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Grave Peril

Jim Butcher · 405 pages

Now in hardcover from the New York Times bestselling author of The Dresden Files.Harry Dresden's faced some pretty terrifying foes during his career. Giant scorpions. Oversexed vampires. Psychotic werewolves. All par for the course for Chicago's only professional wizard.But in all of Harry's years of supernatural sleuthing, he's never faced anything like this: the spirit world's gone postal. All o

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Dead Until Dark

Charlaine Harris · 320 pages

For years, Charlaine Harris has delighted fans with her mystery series featuring small-town waitress-turned-paranormal sleuth Sookie Stackhouse. Now, we are pleased to offer her first novel in the series in a special hardcover edition. And with HBO launching an all-new show, True Blood, based on the Southern Vampire novels, the demand for Charlaine Harris and Sookie Stackhouse will be bigger than

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Succubus Blues

Richelle Mead · 368 pages

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Haunted

Kelley Armstrong · 495 pages

THE CONTINUING ADVENTURES OF THE SMART, SEXY -- SUPERNATURAL -- WOMEN OF THE OTHERWORLDEve Levine -- half-demon, black witch and devoted mother -- has been dead for three years. She has a great house, an interesting love life and can't be killed again -- which comes in handy when you've made as many enemies as Eve. Yes, the afterlife isn't too bad -- all she needs to do is find a way to communicat

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Undead and Unwed

MaryJanice Davidson · 277 pages

First Betsy Taylor loses her job, then she's killed in a car accident. But what really bites is that she can't seem to stay dead. And now her new friends have the ridiculous idea that Betsy is the prophesied vampire queen, and they want her help in overthrowing the most obnoxious power-hungry vampire in five centuries.

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For a Few Demons More

Kim Harrison · 464 pages

Rachel Morgan is a witch/bounty hunter based in the Hollows, the section of Cincinnati where supernatural beings live. She here must protect an artifact from all sorts of creatures while proving a werewolf friend innocent of serial murders.

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The Laughing Corpse

Laurell K. Hamilton · 320 pages

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Magic Burns

Ilona Andrews · 272 pages

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Hex Hall

Rachel Hawkins · 336 pages

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Bone Crossed

Patricia Briggs · 314 pages

New in the #1 New York Times bestselling urban fantasy series.In a world where "witches, vampires, werewolves, and shape-shifters live beside ordinary people" (Booklist), it takes a very unusual woman to call it home. By day, Mercy Thompson is a car mechanic in Eastern Washington. By night, she explores her preternatural side. As a shape-shifter with some unusual talents, Mercy's found herself mai

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Spirit and Dust

Rosemary Clement-Moore · 400 pages

Raised in a family of psychics and witches, teen Daisy Goodnight is happy to help local police solve cold cases but when the FBI seeks her talents, she becomes involved in a mess that even has the spirits terrified.

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Up from the Grave

Jeaniene Frost

There's always one more grave to dig Lately, life has been unnaturally calm for vampires Cat Crawfield and her husband, Bones. They should have known better than to relax their guard, because a shocking revelation sends them back into action to stop an all-out war . . . A rogue CIA agent is involved in horrifying secret activities that threaten to raise tensions between humans and the undead

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Shadowland

Meg Cabot · 287 pages

After moving from New York to California with her newly married mother, 16-year-old Susannah has to cope not only with her new stepbrothers, but also with the handsome ghost sitting in her new bedroom and the angry girl ghost haunting her new school. Suze is a mediator, a liaison between the living and the dead. In other words, she sees dead people. And they won't leave her alone until she helps t

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Forever Odd

Dean Koontz · 416 pages

The follow-up novel to Odd Thomas, from worldwide bestselling author, Dean Koontz.Odd Thomas, that unlikely hero, once more stands between us and our worst fears.Odd never asked to communicate with the dead – they sought him out. As the unofficial goodwill ambassador between our world and theirs, he has a duty to do the right thing. That’s the way Odd sees it, and that’s why he has already won ove

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John Dies at the End

David Wong · 428 pages

This may be the story of John and David, a drug called soy sauce, and other-worldly beings invading the planet. Or, it may be the story of two beer-drinking friends who live in an unnamed Midwestern town and only think something horrific is going on. But the important thing is, according to the narrator, "None of this is my fault."

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Labyrinth

Kat Richardson · 368 pages

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Touch the Dark

Karen Chance · 307 pages

Like any sensible girl, Cassie tries to avoid vampires. But when the bloodsucking Mafioso she escaped three years ago finds Cassie again with revenge in mind, she's forced to turn to the vampire Senate for protection.The undead senators won't help her for nothing, and Cassie finds herself working with one of their most powerful members, a dangerously seductive master vampire- and the price he dema

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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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Three to Get Deadly

Janet Evanovich · 353 pages

When a kind old candy store owner (Uncle Mo) goes FTA (failure to appear) after being arrested for carrying concealed, bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is sent out to haul him back to prison

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Evermore

Alyson Noel

Since the car accident that claimed the lives of her family, sixteen-year-old Ever can see auras and hear people's thoughts, and she goes out of her way to hide from other people until she meets Damen, another psychic teenager who is hiding even more mysteries.

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Grave Witch

Kalayna Price

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Fantasy Lover

Sherrilyn Kenyon · 368 pages

Dear Reader, Being trapped in a bedroom with a woman is a grand thing. Being trapped in hundreds of bedrooms over two thousand years isn't. And being cursed into a book as a loveslave for eternity can ruin even a Spartan warrior's day. As a love-slave, I know everything about women. How to touch them, how to savor them, and most of all, how to pleasure them. But when I was summoned to fulfil

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Something from the Nightside

Simon R. Green · 230 pages

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Vampire Games

J.R. Rain · 230 pages

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