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How to Save an Undead Life

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Guilty Pleasures

Laurell K. Hamilton · 368 pages

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The Necromancer's Dance

S.J. Himes · 228 pages

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The Summoning

Kelley Armstrong · 396 pages

My name is Chloe Saunders and my life will never be the same again. All I wanted was to make friends, meet boys, and keep on being ordinary. I don't even know what that means anymore. It all started on the day that I saw my first ghost—and the ghost saw me. Now there are ghosts everywhere and they won't leave me alone. To top it all off, I somehow got myself locked up in Lyle House, a "special hom

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Exiled

M.R. Merrick · 259 pages

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Death Bringer

Derek Landy · 605 pages

The Necromancers no longer need Valkyrie to be their Death Bringer, and that's a good thing. The catch? They don't need her any more because they've found their Death Bringer already, the person who will dissolve the doors between life and death. And that's a very, very bad thing ... The Necromancers no longer need Valkyrie to be their Death Bringer. There's a reason they don't need her any more.

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Dead Things

Stephen Blackmoore · 304 pages

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Magic Bites

Ilona Andrews · 260 pages

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Dark Siren

Lee Dignam, Katerina Martinez · 320 pages

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Saint City Sinners

Lilith Saintcrow · 400 pages

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Undeadly

Michele Vail · 272 pages

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Hold Me Closer, Necromancer

Lish McBride · 342 pages

Sam LaCroix, a Seattle fast-food worker and college dropout, discovers that he is a necromancer, part of a world of harbingers, werewolves, satyrs, and one particular necromancer who sees Sam as a threat to his lucrative business of raising the dead.

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Realm of Mirrors

Sonya Bateman · 231 pages

He may be the DeathSpeaker, but Gideon Black has no idea what he's doing. The job didn't come with an instruction manual. That's why his half-brother Taeral plans to bring him across the Veil to the Fae realm of Arcadia, to consult with an ancient Fae who knew the previous DeathSpeaker personally. Those plans are violently interrupted when the royal Unseelie Guard invade their home, dragging Taera

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Gemini Cell

Myke Cole

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Wolves and the River of Stone

Eric R. Asher · 354 pages

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Dead Beat

Jim Butcher · 448 pages

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Grave Ransom

Kalayna Price · 384 pages

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The Gathering Storm

Robin Bridges

In St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1888, royal debutante Katerina Alexandrovna, Duchess of Oldenburg, tries to hide a dark secret--that she has the ability to raise the dead--but when she uses her special skill to protect a member of the Imperial Family, she finds herself caught in a web of intrigue.

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Something Strange and Deadly

Susan Dennard

"In an alternate nineteenth-century Philadelphia, Eleanor Fitt sets out to rescue her brother, who seems to have been captured by an evil necromancer in control of an army of Undead"--

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Gideon the Ninth

Tamsyn Muir · 448 pages

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Shakespeare Undead

Lori Handeland · 291 pages

Will was not only one of the greatest writers in the English language, he was also a necromancer. In exchange for a front row seat to history, Will supplied zombie armies. Sure, he's sorry now. Hey, he's refused to raise a shuffling, shambling corpse for years. And the talent--which comes only to a necromancer who's become a vampire--is extremely rare. So why are there so many zombies strolling ar

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City of Fallen Angels

Cassandra Clare · 434 pages

Trust is dangerous, and to love is to destroy. Plunge into the fourth installment in the internationally bestselling **Mortal Instruments** series and *"prepare to be hooked" (Entertainment Weekly).* The Mortal War is over, and sixteen-year-old Clary Fray is back home in New York, excited about all the possibilities before her. She's training to become a Shadowhunter and to use her unique power

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The Foxglove King

Hannah Whitten · 467 pages

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The Bone Witch

Rin Chupeco · 411 pages

Tea's gift for death magic means that she is a bone witch, a title that makes her feared and ostracized by her community, but when an older bone witch trains her to become an asha--one who can wield elemental magic--Tea will have to overcome her obstacles and make a powerful choice in the face of danger as dark forces approach.

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