For fans of Really Good Actually and Romantic Comedy, a funny and touching novel about a woman who checks in to a glamorous hotel at the lowest point in her life, only to find herself swept into a stranger's wedding and forever changed by her entanglement in their dysfunctional family
"New York Times bestselling author TJ Klune invites you deep into the heart of a peculiar forest and on the extraordinary journey of a family assembled from spare parts. In a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees, live three robots-fatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson, a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine, and a small vacuum desperate for love and attention. Victor Lawson, a human, lives there too. They're a family, hidden and safe. The day Vic salvages and repairs an unfamiliar android labelled "HAP," he learns of a shared dark past between Hap and Gio-a past spent hunting humans. When Hap unwittingly alerts robots from Gio's former life to their whereabouts, the family is no longer hidden and safe. Gio is captured and taken back to his old laboratory in the City of Electric Dreams. So together, the rest of Vic's assembled family must journey across an unforgiving and otherworldly country to rescue Gio from decommission, or worse, reprogramming. Along the way to save Gio, amid conflicted feelings of betrayal and affection for Hap, Vic must decide for himself: Can he accept love with strings attached? Inspired by Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio, and like Swiss Family Robinson meets Wall-E, In the Lives of Puppets is a masterful stand-alone fantasy adventure from the beloved author who brought you The House in the Cerulean Sea and Under the Whispering Door"--
The first adventure in a spellbinding new magical world. 'Wildly inventive . . . full of laugh-out-loud humour, enchanting magic and rebellious hope. I loved it' Catherine Doyle Cordelia comes from a long line of magical milliners, who weave alchemy and enchantment into every hat. In Cordelia's world, Making - crafting items such as hats, cloaks, watches, boots and gloves from magical ingredients - is a rare and ancient skill, and only a few special Maker families remain. When Cordelia's father Prospero and his ship, the Jolly Bonnet, are lost at sea during a mission to collect hat ingredients, Cordelia is determined to find him. But Uncle Tiberius and Aunt Ariadne have no time to help the littlest Hatmaker, for an ancient rivalry between the Maker families is threatening to surface. Worse, someone seems to be using Maker magic to start a war. It's up to Cordelia to find out who, and why . . . 'An utterly charming adventure full of wildness, wit, magic and heart' Anna James Featuring illustrations by Paola Escobar.
Linus Baker is sent to assess a magical orphanage, filled with dangerous children. They could bring about the end of everything - or be the family he'd always wanted
The New York Times bestselling "epic feminist fantasy perfect for fans of Game of Thrones" (Bustle).
Maak je klaar voor een geheel nieuwe kijk op de wereld van Jeff Kinney's Dagboek van een Mislukte Kid! We maken kennis met de nieuwste auteur van Wimpy Kid: Rowley Jefferson! Rowley's beste vriend Greg Heffley heeft zijn middelbare schooljaren chronologisch vastgelegd in dertien Dagboek van een Mislukte Kid-journals. Maar het is eindelijk tijd voor lezers om rechtstreeks van Rowley te horen in zijn eigen journal. In Dagboek van een Geweldig Vriendelijk Kind schrijft Rowley over zijn ervaringen en neemt hij de rol van biograaf van Greg op zich. (Immers, op een dag zal Greg rijk en beroemd zijn, en iedereen wil zijn levensverhaal kennen.) Maar Rowley is een slechte keuze voor de klus, en zijn "biografie" van Greg is een hilarische chaos. Dagboek van een Geweldig Vriendelijk Kind: Rowley Jefferson's Journal biedt lezers een nieuwe manier om de Wimpy-wereld te bekijken - iets wat fans niet willen missen!
