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Gobbelino London & a Melee of Mages by Kim M. Watt
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“We’ll do it,” Callum said. “Of course we will,” I said. “Why would we not stalk the scary magician who might be trying to raise his son from the dead? For free?” Like it or not, when a sorcerer asks you to track a magician, you track a magician. It’s that or spend life as a hamster. So we did.But, turns out, the scary magician is the least of our worries... -
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Witch on Wheels by T.R. Cameron
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsScarlett Prynne is new in town, but that won’t stop trouble from finding the young witch. It always does.Before her brother kicked her through a magical portal that eventually landed her in nowhere Tonopah, Nevada, he called her an agent of chaos. But let’s be fair. Our Scarlett doesn’t create problems.Her magic just attracts it in all shapes and furry sizes.Like her familiar, Runeclaw...Categorized as:
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![White Trash Zombie Unchained by Diana Rowland]()
White Trash Zombie Unchained by Diana Rowland
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAngel Crawford has finally pulled herself together (literally!) after her disastrous dismemberment on Mardi Gras. She’s putting the pieces of her life back in order and is ready to tackle whatever the future holds.Too bad the future is a nasty bitch. There’s a new kind of zombie in town: mindless shamblers, infectious and ravenous...Categorized as:
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![Critters from the Poo Lagoon : A 24/7 Demon Mart Creature Feature (24/7 Demon Mart Stories Book 2) by D.M. Guay]()
Critters from the Poo Lagoon : A 24/7 Demon Mart Creature Feature (24/7 Demon Mart Stories Book 2) by D.M. Guay
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOne loser, one talking cockroach, and one karate-chopping bombshell stand between YOU and the creatures who just crawled out of the toilet at Jennifer Wallace's charity luau. Wait, what? Back up.It's Friday night, and the Wallace family is hosting a charity pool party at Caroline Ford Vanderbilt's super snooty Country Club... -
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![Flames Over Frosthelm by Dave Dobson]()
Flames Over Frosthelm by Dave Dobson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSometimes, your case takes a left turn. Or three or four. Marten Mingenstern and Boog Eggstrom are provisional inspectors, fresh out of Inquisitor’s Guild training and eager to prove themselves. Assigned the mundane task of tracking down stolen jewels, they instead uncover a mysterious cult set on destroying the city... -
![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 ratingsA 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... -
![Maskerade: The Play by Stephen Briggs, Terry Pratchett]()
Maskerade: The Play by Stephen Briggs, Terry Pratchett
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsA play based on terry pratchett's novel maskerade.All is not well in Ankh-Morpork Opera House. A ghost stalks the corridors, leaving strange letters for the management and killing people. Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg, two Lancre witches, investigate. This is an adaptation of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel, "Maskerade"... -
![Last Ditch Effort by Isobella Crowley, Ell Leigh Clarke]()
Last Ditch Effort by Isobella Crowley, Ell Leigh Clarke
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRemy is down to his last $100,000... He's in dire straits. While his rapidly dwindling checking account is a problem, Remy finds out the last company he owns is run by something that goes bump in the night. And she is willing to bump him off if he fails to live up to her expectations. Trying to get sober, Remy needs to work the day shift for Moonlight Detective Agency... -
![Find Me When the Sun Goes Down by Lisa Olsen]()
Find Me When the Sun Goes Down by Lisa Olsen
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"You know, we've never really talked about what it means that you've claimed me."Newbie vamp Anja Evans is eager to find out what it means to be claimed by sexy, vampire cop, Bishop. Unfortunately, he's been transferred by the Order and she's left to fend for herself... -
![Coyote's Kiss by Christa Faust]()
Coyote's Kiss by Christa Faust
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsA truck full of illegal Mexican immigrants slaughtered with supernatural force is found by the side of a road. Trying to find answers, Sam and Dean are plunged into the dangerous world that exists along the Mexican border. They encounter a tattooed, pistol-packing bandita on a motorcycle who seems be everywhere they go before they get there... -
![Carved in Flesh by Tim Waggoner]()
Carved in Flesh by Tim Waggoner
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsAfter 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... -
![Consultation With a Vampire by Patrick E. McLean]()
Consultation With a Vampire by Patrick E. McLean
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEdwin Windsor, Evil Efficiency Consultant, returns with his manic lawyer Topper and his faithful secretary in this prequel to How to Succeed in Evil. Edwin is approached by a vampire, who offers him the prospect of eternal life if Edwin will help him with the troubles the modern world has presented his kind... -
![Robert Asprin's Myth-Fits by Jody Lynn Nye]()
Robert Asprin's Myth-Fits by Jody Lynn Nye
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRobert Asprin's "excellent, lighthearted fantasy series" (Epic Illustrated) continues with more antics from magician Skeeve and his eclectic team at M.Y.T.H., Inc.Business is slow for M.Y.T.H., Inc., and its president, Bunny, is getting nervous that the company might not meet its quarterly goal... -
![The Chosen by John G. Hartness]()
The Chosen by John G. Hartness
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat do you get when you mix a couple of immortals, a snotty archangel, the Father of Lies, a redneck street preacher and a couple of wiseass waitresses from Texas? You get a cross-country road trip to save the world, of course!Adam (yeah, THAT Adam) has been alive for a long time. But even he's never seen anything like what's coming next... -
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![Dream Stalkers by Tim Waggoner]()
Dream Stalkers by Tim Waggoner
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA new drug – Shut-Eye – has been developed in the dreamland, and smuggled into our world. It’s addictive, and dangerous, and Shadow Watch agents Audra and Mr Jinx are on the case, preparing new recruits to deal with the problem.Meanwhile, a wave of ancient, bodiless Incubi are entering the dreams of humans in an attempt to possess them and live new lives... -
![In Your Dreams by Tom Holt]()
In Your Dreams by Tom Holt
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratings'A definite must for all fans of comic fantasy' - ENIGMA'Wacky humour bubbles through the polished narrative ... Holt doesn't skimp on the flashes of brilliance' - SFXEver been offered a promotion that seems too good to be true? You know - the sort they'd be insane to be offering to someone like you... -
![A Farce to Be Reckoned With by Roger Zelazny, Robert Sheckley]()
A Farce to Be Reckoned With by Roger Zelazny, Robert Sheckley
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe play's the thing in this comic fantasy from the authors of Bring Me the Head of Prince Charming and If at Faust You Don't SucceedIt's that quiet time between Millennia, and the demon Azzie is becoming bored and restless. Then inspiration hits. On a devilish sabbatical in Europe, Azzie discovers that morality plays are all the rage... -
![Tall Stories: Expecting Someone Taller and Ye Gods by Tom Holt]()
Tall Stories: Expecting Someone Taller and Ye Gods by Tom Holt
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTall Stories is another omnibus containing two of Tom Holt's beloved comic fantasies. In Expecting Someone Taller, all he did was run over a badger—sad, but hardly catastrophic. But it wasn’t Malcolm fisher’s day, for the badger turned out to be none other than Ingolf, last of the Giants... -
![High School Bites: The Lucy Chronicles by Liza Conrad]()
High School Bites: The Lucy Chronicles by Liza Conrad
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLucy Hellenberg is not your typical Pacific Cedar High student. Because in between hanging out with her friends, hating her hair and her math teacher, and trying to decide whether she should dump her on-again off-again boyfriend, she has to deal with a father who refuses to go outside and a house that bears way too much resemblance to the set of The Munsters. And that's not all... -
![Yüz Yillik Itiraf by Paul Sussman]()
Yüz Yillik Itiraf by Paul Sussman
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratings'My name is Raphael Ignatius Phoenix and I am a hundred years old - or will be in ten days' time, in the early hours of January 1st, 2000, when I kill myself.'Raphael Ignatius Phoenix has had enough. Born at the beginning of the 20th century, he is determined to take his own life as the old millennium ends and the new one begins... -
![Swashbucklers by Dan Hanks]()
Swashbucklers by Dan Hanks
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Cisco Collins returns to his home town thirty years after saving it from being swallowed by a hell mouth opened by an ancient pirate ghost, he realises that being a childhood hero isn't like it was in the movies.Especially when nobody remembers the heroic bits - even the friends who once fought alongside him... -
![Zeus Is Dead: A Monstrously Inconvenient Adventure by Michael G. Munz]()
Zeus Is Dead: A Monstrously Inconvenient Adventure by Michael G. Munz
Rated: 3.73 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsBronze Medalist: 2015 Readers' Favorite Book AwardsFinalist: 2015 Independent Author Network Book of the Year Awards THE GODS ARE BACK. DID YOU MYTH THEM?You probably saw the press conference. Nine months ago, Zeus's murder catapulted the Greek gods back into our world. Now they revel in their new temples, casinos, and media empires—well, all except Apollo... -
![Miss Blaine's Prefect and the Golden Samovar by Olga Wojtas]()
Miss Blaine's Prefect and the Golden Samovar by Olga Wojtas
Rated: 3.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNever underestimate a librarian. Comfortably padded and in her middle years, Shona McMonagle may look bookish and harmless, but her education at the Marcia Blaine School for Girls has left her with a deadly expertise in everything from martial arts to quantum physics... -
![My Hero Academia, Vol. 17 by Kohei Horikoshi]()
My Hero Academia, Vol. 17 by Kohei Horikoshi
Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsMidoriya inherits the superpower of the world’s greatest hero, but greatness won’t come easy... -
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![My Hero Academia, Vol. 27 by Kohei Horikoshi, 堀越耕平]()
My Hero Academia, Vol. 27 by Kohei Horikoshi, 堀越耕平
Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhat would the world be like if 80 percent of the population manifested superpowers called “Quirks”? Heroes and villains would be battling it out everywhere! Being a hero would mean learning to use your power, but where would you go to study? The Hero Academy of course! But what would you do if you were one of the 20 percent who were born Quirkless?The confrontation between the heroes and the... -
![My Hero Academia, Vol. 26 by Kohei Horikoshi]()
My Hero Academia, Vol. 26 by Kohei Horikoshi
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsWhat would the world be like if 80 percent of the population manifested superpowers called “Quirks”? Heroes and villains would be battling it out everywhere! Being a hero would mean learning to use your power, but where would you go to study? The Hero Academy of course! But what would you do if you were one of the 20 percent who were born Quirkless?Hawks and the Safety Commission have managed to... -
![Bungo Stray Dogs, Vol. 14 by Kafka Asagiri]()
Bungo Stray Dogs, Vol. 14 by Kafka Asagiri
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsThe Armed Detective Agency's genius sleuth Ranpo hits a wall after a skill user with the frightening ability to eliminate criminal evidence sets the stage for the most mind-boggling murder case yet. What's more, as the Agency members continue to solve the riddle that is Dostoyevsky, they discover the evil conjurer is just the tip of the iceberg.. -
![One-Punch Man, Vol. 1 by ONE, 村田雄介]()
One-Punch Man, Vol. 1 by ONE, 村田雄介
Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars · 50 ratingsA manga series that packs quite the punch!Nothing about Saitama passes the eyeball test when it comes to superheroes, from his lifeless expression to his bald head to his unimpressive physique...Categorized as:
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![My Hero Academia, Vol. 9 by Kohei Horikoshi]()
My Hero Academia, Vol. 9 by Kohei Horikoshi
Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsMidoriya inherits the superpower of the world’s greatest hero, but greatness won’t come easy... -
![My Hero Academia, Vol. 11 by Kohei Horikoshi, 堀越耕平]()
My Hero Academia, Vol. 11 by Kohei Horikoshi, 堀越耕平
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsMidoriya inherits the superpower of the world’s greatest hero, but greatness won’t come easy...
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