Children's Books / Young Adults Spring 2023

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Monika Feth

You’ll Die with a Smile on Your Face

The new psychological thriller by bestselling author

Date of publication: April 20, 2023
Paperback | 496 pages | Recommended age group: 14+
Ivy is on the run. She no longer remembers who from, or why. All she knows is her first name. Without money, phone or ID, starving and with someone else’s blood on her clothes, she finds shelter ...
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Yasmin Dreyer

Arcadia: Let the Games Begin

A breath-taking futuristic fantasy packed with action and adventure

Date of publication: May 24, 2023
Paperback | 448 pages | Recommended age group: 14+
Ben and Emily are willing to do anything to attend the top-secret elite boarding school of Arcadia, where they’re developing the technology of the future. All Emily wants is to use her extraordin...
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Doro Kayser

Make Me Stay

Emotions run high in this love story

Date of publication: August 16, 2023
Paperback | 304 pages | Recommended age group: 14+
When her father dies, seventeen-year-old Sue Walsh resolves to study medicine in California, just like he did. Until then, she’ll be living with her gran in a small town in the US. After she meet...
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Kit Auburn

Where My Soul Belongs

The Saint Mellows series (vol. 1)

Novel

Date of publication: April 20, 2023
Paperback | 448 pages
Leena likes playing it safe. So when she wins a hot air balloon ride in a raffle, not even the fact that the pilot happens to be rather handsome can sweeten the prospect. But when Sam assures her...
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Ayla Dade

We Hide Like Shadows

The Winter Dreams series (vol. 4)

Novel

Date of publication: January 18, 2023
Paperback | 480 pages
To Harper, the luxurious estate she grew up on always seemed like a gilded cage. When the young ice dancer fails to shine at the famous iSkate school in Aspen, her parents are deeply disappointed...
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Lena Kiefer

Knights: No Mercy

The final instalment in this gripping urban fantasy trilogy

Date of publication: May 24, 2023
Hardcover | 416 pages | Recommended age group: 14+
Charlotte and the Knights only just managed to survive their last fight against Morgana and are completely in shock. Noel has been overcome by Morgana's powers and has disappeared without a trace...
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Caroline Brinkmann

Laurelin: Whispering Light

Epic fantasy

Date of publication: February 22, 2023
Paperback | 448 pages | Recommended age group: 14+
Amsterlock is ruled by shady barons, who use smuggling, theft and blackmail to stay in power. Laurelin de Jong is Baroness Love’s daughter and right-hand woman. When her sister is murdered, she d...
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Maren Vivien Haase

Lights of Darkness

Date of publication: January 18, 2023
Paperback | 448 pages
Terrible events in her childhood have left Frankie Davis with a phobia of the dark. Even today, she can only fall asleep with the lights on. As soon as the lights go out, she fears having to reli...
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Kit Auburn

Where Your Dreams Shine

The Saint Mellows series (vol. 2)

Novel

Date of publication: June 21, 2023
Paperback | 448 pages
Seven years ago, Riley and her younger sister Abigail lost their parents in a boating accident in Saint Mellows. Since then, Riley has lost all memory of the past. When the two of them return to ...
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Reiner Engelmann

I am Jewish – Your Anti-Semitism is My Everyday Reality

Date of publication: January 18, 2023
Paperback | 256 pages | Recommended age group: 14+
Simon Weiß lives in Frankfurt, where he attends a grammar school and is a member of a football club. So far, so normal – except that Simon is Jewish. He doesn’t think there is anything special ab...

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