Shivaun Plozza

When Marlowe gets a heart transplant and a second chance at life, all she wants is to thank her donor's family. Maybe then she can move on. Maybe then she'll discover who she is if she's no longer The Dying Girl. But with a little brother who dresses like every day is Halloween, a vegan warrior for a mother and an all-out war with the hot butcher's apprentice next door, Marlowe's life is already pretty complicated. And her second chance is about to take an unexpected turn...

Tin Heart

David Dyer's astonishing novel The Midnight Watchis based on the true story of the SS Californian, the ship that sawtheTitanic'sdistress rockets and yet, unfathomably, did nothing. A psychological thriller. Sometimes the smallest of human failings can lead to the greatest of disasters On a wretchedly cold night in the North Atlantic, a steamer stopped in an icefield sees the glow of another ship on the horizon. Just after midnight the first of eight distress rockets is fired. Why did theCalifornian look on while theTitanicsank? As soon as Boston Americanreporter John Steadman lays eyes on the man who stood the midnight watch on the Californian, he knows there's another story lurking behind the official one. Herbert Stone must have seen something, and yet his ship did nothing while the calamity took place. Now Stone, under his captain's orders, must carry his secret in silence, while Steadman is determined to find it out. So begins a strange dance around the truth by these three men. Haunted by the fifteen hundred who went to their deaths in those icy waters, and by the loss of his own baby son years earlier, Steadman must either find redemption in the Titanic's tragedy or lose himself. Based on true events, The Midnight Watchis at once a heart-stopping mystery and a deeply knowing novel - about the frailty of men, the strength of women, the capriciousness of fate and the price of loyalty.

Frankie

Abandoned as a baby in a forest to be eaten by Shadow Creatures, twelve-year-old Bo and his pet fox embark on a quest to return the wish-granting Stars to the Ulvian sky before the Shadow Witch can steal the star magic.

The Boy, the Wolf, and the Stars

Equal parts tender and edgy, this inventive queer romance imagines what it might feel like to come of age in the afterlife. Tegan Masters is dead. She’s sixteen and she’s dead and she’s standing in the parking lot of the Marybelle Motor Lodge, the single most depressing motel in all of New Jersey and the place where Tegan spent what she remembers as the worst weekend of her life. In the front office, she meets Zelda, a cute and sarcastic girl Tegan’s age who is, in fact, an angel (wings and all). According to Zelda, Tegan is officially in heaven, where every person inhabits an exact replica of their happiest memory. For Tegan, Zelda insists, that place is the Marybelle—creepy minigolf course, revolting breakfast buffet, broken TV, and all. Tegan has a few complaints about this. As Zelda takes Tegan on a whirlwind tour through Tegan’s past to help her understand what mattered most to her in life, the stakes couldn’t be higher. If Zelda fails to convince Tegan that the Marybelle was the site of Tegan's perfect moment, both girls face eternal consequences too dire to consider. But if she succeeds…they just might get their happily-ever-afterlife. Full of humor and heartbreak, The Worst Perfect Moment asks what it means to be truly happy.

The Worst Perfect Moment

Ein Herz ist ein Herz ist ein Herz - eine mitreißende Geschichte über die Liebe, die Freundschaft und das Leben mit einem neuen Herzen. Marlowe hat ein neues Herz bekommen und eigentlich sollte jetzt alles gut sein. Doch die Frage, wem sie das zu verdanken hat, lässt sie nicht los. Und so macht Marlowe sich auf die Suche nach der Familie ihres Spenders und findet schließlich seine Schwester. Die beiden freunden sich an, doch Marlowe verschweigt, wer sie wirklich ist. Je länger sie schweigt, desto schwieriger wird es, die Wahrheit zu sagen. Und dann ist da noch Leo von nebenan, der ihr Herz aus einem ganz anderen Grund zum Stolpern bringt. Eine gelungene Organtransplantation nach einer schweren Krankheit heißt noch lange nicht, dass danach alles gut ist. Wer bin ich jetzt? Was will ich vom Leben, wenn ich endlich wieder normal leben kann? Wie gehe ich mit Eltern, Geschwistern und Freunden um und wie mit dem Wissen bzw. dem Nichtwissen, wer mein Spender ist oder war? Lauter Fragen, die den Blick auf das Leben verändern und denen in diesem ebenso berührenden wie witzigen Roman für Jugendliche ausreichend Raum gegeben wird. Und eine Liebesgeschichte zum Dahinschmelzen fehlt auch nicht. Ein packendes, feinfühliges Buch über das Leben nach einer Organtransplantation.

Eine mitreißende Geschichte über die Liebe, die Freundschaft und das Leben mit einem neuen Herzen.

Mein geliehenes Herz

Kiki's Delivery Service meets Cressida Cowell in this funny, quirky middle-grade fantasy about a non-magical girl who discovers she does, indeed, have magic--and she must choose between two warring witch covens or she'll explode! Willa lives in the Wild, in a city squished between two warring witch covens. The non-magical Wildians spend their days dodging wayward spells--from raining frogs to dancing chickens--all because of the witch war raging around them. Being stuck in the middle of a magical war means the Wildians hate witches--none more so than Willa, whose parents were turned into clouds by a misplaced curse. Willa spends her days with her army of cats, dreaming of an end to the war and her parents' return. So when Willa is accused of being a witch after witnesses catch her accidentally stopping a spell midair, she's certain there's been a mistake. She can't be a witch! Yet Willa is dragged to the palace, where she's given one year to master her volatile magic and choose a coven to join. If she doesn't, she'll explode. But her attempts to control her magic are interrupted when a rogue witch begins nefarious spells against the Ordinary Folk. What does the witch want and what does it have to do with Willa? She must unravel the mystery to save her city, her friends, and herself.

A Reluctant Witch's Guide to Magic

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Bestselling author of All the Bright Places Jennifer Niven calls emerging talent Shivaun Plozza’s charming and romantic second YA novel, Tin Heart, “from cover to cover swoon-worthy, moving, deep, and funny”! When Marlowe gets a heart transplant and a second chance at life, all she wants to do is to thank her donor’s family. Maybe then she can move on. Maybe then she’ll discover who she is if she’s no longer The Dying Girl. But with a little brother who dresses like every day is Halloween, a vegan warrior for a mother, and an all-out war with the hot butcher’s apprentice next door, Marlowe’s life is already pretty complicated. And her second chance is about to take an unexpected turn...

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