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  The Heroes of Olympus

  The Demigod Diaries

  by Rick Riordan

  What dangers do runaway demigods Luke and Thalia face on their way to Camp Half-Blood? Are Percy and Annabeth up to the task of rescuing stolen goods from a fire-breathing giant who doesn't take kindly to intruders? How exactly are Leo, Piper, and Jason supposed to find a runaway table, dodge a band of party-loving Maenads (who just might be a little psychotic), and stave off a massive explosion...all in one hour... (more)
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  Dark Hunter: Book 21

  Time Untime

  by Sherrilyn Kenyon

  The Mayans aren’t the only ones with a 2012 prophecy…Long before recorded history, there was a warrior so feared that everyone trembled before his wrath. Only a brutal betrayal by the one closest to him could defeat him. But not even death was the end of a man so strong.The Time Untime approaches…Kateri Avani has been plagued her entire life with dreams she doesn’t understand. Images... (more)
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  The Undead-Betsy: Book 11

  Undead and Unstable

  by MaryJanice Davidson

  Betsy’s heartbroken over her friend Marc’s death, but at least his sacrifice should change the future—her future­—for the better. But it’s not as if Betsy’s next few hundred years will be perfect. After all, her half-sister Laura is the AntiChrist, Laura’s mother is Satan, and family gatherings will always be more than a little awkward.What’s really bothering Betsy is that ever since she and Laura... (more)
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  All Souls Trilogy: Book 2

  Shadow of Night

  by Deborah Harkness

  Shortly after Diana Bishop and Matthew Clairmont timewalk to London, 1590, they discover that the past may not provide a safe haven after all. Reclaiming his former identity as poet and spy Matthew Roydon, the vampire falls back in step with a group of radicals known as the School of Night who share dangerous ideas about God, science, and man. Many of his friends are unruly daemons - the creative minds of the age... (more)
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  Celestial Blues: Book 1

  The Taken

  by Vicki Pettersson

  He's a fallen angel. She's a rockabilly reporter. Together they must solve a deadly string of murders plaguing the mortal and the immortal worlds. Griffin Shaw used to be a PI, but that was over fifty years ago when gumshoes hoofed the streets . . . and he was still alive. Now he's a Centurion, an angel who assists other murdered souls through their journey to the afterlife. But while Shaw might be an... (more)
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  Diesel & Tucker: Book 2

  Wicked Business

  by Janet Evanovich

  Lizzy and Diesel return in an all-new adventure in the #1 New York Times bestselling series from Janet Evanovich!Lizzy Tucker's once normal life as a pastry chef in Salem, Massachusetts, turns upside down as she battles both sinister forces and an inconvenient attraction to her unnaturally talented but off-limits partner, Diesel. When Harvard University English professor and dyed-in-the wool romantic... (more)
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  The Magician's Assistant

  by Ann Patchett

  A secretive magician’s death becomes the catalyst for his partner’s journey of self-discovery in this “enchanting” book (San Francisco Chronicle) “that is something of a magic trick in itself-a 1990s love story with the grace and charm of a nineteenth-century novel" (Newsweek).
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  Spook

  Science Tackles the Afterlife

  by Mary Roach

  AKA "Six Feet Over""Equal parts Groucho Marx and Stephen Jay Gould, both enlightening and entertaining."— Sunday Denver Post & Rocky Mountain News The best-selling author of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers now trains her considerable wit and curiosity on the human soul. What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that's that—the million-year nap? Or will some part of my... (more)
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  Sianim: Book 1

  Masques

  by Patricia Briggs

  After an upbringing of proper behavior and oppressive expectations, Aralorn fled her noble birthright for a life of adventure as a mercenary spy. But her latest mission involves more peril than she ever imagined.Agents of Sianim have asked her to gather intelligence on the increasingly popular and powerful sorcerer Geoffrey ae'Magi. Soon Aralorn comes to see past the man's striking charisma- and into a... (more)
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  Dream Man

  by Linda Howard

  Had she finally met the man she longed for...or was she dreaming? Marlie Keen was trying to lead a quiet, ordinary life. She thought the knowing -- the clairvoyance that allowed her to witness crimes as they happened -- had been destroyed in the nightmare of her past. Then one night it returned with a vengeance, and she desperately needed to find someone to make it stop. Detective Dane Hollister of the... (more)
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  The Vartanian Family: Book 1

  Die for Me

  by Karen Rose

  COME TO ME The first victim is found in a snow-covered Philadelphia field. Detective Vito Ciccotelli enlists the aid of archaeologist Sophie Johannsen to determine exactly what lies beneath the frozen ground. Despite years of unearthing things long buried, nothing can prepare Sophie for the matrix of graves dug with chilling precision. The victims buried there haunt her. But the empty graves terrify her-the... (more)
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  Jack Daniels Mysteries: Book 6

  Cherry Bomb

  by J. A. Konrath

  At the end of Fuzzy Navel, J. A. Konrath surprised readers with an agonizing cliff-hanger: One of Lieutenant Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels's loved ones is dead. But who? Readers were left clamoring to know more. Cherry Bomb, the sixth Jack Daniels mystery, opens at the funeral. While Jack stands graveside, tears in her eyes, her cell phone rings. It's the killer, escaped maniac Alex Kork, taunting Jack, drawing... (more)
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  The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane

  aka, The Lost Book of Salem

  by Katherine Howe

  Harvard graduate student Connie Goodwin needs to spend her summer doing research for her doctoral dissertation. But when her mother asks her to handle the sale of Connie's grandmother's abandoned home near Salem, she can't refuse. As she is drawn deeper into the mysteries of the family house, Connie discovers an ancient key within a seventeenth-century Bible. The key contains a yellowing fragment of parchment with... (more)
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  Sh*t My Dad Says

  by Justin Halpern

  “If you’re wondering if there is a real man behind the quotes on Twitter, the answer is a definite and laugh-out-loud yes.” (Christian Lander, New York Times bestselling author of Stuff White People Like ) “Justin Halpern tosses lightening bolts of laughter out of his pocket like he is shooting dice in a back alley. In one sweep of a paragraph, he ranges from hysterical to disgusting to touching—and does it all... (more)
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  Unbearable Lightness

  A Story of Loss and Gain

  by Portia de Rossi

  Actress Portia de Rossi shares her struggles with eating disorders and her sexuality in this riveting memoir.
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  Fallen: Book 4

  Rapture

  by Lauren Kate

  The sky is dark with wings. . . .Lucinda Price steps out of the Announcers with new knowledge about her past lives. Luce's true love, Daniel, begins to retrace the Angel's steps from the Fall. Through a book written by Daniel they struggle to find the important relics needed to find the original place of the fall. Outcasts, Demons, Transeternals and Angels team up to break Lucinda's and... (more)
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  The Night Strangers

  by Chris Bohjalian

  In a dusty corner of a basement in a rambling Victorian house in northern New Hampshire, a door has long been sealed shut with 39 six-inch-long carriage bolts. The home's new owners are Chip and Emily Linton and their twin ten-year-old daughters. Together they hope to rebuild their lives there after Chip, an airline pilot, has to ditch his 70-seat regional jet in Lake Champlain due to double engine failure. The... (more)
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  The Dark Ones (Katie MacAlister): Book 9

  Much Ado About Vampires

  by Katie MacAlister

  Bitter at first bite…Corazon Ferreira is one heck of a jaded woman. Not only did her husband dump her for a pretty, vivacious blonde, but her sister has lost her mind and married a vampire. Worse, it turns out that Cora herself was a vampire’s mate in a past life…the very same vampire she witnessed killing someone.If only Cora hadn’t inadvertently been caught up in the ill-laid plans of a... (more)
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  Magic Most Foul: Book 1

  Darker Still

  by Leanna Renee Hieber

  The Picture of Dorian Gray meets Pride and Prejudice, with a dash of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. New York City, 1882. Seventeen-year-old Natalie Stewart's latest obsession is a painting of the handsome British Lord Denbury. Something in his striking blue eyes calls to her. As his incredibly life-like gaze seems to follow her, Natalie gets the uneasy feeling that details of the painting keep changing... ... (more)
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  Michael Vey: Book 1

  Michael Vey

  The Prisoner of Cell 25

  by Richard Paul Evans

  My name is Michael Vey, and the story I’m about to tell you is strange. Very strange. It’s my story. To everyone at Meridian High School, Michael Vey is an ordinary fourteen-year-old. In fact, the only thing that seems to set him apart is the fact that he has Tourette’s syndrome. But Michael is anything but ordinary. Michael has special powers. Electric powers. Michael thinks he's unique until he discovers that... (more)