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When Isaac Vainio helped to reveal magic to the world, he dreamed of a utopian future, a new millennium of magical prosperity. One year later, things aren't going quite as he'd hoped. An organization known as Vanguard, made up of magical creatures and ex-Porters, wants open war with the mundane world. Isaac's own government is incarcerating "potential supernatural enemies" in prisons and internment camps. And Isaac finds himself targeted by all sides.

Lukas first dreams about the end of the world when he's five. As a prince of the hound clan, he is steadfast and loyal, able to take the form of any hound. Yet, no one believes him except his grandmother. The shadows, a corrupting force determined to suck the life out of everything on Earth, have infected the hound court. How can Lukas survive to adulthood? Then battle non-corporeal creatures and save the world?

Kai never met Mama. But based on her own abilities, and those who call her kin, she knows Mama wasn't human. Kai finds things. In post-Katrina New Orleans, everyone's lost something, though most can't afford to pay. Kai's latest client, a siren, hires Kai to find her sister. Sirens need both men and water, and can call them. The kidnapped sister is being held on dry ground...while another storm brews off the coast of New Orleans.

Follow the exploits of the Etchison family as their mortal world is rehaped by warring dragon-children under the control of the Darkling King Strang. Within Theo Etchison lies the power of a Turthsayer, a power the Darklings need to dominate the universe.

The Adventures of Heroman is a post-modern superhero tale about former superheroes and villains living in a world that's not so sure it needs or wants superheroes any more. This book contains the scripts for season one, which is comprised of four acts. The audio version contains a voiceover character who narrates the action as if he's narrating a 1940s-era Superman radio drama, despite the fact that the characters are dealing with mundane situations like group therapy and couple's counseling.

Franklin learns he must use an ancient, powerful blade to force the ghosts back Beyond. However, someone else wants that blade, for purposes that involve life and death, not just for the ghosts, but for all the living as well.

Falsely accused of a crime, John Gatsby follows the real perpetrator through a mirror in an effort to clear his name. A stranger in a strange land, John arrives to find himself in a world at war, and he is immediately drawn into a quest that will save the world or extinguish everything good in it forever. Unable to find the mirror that brought him to the new world, John has no option but to risk his life and join the forces of good in their conflict.

Something with a weird sense of humor is stranding mythical creatures in Tiffany's courtyard. Renowned psychiatrist, klutz, and Arkansas hillbilly with her feet firmly rooted in reality, she isn't quite ready for a one hundred twenty pound fairy godmother sporting dragonfly wings, nor a unicorn to come waltzing into her life. Especially when the unicorn starts talking and farting rainbows and her new fairy godmother insists she's been sent because happily-single Tiffany made a wish to find her one true love.

Dust Devil on a Quiet Street chronicles the remarkable life of Boston-born, New York City-reared author Richard Bowes's childhood and adolescent brushes with dramatic spirits and hustlers, large and small, paved the way for his adult encounters with the remarkable, the numinous, the supernatural.

In AD 1119, a group of nine crusaders became known as the Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon - a militant monastic order charged with protecting pilgrims and caravans traveling on the roads to and from the Holy Land. In time, the Knights Templar would grow in power and, ultimately, be laid low. But a small offshoot of the Templars endure and have returned to the order's original mission: to defend the roads of the world and guard those who travel on them.

“She is a master at entertaining and amusing readers.” —Booklist Nobody does vampires like Meg Cabot, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Princess Diaries and Queen of Babble novels. Overbite is Meg’s sexy and hip sequel to her bestselling Insatiable, the story of a soap opera...

From MacArthur “Genius Grant” fellow Kelly Link, bestselling author of White Cat, Black Dog and The Book of Love, an “eerie and engrossing” (The Washington Post), “dazzling” (The New York Times Book Review) collection of short stories “[These] exquisite stories mix the aggravations...

Myke Cole is an expert at ratcheting up suspense and delivering pulse-pounding adventure that leaves audiences breathless. In Shadow Ops: Control Point, the world has seemingly gone mad. People are waking up with magical powers, such as the ability to raise the dead or call forth storms. The only thing staving off a plunge into chaos is the Supernatural Operations Corps, headed by Oscar Britton. But when Oscar exhibits a power of his own, the hunter becomes the hunted.

The Dresden Files have taken the genre of paranormal mystery to a new level of action, excitement, and hard-hitting magical muscle. Now, in Death Masks, Jim Butcher’s smart-guy private eye may have taken on more than he ever wanted to handle. Harry Dresden, Chicago’s only practicing...

Bobby Dollar, Anwalt der verlorenen Seelen und Engel auf Erden, wird von seinem Himmelsmentor in die Hölle geschickt. Er soll dort dem Sklavenhändler Rhipash eine kryptische Botschaft übermitteln. Das passt Bobby wunderbar, will er doch die Teufelin Caz wiedersehen, in die er sich unsterblich verliebt hat. So macht er sich auf zur Höllenpforte - um im Innern ein unvorstellbar großes Reich vorzufinden. Tagelang läuft Bobby von einem Höllenkreis zum nächsten, und endlich findet er Rhipash.

For millennia, the Librarians have secretly protected the world by keeping watch over dangerous magical relics. Cataloging and safeguarding everything from Excalibur to Pandora’s Box, they stand between humanity and those who would use the relics for evil. Ten years ago, only Flynn Carsen, the...

"Ich bin Artimus - der das ewige Leben suchte…und ewigen Schrecken fand." Nach und nach kommen Lea und ihre Begleiter den verwerflichen Forschungen des Alchemisten Artimus auf die Spur. Ein Tagebuch, das der alte Mann hinterlassen hat, gibt Einblick in verbotene Experimente, mit denen der Tod besiegt werden sollte. Erfolgreiche Experimente.

Noch immer wütet der Drache Katarak und bringt Tod und Verderben über das Städtchen Inoria. Lea erkennt, dass sie womöglich gezwungen sein wird, das wütende Tier zu töten, sollte es nicht von seinem schrecklichen Treiben abgebracht werden können. Für dieses Vorhaben stattet ein Schmied das Mädchen mit besonderen Waffen aus einer längst vergangenen Epoche der Drachentöter aus. Ob dieses Rüstzeug Lea vor dem Feuer der Bestie schützen kann, zeigt sich schon bald, als es zur offenen Konfrontation mit Katarak kommt.

Faldarun, der Wanderer, hat seine düsteren Absichten offenbart und verwickelt Lea nun in ein perfides Spiel um Leben und Tod. Sie soll einen magischen Gegenstand finden - das silberne Horn von Arun. Die Suche führt in das von zahlreichen heimtückischen Fallen geschützte Haus ds Alchemisten Artimus, der vor einiger Zeit auf mysteriöse Weise verschwand. Welches schreckliche Geheimnis wollte der Mann vor der Welt verbergen? Und was für eine Rolle spielt das silberne Horn dabei?

Die Ruhe, die nach der Erneuerung des Drachenbundes in Norland eingekehrt ist, währt nur kurz. Eigentlich will Lea die Zeit mit ihrem Gefährten Telon genießen, da tritt ein Ratsherr aus der benachbarten Stadt Inoria mit einem dringenden Hilfeersuchen an sie heran: Ein bösartiger Drache terrorisiert den Ort und verbreitet Angst und Schrecken. Nur Lea, die neue Drachenprinzessin, kann dem tödlichen Treiben ein Ende setzen. Bereitwillig begibt sie sich zusammen mit ihren Freunden nach Inoria, um das wildgewordene Tier in seine Schranken zu weisen.