A cleric finds himself facing his most powerful and elusive foe, a demonic crystal shard he believed had been destroyed years ago.

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The wizards of Unseen University must win a football match, without using magic, so they're in the mood for trying everything else.

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Werewolf Elena Michaels heads for the wilds of Alaska to check out stories of humans apparently killed by wolves in Anchorage. When she and her husband Clay arrive, they find that something in this savage wilderness awakens their inner beasts.

New York Times bestselling author China Miéville delivers his most accomplished novel yet, an existential thriller set in a city unlike any other real or imagined. When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlu of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he investigates, the evidence points to conspiracies far stranger and more deadly than anything he could have imagined. Borlu must travel from the decaying Beszel to the only metropolis on Earth as strange as his own. This is a border crossing like no other, a journey as psychic as it is physical, a shift in perception, a seeing of the unseen. His destination is Bes equal, rival, and intimate neighbor, the rich and vibrant city of Ul Qoma. With Ul Qoman detective Qussim Dhatt, and struggling with his own transition, Borlu is enmeshed in a sordid underworld of rabid nationalists intent on destroying their neighboring city, and unificationists who dream of dissolving the two into one. As the detectives uncover the dead woman's secrets, they begin to suspect a truth that could cost them and those they care about more than their lives. What stands against them are murderous powers in Beszel and in Ul Qoma: and, most terrifying of all, that which lies between these two cities. Casting shades of Kafka and Philip K. Dick, Raymond Chandler and 1984, The City & the City is a murder mystery taken to dazzling metaphysical and artistic heights.

Once there were great magicians born to the Maghuin Dhonn; the folk of the Brown Bear, the oldest tribe in Alba. But generations ago, the greatest of them all broke a sacred oath sworn in the name of all his people. Now, only small gifts remain to them. Through her lineage, Moirin possesses such gifts - the ability to summon the twilight and conceal herself, and the skill to coax plants to grow. Moirin has a secret, too. From childhood onward, she senses the presence of unfamiliar gods in her life; the bright lady, and the man with a seedling cupped in his palm. Raised in the wilderness by her reclusive mother, it isn't until she comes of age that Moirin learns how illustrious, if mixed, her heritage is. The great granddaughter of Alais the Wise, child of the Maghuin Donn, and a cousin of the Cruarch of Alba, Moirin learns her father was a D'Angeline priest dedicated to serving Naamah, goddess of desire. After Moirin undergoes the rites of adulthood, she finds divine acceptance...on the condition that she fulfill an unknown destiny that lies somewhere beyond the ocean. Or perhaps oceans. Beyond Terre d'Ange where she finds her father, in the far reaches of distant Ch'in, Moirin's skills are a true gift when facing the vengeful plans of an ambitious mage, a noble warrior princess desperate to save her father's throne, and the spirit of a celestial dragon.

Anna and her nephew get transported back to pre-potato famine Ireland and must not only find a way home but find each other in an unfamiliar land.

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Gabaldon continues the extraordingary story of the eighteenth-century Scotsman Jamie Fraser and his twentieth-century time-traveling wife.

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This mystical, magical tale follows Danni, an orphan abandoned at a daycare by her mother when she was five, on a journey to find her family and to try to stop the evil that has trapped them in repeating time loops. 

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Menolly, the vampire sister in the trio of the half-human, half-fae D'Artigo sisters, has the lead in this sixth book in the series.  This time, a demon that sucks the life force from otherworld people has appeared and the sisters and their team must stop it.  A missing elf, a missing vampire, and an evil frat house are all involved in this fast-paced addition to the Sisters of the Moon series.

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Snyder begins a new series set in the same world as her "Study" series.  The "Glass" series features Opal, a young woman who is able to create glass animals that allow the magicians of the world to communicate over long distances.  She soon discovers that her abilities are stronger and more varied than she realized as she is sent by the Magicians' Council on a number of important missions.

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This second volume in a projected trilogy continues the adventures of a magically gifted young woman bound to a handsome warrior.

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This is the second book in the Delilah Street, Paranormal Investigator series set in a near future Las Vegas when vampires, werewolves, and other paranormal creatures are now part of human awareness.  Classic movie and TV buffs will enjoy the many references to vintage shows as well as the created creatures that are zombies crossed with black-and-white film characters.  Delilah and Ric Montoya face an even greater threat this time from ancient Egyptian vampires.

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Werecat Faythe is on trial for her life for infecting and then killing her former boyfriend, but a group of rogue strays and a teenage tabby on the loose in the Montana mountains cause the proceedings to take a pause.

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When the head of the Las Vegas vampire hunter is delivered to Anita in St. Louis, she heads to Sin City to find a killer she has met before.

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This epic fantasy is a tale of unpredictable loyalties, dark intrigue, and dangerous magic.

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Dresden investigates a horrifying double murder that was committed with black magic.

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