Transform Your Relationship With Tech (Without Breaking Things Off Completely)It’s no secret that we often use our tech mindlessly. In fact, digital innovations increasingly make it so that we barely need to think at all. Streaming services tell us what to watch next. Influencers tell us what to buy next. The GPS tells us where to turn next. But the more we allow algorithms, apps and artificial intelligence to guide our behavior, the less control we have over who w...

Experience The Resurrecter, a slow-burn supernatural thriller that builds from a deceptively quiet beginning to a shocking, twist-filled conclusion you’ll never see coming.“Stay away from the cemetery.” Five years ago, Mandy Carter received that warning from her friend Zeke. Even after Zeke disappeared from her life, she always followed his cryptic advice. Who wants to wander around in a graveyard, anyway?Then a chance meeting brings Mandy and Zeke...

The astonishing #1 New York Times bestseller. In Maggie Stiefvater's Shiver, Grace and Sam found each other. Now, in Linger, they must fight to be together. For Grace, this means defying her parents and keeping a very dangerous secret about her own well-being. For Sam, this means grappling with his werewolf past . . . and figuring out a way to survive into the future. Add into the mix a new wolf named Cole, whose own past has the potential to destroy the whole pack. And Isabelle, who alrea...

The border's closed . . .No one can get into Scotland, just like no one can cross the channel . . .England is under the control of an authoritarian regime. Chips implanted in citizens' skin at birth mean anyone can be tracked, anywhere. But Jake, who breaks out of the Academy dorm he's been housed in, has decided to escape. To go off-grid. To join a small group of independent spirits determined to keep away from the government's prying eyes. The Outwalkers. Only with them will Jake have a ...

From the author of beloved novels Ms. Bixby’s Last Day and Posted comes a hilarious, heartfelt, and unforgettable novel about a fairy-in-training.Everyone who wishes upon a star, or a candle, or a penny thrown into a fountain knows that you’re not allowed to tell anyone what you’ve wished for. But even so, there is someone out there who hears it.In a magical land called the Haven lives a young fairy named Ophelia Delphinium Fidgets. Ophela is no ordinary fairy—she is a Gran...

Before she hunted monsters, Sunshine Walkingstick was a mom.And she'd do anything to protect her son.I loved my boy Henry more'n anything in the whole wide world. Despite the way his daddy walked out on me when he found out I was pregnant. Despite having to drop out of high school when I was just a kid to raise him on my own. I loved him with my whole heart.So when it come time for him to start school, I done my best by him, from bu...

jake, brains and scrapper, three nearly ten year olds, lived their daily life within the constraints of wartime conditions - the bombing, the gasmasks, the shelters, the sweet rationing. Still, the "gang", plus scrapper's little sister, sally, enjoyed life. They collected shrapnel the morning after the air raids, they concocted sweets substitutes to chew on the way back from school, they held meetings in brains' underground air raid shelter, and had the occasional battle with olly stott's ...

In this near-future dystopia, the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.And the few are slaves to the system.Fourteen-year-old Queenie is a gubmint girl, a welfare baby born to a single mother living in the projects.She's also one of the few fertile females of her generation, or any.When Mister and Missuz take her home from juvie, Queenie thinks everything's going to be just fine. She'll stay with them for a while,...

A high school teacher has mysteriously disappeared while on a class trip to FunnyVille Water Park. Shiloh, a self-described amateur teen detective, is determined to swim the deepest waters in order to find the culprit whom she believes kidnapped her teacher. She recruits her twin sister Sophia and good friend Jarred to help her. As they conduct their search, they run into one threatening situation after another, and the only thing that saves them is their quick thinking and lots of luck. B...

"There are no angels in Baton Noir. Only devils." Jude Lomax scrapes a living playing the trumpet on the neon streets of Baton Noir. Then she is invited to play at the funeral of the infamous cajou queen, Ivory Monette. Passing through the cemetery gates, Jude finds herself possessed by the murdered queen's spirit. And Ivory won't rest until she's found the person responsible for her death. If Jude wants to be rid of the vengeful spirit, she must take a journey deep into the dangerous unde...

Three unlikely detectives, one BIG mystery. The first in a brand-new, laugh-out-loud, illustrated mystery series from award-winning journalist and television presenter Nick Sheridan. Scooby-Doo for a new generation, perfect for fans of Pamela Butchart and Sam Copeland.When a child escapes Madame Strang’s Academy for Incredibly Irritating Children in the dead of night, Madame Strang, her cool and calculating right-hand man, Mr Grule, and her overweight saus...

Evil genius Lester Smythe has a black heart.He's invented a dangerous brain-sucking machine that removes the goodness from its victims.Now he's using it to rid the world of all human kindness.But Lester didn't count on Callum McCullock and his two best friends, engineering whiz-kid Sophie and Jinx Patterson, the world's unluckiest boy.The trio vow to foil Lester's evil plan but can they stop him before things go from bad to disastrous?