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Night Train to Memphis

Elizabeth Peters, Barbara Mertz · 400 pages

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Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

Ally Carter · 272 pages

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Ruby Red

Kerstin Gier · 352 pages

Gwyneth Shepherd's sophisticated, beautiful cousin Charlotte has been prepared her entire life for traveling through time. But unexpectedly, it is Gwyneth, who in the middle of class takes a sudden spin to a different era! Gwyneth must now unearth the mystery of why her mother would lie about her birth date to ward off suspicion about her ability, brush up on her history, and work with Gideon--

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The Hexologists

Josiah Bancroft · 318 pages

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Beastly Bones

William Ritter · 307 pages

When dinosaur bones from a recent dig mysteriously go missing, and an unidentifiable beast starts attacking animals and people, leaving their mangled bodies behind, Abigail and her eccentric employer R. F. Jackaby, investigators of the supernatural in 1892 New England, find themselves hunting for a thief, a monster, and a murderer.

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A Murderous Relation

Deanna Raybourn · 320 pages

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Owl and the City of Angels

Kristi Charish · 361 pages

Alix Hiboux, better known as Owl, international antiquities thief for hire, is settling into her new contract job for Vegas mogul Mr. Kurosawa, a red dragon with a penchant for ancient, supernatural artifacts. And now he has his sights set on some treasures of the mysterious Syrian City of the Dead that are sitting in a recluse's private collection.

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Homicide in Hardcover

Kate Carlisle · 289 pages

"Brooklyn Wainwright is a skilled surgeon. Sure, her patients might smell like mold and have spines made of leather, but no ailing book is going to die on her watch. The same can't be said of Abraham Karastovsky, Brooklyn's friend and former employer. On the eve of the celebration for his latest book restoration, Brooklyn finds her mentor lying a pool of his own blood. With his final breath, Abrah

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Catch Your Death

Lauren Child · 528 pages

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The Painted Queen

Elizabeth Peters, Joan Hess · 464 pages

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The Empty Grave

Jonathan Stroud · 498 pages

"With the help of some unexpected, and rather ghostly, allies, Lockwood & Co. must battle their greatest enemy yet, as they move ever closer to the moment when the earth-shattering secret of 'the problem' will finally be revealed"--

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After Dark

Jayne Castle, Jayne Ann Krentz · 342 pages

LIfe is tough enough these days for Lydia Smith, licensed Para-archaeologist. Seriously stressed-out from a nasty incident in an alien tomb, she is obliged to work part-time in Shrimpton's House of Ancient Horrors, a very low-budget museum. she has a plan to get her career back on track, but it isn't going well. Stuff keeps happening.Take the dead body that she discovered in one of the sarcophagus

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Demonglass

Rachel Hawkins

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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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The Iron Hand of Mars

Lindsey Davis · 305 pages

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The Last Hour Between Worlds

Melissa Caruso · 432 pages

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A Dead and Stormy Night

Steffanie Holmes · 302 pages

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The Liar Society

Lisa Roecker

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Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales

Heather Fawcett · 368 pages

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The Man in the Brown Suit

Agatha Christie · 223 pages

Newly-orphaned Anne Beddingfeld is a nice English girl looking for a bit of adventure in London. But she stumbles upon more than she bargained for! Anne is on the platform at Hyde Park Corner tube station when a man falls onto the live track, dying instantly. A doctor examines the man, pronounces him dead, and leaves, dropping a note on his way. Anne picks up the note, which reads "17.1 22 Kilmord

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Ghouls Just Haunt to Have Fun

Victoria Laurie · 320 pages

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Motor Mouth

Janet Evanovich · 374 pages

Miami is still freakin' humid. The nights are even hotter. And there's a body on ice. And that's just the beginning of this adrenaline-rush of a hot-wired ride from phenomenal number one New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich. A woman with a taste for speed and a talent for breaking the rules, Barney also knows a little too much about cheating. First there was Hooker and that salescl

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Optical Delusions in Deadwood

Ann Charles · 380 pages

"Someone was spreading rumors around Deadwood that Violet Parker was chatting with dead folks. Cash-strapped and desperate, Violet jumps at the chance to sell a vintage house with a dark history. All she has to do is convince people it isn't haunted. Her only hope of hanging on to her job is to prove that the so-called ghostly sightings are merely the eccentric owner's optical delusions. But someo

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