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Betrayals : The Cainsville Series
by Kelley Armstrong
When Olivia's life exploded--after she found out she was not the adopted child of a privileged Chicago family but of a notorious pair of convicted serial killers--she found a refuge in the secluded but oddly welcoming town of Cainsville, Illinois. Working with Gabriel Walsh, a fiendishly successful criminal lawyer with links to the town, she discovered the truth about her parents' crimes in an investigation that also revealed the darker forces at work in the place that had offered her a haven. As if that wasn't enough, she also found out that she, Gabriel and her biker boyfriend Ricky were not caught in an ordinary sort of love triangle, but were hereditary actors in an ancient drama in which the elders of Cainsville and the mysterious Huntsmen who opposed them had a huge stake.
Now someone is killing street kids in the city, and the police have tied Ricky to the crimes. Setting out with Gabriel's help to clear Ricky's name, Olivia once again finds her own life at risk. Soon the three are tangled in a web of betrayals that threatens their uneasy equilibrium and is pushing them toward a hard choice: either they fulfill their destinies by trusting each other and staying true to their real bonds, or they succumb to the extraordinary forces trying to win an eternal war by tearing them apart.
Cainsville #4
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The last days of new Paris
by China Miéville
" Beauty will be convulsive. . . . "
1941. In the chaos of wartime Marseille, American engineer and occult disciple Jack Parsons stumbles onto a clandestine anti-Nazi group, including Surrealist theorist Andre Breton. In the strange games of the dissident diplomats, exiled revolutionaries, and avant-garde artists, Parsons finds and channels hope. But what he unwittingly unleashes is the power of dreams and nightmares, changing the war and the world forever.
1950. A lone Surrealist fighter, Thibaut, walks a new, hallucinogenic Paris, where Nazis and the Resistance are trapped in unending conflict, and the streets are stalked by living images and texts and by the forces of Hell. To escape the city, he must join forces with Sam, an American photographer intent on recording the ruins, and make common cause with a powerful, enigmatic figure of chance and rebellion: the exquisite corpse.
But Sam is being hunted. And new secrets will emerge that will test all their loyalties to each other, to Paris old and new, and to reality itself.
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The obelisk gate
by N. K Jemisin
This is the way the world ends, for the last time.
The season of endings grows darker, as civilization fades into the long cold night.
Essun -- once Damaya, once Syenite, now avenger -- has found shelter, but not her daughter. Instead there is Alabaster Tenring, destroyer of the world, with a request. But if Essun does what he asks, it would seal the fate of the Stillness forever.
Far away, her daughter Nassun is growing in power - and her choices will break the world.
Broken Earth #2
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Breath of earth : a novel
by Beth Cato
After the earth’s power under her city is suddenly left unprotected, a young geomancer must rely on her unique magic to survive in this fresh fantasy standalone from the author of the acclaimed The Clockwork Dagger.
In an alternate 1906, the United States and Japan have forged a powerful confederation the Unified Pacific in an attempt to dominate the world. Their first target is a vulnerable China. In San Francisco, headstrong secretary Ingrid Carmichael is assisting a group of powerful geomancer wardens who have no idea of the depth of her own talent or that she is the only woman to possess such skills.
When assassins kill the wardens, Ingrid and her mentor are protected by her incredible magic. But the pair is far from safe. Without its full force of guardian geomancers, the city is on the brink of a cataclysmic earthquake that will expose the earth s power to masterminds determined to control the energy for their own dark ends. The danger escalates when Chinese refugees, preparing to fight the encroaching American and Japanese forces, fracture the uneasy alliance between the Pacific allies, transforming San Francisco into a veritable powder keg. And the slightest tremor will set it off...
Forced on the run, Ingrid makes some shocking discoveries about herself. Her already considerable magic has grown even more fearsome...and she may be the fulcrum on which the balance of world power rests.
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The sight : a Devil's Isle novel
by Chloe Neill
The paranormal war that engulfed New Orleans seven years ago is over. But the battle for the city is just beginning…
Claire Connolly is a Sensitive, infected with magic when the Veil that divides humanity from the world beyond fell. Magic can easily consume and destroy a Sensitive, and if Claire s secret is discovered she’ll be locked into the walled district of Devil s Isle along with every other Paranormal left in the city.
Bounty hunter Liam Quinn discovered Claire’s secret, but refused to turn her in. Together they saved New Orleans from the resurgence of magic that nearly destroyed it. But now a dangerous cult is on the rise, and it will take both Claire and Liam and magical allies within Devil’s Isle s towering walls to defeat the growing threat before magic corrupts them both...
Devil's Isle Novel #2
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Ghost Talkers
by Mary Robinette Kowal
Ginger Stuyvesant, an American heiress living in London during World War I, is engaged to Captain Benjamin Hartshorne, an intelligence officer. Ginger is a medium for the Spirit Corps, a special Spiritualist force.
Each soldier heading for the front is conditioned to report to the mediums of the Spirit Corps when they die so the Corps can pass instant information about troop movements to military intelligence.
Ginger and her fellow mediums contribute a great deal to the war efforts, so long as they pass the information through appropriate channels. While Ben is away at the front, Ginger discovers the presence of a traitor. Without the presence of her fiance to validate her findings, the top brass thinks she's just imagining things. Even worse, it is clear that the Spirit Corps is now being directly targeted by the German war effort. Left to her own devices, Ginger has to find out how the Germans are targeting the Spirit Corps and stop them. This is a difficult and dangerous task for a woman of that era, but this time both the spirit and the flesh are willing.
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Dyre : A Knight of Spirit and Shadows
by Rachel E. Bailey
Jennifer Des Desiderio is a werewolf on a missiona mission to retrieve her queen, Ruby, who was abducted on Des’s watch.
But it’s not as simple as following her nose, fighting the good fight, and saving the day. Des must first team up with her rival for Ruby’s affections, Thierry LaFours, to track the kidnappers to and through Paris. With the help of a tarot card-reading werewolf named Nicolae, and Des’s new found ability to go dream-walking, they manage to close in on the kidnappers. But to save her queen, Des must once more play the champion and battle not only for her and Ruby’s lives, but for all the North American Packs and their entire way of life.
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Forces from beyond
by Simon R. Green
Meet the operatives of the Carnacki Institute JC Chance: the team leader, brave, charming, and almost unbearably arrogant; Melody Chambers: the science geek who keeps the antisupernatural equipment running; and Happy Jack Palmer: the terminally gloomy telepath. Their mission: Do Something About Ghosts. Lay them to rest, send them packing, or just kick their nasty ectoplasmic arses.
A threat to Humanity rests on the bottom of the North Sea: the interdimensional entity known as the Flesh Undying. It is a monstrous being of unimaginable power, way out of the Ghost Finders league, so the team has no choice but to accept an alliance with their evil counterpart, Project Crowley.
Only the creature has already turned its eye upon the Ghost Finders and dispatched an assassin with a deadly vendetta against them.
Ghost Finders Novel #6
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Lord of the Darkwood
by Lian Hearn
A self-assured warrior stumbles into a game of Go that turns fatal. An ambitious lord leaves his nephew for dead and seizes his lands. A stubborn father forces his son to give up his wife to his older brother. A powerful priest meddles in the succession to the Lotus Throne. A woman of the Old People seeks five fathers for her five children, who will go on to found the Spider Tribe and direct the fate of the country.
Tale of Shikanoko #3
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The wheel of Osheim : The Red Queen's War
by Mark Lawrence
All the horrors of Hell stand between Snorri Ver Snagason and the rescue of his family, if indeed the dead can be rescued. For Jalan Kendeth, getting back out alive and with Loki’s key is all that matters. Loki’s creation can open any lock, any door, and it may also be the key to Jalan’s fortune back in the living world.
Jalan plans to return to the three W’s that have been the core of his idle and debauched life: wine, women, and wagering. Fate however has other plans, larger plans. The Wheel of Osheim is turning ever faster, and it will crack the world unless it’s stopped. When the end of all things looms, and there’s nowhere to run, even the worst coward must find new answers. Jalan and Snorri face many dangers, from the corpse hordes of the Dead King to the many mirrors of the Lady Blue, but in the end, fast or slow, the Wheel of Osheim always pulls you back. In the end it’s win or die.
Red Queen's War #3
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An Accident of Stars
by Foz Meadows
When Saffron Coulter stumbles through a hole in reality, she finds herself trapped in Kena, a magical realm on the brink of civil war.
There, her fate becomes intertwined with that of three very different women: Zech, the fast-thinking acolyte of a cunning, powerful exile; Viya, the spoiled, runaway consort of the empire-building ruler, Vex Leoden; and Gwen, an Earth-born worldwalker whose greatest regret is putting Leoden on the throne. But Leoden has allies, too, chief among them the Vex'Mara Kadeja, a dangerous ex-priestess who shares his dreams of conquest.
Pursued by Leoden and aided by the Shavaktiin, a secretive order of storytellers and mystics, the rebels flee to Veksh, a neighboring matriarchy ruled by the fearsome Council of Queens. Saffron is out of her world and out of her depth, but the further she travels, the more she finds herself bound to her friends with ties of blood and magic.
Can one girl - an accidental worldwalker - really be the key to saving Kena? Or will she just die trying?
Manifold Worlds #1
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The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe
by Kij Johnson
Professor Vellitt Boe teaches at the prestigious Ulthar Women’s College. When one of her most gifted students elopes with a dreamer from the waking world, Vellitt must retrieve her.
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Nevernight
by Jay Kristoff
In a land where three suns almost never set, a fledgling killer joins a school of assassins, seeking vengeance against the powers who destroyed her family.
Daughter of an executed traitor, Mia Corvere is barely able to escape her father’s failed rebellion with her life. Alone and friendless, she hides in a city built from the bones of a dead god, hunted by the Senate and her father’s former comrades. But her gift for speaking with the shadows leads her to the door of a retired killer, and a future she never imagined.
Now, a sixteen year old Mia is apprenticed to the deadliest flock of assassins in the entire Republic the Red Church. Treachery and trials await her with the Church’s halls, and to fail is to die. But if she survives to initiation, Mia will be inducted among the chosen of the Lady of Blessed Murder, and one step closer to the only thing she desires.
Revenge.
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| Fireborn: A Souls of Fire Novel by Keri ArthurUrban Fantasy. Reborn every century or so, Emberly Pearson is a phoenix who's living her latest life in Melbourne, Australia. Until recently, her biggest problem was having to repeatedly save the life of her ex-boyfriend (for whom she still has inconveniently tender feelings). But then, the Crimson Death, a plague-like virus that infects supernatural beings, begins spreading through the city like wildfire. Boasting a snarky narrator, an action-packed plot, a love polygon, and a cliffhanger ending, Fireborn is the 1st book in the Souls of Fire series, which continues with Wicked Embers, followed by the upcoming Flameout. |
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| Owl and the Japanese Circus by Kristi CharishUrban Fantasy. Although she's usually up for stealing anything rare and valuable, antiquities thief Alix -- better known as "Owl" -- draws the line at magical objects. But when Mr. Kurosawa, a red dragon who runs Las Vegas' Japanese Circus Casino, hires her to retrieve a stolen artifact in exchange for dispatching the vampire gang that's put a price on her head, Owl can hardly refuse. Of course, recovering the artifact might have her wishing she'd stuck with the vamps. Owl and the Japanese Circus is the opening installment of a series that continues with Owl and the City of Angels. |
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| The Veil: A Devil's Isle Novel by Chloe NeillUrban Fantasy. The Veil that separates the world of the living from the realms Beyond has been torn asunder, war and pestilence have devastated the United States, and humans with supernatural powers are now subject to a brutal form of incarceration called Containment. As a secret Sensitive, Claire Connolly wants nothing more than to go unnoticed, However, her highly unstable magical powers, combined with an escalation in interworld hostilities, make hiding impossible. The Veil is book 1 in a series by the author of the Chicagoland Vampire novels. For more atmospheric urban fantasy set in the Big Easy, check out Suzanne Johnson's Sentinels of New Orleans books, starting with Royal Street. |
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| The Grendel Affair: A SPI Files Novel by Lisa ShearinUrban Fantasy. Agents Makenna Fraser and Ian Byrne of the SPI -- Supernatural Protection & Investigations -- are sworn to protect New York's humans from the city's monsters (and vice versa). At the moment, that means tracking down a serial killer descended from legendary Beowulf villain Grendel, whose ruthless killing spree is building up to a planned massacre in Times Square. With only two days until New Year's Eve, Fraser and Byrne are running out of time to prevent the carnage. The Grendel Affair is the 1st installment of the Psi Files, which continues with The Dragon Conspiracy. |
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