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Dead Girls Are Easy

Terri Garey · 384 pages

There's something about almost dying that makes a girl rethink her priorities. Take Nicki Styx—she was strictly goth and vintage, until a brush with the afterlife leaves her with the ability to see dead people.Before you can say boo, Atlanta's ghosts are knocking at Nicki's door. Now her days consist of reluctantly cleaning up messes left by the dearly departed, leading ghouls to the Light . . . a

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Jilo

J.D. Horn · 368 pages

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The White Glove War

Katie Crouch, Grady Hendrix

Told in separate voices, Alex, Haynes, and other members of Savannah's Magnolia League seek aid for their own family members from the legendary Hoodoo family, the Buzzards, in violation of an old pact, unaware that a Shadow Man is using one of them to return from the dead.

Afro-Caribbean ReligionAmerican SouthWitches & WitchcraftFemale Lead
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The Magnolia League

Katie Crouch

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Fire Baptized

Kenya Wright · 257 pages

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The Dolls

Kiki Sullivan · 372 pages

When 17-year-old Eveny returns to the tiny Louisiana town where she was born, she discovers she is the powerful missing link in a trio of voodoo queens who have everyone under their spell. But they need her help. Because darkness is descending on Carrefour and even the Dolls' combined powers may not be enough to stop the killer in their midst.

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Brown Girl in the Ring

Nalo Hopkinson · 250 pages

Set in Toronto after the turn of the millennium, Brown Girl in the Ring focuses on "The Burn," the inner city left when Toronto's economic base collapsed. Young Ti-Jeanne lives with her grandmother, who runs a trade in herbal medicine that is vital to the disenfranchised of The Burn. A fascinating cast of characters combined with the dark world of Afro-Caribbean magic create an altogether original

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Play Dead

Anne Frasier · 370 pages

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Shadowshaper

Daniel Jose Older · 320 pages

When the murals painted on the walls of her Brooklyn neighborhood start to change and fade in front of her, Sierra Santiago realizes that something strange is going on--then she discovers her Puerto Rican family are shadowshapers and finds herself in a battle with an evil anthropologist for the lives of her family and friends.

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The Voodoo Killings

Kristi Charish · 348 pages

"Kristi Charish's The Voodoo Killings introduces Kincaid Strange, not your average voodoo practitioner ... For starters, she's only twenty-seven. Then there's the fact that she lives in rain-soaked Seattle, which is not exactly Haiti. And she's broke. With raising zombies outlawed throughout the continental USA, Kincaid has to eke out a living running seances for university students with more mone

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Hellblazer: Papa Midnite

Mat Johnson · 128 pages

The King of Voodoo has a long history, but where did it all begin? Follow the story of the curse that made Midnite immortal, from its origin in 1712 through the failed slave rebellion of 1741 and into the present day, where he continues to pay the price for his original sin.

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In Deep Voodoo

Stephanie Bond · 384 pages

Romance. Mystery. Who can you trust when you are ***In Deep Voodoo***? During the annual Voodoo Festival in the little town of Mojo, Deke Black is stabbed to death in his own office. Unfortunately, his recently divorced wife, Penny, stabbed a voodoo doll of Deke during a celebration of the divorce. Penny is wrongly accused of the murder. Deke's death becomes a story for the media. So, which one of

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Unsympathetic Magic

Laura Resnick · 392 pages

When her guest role as a prostitute on a television drama is jeopardized by zombies, angry spirits, and a voodoo curse, actress Esther Diamond helps her sorcerer friend combat the supernatural forces at work in New York City.

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Voodoo Season

Jewell Parker Rhodes · 282 pages

Marie Levant begins her medical residency in New Orleans's Charity Hospital in the wake of culture shock and increasingly violent dreams, which give way to an awareness of her ancestral heritage as an African and a voodoo queen.

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Gather the Fortunes

Bryan Camp · 384 pages

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Real Vampires Know Size Matters

Gerry Bartlett · 353 pages

Just when Glory has her life semi -- on track, a woman from her longtime lover Jeremiah Campbell's past steamrolls into town on a mission to win him back. Normally Glory wouldn't feel threatened by a mortal with amorous intentions, but Jerry's ex just happens to be a beautiful voodoo priestess with evil spirits at her beck and call -- and a serious lack of conscience when it comes to getting what

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All Together Dead

Charlaine Harris · 336 pages

Betrayed by her longtime vampire lover, cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse has her hands full dealing with every kind of undead and paranormal creature, as well as the new man in her life, the shapeshifter Quinn, and the upcoming vampire summit.

American SouthUrban FantasyWitches & WitchcraftFemale Lead
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Akata Witch

Nnedi Okorafor · 376 pages

Twelve-year-old Sunny Nwazue, an American-born albino child of Nigerian parents, moves with her family back to Nigeria, where she learns that she has latent magical powers which she and three similarly gifted friends use to catch a serial killer.

Afro-Caribbean ReligionUrban FantasyFemale LeadWitches & Witchcraft
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Ring Shout

P. Djèlí Clark · 168 pages

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Royal Street

Suzanne Johnson · 336 pages

Royal Street by Suzanne Johnson is the fun, fast-paced first book in the Sentinels of New Orleans, a series of urban fantasy novels filled with wizards, mermen, and pirates. These novels are perfect for readers of paranormal fiction and "fans of Charlaine Harris and Cat Adams" (Booklist) and RT Bookreviews agrees that "for readers missing Sookie Stackhouse, this series may be right up your alley."

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Night Pleasures

Sherrilyn Kenyon · 336 pages

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Would-Be Witch

Kimberly Frost · 294 pages

The promising debut of a hot new voice in paranormal romance—and the first of the Southern Witch novels.The family magic seems to have skipped over Tammy Jo Trask. All she gets are a few untimely visits from long-dead, smart-mouthed family ghost Edie. But when her locket—an heirloom that happens to hold Edie's soul—is stolen in the midst of a town-wide crime spree, it's time for Tammy to find her

Urban FantasyAmerican SouthFemale LeadWitches & Witchcraft
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Bewitched on Bourbon Street

Deanna Chase · 246 pages

Urban FantasyAmerican SouthFemale LeadWitches & Witchcraft
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Don't Hex with Texas

Shanna Swendson · 292 pages

Everything's bigger in Texas--including romance, magic, and danger!Katie Chandler has fled fast-paced Manhattan and returned home to a simpler life, working at her family's feed-and-seed store in Cobb, Texas. In a painfully selfless gesture, Katie had left the sexy wizard Owen Palmer to battle his demons in the magical realm--after all, Katie just seemed to attract evil, which only made Owen's job

American SouthUrban FantasyFemale LeadWitches & Witchcraft

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