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A man. His ex-girlfriend's cat. A sadistic game show unlike anything in the universe: a dungeon crawl where survival depends on killing your prey in the most entertaining way possible....

The ratings and views are off the chart. The fans just can't get enough. The dungeon gets more dangerous each day. But in a grinder designed to chew up and spit out crawlers by the millions, Carl and Princess Donut need to work harder than ever just to survive.,,,

The ninth floor. Nine armies, each led by rich and powerful aliens from across the galaxy. Each team has one objective: to capture and hold the castle at the very center of the battlefield. Strategy, alliances, pitched battles, and, of course, betrayal.

From V. E. Schwab, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue: a new genre-defying novel about immortality and hunger.

Linus Baker is a by-the-book case worker in the Department in Charge of Magical Youth. He's tasked with determining whether six dangerous magical children are likely to bring about the end of the world....

My name is Mercy Thompson Hauptman, and my mate, Adam, is the werewolf who leads the Columbia Basin Pack, the pack charged with keeping the people who live and work in the Tri-Cities of Washington State safe....

Across two parallel narratives, Murakami draws listeners into a mind-bending universe in which Lauren Bacall, Bob Dylan, a split-brained data processor, a deranged scientist, his undemure granddaughter, and various thugs, librarians, and subterranean monsters collide to dazzling effect....

New York Times best-selling author Kevin Hearne returns to the world of his beloved Iron Druid Chronicles in a spin-off series about an eccentric master of rare magic solving an uncanny mystery in Scotland....

With rent past due and a decent meal becoming an issue of some importance, Harry needs work, and soon....

As one of the few witches in Britain, Mika Moon knows she has to hide her magic, keep her head down, and stay away from other witches so their powers don’t mingle and draw attention....

A wildly imaginative novel about a man who is reincarnated over 10,000 lifetimes to be with his one true love: Death herself....

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Iron Druid Chronicles comes book two of an “action-packed, enchantingly fun” (Booklist) spin-off series, as an eccentric master of rare magic solves a supernatural mystery Down Under....

All Detective Sergeant Peter Grant wanted was a nice holiday up in Scotland. He'll need one once this is over...

Arthur Parnassus lives a good life built on the ashes of a bad one. He’s the headmaster of a strange orphanage on a distant and peculiar island, and he hopes to soon be the adoptive father to the six dangerous and magical children who live there.

Elena Michaels is the world’s only female werewolf. And she’s tired of it. Tired of a life spent hiding and protecting, a life where her most important job is hunting down rogue werewolves....

Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden is Chicago's only openly practicing wizard. He is also dead broke....

What happened to young Elphaba before her witchy powers took hold in Wicked? Almost 30 years after the publication of the original novel, for the first time Gregory Maguire reveals the story of prickly young Elphie, the future Wicked Witch of the West.

Something is stirring up angry apparitions all over town. Something that can break all the laws of supernatural physics. Something that doesnt like Harry....

Locked behind bars for three years, Shadow did his time, quietly waiting for the day when he could return to Eagle Point, Indiana....

The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves....

Cassie Andrews works in a New York City bookshop, shelving books, making coffee for customers, and living an unassuming, ordinary life. Until the day one of her favorite customers—a lonely yet charming old man—dies right in front of her....

Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden is a very powerful wizard and a dedicated private eye. He is also a wise cracking trouble magnet....

Alice Hoffman's enchanting witch's brew of suspense, romance and magic - now a major motion picture from Warner Bros....

Bringing the magic and suspense of the All Souls Trilogy to a deeply satisfying conclusion, this highly anticipated finale went straight to number one on the New York Times best seller list. In The Book of Life, Diana and Matthew time-travel back from Elizabethan London....

The enemy unknowingly opened a portal to the Netherworld, and our world’s only wizard somehow managed to close it. Unfortunately, something got through. Something big. A dragon....

Alexandra "Alix" Dennis-Palmer-Hudson-Gilmore-Garnsey, the twelfth Lady Mondegreen, has never had any control of her life. Her supernatural ability to shatter bones with a touch made her the automatic property of the Checquy, the secret British government agency that deals with the supernatural. Her aristocratic ancestry made Alix the perfect asset for the Checquy to deploy close to the royal family. Since childhood, Alix has been coached to befriend Princess Louise, second in line to the throne, but despite all machinations, the two have never been close.

I hunt the lost, the dangerous, and the damned. It's how I survive. This time? It's how I might die. Since my parents were murdered, I've survived by hunting down whatever—or whoever—needs finding. Rogue vampires, runaway dogs, missing kids, even deadbeat spouses. If it comes with a paycheck, I take the job. This hunt is different. A master mage offered me a reward I couldn't refuse—track down a rogue summoner, stop the demon, and get out. Simple.

When my parents tragically died in a plane crash and left me their very successful pharmaceutical company, I thought my biggest obstacle would be figuring out how to fill their shoes and be a good CEO. But it turns out my parents had been keeping a lot of secrets. Mainly about the fact that their company makes drugs not just for humans, but for werewolves, too. Oh, and apparently I’m a werewolf as well. And not just any werewolf. I’m the Supreme Alpha.

Lynx shifter Addison has come to the quaint Montana town of Nickel City to work at a new, shifters-only daycare. She doesn't expect to meet a breathtakingly gorgeous man on her first day wrangling owl toddlers and armadillo kids. But she's been dazzled by a handsome face before and barely got away from her last controlling boyfriend. Can she trust her lynx's instinct that this is where she's meant to be at last?

Alex Delmore needs a miracle. She wants out of her dead-end suburban town, but her parents are broke and NYU seems like a distant dream. Good thing there's a genie in town—and he's hiring at the Wellspring Mall.

Eternal Love Volume 11 Valkyrie Riders Love Burns Eternal Chloe Zenderfell, known as Flower, is a powerful earth elemental whose magic grants her control over the natural world. After a traumatic abduction with her sisters, Halvor Lyting, the dragon Ember, rescues Chloe. She carries secrets and recent trauma, making their fated connection complicated. Ember, a taciturn and quiet dragon, believes Chloe is the reincarnation of his lost love, his fated Valkyrie. Their reunion ignites a deep, intense bond, propelling Ember on a quest to claim his true mate and reclaim his missing memories. As ...

Everyone's always told Aspic that trouble can't help following him because of his heritage. Determined to put the lie to half-demon stereotypes, he's finally landed a good, quiet job as an herbalist's clerk where the owner trusts him to man the shop alone. What could go wrong selling coriander and thyme? When Geoffrey first enters the shop, Aspic finds the little man's eccentric appearance startling, then intriguing. Geoffrey explains, in stops and starts, that he is a theoretical necromancer researching replacements for blood magic.

In seiner Welt war er der letzte Alchemist, einer der wenigen Überlebenden inmitten der Ruinen einer einst großen Zivilisation. Doch er klammerte sich ans Leben, und da er wusste, dass seine Heimat nicht mehr zu retten war, beschloss er, einen Weg zu finden, diesen unwirtlichen Ort zu verlassen. In jahrelanger unermüdlicher Arbeit ersann er ein Ritual, mit dem er sich in eine andere Welt versetzen wollte. Allerdings lief es anders als geplant und endete mit seiner Wiedergeburt.

Nina è una giovane studentessa di medicina, dotata di un potere straordinario e doloroso: può comunicare con i fantasmi e aiutarli ad andare oltre, sebbene questo la consumi lentamente. Con l'arrivo di Ezra, un uomo enigmatico che Nina sembra riconoscere, tutte le carte sembrano andare al proprio posto per portare alla luce una tenebrosa verità.

Life is weird. One day, you're in the garden, tending your tulips and growing your flower farm business, and the next, your doctor is handing you a prescription for synthetic blood and signing you up for vampire support groups.

Nothing is ever as it seems, at least not in Charm Cove, Maine. Moira Wicked moves away in the hopes she can escape her fate, or destiny, or something along those lines. She yearns to lead a normal life. A few years away teaches her one glaring lesson. It's incredibly difficult to be normal when your first name means destiny, your last name is Wicked, and you do come from a family legendary for its witchy ways.

They called it the Realm in Between. A demi-plane that existed just outside of the material realm. A sanctuary for Earth's magically attuned and able creatures. A place where they could live in peace, prosperity, and growth. Here, the magical community created the first college of arcane study, away from the prying eyes of their mundane cousins. Sadly, all good things must come to an end. As the more powerful families created a caste system, discord grew among them. The collective dissolved into petty bickering, in-fighting, and eventually war — as denizens of evil preyed on their weaknesses.

Orpheline. Formée au combat. Conditionnée depuis toujours à craindre le pouvoir de l'Autre Monde. Secrètement amoureuse d'un homme qui ne veut pas de moi. Je ne suis qu'Alli, l'orpheline mi-faë, mi-humaine, mais la vie commence enfin à me sourire. Il n'aura fallu que vingt-quatre ans. Quand l'Autre Monde, le royaume ancestral des faës, s'effondre, nous empêchant tous d'y accéder, je suis la seule à savoir qui est responsable de sa destruction. Ce secret me coûtera la vie si je n'agis pas au plus vite.

During a road trip with his two best friends, high school senior David Stone meets Amesemi, the girl of his dreams. Everything is just perfect until the sky turns black. David’s not sure if it’s an attack or a vision, but he sees living darkness around them, consuming them, and then nothing. They wake up miles away with no sign of Amesemi, a bloody handprint on David’s chest, and the inability to account for the past twenty-five hours.

The worst was behind him, or so he thought. As graduation neared, an unexpected death sends Jody’s life into a spiral. Old traumas, almost healed, are ripped open. Fresh horrors rise to the surface and pull him apart from the inside out. Ghosts surround him, calling to him in all the places he once thought safe. Jody struggles to pull the tattered pieces of his world back together, fighting addiction, mental illness, and the ghosts of a world he thought long ago buried. Haunted by mistakes and regret, he tries desperately to find peace and healing.

It had been hard not to assume the midnight call dispatching Kathryn Oliver to the Santa Marcel Intermodal Rail Facility was some sort of informal departmental hazing ritual for the newly minted Senior Detective the very evening she’d been celebrating the retirement of her mentor. Poking around shipping containers in the middle of the night is the last thing Kate wants to do, especially when it means trying to validate a tip to the human trafficking hotline. Finding two dozen young women recently freed from a locked trailer should have been a win for the forces of good, but the gruesome ...

In a small modern day little village of Ingleton, the family of Wilsons have always had a reputation. Living in a huge manor overlooking the town full of history, they are also well known for being a family of witches, reaching back to the 1600s. When a thick fog lays over the village and begins to spread across the neighbouring towns and cities, bringing the undead and spirits of the underworlds with it, it is up to the Wilson witches.

Hokulani ist eine Außenseiterin an ihrem Riff. Einst die Hoffnung ihres Volkes, ist sie jetzt auf den kalten und dunklen Meeresboden verbannt. Als sie einen Taucher vor dem Ertrinken rettet, bricht sie eines der wichtigsten Gesetze des Ozeans und bringt damit die Meermenschen Hawaiis in Gefahr. Um Schlimmes abzuwenden, lässt sie sich auf einen fatalen Handel ein und bindet sich an den Geretteten. Seine Unbarmherzigkeit erschüttert sie tief. In ihrer dunkelsten Stunde trifft sie auf den idealistischen Kaleo, dessen Meervolk sich der längst verloren geglaubten Magie des Ozeans bedient.

After unwittingly inserting himself in the middle of a sting operation, Hunter Reeves finds himself sworn in as the newest agent of The Order, an international detective and crime-fighting organization — and under the supervision, of all things, a vampire named Kai. Hunter has precious little time to adjust to his new life, complicated by the fact he and Kai are quickly falling for one another. But a series of fateful choices leads Kai to make a crucial decision that will affect their lives (and afterlives). Can Hunter cope with a rapidly changing world he finds himself pledged to protect?

In einer Welt voller verführerischem Luxus und anspruchsvoller Jugendlicher steht Mandy im Rampenlicht. Doch erst als sie Clyde, ihrem Schwarm, näherkommt, platzt plötzlich ihre Traumblase. Zwischen schrecklichen Alpträumen und dem Verlangen, die Wahrheit zu ergründen, gerät Mandys Leben aus den Fugen.