Sci-Fi / Fantasy/ Horror / Graphic Novel
September 2023
The Night House
by Jo Nesbø

When he is sent to live with his aunt and uncle in the remote, insular town of Ballantyne, 14-year-old Richard Elauved, when he is suspected in the disappearances of two classmates, must prove his innocence and preserve his sanity.
The Land of Lost Things
by John Connolly

While reading aloud fairy stories in hopes of bringing her comatose eight-year-old daughter back to this world, Ceres is called to a land colored by the memories of childhood and the folklore beloved by her father where old enemies are watching and waiting.
The Fragile Threads of Power
by V. E. Schwab

As two royals fight to keep their crowns amidst old friends and new enemies in fantastical realms connected by a single city—London, a girl with an unusual magical ability comes into possession of a device that could bring them together—or unravel it all.
Touched 
by Walter Mosley

When he wakes up with the knowledge that humanity is a virus destined to destroy all existence and he is the cure, Martin, uses his new physical strengths to violently defend his family—the only Black family in their neighborhood in Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles—against pure evil.
Hemlock Island
by Kelley Armstrong

After fleeing renters of her Hemlock Island vacation home report broken belongings, out of control campfires, bones, hex circles, and bloody scratches inside the guest room closet, Laney Kilpatrick and her teenage niece show up to investigate. 
Fall of Ruin and Wrath
by Jennifer L. Armentrout

In a world nearly destroyed by gods, Calista must choose: follow her intuition to safety or follow her heart to her downfall.
Yumi and the Nightmare Painter 
by Brandon Sanderson

When their lives suddenly become intertwined in strange ways, Yumi, who comes from a land of gardens, meditation and spirits, and Painter, who lives in a world of darkness, technology and nightmares, must learn to compromise and work together to save their worlds from ruin.
Dark Memory
by Christine Feehan

When evil comes to their small town on the coast of Algeria, an evil she can feel but cannot see, Safia Meziane, trained since birth to protect her tribe, is joined in her fight by Petru Cioban, one of the oldest Carpathians in existence who has waited 2,000 years to claim her as his lifemate.
Red Rabbit
by Alex Grecian

A sweeping, page-turning folk horror where misfortune or luck is just a coin toss away.
What Kind of Mother
by Clay McLeod Chapman

In a modern Southern Gothic horror, a palm reader is swept up in a disturbing missing-child case with a twist you won't see coming.
Black Sheep
by Rachel Harrison

A cynical twentysomething must confront her cultish family in this fiery, irreverent novel from the national bestselling author of Such Sharp Teeth and Cackle. 
Black River Orchard
by Chuck Wendig

Dark magic transforms a small town when strange trees bearing magical apples begin making residents happier, more confident, more powerful and only wanting to eat more apples in the new novel by the best-selling author of The Book of Accidents.
Long Past Dues
by James J. Butcher

An Auditor, enforcing laws about magic for Boston's Department of Unorthodox Affairs, Grimsby, attempts to discover the origins of a strange, unfinished ritual with the help of Leslie Mayflower, the temporarily unretired Huntsman, and stop it from being completed.
Starling House
by Alix E. Harrow

Eden, Kentucky, is just another dying, bad-luck town, known only for the legend of E. Starling, the reclusive nineteenth-century author and illustrator who wrote The Underland--and disappeared. Before she vanished, Starling House appeared.
Sword Catcher
by Cassandra Clare

The body double of Castellane's Prince Conor Aurelian, Kei knows he has one destiny: to die for Conor, but when he meets Lin, a physician searching for forbidden knowledge to heal her friend, they are drawn into the underworld of a criminal ruler who offers them each what they want most.
The Witch of Maracoor
by Gregory Maguire

A young witch coming into her own, Rainary Ko, the granddaughter of Oz's Wicked Witch of the West, reups her mission to settle a few scores and right a wrong or two after a confrontation with her reclusive great-grandfather, the one-time Wizard of Oz.
The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic
by Breanne Randall

For fans of Practical Magic and Gilmore Girls, The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic is a debut novel that explores the shields we build around our hearts to retain our own magic.
Mammoths at the Gates
by Nghi Vo

The wandering Cleric Chih returns home to the Singing Hills Abbey to be met with both joy and sorrow. Their mentor, Cleric Thien, has died, and rests among the archivists and storytellers of the storied abbey. But not everyone is prepared to leave them to their rest.
Starter Villain
by John Scalzi

When his long-lost uncle dies Charlie, as rich, soulless predators backed by multinational corporations and venture capital come after him, finds going bad looking pretty good with unionized dolphins, hyperintelligent talking spy cats and a terrifying henchperson at his side.
Throne of the Fallen
by Kerri Maniscalco

A #1 New York Times best-selling author makes her adult debut with a steamy new standalone romantic fantasy set in her fan-favorite Kingdom of the Wicked world, about a dark prince battling an impossible curse—and the artist who might be the only one who can set him free.
Yumi and the Nightmare Painter 
by Brandon Sanderson

When their lives suddenly become intertwined in strange ways, Yumi, who comes from a land of gardens, meditation and spirits, and Painter, who lives in a world of darkness, technology and nightmares, must learn to compromise and work together to save their worlds from ruin.
The Hurricane Wars
by Thea Guanzon

The fates of two bitter enemies with opposing magical abilities are swept together.
The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch
by Melinda Taub

A witchy reimagining of Pride and Prejudice, told from the perspective of the troublesome and—according to her—much-maligned youngest Bennet sister, Lydia.
Edenville : a novel
by Sam Rebelein

As a series of strange and ominous events escalate among Edenville and its residents, Cam and Quinn find themselves entangled in a dark and disturbing history.

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