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A man. His ex-girlfriend's cat. A sadistic game show unlike anything in the universe: a dungeon crawl where survival depends on killing your prey in the most entertaining way possible....

The ratings and views are off the chart. The fans just can't get enough. The dungeon gets more dangerous each day. But in a grinder designed to chew up and spit out crawlers by the millions, Carl and Princess Donut need to work harder than ever just to survive.,,,

Arthur Parnassus lives a good life built on the ashes of a bad one. He’s the headmaster of a strange orphanage on a distant and peculiar island, and he hopes to soon be the adoptive father to the six dangerous and magical children who live there.

Linus Baker is a by-the-book case worker in the Department in Charge of Magical Youth. He's tasked with determining whether six dangerous magical children are likely to bring about the end of the world....

As one of the few witches in Britain, Mika Moon knows she has to hide her magic, keep her head down, and stay away from other witches so their powers don’t mingle and draw attention....

Cassie Andrews works in a New York City bookshop, shelving books, making coffee for customers, and living an unassuming, ordinary life. Until the day one of her favorite customers—a lonely yet charming old man—dies right in front of her....

Thirteen years ago, monsters emerged from the shadows and plunged Kierse’s world into a cataclysmic war of near-total destruction. The New York City she knew so well collapsed practically overnight. In the wake of that carnage, the Monster Treaty was created. A truce … of sorts.

With rent past due and a decent meal becoming an issue of some importance, Harry needs work, and soon....

Locked behind bars for three years, Shadow did his time, quietly waiting for the day when he could return to Eagle Point, Indiana....

Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden is Chicago's only openly practicing wizard. He is also dead broke....

The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves....

On a brisk autumn day, a 13-year-old boy stands on the shores of the gray Atlantic, near a silent amusement park....

Alice Hoffman's enchanting witch's brew of suspense, romance and magic - now a major motion picture from Warner Bros....

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ilona Andrews comes a novella featuring Roman, our favorite Volhv wizard in the always intriguing, colorful, volatile Kate Daniels world.

He's the ass-kicking, wise-cracking, hard-drinking demon hunter you never knew you needed. He's Quincy Harker, and he's here to save your ass whether you want it or not....

Welcome to Charon's Crossing. The tea is hot, the scones are fresh, and the dead are just passing through. When a reaper comes to collect Wallace from his own funeral, Wallace begins to suspect he might be dead....

Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, takes on a case as a favor to his friend Thomas, only to become the prime suspect in a series of ghastly murders.....

Kirsten Raymonde will never forget the night Arthur Leander, the famous Hollywood actor, had a heart attack on stage during a production of King Lear. That was the night when a devastating flu pandemic arrived in the city, and within weeks, civilization as we know it came to an end....

Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden is a very powerful wizard and a dedicated private eye. He is also a wise cracking trouble magnet....

The White Council of Wizards has drafted Harry Dresden as a Warden and assigned him to look into rumors of black magic in Chicago....

I refuse to spend the rest of my life with my childhood bully for a mate. I may be a cursed shifter, incapable of shifting—but I wasn't desperate. Not till the Alpha Supreme cast me out of the House of Fire and Fluorite for rejecting his son.

Opal is a lot of things—orphan, high school dropout, full-time cynic and part-time cashier—but above all, she's a determined to find a better life for her younger brother Jasper. One that gets them out of Eden, Kentucky, a town remarkable for only two things....

Harry Dresden, Chicago's only practicing professional wizard, should be happy that business is pretty good for a change....

When a killer vampire threatens to destroy head of Special Investigations Karrin Murphy's reputation, unless Harry delivers the powerful Word of Kemmler to her, he has no choice.....

Richard Mayhew is a young man with a good heart and an ordinary life, which is changed forever when he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk....

Dahlia Abernathy has only known revenge. When her parents were killed at an early age by vampires, Dahlia spent the rest of her life under the thumb of the Witch's Guild being trained to kill them. Her latest mission sends her undercover to a prestigious music academy in Venice, Italy. Her goal? To kill Professor Valtu Aminoff, her teacher and the notorious vampire who inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula. But getting close to a dangerous vampire like Professor Aminoff is one thing. Falling for him is another.

In Japan, cats are a symbol of good luck. As the myth goes, if you are kind to them, they'll one day return the favor. And if you are kind to the right cat, you might just find yourself invited to a mysterious coffee shop under a glittering Kyoto moon. This particular coffee shop is like no other. It has no fixed location, no fixed hours, and seemingly appears at random to adrift young people at crucial junctions in their lives. It's also run by talking cats.

When aimless twenty-something Mara lands a job as the night-shift production assistant on her cousin’s ghost hunting/home makeover reality TV show Haunt Sweet Home, she quickly determines her new role will require a healthy attitude toward duplicity. But as she hides fog machines in the woods and improvises scares to spook new homeowners, a series of unnerving incidents on set and a creepy new coworker force Mara to confront whether the person she's truly been deceiving and hiding from all along—is herself.

As a child, Delia Merriweather believed with all her heart that she was a witch. Because all Merriweather women were witches. There was just one problem: they had no magic. As an adult, Delia no longer believes magic even exists. However, when she accidentally breaks a hex and restores her family’s powers, she’s forced to accept a new reality: she is a witch. And maybe that’s why the crushingly handsome guy next door has been looking at her like he’s expecting her to fly off on a broomstick, cackling into the night.

She's back online! Harriet-Jacqui Furl with her twenty-eight original dystopian sci-fi, dark fantasy, and bitter-sweet romance stories. HJ Furl subjects disarmingly vulnerable characters to distressing conflict in a world of isolation and controversy. Is It Today? They meet their fate? What will you do when the harsh realities of modern life become too much for you to bear? Will fantasy be your only salvation? Is It Today?

Emma Case dreht total durch. Von Monstern umgeben zu sein, ist schon riskant genug, auch ohne gegen die Regeln zu verstoßen, aber als das sanftmütige Mädchen einen Welpen in Not hört, kann sie nicht widerstehen, sich auf verbotenes Terrain zu begeben. Nachdem sie herausgefunden hat, dass es sich bei der unglücklichen Kreatur um einen Wolfswandler handelt, ist sie fassungslos, dass das Rudel des Kleinen sie eines Verbrechens beschuldigt und sie entführt, um sie zu verhören.

As one of Earth's Guardians, one girl finds herself in a bond that might be the death of her. Elementals don't mix. They fight over territories constantly and news of their battles is everywhere. Vela, an Earth Elemental, wants two things: to one day run her very own flower shop and get over a devastating fire she experienced as a child. When Linc, a Fire Elemental, strolls into her life, she is immediately thrown into chaos when a bond flares up, connecting them forever. Linc pursues her relentlessly, for connections like this are rare, but Vela wants nothing to do with it or him.

Er hat mich furchtbar schikaniert und mir verbotenerweise ein kleines, geheimes Mädchen geschenkt. Jetzt ist er wieder da, in unserer kleinen Stadt, und mein Rudel zwingt mich, mit ihm zu verhandeln.

Die Stadt der Liebe hat dunkle Schatten ... An ihrem 19. Geburtstag beschließt Jane, sich endlich über die drei heiligen Regeln ihrer Mutter hinwegzusetzen. Zwar hat sie als Einzige in ihrer Familie keine magischen Kräfte, aber Jane will sich nicht länger einsperren lassen. Anstatt gehorsam ihre Medizin zu trinken und immer schön zu Hause zu bleiben, bricht sie aus und gerät prompt in die Fänge einer verfeindeten Familie. Ausgerechnet dort trifft sie auf den geheimnisvollen und gut aussehenden Archie.

Боря Шустов — не вполне человек. С детства он знает, что ему предстоит болеть, терпеть и умереть ради того, чтобы мир стал чуточку лучше. Знает, что он и ему подобные нужны для того, чтобы предотвращать беды на планете — и цена этой способности слишком велика. Борина мама рано умерла — но осталась и в нем, и в его папе. В прямом смысле тоже. Борин папа честно старается исполнять свой долг, но он тоже не вполне человек, и долг его несколько выходит за рамки человеческого. Боря думает, что у него есть выбор. Думает, что он может жить отдельно, а мир отдельно.

A captivating journey awaits Jonah, a young Black man whose brush with the unknown leaves him grappling with the pieces of a life he can no longer remember. When he awakens to a world that feels intimately familiar and unsettlingly distant, Jonah must connect the scattered dots of his existence, guided by a mysterious presence whose intentions are as cryptic as the shifting realities around him.

If no one knows that you saved the world, does it really count? Eight years ago the world almost ended and Max lost everything, accused of betrayal and failure. Now working as a Marshal, keeping the city and its people safe from supernatural dangers, Max thinks she's broken all ties to her past. She's just trying to do her job and live her life.

Was bist du bereit zu tun, um die zu beschützen, die du liebst? Die junge Hexe und Gerichtsmedizinerin Daphne ist erschüttert: Ihr Chicagoer Hexenzirkel wird von einem Mörder heimgesucht, der eine moderne Hexenjagd veranstaltet und ihre Freundinnen bei lebendigem Leib verbrennt. Um den Unbekannten aufzuhalten, muss sie wohl oder übel mit dem charmanten FBI-Agent Steven Rhys zusammenarbeiten, auch wenn sie sich der seltsamen Anziehungskraft, die sie in seiner Nähe spürt, lieber entziehen würde.

Апельсиновый джем, где зимой прячется солнце. Весенний воздух с ароматом свежести… Хомячок в колесе — и тот медленнее бегает, чем мы каждый день. И в этом водовороте перестаем замечать такие вроде бы мелочи. Кажется, жизнь идет мимо, а счастье — что-то недостижимое, пахнущее мамиными пирогами и оставшееся далеко-далеко, в теплом беззаботном детстве. Но если так только кажется? И даже взрослые могут вновь ощутить гармонию и видеть каждый день прекрасное? Эта книга вернет тебе гармонию и вдохновение, покажет, как найти чудесное в обыкновенном.

Irene Winters ist Agentin der unsichtbaren Bibliothek, die jenseits von Raum und Zeit als Tor zwischen den Welten existiert. Ihr Job ist es, einzigartige, ungewöhnliche oder rare Bücher für diese Bibliothek zu beschaffen. Sie hat gerade auf einer zwielichtigen Auktion einen seltenen Bram-Stoker-Text erworben, als sie und ihr Assistent Kai überfallen werden. Zu spät erkennt Irene, dass es nicht um das Buch, sondern um Kai geht.

Existing within a virtual world shared across millions of users while they sleep, the online game, Carpe Noctem, offers a life of magic and adventure. For a scruffy gunslinger like Max, and a snarky fairy like Kira, it’s home. Unfortunately, Noctem’s creator, and unhinged genius, has been fired. On his way out, he slapped a doomsday button to bring the system crashing down and send the global economy into ruin. To save their second home, Max and Kira will need to assemble a party of misfits to conquer a quest of nightmares, and discover the secrets that lurk within the game.

Dungeon Party links a fantasy world and the people playing in it. When longstanding personality conflicts erupt, the volatile Randall Keller secedes from Alan Crandall's gaming group. In pursuit of a coveted prize at an upcoming convention, Alan replaces Randall with two female recruits who reinvigorate the campaign. Randall chooses a darker path by spreading infectious cynicism through the gaming community while plotting his revenge. When the Middle Mirth convention gets underway, Alan's group must stop Randall and his avatar.

Tech designer Sloane Reinhart and her ten-year-old daughter, Gwyneth, were living ordinary lives outside of Milan, Italy, when an extraordinary event occurred. The sky turned to swirling hues of purplish red and blue, and a thunderclap shook the land. Then there was a blinding flash and a gale force of wind that separated Sloane and Gwyn from each other—and Earth.

Lanie saved her student's life on Senior Prank Night but broke her back and blunted some of her semi-pseudo-superhero powers. Now it's four years later, and Lanie's orderly life is starting to fall apart. Her brothers are living with her while their parents are out of the country on another book research trip. Not so bad, but their parents have missed two check-in phone calls already. The newspaper where Lanie works has been taken over by a conglomerate she now refers to as the Evil Empire. A series of increasingly nasty pranks lead her to believe someone is out to get her.

What do you get when you mix a couple of immortals, a snotty archangel, the Father of Lies, a redneck street preacher and a couple of wiseass waitresses from Texas?

Private eye Eddie Valiant doesn't like Toons - those cartoon characters who live side-by-side with humans. But Eddie will work for a Toon if his cash supply is low enough. So he reluctantly agrees when Roger Rabbit, a Toon who plays straight man (or should that be straight rabbit) in the Baby Herman cartoon series, asks him to find out who's been trying - unsuccessfully - to buy his contract from the DeGreasy Brothers syndicate. Then Rocco DeGreasy is murdered - and Roger is the prime suspect!

Alex Philothea thought life would be less complicated now that she was no longer the interim director of KHNM. She was wrong. The Keepers of the Holy and Noble Maat (KHNM) shield the mortal realm from the lethal chaos of the ancient Egyptian Gods. Under a crushing eviction deadline of midnight, the agency is being driven from its headquarters by ongoing litigation with the Gods. The agents of KHNM race against the clock to pack unstable supernatural artifacts they have guarded for centuries. With nowhere to go and only a menu of bad options to choose from, the agency shelves Alex’s plan ...

Eleven years at the FBI taught me two things—how to stay alive when a gun is pointed at my head, and that I never want to work for anyone else ever again. When I moved to Atlanta and started my own PI firm, I swore I’d never make my living chasing down missing or philandering spouses. But the rent is due, so when a woman knocked on my door and offered me a boatload of money to track down her missing husband who helped himself to a family heirloom on his way out, I had a hard time saying no. Seemed like easy money.

The Light is his city's patron superhero. As his sidekick Red, Zach Redinger, is suddenly thrust into a world without his champion after the mighty TL falls to a mysterious super-powered madman known only as Black. Now Red, a speedster named Janet, and Franklin (The Light's wheelchair-bound former side-kick,) must find Black and prevent his horrible plans from coming to fruition. If they can't pinpoint this maniac before his doomsday weapon is activated tomorrow might not come for anyone.

The original Codex stories appeared in The Crimson Pact anthologies as The Transition and The Merging. These stories are connected to each other, and to Failed Crusade at their roots, but occur many years later. They follow an unsuspecting foreign exchange student named Sloan Boyle. A seemingly innocent interaction with a stranger in a Spanish Cafe leads to a dangerous series of events, and a weighty discovery that threatens everything Sloan ever knew about this world and his role in it.