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The second instalment in this fun paranormal graphic normal, perfect for middle grade fans of Emma Steinkellner and Victoria Jamieson.BCRD lives on!Mina is ready to roll...but her new team is nowhere to be found. After a summer skating around town looking in every dark corner for the Blood City Rollers, Mina and her other human teammate Swan are finally reunited with their squad at an abandoned asylum. It's old, creepy, and has a basement full of zombies...perfect.But if the asylum is going to be the new freaky forever home for the Vamps, they'll have to fight for it. A new team of outcast monsters are also looking for a new home, and the only solution to a turf war this bloodthirsty is a Sudden Death Scrimmage.Mina just wants to help her team win, but she can't help but feel like she still has to prove she belongs. And when the competition with Swan heats up, she'll have to learn that being a teammate isn't about being the best player...it's about being the best friend.

TAKE FLIGHT ON THE ADVENTURE OF A LIFETIME BOY. RIDER. HERO. Skandar Smith just wants to train to be a rider. But when the Island’s unicorns are struck by a terrible curse and the Commodore of Chaos refuses to investigate, it is up to Skandar and his friends to be the heroes the Island needs. Can they stop the curse before it’s too late? GET READY FOR EPIC SKY BATTLES, DEADLY SECRETS AND FRIENDSHIPS THAT WILL LAST FOREVER. GO ALL IN and celebrate the National Year of Reading 2026 with these epic new editions of the international bestselling Skandar series, featuring brand new illustrated covers.Praise for the SKANDAR series: ‘The most popular children’s fantasy hero since Harry Potter’ – Telegraph Skandar and the Unicorn Thief was WATERSTONES CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 and WINNER OF THE INDIE BOOK AWARDS 2023! *Skandar and the Chaos Trials was the Number 1 bestseller in the UK Nielsen Bookscan chart, 27th April 2024 *Skandar and the Spirit War was the Children’s Number 1 bestsell

TAKE FLIGHT ON THE ADVENTURE OF A LIFETIME BOY. RIDER. HERO. Skandar Smith must face a series of terrifying trials to pass his third year of rider training – but not everyone will make it. Meanwhile, Kenna faces a different challenge, and the Weaver has a deadly plan that threatens the riders and the future of the Island. Can Skandar stop the Weaver before the Island is changed forever? GET READY FOR EPIC SKY BATTLES, DEADLY SECRETS AND FRIENDSHIPS THAT WILL LAST FOREVER. GO ALL IN and celebrate the National Year of Reading 2026 with these epic new editions of the international bestselling Skandar series,featuring brand new illustrated covers. Praise for the SKANDAR series: ‘The most popular children’s fantasy hero since Harry Potter’ – Telegraph Skandar and the Unicorn Thief was WATERSTONES CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 and WINNER OF THE INDIE BOOK AWARDS 2023! *Skandar and the Chaos Trials was the Number 1 bestseller in the UK Nielsen Bookscan chart, 27th April 2024 *Skandar and

The wildly popular, bestselling Animorphs series by Katherine Applegate and Michael Grant is back with an all-new look! Perfect for Ani-fans of all ages.We can't tell you who we are. Or where we live. It's too risky. And we've got to be careful. But everyone is in danger. Yeah. Even you.When Tobias and his friends were given the power to morph, they were also given an important warning: Never stay in a morph for more than two hours. But Tobias broke the time limit, and now he's trapped in the body of a hawk -- forever. Tobias won't give up, though. The Animorphs made a promise to fight. So when he discovers an important Yeerk secret, he knows he has to do everything in his power to destroy it. But to do so, Tobias will have to contend with a part of himself that's wrestling for control -- a part that isn't human.

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF TIME'S 100 MOST INFLUENTUAL PEOPLE IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE The noted inventor and futurist's successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explores how technology will transform the human race in the decades to come Since it was first published in 2005, Ray Kurzweil's The Singularity Is Near and its vision of an exponential future have spawned a worldwide movement. Kurzweil's predictions about technological advancements have largely come true, with concepts like AI, intelligent machines, and biotechnology now widely familiar to the public. In this entirely new book Ray Kurzweil brings a fresh perspective to advances toward the Singularity--assessing his 1999 prediction that AI will reach human level intelligence by 2029 and examining the exponential growth of technology--that, in the near future, will expand human intelligence a millionfold and change human life forever. Among the topics he discusses are rebuilding the world, atom

剛踏入婚姻或行過文定之禮的你們，在愛的感覺上無疑稱得上是專家，你們本身就很清楚愛情的迷人之處－－那種奇妙、神祕、奇蹟般的幸福感。但是，在往後的數十個年頭裡，你們仍能保有這些美妙的感覺嗎？研究報告指出，婚姻出現嚴重問題，近半數是在婚後頭兩年，就已經有了警告訊號，但是平均來說，夫妻尋求專業輔導協助，卻是在婚後的第七年。作者看見許多夫妻，因忽視這些警訊，又自以為應付得了，結果容讓雙方關係日益惡化，殊不知若沒有外來的幫助，問題往往難以解決。《新婚之愛》提供多數人必須跌撞得鼻青臉腫才學得到－－或甚至學不到－－的實用智慧。它提供新婚夫妻如何彼此溝通、解決衝突的技巧。但更重要的是，本書揭示了耶穌基督能改善婚姻的品質，使眾人靠祂能常常享新婚之愛。在這本《新婚之愛》的婚姻手冊裡，我們希望能告訴你如何與另一半相處，以確保你們永不會失落這至寶：愛的感覺。

Every Summer After meets A Thousand Boy Kisses in this heartbreaking love story about second chance romance..When Sera Watkins and her family arrive at their summer house on Cape Cod, she has one goal in mind: protect her heart from the boy who broke it, her next-door neighbor, Luke Tisdale. The problem is, Luke still has a piece of her heart—literally. When Sera received a new heart as a baby, the healthy valves of her old heart were given to Luke. Forever bonded, Luke and Sera grew up together spending sun-soaked days swimming at their secret beach and painting at art camp.Then, two summers ago, their friendship almost turned into something more. Key word: almost. Because one fateful night, everything changed. Sera’s health took a turn for the worse. A family secret sent Luke spiraling. And they weren’t there for each other when it mattered the most.Now Sera is ready for a fresh start, which means no more pining over the boy next door. But Luke has grown up a lot since she last saw h

From the social media superstar behind @SimonSits, Isabel Klee--known for her heartwarming tales of dog rescue--comes an utterly winning memoir about a twentysomething woman's search for true love in New York City and the dogs who helped her find it.A Jersey girl by birth, Isabel Klee had always wanted to live in New York City. At age 20, she got her chance, ditching her college upstate for Marymount Manhattan and moving into a tiny basement apartment on the Upper East Side. Dog-obsessed since childhood, her first post-grad job was managing content for the mega-popular account The Dogist, and something clicked into place: a career focused on helping dogs was the new dream. Isabel quickly found a passion for using her own growing platform to help rescue pups find their forever homes. At the same time, she was caught up in a whirlwind of friendships, parties, fickle boyfriends and grand romances, which she recounts in honest, tender, and sometimes devastating chapters about the search fo