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Street Soldiers by L. Divine
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAt South Bay High, the drama just keeps on growing... In the long-awaited 15th volume of the Drama High series, Street Soldiers picks up with a murder in front of Jayd's grandparents' house. Mama and Daddy are convinced the police have the wrong suspect in custody and have joined forces to help organize the neighborhood and find the real killer... -
![An Alpha's Claim by E. Bowser]()
An Alpha's Claim by E. Bowser
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDax Rayne swore off Hunters long ago for how they treated his kind. That is until a Hunter named Devana Okar entered his life with visions of rogue wolves and with the scent that she is his MATE.Dax wasn’t expecting the True Alpha of all Wolves to come to him with a mission involving working with a Hunter. A mission to stop a rogue wolf from killing other Alpha’s and taking control of their packs... -
![Malevolence by Smauggy]()
Malevolence by Smauggy
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Pretty princess who lives in tall towers built by slaves she calls 'monsters' thinks she knows what it's like to live in fear..."~Every young faerie girl fantasizes about her dream wedding.The beautiful gown with the lace train that trails behind her as she walks barefoot across the soft grass, holding a bouquet of daffodils and baby's breath...Categorized as:
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![Spell of Love by Auryn Hadley]()
Spell of Love by Auryn Hadley
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThere's nothing stronger than love, except maybe desperation. All Jade wanted was her own happily ever after. Unfortunately, it's never that easy. Being a woman and a mage complicates things. Falling for three men at the same time? At least that's working out. Everything else is a mess. And it's all the Spider's fault. That man just can't help himself... -
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![M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense: A Novelization by Peter Lerangis, M. Night Shyamalan]()
M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense: A Novelization by Peter Lerangis, M. Night Shyamalan
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis is the novelization of the box office hit "The Sixth Sense" about a terrified boy with a huge secret and a tormented child psychologist who needs a shot at redemption. Both are trapped in a world where nothing is what it seems... -
![Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone by Sequoia Nagamatsu]()
Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone by Sequoia Nagamatsu
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“You should be here; he’s simply magnificent.” These are the final words a biologist hears before his Margaret Mead-like wife dies at the hands of Godzilla. The words haunt him as he studies the Kaiju (Japan’s giant monsters) on an island reserve, attempting to understand the beauty his wife saw...Categorized as:
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![The Unseen Blade by Ambrose Z. Adams]()
The Unseen Blade by Ambrose Z. Adams
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsValiant Minds School of Magic—a school that rewards power and teaches survival of the fittest—just allowed the youngest person ever into their ranks.Lucian Draco’s knowledge of magic is that it exists. That’s it. A lifetime of being sheltered by his father stunted his magical knowledge, but he’s eager to learn his place in the community... -
![The Wishing Pool and Other Stories by Tananarive Due]()
The Wishing Pool and Other Stories by Tananarive Due
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn her first new book in seven years, Tananarive Due further cements her status as a leading innovator in Black horror and Afrofuturism “Tananarive Due is the master of Black horror, even teaching a class where Jordan Peele guest-lectured. So her new collection, The Wishing Pool, out in mid-April, is a major treat, full of major scares... -
![Tokyo Night Parade by J.P. Takahashi, Minako Tomigahara]()
Tokyo Night Parade by J.P. Takahashi, Minako Tomigahara
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSpirited Away meets Where the Wild Things Are by way of yokai mythology in this enchanting picture book by debut author J. P. Takahashi and illustrator Minako Tomigahara. The night parade is about to begin . . . The ground thunders in Tokyo. A gust of wind blows. The pitter patter of paws and claws draws closer. The air is thick with swirling, swooping demons... -
![My Soul to Take by Tananarive Due]()
My Soul to Take by Tananarive Due
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFana, an immortal with tremendous telepathic abilities, is locked in a battle of wills. Her fiancé is Michel. But Johnny Wright, a mortal who is in love with her, believes that if she doesn’t stay away from Michel, they will become the Witnesses to the Apocalypse described in the Book of Revelation... -
![The World Wasn't Ready for You: Stories by Justin C. Key]()
The World Wasn't Ready for You: Stories by Justin C. Key
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBlack Mirror meets Get Out in this gripping story collection reminiscent of the work of Octavia E. Butler, which deftly blends science fiction, horror, and fantasy to examine issues of race, class, and prejudice—an electrifying, oftentimes heartbreaking debut from an extraordinary new voice. Justin C. Key has long been obsessed with monsters. Reading R. L... -
![Elemental by Whitney Hill]()
Elemental by Whitney Hill
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEnter an urban fantasy world where elves, vampires, weres, djinn, and others maintain a precarious balance of power in North Carolina. Welcome to Otherside. Private investigator and sylph Arden Finch is determined to come out of the shadows and practice her forbidden magic. There's just one problem: the elves have a bounty on elementals like her... -
![Dark Matter: Reading the Bones by Sheree Renée Thomas, Ibi Zoboi]()
Dark Matter: Reading the Bones by Sheree Renée Thomas, Ibi Zoboi
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDark Matter is the first and only series to bring together the works of black SF and fantasy writers. The first volume was featured in the "New York Times," which named it a Notable Book of the Year.ContentsFiction. Ibo landing / ihsan bracy --The quality of sand / Cherene Sherrard --Yahimba's choice / Charles R... -
![Objects of Worship by Claude Lalumière]()
Objects of Worship by Claude Lalumière
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTwelve strange, eerie, sensual stories by a bold new voice in weird fiction. Capricious gods rule a world of women. Zombies breed human cattle. The son of a superhero must decide between his heritage and his religion. Young lovers worship a primordial spider god. The apocalyptic rebirth of the god of the elephants . . -
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![The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighth Annual Collection by Ellen Datlow]()
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighth Annual Collection by Ellen Datlow
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis is one installment of a prestigious annual anthology of fantastic and "horror" genre writing—mostly fiction, with a smattering of poetry and an essay. The over 50 selections represent both established names in the field and relatively less known authors, and the structure of the book is typical of "year's best" collections... -
![Mystic Bonds by C.C. Solomon]()
Mystic Bonds by C.C. Solomon
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMage Amina Langston thought surviving the supernatural apocalypse, which killed fifty percent of humankind and changed most of the surviving population into paranormal beings, were the biggest challenges in her life. That is, until she and her brother go on the run from non-gifted humans who want to steal their magical blood to make a power-giving serum... -
![The Girl in the Lake by India Hill Brown]()
The Girl in the Lake by India Hill Brown
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFor fans of Small Spaces, Doll Bones, and Mary Downing Hahn, a truly chilling (and historically inspired) ghost story from the award-winning author of The Forgotten Girl.Celeste knows she should be excited to spend two weeks at her grandparents' lake house with her brother, Owen, and their cousins Capri and Daisy, but she's not.Bugs, bad cell reception, and the dark waters of the lake.. -
![Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror by Jordan Peele, Erin E. Adams]()
Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror by Jordan Peele, Erin E. Adams
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThe visionary writer and director of Get Out, Us, and Nope, and founder of Monkeypaw Productions, curates this groundbreaking anthology of all-new stories of Black horror, exploring not only the terrors of the supernatural but the chilling reality of injustice that haunts our nation.A cop begins seeing huge, blinking eyes where the headlights of cars should be that tell him who to pull over... -
![Nine Bar Blues by Sheree Renée Thomas]()
Nine Bar Blues by Sheree Renée Thomas
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe stories collected in Nine Bar Blues weave emotion, spirit, and music, captivating readers with newfound alchemy and the murmurs of dark gods. Rooted in rhythm, threaded with magic, these tales encompass worlds that begin in river bottoms, pass through spectral gates, and end in distant uncharted worlds... -
![The Ember's of a Dark Soul by Ambrose Z. Adams]()
The Ember's of a Dark Soul by Ambrose Z. Adams
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsControl of the magical world.The fate of witches, demons, mages, and druids alike.One event; four trials; one chance to turn the tides.If only the stakes of the Games were not so high.There is more at play here than just ritual and magical tradition. The Paragon Games have been a feature of the supernatural world, keeping order for centuries in realms where lore and magic reign supreme... -
![Joplin's Ghost by Tananarive Due]()
Joplin's Ghost by Tananarive Due
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe life of Phoenix Smalls spins horrifically out of control as a long-dead music legend chooses her to continue his legacy, in this historical novel—part love story, part ghost story—from acclaimed horror novelist Tananarive Due.When Phoenix Smalls was ten, she nearly died at her parents' jazz club when she was crushed by a turn-of-the-century piano... -
![Girl Divided by Willow Rose]()
Girl Divided by Willow Rose
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThey think she's a monster, but she's their only hope… In a divided nation, 14-year-old Jetta belongs nowhere. Her face is split right down the middle: half-black and half-white. The non-white residents of her New Orleans camp call her a demon... -
![The Alpha Warlocks' Claim by Auriella Skye]()
The Alpha Warlocks' Claim by Auriella Skye
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCancel your plans, witches and warlocks! You're invited to tonight's Firewick Festival. Taking multiple lovers is a family tradition. Hell, it's a witch tradition, but Charice Brixton isn't having it. She doesn't have time for a man, let alone two powerful warlocks. She's perfectly fine running her magic shop in Kala West, Florida with her sisters... -
![Angel Over My Shoulder by Pepper Pace]()
Angel Over My Shoulder by Pepper Pace
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe was the presence that was always in her dreams. He was mostly the backdrop but at times he came to the forefront. She never knew a time when he wasn’t somewhere in her dreams, either watching in the distance, or standing just behind her... -
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![The Book of Obeah by Sandra Carrington-Smith, Dave Fennoy]()
The Book of Obeah by Sandra Carrington-Smith, Dave Fennoy
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsUpon the passing of her beloved grandmother, Melody Bennet receives startling instructions that she is to take the ashes of Grandmama Giselle to southern Louisiana. Melody must step far outside her comfort zone in the suburbs of North Carolina to fulfill this dying wish... -
![Trapped: A Paranormal Erotic Novella by Shae Sanders]()
Trapped: A Paranormal Erotic Novella by Shae Sanders
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPhoenix hates Halloween, and even more so tonight because her best friend insisted on dragging her to a haunted house. But it's not the costumed partygoers that have her uneasy...it's the mysterious stranger she's seen several times today. Was he following her? Turns out, yes. What does he want?Well, that's the scariest thing of all... -
![A Grimoire Dark by D.S. Quinton]()
A Grimoire Dark by D.S. Quinton
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn Orphan Girl. A Hellish Spirit. A fight for more than just her life...New Orleans, 1963. When Del Larouche leaves the St. Augustine orphanage, she is desperate to build a normal life for herself and Jimmy, the mentally handicapped boy she spent years protecting... -
![Mrs Claus Is A Serial Killer by Fatima Munroe]()
Mrs Claus Is A Serial Killer by Fatima Munroe
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFather Christmas was my beginning, middle, and end. I craved his presence, forever in love with his essence. Santa Claus was the air I breathed.Until I discovered he was keeping secrets. Secrets that broke my heart time and time again. Yet, when I said ‘til death do us part’, I meant it.We never said whose death when we took our vows... -
![Brittle Innings by Michael Lawson Bishop]()
Brittle Innings by Michael Lawson Bishop
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsFor seventeen-year-old Danny Boles, a 5'5" shortstop out of Tenkiller, Oklahoma, the summer of 1943 would be a season to remember. The country's at war, and professional baseball needs able-bodied men. Danny's headed for Highbridge, Georgia - home of the Goober Pride peanut butter factory and the Highbridge Hellbenders, a Class C farm club in the Chattahoochee Valley League... -
![A Visitation of Spirits by Randall Kenan]()
A Visitation of Spirits by Randall Kenan
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"Marks the debut of a very gifted writer.... Kenan speaks eloquently and with a great deal of courage."--Gloria NaylorRandall Kenan's daring and innovative first novel weaves a vivid and horrific tale through the generations of a black Southern family... -
![The Undertakers by Nicole Glover]()
The Undertakers by Nicole Glover
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNicole Glover delivers the second book in her exciting Murder & Magic series of historical fantasy novels featuring Hetty Rhodes and her husband, Benjy, magic practitioners and detectives living in post–Civil War Philadelphia.Nothing bothers Hetty and Benjy Rhodes more than a case where the answers, motives, and the murder itself feel a bit too neat... -
![Dark Thirst by Omar Tyree, Donna Hill]()
Dark Thirst by Omar Tyree, Donna Hill
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA haunting anthology of vampire fiction - one that brings a colorful new dimension to one of the world's most erotic and enduring myths. Omar Tyree writing as The Urban Griot - The Old South falls prey to a handsome young vampire with a real taste for the ladies. Love at first bite never hurt so good. Angela C... -
![The Devil Three Times by Rickey Fayne]()
The Devil Three Times by Rickey Fayne
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn audacious debut spanning eight generations of a Black family in West Tennessee as they are repeatedly visited by the Devil Yetunde awakens aboard a slave ship en route to the United States with the spirit of her dead sister as her only companion. Desperate to survive the hell that awaits her at their destination, Yetunde finds help in an unexpected form—the Devil himself...Categorized as:
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![Blackheart Man by Nalo Hopkinson]()
Blackheart Man by Nalo Hopkinson
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe magical island of Chynchin is facing conquerors from abroad and something sinister from within in this entrancing fantasy from the Grand Master Award–winning author Nalo Hopkinson.Veycosi, a scholar of folklore, hopes to sail off to examine the rare Alamat Book of Light and thus secure a spot for himself on Cynchin’s Colloquium. However, unexpected events prevent that from happening... -
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![Red Waters Rising by Laura Anne Gilman]()
Red Waters Rising by Laura Anne Gilman
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn the last novel of The Devil’s West trilogy, Isobel, the Devil’s Left Hand, and Gabriel ride through the magical land of the Territory to root out evil by the way of mad magicians, ghosts, and twisted animal spirits.As Isobel and Gabriel travel to the southern edge of the Territory, they arrive in the free city of Red Stick... -
![Branded by Simon Archer]()
Branded by Simon Archer
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDefeat slavers. Take their monster girls. Conquer the world. When William stumbles through a portal in the middle of Antarctica, he'll suddenly find himself in a world unlike any he's ever known. Now, he's surrounded by monster girls, vicious warlords, and everything in between... -
![Embers on the Wind by Lisa Williamson Rosenberg]()
Embers on the Wind by Lisa Williamson Rosenberg
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe past and the present converge in this enthralling, serpentine tale of women connected by motherhood, slavery’s legacy, and histories that span centuries.In 1850 in Massachusetts, Whittaker House stood as a stop on the Underground Railroad. It’s where two freedom seekers, Little Annie and Clementine, hid and perished... -
![Edgewise by Graham Masterton]()
Edgewise by Graham Masterton
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA vengeful Sioux spirit wreaks havoc in Minneapolis - When her children are kidnapped, in desperation Lily Blake seeks the services of a Sioux shaman, who summons up the Indian spirit, Wendigo, to find them. The price for this service is a spit of land that Lily's firm is selling for development land that once belonged to the Sioux... -
![The Resurrectionists by Michael Patrick Hicks]()
The Resurrectionists by Michael Patrick Hicks
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHaving won his emancipation after fighting on the side of the colonies during the American Revolution, Salem Hawley is a free man. Only a handful of years after the end of British rule, Hawley finds himself drawn into a new war unlike anything he has ever seen. New York City is on the cusp of a new revolution as the science of medicine advances, but procuring bodies for study is still illegal... -
![Smoketown by Tenea D. Johnson]()
Smoketown by Tenea D. Johnson
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe city of Leiodare is unlike any other in the post-climate change United States. Within its boundaries, birds are outlawed and what was once a crater in Appalachia is now a tropical, glittering metropolis where Anna Armour is waiting. An artist by passion and a factory worker by trade, Anna is a woman of special gifts... -
![There Once Lived a Mother Who Loved Her Children, Until They Moved Back In: Three Novellas About Family by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya]()
There Once Lived a Mother Who Loved Her Children, Until They Moved Back In: Three Novellas About Family by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHere are attempts at human connection, both depraved and sublime, and the grinding struggle to survive against the crushing realities of the Soviet system: in Among Friends, a doting mother commits an atrocious act against her beloved son in an attempt to secure his future; The Time: Night examines the suicide of the great Russian poetess Anna Andreevna with heartbreaking clarity; while in... -
![Hounding The Moon by P.R. Frost]()
Hounding The Moon by P.R. Frost
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTess Noncoire is a bestselling fantasy writer. She's also become a demon fighter trained in martial arts by the Sisterhood of the Celestial Blade Warriors and partnered with a mischievous imp named Scrap. Together they must find a young Native American girl who has disappeared-before she falls victim to a ferocious hound. As the hunt grows more desperate, the forces of darkness close in on them... -
![The Unveiling by Quan Barry]()
The Unveiling by Quan Barry
Rated: 2.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom the award-winning author of We Ride Upon Sticks and When I’m Gone, Look for Me in the East, a genre-bending novel of literary horror set in Antarctica that explores abandonment, guilt, and survival in the shadow of America’s racial legacyStriker isn’t entirely sure she should be on this luxury Antarctic cruise... -
![The Perishing by Natashia Deón]()
The Perishing by Natashia Deón
Rated: 2.84 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsAn extraordinary novel featuring a Black immortal in 1930's Los Angeles who must recover the memory of her past in order to save the world--from NAACP Image Award Nominee Natashia Deón, the author of Grace , a New York Times Best Book of the Year... -
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