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Mon assassin n'est pas un Pennac de plus, c'est tout Pennac dans un roman. C'est le portrait de l'assassin que l'auteur cherche en lui depuis qu'il a conçu Pépère, le redoutable tueur de "Terminus Malaussène". C'est aussi le portrait de toutes les personnes réelles devenues les personnages principaux de la tribu Malaussène. Daniel Pennac interprète avec jubilation ce formidable préquel de la saga Malaussène, où il dévoile tout à la fois son processus créatif et l'enfance de Pépère...

Candy Quackenbush, a restless teenager trapped in the dull monotony of Chickentown, Minnesota, stumbles upon a mysterious lighthouse at the edge of town and is swept away to the Abarat - a fantastical archipelago where each island represents a different hour of the day. There she discovers a world under threat from dark forces, including the sorcerer Christopher Carrion and the industrialist Rojo Pixler, who seek to dominate the islands.

The excerpts confirm the book exists and is part of a series loosely based on Calamity Jane, involving Jane Frank and Annie Oakley in a traveling show, but do not provide enough plot detail to write an accurate synopsis meeting the requirements.

Jane Eyre, a penniless orphan with an uncanny ability to see ghosts, takes a position as governess at Thornfield Hall and falls for the brooding Mr. Rochester-but her path is complicated by Charlotte Brontë and supernatural investigator Alexander Blackwood, who recruit her for ghost-hunting work. Romance and mystery collide as Jane's story diverges from what readers might expect.

Anna and the French Kiss meets The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks in a romantic and hilarious new novel from Brodi Ashton, the author of the Everneath trilogy. Raucous parties, privileged attitudes, underage drinking, and diplomatic immunity... it's all part of student life on Embassy Row. Piper Baird has always dreamed of becoming a journalist. So when she scores a scholarship to exclusive Chiswick Academy in Washington, DC, she knows it's her big opportunity. Chiswick offers the most competitive prize for teen journalists-the Bennington scholarship-which would ensure her acceptance to one of the best schools in the country. Piper isn't at Chiswick for two days before she witnesses the extreme privilege of the young and wealthy elite who attend her school-and realizes that access to these untouchable students just might give her the edge she'll need to blow the lid off life at the school in a scathing and unforgettable exposé worthy of the Bennington. The key to the whole story lies with Rafael Amador, the son of the Spanish Ambassador-and the boy at the center of the most explosive secrets and scandals on Embassy Row. Rafael is big trouble-and when he drops into her bedroom window one night, asking for help, it's Piper's big chance to get the full scoop. Except Piper discovers that despite his dark streak, Rafael is smart, kind, funny, and gorgeous-and she might have real feelings for him. How can she break the story of a lifetime if it will destroy the boy she just might love?

A mindbending, relentlessly surprising thriller from the author of the bestselling Wayward Pines trilogy. Jason Dessen is walking home through the chilly Chicago streets one night, looking forward to a quiet evening in front of the fireplace with his wife, Daniela, and their son, Charlie-when his reality shatters. "Are you happy with your life?" Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the masked abductor knocks him unconscious. Before he awakens to find himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits. Before a man Jason's never met smiles down at him and says, "Welcome back, my friend." In this world he's woken up to, Jason's life is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife. His son was never born. And Jason is not an ordinary college physics professor, but a celebrated genius who has achieved something remarkable. Something impossible. Is it this world or the other that's the dream? And even if the home he remembers is real, how can Jason possibly make it back to the family he loves? The answers lie in a journey more wondrous and horrifying than anything he could've imagined-one that will force him to confront the darkest parts of himself even as he battles a terrifying, seemingly unbeatable foe. Dark Matter is a brilliantly plotted tale that is at once sweeping and intimate, mind-bendingly strange and profoundly human--a relentlessly surprising science-fiction thriller about choices, paths not taken, and how far we'll go to claim the lives we dream of.

When art restorer Julia uncovers a hidden Latin inscription - *Quis Necavit Equitem* ("Who killed the knight?") - concealed within a 15th-century Flemish painting depicting a chess game, she finds herself pulled into a mystery bridging the medieval past and the present. As she and her associates work to decode the chess position and its secrets, a series of real murders begins to mirror the ancient riddle.