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Bound in an unwanted marriage, Freya spends her days gutting fish but dreams of becoming a warrior. And of putting an axe in her boorish husband's back. Freya's dreams abruptly become reality when her husband betrays her to the region's jarl, landing her in a fight to the death against his son, Bjorn. To survive, Freya is forced to reveal her deepest secret: She possesses a drop of a goddess's blood, which makes her a shield maiden with magic capable...
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"When celebrated writer Alma Cruz inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, she turns it into a place to bury her untold stories--literally. She creates a graveyard for manuscript drafts and revisions and the characters whose lives she tried and failed to bring to life and who still haunt her. Alma wants her characters to rest in peace, but they have other ideas, and the cemetery becomes a mysterious sanctuary for their true narratives."--...
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[2024]
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"When Silvia and her mother finally land in a place called Island City, after being expelled from their ancestral home in a not-too-distant future, they end up living and working at The Morningside, a crumbling luxury tower where Silvia's aunt, Ena, has been serving as the superintendent. Silvia feels unmoored in her life because her mother has been so diligently secretive about the family's past. But in Ena there is an opening: a person willing to...
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"Doing the New Year's break, Plum and her friends travel to fancy, fashionable Nakhon Island to stay with Sam and his mother, the powerful Lady Ubon. The New Year always brings food, parties, and the grand old tradition of making a wish. At first, Plum is dazzled by the big city. But under the glittering surface, many secrets lurk. Mysterious tremors that shake the ground are growing worse by the day. Nakhon's troubles give Plum a chance to fulfill...
8) Angelus
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The heart-pounding conclusion to the Books of Raziel trilogy, a gothic supernatural tale about a girl who discovers she holds the keys to both Heaven and Hell-and that angels, demons, and all the creatures in between will stop at nothing to possess her and control that power.
Like sand in an hourglass, time is slipping away . . .
The war started by three powerful angel siblings-Raziel, Lucifel, and Israfel-has divided the kingdoms of both...
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GraphicAudio
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2024
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Adapted, Dramatized
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"Sarah J. Maas's CRESCENT CITY series begins with House of Earth and Blood: the story of half-Fae and half-human Bryce Quinlan as she seeks revenge in a contemporary fantasy world of magic, danger, and searing romance. Bryce Quinlan had the perfect life-working hard all day and partying all night-until a demon murdered her closest friends, leaving her bereft, wounded, and alone. When the accused is behind bars but the crimes start up again, Bryce...
10) Campout
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An abandoned town, a forgotten graveyard and sleeping demons waiting to trap the unwary await a group of teens preparing for a memorable summer campout.
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Life; an endless mingling and mixing of light and darkness.
A mystery to most, but we demons know all of it. Every world, every rule, every wonder of the worlduniverse. We have descended onto the world "Earth" once more, to share our wisdom with you. The time has come to amaze you humans once more with the wonders of the worlduniverse.
Prepare yourself, as your mind takes flight, ready to find adventure, wonder, bafflement and strangeness at every...
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The world is cruel. Lycans have enslaved humans. Killing them as they please, calling their slaves toys. The king and his sons, known to be the worst of them all. But in all that cruelty, a girl was born. Deep in the woods, amongst a group of humans calling themselves the resistance. Elizabeth was stubborn, fearless and never strayed from danger. But Elizabeth was also born blind. Due to her puny and innocent appearance most felt a need to protect...
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Aceptar la oscuridad es la única manera de enfrentarla
Simón Pálafox ha sido invadido por algo oscuro y maligno. Una sombra arcaica que araña su alma y lo conduce al límite de la locura. Él intenta sobrellevar su vida tras la catástrofe del virus Inframantis, al tiempo que –a su alrededor– el mundo no logra abandonar el miedo constante de saber que Cielo e Infierno son una realidad.
Tras varios meses de confinamiento, Adrián y los demás...
14) Tumba de brujas
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Español
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El mal siempre encuentra la manera de regresar
El aquelarre entra en alerta ante la noticia de que un grupo de brujos está tratando de traer al plano físico a un poderoso demonio. Atemorizados por la idea de que Asmodeo esté buscando reencarnar, suman esfuerzos para proteger a la nueva integrante de su clan, quien podría convertirse en el vehículo perfecto para que este ser regrese a la vida. Entonces, el coven se divide para cumplir con su...
15) Feed the Fire
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Feel The Pull. Answer The Call.
Anya, a young woman who keeps to the shadows, is drawn out into the light and learns the hard way that magic can never really die. Her days of thieving turns into a fight for survival.
James, an older man with a bad leg, passes the time tending to the sick and wounded. Some people see him as a saint, others whisper about darker secrets he holds.
Runa is haunted by her past with Anya. One choice Runa made drove them...
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Ten creepy, scary dark fantasy short stories that will turn you blood to ice.The hour is getting late. A fire crackles and pops and the group huddles together closer to the fire, basking in the comfort of its warmth and light. The s'mores are a pleasant memory.Somewhere off in the distance an owl hoots. Crickets are chirping and the eerie howl of the coyote punctuates the symphony of night sounds.It is time for spooky campfire stories. You know, the...
17) Midnight Fear
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Even the strongest of vampires has a breaking point: for Marcelle, it was being tortured by a witch in New York and trying to return to her regular existence as if nothing had happened. She has too much to do to allow herself to focus on something as trivial as trauma. Occult hunters accost her witch allies; an aggravating pyromancer needles a fiery thorn in her side; and the coronation of one of her lovers, the vampire crown prince of New Ulster,...
18) Rosa Sanguinem
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Stories are their trials. Poetry is their woes.
They cry to our world, begging for their voices to be heard.
What can save them from their heinous fate?
These tales of harrowing sorrows are words of the tribulations thrusted upon them by cruel creatures of darkness. The wickedly fiendish entities haunting them, dragging them into an endless wretched despair. Monsters fester and boil as they find new ways to corrupt one's spirits, filling doubts...
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Angel Kael refuses to believe that his brother has become a fallen angel because, in his opinion, Logan is the best Guardian Angel of them all. How could he have fallen? Further questions that baffle Kael are, who murdered the great Prophet Joshua of Earth and why? These questions finally drive Kael to break one of Heaven's rules - going down to Earth - to investigate. But on Earth, he quickly discovers that nothing is as it seems and before long,...
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The old man had treasures to sell and a scary secret to keep. This collection of eleven short occult stories tells his tale of bloodcurdling horror.Ten people buy treasures from the flea market with one common thread. The vendor is a mysterious old man selling off his collection of old stuff. This short story collection chronicles the nightmare of the buyers endured.One by one, the buyers discover that their treasure is really a horror in disguise....
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