Ergebnis für "Hicks!" in Literatur & Belletristik

Kai Takashi thought his biggest problem was surviving high school. That was before the visions—dark glimpses of apocalyptic events—began to tear apart his ordinary life. Now, the weight of a prophecy hangs over him, thrusting him into a world where shadows whisper, and reality bends. With an ancient power awakening and the fate of his town—and maybe the world—in his hands.

Lennox Oliver is loving her new life in California. For the first time, she feels normal. She has friends, and a maybe boyfriend, and best of all no one knows the truth about her past and what happened to her mom. But everything changes the night after a party when a drive on the supposedly haunted Hicks Road turns deadly and Lennox hits something . . . or someone.

Susanna desperately wants to join the circle of girls who meet every week at the parsonage. What she doesn’t realize is that the leader of the group, the malicious Ann Putnam, is about to set off a torrent of false accusations leading to the imprisonment and execution of countless innocent people. When Susanna puts the pieces together, she faces a painful choice.

2030. Nina Gourriel is admitted to hospital after collapsing, but is later held in a secret government facility, where she undergoes continual physical tests with no explanation...until she meets Cain, a scientist, who tells her she's hunted for what she possesses. Nina doesn't know what these clandestine organisations want from her, but as her life begins to unravel she becomes the prey of more than one hunter. Is she a saviour...or the instigator of Armageddon?

After Sadi's parents die in a car crash, she is forced to live with the total stranger in her life, her Aunt Hayley. As if living with a total stranger isn't terrible enough, every college she applied to with her parent's help rejects her, bringing the rejection total to 11. Now what will she do? Her best friend Parker is going off to college and now she has to break it to her Aunt Hayley that she needs to stay another year. However, Sadi doesn't know that her parents and Aunt Hayley kept a huge secret from her.

Mirror Mirror on the Wall—because of you, a kingdom falls. A Princess for the people, that was Ember’s title. She is well known for being deeply involved with all people, using trust, honesty and friendship to rule. Prejudice towards the lowest of the low—the dwarven workers—does not sway her and she considers them to be the dearest of friends. But being a Princess of the People is not the same as being a Princess of the Court, a fact that puts Princess Ember and Queen Helga at constant odds. All Ember’s efforts to please ultimately fail because her values do not align at all with the Queen’s.

“Devious, delicious, and gasp-worthy.” (Kathleen Glasgow, New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Pieces) In this genre-defying page-turner from Lygia Day Peñaflor, four teens befriend their favorite novelist, only to find their deepest, darkest secrets in the pages of her next...

When 13-year-old Gary Crockett hypnotizes Earl Lancaster, and Earl stands from his wheelchair, everything changes for both of them. Gary suspects Earl of lying about his paralysis, and Gary’s mom thinks Earl is sexy and a business genius. Before long, all three need to leave the town in a hurry. This coming of age tale is full of surprises and quirky characters, twisted circumstances, and weird resolutions.

Jordana Frankel’s thrilling and imaginative YA dystopian novel The Ward is set in a near-future New York City. A catastrophic flood has washed out Manhattan, leaving the rivers polluted, and entire neighborhoods underwater. Some areas are quarantined because of an outbreak of a deadly disease...

For fans of Sarah Dessen and John Green, this is a breathtaking debut about a couple who fall in love...twice. Before: Reena Montero has loved Sawyer LeGrande for as long as she can remember. But he's never noticed that Reena even exists...until one day, impossibly, he does. Reena and Sawyer...

In this pulse-pounding final installment of the Don’t Turn Around trilogy, which Kirkus Reviews called “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo for teens, a surefire hit,” Noa and Peter race across the country in their search to destroy Project Persephone before time runs out. Noa Torson is out of...

This follow-up to the critically acclaimed Don't Turn Around—which Kirkus Reviews called "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo for teens, a surefire hit"—raises the stakes to their absolute limit and will leave readers begging for the exciting conclusion. Having outsmarted the sinister Project...

In Michelle Gagnon’s debut YA thriller, Don’t Turn Around, computer hacker Noa Torson is as smart, tough, and complex as The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’s Lisbeth Salander. The first in a trilogy, Don’t Turn Around’s intricate plot and heart-pounding action will leave readers...

Emily's world has been turned upside-down. Her favorite fantasy stories of magic had come to brilliant life! A delightful Cornish pixie needs her help. Emily will do whatever it takes to set things right.