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"In seventeenth-century Peru, St. Martin de Porres was torn from his body after death. His bones were pillaged as relics, and his spirit was said to inhabit those bones. Four centuries later, amid the havoc of Hurricane Katrina, nineteen-year-old Ham escaps New Orleans with his only valued possession: a pendant handed down from his foster mother, Miss Pearl. There's something about the pendant that has always gripped him, and the curiosity of it has...
22) The big flush
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Ousted from Stepford Prep, Megan attends a prospective students event with friend Raf and talking dog Bradley at Pine Lake Academy, where Raf is possessed by the spirit of a teenaged girl from the 1910s after drinking from an old water fountain.
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Isa Brixton and her new friend Alexa, who is a skilled photographer, start an Instagram account featuring portraits of Isa in the crumbling mansion she now calls home, and soon the rising numbers of Isa's followers online and at school match the growing darkness in her personality.
24) Flamebringer
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"Tristan Wydrick, sworn enemy of House Daired, is back from the dead. Possessed by a ghast and sharing its shadowy unlife, he commands not only the soul-sucked ghastradi, but also the monstrous Tekari forces bent on Arle's destruction. As their enemies begin amassing, desperate Arleans look to their greatest defenders. But Aliza and Alastair Daired, along with their dragon Akarra, are far from home, trapped in the icy northern wastes by Wydrick's...
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"On a snowy Christmas morning, Holly Judge awakens, the fragments of a nightmare--something she must write down--floating on the edge of her consciousness. Something followed them from Russia. On another Christmas morning thirteen years ago, she and her husband Eric were in Siberia to meet the sweet, dark-haired Rapunzel they desperately wanted. How they laughed at the nurses of Pokrovka Orphanage #2 with their garlic and their superstitions, and...
27) Everlost
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When Nick and Allie are killed in a car crash, they end up in Everlost, or limbo for lost souls, where although Nick is satisfied, Allie will stop at nothing--even skinjacking--to break free.
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The main round of the pro test has begun. Everyone's feeling the pressure, no one more so than Hikaru's friend Isumi, who has failed the test twice before. Fighting off his feelings of self-doubt, Isumi faces his next opponent, who turns out to be Hikaru. But a careless mistake lands the pair in an awkward position!
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Mai Kujaku! Dinosaur Ryuzaki! Esper Roba! The world's greatest duelists are in town for the Battle City tournament... but a mysterious group is stalking the tournament to steal the most valuable cards! The Rare Hunters are more than thieves... they're pawns of the mysterious Marik, a deadly duelist from Egypt who already possesses two of the three most powerful cards in the world. And to defeat them Yugi must find a way to beat Exocia, the world's...
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A new game shop has opened in town and it may put Grandfather Mutou out of business. Even worse, it seems its owners want to put Yugi and his grandfather completely out of the picture. Then, the owner's son, Ryuji Otagi, challenges Yugi to a dragons and monsters game he must play without Yu-gi-oh's help.
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The action moves underground as the tournament continues. Bandit Keith, the cutthroat American gamer, drags Jonouchi into the corpse-filled catabombs for a match with "Ghost" Kozuka, master of the undead. Trapped in the tunnels bneath Duelist Kingdom, Yugi and Jonouchi must conquer the maze of the Meikyui Brothers in a two-on-two duel. It's monster vs. monster in the endless maze of tiny passages...and waiting in the Meikyu Brothers' decks is the...
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Trapped inside the Black Crown game store by his family's sworn enemy, Yugi must win a game of "Dungeon Dice Monsters" or lose the Millennium puzzle forever! Then, a mysterious Egyptian woman comes to Japan with a strange prophecy. Could the collectible card game "Duel Monsters" really be of ancient Egyptian origin? But Ishizu Ishtar has come to deliver more than information. "The God of the Obelisk" is one of the three most powerful cards in the...
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"Kaiba, the world's second-greatest gamer, duels Pegaus! Are Kaiba's dragons stronger than Pegasus's rubbery, slapstick, fearsome toons? Awaiting their own turn to fight, Yugi and his friends explore Pegasus's castle. But they're not alone. Bandit Keith, the unscrupulous American card shark, prowls the dark castle with his own evil plans. And Mai Kujaku, both friend and foe, has also made it to the final rounds!..."--P. [4] of cover.