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Magic Binds by Ilona Andrews
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 45 ratingsMercenary Kate Daniels knows all too well that magic in post-Shift Atlanta is a dangerous business. But nothing she’s faced could have prepared her for this…Kate and the former Beast Lord Curran Lennart are finally making their relationship official...Categorized as:
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Cress by Marissa Meyer
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 82 ratingsIn this third book in the Lunar Chronicles, Cinder and Captain Thorne are fugitives on the run, now with Scarlet and Wolf in tow. Together, they're plotting to overthrow Queen Levana and her army.Their best hope lies with Cress, a girl imprisoned on a satellite since childhood who's only ever had her netscreens as company. All that screen time has made Cress an excellent hacker... -
![Magic Triumphs by Ilona Andrews]()
Magic Triumphs by Ilona Andrews
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsKate has come a long way from her origins as a loner taking care of paranormal problems in post-Shift Atlanta. She’s made friends and enemies. She’s found love and started a family with Curran Lennart, the former Beast Lord. But her magic is too strong for the power players of the world to let her be...Categorized as:
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![Archangel's Legion by Nalini Singh]()
Archangel's Legion by Nalini Singh
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsNalini Singh, the New York Times bestselling “alpha author of paranormal romance” (Booklist) returns to an immortal world of violent passion and lethal power…on the brink of a deadly archangelic war.Angels are falling from the sky in New York, struck down by a vicious, unknown force.Vampires are dying impossibly of disease... -
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![Of Blood and Bone by Nora Roberts]()
Of Blood and Bone by Nora Roberts
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 44 ratingsThe #1 New York Times bestselling author of the epic Year One returns with a new tale of terror and magic in a brand new world.They look like an everyday family living an ordinary life. But beyond the edges of this peaceful farm, unimaginable forces of light and dark have been unleashed...Categorized as:
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![Traitor Born by Amy A. Bartol]()
Traitor Born by Amy A. Bartol
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsIn the Fates Republic, Firstborns reign supreme. Secondborns kneel in servitude. Thirdborns face death. And Census shadows them all.Secondborn Roselle St. Sismode was pressed into military service to battle the rebel uprising threatening the society that enslaves her...Categorized as:
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![Reap the Shadows by Annette Marie]()
Reap the Shadows by Annette Marie
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsPiper is feeling a bit overwhelmed. With Seiya and Lyre missing, Ash recovering from near fatal injuries, and the Gaians picking fights with daemons all over the city, a girl can’t help but think she might be in over her head. And this time, she’s on her own...Categorized as:
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![Sword and Pen by Rachel Caine]()
Sword and Pen by Rachel Caine
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsWith the future of the Great Library in doubt, the unforgettable characters from Ink and Bone must decide if it's worth saving in this thrilling adventure in the New York Times bestselling series.The corrupt leadership of the Great Library has fallen. But with the Archivist plotting his return to power, and the Library under siege from outside empires and kingdoms, its future is uncertain...Categorized as:
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![Wild Lands by Stacey Marie Brown]()
Wild Lands by Stacey Marie Brown
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 34 ratingsBrexley has endured starvation and survived torture and even Warwick Farkas, the brutal legend who still haunts her like a ghost, spilling into her thoughts and life. His betrayal made her a prisoner of Killian, the gorgeous Fae Lord of Budapest... -
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Hunted by Sophie Davis, Tanya Eby
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn need of a distraction from her best friend's betrayal, Talia jumps at the chance to pack up and head to Washington, D.C., to have a purpose once again. She is tasked with administering the annual Talent Aptitude Tests, analyzing the children of the nation’s capital to identify those with powers...Categorized as:
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![Dead Lands by Stacey Marie Brown]()
Dead Lands by Stacey Marie Brown
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsKidnapped by the notorious rebel group, Provstat, Brexley finds her connection goes deeper than she ever imagined. Reunited with old acquaintances and an uncle she never knew, Brexley is thrown into the vicious world of politics, where human and fae leaders will do anything to come out on top... -
![Smoke and Iron by Rachel Caine]()
Smoke and Iron by Rachel Caine
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFor the US hardback, see ISBN13: 9780451489210.To save the Great Library, the unforgettable characters from Ink and Bone, Paper and Fire, and Ash and Quill put themselves in danger in the next thrilling adventure in the New York Times bestselling series.The opening moves of a deadly game have begun...Categorized as:
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![The City of Mirrors by Justin Cronin]()
The City of Mirrors by Justin Cronin
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 49 ratingsThe world we knew is gone. What world will rise in its place? The Twelve have been destroyed and the terrifying hundred-year reign of darkness that descended upon the world has ended. The survivors are stepping outside their walls, determined to build society anew—and daring to dream of a hopeful future. But far from them, in a dead metropolis, he waits: Zero. The First. Father of the Twelve...Categorized as:
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![The Mime Order by Samantha Shannon]()
The Mime Order by Samantha Shannon
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 44 ratingsPaige Mahoney has escaped the brutal prison camp of Sheol I, but her problems have only just begun: many of the survivors are missing and she is the most wanted person in London...As Scion turns its all-seeing eye on the dreamwalker, the mime-lords and mime-queens of the city's gangs are invited to a rare meeting of the Unnatural Assembly... -
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![The Aeronaut's Windlass by Jim Butcher]()
The Aeronaut's Windlass by Jim Butcher
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 45 ratingsJim Butcher, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Dresden Files and the Codex Alera novels, conjures up a new series set in a fantastic world of noble families, steam-powered technology, and magic-wielding warriors…Since time immemorial, the Spires have sheltered humanity, towering for miles over the mist-shrouded surface of the world... -
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Caged by Sophie Davis
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWith over Twelve Million pages read via Kindle Unlimited and Half a Million worldwide downloads, readers are raving about this #1 Bestselling Dystopian Romance series: "X-Men meets Divergent in a new way." "Intoxicatingly good... -
![The Song Rising by Samantha Shannon]()
The Song Rising by Samantha Shannon
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsThe hotly anticipated third book in the bestselling Bone Season series – a ground-breaking, dystopian fantasy of extraordinary imaginationFollowing a bloody battle against foes on every side, Paige Mahoney has risen to the dangerous position of Underqueen, ruling over London's criminal population...Categorized as:
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![The Rise of Magicks by Nora Roberts]()
The Rise of Magicks by Nora Roberts
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsNora Roberts, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Year One and Of Blood and Bone concludes her stunning new trilogy praised as "A match for end-of-the-world classics like Stephen King's The Stand" with The Rise of Magicks.After the sickness known as the Doom destroyed civilization, magick has become commonplace, and Fallon Swift has spent her young years learning its ways...Categorized as:
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![KNUD, Her Big Bad Wolf: 50 Loving States, Kansas by Theodora Taylor]()
KNUD, Her Big Bad Wolf: 50 Loving States, Kansas by Theodora Taylor
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn amnesia romance unlike any you've ever read... HER: After waking up in the hospital with a huge six month blank where my memory was supposed to be, I have three questions that need answering, like, yesterday. 1. Why was I, a woman, who has never taken so much as an overnight camping trip found bruised and battered on a river bank in the middle of nowhere? 2... -
![The Wicked Within by Kelly Keaton]()
The Wicked Within by Kelly Keaton
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsAncient lore leads to present danger in the final book in the dark and sexy paranormal romance trilogy about a descendent of Medusa, set in a richly reimagined New Orleans.Her fate is not set in stone.Having temporarily defeated Athena, Ari races to break the gorgon curse that has plagued the women in her family for centuries...Categorized as:
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![Dragons Don't Eat Meat by Kim McDougall]()
Dragons Don't Eat Meat by Kim McDougall
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsSomeone is killing dragons. And the killings point to a civil war brewing among the fae.When Kyra finds an abandoned baby dragon, she doesn’t want to bring him home. But until she can hunt down his thunder and stop the dragon killers, she’s on babysitting duty...Categorized as:
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![Elite by Mercedes Lackey]()
Elite by Mercedes Lackey
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsJoy wants nothing more than to live and Hunt in Apex City without a target on her back. But a dangerous new mission assigned by her uncle, the city's Prefect, may make that impossible.In addition to her new duties as one of the Elite, Joy is covertly running patrols in the abandoned tunnels and storm sewers under Apex Central...Categorized as:
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Apex by Mercedes Lackey
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsBeing a member of the Elite Hunter Command imperils Joy in more ways than one. In their latest clash with Othersiders, the army of monsters nearly wiped them out. Apex City is safe?for now. But within the city barriers, Joy must wage a different kind of war...Categorized as:
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![The Reality Bug by D.J. MacHale]()
The Reality Bug by D.J. MacHale
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsAlternate cover for this ISBN can be found hereVIRTUAL REALITY?The territory of Veelox has achieved perfect harmony. Fifteen-year-old Bobby Pendragon arrives on this territory in pursuit of the evil Saint Dane, but all is peaceful on Veelox - because it's deserted...Categorized as:
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![Wings by Elizabeth Richards]()
Wings by Elizabeth Richards
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFollowing the cliffhanger ending of Phoenix, Natalie finds herself separated from Ash and unexpectedly reunited with her parents, including the father she thought was dead. But she can only think of Ash. She hasn't heard a word of him since she and Elijah were brought to the underground headquarters of the Sentry Rebellion. But she vows to find him... -
![Navarro's Promise by Lora Leigh]()
Navarro's Promise by Lora Leigh
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe breed guaranteed Mica no harm would come to her, but they never allowed for her sensual fascination with Navarro, or his unstoppable need to claim her as his mate, in both body and soul... -
![Ash and Quill by Rachel Caine]()
Ash and Quill by Rachel Caine
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsWords can kill. Hoarding all the knowledge of the world, the Great Library jealously guards its secrets. But now a group of rebels poses a dangerous threat to its tyranny… Jess Brightwell and his band of exiles have fled London, only to find themselves imprisoned in Philadelphia, a city led by those who would rather burn books than submit...Categorized as:
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![This Savage Song by Victoria E. Schwab]()
This Savage Song by Victoria E. Schwab
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 68 ratingsThere’s no such thing as safe.Kate Harker wants to be as ruthless as her father. After five years and six boarding schools, she’s finally going home to prove that she can be.August Flynn wants to be human. But he isn’t. He’s a monster, one that can steal souls with a song. He’s one of the three most powerful monsters in a city overrun with them. His own father’s secret weapon... -
![Paper and Fire by Rachel Caine]()
Paper and Fire by Rachel Caine
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsLet the world burn.With an iron fist, the Great Library controls the knowledge of the world, ruthlessly stamping out all rebellion and, in the name of the greater good, forbidding the personal ownership of books.Jess Brightwell has survived his introduction to the sinister, seductive world of the Library, but serving in its army is nothing like he envisioned...Categorized as:
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![Talented by Sophie Davis]()
Talented by Sophie Davis
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWith over Twelve Million pages read in Kindle Unlimited and Half a Million worldwide downloads, readers are raving about this #1 Bestselling Dystopian Romance: "X-Men meets Divergent in a new way." "Intoxicatingly good."Block out thoughts. Talia Lyons has one goal at the McDonough School for the Talented: learn to use her Talent as a Mental Manipulator to kill the man who murdered her parents...Categorized as:
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![The Sight by Chloe Neill]()
The Sight by Chloe Neill
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThe paranormal war that engulfed New Orleans seven years ago is over. But the battle for the city is just beginning . . . Claire Connolly is a Sensitive, infected with magic when the Veil that divides humanity from the world beyond fell... -
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Unlit by Keri Arthur
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsWinterborne has long been a city divided between those who have magic, and those who do not. Between those who are free, and those who are not… Though classified as having no magic, Neve March can hear the whispers of the wind and sometimes even control her...Categorized as:
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![Captured by Erica Stevens]()
Captured by Erica Stevens
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsBlood Slave.Captured, taken from her beloved family and woods, Aria’s biggest fear is not the imminent death facing her, but that she will be chosen as a blood slave for a member of the ruling vampire race. No matter what becomes of her though, Aria knows that she must keep her identity hidden from the monsters imprisoning her... -
![The Fire by James Patterson, Jill Dembowski]()
The Fire by James Patterson, Jill Dembowski
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWhit and Wisty Allgood have sacrificed everything to lead the resistance against the merciless totalitarian regime that governs their world. Its supreme leader, The One Who Is The One, has banned everything they hold dear: books, music, art, and imagination... -
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![Heart of Danger by Lisa Marie Rice]()
Heart of Danger by Lisa Marie Rice
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsGhost Ops. A small unit of super-elite soldiers so secret only two men know of their existence. Betrayed by their commanding officer while on an antiterrorist mission, the team is massacred. Only three survive—and find themselves framed and disgraced. But en route to the court martial, they escape . . . and disappear.Beautiful, brilliant, and determined, Dr... -
![The Fever King by Victoria Lee]()
The Fever King by Victoria Lee
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsIn the former United States, sixteen-year-old Noam Álvaro wakes up in a hospital bed, the sole survivor of the viral magic that killed his family and made him a technopath. His ability to control technology attracts the attention of the minister of defense and thrusts him into the magical elite of the nation of Carolinia...Categorized as:
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![I Dream of Danger by Lisa Marie Rice]()
I Dream of Danger by Lisa Marie Rice
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThey are the Ghost Ops: a covert squad of super-elite soldiers. After their team was betrayed and massacred, the three surviving members went underground and built Haven, a community of misfits and geniuses. Now they're at a cross-roads, facing a new threat capable of destroying everything they hold dear... -
![The Stars Never Rise by Rachel Vincent]()
The Stars Never Rise by Rachel Vincent
Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSixteen-year-old Nina Kane should be worrying about her immortal soul, but she's too busy trying to actually survive. Her town's population has been decimated by soul-consuming demons, and souls are in short supply. Watching over her younger sister, Mellie, and scraping together food and money are all that matters. The two of them are a family. They gave up on their deadbeat mom a long time ago... -
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Toxic Heart by Theo Lawrence
Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe second MYSTIC CITY novel . . . it’s Romeo & Juliet in a dystopic Manhattan.A city in flames. A trust betrayed. A perfect love destroyed. Has Aria lost Hunter, her one true love?Ever since rebellion broke out in Mystic City, pitting the ruling elite against the magic-wielding mystics, Aria has barely seen her boyfriend...Categorized as:
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Bloodring by Faith Hunter
Rated: 3.73 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsIn a novel filled with exhilarating action and lush imagery, Faith Hunter portrays a near-future world, caught in the throes of an ambiguous apocalypse, where a woman with everything to hide finds her destiny revealed....No one thought the apocalypse would be like this. The world didn't end...Categorized as:
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![Mystic City by Theo Lawrence]()
Mystic City by Theo Lawrence
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFor fans of Matched, The Hunger Games, X-Men, and Blade Runner comes a tale of a magical city divided, a political rebellion ignited, and a love that was meant to last forever. Book One of the Mystic City Novels.Aria Rose, youngest scion of one of Mystic City's two ruling rival families, finds herself betrothed to Thomas Foster, the son of her parents' sworn enemies... -
![The Veil by Chloe Neill]()
The Veil by Chloe Neill
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsSeven years ago, the Veil that separates humanity from what lies beyond was torn apart, and New Orleans was engulfed in a supernatural war. Now, those with paranormal powers have been confined in a walled community that humans call the District. Those who live there call it Devil's Isle...Categorized as:
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![Riders by Veronica Rossi]()
Riders by Veronica Rossi
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsNothing but death can keep eighteen-year-old Gideon Blake from achieving his goal of becoming a U.S. Army Ranger. As it turns out, it does.While recovering from the accident that most definitely killed him, Gideon finds himself with strange new powers and a bizarre cuff he can’t remove. His death has brought to life his real destiny... -
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The Veil by Chloe Neill
Rated: 3.68 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsSeven years ago, the Veil that separates humanity from what lies beyond was torn apart, and New Orleans was engulfed in a supernatural war. Now, those with paranormal powers have been confined in a walled community that humans call the District. Those who live there call it Devil's Isle...Categorized as:
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![Dangerous Women by George R.R. Martin, Carrie Vaughn]()
Dangerous Women by George R.R. Martin, Carrie Vaughn
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsThe Dangerous Women anthology contains following stories: - Introduction by Gardner Dozois - “Some Desperado” by Joe Abercrombie - A Red Country story - “My Heart is Either Broken” by Megan Abbott - “Nora’s Song” by Cecelia Holland - “The Hands That Are Not There” by Melinda Snodgrass - “Bombshells” by Jim Butcher - A Harry Dresden story - “Raisa Stepanova” by Carrie Vaughn - “Wrestling Jesus”... -
![Bones of Faerie by Janni Lee Simner]()
Bones of Faerie by Janni Lee Simner
Rated: 3.65 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsThe war between humanity and Faerie devastated both sides. Or so 15-year-old Liza has been told. Nothing has been seen or heard from Faerie since, and Liza's world bears the scars of its encounter with magic. Trees move with sinister intention, and the town Liza calls home is surrounded by a forest that threatens to harm all those who wander into it... -
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Discord's Apple by Carrie Vaughn
Rated: 3.52 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsWhen Evie Walker goes home to spend time with her dying father, she discovers that his creaky old house in Hope’s Fort, Colorado, is not the only legacy she stands to inherit. Hidden behind the old basement door is a secret and magical storeroom, a place where wondrous treasures from myth and legend are kept safe until they are needed again... -
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Above by Leah Bobet
Rated: 3.12 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsIRIDESCENCE.I read that word in one of Atticus's thick old books once. When I went to Jack to ask what it meant, he held his hands out and they glowed so gentle I thought they might kiss the air, and since that day I wanted a place that was iridescent, that lit without burning. Being in love is sort of like that, when it's real. When it's true...Categorized as:
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