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Aguirre, Ann Blue Diablo : a Corine Solomon Novel Corine Solomon is a handler -- when she touches an object she instantly knows its history and its future. Using her ability, she can find the missing -- which is why people never stop trying to find her. Like her ex-boyfriend Chance, who needs Corine's gift to find someone dear to them both. But the search proves dangerous as it leads them into a strange world of demons and sorcerers, ghosts and witchcraft, zombies -- and black magic. 2009 | ||||
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Armstrong, Kelley Men of the Otherworld As a curious six-year-old, Clayton didn't resist the bite--he asked for it. But surviving as a lone child-werewolf was more than he could manage--until Jeremy came along and taught him how to straddle the human-werewolf worlds, gave him a home...and introduced him to the Pack. This compendium of four tales introduces the Men of the Otherworld and includes an all-new story. 2009 Appears on the following book lists:
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Banks, L. A. The Shadows The Huntress team sets off to save the world from Armageddon as more vampires than ever come out to play in another scintillating Vampire Huntress Legend tale. 2009 | ||||
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Bennett, Robert Jackson Mr. Shivers It is the time of the Great Depression. Thousands have left their homes looking for a better life, a new life. But Marcus Connelly is not one of them. He searches for one thing, and one thing only. Revenge. Because out there, riding the rails, stalking the camps, is the scarred vagrant who murdered Connelly's daughter. No one knows him, but everyone knows his name: Mr. Shivers. 2010 | ||||
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Bourne, J. L. Day By Day Armageddon An unknown plague sweeps the planet. The dead rise to claim the Earth as the new dominant species. Trapped in the midst of a global tragedy, he must make decisions ... choices that ultimately mean life, or the eternal curse to walk as one of them. An ongoing journal depicting one man's personal struggle for survival, dealing with the trials of an undead world unfolding around him. 2009 | ||||
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Briggs, Patricia Bone Crossed Car mechanic/shapeshifter Mercy Thompson must protect her friends from vampire queen Marsilia's revenge. 2009 Appears on the following book lists:
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Butcher, Jim Small Favor : a Novel of the Dresden Files The uneasy calm in Chicago wizard Harry Dresden's life is interrupted when Mab, monarch of the Winter Court of the Sidhe, the Queen of Air and Darkness, decides to call in the favor that Harry owes her, sending him on a quest that leaves him trapped between a deadly foe and untrustworthy ally and that will test his skills and loyalties to the limit. 2009 | ||||
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Carey, Mike Dead Men's Boots Harboring guilt about the death of a fellow exorcist, Felix Castor investigates the work of a serial murderer whose methods are eerily similar to those of a killer believed to be long dead, a situation that is further complicated by a custody battle over the body of a possessed friend. 2009 | ||||
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Carriger, Gail Soulless "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" meets Jane Austen in this wickedly funny debut novel, which kicks off Carriger's new series set in an alternate 19th-century London that not only knows about vampires and werewolves, but accepts them into the upper tiers of society. 2009 Appears on the following book lists:
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Dahlquist, Gordon The Dark Volume Awakening from a fevered delerium, Celeste finds herself in a fishing village on the remote Iron Coast, and is propelled into a quest that will draw her into a realm of reckless, lawless terror. 2009 | ||||
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Datlow, Ellen Lovecraft Unbound H.P. Lovecraft may have been a writer for only a short time, but the creations he left behind after his death in 1937 have shaped modern horror more than any other author in the last two centuries: the shambling god Cthulhu, and the other deities of the Elder Things, the Outer Gods, and the Great Old Ones, and Herbert West, Reanimator, a doctor who unlocked the secrets of life and death at a terrible cost. In Lovecraft Unbound, more than 20 of today's most prominent writers of literature and dark fantasy tell stories set in or inspired by his works. 2009 | ||||
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Davidson, MaryJanice Undead and Unwelcome Betsy Taylor has problems that only a vampire queen/suburban wife could possibly understand such as taking the body of her werewolf friend Antonia -- who died in her service -- to Cape Cod, Massachusetts, where she's not sure if the Wyndham werewolves will welcome her with fangs or friendship, and dealing with her half-sister's increasingly erratic behavior back in St. Paul, Minnesota. 2009 | ||||
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Day, S. J. Eve of Darkness When a fling with a bad boy from the wrong side of town earns her the mark of Cain, Evangeline Hollis is thrust into a world where sinners are drafted to kill demons and she becomes an ill-treated, yet valuable pawn in a game that puts her very soul on the line. 2009 | ||||
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Dayton, Gail New Blood A newly discovered blood sorceress struggles to harness her new powers and evade her enemies with the help of her disturbingly attractive servant. 2009 | ||||
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Drake, Jocelynn Dayhunter Mira, a master of fire, and her ally, human vampire hunter, Danaus, arrive in Venice, a city rife with unholy alliances, conflict, and betrayal, to stop the naturi, an ancient nightwalker coven, from reopening a portal that will enable their dreaded reentry into our world. 2009 | ||||
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Everson, John Sacrifice When Ariana, a dangerously insane woman who has dedicated her life to unleashing demons into the mortal world through many human sacrifices, gets close to completing her blood-drenched mission, three people join forces to stop the madness. 2009 | ||||
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Green, Simon R. The Spy Who Haunted Me When legendary agent Alexander King is on his deathbed, Eddie Drood and five other agents battle against each other to solve mysteries and inherit his secrets, including the identity of the Drood family traitor. 2009 | ||||
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Gregory, Daryl The Devil's Alphabet Returning to his small hometown in the aftermath of a neighbor's suicide, Paxton Martin remembers how the community was radically transformed by a mysterious retrovirus that mutated many of its survivors, a seemingly short-lived incident that he discovers has caused additional changes. By the award-winning author of Pandemonium. 2009 | ||||
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Harrison, Kim White Witch Black Curse Witch detective Rachel Morgan attempts to solve the mysterious death of her boyfriend by an emotion-sucking banshee. To exact her revenge on the killer, she brings in her PI partners--Ivy, a bisexual vampire, and Jenks, a pixie in existential crisis--along with empathic psychiatrist Ford and the banshee victim's father, Federal Inderland Bureau captain Edden. 2009 Appears on the following book lists:
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Hunter, Faith Skinwalker : a Jane Yellowrock Novel Jane Yellowrock, a skinwalker of Cherokee descent who can turn into any creature she desires--and is the last of her kind--is hired by one of the oldest vampires in New Orleans to hunt a powerful rogue vampire who is killing his fellow undead. 2009 |
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