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The Whispering Skull by Jonathan Stroud
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsIn the six months since Anthony, Lucy, and George survived a night in the most haunted house in England, Lockwood & Co. hasn't made much progress. Quill Kipps and his team of Fittes agents keep swooping in on Lockwood's investigations...Categorized as:
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![The Hollow Boy by Jonathan Stroud]()
The Hollow Boy by Jonathan Stroud
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsAs a massive outbreak of supernatural Visitors baffles Scotland Yard and causes protests throughout London, Lockwood & Co. continue to demonstrate their effectiveness in exterminating spirits. Anthony Lockwood is dashing, George insightful, and Lucy dynamic, while the skull in the jar utters sardonic advice from the sidelines...Categorized as:
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![Painting the Blues in Gretna Green by Linzi Day]()
Painting the Blues in Gretna Green by Linzi Day
Rated: 4.69 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMy powers are growing, and my tolerance is low. My second week in my new role as the Gretna Green Recorder is making the first week look relaxing.I have quite the to-do list.✅ Fix a thousand-year-old injustice that threatens the future of the Pictish royal family and their realm? Check.✅ Test my new Knight Adjutant candidates? Check... -
![Angels' Flight by Nalini Singh]()
Angels' Flight by Nalini Singh
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsIn Angel’s Wolf a vampire becomes fascinated with the seductive angel who rules Louisiana. But all is not what it appears to be in her court. In Angels’ Judgment a hunter must track one of her own gone bad, while surviving the deadly tests placed in her way by the archangels themselves. Unexpected backup comes from a stranger who might just be the most lethal threat of all.. -
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![A Summoner's Tale by Victoria Danann]()
A Summoner's Tale by Victoria Danann
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsTHIS IS THE THIRD INSTALLMENT in the ongoing story of the Black Swan serial saga. Before you read, please read Book 1, My Familiar Stranger (FREE) and Book 2, The Witch's Dream, FIRST!!A secret society, a witch, a psychic, vampires, modern day knights, heroes, elves, fae, assassins from another dimension, and fairytales come together where emotions intersect...Categorized as:
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![Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde]()
Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsDetective Thursday Next has had her fill of her responsibilities as the Bellman in Jurisfiction. Packing up her son, Friday, Thursday returns to Swindon accompanied by none other than the dithering Danish prince Hamlet... -
![False Value by Ben Aaronovitch]()
False Value by Ben Aaronovitch
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsNow in hardcover, the eighth book of the bestselling Rivers of London urban fantasy series returns to the adventures of Peter Grant, detective and apprentice wizard, as he solves magical crimes in the city of London.Peter Grant is facing fatherhood, and an uncertain future, with equal amounts of panic and enthusiasm...Categorized as:
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![The Eye of Zoltar by Jasper Fforde]()
The Eye of Zoltar by Jasper Fforde
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsThe Mighty Shandar, the most powerful wizard the world has ever seen, returns to the Ununited Kingdoms. Clearly, he didn't solve the Dragon Problem, and must hand over his fee: eighteen dray-weights of gold... -
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Angel Fire East by Terry Brooks
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsAngel Fire East marks the close of Terry Brooks's Word and Void trilogy, which began with 1997's Running with the Demon. In this book, the story returns to Nest's native Hopewell, where once again Nest and John must face off against the Void...Categorized as:
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![Stiletto by Daniel O'Malley]()
Stiletto by Daniel O'Malley
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsIn this spirited sequel, The Rook returns to clinch an alliance between deadly rivals and avert epic—and slimy—supernatural war.When secret organizations are forced to merge after years of enmity and bloodshed, only one person has the fearsome powers—and the bureaucratic finesse—to get the job done...Categorized as:
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![Interesting Places by Matthew Storm]()
Interesting Places by Matthew Storm
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOliver Jones, a man who once discovered he had the power to change reality itself, used to be called the most dangerous man in the world. Now he's joined The Araneae Group, a team of paranormal investigators under the command of Artemis, a seemingly immortal ten-year-old girl...Categorized as:
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![A Misunderstanding by Ilona Andrews]()
A Misunderstanding by Ilona Andrews
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsSome days just suck, especially when your Grandma and your cousins take matters into their own hands, and then you have to take these matters away from them, because the family can’t afford to be sued and your House is not made of money. Timeline: A deleted scene from Sapphire Flames, told through Arabella's perspective... -
![Tales from the Folly: A Rivers of London Short Story Collection by Ben Aaronovitch]()
Tales from the Folly: A Rivers of London Short Story Collection by Ben Aaronovitch
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsReturn to the world of Rivers of London in this first short story collection from #1 Sunday Times bestselling author, Ben Aaronovitch. Tales from the Folly is a carefully curated collection that gathers together previously published stories and brand new tales in the same place for the first time... -
![The Chapel Perilous by Kevin Hearne]()
The Chapel Perilous by Kevin Hearne
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsOut of print. Originally published in 2013 in the Unfettered anthology edited by Shawn Speakman, now offered singly with cover art by Galen Dara.Ancient Druid Atticus O’Sullivan has had plenty of adventures during his long life, and in “The Chapel Perilous” he shares one of them with his apprentice, Granuaile...Categorized as:
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![Black Heart by Holly Black]()
Black Heart by Holly Black
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsIn a world where magic is illegal, Cassel Sharpe has the most deadly ability of all. With one touch, he can transform any object--including a person--into something else entirely. And that makes him a wanted man. The Feds are willing to forgive all his past crimes if he'll only leave his con artist family behind and go straight... -
![A Knight of the Word by Terry Brooks]()
A Knight of the Word by Terry Brooks
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsEight centuries ago the first Knight of the Word was commissioned to combat the demonic evil of the Void. Now that daunting legacy has passed to John Ross - along with powerful magic and the knowledge that his actions are all that stand between a living hell and humanity's future.Then, after decades of service to the Word, an unspeakable act of violence shatters John Ross's weary faith...Categorized as:
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![First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde]()
First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsIt's been fourteen years since Thursday pegged out at the 1988 SuperHoop, and Friday is now a difficult sixteen year old. However, Thursday's got bigger problems. Sherlock Holmes is killed at the Reichenbach Falls and his series is stopped in its tracks. And before this can be corrected, Miss Marple dies suddenly in a car accident, bringing her series to a close as well... -
![Paths Not Taken by Simon R. Green]()
Paths Not Taken by Simon R. Green
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsJohn Taylor just discovered his long-gone mother created the Nightside—the dark heart of London—and intends to destroy it. To save his birthplace, he will have to travel back through a very distant—and probably deadly—past...Categorized as:
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![Firewalker by Josephine Angelini]()
Firewalker by Josephine Angelini
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsWorlds divide, magic slays, and love lies in the second book of Josephine Angelini’s The Worldwalker Trilogy."You think I’m a monster, but my choices, as ruthless as they seem, are justified."Lily is back in her own universe, and she's ready to start a new life with Rowan by her side... -
![Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger]()
Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsImagine an America very similar to our own. It's got homework, best friends, and pistachio ice cream. There are some differences. This America has been shaped dramatically by the magic, monsters, knowledge, and legends of its peoples, those Indigenous and those not... -
![The President's Vampire by Christopher Farnsworth]()
The President's Vampire by Christopher Farnsworth
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe ultimate secret. The ultimate agent. Nathaniel Cade returns. For 140 years, Nathaniel Cade has been the President's Vampire, sworn to protect and serve his country. Cade's existence is the most closely guarded of White House secrets: a superhuman covert agent who is the last line of defense against nightmare scenarios that ordinary citizens only dream of...Categorized as:
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Last Call by Tim Powers
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsTwenty years ago Scott Crane abandoned his career as a professional poker player and went into hiding, after a weird high-stakes game played with Tarot cards. But now the cards - and the supernatural powers behind them - have found him again.Crane's father killed gangster Bugsy Siegel in 1948 to become the Fisher King, and to keep that power he is determined to kill his son... -
![The Song of the Quarkbeast by Jasper Fforde]()
The Song of the Quarkbeast by Jasper Fforde
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsLong 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... -
![The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud]()
The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 68 ratingsNathaniel is a boy magician-in-training, sold to the government by his birth parents at the age of five and sent to live as an apprentice to a master. Powerful magicians rule Britain, and its empire, and Nathaniel is told his is the "ultimate sacrifice" for a "noble destiny... -
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![Spell or High Water by Scott Meyer]()
Spell or High Water by Scott Meyer
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsThe adventures of an American hacker in Medieval England continue as Martin Banks takes his next step on the journey toward mastering his reality-altering powers and fulfilling his destiny. A month has passed since Martin helped to defeat the evil programmer Jimmy, and things couldn’t be going better. Except for his love life, that is... -
![Eagle's Shadow by Niall Teasdale]()
Eagle's Shadow by Niall Teasdale
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCeridwyn Brent and Lily Carpenter are on top of the world as they attend the New Year Ball at the Chinese Embassy. Attending are the Prime Minister of Britain, the President of the United States, and Huanglong, the Chinese Imperial Dragon. It seems as though they have really entered into prestigious circles when Ceri and her boss, Cheryl Tennant, are then invited to a function at the US embassy...Categorized as:
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![Magic in the Shadows by Devon Monk]()
Magic in the Shadows by Devon Monk
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsAllison Beckstrom's magic has taken its toll on her, physically marking her and erasing her memories-including those of the man she supposedly loves. But lost memories aren't the only things preying on Allie's thoughts.Her late father, the prominent businessman-and sorcerer-Daniel Beckstrom, has somehow channeled himself into her very mind... -
![An Unwelcome Quest by Scott Meyer]()
An Unwelcome Quest by Scott Meyer
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsEver since Martin Banks and his fellow computer geeks discovered that reality is just a computer program to be happily hacked, they’ve been jaunting back and forth through time, posing as medieval wizards and having the epic adventures that other nerds can only dream of having... -
![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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Menagerie by Rachel Vincent
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsFrom New York Times bestselling author Rachel Vincent comes a richly imagined, provocative new series set in the dark mythology of the Menagerie… When Delilah Marlow visits a famous traveling carnival, Metzger's Menagerie, she is an ordinary woman in a not-quite-ordinary world...Categorized as:
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![One of Our Thursdays Is Missing by Jasper Fforde]()
One of Our Thursdays Is Missing by Jasper Fforde
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe newest tour de force from The New York Times bestselling author of Thursday Next and Shades of Grey. Jasper Fforde's exuberant return to the fantastical BookWorld opens during a time of great unrest. All-out Genre war is rumbling, and the BookWorld desperately needs a heroine like Thursday Next... -
![The October Man by Ben Aaronovitch]()
The October Man by Ben Aaronovitch
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsTrier is famous for wine, Romans and for being Germany’s oldest city. So when a man is found dead with his body impossibly covered in a fungal rot, the local authorities know they are out of their depth.Fortunately this is Germany, where there are procedures for everything...Categorized as:
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![Helen and Troy's Epic Road Quest by A. Lee Martinez]()
Helen and Troy's Epic Road Quest by A. Lee Martinez
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsWitness the epic battle of the cyclops!Visit the endangered dragon preserve! Please, no slaying.Solve the mystery of The Mystery Cottage, if you dare!Buy some knick knacks from The Fates! They might come in handy later.On a road trip across an enchanted America, Helen and Troy will discover all this and more...Categorized as:
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![The Sword of the Lady by S.M. Stirling]()
The Sword of the Lady by S.M. Stirling
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe "New York Times" bestselling author continues his "epic of survival and rebirth" ("Library Journal"), chronicling a modern world without technology. Rudi Mackenzie has journeyed far across the land that was once the United States of America, hoping to find the source of the world-altering event that has come to be known as The Change...Categorized as:
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![Running with the Demon by Terry Brooks]()
Running with the Demon by Terry Brooks
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsTwenty years ago, Terry Brooks turned fantasy fiction on its head with The Sword of Shannara, the first fantasy novel to make the mainstream bestseller lists, and the first in an unbroken string of thirteen bestselling books... -
![Off to Be the Wizard by Scott Meyer]()
Off to Be the Wizard by Scott Meyer
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsMartin Banks is just a normal guy who has made an abnormal discovery: he can manipulate reality, thanks to reality being nothing more than a computer program. With every use of this ability, though, Martin finds his little “tweaks” have not escaped notice. Rather than face prosecution, he decides instead to travel back in time to the Middle Ages and pose as a wizard... -
![Magic in the Blood by Devon Monk]()
Magic in the Blood by Devon Monk
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsIn the second book in Devon Monk’s Allie Beckstrom series, when the police’s magical enforcement division asks Allie to consult on a missing persons case, she finds herself drawn into an underworld of criminals, ghosts, and blood magic. Working as a Hound—tracing illegal spells back to their casters—has taken its toll on Allison Beckstrom...Categorized as:
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![The UnTied Kingdom by Kate Johnson]()
The UnTied Kingdom by Kate Johnson
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe portal to an alternate world was the start of all her troubles – or was it?When Eve Carpenter lands with a splash in the Thames, it’s not the London or England she’s used to. No one has a telephone or knows what a computer is. England’s a third world country and Princess Di is still alive. But worst of all, everyone thinks Eve’s a spy.Including Major Harker who has his own problems... -
![Trial by Fire by Josephine Angelini]()
Trial by Fire by Josephine Angelini
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsThe exhilaratingly seductive new series from the author of the bestselling Starcrossed seriesLove burns. Worlds collide. Magic reigns.This world is trying to kill Lily Proctor. Her life-threatening allergies keep her from enjoying many of the experiences that other teenagers take for granted... which is why she is determined to enjoy her first (and perhaps only) high-school party... -
![Wielding a Red Sword by Piers Anthony]()
Wielding a Red Sword by Piers Anthony
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsMym falls in love with Orb, then Princess Rapture in Honeymoon Castle, but father wants to force another marriage. In berserker rage, he takes office of War. He tries to ease suffering caused by human conflicts, When demoness Lila says pretty Princess Ligeia is trapped by Satan, he has to organize a rebellion in Hell to set everyone free. Author Note 24-pg bio 1-pg...Categorized as:
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![Blood Oath by Christopher Farnsworth]()
Blood Oath by Christopher Farnsworth
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsZach Barrows is an ambitious young White House staffer whose career takes an unexpected turn when he's partnered with Nathaniel Cade, a secret agent sworn to protect the President. But Cade is no ordinary civil servant. Bound by a special blood oath, he is a vampire... -
![The Master by Claire North, Michel Pagel]()
The Master by Claire North, Michel Pagel
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Gameshouse is an unusual institution. Many know it as the place where fortunes can be made and lost though games of chess, backgammon - every game under the sun. But a select few, who are picked to compete in the higher league, know that some games are played for higher stakes - those of politics and empires, of economics and kings . . . And now, the ultimate player is about to step forward...Categorized as:
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![Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians by Brandon Sanderson]()
Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians by Brandon Sanderson
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsAlcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians is the first adventure in a fantasy series for young readers by the #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson. The fast-paced and funny series is now available in deluxe hardcover editions illustrated by Hayley Lazo... -
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Ink by Hal Duncan
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt's twenty years since the Evenfall swept across the Vellum and the bitmites took reality apart, twenty years since Phreedom Messenger disappeared into the wilderness and Seamus Finnan was imprisoned in his own past. Twenty years of chaos but the Dukes, the remnants of the Covenant, still cling to power in their enclaves of order in the bitmite-devastated wilderness . .Categorized as:
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![Left Hand Magic by Nancy A. Collins]()
Left Hand Magic by Nancy A. Collins
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLocated on Manhattan's Lower East Side, Golgotham has been the city's supernatural neighborhood for centuries. Populated by countless creatures from myth and legend, the neighborhood's most prominent citizens are the Kymera, a race of witches who maintain an uneasy truce with New York City's humans...Tate Eresby has accepted the unusual sights and sounds of Golgotham and made it her home... -
![My Familiar Stranger by Victoria Danann]()
My Familiar Stranger by Victoria Danann
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 34 ratingsWinner BEST PARANORMAL ROMANCE SERIES the past four years in a row! - Reviewers Choice Awards, The Paranormal Romance Guild.New York Times and USA Today bestseller, Victoria Danann, introduces the epic saga that reset the gold standard for paranormal romance. I accidentally ended up in this dimension. I had nothing.I knew no one... -
![Raising Stony Mayhall by Daryl Gregory]()
Raising Stony Mayhall by Daryl Gregory
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn 1968, after the first zombie outbreak, Wanda Mayhall and her three young daughters discover the body of a teenage mother during a snowstorm. Wrapped in the woman’s arms is a baby, stone-cold, not breathing, and without a pulse. But then his eyes open and look up at Wanda — and he begins to move... -
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Death Blows by D.D. Barant
Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsFBI profiler Jace Valchek was pulled into this parallel realm to hunt for Aristotle Stoker, a human serial killer who preys on vampires and werewolves. Now she works for the National Security Agency of the Unnatural States of America - and her boss is a vampire...Categorized as:
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![Early Riser by Jasper Fforde]()
Early Riser by Jasper Fforde
Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsEvery Winter, the human population hibernates.During those bitterly cold four months, the nation is a snow-draped landscape of desolate loneliness, and devoid of human activity.Well, not quite... -
![Traveler by L.E. DeLano]()
Traveler by L.E. DeLano
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsJessa has spent her life dreaming of other worlds and writing down stories more interesting than her own, until the day her favorite character, Finn, suddenly shows up and invites her out for coffee. After the requisite nervous breakdown, Jessa learns that she and Finn are Travelers, born with the ability to slide through reflections and dreams into alternate realities...
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