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Since their mother's death, Carter and Sadie have become near strangers. While Sadie has lived with her grandparents in London, her brother has traveled the world with their father, the brilliant Egyptologist, Dr. Julius Kane. One night, Dr. Kane brings the siblings together for a "research experiment" at the British Museum, where he hopes to set things right for his family. Instead, he unleashes the Egyptian god Set, who banishes him to oblivion and forces the children to flee for their lives.

Rick Riordan’s newest Percy Jackson adventure is full of hilarious set pieces, a diverse cast of gods and monsters, and many other delightful tricks and treats. Percy Jackson, now a high school senior, needs three recommendation letters from the Greek gods in order to get into New Rome University. He earned his first one by retrieving Ganymede’s chalice. Now the goddess Hecate has offered Percy another “opportunity”—all he has to do is pet sit her polecat, Gale, and mastiff, Hecuba, over Halloween week while she is away. Piece of cake, right?

Nico di Angelo is feeling antsy. It’s been almost three months since he and his boyfriend, Will Solace, returned to Camp Half-Blood from their journey to Tartarus, and there hasn’t been a demigod quest or a conflict with monsters in all that time. So, when Nico's half-sister, Hazel Levesque, asks him and Will to join her at Camp Jupiter on the West Coast, he shadow-jumps at the chance to get away and do something. In her Iris-message, Hazel had said that she needed the boys’ help with an “issue” with some “new guests.”

Del legendario productor musical, un maestro en el arte de ayudar a los demás a conectar con las fuentes de su propia creatividad, llega un libro maravillosamente fraguado a lo largo de muchos años con una visión profunda de la creatividad y de la vida dirigida todo el mundo. «Me propuse a...

Ruby Chen has always played the part of the dutiful eldest daughter: excelling in school; excelling in piano lessons; excelling at keeping her younger sister, Tina, focused on extracurriculars meant to impress college admissions officers. But when a ghost from the spirit world attacks Ruby in the middle of Vancouver’s Chinatown neighborhood, her life is plunged into a darkness that no amount of duty can free her from. Overnight, Ruby’s sister seems to change.

While on a mission to cement peace between the Sun Clans and the Thousand Worlds, Min the fox spirit and her ghost brother Jun get stranded on a death planet with Haneul the dragon spirit and Sebin the tiger spirit. To survive, the young cadets will have to rely on all their wits, training, and supernatural abilities. And let's not forget the Dragon Pearl . . .

Fourteen-year-old Amy Cahill and her younger brother, Dan, thought they could return to their regular lives when they found the 39 Clues that safeguard their family’s great power. But they were wrong. Powerful enemies – the Vespers – have been waiting in the shadows. And they’ll stop at nothing to grab the Clues. Four powerhouse authors unite to expose the 500-year-old secret struggle between the Cahills and the Vespers. The Vespers are rising . . . and the world is in jeopardy.

Charlie and his allies have been trying desperately for months to find a way to prevent the Zha'-Rath swarm from their endgame, from conquering Earth to turn it into a hive, using humans to breed their young...and feed them.

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As the son of Hades, Nico di Angelo has been through so much, from the premature deaths of his mother and sister, to being outed against his will, to losing his friend Jason during the trials of Apollo. But there is a ray of sunshine in his life—literally: his boyfriend, Will Solace, the son of Apollo. Together the two demigods can overcome any obstacle or foe. At least, that's been the case so far . . . Now Nico is being plagued by a voice calling out to him from Tartarus, the lowest part of the Underworld.

En la fiesta de los Stahlbaums, un hombre misterioso llamado Herr Drosselmeyer le da a Clara un regalo especial. Es un magnífico cascanueces, y Clara está segura de que es un príncipe encantado. Sus hermanos traviesos Fritz y Pedro están ansiosos por ver el regalo de Clara y tiran del cascanueces, hasta que caí al suelo. Con una fractura en la mandíbula, el cascanueces debe permanecer en el suelo hasta la mañana, cuando a los niños se les dice que es hora de dormir. Cuando Clara baja silenciosamente para cuidar a su cascanueces, la aventura comienza.

Grace is the last matriarch of the Cahills, the world's most powerful family. Everyone from Napoleon to Houdini is related to the Cahills, yet the source of the family power is lost. 39 Clues hidden around the world will reveal the family's secret, but no one has been able to assemble them. Now the clues race is on, and young Amy and Dan must decide what's important: hunting clues or uncovering what REALLY happened to their parents.

In 1986, thirteen-year-old Jeb Kleber vanished during his small town’s Fourth of July fireworks. His mysterious disappearance left his first love, Sammy Blake, grieving for years. Flash forward to present day. A now middle-aged Sam Blake has a comfortable and predictable life with his husband Marc in Chicago. All that changes when a stranger arrives at Sam’s door, claiming to be the missing Jeb Kleber.

Written by world-renowned relationship expert Dr. John Gottman, this book unveils the hidden science behind love and relationships and provides listeners with tools for predicting relationship durability. This classic edition includes a new foreword with reflections from Dr. Paul Peluso. Drawing...

Ana Dakkar is a freshman at Harding-Pencroft Academy, a five-year high school that graduates the best marine scientists, naval warriors, navigators, and underwater explorers in the world. Ana's parents died while on a scientific expedition two years ago, and the only family's she's got left is her older brother, Dev, also a student at HP. Ana's freshman year culminates with the class' weekend trial at sea, the details of which have been kept secret. She only hopes she has what it'll take to succeed.

Samantha Moore, una universitaria de Queens, de camino a Canadá con su novio para empezar una nueva vida cuando desaparece sin dejar rastro en un pequeño motel de Vermont. Su desaparición no es más que el último de una serie de extraños sucesos que han ocurrido durante décadas en los solitarios bosques de Vermont. Tras un macabro hallazgo relacionado con el caso, la agente del FBI Jill McDade es enviada a Vermont, donde su camino vuelve a cruzarse con el del veterano periodista Ray Wyatt, encargado de investigar el misterio en torno a la joven desaparecida.

The 38 letters written by Rockefeller to his son imparting his perspectives, ideology, and wisdom to his son.

Cuando Wanda Stroud, una bibliotecaria jubilada, vuela de regreso a Los Ángeles desde Ciudad de México, ve algo inquietante en el ordenador portátil del pasajero que tiene delante. Al día siguiente, Wanda había quedado con una amiga para tomar café, pero no apareció, algo muy inusual en ella. El periodista Ray Wyatt investiga la desaparición mientras se aferra a la esperanza de que su hijo, Danny, todavía esté vivo.

Cuando dos excursionistas encuentran a un niño traumatizado que deambula solo por un rincón remoto de las montañas Adirondack, en el estado de Nueva York, siguen sus pasos hasta una cabaña, donde hacen un horrible descubrimiento. El periodista de sucesos Ray Wyatt recibe el encargo de indagar en el perturbador caso, mientras McDade y Wyatt tendrán que poner sus vidas en juego en una lucha contrarreloj para descubrir la verdad detrás de uno de los crímenes más atroces de la historia del estado de Nueva York.

Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents 10 new stories - including one of his own - about beloved heroes that sprang from the imaginations of some of the best middle grade authors working today.