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Rosemary and Rue
by Seanan McGuire
A woman must confront an ancient faerie court to save her family and friends.
October "Toby" Daye, a changeling who is half human and half fae, has been an outsider from birth. After getting burned by both sides of her heritage, Toby has denied the Faerie world, retreating to ... (Goodreads)
Proven Guilty
by Jim Butcher
Harry Dresden, wizard detective, investigates a series of mysterious deaths at a horror convention. He uncovers dark magic and a conspiracy.
Nearly a year after the events in Dead Beat , Warden Harry Dresden attends the trial and execution of a sixteen-year-old Korean boy for mentally controlling his friends and family. After the ... (Wikipedia)
Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List
by Rachel Cohn
Best friends Naomi and Ely create a "No Kiss List" to avoid romantic complications, but their friendship is tested when they both fall for the same guy.
Naomi and Ely have been best friends and neighbors in the same apartment building in New York City for years. Ely is gay, often having casual hook-ups with other guys, while Naomi is heterosexual and ... (Wikipedia)
Storm Front
by Jim Butcher
A wizard detective investigates a mysterious magical murder in modern Chicago.
Dresden is hired by a Monica Sells to find her husband Victor Sells, an amateur magician who has been acting oddly. Later that day, he gets a call from Lieutenant Karrin Murphy, director of the ... (Wikipedia)
Cast in Courtlight
by Michelle Sagara
Kaylin Neya, a human with magical abilities, navigates political intrigue and danger in the high court of Elantra.
No good deed goes unpunished… In Elantra, a job well done is rewarded with a more dangerous task. And so, after defeating a dark evil, Kaylin must enter a place of deceit and treachery. A world where ... (Goodreads)
White Night
by Jim Butcher
Wizard private investigator Harry Dresden investigates a magical murder in Chicago.
A year after the events in, Proven Guilty, , Dresden is called by Murphy to the scene of an apparent suicide, and senses the victim is a magical practitioner. After investigating another victim, ... (Wikipedia)
Virals
by Kathy Reichs
A group of friends uncover a mysterious medical secret that unlocks superhuman abilities.
Tory Brennan, niece of acclaimed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan (of the Bones novels and hit TV show), is the leader of a ragtag band of teenage "sci-philes" who live on a secluded island ... (Goodreads)
Snow Crash
by Neal Stephenson
A hacker's quest in a futuristic America dealing with a mysterious computer virus.
Hiro Protagonist is a hacker and pizza delivery driver for the Mafia. He meets Y.T. (short for Yours Truly), a young skateboard Kourier ( courier ) who refers to herself in the third person , during ... (Wikipedia)
Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth
by Simon R. Green
A thrilling fantasy adventure set in a magical world of mystery, danger and intrigue.
My name is John Taylor. I’m a PI for hire in the Nightside, the dark and corrupt city within the city of London. Where the sun never shines and where pleasure and horror are always on sale—for the ... (Goodreads)
The Many-Coloured Land
by Julian May
Adventure into an alternate reality, where humans and alien species fight for control.
When a one-way time tunnel to Earth's distant past, specifically six million B.C., was discovered by folks on the Galactic Milieu, every misfit for light-years around hurried to pass through it. Each ... (Goodreads)
Across the Universe
by Beth Revis
Interplanetary journey of a teenage girl, struggling to stay alive and free from a totalitarian government.
Hundreds of years in the future, the spaceship Godspeed travels toward a distant, earth-like planet with 100 cryogenically frozen settlers on board. Seventeen year old Amy, frozen along with her ... (Wikipedia)
Something from the Nightside
by Simon R. Green
Detective uncovers the secrets of a mysterious and dangerous world, hidden in the shadows of London.
John Taylor is not a private detective per se , but he has a knack for finding lost things. That's why he's been hired to descend into the Nightside, an otherworldly realm in the center of London ... (Goodreads)
Magic Burns
by Ilona Andrews
A female mercenary must confront her past while protecting a mysterious girl from supernatural forces.
Down in Atlanta, tempers – and temperatures – are about to flare… As a mercenary who cleans up after magic gone wrong, Kate Daniels has seen her share of occupational hazards. Normally, waves of ... (Goodreads)
Magic Strikes
by Ilona Andrews
A female shapeshifter and an alpha shape-shifting couple must band together to defeat an ancient evil.
Drafted into working for the Order of Merciful Aid, mercenary Kate Daniels has more paranormal problems than she knows what to do with these days. And in Atlanta, where magic comes and goes like the ... (Goodreads)
Guilty Pleasures
by Laurell K. Hamilton
A vampire detective's investigation into a series of mysterious murders in the supernatural underworld.
In Guilty Pleasures , Anita Blake is blackmailed by Nikolaos , the vampire master of the city, into investigating a series of vampire murders. During the course of this investigation, Anita begins ... (Wikipedia)
Hounded
by Kevin Hearne
A druid's mission to protect an ancient artifact from an evil Celtic god.
The first novel in the Iron Druid Chronicles—introducing a cool, new, funny urban fantasy hero Atticus O’Sullivan, last of the Druids, lives peacefully in Arizona, running an occult bookshop and ... (Barnes & Noble)
Shadowfever
by Karen Marie Moning
A thrilling journey of self-discovery as an ancient evil is unleashed upon the world.
“Evil is a completely different creature, Mac. Evil is bad that believes it’s good.” — MacKayla Lane was just a child when she and her sister, Alina, were given up for adoption and banished from ... (Goodreads)
Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions
by Neil Gaiman
A collection of short stories featuring mysterious characters and unexpected twists.
In the deft hands of Neil Gaiman , magic is no mere illusion... and anything is possible. In this, Gaiman's first book of short stories, his imagination and supreme artistry transform a mundane world ... (Goodreads)
Royal Assassin
by Robin Hobb
A journey of self-discovery and growth, as a young man discovers his hidden powers and learns to use them.
Fitz has survived his first hazardous mission as king’s assassin, but is left little more than a cripple. Battered and bitter, he vows to abandon his oath to King Shrewd, remaining in the distant ... (Goodreads)
Angel Fire
by L.A. Weatherly
A girl with supernatural powers is hunted by evil angels, while falling in love with a half-angel.
Only half-angel Willow, 16, has the power to defeat the malevolent Church of Angels, out to destroy her. When her love Alex, 17, leads other trained Angel Killers, they treat her with mistrust and ... (Goodreads)
Betsy-Tacy and Tib
by Maud Hart Lovelace
The adventures of three best friends in a small town, exploring their world and growing up together.
Three of a Kind Betsy and Tacy are best friends. Then Tib moves into the neighborhood and the three of them start to play together. The grown-ups think they will quarrel, but they don't. Sometimes ... (Goodreads)
Howl’s Moving Castle
by Diana Wynne Jones
A young woman embarks on an adventure to break a curse and reclaim her identity in a magical world.
18-year-old Sophie Hatter is the eldest of three sisters living in Market Chipping, a town in the magical kingdom of Ingary, where fairytale tropes are accepted ways of life, including that the ... (Wikipedia)
Darkfever
by Karen Marie Moning
A woman searches for her missing sister in the mythic and dangerous world of the Fae.
The novel tells the story of MacKayla Lane or "Mac", the daughter of Jack and Rainey Lane, who works as a bartender in Georgia. After learning about her sister's death Mac travels to Ireland in hopes ... (Wikipedia)
Strange Brew
by P.N. Elrod
A collection of short stories featuring vampires, werewolves, and other supernatural beings in a noir-inspired world.
Today's hottest urban fantasy authors come together in this delicious brew that crackles and boils over with tales of powerful witches and dark magic! In Charlaine Harris' "Bacon," a beautiful ... (Goodreads)
Emblaze
by Jessica Shirvington
Violet Eden's battle between her angelic and demonic sides intensifies as she faces new challenges and discovers shocking truths about her past.
When Violet Eden loses the key to the gates of Hell she is forced to make a choice that carries apocalyptic consequences, When you're hanging off the edge of a volcano, how do you make the most ... (Barnes & Noble)
The Unwritten Rule
by Elizabeth Scott
Sarah has always followed the unwritten rule of not pursuing her best friend's boyfriend, until she can't resist.
Everyone knows the unwritten rule: You don’t like your best friend’s boyfriend. Sarah has had a crush on Ryan for years. He’s easy to talk to, supersmart, and totally gets her. Lately it even seems ... (Goodreads)
Redshirts
by John Scalzi
A group of space explorers uncover an unlikely conspiracy while on a mission to an alien planet.
In the prologue, several senior officers of the Intrepid , flagship of the Universal Union, lament the unusually high number of casualties of low-ranking crew members during recent away missions and ... (Wikipedia)
Intertwined
by Gena Showalter
Aden Stone has four human souls within him, each with their own unique power, and he must navigate their conflicting desires while also dealing with supernatural threats.
There’s something about the new guy at Crossroads High… Most sixteen-year-olds have friends. Aden Stone has four human souls living inside him: One can time travel. One can raise the dead. One can ... (Goodreads)
Career of Evil
by Robert Galbraith
Private detective investigates a series of mysterious and violent cases linked to a deranged criminal.
After murdering a woman, an unidentified man stalks Robin Ellacott, whom he sees as part of his plan to exact revenge against private investigator Cormoran Strike. Robin, having worked for Strike for ... (Wikipedia)
Two-Way Street
by Lauren Barnholdt
A road trip with exes Jordan and Courtney, alternating between their perspectives, reveals secrets and feelings.
there are two sides to every breakup., This is Jordan and Courtney, totally in love. Sure, they were an unlikely high school couple. But they clicked; it worked. They're even going to the same ... (Barnes & Noble)
