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Peter Setter Detective
When Mr Petulson’s precious multi-purpose snapper is stolen, Peter Setter and Perry, his feathered assistant, rush to the scene of the crime. There they find footprints that are… gigantic! Who could have left those pawprints behind? A story by Book on a Tree
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My Life After Juno Sparks
A girl with a blue walkman, a legendary monster, and the summer that changed everything. Sagramoso, summer 1994. Twelve-year-old Enea lives trapped inside his fears — and behind a closed door he cannot bring himself to open. Everything changes when Juno Sparks arrives: rebellious, magnetic, armed with a blue walkman and grunge music blasting in her ears. Together with a…
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Enid Enigma 4. Beyond the Last Darkness
She has a magpie friend and a gift: she solves cases before they happen. This time the grave in Enid’s dream is her own. When Cicuta leads Enid to her own grave, the rules of the game change completely. With the crows closing in and the magical medallion still missing, Enid and Julio must uncover the truth beneath Midway before…
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Enid Enigma 3. The Dance of Shadows
She has a magpie friend and a gift: she solves cases before they happen. When Enid dreams of Amanda Almond’s grave in a cemetery whose paths slide like conveyor belts, she knows another murder is coming. As Midway’s mayoral race heats up, Enid and Julio must decode a trail of misleading clues before a hidden enemy turns a library archive…
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Enid Enigma 2. The Flower of Darkness
She has a magpie friend and a gift: she solves cases before they happen. Enid’s dreams keep dragging her back to Midway’s cemetery — but this time it’s a swamp, and another death is coming. Guided by a magpie and haunted by cryptic visions, Enid tries to save Lucrezia Dubois, the town’s beloved cake baker, from a mysterious fate. Between…
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Enid Enigma 1. Thirteen Magpies for a Murder
She has a magpie friend and a gift: she solves cases before they happen. Enid lives in Midaway, a seaside town where everything feels half-finished – and nothing ever truly ends. When she dreams of thirteen magpies, someone is about to die. To stop the crime, she relies on a special pocket watch that once belonged to her grandfather, marked…
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The Desert Foxes
An ancient treasure, a town full of secrets, and a pact between two desert foxes — Rommel and Saint-Exupéry. 1986, Corsica. Morice and his family have just moved into the dilapidated Hotel Napoléon. With Audrey, the mayor’s daughter, he dives into the mysteries haunting the town: empty graves, hidden codes in a first edition of The Little Prince, and the…
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Madame K’s Cabinet of Poisons
The boutique of Madame does not sell ink. It sells destinies. Edinburgh, 1905. Oliver works as an apprentice in Madame’s ink shop, the largest and most refined establishment in all of Scotland, frequented by Europe’s wealthiest gentlemen. Madame’s customers seek inks with evocative names such as Silver Dawn, Breath of the Night, and Fire Vermilion—unique creations made with special ingredients,…
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Murder on the Occident Express. Puzzle Mysteries Collection
A rookie inspector, a luxury train, and a murder in the snowy Alps — but the real culprit may already be on another train. Fresh out of the Academy, Inspector Lucius Asgren is sent to a remote Alpine village for his first assignment — and immediately finds himself facing a murder aboard the legendary Occident Express. As the case is…
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Ten Little Tenants. Puzzle Mysteries Collection
The city is slipping into darkness. Blackouts spread. Tremors shake the streets. And in the middle of this growing unease, a murder is committed in Ash Building, a grim apartment block standing alone on the edge of town. The case is assigned to Lucius Asgren, the most brilliant detective on the force — a legend known for solving the impossible.…
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Murder at the Festival. Puzzle Mysteries Collection
At the Cantalago Festival, the country’s most watched music competition, every performance can launch a career — or destroy one. When Sara Rosso, a sharp-tongued rapper from Tropea, and Paolo Di Notte, a melancholic singer-songwriter from Jesolo, are unexpectedly paired into a duo, they are determined to make it to the final. But when legendary star Nico Spazio is found…
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The Mystery of Villa Polyphemus. Puzzle Mysteries Collection
At the beginning of July, twelve-year-old Scilla meets Leo on the beach of Malavoglia, along the Riviera of the Cyclops. Both are fascinated by a strange, decaying mansion overlooking the sea: an old lava-stone villa locals call Villa Polyphemus. Inside lives Countess Petra Marquett, an eccentric and reclusive crime writer. For years she shared the villa with her cousin Orsola,…
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This Book Contains a Crime. Puzzle Mysteries Collection
When a strange fantasy novel appears in the secret reading club of four friends, something doesn’t add up. The author died just days after publication — and the initials of the book’s chapters seem to spell out a desperate message: someone was trying to warn the world about a murder. To uncover the truth, the boys must decode hidden clues…
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Murder in the Band. Puzzle Mysteries Collection
The teenage rock band The IVs seems unstoppable: screaming fans, millions of followers, and a singer born for stardom. Then Lucky collapses on stage and dies hours later. The police arrest the band’s manager, but bassist Julie knows the story doesn’t add up. As fans turn vicious online and suspicion closes in around the band, Julie starts investigating. What she…
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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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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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Ulysses Moore. The First Key
The legendary 10 million-seller series, translated into more than 30 languages, now with a brand-new graphic look. Book 6: The First Key Lost in a labyrinthine medieval citadel, Jason, Julia and Rick are closer than ever to uncovering the mystery of the First Key. Yet other riddles remain. What has become of Black Vulcano? How many Doors of Time exist? And above…
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A Too-Secret Agent
His name? Classified. His mission? Unknown. Even to him! Ettorino Dobecco is a secret agent… or he would be, if he weren’t too secret — even for the Organisation. When a mysterious parcel arrives with his name on it, Ettorino must decide if it’s the beginning of a real mission, or just the biggest swindle of his life. Between confused…
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The Cursed Idol
A sharp, haunting coming-of-age novel about identity, temptation, and the price of wanting too much. Daniel doesn’t fit in – not at home, not at school, not even in his own skin. Then, in an abandoned villa, he finds a stone idol with human hair and a stitched mouth. A note warns: it gives with one hand, but takes with…
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A Waking Nightmare
The monster under the bed has never felt so real! Leo has just moved to an old house deep in the forests of West Virginia. From the first night, he’s sure something’s lurking under the bed: it smells bad, it growls, and it drags around opossum corpses. No one believes him – except Amy, his annoying stepsister. Together, they follow…
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The Mystery of Kaspar Hauser
A boy turns up at the gates of Nuremberg one spring morning. He is carrying a letter. He doesn’t speak a word of German but he can say his name: Kaspar Hauser. This is the beginning of one of the most mysterious and intriguing new cases of the last two centuries, a case that captivated Germany and beyond, becoming the subject…
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The Night of the Stag Beetles
A group of children’s return to nature when the world powers down. Two teenage sisters, driven from their city by war and an unprecedented energy crisis, set out on a dangerous journey to their grandparents’ mountain village. Among the peaks, they find Ginepro and his band of self-reliant children — and a new way of living, built on trust, courage, and…
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The Pikes of Lake Road
Thirty-three days of secrets, dares, and the summer that changed everything. With all the spontaneity of his thirteen years, Mauri retraces the thirty-three days that have made him grow up, starting on that 14th June when his best friend, Brando, dives into the lake and never resurfaces. But incredulous grief soon gives way to doubt: mysterious notes written in Brando’s…
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Who Stole The Star?
Who stole the sheriff’s star? A mystery full of fur, fun, and fuzzy suspects. Sheriff Biscottino McKenzy is proud of his quiet, orderly town. But one morning, his precious star badge goes missing! He immediately suspects the last three “free” rascals in town: Pippy Dakota (an otter who runs a hair salon), Coccola Bill (a dad-badger taking care of his cubs),…
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Snot & Splash
What if one day all the holes disappeared from the world? Would doughnuts still be doughnuts? How would you open a door without a keyhole? The residents of Elsewhere have a serious problem: someone is stealing all the holes. Keyholes, doughnuts, birdboxes… nothing is safe. And to make things worse, the weather has gone completely mad—garbage is falling from the sky.…
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Darkmare
A surreal night. A haunted amusement park. One boy’s quest to save a dream. Twelve-year-old Guido Anselmo lives for cinema. But when he discovers the mysterious biography of Klaus Voynik — a cursed filmmaker who died under strange circumstances — and realises the final chapter is missing, he’s determined to uncover the truth. His search leads him to an abandoned film studio-turned-amusement…
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Mysteries of Summer
Six mysteries. One season where mystery never takes a break. Six original summer stories by Italian acclaimed authors. A girl haunted by a ghost who might be herself. A cursed necklace passed from hand to hand. A school trip gone terrifyingly wrong… Each tale is a standalone mystery—spine-chilling, elegant, or surreal—set in the inescapable heat of the Italian summer. A fresh,…
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My Cat Saw The Killer
When Carla returns home one afternoon, her cat Cucco is acting strange. His paws are wet. He leaves bloody footprints. And just as Carla begins to ask questions, two mysterious officers burst into her home and take them both away. The authorities claim Cucco witnessed a murder. Now, Carla is caught in the middle of a high-tech investigation that uses…
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Peeka & Boo and the Super Champions
In Peeka & Boo and the Garden Game a peaceful board game turns into a surprise mission when tennis balls reveal a hidden assignment. The duo travels through space-themed clues to uncover a hidden message under their noses! In Peeka & Boo and the Final Ingredient an inter-agency party looms, but first our duo needs the last ingredient of a…
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Peeka & Boo and the Green Mystery
In Peeka & Boo and the Garden Game, peaceful board game turns into a surprise mission when tennis balls reveal a hidden assignment. The duo travels through space-themed clues to uncover a hidden message under their noses! In episode Peeka & Boo and the Final Ingredient an inter-agency party looms, but first they need the last ingredient of a top-secret…
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Peeka & Boo and The Secret Spy
In Peeka & Boo and the Mystery Snack the duo heads to Turin to recover a legendary snack recipe from a retired spy before the evil Mao Agency gets it first. With gadgets and secret hideouts, they navigate suspicious rivals and finally earn the prize over a cup of tea. Mistaken identities, spy gadgets, and red pens! In Peeka &…
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Peeka & Boo and The First Mission
In episode 1, What a Mess, Peeka & Boo! two dog detectives prepare for a mission by gathering items from all over the house: the kitchen, the bathroom, even the bedroom becomes a battleground of flying soap and slippers. After chaotic preparations, a mysterious delivery sets them off toward their destination: Milan! In Peeka & Boo at Fashion Week, Peeka…
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White Fog
A mysterious fog rising from the river and a girl destined for something more. A village shrouded in mist, where ghosts seem to rise from the river, the bell tower tolls through the air, and the memory of vanished children still lingers… As in many tales, there is a godmother and a girl destined for something greater. The past hides…
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The Cruel Sister
Agatha is 11 years old, lives in a grand but slightly crumbling English country house, and is certain of two things: she will be an explorer one day… and there is something very wrong with the new maid. It’s the early 1900s, and Agatha’s days are filled with books about Egypt, ancient tombs and strange diseases. Her father is always experimenting,…
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One Piece at a Time
Twelve-year-old Nina is curious, smart and full of questions — especially about the strange, half-written notebook she finds hidden in a forgotten corner of an old bookshop. Inside are disturbing sketches, unfinished formulas and fragments of thought that seem to reach across time. The only clue? A cryptic signature: “M.” Drawn into the mystery, Nina begins to suspect that the notebook…
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The Cursed Island
The fictional childhood adventure of a boy named Louis — one other than future writer Robert Louis Stevenson — set on a remote Scottish island in the mid-19th century. Frail in health but overflowing with imagination, Louis is forced to leave the comforts of Edinburgh when he follows his father, a lighthouse engineer, to a remote, sea- and wind-battered island. What…
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Detour
When a group of strangers ends up in the same forgotten town in the Dolomites after a violent storm, they quickly realize that they are trapped — and something is terribly wrong. Italy, 2025. A sudden storm forces a number of people — families, tourists, cyclists, and commuters—to take a detour off the SS48. One by one, they all end…
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The Folio Club
Eleven students. An exclusive club. Dark secrets and fatal obsessions. They are dressed like the cursed poets. They gather in a boathouse they’ve claimed as their secret hideout. They drink punch and honey, smoke opium and gamble. Their motto is in Latin: sine fine sumus. They have nicknames like Edgar Allan Poe’s characters. They are members of the Folio Club, led by a charismatic…
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The Beasts
Three deadbeat robbers with animal nicknames, Lynx, Buzzard and Toad, masked with rough cotton sacks slung over their heads, take shelter in the former Boeri sanitorium in Tresigallo. A coincidence leads them to cross paths with a class of Ferrara high school students on a trip to the old hospital and so they decide to take them hostage. The Boeri,…
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The Greys
1986, Cavazza, province of Belluno. Population: 102. No roller coasters. No cinemas. No holiday camps. Just trees, mountains and a cabin in the woods. Angelo would give anything not to follow his eccentric father Pietro on another wild goose chase. But he’s thirteen – he has no choice. And this time the mission is… to hunt aliens. Pietro is convinced that they have…
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No One Is Coming To Get You
During a school trip to the ruins of Herculaneum, Calista—Cali—finds a scrap of paper hidden in a crack in the wall. The message is written in clumsy handwriting: a desperate cry for help, a whisper of loneliness. She replies, slipping a note back into the wall. And just like that, the dialogue begins. The person — or thing — on the…
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The Pocket Watch Gang
Four friends with two things in common: three dollars and a burning desire to see the world. For four friends who live on one of the endless Louisiana bayous in early 1900s America, the 1,000-page Walker & Dawn Catalogue is the gateway to a world of hopes. So, when they find three silver dollars, they order an automatic revolver. But…
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The Houses of the Dead Have No Stairs
A bold, gripping novel about memory, grief, and the invisible line between the living and the lost. Since the fire that destroyed part of her grandmother’s house, nothing in Dodo’s life has felt right. No one talks about what really happened that night – or what Dodo saw. Her grandmother barely speaks, and the silence around the past grows heavier…
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Cassandra Apollinaire’s Prodigious Soul-Capturing Machine
Three siblings, a race against time among the streets of Paris, coded messages, ancient daguerreotypes, centuries-old secret circles and a disturbing mystery: can photographic film preserve a soul? France, 1971. It’s the 13th of October when a postman rings the Sélavy family’s door, causing all hell to break loose: the delivery is for Louis, René’s twin, who died in an…
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Detective Linus and the Turquoise Falcon – vol. 1
The most famous detective around… at least according to him! With a flair for drama, an eccentric sense of style, and a huge ego, young detective Linus investigates the most absurd and hilarious crimes in town. Surrounded by a cast of equally quirky characters. One summer morning, a postcard arrives at Linus’s house from his friend Giangi. Apparently there’s a…
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Ghost Agency – Vol.4: Even Ghosts Quiver
Ghosts are disappearing – and not in the usual “ooooh, I’m moving on” kind of way. One minute they’re moaning in basements or rattling chains in attics… and the next, poof – gone. When Will Moogley receives a mysterious call and finds only a puddle of strange bluish slime where a ghost should be, he knows something’s not right. All…
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Ghost Agency – Vol.3: The Skyscraper Ghost
Something spooky is going on at the Empire State Building. Tourists are fainting, elevators are levitating on their own, and a terrifying ghost has taken up (illegal) residence in the city’s most iconic skyscraper. The problem? He doesn’t have a contract. And worse—he refuses to leave. Will Moogley, young head of the world’s worst-run ghost temp agency, is called in…
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Ghost Agency – Vol.2: A Fearfully Frightening Family!
Jerrold was supposed to enjoy his peaceful retirement – haunting a quiet, creaky old house in Brooklyn. But his afterlife is turned upside down when a rowdy, clueless human family moves in, completely ignoring the fact that the place is already occupied. They blare music, hang curtains, and worst of all… they’re not even a little bit scared of him.…
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Ghost Agency – Vol.1: Good Job, Will Moogley!
Will Moogley, the young and reluctant heir to the failing Ghost Agency, is struggling to keep the ghost-placement business afloat. His agency provides ghosts for hauntings, but with few clients and little money, things look bleak. An unexpected opportunity arises when a luxury hotel chain, Scary Inn, announces plans to renovate an old castle into a haunted hotel for wealthy…
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The Stone
A circle of stones with dark powers, a wind-battered island and a boy looking for answers A haunting and emotionally charged mystery set on a remote Irish island. When a second death shakes the community, thirteen-year-old Liam begins to connect it to his mother’s recent, unexplained accident – and to a strange carved stone buried near both bodies. A bold,…
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Maydala Express
An unforgettable journey towards the last, unknown destination Finally, ten years old and red-haired, lives in Grey City’s immense railway station and works for a company that controls all the trains around the world, obeying wicked Mr Mortimer’s orders. Every day she dreams of escaping… One day she finds a piece of crumpled paper in her pocket, with strange lettering…
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Detecticat Series
Detecticat is a famous private detective, called to solve all kinds of foul deeds. He has an office, an assistant, Miss Bug, and a passion for complex pastimes, which inevitably go pear-shaped. His first idea regarding the culprit is always wrong, then a doubt arises, his whiskers tremble, he says his typical phrase ‒ “There’s something fishy going on here,”…
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