New Releases by Aprilynne Pike

A missing intergalactic artifact valuable enough to inspire murder. A cartoon gag gone bad that leads to a gruesome death. Greek deities unraveling a divine mystery in New York City. A human detective navigating the temptations of Faerie in pursuit of a magical killer. Call them sleuths, call them gumshoes, call them shamuses or dicks or beagles-these private investigators prowl the back alleys of imagination, explaining the unexplainable, seeking answers and justice for two hundred dollars a day plus expenses.In Noir, speculative fiction authors Hal Bodner, Jessie Kwak, Esther M. Friesner, Travis Wade Beaty, John Zakour, Alex Bledsoe, Erik Grove, Andrija Popovic, Julie E. Czerneda, Aprilynne Pike, D.B. Jackson, Justin Jordan, Steven Harper, R.S. Belcher, and Eve Golden-Woods spin tales of intrigue and danger, introducing you to worlds where information is currency and life is cheap. So put on your fedora, raise your trench coat collar against the evening chill, and come explore the shadows. But remember, in this seedy business, you can trust no one?sometimes not even yourself.

Clockwork Scott is the steampunk hero of Geartown, fighting dinosaurs and reversing natural disasters for the good of his fellow bots. So when a tragic accident damages Scott''s body, mind, and spirit, the townsfolk worry: will that be the end of their idol''s encouraging attitude and daring deeds? Inspired by a true story of injury and recovery, personal grit and community support, CLOCKWORK SCOTT is a whimsical illustrated read-aloud for children of all ages--but especially those struggling with tragic accidents and life-altering disabilities.

“Who better to raise teens’ awareness of mental illness and health than the YA authors they admire?” —Booklist (starred review) “[A] much-needed, enlightening book.” —School Library Journal (starred review) Your favorite YA authors including Ellen Hopkins, Maureen Johnson, and more recount their own experiences with mental health in this raw, real, and powerful collection of essays that explores everything from ADD to PTSD. Have you ever felt like you just couldn’t get out of bed? Not the occasional morning, but every day? Do you find yourself listening to a voice in your head that says “you’re not good enough,” “not good looking enough,” “not thin enough,” or “not smart enough”? Have you ever found yourself unable to do homework or pay attention in class unless everything is “just so” on your desk? Everyone has had days like that, but what if you have them every day? You’re not alone. Millions of people are going through similar things. However issues around mental health still tend to be treated as something shrouded in shame or discussed in whispers. It’s easier to have a broken bone—something tangible that can be “fixed”—than to have a mental illness, and easier to have a discussion about sex than it is to have one about mental health. Life Inside My Mind is an anthology of true-life events from writers of this generation, for this generation. These essays tackle everything from neurodiversity to addiction to OCD to PTSD and much more. The goals of this book range from providing a home to those who are feeling alone, awareness to those who are witnessing a friend or family member struggle, and to open the floodgates to conversation.

"Outside the palace of Versailles, it''s modern day. Inside, the people dress, eat, and act like it''s the eighteenth century. The palace has every indulgence, but for one pretty young thing, it''s about to become a very beautiful prison. When Danica witnesses an act of murder by the young king, her mother makes a cruel power play...blackmailing the king into making Dani his queen on her eighteenth birthday. That gives Dani six months to escape her terrifying destiny."--Page [4] of cover.

After she''s forced to marry the evil King, Dani must use her power as Queen to stop selling Glitter for good and escape with Saber, the boy she loves, in the sequel to "Glitter" by #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author Pike.

Tavia Michaels a miraculeusement survécu à un terrible crash qui a emporté ses parents. Mais peu de temps après l''accident, d''étranges événements se produisent... Qui est ce jeune homme d''un autre temps qui lui apparaît en rêve ? Et pourquoi peut-elle tout à coup faire surgir des objet comme par magie ? L''accident l''a-t-il transformée plus qu''elle ne l''aurait imaginé ? En cherchant des réponses à ces questions, Tavia va découvrir que son passé cachait des mystères aussi incroyables qu''inquiétants...

Oracles can see the future, but are sworn to never interfere. Charlotte Westing learned this lesson the hard way--but after a series of murders in her small town, she''s beginning to wonder if she learned too well. Are there some futures Charlotte has a responsibility to change? When a new girl with strange powers shows up at school on the same day Charlotte has a vision of a grisly double homicide, Charlotte must decide whether the time has come to free herself from the rules of the Sisters of Delphi once and for all. But what will be the price?

Tavia Michaels est une Terralienne – une déesse maudite possédant le pouvoir de refaçonner le monde – et elle a découvert qu’une faction rivale de Terraliens, la Réduciata, a créé un virus qui éradique littéralement des morceaux de la planète. Avant de pouvoir se servir de cette information, Tavia et son amant éternel, Logan, sont capturés et retenus prisonniers. Enfermés dans une cellule oppressante, ils perdent la notion du temps, et toute tentative de fuite est aussi éphémère que les nouveaux pouvoirs en gestation que se découvre Tavia. Cependant, Tavia et Logan sont soudain secourus de façon mystérieuse.

Tavia Michaels has discovered that she’s an Earthbound—a fallen goddess with the power to remake the Earth—and that a rival faction of Earthbounds, the Reduciata, has created a virus that is literally wiping swaths of the planet out of existence. Tavia is captured and imprisoned before she can act on this information, along with her eternal lover, Logan. Huddled in a claustrophobic cell, they lose track of the days, their attempts to escape proving as ephemeral as Tavia’s newly gestating powers. But then Tavia and Logan are mysteriously rescued. . . . They’re brought to the underground headquarters of the Curatoria, another group of Earthbounds that Tavia doesn’t fully trust. There, she’s told that she can save the Earth before it disappears. She agrees. Tavia quickly realizes that she isn’t like other Earthbound, and as her abilities continue to awaken, they begin to threaten her centuries-long relationship with Logan. When Benson—Tavia’s former best friend and romantic interest—appears at Curatoria headquarters, Tavia will again have to make a choice about who to be with even as she tries to stop the virus that is destroying the world and uncover the truth about the two Earthbound organizations that have her tangled up in their webs.

The blockbuster film Inception meets Lisa McMann''s Wake trilogy in this dark paranormal thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Aprilynne Pike. This supernatural young adult novel is perfect for fans of Kelley Armstrong, Alyson Noël, Richelle Mead, and Kimberly Derting. Charlotte Westing has a gift. She is an Oracle and has the ability to tell the future. But it doesn''t do her much good. Instead of using their miraculous power, modern day Oracles are told to fight their visions––to refrain from interfering. And Charlotte knows the price of breaking the rules. She sees it every day in her wheelchair-bound mother and the absence of her father. But when a premonition of a classmate''s death is too strong for her to ignore, Charlotte is forced to make an impossible decision: continue following the rules or risk everything—even her sanity—to stop the serial killer who is stalking her town.

Tavia Michaels est l’unique survivante d’un écrasement d’avion. Endeuillée et seule, elle a des visions étranges d’un garçon qu’elle n’a jamais rencontré. À mesure que ses visions s’intensifient, Tavia s’interroge à savoir si l’écrasement était réellement un accident. Ou fait-elle partie d’une réalité plus grande que ce qu’elle pourrait imaginer? La seule personne à qui elle peut parler est Benson, son meilleur ami, le garçon qui se trouve toujours à ses côtés. Mais en secret, elle désire tant pouvoir se confier au garçon qui hante ses rêves... Une romance emballante, une conspiration qui perdure depuis un siècle et un triangle amou-reux comme vous n’en avez jamais vu auparavant.

Altered Perceptions is an anthology of science fiction and fantasy authors, donating their work to help author Robison Wells, who''s crippled by debt, caused by his mental illnesses. This volume contains original short stories as well as deleted scenes and alternate versions of portions of the authors'' books. Also included are essays from the contributors about how mental illness has affected their lives and the lives of their loved ones.

Liebe, Schicksal und göttliche Macht Die 17-jährige Tavia ist ein Wunder: Sie hat als Einzige einen Flugzeugabsturz überlebt. Doch plötzlich hat sie Visionen von einem seltsam altertümlich wirkenden Jungen, der sie vor einer grossen Gefahr warnt. Und bald wird sie von mysteriösen Männern verfolgt. Tavia flieht gemeinsam mit Benson, ihr einziger Vertrauter und gleichzeitig ihre grosse Liebe. Sie finden heraus, dass Tavia eine Göttin ist: Vor Urzeiten wurde sie dazu verdammt, immer wiedergeboren zu werden, immer auf der Suche nach ihrem Seelenpartner. Ihre Verfolger sind die Reduciata, die einen ewigen Kampf gegen die Götter führen. Ihre einzige Hoffnung ist Quinn, der Junge aus ihrer Vision. Nur mit ihm ist Tavia unverwundbar und kann gegen die Reduciata bestehen. Doch dafür muss Tavia Benson verlassen ... Aprilynne Pike denkt sich Elfen-Geschichten aus, seit sie ein Kind ist. Sie studierte kreatives Schreiben und schloss sich später derselben Schriftstellergruppe an, zu der auch Stephenie Meyer gehört. "Elfenkuss", der erste Band ihrer Elfen-Fantasy, machte sie über Nacht zur gefeierten Bestsellerautorin. Pike lebt mit ihrem Mann und ihren Kindern in Utah.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Aprilynne Pike has created a heart-stopping romance built on a love triangle like you’ve never seen before and filled with epic stakes and a centuries-long conspiracy. Give it to fans of Beautiful Creatures and Nightshade. Tavia Michaels is the sole survivor of the plane crash that killed her parents. When she starts to see strange visions of a boy she’s never spoken with in real life, she begins to suspect that there’s much about her past that she isn’t being told. Tavia immediately searches for answers, desperate to determine why she feels so drawn to a boy she hardly knows. But when Tavia discovers that the aunt and uncle who took her in after her parents'' death may have actually been responsible for the plane crash that killed them--and that she may have been the true intended victim--she flees for the safety of Camden, Maine, where the boy she sees in her visions instructs her to go. Now, Tavia is on the run with no one to trust. No one, that is, except for her best friend and longtime crush, Benson. Tavia feels torn between the boy who mysteriously comes to her at night and the boy who has been by her side every step of the way. But what Tavia doesn''t know is that the world is literally falling apart and that to save it she will have to unite with the boy in her visions. Only problem? To do so would mean rejecting Benson''s love. And that''s the one thing Tavia Michaels swore she''d never do.

The seventeen original stories in Defy the Dark, an eerie, mind-bending YA anthology, could only take place in darkness. Open the pages and discover: A creepy guy who stares too long. The secrets of the core of the earth. Dreams of other people’s lives. A girl who goes mad in the darkness. Monsters in Bavaria. A generational spaceship where night doesn’t exist. And other mysteries and oddities. The contributors to the enthralling collection are: Sarah Rees Brennan, Tessa Gratton, Rachel Hawkins, Christine Johnson, Valerie Kemp, Malinda Lo, Myra McEntire, Saundra Mitchell, Sarah Ockler, Jackson Pearce, Aprilynne Pike, Dia Reeves, Beth Revis, Carrie Ryan, Jon Skovron, Courtney Summers, and Kate Espy, winner of the Defy the Dark new author contest.

Aprilynne Pike, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Wings series, shines in this stand-alone novel that offers a humorous twist on ghosts and is perfect for fans of Ally Carter, Rachel Hawkins, and Kiersten White. Kimberlee Schaffer may be drop-dead gorgeous . . . but she also dropped dead last year. Now she needs Jeff''s help with her unfinished business, and she''s not taking no for an answer. When she was alive, Kimberlee wasn''t just a mean girl; she was also a complete kleptomaniac. So if Jeff wants to avoid being haunted until graduation, he''ll have to help her return all of the stolen items. But Jeff soon discovers that it''s much easier to steal something than it is to bring it back. Paying for your mistakes takes on a whole new meaning in this hauntingly clever twist on The Scarlet Pimpernel.

Con "Destined" l''appassionante saga iniziata con "Wings" giunge alla conclusione. Ma la magia che accompagna la storia continuerà a farvi sognare anche dopo che avrete letto l''ultima, sorprendente pagina...

When a plant blooms out of fifteen-year-old Laurel’s back, it leads her to discover the fact that she is a faerie and that she has a crucial role to play in keeping the world safe from the encroaching enemy trolls.

Destined delivers all the romance and action that fans expect as it brings Aprilynne Pike’s Wings series to a deeply satisfying conclusion. Laurel used to think she was an ordinary girl from Crescent City, California. She never would have believed she was truly a faerie from a realm called Avalon. Now Laurel must risk her life to save Avalon from destruction by Yuki—a rare and powerful Winter faerie—and troll-hunter Klea. But Laurel won’t have to fight alone; David and Tamani, two boys she loves in different ways, will be by her side, along with her best friend, Chelsea. Readers of the Need and Graceling series will want to follow Laurel’s story from its beginning in Wings to its heart-stopping end in Destined.

"Han pasado seis meses desde que Laurel traspaso el umbral del reino de las hadas en Avalon. Durante este tiempo ha conseguido conjugar su verdadera identidad de hada de otono con su vida humana (y, por suerte, no ha tenido que abandonar a David, su novio). Ahora debe volver a Avalon para perfeccionar sus habilidades magicas como hada, y reencontrarse con Tamani, el guardian del reino, por el que siente una atraccion a la que no puede resistirse. Al mismo tiempo, terribles peligros acechan tanto a sus amigos humanos como a los habitantes de su verdadero hogar, el reino de las hadas. Cuando llegue el momento de defender a los que ama, Laurel debera realizar una eleccion muy dificil, cuyo resultado podria romperle el corazon"--Front cover flap.

"I can''t ''steal'' you away. I just have to wait and hope that, someday, you''ll ask," Tamani said. "And if I don''t?" Laurel said, her voice barely above a whisper. "Then I guess I''ll be waiting forever." Although Laurel has come to accept her true identity as a faerie, she refuses to turn her back on her human life—and especially her boyfriend, David—to return to the faerie world. But when she is summoned to Avalon, Laurel can no longer deny her feelings for the charismatic faerie sentry Tamani. She is forced to make a choice—a choice that could break her heart.

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‘WILD’ IS THE UK TITLE TO THE US edition ‘ILLUSIONS’. The third instalment of Aprilynne Pike’s extraordinary faerie tale of magic and mystery, romance and danger, described by Stephenie Meyer as a remarkable debut.

Aprilynne Pike ha creato una ricetta vincente: è la sua maestria nel raccontare il regno delle fate ad aggiungere il tocco magico che conquisterà chiunque...

"Un fantasy d''eccezione, con una dolcissima storia d''amore", Stephenie Meyer, autrice della saga di "Twilight".

An extraordinary faerie tale of magic and mystery, romance and danger, described by Stephenie Meyer as ‘a remarkable debut’.