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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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"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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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....
10) Shades of War
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THERE'S MORE THAN ONE ROAD TO REDEMPTIONIt began as a simple request: Journey to Asur's Pass, an isolated military fort in the savage wilds of the Northern Jungles and escort a wayward son back to the safety of his family farm before the tensions building between humans and dark elves erupt into a full-blown civil war.But nothing is ever simple for someone who finds trouble as easily as Sevy does. There's a madman roaming the jungles, and the ghosts...
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Step into the haunting world of Havoc: The Rise of Ɖavo, where the brutal war that gripped Croatia in 1991 is just the beginning of a genocidal wave that threatens humanity's very existence. But one man has been planning for this all along. To him, the Battle of Vukovar and the spread of violence symbolize an imperfect world that needs to be torn down and rebuilt from the ground up. He sees himself as a hero, a psychopath, an invincible death machine,...
12) Without a Shadow
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You can only teach your shadow one trick . . .
Adlai Bringer remembers going to the desert market with her father: The colorful tents, the wink of gold, and her father's shadow, black as night, as it moved of its own accord and stole whatever trinket she wanted. He called it the Shadow Game.
After her father disappears, Adlai keeps going back to the market determined to find some trace of him and stealing what she can with her shadow. Until one...
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I thought planning a wedding would be easy, but I was so wrong. "Farrah … There are important matters that we must discuss. Please return home soon."The Fae part of my heritage demands that I need to get my estranged Fae father's blessing before I wed. I haven't seen him in years, and I don't know where in Faerie he is, but if I don't get his blessing, it will turn into a curse that will eventually poison my upcoming marriage.But Faerie is no place...
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A dance with the fae will change everything.
In a Highland village forgotten by the world, the young people who remain after war and flu will soon head south to make something of themselves.
Moira Jean and her friends venture to the forest for a last night of laughter before parting ways. Moira Jean is being left behind. She too planned to leave once—but her lover died in France and, with him, her future. The friends light a fire and dance. But,...
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From New York Times bestselling author David Mack comes a visionary World War II-era adventure. The Midnight Front is the epic first novel in the Dark Arts series.
On the eve of World War Two, Nazi sorcerers come gunning for Cade but kill his family instead. His one path of vengeance is to become an apprentice of The Midnight Front-the Allies' top-secret magickal warfare program-and become a sorcerer himself.
Unsure who will kill him first-his...
16) The Iron Codex
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New York Times bestselling author David Mack's Dark Arts series continues as the wizards of World War II become the sorcerers of the Cold War in this globe-spanning spy-thriller sequel to The Midnight Front.
Dragon Award Finalist-Best Alternate History
Den of Geek-Best New Fantasy Books for Februaray 2019
1954: Cade Martin, hero of the Midnight Front during the war, has been going rogue without warning or explanation, and his mysterious absences...
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After being exiled, wiped of her memory, and relocated, vivacious Shayde Whisper falls down a rabbit hole of her own making when a sinister voice emerges in her head, triggering powerful magic beyond her control and unraveling the forgotten memories of her past. Follow Shayde Whisper in the first arc of her journey as she begins to discover the darkness that lurks beneath the mythical land of Athea-and within herself!
18) Soggy Landing
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Not very long ago, Soggy Landing was an island paradise. Now, it's a brutal settler city. A group of wealthy, magical cultists rules from the top. A leafy plague afflicts all but the most privileged, and it never stops raining. Our hero, Otso, is a self-sufficient stoner wizard bear who comes to understand community and camaraderie when she arrives in Soggy Landing. A battle between the haves and the have-nots is coming to a head, and Otso and her...
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Oliver is a seemingly typical 12 year old boy… except for a mysterious family history that seems to start and end with his mother, and unexplainable powers, that is.
He can do things other boys can't, to the point of landing him in some trouble. Baffled by the surreal cartoonish nature of his abilities and followed by a murder of peculiar crows, the mystery behind Oliver's family history finally unfolds!
Written by fan-favorite writer Tony Fleecs...
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A darkly imaginative writer in the tradition of Joe Abercrombie, Peter V. Brett, and Neil Gaiman conjures a gritty mind-bending fantasy, set in a world where delusion becomes reality . . . and the fulfillment of humanity's desires may well prove to be its undoing.
When belief defines reality, those with the strongest convictions-the crazy, the obsessive, the delusional-have the power to shape the world.
And someone is just mad enough to believe...
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