New Releases by Lauren Destefano

The "New York Times-"-bestselling sequel to "Wither" reveals a world as captivating and as treacherous as the one Rhine left behind. Rhine and Gabriel have escaped the mansion, but they''re still in danger. Outside, they find a world even more disquieting than the one they ran away from.

Der zweite Band der neuen Dark-Ascension-Serie! Hier dreht sich alles um die Figuren, die mit den Charakteren aus der Bestseller-Reihe "Villains" von Serena Valentino in Zusammenhang stehen! James Hook und seine Zwillingsschwester Marlene haben sich in ihrem eintönigen Fischerdorf schon immer fehl am Platz gefühlt und sehnen sich danach, dem ruhigen Leben zu entkommen, das ihre Eltern für sie vorgesehen haben. Als Marlenes Geburtstagswunsch die beiden in ein beunruhigendes, magisches Paradies namens Nimmerland bringt, entdecken sie eine unerwartete Alternative: die Chance, für immer bei dem charismatischen Peter Pan und seinen Verlorenen Jungs zu bleiben. Doch als sie weiter die geheimnisvollen Geheimnisse der Insel eintauchen, zahlen sie einen hohen Preis für ihre Freiheit ...

A sweet and charming picture book about fear, anxiety, and unicorns. The unicorn smells nice, but she is very rude. She never waits for an invitation to come over—she walks right in and tracks heart-shaped hoof-prints across the carpet. She sits in Elizabeth’s chair and makes a complete mess of the house. She even sleeps in Elizabeth’s bed. But the unicorn is no ordinary unicorn . . . In The Unicorn Came to Dinner, author Lauren DeStefano and illustrator Gaia Cornwall invite parents and their kids to talk about feelings—especially worries and anxiety—and ultimately about how to be yourself.

An exiled princess must return home and face the origins of a terrible curse in this YA fantasy adventure. When Princess Wil left northern Arrod, she never imagined she might return. But to end her curse, she must find its source. Now that she''s back, she finds her home radically changed. Her unpredictable elder brother Baren is now king, leading a war against the Southern Isles. And with time running out, Wil must navigate the dangerous secrets within her family. Soon Wil and her allies are fighting for their lives as the Southern king is out to ensure neither of his children will survive to take the throne. Traveling across cursed seas and treacherous kingdoms, Wil and Loom must make peace with their pasts if they hope to secure the future of their world.

* "A natural fit for Stranger Things fans." - Booklist, starred review From New York Times bestselling author Lauren DeStefano comes an atmospheric and spine-tingling story about four children who dream in tandem. Tucked deep in the woods and surrounded by a great iron fence lies Brassmere Academy for the Extraordinary, a school for orphans with strange and wonderful gifts. Twelve-year-old Plum has lived there for as long as she can remember. Each night, she ventures into her dreams alongside her three best friends, Vien, Gwendle, and Artem to fight monsters and journey on dangerous quests. But one night, Plum gets a mysterious warning that she and her friends are no longer safe. And the next morning, Artem is nowhere to be found. As Plum, Vien, and Gwendle search for their friend--in both the dreaming and waking worlds--they start to uncover alarming secrets about Brassmere and its intentions. Will they be able to find Artem before it''s too late, or will they be next to disappear?

The first in a new fantasy duology, The Glass Spare is a gorgeously told tale of love, loss, and deadly power from Lauren DeStefano, the bestselling author of the Chemical Garden series. Perfect for fans of Shannon Hale and Renee Ahdieh. Wilhelmina Heidle, the fourth child and only daughter of the king of the world’s wealthiest nation, has grown up in the shadows. Kept hidden from the world in order to serve as a spy for her father—whose obsession with building his empire is causing a war—Wil wants nothing more than to explore the world beyond her kingdom, if only her father would give her the chance. Until one night Wil is attacked, and she discovers a dangerous secret. Her touch turns people into gemstone. At first Wil is horrified—but as she tests its limits, she’s drawn more and more to the strange and volatile ability. When it leads to tragedy, though, Wil is forced to face the destructive power within her and finally leave her home to seek the truth and a cure. But finding the key to her redemption puts her in the path of a cursed prince who has his own ideas for what to do with Wil’s power. With a world on the brink of war and a power of ultimate destruction, can Wil find a way to help the kingdom that’s turned its back on her, or will she betray her past and her family forever?

When Emmaline Beaumont''s father started building the ghost machine, she didn''t expect it to bring her mother back from the dead. But by locking himself in the basement to toil away at his hopes, Monsieur Beaumont has become obsessed with the contraption and neglected the living, and Emmaline is tired of feeling forgotten. Nothing good has come from building the ghost machine, and Emmaline decides that the only way to bring her father back will be to make the ghost machine work...or destroy it forever.

From New York Times bestselling author Lauren DeStefano comes a gorgeous tale of friendship found and fought for against a haunting danger. It''s just right for fans of Serafina and the Black Cloak. Lionel is a wild boy, who doesn''t much like to be around other people. He''d rather be a purring cat or a wolf stalking the woods. Marybeth is a nice girl. She doesn''t need to be told to comb her hair or brush her teeth, and she''s kind to everyone at the orphanage . . . Lionel most of all. Different though they are, Lionel and Marybeth are best friends in a world that has forgotten about them. So when a mysterious blue spirit possesses Marybeth-and starts to take control-they know they must stop it before the real Marybeth fades away forever.

With their floating city utopia threatened by the war on the ground and the greed of two kings, Morgan and the others from Internment must find a way to save the city from falling out of the sky or being obliterated altogether.

After Morgan Stockhour and her friends escape Internment, she discovers that life on the ground is not safer, and that, perhaps, going over the edge has led her to madness.

From New York Times bestselling author Lauren DeStefano comes a delightful tale of a girl who can talk to ghosts that''s perfect for fans of Neil Gaiman and Holly Black. Pram Bellamy is special--she can talk to ghosts. She doesn''t have too many friends amongst the living, but that''s all right. She has her books, she has her aunts, and she has her best friend, the ghostly Felix. Then Pram meets Clarence, a boy from school who has also lost a parent and is looking for answers. Together they arrive at the door of the mysterious Lady Savant, who promises to help. But this spiritualist knows the true nature of Pram''s power, and what she has planned is more terrifying than any ghost. New York Times bestselling author Lauren DeStefano is beloved by critics and readers alike, and her middle grade debut is lyrical, evocative and not to be missed.

Rise back up to the floating city of Internment in this original enovella, a dark look at life in the royal family after the events of Perfect Ruin. When King Furlow begins to treat Prince Azure as the heir apparent that he is, he takes him to see the “re-education camps” for wrong-thinkers. But as he enters the camps ,Azure discovers the dark underbelly of the kingdom—and the king himself. His view of his father can never be the same, but what about his view of himself?

"Sixteen-year-old Morgan Stockhour lives in Internment, a floating city utopia. But when a murder occurs, everything she knows starts to unravel"--

ATTENTION ÉVÈNEMENT : Du 17/07/2015 au 23/08/2015 Découvrez les Intégrales Bragelonne ! Des séries complètes en numérique pour une durée limitée et à prix canon ! Cette édition exclusive numérique contient les ouvrages suivants : Éphémère (2011) Fugitive (2012) Rupture (2014) « Un premier roman poignant. Lauren DeStefano a un regard sûr et parfois implacable sur la cruauté, la pitié et les contradictions de ses personnages. » Publishers Weekly « Dérangeant, magnifique, puissant et atroce : Lauren DeStefano a fait de l’histoire de Rhine une œuvre d’art. » Fantastic Book Review Que faire de sa vie quand on connaît la date exacte de sa mort ? L’humanité croyait son avenir assuré. La science avait créé des enfants parfaits, immunisés contre toutes les maladies. Mais qui pouvait imaginer le prix à payer ? Car désormais, personne ne survit au-delà de vingt-cinq ans. Le monde a changé. Pour les jeunes femmes, la liberté n’est plus qu’un souvenir. Au nom de la survie de l’espèce, elles sont kidnappées et contraintes à des mariages polygames. Rhine a seize ans. Quand elle se réveille dans une prison dorée, elle n’a qu’une idée en tête : fuir. Qu’importe l’amour que lui portent son mari et ses sœurs épouses. Quand on n’a que quelques années à vivre, la liberté n’a pas de prix.

Before Morgan, there was Daphne, the girl who asked too many questions and changed everything... This original enovella set in the world of The Internment Chronicles is a gripping prequel to Perfect Ruin. In this look back at Daphne, before her subversive paper led to her murder by order of the king, Daphne witnesses her seven-year-old sister Amy having a seizure-like event, a result of injuries sustained when she wandered too close to the Edge. Government doctors insist these seizures are punishment for Amy’s bad behavior, but Daphne disagrees. Obsessed with finding out what lured her sister out there to the Edge to begin with, Daphne leads Judas, her betrothed, a young man with his own secrets, on an expedition near the Edge to reconstruct her sister’s fateful event. But how close is too close?

L''heure tourne... Le vingtième anniversaire de Rhine approche...l''âge de sa mort annoncée. Après avoir enduré les pires tortures de la part de Vaughn, son geôlier, la jeune fille trouve un allié inattendu en la personne de son oncle par alliance. Elle se réfugie chez lui, avec la complicité de Cecily, sa soeur-épouse, et de Linden, son mari. Mais, alors que Rhine n''aspire qu''à trouver la paix, un secret de famille que ses parents n''ont jamais eu l''occasion de lui révéler explose, bousculant le peu de certitudes qui lui restait. Les implications de cette découverte remettent en cause l''avenir même de l''humanité... Une conclusion à couper le souffle à la trilogie Le Dernier jardin.

Rhine und Gabriel ist die Flucht von Lindens Anwesen gelungen, doch draußen wartet eine Welt, die gefährlicher denn je ist. Auf dem Weg nach Manhattan, wo Rhine ihren Zwillingsbruder Rowan anzutreffen hofft, warten unzählige Gefahren. Über allem lauert die Angst, dass Lindens Vater Vaughn Rhine auf die Spur kommen könnte, um an ihr zu vollenden, was er begonnen hat. Rhine muss sich entscheiden, ob ihre Freiheit den Preis wert war ...

Move over Brad Pitt. Take a hike George Clooney. On your way Prince Harry. Give us Mark Darcy, King Aragorn and Edward Cullen instead. Have you met your book boyfriend yet?

After modern science turns every human into a genetic time bomb with men dying at age 25 and women dying at age 20, teenaged Rhine finds hope for a brighter future from a surprising source, in this concluding novel of the Chemical Garden Trilogy.

Rhine (ik-figuur) is ontsnapt aan Vaughn. Als ze hoort dat haar broer nog leeft, gaat ze samen met Cecily en Linden naar hem op zoek. Maar Vaughn is niet van plan hen zomaar te laten gaan. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.

Con ayuda de Gabriel, Rhine ha logrado escapar de la mansión y del terrible destino que la aguardaba en Efímera. Pero en el exterior se encuentran con un mundo incluso más aterrador que el que dejaron atrás. Entre los peligros que los aguardan, caen en un burdel dirigido por una cruel y demente tirana. Una vez más, Rhine debe hacerse pasar por una chica dócil mientras planea su escape. Los dos están decididos a llegar a Manhattan, donde tal vez puedan encontrar la paz viviendo con Rowan, el hermano mellizo de Rhine. Pero el camino es largo y peligroso, y además deben eludir los intentos de Vaughn, el suegro de Rhine, de regresarla a la mansión cueste lo que cueste. Y en un mundo donde las mujeres viven hasta los veinte años y los hombres hasta los veinticinco, el tiempo vale mucho más que el oro. En esta secuela a la fascinante Efímera de Lauren DeStefano, Rhine deberá decidir si la libertad vale su precio, ahora que tiene mucho más que perder.

Rhine en Gabriel, de keukenhulp zijn ontsnapt uit het landhuis van meester Linden, aan wie zij uitgehuwelijkt is. Ze willen proberen Rhines tweelingbroer Rowan in Manhattan te vinden. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.

Step into the Chemical Garden with an all-new eBook sampler! Discover the world author Lauren DeStefano created in Wither, a riveting dystopian thriller. In the not-so-distant future, fallout from genetic engineering causes all females to die at age twenty, and all males to die at twenty-five. Kidnapped from her home and torn from her twin brother Rowan, sixteen-year-old Rhine is forced into a polygamous marriage and taken to live in her husband’s mansion. She has everything she wants—except for freedom. But her plans to escape and return home are complicated by a devious father-in-law, as well as Rhine’s growing attraction to Gabriel, a servant who works on the estate. Read the first 100 pages of Wither and be captivated by Rhine’s journey. This eBook sampler includes an EXCLUSIVE, never-before-published short story by Lauren DeStefano! “The First Bride” reveals the events leading up to Wither, from the point of view of the bride that came before Rhine. Delve even deeper into Wither with a map of the wives’ floor, the Wither book trailer, and a video that takes you behind the scenes of the Fever cover shoot. You''ll also get a sneak peak of Fever, the second book in the Chemical Garden trilogy, before it goes on sale 2/21/12!

The first book in an exciting new series by first time author Lauren DeStefano.

En un futuro cercano, todos los recién nacidos llevan incorporada una bomba de tiempo genética. Los varones viven hasta los 25 años, y las mujeres, que mueren a los 20, son secuestradas y forzadas a contraer matrimonios polígamos para evitar que la humanidad entera desaparezca de la faz de la Tierra. Cuando secuestran a Rhine, una joven de 16 años, para venderla como esposa de un hombre adinerado, le espera un mundo de privilegios. Su joven marido, Linden, la ama igual que a sus otras esposas, pero Rhine sólo desea escapar, aunque deberá enfrentarse a su excéntrico suegro, quien no cejará en encontrar un antídoto para el virus que amenaza la vida de su hijo, aunque para ello deba dejar varios cadáveres en su camino. Con Efímera, la joven autora Lauren DeStefano inicia su fascinante Trilogía del Jardín Químico, y de la mano de una heroína de nuestros tiempos, nos lleva a un viaje de aventura y romance en un mundo a punto de extinguirse.