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The Faceless Ones by Derek Landy
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsThe third bone-breaking, belly-busting adventure in the series that puts the “funny” back in, um, funny series... -
Ptolemy's Gate by Jonathan Stroud
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 62 ratingsNathaniel 17 treats Bartimaeus worse than ever. The long-suffering djinni is weak from too much time in this world, near the end of his patience. Rebel Kitty 18 hides, stealthily finishing her research on magic, demons, and Bartimaeus. She has a daring plan that she hopes will break the endless cycle of conflict between djinn and humans...Categorized as:
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The Wishing Spell by Chris Colfer
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 67 ratingsAlex 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...Categorized as:
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Resurrection by Derek Landy
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe 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...Categorized as:
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Netherworld Paranormal Police Department Full Series Box Set, #1-5 by John P. Logsdon, Christopher P. Young
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThousands 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... -
The End of the World by Derek Landy
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSkulduggery 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...Categorized as:
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Once Upon a Crime by Michael Buckley
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsSabrina 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...Categorized as:
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A Mind Full of Murder by Derek Landy
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA 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... -
Feared by Hell by Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsYou never mess with a young girl around James Brownstone. It doesn't matter what crime syndicate you belong to, that just doesn't sit well with him.The world has changed since the news of Oriceran came out twenty years before. Now, countries all over the world have agreed to using a bounty system for dangerous criminals using advanced magic or advanced technology... -
My Unfair Godmother by Janette Rallison
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsTansy Miller has always felt that her divorced father has never had enough time for her. But mistakenly getting caught on the wrong side of the law wasn't exactly how she wanted to get his attention. Enter Chrysanthemum "Chrissy" Everstar, Tansy's fairy in shining, er, high heels. Chrissy is only a fair godmother, of course, so Tansy's three wishes don't exactly go according to plan... -
The Time Paradox by Eoin Colfer
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsArtemis’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... -
Druid Bond by Brad Magnarella
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsWhen the deal you need isn't the one you want To protect Vega and her son from the demon-vampire Arnaud, I’ve secured spots for them in a powerful safehouse. The price? Pledging my services to the Upholders, a group searching for stolen loved ones.My new teammates are a young minister, a snarky half-fae, a hulking mermaid, and a druid with major control issues...Categorized as:
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Night Rune by Brad Magnarella
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsWhere to turn when all roads lead to ruin? Last night I barely escaped 1776 New York City – now I have to go back. My teammates are trapped in a time catch. Worse, the demon master Malphas is building a gateway there, one that could trigger a full-blown apocalypse. But returning will require new allies: a crabby goblin, a fae princess and former lover, and the demon-vampire Arnaud...Categorized as:
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A Dash of Magic by Kathryn Littlewood, Sascha Icks
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsRosemary Bliss will do anything to get back her family's magical Cookery Booke.That's why she challenges Aunt Lily to an international baking competition in Paris: If Rose wins, Lily agrees to return the cookery Booke that she stole. If Rose loses...well, the consequences are too ugly to think about.But Lily isn't playing fair--she's using a magical ingredient to cheat... -
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...Categorized as:
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Bane's Edge by John P. Logsdon, Christopher P. Young
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShe hates asking for backup... Officers Piper Shaw and Reaper Payne are at it again. This time in San Fransisco. Lucien Bane wants blood. After turning from a mild-mannered wolf into a near-uber who is bent on dominating the city, he's now taken up shop in Alcatraz. And he's not alone. He's convinced a number of wolves to follow him by claiming he's descended from a god.Fun... -
The Triumph of Death by Jason Henderson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWithin months of discovering he’s next in a long line of vampire hunters, Alex Van Helsing has already defeated two powerful vampire leaders. Not bad for a fourteen-year-old.But when a newly risen vampire queen threatens the fate of the world, Alex faces his deadliest challenge yet... -
Ethan & Jag Destroy the World by Maz Maddox
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsJagmarith, Demon champion of the Blood Wars, detests festivities.He’s certainly not a fan of humans or their ridiculous holidays.Winter festivals. Celebrations of flowers. Misshapen hearts to symbolize love. All pointless and weak.Unfortunately, his feelings are not taken into consideration when he’s summoned by ancient magic to the human realm... -
The Masquerades of Spring by Ben Aaronovitch
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsMeet Augustus Berrycloth-Young—fop, flaneur, and Englishman abroad—as he chronicles the Jazz Age from his perch atop the city that never sleeps... -
The Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsTen 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
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 43 ratingsArtemis 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)... -
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... -
Hell Breaks Loose by Derek Landy
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTravel 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... -
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The Witching Vault by Kathrin Hutson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRun 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... -
True Talents by David Lubar
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsIt’s been over a year since fourteen-year-old Eddie “Trash” Thalmeyer and his friends from Edgeview Alternative School found out about their special hidden talents. Trash can move things with his mind, Torchie is a fire-starter, Cheater reads minds, Lucky finds lost objects, Flinch can predict the future, and Martin can see into people’s souls... -
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...Categorized as:
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The Atlantis Complex by Eoin Colfer
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 48 ratingsARTEMIS 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... -
One Year Gone by Rebecca Dessertine, Eric Kripke
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDean believes that Sam is in Hell so he is trying to keep his promise to his brother and live a normal live with Lisa and Ben. When he realizes that a spell in the Necronomicon could raise Lucifer and therefore Sam, he convinces his new family to travel with him on vacation to Salem. Meanwhile Sam is not as far away as Dean thinks and is determined to protect his brother from the Salem witches..Categorized as:
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Still Sucks to Be Me: More All-True Confessions of Mina Hamilton Smith, Teen Vampire by Kimberly Pauley
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWith vampire boyfriend George and best friend Serena by her side, Mina thought she had her whole life—or rather afterlife—ahead of her. But then Mina’s parents drop a bomb. They’re moving. To Louisiana. And not somewhere cool like New Orleans, but some teeny, tiny town where cheerleaders and jocks rule the school... -
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...Categorized as:
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The Order of Odd-Fish by James Kennedy
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsJO LAROUCHE HAS lived her 13 years in the California desert with her Aunt Lily, ever since she was dropped on Lily’s doorstep with this note: This is Jo. Please take care of her. But beware. This is a dangerous baby... -
A Bad Day for Voodoo by Jeff Strand
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen your best friend is just a tiny bit psychotic, you should never actually believe him when he says, "Trust me. This is gonna be awesome."Of course, you probably wouldn't believe a voodoo doll could work either. Or that it could cause someone's leg to blow clean off with one quick prick. But I've seen it. It can happen... -
Gluttony Bay by Matt Wallace
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGluttony Bay is the penultimate Sin du Jour affair, Matt Wallace's funny foodie series about the New York firm that caters to the paranormal, which began with Envy of Angels.Welcome to Gluttony Bay High Security Supernatural Prison. We value your patronage. For your entertainment this evening, we are delighted to welcome the world's most renowned paranormal culinary experts.And on the menu: You... -
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Goddess Boot Camp by Tera Lynn Childs
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsNarrator Phoebe Castor 17, descendant of goddess Nike, cannot control her powers, and fears boyfriend Griffin returns to ex-girlfriend Adara. Stepfather Damian, principal of the Academy for divine descendants must enroll Pheobe in summer Boot Camp for ten-year-old girls...Categorized as:
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The Early Years by Jamie Thomson
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsGreetings, Puny Humans:In your hands, you are holding a tome of staggeringly evil genius. It is not for the faint of heart or for the whining masses. It is for those willing to serve as my devoted minions while I plan my greatest feat yet: surviving life as a human boy and returning to my rightful place as the ruler of the Dark Lands... -
Lustlocked by Matt Wallace
Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThe staff of New York's premier supernatural catering company, has their work cut out for them in this outrageous follow-up to Envy of Angels.Love is in the air at Sin du Jour.The Goblin King (yes, that one) and his Queen are celebrating the marriage of their son to his human bride. Naturally the celebrations will be legendary.But when desire and magic mix, the results can be unpredictable... -
Johnny and the Dead by Terry Pratchett
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 20 ratings"Post-life citizens Breath challenged Vertically disadvantaged (buried, not short)" Johnny Maxwell's new friends not appreciate the term "ghosts," but they are, well, "dead,"The town council wants to sell the cemetery, and its inhabitants aren't about to take that lying down! Johnny is the only one who can see them, and and the previously alive need his help to save their home and their history...Categorized as:
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Fake It 'Til You Mate It by Sarah Spade
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen I wake up in the morgue, I know it’s time to move on…When people think of shifters, they always bring up the wolves, bears, big cats. But prey shifters exist, too; the bunnies, the hedgehogs, and my old childhood nemesis, Roxy, who was an adorable raccoon and a huge headache.Then there’s me... -
Hannah Green and Her Unfeasibly Mundane Existence by Michael Marshall Smith
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAn unpredictable, poignant, and captivating tale for readers of all ages, by the critically acclaimed author of Only Forward.There are a million stories in the world. Most are perfectly ordinary.This one… isn’t.Hannah Green actually thinks her story is more mundane than most... -
The Last Dragonslayer by Jasper Fforde
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsIn the good old days, magic was indispensable—it could both save a kingdom and clear a clogged drain. But now magic is fading: drain cleaner is cheaper than a spell, and magic carpets are used for pizza delivery. Fifteen-year-old foundling Jennifer Strange runs Kazam, an employment agency for magicians—but it’s hard to stay in business when magic is drying up... -
Out of Spite, Out of Mind by Scott Meyer
Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsWhen you discover the world is a computer program, and you figure out that by altering the code you can time travel and perform acts that seem like magic, what can possibly go wrong? Pretty much everything. Just ask Brit, who has jumped around in time with such abandon that she has to coexist with multiple versions of herself... -
Not Just a Witch by Eva Ibbotson
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHeckie is a young, kindly witch with a remarkable ability: She can change anything into an animal. So when she meets a boy, Daniel, after graduating from a good witch school, Heckie and her pal set out to eliminate the world of bad people by changing them into critters...Categorized as:
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Groosham Grange by Anthony Horowitz
Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsFrom Anthony Horowitz, a Groosham . . . make that gruesome . . . new adventure! Sent to Groosham Grange as a last resort by his frustrated parents, thirteen-year-old David Eliot quickly discovers that his new boarding school is very peculiar. New pupils are made to sign their names in blood . . . the French teacher cancels classes on days there�s a full moon . .Categorized as:
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp by Rick Yancey
Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsAlfred Kropp was just trying to survive high school when his guardian uncle gets him roped into a suspicious get-rich-quick scheme that changes his life forever: stealing Excalibur, the legendary sword of King Arthur... -
The Wizard, the Witch, and Two Girls from Jersey by Lisa Papademetriou
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen mortal enemies Veronica and Heather get hit by a bar code scanner while fighting over the last copy of a hot fantasy novel, they are transported into the novel. Having accidentally killed the book's heroine, Vero and Heather have no choice but to try to save the land of Galma from the Twilight Queen... -
Never Trust a Dead Man by Vivian Vande Velde
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSelwyn is brokenhearted when the beautiful Anora chooses to marry the awful,but rich, Farold. It's bad enough when Farold beats Selwyn up in front of the villagers. But nothing prepares Selwyn for Farold's being found murdered. All accusing fingers point to Selwyn, who is promptly sealed in a burial cave with Farold's corpse.But they're not alone in the cave... -
Faust Among Equals by Tom Holt
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe management buy-out of Hell wasn't going quite as well as had been hoped. For a start, there had been that nasty business with the perjurors, and then came the news that the Most Wanted Man in History had escaped, and all just as the plans for the new theme park, EuroBosch, were underway... -
Evil Librarian by Michelle Knudsen
Rated: 3.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsHe’s young. He’s hot. He’s also evil. He’s…the librarian.When Cynthia Rothschild’s best friend, Annie, falls head over heels for the new high-school librarian, Cyn can totally see why. He’s really young and super cute and thinks Annie would make an excellent library monitor. But after meeting Mr. Gabriel, Cyn realizes something isn’t quite right... -
Cloaked by Alex Flinn
Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsI’m not your average hero. I actually wasn’t your average anything. Just a poor guy working an after-school job at a South Beach shoe repair shop to help his mom make ends meet. But a little magic changed it all.It all started with the curse. And the frognapping. And one hot-looking princess, who asked me to lead a rescue mission.There wasn’t a fairy godmother or any of that...
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