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  • Skin Game by Jim Butcher

    Skin Game by Jim Butcher

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 63 ratings
    Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, is about to have a very bad day…Because as Winter Knight to the Queen of Air and Darkness, Harry never knows what the scheming Mab might want him to do. Usually, it’s something awful.He doesn’t know the half of it…Mab has just traded Harry’s skills to pay off one of her debts...
  • Changes by Jim Butcher

    Changes by Jim Butcher

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 72 ratings
    Long ago, Susan Rodriguez was Harry Dresden's lover-until she was attacked by his enemies, leaving her torn between her own humanity and the bloodlust of the vampiric Red Court. Susan then disappeared to South America, where she could fight both her savage gift and those who cursed her with it...
  • Cold Days by Jim Butcher

    Cold Days by Jim Butcher

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 72 ratings
    You can't keep a good wizard down - even when he wants to stay that way.For years, Harry Dresden has been Chicago's only professional wizard, but a bargain made in desperation with the Queen of Air and Darkness has forced him into a new job: professional killer...
  • Small Favor by Jim Butcher

    Small Favor by Jim Butcher

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 73 ratings
    THE New York Times BestsellerHarry Dresden's life finally seems to be calming down -- until a shadow from the past returns. Mab, monarch of the Sidhe Winter Court, calls in an old favor from Harry -- one small favor that will trap him between a nightmarish foe and an equally deadly ally, and that will strain his skills -- and loyalties -- to their very limits...
  • Proven Guilty by Jim Butcher

    Proven Guilty by Jim Butcher

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 72 ratings
    There's no love lost between Harry Dresden, the only wizard in the Chicago phone book, and the White Council of Wizards, who find him brash and undisciplined. But war with the vampires has thinned their ranks, so the Council has drafted Harry as a Warden and assigned him to look into rumors of black magic in the Windy City...
  • Turn Coat by Jim Butcher

    Turn Coat by Jim Butcher

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 73 ratings
    Accused of treason against the Wizards of the White Council, Warden Morgan goes in search of Harry Dresden in a desperate attempt to clear his name and stop the deadly punishment from taking place in this latest thrilling addition to the Dresden Files series...
  • White Night by Jim Butcher

    White Night by Jim Butcher

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 72 ratings
    Wizard Harry Dresden must investigate his own flesh and blood when a series of killings strike Chicago’s magic practitioners in this novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.Someone is targeting the members of the city’s supernatural underclass—those who don’t possess enough power to become full-fledged wizards. Some have vanished. Others appear to be victims of suicide...
  • Death Masks by Jim Butcher

    Death Masks by Jim Butcher

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 73 ratings
    Harry Dresden, Chicago's only practicing professional wizard, should be happy that business is pretty good for a change. But now he's getting more than he bargained for:A duel with the Red Court of Vampires' champion, who must kill Harry to end the war between vampires and wizards...Professional hit men using Harry for target practice...The missing Shroud of Turin..
  • Blood Rites by Jim Butcher

    Blood Rites by Jim Butcher

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 73 ratings
    For Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, there have been worse assignments than going undercover on the set of an adult film. Dodging flaming monkey poo, for instance. Or going toe-to-leaf with a walking plant monster. Still, there is something more troubling than usual about his newest case...
  • Infamous by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Infamous by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    The world has fallen in love with Nick Gautier and the Dark-Hunters.Now Nick’s saga continues in the next eagerly anticipated volume...Go to school. Get good grades. Stay out of trouble. That’s the mandate for most kids. But Nick Gautier isn’t the average teenager. He’s a boy with a destiny not even he fully understands...
  • Summer Knight by Jim Butcher

    Summer Knight by Jim Butcher

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 73 ratings
    For the 1st printing edition of this ISBN, see here.HARRY DRESDEN -- WIZARDLost items found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates.No Love Potions, Endless Purses, or Other EntertainmentEver since his girlfriend left town to deal with her newly acquired taste for blood, Harry Dresden has been down and out in Chicago. He can't pay his rent. He's alienating his friends...
  • Crooked River by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

    Crooked River by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    #1 New York Times bestselling authors Doug Preston and Lincoln Child return with their next blockbuster Pendergast novel as he and Junior Agent Coldmoon race to uncover the mystery of several blue-shoe-clad severed feet found floating in the Atlantic...
  • 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...
  • Alpha by Rachel Vincent

    Alpha by Rachel Vincent

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    The unscrupulous new Council chair has charged Jace, Marc and me with trespassing, kidnapping, murder and treason. Yeah, we've been busy. But now it's time to take justice into our own hands. We must avenge my brother's death and carve out the rot at the heart of the Council. It's not going to be easy, and loss seems unavoidable, but I have promised to protect my Pride, no matter what...
  • Closer Than You Think by Karen Rose, Hillary Huber

    Closer Than You Think by Karen Rose, Hillary Huber

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    28 hours, 37 minutesFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Watch Your Back and Did You Miss Me comes the newest novel by “the queen of romantic suspense” (Crime and Punishment).Psychologist Faith Corcoran is desperate to escape the stalker who’s made her life a nightmare for the past year—desperate enough to run to the one place that has been her nightmare far longer...
  • Dust & Decay by Jonathan Maberry

    Dust & Decay by Jonathan Maberry

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Six months have passed since the terrifying battle with Charlie Pink-eye and the Motor City Hammer in the zombie-infested mountains of the Rot & Ruin. It’s also six months since Benny Imura and Nix Riley saw something in the air that changed their lives...
  • Invincible by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Invincible by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    Nick Gautier's day just keeps getting better and better. Yeah, he survived the zombie attacks, only to wake up and find himself enslaved to a world of shapeshifters and demons out to claim his soul...
  • Misery by Stephen King

    Misery by Stephen King

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 81 ratings
    Novelist Paul Sheldon has plans to make the difficult transition from writing historical romances featuring heroine Misery Chastain to publishing literary fiction. Annie Wilkes, Sheldon's number one fan, rescues the author from the scene of a car accident...
  • The City of Mirrors by Justin Cronin

    The City of Mirrors by Justin Cronin

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 49 ratings
    The 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...
  • Grave Peril by Jim Butcher

    Grave Peril by Jim Butcher

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 72 ratings
    An alternative cover edition with a different page count exists here.Harry Dresden - WizardLost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, or Other Entertainment.Harry Dresden has faced some pretty terrifying foes during his career. Giant scorpions. Oversexed vampires. Psychotic werewolves...
  • Kiss of Death by Rachel Caine, Cynthia Holloway

    Kiss of Death by Rachel Caine, Cynthia Holloway

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    A new chapter in the New York Times bestselling Morganville Vampires saga. Vampire musician Michael Glass has attracted the attention of a big- time producer who wants to cut a demo and play some gigs-which means Michael will have to enter the human world. For this, he's been assigned escorts that include both a dangerous immortal as well as Michael's all-too-human friends...
  • I Know a Secret by Tess Gerritsen

    I Know a Secret by Tess Gerritsen

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In the twelfth gripping novel featuring Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles, the crime-solving duo—featured in the smash-hit TNT series Rizzoli & Isles—are faced with the gruesomely staged murder of a horror film producer.The crime scene is unlike any that Detective Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles have ever before encountered...
  • Twice Bitten by Chloe Neill

    Twice Bitten by Chloe Neill

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 47 ratings
    Merit, Chicago’s newest vampire, is learning how to play well with others. Other supernaturals, that is. Shapeshifters from across the country are convening in the Windy City, and as a gesture of peace, Master Vampire Ethan Sullivan has offered their leader a very special bodyguard: Merit. Merit is supposed to protect the Alpha, Gabriel Keene—and to spy for the vamps while she’s at it...
  • Abduction! by Peg Kehret

    Abduction! by Peg Kehret

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Matt is missing. Bonnie's brother left his classroom to use thebathroom —and disappeared. A police dog traces his scent to the curb, where he apparently got into a vehicle. But why would Matt go anywhere with a stranger? Overwhelmed with fear, Bonnie discovers that her dog is gone, too. Was Pookie used as a lure for Matt? Bonnie makes one big mistake in her attempt to find her brother...
  • Prey by Rachel Vincent

    Prey by Rachel Vincent

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Sometimes playing cat and mouse is no game...Play? "Right." My Pride is under fire from all sides, my father's authority is in question and my lover is in exile. Which means I haven't laid eyes on Marc's gorgeous face in months. And with a new mother "and" an I-know-everything teenager under my protection, I don't exactly have time to fantasize about ever seeing him again...
  • Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

    Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 78 ratings
    Set in the days of civilization's collapse, Station Eleven tells the story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity.One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear...
  • The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter

    The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    Two girls are forced into the woods at gunpoint. One runs for her life. One is left behind.Twenty-eight years ago, Charlotte and Samantha Quinn's happy small-town family life was torn apart by a terrifying attack on their family home. It left their mother dead. It left their father—Pikeville's notorious defense attorney—devastated...
  • Moon Called by Patricia Briggs

    Moon Called by Patricia Briggs

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 80 ratings
    Mercedes Thompson, aka Mercy, is a talented Volkswagen mechanic living in the Tri-Cities area of Washington. She also happens to be a walker, a magical being with the power to shift into a coyote at will. Mercy's next-door neighbor is a werewolf. Her former boss is a gremlin. And she's fixing a bus for a vampire...
  • Under the Surface by Diana Urban

    Under the Surface by Diana Urban

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An epic survival-thriller about four teens who get lost in the Paris catacombs for days—a gripping and propulsive story of love, danger, betrayal, and hope… even when all seems lost.Ruby is terrified to cave to her feelings for Sean and risk him crushing her heart...
  • Shift by Rachel Vincent

    Shift by Rachel Vincent

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Being the first female werecat enforcer isn't easy. Scars accumulate, but I'm stronger in so many ways.As for my personal life? It's complicated. Choices worth making always are. Ever since my brother's death and my father's impeachment, it's all I can do to prevent more blood from spilling. Now our Pride is under attack by a flight of vicious thunderbirds...
  • Stolen by Kelley Armstrong

    Stolen by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 45 ratings
    It was in Bitten, Kelley Armstrong's debut novel, that thirty-year-old Elena Michaels came to terms with her feral appetites and claimed the proud identity of a beautiful, successful woman and the only living female werewolf...
  • The Angel of Death by Alane Ferguson

    The Angel of Death by Alane Ferguson

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    As assistant to her father, the county coroner of Silverton, Colorado, Cameryn Mahoney has seen more gore than the average seventeen-yearold. But even Cameryn is shocked when Kyle O'Neil, the most popular guy in school, discovers the gruesome corpse of their English teacher murdered in his own bed...
  • Pride by Rachel Vincent

    Pride by Rachel Vincent

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    I'm on trial for my life. Falsely accused of infecting my human ex-boyfriend--and killing him to cover up the crime. Infecting a human is one of three capital offenses recognized by the Pride--along with murder and disclosure of our existence to a human.I'm two for three. A goner.Now we've discovered a rogue stray terrorizing the mountainside, hunting a wild teenage tabbycat...
  • Walk on the Wild Side by Christine Warren, Kate Reading

    Walk on the Wild Side by Christine Warren, Kate Reading

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    In national bestseller Christine Warren’s Others novels, vampires, witches, werewolves, and more have come out of the supernatural closet. Now, the world as we know it will never be the same...Kitty Sugarman is a lot tougher than her name implies. Still, she’s content with how her small- town life keeps her removed from all the changes happening in the world—like the Unveiling of the Others...
  • This Is Our Story by Ashley Elston

    This Is Our Story by Ashley Elston

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Five went in. Four came out.No one knows what happened that morning at River Point. Five boys went hunting. Four came back. The boys won’t say who fired the shot that killed their friend; the evidence shows it could have been any one of them...
  • Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby

    Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner • New York Times Notable Book • NPR’s Best Books of the Year • BookPage’s #1 Mystery and Suspense of the Year • Sun Sentinel’s #1 Best Mystery of the Year “I loved Blacktop Wasteland...[A] fast-paced, bareknuckle thriller.” -Stephen King“A roaring, full-throttle thriller, crackling with tension and charm...
  • Mountain Home by Bracken MacLeod

    Mountain Home by Bracken MacLeod

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Lyn works at an isolated roadside diner. When a retired combat veteran stages an assault there her world is turned upside down. Surviving the sniper’s bullets is only the beginning of Lyn's nightmare. Navigating hostilities, she establishes herself as the disputed leader of a diverse group of people that are at odds with the situation and each other...
  • What Waits in the Water by Kieran Scott

    What Waits in the Water by Kieran Scott

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Hannah is excited to spend some time at her best friend Jacob's lake house this summer. The catch? Hannah's annoying new stepsister, Katie, is tagging along. Katie is wild and pretty and seems to have a THING for Jacob. Hannah's not jealous...or is she? To make matters worse, the town they're staying in is sort of...creepy...
  • Schrader's Chord by Scott Leeds

    Schrader's Chord by Scott Leeds

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Heart-Shaped Box meets The Haunting of Hill House in Schrader's Chord , Scott Leeds's chilling debut about cursed vinyl records that open a gateway to the land of the dead.I told you they were real.After his estranged father’s mysterious death, Charlie Remick returns to Seattle to help with the funeral...
  • Count All Her Bones by April Henry

    Count All Her Bones by April Henry

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Cheyenne sets out to save her former captor in this much-anticipated sequel to Girl, Stolen.Six months ago, Griffin Sawyer meant to steal a car, but he never meant to steal the girl asleep in the backseat. Panicked, he took her home. His father, Roy, decided to hold Cheyenne―who is blind―for ransom. Griffin helped her escape, and now Roy is awaiting trial...
  • A Summer to Die by Lois Lowry

    A Summer to Die by Lois Lowry

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Thirteen-year-old Meg envies her sister's beauty and popularity. Her feelings don't make it any easier for her to cope with Molly's strange illness and eventual death...
  • Cherry Bomb by J.A. Konrath

    Cherry Bomb by J.A. Konrath

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    At the end of Fuzzy Navel, J. A. Konrath surprised readers with an agonizing cliff-hanger: One of Lieutenant Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels's loved ones is dead. But who Readers were left clamoring to know more.Cherry Bomb, the sixth Jack Daniels mystery, opens at the funeral. While Jack stands graveside, tears in her eyes, her cell phone rings...
  • The Girl Who Was Supposed to Die by April Henry

    The Girl Who Was Supposed to Die by April Henry

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    “Take her out back and finish her off.”She doesn’t know who she is. She doesn’t know where she is, or why. All she knows when she comes to in a ransacked cabin is that there are two men arguing over whether or not to kill her.And that she must run.In her riveting style, April Henry crafts a nail-biting thriller involving murder, identity theft, and biological warfare...
  • Girl, Stolen by April Henry

    Girl, Stolen by April Henry

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Sixteen-year-old Cheyenne Wilder is sleeping in the back of the car while her stepmom fills a prescription for antibiotics. Before Cheyenne realizes what's happening, the car is being stolen.Griffin hadn't meant to kidnap Cheyenne and once he finds out that not only does she have pneumonia, but that she's blind, he really doesn't know what to do...
  • Rogue by Rachel Vincent

    Rogue by Rachel Vincent

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Okay, so cats don't always land on their feet. I know that better than most. Since rejoining the Pride, I've made big decisions and even bigger mistakes: the kind paid for with innocent lives. As the first and only female enforcer, I have plenty to prove to my father, the Pride, and myself...
  • Industrial Magic by Kelley Armstrong

    Industrial Magic by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    Meet the smart, sexy — supernatural — women of the otherworld. This is not your mother’s coven... Kelley Armstrong returns with the eagerly awaited follow-up to Dime Store Magic. Paige Winterbourne, a headstrong young woman haunted by a dark legacy, is now put to the ultimate test as she fights to save innocents from the most insidious evil of all.. .
  • Magic on the Hunt by Devon Monk

    Magic on the Hunt by Devon Monk

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    In the secret lockup of the Authority, the council that decides what can and can't be done with magic, an undead magic user has possessed one of the prisoners. He wants his freedom-and then some. Now Allie Beckstrom and her lover, Zayvion, are the first line of defense against the chaos he's about to unleash on the city of Portland..
  • The Stillwater Girls by Minka Kent

    The Stillwater Girls by Minka Kent

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Two sisters raised in fear are about to find out why in a chilling novel of psychological suspense from the author of The Thinnest Air.Ignorant of civilization and cautioned against its evils, nineteen-year-old Wren and her two sisters, Sage and Evie, were raised in off-the-grid isolation in a primitive cabin in upstate New York...
  • Desires of the Dead by Kimberly Derting

    Desires of the Dead by Kimberly Derting

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    The missing dead call to Violet. They want to be found. Violet can sense the echoes of those who've been murdered and the matching imprint that clings to their killers. Only those closest to her know what she is capable of, but when she discovers the body of a young boy she also draws the attention of the FBI, threatening her entire way of life...
  • Personal Demon by Kelley Armstrong

    Personal Demon by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    Tabloid reporter Hope Adams appears to live the life of an ordinary working girl. But in addition to possessing the beauty of a Bollywood princess, Hope has other unique traits. For she is a half demon—a human fathered by a demon. And she’s inherited not only a gift for seeing the past but a hunger for chaos—along with a talent for finding it wherever she can...
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