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Beatrice grows tired of all the monsters and other ghouly inhabitants of the manor getting in her way, and so devises a plan to get rid of them all.

Ophelia must rely on all her skills as a reader to stay ahead of her adversaries while on the ark of Babel, desperately longing for her betrothed, Thorn.

Eleven-year-old Max thinks his life could not get any worse. He is teased by his classmates because he's smart. He meets nasty slime-producing demon Phears and finds himself protecting the sibling ghosts of the children who used to live in his house.

"One of Cuba's-and Latin America's-greatest historical novels, about imperial conquest carried out under the guise of liberation, in its first new English translation in sixty years and featuring a new foreword by Alejandro Zambra. When he arrives in Cuba at the close of the eighteenth century, Victor Hugues, a merchant sailor from Marseille, brings with him not only the idealism of the French Revolution but also its ambition and bloodlust. Landing...

Aster continues her adventures in the mountains, including facing a horde of sheep armed to the teeth who are trying to take control of the valley, the village, and perhaps the world.

"In the corner of a quiet, long-abandoned house, something is bubbling up and protesting. Suddenly, out from their hiding spots burst three young shapeshifting magicians -- an elephant, a blackbird, and a human girl -- each of whom embarks on their own journey. But a fierce young Huntress and a mechanical lion-dragon named Clinker are hot on their trails... and won't rest until every last magician is vanquished. Fans of Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki's...