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“A lively outing, complete with sly shout-outs to Jane Austen and gritty police procedurals.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) In Terry Pratchett’s delightful New York Times bestselling tale of crime, class, prejudice, and punishment, Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch...

At Midnight's local pawnshop, weapons are flying off the shelves—only to be used in sudden and dramatic suicides right at the main crossroads in town. Who better to figure out why blood is being spilled than the vampire Lemuel, who, while translating mysterious texts, discovers what makes Midnight the town it is? There's a reason why witches and werewolves, killers and psychics, have been drawn to this place. And now they must come together to stop the bloodshed in the heart of Midnight.

Une histoire orale de la guerre des Zombies, portée par un quatuor de comédiens. La guerre des Zombies a eu lieu, et elle a failli éradiquer l'ensemble de l'humanité. L'auteur, en mission pour l'ONU - ou ce qu'il en reste - est poussé par l'urgence de préserver les témoignages directs des survivants de ces années apocalyptiques. Il a voyagé dans le monde entier pour les rencontrer, des cités en ruine qui jadis abritaient des millions d'âmes jusqu'aux coins les plus inhospitaliers de la planète.

When 38-year-old Conner O’Rourke returns to Ireland, he’s running from his past. His advertising agency in Sydney is going broke, the bank is foreclosing on his mortgage, and he’s hearing voices in his mind urging him to return to Inis Mór. His grandmother, whom he hasn’t seen in years, has contacted him saying she's critically ill and must speak with him, but when he arrives on Inis Mór, a wild, windswept, rocky little island some 30 miles off the West Coast of Ireland, she’s already passed, leaving him a cottage and a dilapidated sailing boat.

Lovers Brogan and Lula Gauge have traveled the haunted byways of Route 66 for almost a hundred years. Their deal with the god Cupid has brought Brogan back to life, but the return to the living world hasn’t been easy for him. What’s more, that deal left them deeply indebted to the god. Now the god is demanding his due. To honor their side of the deal, Brogan and Lula must find what Cupid wants found. The god hasn’t given them much to go on other than: find the rabbit that is not a rabbit. Do the right thing.

Lovers Lula and Brogan Gauge have dealt with magic, monsters, and gods for eighty years. Bound to travel the lonely roads of Route 66, Brogan’s a spirit with no chance of leaving the earthly realm while Lula, neither human nor monster, is only half-alive.

During one of the hottest summers the city has ever seen, someone is murdering mages with fires that burn when they shouldn't, that don't stop when they should. Necromancer Eric Carter is being framed for the killings and hunted by his own people. To Carter, everything points to the god Quetzalcoatl coming after him, after he defied the mad wind god in the Aztec land of the dead. But too many things aren't adding up, and Carter knows there's more going on.

As a null, Scarlett Bernard possesses a rare ability to counteract the supernatural by instantly neutralizing spells and magical forces. For years she has used her gift to scrub crime scenes of any magical traces, helping the powerful paranormal communities of Los Angeles stay hidden. But after LAPD detective Jesse Cruz discovered Scarlett's secret, he made a bargain with her: solve a particularly grisly murder case, and he would stay silent about the city's unearthly underworld.

The eighth dramatized audiobook of this dark urban fantasy series follows necromancer Eric Carter through a world of vengeful gods and goddesses, mysterious murders, and restless ghosts.

THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Sparkling with mystery, humor and the uncanny, this is a fun read. But beneath its effervescent tone, more complex themes are at play.” —San Francisco Chronicle In his wildly entertaining debut novel, Hank Green—cocreator of Crash Course...

He’s taken on an apprentice, started a family, and somehow kept the city from falling apart. But Everson Croft's greatest trials are still ahead. Ancient gods are maneuvering, a shadow realm grows darker and more dangerous, and demonic forces are massing for a final reckoning.

The Dust tells the story… 1968, Lancashire: It is Joe Sutter's last summer before going to secondary school. His world is like ours, but beyond and beside what we know is Greot; a vast swirling rainbow of many-colored dust. It settles on the dead, it swathes cities and fields. Joe is one of the few who have the gift of always being able to see it. But no one knows what Greot is. Is it the trillion-eyed god? The history of everything told grain-by-grain? Prophecy? The magic of creativity? Joe can't know; all he wants to do is draw comics and listen to music.

Powerful forces want to register every supernatural in L.A. If they succeed, I’ll be marked for death. Emma’s angelic cult is driving the program, officials are fast-tracking the vote, and my partner Kyle has joined their crusade. He may not know about my half-demon nature, but he’s damned sure putting me in the crosshairs.

My name is Drood, Eddie Drood, but I should probably change that. My family has cast me out, but that doesn't mean the fight is over. Unfortunately, Eddie's had a falling out with his nearest and dearest - some of whom were trying to kill him, so he has a valid excuse. Now, he and his true love...

Lily Ainsley is the DSD’s newest rookie, a legacy agent desperate to live up to the memory of a mother she never knew. But instead of the field work she dreamed of, Lily is assigned as a handler in the very program her mother fought to create. Her charge is Jackson Chase, a werewolf considered too dangerous to roam free and too valuable to destroy. The mutual animosity is instant. Jackson despises his cage, and Lily despises the leash she holds. Determined to prove she is more than a glorified babysitter, Lily goes off-book to investigate the disappearance of a fringe supernatural blogger.

A nova temporada do programa mais assistido da galáxia, Exploradores do Mundo Masmorra, está indo de vento e popa! E isso quer dizer que a exploração está cada vez mais perigosa, com Carl e Donut ralando para manter sua audiência astronômica. O que não deve ser muito difícil para a nossa pequena estrela, mas talvez seja para o nosso desordeiro (mal) recompensado.

Aria und Pax haben das Unmögliche geschafft: Sie sind zusammen, und ihre Liebe macht sie stärker denn je, doch ihr Glück währt nicht lange. Es kommt zu mysteriösen Todesfällen. Zu spät erkennt Aria das Muster. Ein Feind jagt systematisch alle wie sie – und er wird nicht aufhören, bis der Letzte vernichtet ist. Als Aria in eine fremde Dimension gezogen wird, offenbart sich das volle Ausmaß der Bedrohung. Um die Menschen zu retten, die sie liebt, muss Aria zur Anführerin werden und Fähigkeiten entfesseln, von denen sie nicht einmal wusste, dass sie existieren.

Nonsense and candy and the families we choose in the origin story of a beloved character in the latest installment of the Hugo Award-winning Wayward Children series. Before there was Sumi, Promised Savior of Confection, there was Onishi Sumiko, a girl with no idea where she belonged. Onishi...

What would you do to have another chance at magic? As children, three wayward sisters—wandering the grounds of the family’s mysterious seaside hotel in Northern California, on the day of an annual masquerade auction—discover (and steal) a highly desirable and expensive book….and...

Return to a world where The Godfather meets The Magicians, alchemists reign, and ambition will be your undoing in the highly anticipated sequel to Marie Lu’s bestselling adult debut, Red City. A new era of alchemy is about to dawn… The empire of Grand Central, built on its foundation of sand...