Penguin Group

In this follow-up to «Dark Lover» Rhage is the vampire with the strongest appetite — he's the best fighter and the most voracious lover, for inside him burns a ferocious curse cast by the Scribe Virgin. When Mary Luce is thrown into the vampire world, Rhage knows he must make her his own.

From the author of the popular Weather Warden series. Welcome to Morganville, Texas. Just don't stay out after dark. College freshman Claire Danvers has had enough of her nightmarish dorm situation, where the popular girls never let her forget just where she ranks in the school's social scene: somewhere less than zero. When Claire heads off-campus, the imposing old house where she finds a room may not be much better. Her new roommates don't show many signs of life. But they'll have Claire's back when the town's deepest secrets come crawling out, hungry for fresh blood.

Bursting with the sharp intelligence and sly humor that's fast becoming his trademark, Westerfield's new novel is an utterly original take on an archetype of horror — the vampire.

It's 1811, and the threat of revolution haunts the upper classes of King George Ill's England. A beautiful young woman is found savagely murdered on the altar steps of an ancient church near Westminster Abbey, and the dueling pistol found at the scene and the damning testimony of a witness both point to one man — Sebastian St. Cyr.

The Smart family's lacklustre holiday in Norwich is turned upside down when a beguiling stranger called Amber appears, bringing with her love, joy, pain and upheaval. The Smarts try to make sense of their bewildering emotions as Amber tramples over family boundaries and forces them to think about their world and themselves in an entirely new way.

With his disorderly band of accomplices including a demonic, gun-toting tomcat, the devil begins to create havoc. Disappearances, destruction and death spread through the city like wildfire and Margarita discovers that her lover has vanished in the chaos. Making a bargain with the devil, she decides to try black magic to save the man she loves.

This is not your typical boybites-girl love story. Technically Sunshine can't get killed-because she's immortal. Well, not quite yet. Due to the worst case of mistaken identity with her dark-side-loving twin sister at a Goth club called Club Fang, Magnus, a vampire hottie, went for Sunshine's innocent neck. Now if she doesn't reverse it in time, Magnus will be her blood mate forever and she's doomed to be a blood-gulping, pasty, daylight-hating vampire. That would seriously bite. And now, after the unfortunate slaying of the vampire leader, Sunshine, her sister Rayne, and Magnus must find the one thing that can solve her problem: the Holy Grail. They wish it were a joke but it's not. It's absolutely necessary that Sunshine gets out of this in time, because somehow she scored the hottest prom date in her school, the mouth-watering Jake Wilder. So she just can't be a vampire for the prom-let alone the rest of eternity.

Abducted by two men, Neil Griffon discovers that unless he agrees to their unreasonable demands, they will destroy his father's precious horses and racing stable — and, ultimately, Neil himself. Returned to his father's stables, he must find a way to bring down these criminals. Because having to choose between his integrity and his life is no choice at all.

In this New York Times bestseller, teen spy Alex Rider faces his most disturbing challenge yet: Sir Damian Cray, the world's most famous pop star, who's actually a madman bent on destruction.

The New York Times bestselling author of Dead as a Doornail introduces a new supernatural mystery series featuring Harper Connelly, a woman who has what one might call a strange job: she finds dead people.

Phule takes off after his mysteriously errant butler, just as General Blitzkrieg decides to make a surprise visit to Zenobia. And the only thing Blitz would like better than catching Phule off guard is to catch Phule AWOL.

When an investigation into a series of mysterious deaths leads agents to an elite prep school for rebellious kids, MI6 assigns Alex Rider to the case. Before he knows it, Alex is hanging out with the sons of the rich and powerful, and something feels wrong. These former juvenile delinquents have turned well-behaved, studious and identical overnight. It's up to Alex to find out who is master-minding this nefarious plot, before they find him.

Now in paperback — the latest entry of the New York Times bestselling series featuring teen spy Alex Rider. Alex learns that his father was an assassin for Scorpia, the most powerful terrorist organization going. Now Scorpia wants Alex on its side.

Working as a secret agent for Britain's most exclusive agency, 15-year-old Alex Rider is now about to face something more dangerous that he can imagine: a man who has lost everything he cared for and who has a nuclear weapon.

Soon to be the focus of a major motion picture, the «New York Times» bestselling Alex Rider series follows the adventures of a teenage secret agent. Now is the chance to see the story visualized in a new format with bold, edgy, manga-like illustrations that bring Alex to life.

The first three «Cat Who...» mysteries in one volume, from the «New York Times» bestselling «master of mystery» («People»). Prize-winning reporter Jim Qwilleran and his extraordinary Siamese cats Koko and Yum Yum always land on their feet. This special volume includes the first three books in this «thoroughly delightful» series. «The Cat Who Could Read Backwards»: Modern art is a mystery to many-but for Jim Qwilleran and Koko it turns into a mystery of another sort. «The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern»: Reporter Qwill isn't thrilled about covering the interior design beat. Little does he know that a killer has designs on a local woman featured in one of his stories. «The Cat Who Turned On and Off»: Qwill and Koko are joined by Yum Yum as they try to solve a murder in an antique shop.

Why isn`t globalization benefitting as many people as it should? The author shows us that things can change and that an optimistic world can exist where globalization really does work. He examines how change has occurred rapidly over the past four years, proposing solutions and looking to the future.

This is a stunning new picture book from Eric Carle about Mister Seahorse and other 'male mothers', with special acetate pages that hide fish behind rocks and reeds. As he floats through the sea, Mister Seahorse meets a Mr Stickleback, Mr Tilapia, Mr Kurtus and many other fish fathers caring for their eggs and babies in the most surprising ways.

Welcome to America at the turn of the twentieth century, where the rhythms of ragtime set the beat. In this chronicle, real-life characters intermingle with three families, one black, one Jewish, and one prosperous WASP, to create a literary mosaic that brings to life an era of poverty, wealth, and incredible change in short, the era of ragtime.

Acclaimed as the most influential work on evolution written in the last hundred years, The Blind Watchmaker offers an inspiring and accessible introduction to one of the most important scientific discoveries of all time. A brilliant and controversial book, which demonstrates that evolution by natural selection — the unconscious, automatic, blind, yet essentially non-random process discovered by Darwin — is the only answer to the biggest question of all: why do we exist?

In mid-twenty-first-century New York, Eve Dallas's 'tough cop' exterior is shaken by her twisted former foster mother's demands for money in exchange for protecting secrets from Dallas's childhood — a situation that becomes more complicated when the woman is found murdered.

In Kinsey Millhone's 19th excursion into the world of suspense and misadventure, a daughter wants the solace of closure in the mystery surrounding her mother's absence. Thirty-four years earlier, Violet Sullivan put on her party finery and left for the Fourth of July fireworks display. She was never seen again.

The key to eternal life has been found beneath two thousand feet of icy water in an area known as the Lost City. To a family of ruthless French arms dealers the Lost City is the key to world domination. To Kurt Austin, leader of NUMA's Special Assignments Team, and his colleague Joe Zavala, it may be their greatest-and deadliest-challenge of all.

In 1960 in the Dominican Republic, three young women from a pious Catholic family were assassinated after visiting their husbands who had been jailed as suspected rebel leaders. The Mirabal sisters became mythical figures in their country, where they are known as Las Mariposas (the butterflies). Three decades later, Alvarez brings the Mirabal sisters back to life in an extraordinary novel.