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Cursor's Fury by Jim Butcher
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 56 ratingsThe power-hungry High Lord of Kalare has launched a rebellion against the aging First Lord, Gaius Sextus, who with the loyal forces of Alera must fight beside the unlikeliest of allies - the equally contentious High Lord of Aquitaine... -
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Captain's Fury by Jim Butcher
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 56 ratingsIn his acclaimed Codex Alera novels, bestselling author Jim Butcher has created a fascinating world in which the powerful forces of nature take physical form. For millennia, the people of Alera have used their unique bond with these elementals for protection. Now, as enemies become allies, and friends become bitter foes, a danger beyond reckoning looms. . . . -
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![Princeps' Fury by Jim Butcher]()
Princeps' Fury by Jim Butcher
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 53 ratingsIn the fifth Codex Alera novel, Tavi is the recognized heir to the throne. When armistice with the Canim ends, and he and his legions take the Canim in Alera home, they discover that the Vord, hostile to Aleran and Canim alike, have ravaged Cane, and now the former foes must fight the common enemy... -
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A Fall of Water by Elizabeth Hunter
“No secret stays hidden forever. ”. Still grieving from their loss in the far East, Giovanni Vecchio and Beatrice De Novo discover that for them, all roads really do lead to Rome. But nothing is quite as it seems in the Eternal City. Joined by Carwyn and Tenzin, unexpected clashes greet them almost immediately, and rivalries churn beneath the glittering facade of the old Roman court... -
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The Untold Story by Genevieve Cogman
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 34 ratingsIn this thrilling historical fantasy, time-traveling Librarian spy Irene will need to delve deep into a tangled web of loyalty and power to keep her friends safe. Irene is trying to learn the truth about Alberich-and the possibility that he's her father... -
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The Secrets of Magic by Michelle Madow
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThere are only so many secrets you can keep before you break. A few weeks ago, Summer Donovan learned she’s a witch descended from the Greek gods. She was whisked away to an academy for witches to learn how to use the element she controls—air. Except Summer doesn’t have air magic. Instead, she controls metal and gems—an ability no witch has demonstrated before...Categorized as:
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When the Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsA queer immigrant fairytale about individual purpose, the fluid nature of identity, and the power of love to change and endure. Uriel the angel and Little Ash (short for Ashmedai) are the only two supernatural creatures in their shtetl (which is so tiny, it doesn't have a name other than Shtetl)... -
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Wicked Vampire by Megan Montero
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt’s time to discover my power… my vampire power. I always knew monsters existed. But the word vampire never came to mind until I became one. War threatens to tear apart the Vampire factions. Some say I’m the one the prophecy spoke about. Others think I’m a passing fancy. But nothing could’ve prepared me for the House of Shade or the guy who made me this monster, Grayson Shade...Categorized as:
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The Whispering Room by Cassandra Clare
Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThe scene of the chapter "The Whispering Room" in Chain of Gold, from James's POV. -
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Marina by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 62 ratingsFifteen-year-old Oscar Drai meets the strange Marina while he's exploring an old quarter of Barcelona. She leads Oscar to a cemetery, where they watch a macabre ritual that occurs on the last Sunday of each month. At exactly ten o'clock in the morning, a woman shrouded in a black velvet cloak descends from her carriage to place a single rose on an unmarked grave... -
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The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsTessa Gray, a sixteen-year-old American girl, is traveling alone to Victorian London and runs afoul of the city’s sordid supernatural underworld. Rescued by the Shadowhunters of the London Institute, she quickly finds herself caught up in an intrigue that may very well destroy her new friends—including the two enigmatic young men, Jem and Will, who have taken her under their wing. .. -
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The Dark Archive by Genevieve Cogman
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 34 ratingsA professional spy for a mysterious Library which harvests fiction from different realities, Irene faces a series of assassination attempts that threaten to destroy her and everything she has worked for. Irene is teaching her new assistant the fundamentals of a Librarian's job, and finding that training a young Fae is more difficult than she expected... -
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Wicked Lies by Megan Montero
Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMy power doesn’t lie but everyone else does…. Ever since Beckett Dustwick walked into my life, I’ve only wanted one thing…him. To bad he doesn’t feel the same way. Our soulmate mark tells me we are destined to be together an important fact he lied about. But a broken heart won’t stop me from showing him exactly what I think. He may have started this game, but I will finish it... -
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Furies of Calderon by Jim Butcher
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 65 ratingsFor a thousand years, the people of Alera have united against the aggressive and threatening races that inhabit the world, using their unique bond with the furies - elementals of earth, air, fire, water, and metal. But now, Gaius Sextus, First Lord of Alera, grows old and lacks an heir... -
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Lair of Dreams by Libba Bray
After a supernatural showdown with a serial killer, Evie O'Neill has outed herself as a Diviner. Now that the world knows of her ability to "read" objects, and therefore, read the past, she has become a media darling, earning the title, "America's Sweetheart Seer. " But not everyone is so accepting of the Diviners' abilities. . -
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The Eternal Dawn by Christopher Pike
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 47 ratingsAlisa has spent the past five thousand years as a vampire, living alone and fighting for survival. In her loneliness, Alisa cannot resist bringing Teri—a descendant of her human family—into her life. But Alisa is surrounded by death and destruction, and just by knowing Alisa, Teri’s life is at risk. Alisa’s guilt grows when she becomes involved in a dangerous conspiracy...Categorized as:
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Demigods Academy: Year Two by Elisa S. Amore, Kiera Legend
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsRead Melany and her friends' new adventures in Demigods Academy Year Two. -
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Demigods Academy: Year Three by Elisa S. Amore, Kiera Legend
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsWhile Melany is torn between Lucian and Hades, a new enemy will put everyone in danger. The ancient Titans are unleashed, causing epic disasters all around the world. It’s time for the Gods’ Army to show what they’ve been trained for in the academy. It’s time for Melany to pick sides. A war is around the corner. And she is the only one who can stop it...Categorized as:
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Rift by Andrea Cremer
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsChronicling the rise of the Keepers, this is the stunning prequel to Andrea Cremer's internationally bestselling Nightshade trilogy! Sixteen-year-old Ember Morrow is promised to a group called Conatus after one of their healers saves her mother's life. Once she arrives, Ember finds joy in wielding swords, learning magic, and fighting the encroaching darkness loose in the world...Categorized as:
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Poison Sun by Michelle Madow
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsDive into the second book of USA Today bestselling author Michelle Madow’s Vampire Bride series, where secrets run deep, and light gives way to darkness. After a shocking betrayal, Amber Benson was forced to do the unthinkable: drink a potion that will bring shadow souls—the dark forces trying to take over the city—straight to her...Categorized as:
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Besieged by Kevin Hearne
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsThe ancient gods are alive and well in the modern world in this hilarious, action-packed collection of original short stories featuring Atticus O’Sullivan, the handsome, tattooed, two-thousand-year-old Irishman with extraordinary magic powers from Kevin Hearne’s New York Times bestselling Iron Druid Chronicles. -
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Midnight's Son by Nazri Noor
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsThe walls of our world have shattered. The Eldest are coming. Mad angels and demon princes were once the worst of Dustin Graves’s problems. Now rifts are tearing open in the fabric of reality. Eldritch abominations are slipping through, plunging the world into peril... -
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A Monstrous Regiment of Women by Laurie R. King
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 46 ratingsWinner of the Nero Wolfe Award. It is 1921 and Mary Russell--Sherlock Holmes's brilliant apprentice, now an Oxford graduate with a degree in theology--is on the verge of acquiring a sizable inheritance...Categorized as:
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Saving Raphael Santiago by Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsA Manhattan teen—Raphael Santiago—is missing, and Magnus Bane must track him down before it’s too late. In 1950s New York City, a distraught mother hires Magnus Bane to find her missing son, Raphael. But even if he can be found, is Raphael beyond saving?Categorized as:
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Cast Long Shadows by Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsMatthew Fairchild is the Consul’s son and the golden-haired boy of the Nephilim. He has the love of his family and his parabatai James Herondale, and nothing to wish for, except excitement and artistry and beauty that do not seem to fit in with a warrior’s way of life...Categorized as:
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Oblivion Heart by Nazri Noor
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA massacre, a manuscript, and a demonic midnight bargain. Dustin Graves goes on a rare night out with the boys from the Boneyard, but things go horribly wrong. Over a hundred revelers drop dead at a pop diva’s concert, bleeding from their eyes and their ears. Miraculously, Dustin and his undead associates survive. But the troubles have just begun... -
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Goddess Test / Goddess Interrupted / The Goddess Legacy / The Goddess Inheritance by Aimee Carter
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAll four titles of the Goddess Test novels in one exciting collection! The complete GODDESS TEST saga�THE GODDESS TEST, GODDESS INTERRUPTED, THE GODDESS INHERITANCE and THE GODDESS LEGACY. Kate Winters had gone from a girl whose mother was dying to the Queen of the Underworld. Join Kate on her life-altering journey and meet the powerful, compelling gods who test her every step of the way. -
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Assassin's Menace by Everly Frost
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNever step between an assassin and his prey. .. Nobody would suspect bookworm Grace Kennedy of being a cold-blooded killer. She just wants to keep her head down and escape the violent secrets of her past. But when Grace unwittingly gets between an assassin and his target, she becomes prey to Boston's most ferocious legion of killers... -
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Blazing Sun by Michelle Madow
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsGifted with magic from the sun goddess, forced to marry the vampire king, and destined to kill the demon she can’t get out of her mind. In only a few weeks, Amber Benson’s gone from being a normal nineteen-year-old to the powerful supernatural queen of a vampire kingdom. She’s learned how to lead, how to fight, and most surprisingly… how to love. Now, the future of the city depends on her...Categorized as:
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Blood Pact by Nazri Noor
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEveryone is red on the inside. The destruction of the Dark Room has locked away the Eldest forever… or so it seems. The Boneyard discovers a bloodthirsty cult desperate to bring back the Old Ones, and Dustin Graves rescues the strangest of a Welsh corgi. Gods of legend covet the magical canine, and the Lorica gives chase, believing that Dustin’s heart still beats with the blood of shadows... -
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Dark Promise by Annika West
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsI just learned who and what I really am. And dude, is it changing my entire world. But while I'm trying to master my terrifying true powers, I'll have to help Cayne, Willow and August track down the next dark artifact that's messing with Los Angeles. But honestly. What's new. And then there's the matter of Huxley Cayne... -
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The Threads Of Life by Elisa S. Amore, Kiera Legend
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsReturn to the Academy with Melany and her friends in this new season full of magic, mythology, and adventures. After the war against Zeus, nothing is the same anymore for Melany and her crew. Despite all their losses and griefs, they must move on and rebuild a new Academy where Titans, Gods, and Demigods work together to protect the human World because something strange is going on...Categorized as:
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The Burning Page by Genevieve Cogman
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 49 ratingsLibrarian spy Irene and her apprentice Kai return for another “tremendously fun, rip-roaring adventure,” (A Fantastical Librarian) third in the bibliophilic fantasy series from the author of The Masked City. Never judge a book by its cover. . -
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The Disabled Tyrant's Beloved Pet Fish: Canji Baojun De Zhangxin Yu Chong (Novel) Vol. 4 by Xue Shan Fei Hu, Kura
STILL WATERS RUN DEEPWith their union blessed by the emperor and four baby heirs in tow, Prince Jing is well on his way to clinching the position of crown prince. But Li Yu can't pat himself on the back for a job well done just yet! Prince Jing's crafty brother still lurks in the shadows plotting against him... -
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Wicked Magic by Megan Montero
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThey all fear my power…they should. Finding out I’m a witch was a shock. But now that I’m in the world of Evermore I’ll do anything to protect it even if that means dying…. The evil King Alataris has stolen my mother, my life, and now he’s taken something that could unleash hell on earth. With a powerful Ice Dragon under his every command there is no telling where he will strike next...Categorized as:
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I, Medusa by Ayana Gray
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsFrom New York Times bestselling author Ayana Gray comes a new kind of villain origin story, reimagining one of the most iconic monsters in Greek mythology as a provocative and powerful young heroine. “Ayana Gray brings her fresh, dynamic storytelling to one of the most monstered, maligned, and misunderstood women of Greek myth, imagining all the girls that Medusa was and could have been...Categorized as:
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Salvaged Soul by Desni Dantone
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsLife in paradise isn’t exactly what Kris thought it would be. Treated like a prisoner and forced to keep her romance with Nathan hidden, she struggles to adapt to island life with the Kala. Worse, her specialties are coming in faster than she can control, and she fears the Skotadi within her will soon win the battle for her soul...Categorized as:
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How to Hang a Witch by Adriana Mather
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 43 ratingsIt's the Salem Witch Trials meets Mean Girls in a debut novel from one of the descendants of Cotton Mather, where the trials of high school start to feel like a modern day witch hunt for a teen with all the wrong connections to Salem’s past. Salem, Massachusetts is the site of the infamous witch trials and the new home of Samantha Mather... -
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The Jinxed Journey by Eliza Raine
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIt's starting to look like Olympus is a lot more dangerous than I thought it was. After dredging up a flying pirate ship belonging to the long lost Oceanus, I'm leaving the academy on a quest. And it's not just me going. My friends, Icarus, Zali and Thom are coming too, but in a strange turn of events, two of the people who hate me most in the academy are also tagging along for the ride... -
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Fading Sun by Michelle Madow
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAmber’s sun magic is fading, and time’s running out before it’ll disappear completely. Now, she needs to travel to the Himalayas to find and claim the Solar Scepter—the weapon forged for her by the sun goddess—to kill the Shadow Lord. Unfortunately, she can’t leave Manhattan. The fruit Damien tricked her into eating on her first night in his vampire kingdom bound her inside the city’s borders...Categorized as:
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The Wicked Ones by Cassandra Clare, Robin Wasserman
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsCeline Montclaire goes to the Shadow Market to escape. She would go anywhere in Paris, or the entire world, to escape the suffering she experiences at the hands of her family. She did not expect to meet Valentine Morgenstern there, or to have him promise her freedom and the heart of the man she secretly loves. On one condition, of course. At the Shadow Market, nothing is for free. -
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The Chess Queen Enigma by Colleen Gleason
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsAnd then she mouthed a word at me—an unmistakable word that told me everything I needed to know. “Checkmate. ”. Evaline Stoker & Mina Holmes have reluctantly agreed to act as social chaperones and undercover bodyguards for Princess Lurelia of Betrovia, who has arrived in London to deliver a letter that details the secret location of an ancient chess queen that’s been missing for centuries... -
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Daughter of Earth and Sky by Kaitlin Bevis
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsSome vows can never be broken, especially with you've recently found out you're a goddess. In the flick of a eyelash Persephone has gone from being a high school junior in Athens, Georgia to the wife of Hades, god of the Underworld. Under his platonic protection, she's waiting for springtime, when Boreas, the sinister god of winter, will stop stalking her...Categorized as:
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Sacrificed by Desni Dantone
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsKris Young is no normal seventeen year old. She’s the worst thing to come along since the black plague, and she will do anything to alter the destiny she was made for. Failure is not an option. But if the shadows of evil overcome her…. Only one person can stop her. When she meets Micah, she doesn’t expect him to save her life, or to offer his help. They were born enemies after all... -
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Dark Curse by Annika West
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAster King II can handle anything. Murderous vampires? Check. Multidimensional party houses? Double check. That sexy dragon shifter she works for… okay, she’s working on that one. The point? She survived her first mission under Huxley Cayne. This next one should be a breeze. Right? This Urban Fantasy Romance series is perfect for fans of Linsey Hall, C. N. Crawford and Jaymin Eve!Categorized as:
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Scions by Josephine Angelini
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsA prequel to the bestselling Starcrossed series. New York City, 1993. It wasn’t Daphne’s choice to move into the heart of a struggle that has been secretly waging for thirty-three hundred years, but not much in her life has been up to her. Fate has brought Daphne, daughter of Zeus, and Heir to the House of Atreus to where the descendants of the Greek gods can shed blood over her once again...Categorized as:
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Wicked Witch by Megan Montero
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIt’s time to claim my power…All my life I’ve lived under lock and key, always following the strict rules my mother set for me. A week before my sixteenth birthday I sneak out of my house and discover why. Turns out I am not just a normal teenager. I’m a witch blessed with a gift someone wants to steal from me. And not just anyone…the evil King Alataris...Categorized as:
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The Eternity Key by Bree Despain
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 22 ratingsFan-favorite author Bree Despain continues her modern-day romance trilogy inspired by the Greek myth of Persephone and Hades with this second book in her Into the Dark series. Haden Lord, the disgraced Prince of the Underrealm, has chosen love over honor and will do everything in his power to protect Daphne Raines, the human girl he was supposed to bring to the Underrealm...Categorized as:
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Pillage & Plague by Demitria Lunetta, Marley Lynn
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTurns out-I'm a stone-cold killer. And I'm not sure I like it. Last school term I figured out I was a dragon shifter. And then I killed a bunch of monsters. It was to save my friends. .. but also I kinda liked it. Or my dragon did. Now, it's summer term at Mount Olympus Academy...Categorized as:
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Thicker Than Blood by Shalini Boland
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAelia lives in 6th century Byzantium. She is sixteen years old and her life is about to change forever. She doesn't yet know it, but she holds the fate of thousands in her hands and her actions will echo across the centuries. Fourteen hundred years later the lives of Madison and Alexandre are once again plunged into danger...Categorized as:
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