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Dead Reckoning

Charlaine Harris · 336 pages

"With her knack for being in trouble's way, Sookie Stackhouse witnesses the firebombing of Merlotte's, the bar where she works. Since Sam Merlotte is now known to be two-natured, suspicion falls immediately on the anti-shifters in the area. Sookie suspects otherwise, but her attention is divided when she realizes that her lover, Eric Northman, and his "child" Pam are plotting to kill the vampire w

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The Golem's Eye

Jonathan Stroud · 562 pages

In their continuing adventures, magician's apprentice Nathaniel, now fourteen years old, and the djinni Bartimaeus travel to Prague to locate the source of a golem's power before it destroys London.

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Turn Coat

Jim Butcher · 498 pages

The new novel in the hit New York Times bestselling Dresden Files series.The Warden Morgan has been accused of treason against the Wizards of the White Counciland theres only one, final punishment for that crime. Hes on the run, wants his name cleared, and needs someone with a knack for backing the underdog. Someone like Harry Dresden...Now, Harry must uncover a traitor within the Council, keep a

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The Mime Order

Samantha Shannon

Paige Mahoney has escaped the clandestine prison city of Oxford. Now a fugitive in London, she nurtures a new taste for revolution. Oxford may be behind her, but the Republic of Scion is undefeated. As it turns its all-seeing eye on Paige, she is forced to return to Jaxon Hall, her charismatic and brutal employer, to keep her foothold in the underworld. But Paige will bow to one now, and not

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Soulless

Gail Carriger · 300 pages

Alexia Tarabotti is laboring under a great many social tribulations. First, she has no soul. Second, she's a spinster whose father is both Italian and dead. Third, she was rudely attacked by a vampire, breaking all standards of social etiquette. Where to go from there? From bad to worse apparently, for Alexia accidentally kills the vampire -- and then the appalling Lord Maccon (loud, messy, gorgeo

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The Rook

Daniel O'Malley

Myfanwy Thomas awakens in a London park surrounded by dead bodies. With her memory gone, she must trust the instructions left by her former in order to survive. She quickly learns that she is a Rook, a high-level operative in a secret agency that protects the world from supernatural threats. But there is a mole inside the organization, and this person wants her dead. Battling to save herself, M

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The Undead Pool

Kim Harrison · 423 pages

"Witch and day-walking demon Rachel Morgan has managed to save the demonic ever after from shrinking, but at a high cost. Now strange magic is attacking Cincinnati and the Hollows, causing spells to backfire or go horribly wrong, and the truce between the races, between Inderlander and human, is shattering. Rachel must stop the occurrences before the undead vampire masters who keep the rest of the

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Some Girls Bite

Chloe Neill

First in a brand new series about a Chicago graduate students introduction into a society of vampires.Sure, the life of a graduate student wasnt exactly glamorous, but it was Merits. She was doing fine until a rogue vampire attacked her. But he only got a sip before he was scared away by another bloodsuckerand this one decided the best way to save her life was to make her the walking undead.Turns

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Sweep in Peace

Ilona Andrews · 289 pages

"Dina DeMille isn't your typical Bed and Breakfast owner. Her inn defies laws of physics, her dog is secretly a monster, and the only permanent guest of the inn is a former Galactic tyrant with a price on her head. The inn needs guests to thrive and guests have been scarce, so when an Arbitrator shows up at Dina's door and asks her to host a peace summit between three warring species, she jumps on

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Iron Kissed

Patricia Briggs · 328 pages

When her former boss and mentor is arrested for murder and left to rot behind bars by his own kind, it's up to shapeshifting car mechanic Mercy Thompson to clear his name, whether he wants her to or not. And she'll have to choose between the two werewolves in her life-whether she wants to or not.

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Dire Straits

Helen Harper · 382 pages

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The Indigo Spell

Richelle Mead

In the aftermath of a forbidden moment that rocked Sydney to her core, she finds herself struggling to draw the line between her Alchemist teachings and what her heart is urging her to do. Then she meets alluring, rebellious Marcus Finch—a former Alchemist who escaped against all odds, and is now on the run. Marcus wants to teach Sydney the secrets he claims the Alchemists are hiding from her. But

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Bright Ruin

Vic James · 397 pages

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Strange Practice

Vivian Shaw · 392 pages

"Meet Greta Helsing, fast-talking doctor to the undead. Keeping the supernatural community not-alive and well in London has been her family's specialty for generations. Greta Helsing inherited the family's highly specialized, and highly peculiar, medical practice. In her consulting rooms, Dr. Helsing treats the undead for a host of ills - vocal strain in banshees, arthritis in barrow-wights, and

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Kitty Steals the Show

Carrie Vaughn · 352 pages

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Midnight Riot

Ben Aaronovitch · 310 pages

"As a wave of brutal and bizarre murders engulfs the city, Peter is plunged into a world where gods and goddesses mingle with mortals and a long-dead evil is making a comeback on a rising tide of magic"--P. [4] of cover.

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Siren Song

Cat Adams · 383 pages

Human bodyguard Celia Graves lives in a world where magic is real and vampires roam the night. When an attack leaves her not only caught between human and vampire (an "Abomination") but awakens her hidden Siren heritage she finds herself caught in a deadly situation.

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Bloodshot

Cherie Priest · 368 pages

When blind vampire Ian Stott hires thief Raylene Pendle to steal medical documents that may help restore his sight, Raylene learns about Bloodshot, a government-sanctioned project that involved performing cruel experiments on vampires. With the proverbial men in black closing in on her, Raylene follows the Bloodshot document trail from Seattle to Atlanta, where she teams up with a deadly drag quee

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The Kingmakers

Clay Griffith, Susan Griffith

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A Discovery of Witches

Deborah Harkness · 720 pages

**An epic, richly inventive, historically sweeping, magical romance.** When historian Diana Bishop opens an alchemical manuscript in the Bodleian Library, it's an unwelcome intrusion of magic into her carefully ordered life. Though Diana is a witch of impeccable lineage, the violent death of her parents while she was still a child convinced her that human fear is more potent than any witchcraft

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Burn Mark

Laura Powell

In an alternate London, England, the lives of a fifteen-year-old girl eagerly awaiting the development of her "fae," or witch abilities, and the son of a man who sentences witches to death by burning, intersect when the son makes a startling discovery.

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Bound

Benedict Jacka · 416 pages

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The Sweet Scent of Blood

Suzanne McLeod · 363 pages

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Night Watch

Sergei Lukyanenko · 496 pages

The Night Watch series has caused a sensation never before seen in Russia -- its popularity is frenzied and unprecedented, and driven by a truly great, epic story. In 2005 Fox Searchlight announced it had acquired the Russian film adaptation for an American release. Interest in the books here is now set to reach a fever pitch.Set in modern day Moscow, Night Watch is a world as elaborate and imagin

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