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Tangled Sky Press
Pub. Date
2022
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English
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One more death shouldn't matter. ↵↵In the Roughlands, you can die a thousand different ways. In the town of Cold Harbor, between the cursed forest, the dark cliffs, and the wild and bitter sea: double that amount. ↵↵But twelve-year-old Toby refuses to accept this when his own little brother mysteriously vanishes from the cellar of their home. Even when the search takes Toby to the Thicket, a tangle of slums that Cold Harbor prefers to forget...and...
82) Vespertine
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Vespertine (Rogerson) volume 1
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
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First edition.
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English
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When her convent is attacked by possessed soldiers, Artemisia defends the Gray Sisters by awakening the revenant bound to a saint's relic, even though she runs the risk of being possessed permanently by the powerful ancient spirit.
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Margaret K. McElderry Books
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English
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Isobel is a prodigy portrait artist with a dangerous set of clients: the sinister fair folk, immortal creatures who cannot bake bread, weave cloth, or put a pen to paper without crumbling to dust. They crave human Craft with a terrible thirst, and Isobel's paintings are highly prized. But when she receives her first royal patron--Rook, the autumn prince--she makes a terrible mistake. She paints mortal sorrow in his eyes--a weakness that could cost...
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Noctis magicae novel volume 1
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2014.
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Ace trade paperback edition.
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English
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"In the hallowed halls of Oxford's Merlin College, the most talented--and highest born--sons of the Kingdom of Britain are taught the intricacies of magickal theory. But what dazzles can also destroy, as Gray Marshall is about to discover ... Gray's deep talent for magick has won him a place at Merlin College. But when he accompanies four fellow students on a mysterious midnight errand that ends in disaster and death, he is sent away in disgrace--and...
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Torn between two worlds, desperate to save one love.
The Summer Court is nothing like Sebastian remembers. The oppressed lower classes are drained of their magick, and around every corner political intrigues threaten an already unstable regime. Sebastian's only hope of surviving the Court and bringing home Prince Lyne's traitorous brother lies with Duine, a magickless Unseelie servant desperate to win his freedom. A servant for whom Sebastian,...
86) Out of Body
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A small-town librarian witnesses a murder at his local deli, and what had been routine sleep paralysis begins to transform into something far more disturbing. The trauma of holding a dying girl in his arms drives him out of his own body. The town he knows so well is suddenly revealed to him from a whole new perspective. Secrets are everywhere and demons fester behind closed doors.
Worst of all, he discovers a serial killer who has been preying...
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As Samhain approaches, worlds collide.
A Shifter family arrives in White Haven, one of them close to death. Avery offers them sanctuary, only to find their pursuers are close behind, intent on retribution. In an effort to help them, Avery and Alex are dragged into a fight they didn't want but must see through.
As if that weren't enough trouble, strange signs begin to appear at Old Haven Church. Avery realises that an unknown witch has wicked plans...
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A young prince, an evil wizard, and a city that no longer seems to care.
Cast out from the palace, Nellie survives in the streets of Saardam with the poor and destitute and a dragon whose behaviour she can't control, but is the key to finding the last member of the royal family.
The pompous Regent is hell-bent on finding the person who has killed his court advisor and he has decided the dragon is guilty. If he doesn't find a culprit, his main source...
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The Platinum Raven by Rohan Quine is a triple convulsion whereby our heroine Raven escalates herself into the Chocolate Raven and then the Platinum Raven, from London to Dubai to the tower in the hills in the desert-then back down again, forever changed.
In her cubicle high in the Shard in London, a sweet-natured, raven-haired receptionist named Raven is even more rudely mistreated than usual for a Monday morning. Recovering from this, her daydreams...
90) The Lost Girls
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A girl with an impossible life. A lapsed demon hunter. A secret that could destroy them both.Edinburgh student, Rose MacLeod, has been losing time for as long as she can remember. Days and weeks disappear, leaving terrifying gaps in her memory. Now she is seeing horrifying visions; waking nightmares of violence and death. Around the world young women like her are being killed and Rose has a ringside seat. Mal Fergusson was raised to hunt demons in...
91) Phoenix
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When vampire Overseers execute Eva Wilder's commissioner husband for treason, she is thrown out of her lavish home and stripped of everything. She has nowhere to go but a shack on the beach. There she finds a shipwrecked Croatian, who has come from abroad to kill the vampires of Londo City, including the devil who killed her husband. Will she help him? Eva flat out refuses. She is done with risky decisions-and men. But as Eva waits for the train back...
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From Hollywood Hills mansions and Century City towers, to South Central motels and the oceanside refinery, The Beasts of Electra Drive by Rohan Quine spans a mythic L.A., following seven spectacular characters (or Beasts) from games designer Jaymi's game-worlds. The intensity of those Beasts' creation cycles leads to their release into real life in seemingly human forms, and to their combative protection of him from destructive rivals at mainstream...
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Here are the rules of living with a murderer.
One: Do not draw attention to yourself.
It's pretty self-explanatory -- if they don't notice you, they won't get any ideas about killing you. Be a ghost in your own home, if that's what it takes. After all, you can't kill a ghost.
Of course, when you live with a murderer, sit opposite them for every meal, share a washroom and a kitchen, sleep a mere twelve feet and two flimsy walls away from them,...
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The Picture of DeathAureus Argent aka Gabriel Drac, (the former Masked Chicken) a Magician paints a picture of Blake as a human magician he is the emperor of the magicians, and as a birthday present for Blake, it ends up in his afterlife office, where he is to have a reporter doing an article on him by order of Fate, his boss. How bad can this go? Really bad! But how bad? (last story in book not series)this book has tons more good stories from series...
95) The Dragon King
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Take an adolescent boy. Make him angry. Add dragons. Saving Prince Bruno from the church crypts hasn't turned out the way Nellie had planned. The boy is morose, angry, hell-bent on revenge, and incapable of wielding the power he has been given. But the group of refugees who have fled from the city have bigger concerns. It's winter, they need to survive, and find a safe place to recover and plan their next move. But the boy does something stupid. Through...
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Garro: Galaxy's End
The galaxy is burning with the flames of war as humanity is relentlessly besieged by the Order; a group of four lethal alien races each with their sinister motive; as they seek to enslave humanity. When Grand Master Garro of the Magi Order, humanity's group of magical individuals, and his team of superhumans stumbles across a plot to decimate the Galaxy bring back an ancient horror.
Garro: Rise of the Order
Upon learning the location...
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The Imagination Thief by Rohan Quine is about a web of secrets, triggered by the stealing and copying of people's imaginations and memories. It's about the magic that can be conjured up by images of people, in imagination or on film; the split between beauty and happiness in the world; and the allure of various kinds of power. It celebrates some of the most extreme possibilities of human imagination, personality and language, exploring the darkest...
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D. Eric Maikranz's electrifying debut novel, The Reincarnationist Papers, was the basis for the Paramount Pictures film Infinite. The Cognomina Codex continues the adventure!
Evan Michaels is back in a new life as a Syrian refugee. When strange memories of his former lives lead him back to Zurich, headquarters of his old family of fellow reincarnationists, the Cognomina, he must reacquire their trust to rejoin their ranks.
On the last leg of this...
99) Magic Unbound
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As the secrets of White Haven are uncovered, the witches are in more danger than ever.
Avery and the other witches are now being hunted, and they know someone is betraying them.
The question is, who?
Not only do they have to defend themselves against the powerful Favershams, but they also have the mysterious DI Newton to contend with.
And of course, Avery also has to battle her increasing attraction to the dangerously seductive Alex.
One thing...
100) Crossroads Magic
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When myths become real, danger stalks White Haven.
The Crossroads Circus has a reputation for bringing myths to life, but it also seems that where the circus goes, death follows. When the circus sets up on the castle grounds, Newton asks Avery and the witches to investigate. This proves trickier than they expected when an unexpected encounter finds Avery bound to a power she can't control.
Strange magic is making the myths a little too real.
As...
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