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En tant que Valkyrie d'Odin, la plus importante responsabilité de Malin consiste à éliminer les immortels et à les retourner dans le monde souterrain. L'équilibre du monde repose sur sa capacité d'exécuter les ordres. Mais, quand Malin découvre que sa mère a épargné la vie d'un immortel qui était voué à mourir, son monde bascule dans le chaos.

Salomay venait à peine de renouer avec sa grand-mère Dorothée, lorsque celle-ci a été capturée. La jeune fille se retrouve donc obligée d'apprivoiser sa nouvelle réalité de magicienne sans son aide. Elle a des pouvoirs dont elle ne sait que faire ; un protecteur, Chammal, le grand loup noir des Territoires Occultes, qui devient son mentor ; et un ennemi, appelé l'Innommable, reconnu pour sa cruauté sans bornes. Salomay en rirait presque, si tout cela n'était pas vrai. En l'espace de quelques semaines, sa vie lui échappe complètement.

Salomay mène une vie tout ce qu'il y a de plus normale, pour ne pas dire banale : collège, amis et famille font partie de son quotidien, sans oublier Cédric, dont elle est secrètement amoureuse. La jeune fille attend les vacances d'été avec impatience, ne se doutant pas qu'elles lui réservent des surprises de taille. A l'approche de son anniversaire, des phénomènes étranges se manifestent : des objets se déplacent mystérieusement, des murmures indistincts bourdonnent à ses oreilles et des rêves surréalistes habitent ses nuits.

Déterminée à sauver sa grand-mère et sa meilleure amie des griffes d'Arnwald, Salomay a osé se rendre dans les Territoires Occultes en compagnie de ses protecteurs. Franchissant pics enneigés et marais maudits, ils doivent se frayer un passage jusqu'à la citadelle, des créatures prédatrices et des patrouilles ennemies sur leurs talons. Leur cauchemar ne fait toutefois que commencer : de son repaire, l'Innommable les guette sans relâche. De son côté, Dorothée met tout en oeuvre pour refaire ses forces et dissimuler ses pouvoirs renaissants.

Seventeen-year-old Will and his four friends escaped from a tropical island fortress then fought for freedom on a monstrous prison ship. Now they reach the mainland and dock their small cruiser in the harbour of a large city, hoping at last to find answers to their origins. At first the city is deserted, but soon drones attack them from above. At night, sicko adults, diseased, angry and hungry, hunt them down relentlessly. Will, Quentin, Fiona, Rose and Kevin are on the run again, knowing that capture can't be long from coming.

Ever since her mom died of Huntington's disease, Logan has been in a permanent state of neutral. Her dad has been depressed and lonely, but Logan is . . . something else. So much so that she doesn't even see that her best friend, Cole, is head over heels in love with her. To make matters worse, Logan's dad is now hosting a bereavement group in their basement. That was Logan's place to escape; it's where she keeps her darkroom and where she and Cole indulge their mutual love of cinema and black-and-white photography.

On the Edge tells the story of Emerald Lake Visser, an unhappy fourteen-year-old who came to live on her aunt and uncle's farm when she was orphaned at age five. A misfit in her community and at school, her only real friend is an elderly woman, Jess, who teaches her to sail. Emma's a natural sailor, as if she's been on a sailboat her whole life. When Jess dies, it's revealed that she was Emma's grandmother. After receiving a letter that her mother may be living in the Bahamas, Emma runs away on her grandmother's boat, the Edge, to find her.

After accepting a ride home, sixteen-year-old Emma Kennedy is raped by a boy from school. But handsome, popular Ross Schroeder tells everyone the sex was consensual, and Emma is immediately branded as a slut. Even Emma's best friend, Jen, doesn't believe Emma's version of events. In fact, she is angry with Emma because she feels betrayed. After all, she liked Ross first. But when Ross starts showing interest in Jen, Emma knows she will have to find a way to get Jen to believe that she really is in grave danger. Before it's too late.

Before Rory and Jillian's mother died two years ago, she hired Rebecca to be the family housekeeper. But Rebecca is a terrible cook and not so great at housework either. The weird lunches and laundry disasters drive the twins crazy. One day Jillian catches her father flirting with Rebecca and decides it's time to find him a girlfriend. Rory disagrees. But eventually he goes along with the idea, and they create a profile for their father on an online dating site. Dad is very reluctant, but Jillian gets him to agree to go on three dates before giving up.

Sixteen-year-old Penny has moved with her mom and huge dog, Ollie, to live above a small-town pub owned by her aunt. It's a relief to start over in a place where no one knows her father is in prison. It's summer, and the only person she knows is her nerdy cousin Simon. Soon she meets Simon's best friend, Brent, and Brent's twin sister, Tara, and their pug, Wolfgang. When Ollie digs up a human bone in the backyard of the pub, police are called. It turns out the bone is over twenty years old. Who can the dead person be? Surely Aunt Stella can't be involved.