Ergebnis für "Gilbert" in Literatur & Belletristik

Libby Dodge is in a place she's never been before: prison.

2025 Audie Award Winner - Best Young Adult Audiobook AudioFile Earphones Award | IPPY Award Wichita, summer 1968. The city’s redline still runs down the middle of TJ Crowley’s street. His father is gone. His brother is in Vietnam. His mother is unraveling. Then the Washingtons—a Black...

Fourteen acclaimed authors showcase the beautiful and diverse ways holidays are observed in this festive anthology. Keep the celebrations going all year long with this captivating and joyful read! From Lunar New Year to Solstice, Día de Los Muertos to Juneteenth, and all the incredible days in...

The Kingdom of Zangaria has finally started its descent into civil war. King Randor has declared martial law, imprisoned the pregnant Crown Princess Alassa in the Tower of Alexis, and started preparations for a first strike against his enemies. The time has come for everyone to choose a side. Emily has arrived in Alexis with the intention of freeing Alassa before her father can have her executed. But as Emily and her friends are drawn into a maelstrom of rebellious factions and crown loyalists, they find themselves faced with an insolvable problem.

In this complete audio collection of all four books in the Dragons of Starlight YA series, fans of fantasy and imaginative speculative fiction will enjoy the adventures of two teens on opposite planets who find themselves drawn into a battle between humans and dragons when a portal between their...

The kingdom of Zangaria teeters on the edge of civil war. The nobles are plotting another coup, the merchants are demanding political representation and a say in government, and the peasants are on the verge of outright revolt. Everyone is preparing for war. And when a deadly secret from the past resurfaces at the worst possible moment, Princess Alassa, one of Emily's closest friends, finds herself having to make a choice that will put her at the center of the storm and determine the future of the kingdom … Or see everything she loves destroyed in the fires of civil war.

Written in classic Alcott style, we see how the boys struggle to overcome their many flaws, in the end learning life's lessons the hard way. Just as the March girls did, each boy must learn to deal with death, love, heartbreak, and the consequences of their actions. Audiences will feel pain and joy alongside each young man as he completes his life journey and fulfills his dreams in this classic conclusion to one of America's most beloved series.

Benevolence is not your typical princess and Princess Ben is certainly not your typical fairy tale. With her parents lost to unknown assassins, Princess Ben ends up under the thumb of the conniving Queen Sophia, who is intent on marrying her off to the first available "specimen of imbecilic manhood." Starved and miserable, locked in the castle's highest tower, Ben stumbles upon a mysterious enchanted room. So begins her secret education in the magical arts.

Now streaming on Netflix and BBC iPlayer! The Breakfast Club meets Pretty Little Liars in Gretchen McNeil’s witty and suspenseful novel about four disparate girls who join forces to take revenge on high school bullies and create dangerous enemies for themselves in the process. Perfect for fans...

After five months of sheer absolute craziness I was going back to being plain old background D.J. In photographs of course I’m always in the background—it’s a family joke, actually, that us Schwenk kids could go to school naked on picture day, we’re all so crazy tall. But I mean I was...

A sense of unrest is growing among the descendants of those who survived the asteroid impact. It's been 230 years since it hit earth. Some feel it’s time to leave the retrofitted mine. The mayor enforces the old rules. Only when he feels it's safe will anyone go topside. That’s despite the breakdowns and crop failures. So, the rebellion begins.

New York Times bestselling author Lauren Oliver delivers a raw and heart-pounding story, perfect for fans of E. Lockhart's We Were Liars or Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects. Dara and Nick used to be inseparable, but that was before the accident that left Dara's beautiful face scarred and the two...

Piper is beginning her freshman year at a high school in West Virginia, feeling like she's always been on the outside looking in. She's never thought of herself as pretty or smart, and fitting in has always been a struggle. That all changes when she befriends a group of kids who wear black and embrace the unconventional. Through their friendship, Piper starts to explore new aspects of herself--her politics, her beliefs, and even her gender identity.

EARPHONES AWARD WINNER Narrator Tavia Gilbert's rich, expressive voice conveys the wide range of characters in this sometimes funny yet often heartrending story - AudioFile Magazine In this novel full of surprises from the New York Times bestselling author of WE WERE LIARS and GENUINE FRAUD, E...

How far would you go to save someone you love? While learning to use her Dream Shaper Gift, Jillian Blairington met a sister named Nadia who has the power to speak inside one’s mind. Jillian’s grown rather fond of her. Now, she’s gone silent. Jillian turns to her friend, Danielle Matheson, and together they hatch a crazy plan to get Jillian to Nadia’s side so she can awaken her from the coma. Meanwhile, Danielle tries to keep a friend out of trouble with human traffickers.

Genetically altering humans is illegal.... But Varick and his siblings - Devya’s Children - exist. He’s been born and bred to be the perfect soldier, but he can’t be everywhere. If one counts each of his siblings plus Danielle Matheson, the list of people Varick wants to protect stretches from coast to coast. The more he gets to know Danielle, the more she comes to mean to him. Meanwhile, somebody has captured Nadia and wants to sell her to the highest bidder. Varick’s lifelong quest has been to free her from their father, Dr. Dean Devya.

The kidnapping changes everything...Twelve-year-old Jillian Blairington never thought she was particularly special. She was wrong. She’s a Dream Shaper. The scientists responsible for the genetic modifications kidnap her in order to teach Jillian how to use her Gift. But she isn’t alone. They also have her babysitter, Danielle Matheson, snatched to keep her in line. They also have a task for her. If Jillian can’t master her Gift quickly, Danielle might only be the first victim of many.

When Danny discovers a taped-up box in his father's closet filled with old letters and a file on a powerful Silicon Valley family, he realizes there's much more to his family's past than he ever imagined. Danny has been an artist for as long as he can remember, and it seems his path is set, with a scholarship to RISD and his family's blessing to pursue the career he's always dreamed of. Still, contemplating a future without his best friend, Harry Wong, by his side makes Danny feel a panic he can barely put into words.

People connected to Devya's Children are dead or being hunted. Selling government secrets could buy them a lot of bargaining power, but Dustin's knowledge is power. One path leads to captivity and the chance to hone their Gifts to perfection. The other path leads to freedom and a life on the run.

A ripped-from-the-tabloids, “achingly wrought” (BookPage, starred review) young adult drama by critically acclaimed author Kelly Loy Gilbert about a girl’s famous-for-being-famous family fracturing from within as their dirty laundry gets exposed. The Lo family sticks together. That’s...