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  • Last Stand of Dead Men by Derek Landy

    Last Stand of Dead Men by Derek Landy

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    The eighth instalment in the biggest, funniest, most thrilling comedy-horror-adventure series in the universe - and the follow-up to 2012’s number-one bestseller, Kingdom of the Wicked…War has finally come.But it's not a war between good and evil, or light and dark – it's a war between Sanctuaries...
  • The Dying of the Light by Derek Landy

    The Dying of the Light by Derek Landy

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    The ninth book in the original, jaw-droppingly stupendous Skulduggery Pleasant series.Valkerie. Darquesse. Stephanie. The world ain’t big enough for the three of them. The end will come…The War of the Sanctuaries has been won, but it was not without its casualties...
  • Mortal Coil by Derek Landy

    Mortal Coil by Derek Landy

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Meet Skulduggery Pleasant: detective, sorcerer, warrior.Oh yes. And dead.Skulduggery Pleasant is back, and reunited with his original head. But all is not well in the magical world – for one thing, foreign powers are conspiring to take over the Irish Sanctuary, and for another thing, Valkyrie has discovered she might be the sorceress set to destroy the world...
  • Kingdom of the Wicked by Derek Landy

    Kingdom of the Wicked by Derek Landy

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    The seventh instalment in the biggest, funniest, most thrilling comedy-horror-adventure series in the universe…Magic is a disease.Across the land, normal people are suddenly developing wild and unstable powers. Infected by a rare strain of magic, they are unwittingly endangering their own lives and the lives of the people around them...
  • Death Bringer by Derek Landy

    Death Bringer by Derek Landy

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Meet Skulduggery Pleasant: detective, sorcerer, warrior.Oh yes. And dead.The Necromancers no longer need Valkyrie to be their Death Bringer, and that’s a Good Thing.There’s just one catch. There’s a reason the Necromancers don’t need her any more – because they’ve found their Death Bringer already, the person who will dissolve the doors between life and death...
  • Between Cases by W.R. Gingell

    Between Cases by W.R. Gingell

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    G’day. I’m still here. Still Pet.Well, I’m only two thirds of a Pet these days, but you might as well call me Pet anyway. Everyone does: everyone but the vampire, that is.Life is more unbalanced these days—cases are cutting closer to home than usual. I thought I was the only one, but there are others like me: kids whose parents were murdered just like mine...
  • Fifth Grave Past the Light by Darynda Jones

    Fifth Grave Past the Light by Darynda Jones

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    Never underestimate the power of a woman on a double espresso with a mocha latte chaser high.-T-shirt Charley Davidson isnt your everyday, run-of-the-mill grim reaper. Shes more of a paranormal private eyegrim reaper extraordinaire. However, she gets sidetracked when the sexy, sultry son of Satan, Reyes Farrow, moves in next door...
  • The Faceless Ones by Derek Landy

    The Faceless Ones by Derek Landy

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    The third bone-breaking, belly-busting adventure in the series that puts the “funny” back in, um, funny series...
  • The Wishing Spell by Chris Colfer

    The Wishing Spell by Chris Colfer

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 67 ratings
    Alex and Conner Bailey's world is about to change, in this fast-paced adventure that uniquely combines our modern day world with the enchanting realm of classic fairy tales.The Land of Stories tells the tale of twins Alex and Conner...
  • Resurrection by Derek Landy

    Resurrection by Derek Landy

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The skeleton detective is coming back to life...again! It's the tenth, triumphant novel in the Skulduggery Pleasant series, and it will rearrange your world.Skulduggery and Valkyrie are back in the tenth instalment in the best-selling Skulduggery Pleasant series - an incredible and unexpected treat for the legions of fans around the world...
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    children  coming-of-age  crime  dark  humor  lgbtq  magic  paranormal
  • Seventh Grave and No Body by Darynda Jones

    Seventh Grave and No Body by Darynda Jones

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    Twelve. Twelve of the deadliest beasts ever forged in the fires of hell have escaped onto our plane, and they want nothing more than to rip out the jugular of Charley Davidson and serve her lifeless, mangled body to Satan for dinner. So there’s that. But Charley has more on her plate than a mob of testy hellhounds...
  • The Trouble With Trying to Save an Assassin by Jennifer Cody

    The Trouble With Trying to Save an Assassin by Jennifer Cody

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Romily:You know what I’d like to know? Where the hell my romantic, how-we-got-engaged story is. Am I going to get it any time soon? Where is my bigass diamond?Unfortunately, all that relationship angst gets put on hold when my beloved son, Bellamy, is abducted by a werewolf-ish person I kinda like. Am I going to get my kid back? You betcha...
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    crime  dark  family  humor  lgbtq  magic  paranormal  action-adventure
  • Tales From the Hood by Michael Buckley

    Tales From the Hood by Michael Buckley

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    The Fairy-Tale Trial Of The CenturyIn Ferryport Landing, everyone gets a day in court- even the Big Bad Wolf. Mr.Canis is put on trial for past crimes, and Mayor Heart's kangaroo court is determined to find him guilty. It's up to the Grimms to uncover evidence to save their friend, though Sabrina starts to wonder whether they would all be safer with the Wolf in jail...
  • Side Jobs by Jim Butcher

    Side Jobs by Jim Butcher

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 52 ratings
    Here, together for the first time, are the shorter tales from Jim Butcher's DRESDEN FILES series — a compendium of cases that Harry and his cadre of allies managed to close in record time. The tales range from the deadly serious to the absurdly hilarious. Also included is a new, never-before-published novella that takes place after the cliff-hanger ending of the new April 2010 hardcover, Changes...
  • Netherworld Paranormal Police Department Full Series Box Set, #1-5 by John P. Logsdon, Christopher P. Young

    Netherworld Paranormal Police Department Full Series Box Set, #1-5 by John P. Logsdon, Christopher P. Young

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Thousands sold. Millions of pages read. Get your badge today! *INCLUDES BOOKS 1-5* Nearly 900 pages of action-packed adventure. Blood Crossed (Book 1) Meet Piper Shaw. She's one of the Netherworld Paranormal Police Department's toughest. She's also an immortal, and she's got one hell of a chip on her shoulder. Meet Reaper Payne. He's an actual reaper. Yes, one of those guys who ferries the dead...
  • Playing with Fire by Derek Landy

    Playing with Fire by Derek Landy

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    Skulduggery and Valkyrie are facing a new enemy: Baron Vengeous, who is determined to bring back the terrifying Faceless Ones and is crafting an army of evil to help him. Added to that, Vengeous is about to enlist a new ally (if he can raise it from the dead): the horrible Grotesquery, a very unlikable monster of legend...
  • The End of the World by Derek Landy

    The End of the World by Derek Landy

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Skulduggery and Valkyrie are back, in an exclusive World Book Day novelette, set after the momentous events of Death Bringer…Hey, punks! Skulduggery and Valkyrie are about to make your day…15-year-old Ryan is running away from home, looking for escape and adventure. But unfortunately, sometimes people DO get what they wish for...
  • Once Upon a Crime by Michael Buckley

    Once Upon a Crime by Michael Buckley

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Sabrina and Daphne's adventures continue in their hometown of New York City as they bring Puck to Faerie to cure the wounds. With the help of Granny Relda, the girls must figure out who killed Puck's father, King Oberon, while navigating the warring factions of Everafters that make their homes in every neighbourhood of New York City...
  • A Mind Full of Murder by Derek Landy

    A Mind Full of Murder by Derek Landy

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A bone-shaking new trilogy begins – the latest adventure in the bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant seriesSIX YEARS AGO, THE UNIVERSE ENDED.When it restarted, blinking back into existence, it brought with it a darkness that remains hidden from the mortal population.A week ago – fuelled by unimaginable hatred and unstoppable rage – a masked sorcerer killed one of those mortals. Then he killed another...
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    lgbtq  crime  humor  magic  family  children  dark  fantasy
  • The Trouble with Trying to Date a Murderer by Jennifer Cody

    The Trouble with Trying to Date a Murderer by Jennifer Cody

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Romily: Third time's the charm, right? At least that's what I tell myself when I witness the same hot guy commit mass murder three times in a few days. I'm either the luckiest mute boy ever or possibly the unluckiest. Who knows, maybe him kidnapping me will turn into the greatest love story ever told? Hey, it could happen! You never know how these things will turn out...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  humor  lgbtq  magic  paranormal  action-adventure  adult
  • Second Grave on the Left by Darynda Jones

    Second Grave on the Left by Darynda Jones

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 47 ratings
    Charley Davidson, Grim Reaper Extraordinaire, is back in this sexy, suspenseful novel of supernatural shenanigans When Charley is rudely awakened in the middle of the night by her best friend who tells her to get dressed quickly and tosses clothes out of the closet at her, she cant help but wonder what Cookies up to...
  • Midnight by Derek Landy

    Midnight by Derek Landy

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain are back in their most gripping story yet, as book 11, Midnight, picks up where Resurrection left off – and runs.For years, Valkyrie Cain has struggled to keep her loved ones safe from harm, plunging into battle – time and time again – by Skulduggery Pleasant’s side, and always emerging triumphant...
    Categorized as:
    children  crime  dark  family  humor  lgbtq  magic  paranormal
  • Between Shifts by W.R. Gingell

    Between Shifts by W.R. Gingell

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    There’s a body beneath the skip bins. Fae on the forklift. A vampire in the manager’s office. And there’s definitely something skeevy going on in the locker rooms. Hi. I’m Pet. Well, not exactly Pet. I am a pet. I was meant to stay out of it, but somebody’s gotta do something when humans are being killed by Behindkind creatures...
  • Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy, Tom Percival

    Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy, Tom Percival

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 50 ratings
    Meet Skulduggery PleasantAce DetectiveSnappy DresserRazor–tongued WitCrackerjack SorcererandWalking, Talking, Fire-throwing Skeleton—as well as ally, protector, and mentor of Stephanie Edgley, a very unusual and darkly talented twelve-year-old.These two alone must defeat an all-consuming ancient evil.The end of the world?Over his dead body...
  • Mischief in Mudbug by Jana Deleon, Johanna Parker

    Mischief in Mudbug by Jana Deleon, Johanna Parker

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Reading time 8 hours, 38 minutes.Description: Sabine LaVeche needs to locate a blood relative fast--her life depends on it. The late Helena Henry shows up offering to help, and Sabine knows she's really in trouble when it's the best idea she's heard in a while. Then PI Beau Villeneuve takes on Sabine's case. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2009. This recording is available courtesy of Audible, Inc...
  • The Time Paradox by Eoin Colfer

    The Time Paradox by Eoin Colfer

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    Artemis’s mother has contracted a deadly disease—and the only cure lies in the brain fluid of African lemurs. Unfortunately, Artemis himself was responsible for making the lemurs extinct five years ago. Now he must enlist the aid of his fairy friends to travel back in time and save them. Not only that, but he must face his deadliest foe yet... his younger self...
  • Driving Mr. Dead by Molly Harper

    Driving Mr. Dead by Molly Harper

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    HELL ON WHEELS After failing as a magician's assistant, a photographer, and most recently, a bride, Miranda Puckett takes a position as a driver for Beeline, Half-Moon Hollow's premiere vampire concierge service...
  • How to Elude a Vampire by Alice Winters

    How to Elude a Vampire by Alice Winters

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Finn When the vampire stalking me sent me a letter, I was prepared for my new life with the man I love to get thrown into chaos. But as the days stretch on and nothing happens, I become determined not to allow that monster to rule my life, and decide that Marcus and I will move on. We can’t always allow the past to haunt us...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  family  humor  lgbtq  magic  paranormal  abuse
  • Vanished: When Lightning Strikes / Code Name Cassandra by Meg Cabot

    Vanished: When Lightning Strikes / Code Name Cassandra by Meg Cabot

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    A gift…or a curse? Jessica Mastriani has never liked attention. All she wants is to make it to high school graduation like any ordinary girl. But when Jess is struck by lightning, she becomes anything but ordinary: suddenly she has the ability to locate missing children. Now Jess is getting noticed in all the wrong ways and by all the wrong people. The media is obsessed with her and her story...
  • Bear Naked by Dana Marie Bell

    Bear Naked by Dana Marie Bell

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    To win a frightened heart, you have to bare your own. Halle Shifters Book 3 Glory has been denying her feelings for Ryan Williams for months. He's beautiful, strong... and a Bear shifter who claims she's his mate. The man is persistent, she'll give him that, but Glory's past has left her wary. Abandoned as a teenager, she's unsure that she can trust in the promises Ryan is making...
  • Ninth Grade Slays by Heather Brewer, Z Brewer

    Ninth Grade Slays by Heather Brewer, Z Brewer

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    High school totally bites when you’re half human, half vampire. Freshman year sucks for Vlad Tod. Bullies still harass him. The photographer from the school newspaper is tailing him. And failing his studies could be deadly...
  • The Eternity Code by Eoin Colfer

    The Eternity Code by Eoin Colfer

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 67 ratings
    Thirteen-year-old criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl has constructed a supercomputer from stolen fairy technology. In the wrong hands it could be fatal for humans and fairies alike. But no need to worry, Artemis has a brilliant plan. He's not going to use the computer; he's just going to show it to a ruthless American businessman with Mafia connections. His bodyguard, Butler, will be with him...
    Categorized as:
    children  crime  humor  magic  north-america  paranormal  teens  usa
  • Torn Asunder by Michael Todd, Michael Anderle

    Torn Asunder by Michael Todd, Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Katie Maddison never wanted to learn how to kick a demon's ass, all she was doing was helping a fellow university student with his Chem homework. She just trusted people too much. Now, she will be the new weapon in a war she had no idea existed with warriors wielding both weapons and supernatural abilities. Demon Hunters, Demon Fighters ... Known as The Damned...
  • Scorch by Gina Damico

    Scorch by Gina Damico

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Sixteen-year-old Lex Bartleby is a teenage grim reaper with the bizarre ability to damn souls. That makes her pretty scary, even to fellow Grims. But after inadvertently transferring her ability to Zara, a murderous outlaw, Lex is a pariah in Croak, the little town she calls home.To escape the townspeople’s wrath, she and her friends embark on a wild road trip to DeMyse...
  • Because Your Vampire Said So by Michele Bardsley

    Because Your Vampire Said So by Michele Bardsley

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Not just anyone can visit Broken Heart, Oklahoma, especially since all the single moms—like me, Patsy Donahue—have been turned into vampires. I’m forever forty, but looking younger than my years, thanks to my new (un)lifestyle. And even thought most of my customers have skipped town, I still manage to keep my hair salon up and running because of the lycanthropes prowling around...
  • The Masquerades of Spring by Ben Aaronovitch

    The Masquerades of Spring by Ben Aaronovitch

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Meet Augustus Berrycloth-Young—fop, flaneur, and Englishman abroad—as he chronicles the Jazz Age from his perch atop the city that never sleeps...
    Categorized as:
    magic  crime  lgbtq  paranormal  humor  fantasy  urban-fantasy  fiction
  • The Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer

    The Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    Ten thousand years ago, humans and fairies fought a great battle for the magical island of Ireland. When it became clear to the fairy families that they could never win, they decided to move their civilisation underground and keep themselves hidden from the humans. All the fairy families agreed on this, except the eighth family, the demons...
  • The Arctic Incident by Eoin Colfer

    The Arctic Incident by Eoin Colfer

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    Artemis Fowl wants to find his father, held hostage in Russia; Holly Short wants to find who’s supplying the goblins with human technology; Foaly wants to find out who’s disabled all the LEP Technology and pointed the finger at him. Artemis has received a ransom demand for his father but is captured by the LEP who suspect him of supplying the goblins with dangerous Human technology (batteries)...
    Categorized as:
    children  coming-of-age  crime  family  humor  magic  paranormal  teens
  • Deeply Odd by Dean Koontz

    Deeply Odd by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    Following the explosive success of "Odd Apocalypse," here is the gripping new adventure of Odd Thomas, Dean Koontz's most celebrated character.In a sinister encounter with a rogue truck driver tricked up like a rhinestone cowboy, Odd has a disturbing vision of a shocking multiple homicide that has not yet been committed...
  • Killer Insight by Victoria Laurie

    Killer Insight by Victoria Laurie

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    When her relationship with FBI agent Dutch Rivers skids to a halt, Abby Cooper is fully aware that a wedding isn't the best post-breakup scenario. But when a friend from the Mile High City finds herself short one bridesmaid, it doesn't take a professional psychic to see the opportunity for a much-needed getaway...
  • The Song of the Quarkbeast by Jasper Fforde

    The Song of the Quarkbeast by Jasper Fforde

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Long ago, magic began to fade, and the underemployed magicians of Kazam Mystical Arts Management have been forced to take any work their sixteen-year-old acting manager, Jennifer Strange, can scare up. But things are about to change. Magical power is finally on the rise, and King Snodd IV, of the Ununited Kingdoms knows that he who controls magic controls everything...
  • Tempest's Legacy by Nicole Peeler

    Tempest's Legacy by Nicole Peeler

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    After a peaceful hiatus at home in Rockabill, Jane True thinks that her worst problem is that she still throws like a girl -- at least while throwing fireballs. Her peace of mind ends, however, when Anyan arrives one night with terrible news . . . news that will rock Jane's world to its very core...
  • Hell Breaks Loose by Derek Landy

    Hell Breaks Loose by Derek Landy

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Travel back to 1703 with Skulduggery Pleasant in this standalone novel featuring all your favorite characters. So many enemies, so little time . . . Italy, 1703. As the war with Mevolent rages on, the Dead Men are dispatched to a walled town in the Tuscan hills – not to assassinate the Lord of the Dark Sorcerers, but to save him...
  • Carved in Flesh by Tim Waggoner

    Carved in Flesh by Tim Waggoner

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    After Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious supernatural force as young children, their father taught them how to hunt and destroy the paranormal evil that exists in the dark corners of America. After their father’s demonic death, they discovered that they are descended from a long line of hunters and chose to continue their mission...
  • The Witching Vault by Kathrin Hutson

    The Witching Vault by Kathrin Hutson

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Run the witching vault. Protect the Gateway. Say please. And don’t get killed.After her release from magical prison, Jessica Northwood can’t hold a job to save her life. So when an apprenticeship opens up at a spellbound bank, no questions asked, she can’t exactly say no… But she definitely should have...
  • Skim Blood and Savage Verse by Angel Martinez

    Skim Blood and Savage Verse by Angel Martinez

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    FROM POPULAR GAY ROMANCE AUTHOR ANGEL MARTINEZ Book three in the Offbeat Crimes series Words damage more than just feelings as Carrington hunts feral books menacing the city. When a ferocious book attacks Carrington at his own birthday party, he believes it’s an isolated incident...
  • When Lightning Strikes by Jenny Carroll, Meg Cabot

    When Lightning Strikes by Jenny Carroll, Meg Cabot

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Jess Mastriani has never been what you'd call a typical Midwestern teenager—her extracurricular activities, instead of cheerleading or 4-H, include fist-fights with the football team and month-long stints in detention...
  • Brother Odd by Dean Koontz

    Brother Odd by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 54 ratings
    Loop me in, odd one.The words, spoken in the deep of night by a sleeping child, chill the young man watching over her. For this was a favorite phrase of Stormy Llewellyn, his lost love, and Stormy is dead, gone forever from this world. In the haunted halls of the isolated monastery where he had sought peace, Odd Thomas is stalking spirits of an infinitely darker nature...
  • The Atlantis Complex by Eoin Colfer

    The Atlantis Complex by Eoin Colfer

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 48 ratings
    ARTEMIS FOWL’S CRIMINAL WAYS HAVE FINALLY GOT THE BETTER OF HIM . . .Young Artemis has frequently used high-tech fairy magic to mastermind the most devious criminal activity of the new century. Now, at a conference in Iceland, Artemis has gathered the fairies to present his latest idea to save the world from global warming.But Artemis is behaving strangely - he seems different...
  • My Contrary Mary by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton

    My Contrary Mary by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Welcome to Renaissance France, a place of poison and plots, of beauties and beasts, of mice and . . . queens?⠀⠀Mary is the queen of Scotland and the jewel of the French court. Except when she's a mouse. Yes, reader, Mary is an Eðian (shapeshifter) in a kingdom where Verities rule. It's a secret that could cost her a head—or a tail.⠀⠀Luckily, Mary has a confidant in her betrothed, Francis...
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