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The Samurai’s Secret. Puzzle Mysteries Collection
High on Mount Kagemine stands Mugen dōjō, a place frozen in time where discipline is absolute and the code of bushidō shapes every breath. For thirteen-year-old Takeshi Ito — expelled from multiple schools and with no future ahead — it is a last chance. But the mountain hides more than strict training. A legend lingers among the trees: a rōnin…
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Seven Suspects for a Murder. Puzzle Mysteries Collection
When a cryptic letter reaches Scotland Yard predicting a murder on a remote Scottish island, Inspector William Shakespeare is sent to investigate — though he has no patience for prophecies. On Kinraddie, cut off by storms and silence, a group of strangers has already gathered at the only inn, each hiding a different piece of the past. As tensions rise,…
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The Mystery of Gorse Manor. Puzzle Mysteries Collection
Eight-year-old Greta Sullivan has an unusual fascination with the macabre. While travelling by train to Gorse Manor, the country home of her aristocratic grandparents, she finds herself pondering a curious question: what colour is a dead person’s face? On the same train is Inspector Shakespeare — no relation to the playwright — recently transferred from London after stepping on the…
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Murder in the Mirror. Puzzle Mysteries Collection
Fourteen-year-old Tobias owns almost nothing in the world: a battered green jacket, oversized boots, and an extraordinary talent for repairing clocks. When he answers an advertisement for a clockmender at the Zeigermann Institute, a remote boarding school perched high in the Alps, he expects a simple job fixing timepieces. Instead, he finds himself entering a strange and unsettling world. The…
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Mystery Hotel. Puzzle Mysteries Collection
December 1961. Now an old man, Nino recounts to his granddaughter Clara an extraordinary night from his childhood, when he was eleven years old and helping his uncle Piero and aunt Ada at the modest Hotel Mimosa in the small spa town of Z***. Once famous during the Belle Époque for its casino and thermal baths, the town has long…
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Stinky Maggie
Spider-Man was bitten by a radioactive spider and became a hero. I, on the other hand, have become a super skunk! Ten-year-old Maggie can handle raccoons, storms and life in the wild — but moving to a flower-mad Italian town where everyone is horrified by her skunk smell may be her toughest challenge yet. Told through the episodes of her…
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The Forest
In a world ruled by animals, power is inherited, fear is enforced, and the smallest must pay the highest price. Humans have vanished, but fragments of their consciousness have filtered into the animal world. In the Forest, this inherited memory has transformed instinct into ideology and survival into control. The ancient balance of nature has been replaced by complex societies,…
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Sherlock, Lupin and Me. Book 3: The Mystery of the Scarlet Rose
A coded advertisement, a vanished scientist, and a shadowy enemy who always seems one move ahead. When Irene travels to London to spend the winter holidays with her friends Sherlock Holmes and Arsène Lupin, she expects strolls through Covent Garden and quiet days in the Shackleton Coffee House. Instead, the trio finds themselves entangled in one of their most dangerous…
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Sherlock, Lupin and Me. Book 2: Last Act at the Opera House
A vanished diva, a theatre full of secrets, and three young detectives who refuse to believe in coincidences. When Irene Adler travels to London to hear the great soprano Ophelia Merridew, she expects nothing more than a dazzling performance. But the glamorous world of the Royal Opera hides rivalries, fears and ambitions — and when a man is murdered and…
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Sherlock, Lupin and Me. The Black Queen’s Trio
It all starts with a seaside town, a mysterious woman in black, and three extraordinary children who will one day become legends. When twelve-year-old Irene Adler arrives in the walled port town of Saint-Malo, she expects a quiet summer. Instead, she meets two boys who will change her life forever: sharp-minded Sherlock Holmes and daring Arsène Lupin. What begins as…
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Haven’s End
A sealed world. A forbidden line. A truth powerful enough to burn everything down. Sixteen-year-old Rebecca has never questioned the rules of Haven’s End — an isolated, self-sufficient settlement lost in the forests of North America. Until the day she crosses the Red Line and discovers the first crack in the only world she’s ever known. What begins as a…
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…And the Others
An ideal sequel to Thingy, this book tells the story of a sensitive young girl and her imaginary friend, who accompanies her on a journey of growth and self-discovery. Anna has grown up, but she likes to go back in her mind to the episodes that marked her life accompanied by Thingy, her imaginary friend as a child. Anna tells…
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Diary of Jane Burrasca: The Walkman Files
She wanted a smartphone. She got a vintage Walkman. Now begins the most chaotic diary ever recorded. Giovanna is about to turn ten and she only wants one thing: her first smartphone. She’s convinced that this small device is her official passport into the world of “grown-ups.” But when she opens her long-awaited present, she finds… a Walkman. With huge…
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The Fisher Girl
Egadi Islands, Sicily. Fourteen-year-old Scilla works as a swordfish fisher on her uncle’s felucca, the Cariddi, a traditional Sicilian swordfish-hunting boat. Her father died at sea two years earlier, and her mother left Marettimo when Scilla was still a child, vanishing without explanation. One day, during a perilous swordfish hunt, Scilla and Mansur — the lanzaturi who stands at the…
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CountDawn. The Book of Snow
Choose your future, before your future chooses you. In 2069, the future is already written — and it is controlled by APEX, the corporation that rules humanity through the VIVI: living silicon creatures capable of hijacking technology, emotions, and memory itself. The world survives inside sealed Oases. Clo, a boy who can glimpse fragments of what is yet to come,…
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Ulysses Moore. The Door to Time
The legendary 10 million-seller series, translated into more than 30 languages, now with a brand-new graphic look. Book 1: The Door to Time In the remote village of Kilmore Cove, on a cliff by the sea, the mysterious Villa Argo — once owned by Ulysses Moore — hides one of the legendary Doors of Time: portals carved in sycamore wood that open…
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Ulysses Moore. The Shop of the Long Lost Maps
The legendary 10 million-seller series, translated into more than 30 languages, now with a brand-new graphic look. Book 2: The Shop of the Long Lost Maps Ancient Egypt, Land of Punt. Jason, Julia and Rick step through the Door of Time into the House of Life, a vast library of papyri and scrolls. They seek a mysterious map hidden by Ulysses Moore…
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Ulysses Moore. The House of Mirrors
The legendary 10 million-seller series, translated into more than 30 languages, now with a brand-new graphic look. Book 3: The House of Mirrors Kilmore Cove is shrouded in mystery: a statue of a king who never lived, railway tracks that vanish into nothing, and a name missing from every map. Following Ulysses Moore’s trail, Jason, Julia and Rick face new enigmas: the…
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Ulysses Moore. The Island of Masks
The legendary 10 million-seller series, translated into more than 30 languages, now with a brand-new graphic look. Book 4: The Island of Masks Eighteenth-century Venice: faces hidden behind masks, secrets lurking in the dark alleys. Peter Dedalus, the goldsmith inventor of Kilmore Cove, seems to have taken refuge here, bound by a broken promise. Only the enigmatic Black Gondolier knows his hiding…
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Ulysses Moore. The Stone Guardians
The legendary 10 million-seller series, translated into more than 30 languages, now with a brand-new graphic look. Book 5: The Stone Guardians For Jason, Julia and Rick, the truth seems at once just a step away and yet light years distant. And now it slips even further, racing along the tracks of Kilmore Cove’s abandoned station, as the Train of Eternal Youth…
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