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Lord of Shadows by Cassandra Clare
Would you trade your soul mate for your soul?A Shadowhunter’s life is bound by duty. Constrained by honor. The word of a Shadowhunter is a solemn pledge, and no vow is more sacred than the vow that binds parabatai, warrior partners—sworn to fight together, die together, but never to fall in love...Categorized as:
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![Delivering Evil for Experts by Annette Marie]()
Delivering Evil for Experts by Annette Marie
I promised to avenge my parents.But their killer is still on the loose, and he's stolen more than my parents' lives. Now, as he draws closer to his mysterious goals, he's poised to destroy what little I have left.I promised to translate an ancient grimoire.But it holds the secrets of my family—and the secret history of demon summoning. I fear its answers as much as I need them... -
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![The Ancient Magus' Bride, Vol. 5 by Kore Yamazaki, Adrienne Beck]()
The Ancient Magus' Bride, Vol. 5 by Kore Yamazaki, Adrienne Beck
Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars · 34 ratingsA Fairy In NeedChise has taken great strides in overcoming her dark past, and is ready for a brighter future by Elias' side. As for the magus himself, he is finally able to put a name to the strange emotion he's been feeling for Chise. Meanwhile, a deadly threat looms. When a panicked fairy appears at Chise's bedside, begging for help, is there anything the young, novice mage can do.. -
![In The Afterlight by Alexandra Bracken]()
In The Afterlight by Alexandra Bracken
Ruby can't look back. Fractured by an unbearable loss, she and the kids who survived the government's attack on Los Angeles travel north to regroup. With them is a prisoner: Clancy Gray, son of the president, and one of the few people Ruby has encountered with abilities like hers. Only Ruby has any power over him, and just one slip could lead to Clancy wreaking havoc on their minds... -
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![The Ancient Magus' Bride, Vol. 2 by Kore Yamazaki, Adrienne Beck]()
The Ancient Magus' Bride, Vol. 2 by Kore Yamazaki, Adrienne Beck
Great power comes at a price... Chise Hatori's life has recently undergone shocking change. As a sleigh beggy--a person capable of generating and wielding tremendous magical power--she has transformed from an unwanted child to a magician's apprentice who has been introduced to fae royalty. But Chise's newly discovered abilities also mean a cruel fate awaits her... -
![The Evolution of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin]()
The Evolution of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin
Mara Dyer once believed she could run from her past. She can’t. She used to think her problems were all in her head. They aren’t. She couldn’t imagine that after everything she’s been through, the boy she loves would still be keeping secrets. She’s wrong. In this gripping sequel to The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer, the truth evolves and choices prove deadly... -
![The Naturals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes]()
The Naturals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Seventeen-year-old Cassie is a natural at reading people. Piecing together the tiniest details, she can tell you who you are and what you want. But it’s not a skill that she’s ever taken seriously. That is, until the FBI come knocking: they’ve begun a classified program that uses exceptional teenagers to crack infamous cold cases, and they need Cassie...Categorized as:
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![A Fistful of Charms by Kim Harrison]()
A Fistful of Charms by Kim Harrison
The evil night things that prowl Cincinnati despise witch and bounty hunter Rachel Morgan. Her new reputation for the dark arts is turning human and undead heads alike with the intent to possess, bed, and kill her -- not necessarily in that order. Now a mortal lover who abandoned Rachel has returned, haunted by his secret past... -
![Marked in Flesh by Anne Bishop]()
Marked in Flesh by Anne Bishop
For centuries, the Others and humans have lived side by side in uneasy peace. But when humankind oversteps its bounds, the Others will have to decide how much humanity they’re willing to tolerate—both within themselves and within their community.. -
![End of Days by Susan Ee]()
End of Days by Susan Ee
End of Days is the explosive conclusion to Susan Ee’s bestselling Penryn & the End of Days trilogy. After a daring escape from the angels, Penryn and Raffe are on the run. They’re both desperate to find a doctor who can reverse the twisted changes inflicted by the angels on Raffe and Penryn’s sister... -
![The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken]()
The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken
When Ruby woke up on her tenth birthday, something about her had changed. Something alarming enough to make her parents lock her in the garage and call the police. Something that gets her sent to Thurmond, a brutal government “rehabilitation camp... -
![The Ancient Magus' Bride, Vol. 1 by Kore Yamazaki, Adrienne Beck]()
The Ancient Magus' Bride, Vol. 1 by Kore Yamazaki, Adrienne Beck
Enter the Magician's ApprenticeHer name is Chise Hatori, a penniless orphan troubled by visions. Sold as a slave to an inhuman mage, she is about to begin a strange new life, filled with magic, fairies, and other beings of a fantastical nature... -
![The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness]()
The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness
After traveling through time in Shadow of Night , the second book in Deborah Harkness’s enchanting series, historian and witch Diana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont return to the present to face new crises and old enemies. At Matthew’s ancestral home at Sept-Tours, they reunite with the cast of characters from A Discovery of Witches --with one significant exception... -
![Not Even Bones by Rebecca Schaeffer]()
Not Even Bones by Rebecca Schaeffer
Dexter meets This Savage Song in this dark fantasy about a girl who sells magical body parts on the black market — until she’s betrayed.Nita doesn’t murder supernatural beings and sell their body parts on the internet—her mother does that. Nita just dissects the bodies after they’ve been “acquired... -
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![Chaos by Sarah Fine]()
Chaos by Sarah Fine
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsWith Juri in control and everything in absolute chaos, Lela plunges into the depths of hell to free Malachi from creatures that have waited decades to exact their revenge. But the Judge has her own way of doing things, and Lela must work with Ana, the new Captain, who has a very personal mission of her own... -
![The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab]()
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever-and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world... -
![The Broken Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin]()
The Broken Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin
In the city of Shadow, beneath the World Tree, alleyways shimmer with magic and godlings live hidden among mortalkind. Oree Shoth, a blind artist, takes in a homeless man who glows like a living sun to her strange sight. This act of kindness engulfs Oree in a nightmarish conspiracy. Someone, somehow, is murdering godlings, leaving their desecrated bodies all over the city... -
![Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots]()
Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots
A smart, imaginative, and evocative novel of love, betrayal, revenge, and redemption, told with razor-sharp wit and affection, in which a young woman discovers the greatest superpower—for good or ill—is a properly executed spreadsheet. Anna does boring things for terrible people because even criminals need office help and she needs a job...Categorized as:
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![The Dark Calling by Kresley Cole]()
The Dark Calling by Kresley Cole
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 43 ratingsNew intrigues, adventures, and stunning revelations fill the penultimate installment of #1 New York Times best-selling author Kresley Cole’s electrifying Arcana Chronicles. In a world teetering on the edge . . . When Evie receives life-changing—and possibly game-changing—news, she has trouble believing it... -
![Never a Hero by Vanessa Len]()
Never a Hero by Vanessa Len
This sequel to the contemporary fantasy Only a Monster will take Joan deeper into the monster world, where treacherous secrets and even more danger await. Despite all of the odds, Joan achieved the impossible. She reset the timeline, saved her family – and destroyed the hero, Nick. But her success has come at a terrible cost. She alone remembers what happened...Categorized as:
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![Devils' Line, Vol. 1 by Ryo Hanada]()
Devils' Line, Vol. 1 by Ryo Hanada
Tsukasa, a college student, is rescued from an attack by a devil, one of many vampires that can blend in among the human population. Anzai, her savior, is a half-devil who exploits his supernatural gifts as a member of a shadowy police task force that specializes in devil-related crime in Tokyo... -
![The Retribution of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin]()
The Retribution of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin
Mara Dyer wants to believe there's more to the lies she’s been told. There is. She doesn’t stop to think about where her quest for the truth might lead. She should. She never had to imagine how far she would go for vengeance. She will now. Loyalties are betrayed, guilt and innocence tangle, and fate and chance collide in this shocking conclusion to Mara Dyer’s story...Categorized as:
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Menagerie by Rachel Vincent
From New York Times bestselling author Rachel Vincent comes a richly imagined, provocative new series set in the dark mythology of the Menagerie… When Delilah Marlow visits a famous traveling carnival, Metzger's Menagerie, she is an ordinary woman in a not-quite-ordinary world... -
![Midnight Poison by A. Kirk, E. Kirk]()
Midnight Poison by A. Kirk, E. Kirk
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA new paranormal urban fantasy romance thriller from the bestselling authors of The Divinicus Nex Chronicles! It's action, adventure, suspense, and crazy fun characters! - No Memory. No Mind. No Mercy. Kiara Blackwood has a few problems.She's older than she looks - by several centuries. She can't remember who she is... -
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![Sanctum by Sarah Fine]()
Sanctum by Sarah Fine
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 44 ratings“My plan: Get into the city. Get Nadia. Find a way out. Simple.” A week ago, seventeen-year-old Lela Santos’s best friend, Nadia, killed herself. Today, thanks to a farewell ritual gone awry, Lela is standing in paradise, looking upon a vast gated city in the distance—hell. No one willingly walks through the Suicide Gates, into a place smothered in darkness and infested with depraved creatures... -
![Agents of Light and Darkness by Simon R. Green]()
Agents of Light and Darkness by Simon R. Green
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 39 ratings“Simon Green’s Nightside is a macabre and thoroughly entertaining world.”—#1 New York Times bestselling author Jim Butcher John Taylor works in the Nightside—the gaudy, neon noir, secret heart of London, where it’s always three in the morning, where gods and monsters make deals and seek pleasures they won’t find anywhere else. He has a gift for finding things... -
![Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle]()
Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle
From beloved internet icon Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus is a searing and earnest horror debut about the demons the queer community faces in America, the price of keeping secrets, and finding the courage to burn it all down.Welcome to Neverton, Montana: home to a God-fearing community with a heart of gold... -
![White Trash Warlock by David R. Slayton]()
White Trash Warlock by David R. Slayton
Not all magicians go to schools of magic. Adam Binder has the Sight. It’s a power that runs in his bloodline: the ability to see beyond this world and into another, a realm of magic populated by elves, gnomes, and spirits of every kind. But for much of Adam’s life, that power has been a curse, hindering friendships, worrying his backwoods family, and fueling his abusive father’s rage... -
![Ink and Bone by Rachel Caine]()
Ink and Bone by Rachel Caine
In an exhilarating new series, New York Times bestselling author Rachel Caine rewrites history, creating a dangerous world where the Great Library of Alexandria has survived the test of time.… Ruthless and supremely powerful, the Great Library is now a presence in every major city, governing the flow of knowledge to the masses... -
![Vampire Hunter D by Hideyuki Kikuchi, Yoshitaka Amano]()
Vampire Hunter D by Hideyuki Kikuchi, Yoshitaka Amano
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 26 ratings12,090 A.D. It is a dark time for the world. Humanity is just crawling out from under three hundred years of domination by the race of vampires known as the Nobility... -
![Renegades by Marissa Meyer]()
Renegades by Marissa Meyer
Secret Identities. Extraordinary Powers. She wants vengeance. He wants justice.The Renegades are a syndicate of prodigies — humans with extraordinary abilities — who emerged from the ruins of a crumbled society and established peace and order where chaos reigned. As champions of justice, they remain a symbol of hope and courage to everyone... except the villains they once overthrew... -
![Fury by Charlotte McConaghy]()
Fury by Charlotte McConaghy
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPerfect for fans of Divergent, this series is about a civilization where negative emotions have been erased, creating a world of mindless drones where only those with fury can survive.Eighteen-year-old Josephine Luquet wakes up naked and covered in blood on the same day every year—when the blood moon is full...Categorized as:
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Year One by Nora Roberts
In her newest work, the stunning beginning to an epic hardcover trilogy, #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts weaves an enthralling saga of suspense, survival, and the journey that will unite a desperate group of people to fight the battle of their lives… The sickness came on suddenly, and spread quickly. The fear spread even faster...Categorized as:
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![The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black]()
The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black
Tana lives in a world where walled cities called Coldtowns exist. In them, quarantined monsters and humans mingle in a decadently bloody mix of predator and prey. The only problem is, once you pass through Coldtown's gates, you can never leave. One morning, after a perfectly ordinary party, Tana wakes up surrounded by corpses... -
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![Escaping from Houdini by Kerri Maniscalco]()
Escaping from Houdini by Kerri Maniscalco
Audrey Rose Wadsworth and her partner-in-crime-investigation, Thomas Cresswell, are en route to New York to help solve another blood-soaked mystery... -
![Bone Gap by Laura Ruby]()
Bone Gap by Laura Ruby
Everyone knows Bone Gap is full of gaps—gaps to trip you up, gaps to slide through so you can disappear forever. So when young, beautiful Roza went missing, the people of Bone Gap weren’t surprised. After all, it wasn’t the first time that someone had slipped away and left Finn and Sean O’Sullivan on their own... -
![Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri Maniscalco]()
Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri Maniscalco
Presented by James Patterson's new children's imprint, this deliciously creepy horror novel has a storyline inspired by the Ripper murders and an unexpected, blood-chilling conclusion...Seventeen-year-old Audrey Rose Wadsworth was born a lord's daughter, with a life of wealth and privilege stretched out before her... -
![All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris]()
All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris
Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse has her hands full dealing with every sort of undead and paranormal creature imaginable. And after being betrayed by her longtime vampire love, Sookie must not only deal with a new man in her life—the shapeshifter Quinn—but also contend with the long-planned vampire summit. The summit is a tense situation...Categorized as:
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![Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley]()
Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley
Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Mary Shelley's 1831 Edition is the definitive version of Shelley's iconic Gothic novel, first published in 1818, with the 1831 edition offering significant revisions by the author. This edition includes a new preface by Shelley, in which she reflects on the novel’s origins, the themes of ambition and creation, and the philosophical underpinnings of the story...Categorized as:
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![Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion]()
Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion
Now a major motion picture from Summit Entertainment.R is having a no-life crisis—he is a zombie. He has no memories, no identity, and no pulse, but he is a little different from his fellow Dead. He may occasionally eat people, but he’d rather be riding abandoned airport escalators, listening to Sinatra in the cozy 747 he calls home, or collecting souvenirs from the ruins of civilization...Categorized as:
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![Borderline by Mishell Baker]()
Borderline by Mishell Baker
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 34 ratingsA cynical, paraplegic screenwriter with borderline personality disorder gets recruited to join a secret organization that oversees relations between Hollywood and Fairyland in the first book of a new urban fantasy series from debut author Mishell Baker.Millie is a bit of a mess: she’s cynical, disabled, and self-destructive. And she has borderline personality disorder... -
![The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black]()
The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black
Children can have a cruel, absolute sense of justice. Children can kill a monster and feel quite proud of themselves. A girl can look at her brother and believe they’re destined to be a knight and a bard who battle evil. She can believe she’s found the thing she’s been made for. Hazel lives with her brother, Ben, in the strange town of Fairfold where humans and fae exist side by side... -
![Never Never by Colleen Hoover, Tarryn Fisher]()
Never Never by Colleen Hoover, Tarryn Fisher
Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars · 99 ratingsBest friends since they could walk. In love since the age of fourteen. Complete strangers since this morning. He'll do anything to remember. She'll do anything to forget. “Never have I had my mind blown reading a book like I have reading Never Never. It was intense, sweet, completely unpredictable and utterly fascinating... -
![Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris]()
Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris
As a person with so few living relatives, Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse really hated to lose one. But she never guessed that it would be her cousin Hadley—a consort of the Vampire Queen of New Orleans. After all, technically speaking, Hadley was already dead. And now, as unexpected heir to Hadley’s estate, Sookie discovers the inheritance definitely comes with a risk...Categorized as:
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![Magic Study by Maria V. Snyder]()
Magic Study by Maria V. Snyder
YOU KNOW YOUR LIFE IS BAD WHEN YOU MISS YOUR DAYS AS A POISON TASTER... With her greatest enemy dead, and on her way to be reunited with the family she'd been stolen from long ago, Yelena should be pleased. But though she has gained her freedom, she can't help feeling isolated in Sitia... -
![Storm Glass by Maria V. Snyder]()
Storm Glass by Maria V. Snyder
From New York Times bestselling author Maria V. Snyder Enter into a stunning world of molten magic, where storms can be captured in glass and a magician's powers can remain hidden…until challenged.As a glassmaker and a magician-in-training, Opal Cowan understands trial by fire. Someone has sabotaged the Stormdancer clan's glass orbs, killing their most powerful magicians... -
![The Truth Lies Here by Lindsey Klingele]()
The Truth Lies Here by Lindsey Klingele
Rated: 3.73 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsStranger Things meets Men in Black in this funny and eerie young adult novel.WHAT’S GOING ON IN BONE LAKE? THE TRUTH WILL SURPRISE YOU.In small town Michigan, Penny Hardjoy, an aspiring journalist, teams up with the nerdy boy next door and the town’s star quarterback to find her conspiracy theorist father after he goes missing and several other people turn up dead in the woods... -
![The Whispering Dark by Kelly Andrew]()
The Whispering Dark by Kelly Andrew
Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsThe Raven Boys meets Ninth House in the most exciting debut of 2022 -- a dark, atmospheric fantasy about a Deaf college student with a peculiar connection to the afterlife.Delaney Meyers-Petrov is tired of being seen as fragile just because she's Deaf... -
![3:59 by Gretchen McNeil]()
3:59 by Gretchen McNeil
Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsJosie Byrne's life is spiraling out of control. Her parents are divorcing, her boyfriend Nick has grown distant, and her physics teacher has it in for her. When she's betrayed by the two people she trusts most, Josie thinks things can't get worse. Until she starts having dreams about a girl named Jo. Every night at the same time—3:59 a.m... -
![Beautiful Chaos by Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl]()
Beautiful Chaos by Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl
Ethan Wate thought he was getting used to the strange, impossible events happening in Gatlin, his small Southern town. But now that Ethan and Lena have returned home, strange and impossible have taken on new meanings. Swarms of locusts, record-breaking heat, and devastating storms ravage Gatlin as Ethan and Lena struggle to understand the impact of Lena's Claiming...
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