of Arilland will enjoy this dark, bloodstained tale of a slightly misguided angel with her heart in the right place.

In the fairy tale realm of Arilland, stories are told at children's bedsides - and not the stories you think you know. Tales of Arilland is a collection of fairy tales, presented in the magical topsy-turvy way that only Alethea Kontis can do. Discover the story of Bluebeard's first wife ("Blood From Stone"), what really happened to Snow White in those dark woods ("The Unicorn Hunter"), how dangerous the Little Mermaid might have been ("Blood and Water"), and just how far Little Red Riding Hood was willing to go ("Hero Worship").

Max receives a piece of his mother's funerary jewelry and realizes that he now has the power to touch certain objects and relive their owner's last moments. But exactly how far will he need to go to reach divinity? This audiobook includes the original short story, as well as an essay about the origins of the idea for this tale.

Jack Brown is an unhappy painter whose glass is always half-empty. He lives on the top floor of an apartment complex next to a perky, optimistic witch named Cassie and her troublesome cat. This Halloween, beneath a full moon, Jack stumbles onto a magic spell that brings him far more than he bargained for. Will his pride allow him to ask Cassie for help? And if so...will he manage to do it before he is doomed?

Imagine a universe where, on November 5, 1605, Guy Fawkes's Gunpowder Plot was successful. The explosion resulted in a schism that split the British Prime Universe into two more planes of existence: one that went forwards in time (clockwise), and one that went backwards (counterclockwise, or widdershins). On All Hallows Eve every year, the bonds between these multiverses are strong enough to pull a body from one plane of existence to the other.

A toy giant and a clockwork unicorn star in this retelling of Aesop's fable "The Lion and the Mouse" in a steampunk fantasy setting.

From astronauts in deep space to the ghosts of the Civil War, New York Times best-selling author Alethea Kontis creates worlds of wonder and delight, of weirdness and despair, of whimsy and darkness. Here are 20 stories and poems that will transport you to the magical dangerous worlds you've always known should exist, but have never quite been able to find.