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  An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany

  by Bill Buford

  Publisher: A highly acclaimed writer and editor, Bill Buford left his job at The New Yorker for a most unlikely destination: the kitchen at Babbo, the revolutionary Italian restaurant created and ruled by superstar chef Mario Batali.Finally realizing a long-held desire to learn first-hand the experience of restaurant cooking, Buford soon finds himself drowning in improperly cubed carrots and... (more)
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  The Dresden Files: Book 7

  Dead Beat

  by Jim Butcher

  Paranormal investigations are Harry 'Dresden's business, and Chicago is his beat as he tries to bring law and order to a world of wizards and monsters that exists alongside everyday life. And though most inhabitants of the Windy City don't believe in magic, the Special Investigations department of the Chicago PD knows better.Karin Murphy is the head of SI and Harry's good friend. So when a killer vampire... (more)
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  Codex Alera: Book 5

  Princeps' Fury

  by Jim Butcher

  From the New York Times bestselling author of Captain’s Fury and the Dresden Files novels. Tavi of Calderon, now recognized as Princeps Gaius Octavian and heir to the crown, has achieved a fragile alliance with Alera’s oldest foes, the savage Canim. But when Tavi and his legions guide the Canim safely to their lands, his worst fears are realized. The dreaded Vord—the enemy of Aleran and Cane alike—have... (more)
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  The Dresden Files: Book 11

  Turn Coat

  by Jim Butcher

  Harry Dresden, professional wizard, has done his best to keep his nose clean where the White Council of Wizards is concerned. Even so, his past misdeeds have cast a constant shadow of suspicion over him in the eyes of the Wardens, those wizards responsible for enforcing the Laws of Magic. Now Dresden finds himself faced with a nightmarish dilemma: Morgan, formerly his chief persecutor among the Warden,... (more)
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  The Dresden Files: Book 6

  Blood Rites

  by Jim Butcher

  HARRY DRESDEN--WIZARDLost items found. Paranormal Investigations.Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates.No Love Potions, Endless Purses, orOther Entertainment.For Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, there have been worse assignments than going undercover on the set of an adult film. Dodging flaming monkey poo, for instance. Or going toe-to-leaf with a walking plant... (more)
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  The Dresden Files: Book 4

  Summer Knight

  by Jim Butcher

  HARRY DRESDEN -- WIZARDLost items found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates.No Love Potions, Endless Purses, or Other EntertainmentEver since his girlfriend left town to deal with her newly acquired taste for blood, Harry Dresden has been down and out in Chicago. He can't pay his rent. He's alienating his friends. He can't even recall the last time he took a... (more)
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  The Dresden Files: Book 9

  White Night

  by Jim Butcher

  Someone is targeting Chicago's magic practitioners, the members of the supernatural underclass who don't possess enough power to become full-fledged wizards. Some have vanished. Others appear to be victims of suicide. But now the culprit has left a calling card at one of the crime scenes- a message for Harry Dresden.Harry sets out to find the killer, but his investigation turns up evidence pointing to... (more)
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  The Dresden Files: Book 2

  Fool Moon

  by Jim Butcher

  HARRY DRESDEN -- WIZARD Lost items found. Paranormal Investigations.Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates.No Love Potions, Endless Purses, orOther EntertainmentBusiness has been slow. Okay, business has been dead. And not even of the undead variety. You would think Chicago would have a little more action for the only professional wizard in the phone book. But lately, Harry Dresden... (more)
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  The Dresden Files: Book 5

  Death Masks

  by Jim Butcher

  HARRY DRESDEN -- WIZARDLost items found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates.No Love Potions, Endless Purses, or Other EntertainmentHarry Dresden, Chicago's only practicing professional wizard, should be happy that business is pretty good for a change. But now he's getting more than he bargained for:A duel with the Red Court of Vampires' champion, who... (more)
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  The Dresden Files: Book 8

  Proven Guilty

  by Jim Butcher

  There's no love lost between Harry Dresden, the only wizard in the Chicago phone book, and the White Council of Wizards, who find him brash and undisciplined. But war with the vampires has thinned their ranks, so the Council has drafted Harry as a Warden and assigned him to look into rumors of black magic in the Windy City.As Harry adjusts to his new role, another problem arrives in the form of the... (more)
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  The Dresden Files: Book 3

  Grave Peril

  by Jim Butcher

  HARRY DRESDEN — WIZARDLost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, or Other Entertainment.Harry Dresden’s faced some pretty terrifying foes during his career. Giant scorpions. Oversexed vampires. Psychotic werewolves. All par for the course for Chicago’s only professional wizard.But in all of Harry’s years of supernatural... (more)
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  The Dresden Files: Book 1

  Storm Front

  by Jim Butcher

  HARRY DRESDEN—WIZARDLost items found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, Or Other EntertainmentHarry Dresden is the best at what he does. Well, technically, he's the only at what he does. So when the Chicago P.D. has a case that transcends mortal creativity or capability, they come to him for answers. For the "everyday" world is... (more)
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  Jim Butcher Short Stories and Novels Related to the Dresden Files

  Mean Streets

  by Jim Butcher, Simon R. Green, Thomas E. Sniegoski, Kat Richardson

  From four of today’s hottest fantasy authors all-new novellas of dark nights, cruel cities, and paranormal P.I.s. The best paranormal private investigators have been brought together in a single volume and cases don’t come any harder than this. New York Times bestselling author Jim Butcher delivers a hard-boiled tale in which Harry Dresden’s latest case may be his last. Nightside dweller John Taylor is... (more)
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  The Dresden Files: Book 10

  Small Favor

  by Jim Butcher

  The new novel in the New York Times bestselling Dresden Files series. No one's tried to kill Harry Dresden for almost an entire year, and his life finally seems to be calming down. For once, the future looks fairly bright. But the past casts one hell of a long shadow. An old bargain has placed Harry in debt to Mab, monarch of the Winter Court of the Sidhe, the Queen of Air and Darkness-and she's calling in... (more)
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  The Dresden Files (Graphic Novels): Book 1

  Welcome to the Jungle

  by Jim Butcher, Ardian Syaf

  When the supernatural world spins out of control, when the police can’t handle what goes bump in the night, when monsters come screaming out of nightmares and into the mean streets, there’s just one man to call: Harry Dresden, the only professional wizard in the Chicago phone book. A police consultant and private investigator, Dresden has to walk the dangerous line between the world of night and the light of day. ... (more)
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  Jim Butcher Short Stories and Novels Related to the Dresden Files

  Backup

  by Jim Butcher

  Let's get something clear right up front. I'm not Harry Dresden. Harry's a wizard. A genuine, honest-to-goodness wizard. He's Gandalf on crack and an IV of Red Bull, with a big leather coat and a .44 revolver in his pocket. He'll spit in the eye of gods and demons alike if he thinks it needs to be done, and to hell with the consequences--and yet somehow my little brother manages to remain a decent human being. ... (more)
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  Codex Alera: Book 1

  Furies of Calderon

  by Jim Butcher

  In the realm of Alera, where people bond with the furies--elementals of earth, air, fire, water, wood, and metal--fifteen-year-old Tavi struggles with his lack of furycrafting. But when his homeland erupts in chaos--when rebels war with loyalists and furies clash with furies-- Tavi's simple courage will turn the tides of war.
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  Codex Alera: Book 2

  Academ's Fury

  by Jim Butcher

  In Furies of Calderon, bestselling author Jim Butcher introduced readers to a world where the forces of nature take physical form. But now, it's human nature that threatens to throw the realm into chaos.
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  Spy High (series 1): Book 2

  Spy High Mission Two: Chaos Rising

  by A. J. Butcher

  AJ Butcher has been aware of the power of words since avoiding a playground beating at age seven because he "told good stories." He's been trying to do the same thing ever since. He currently works at a girls' grammar school in Dorset, England.
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  Spy High (series 1): Book 1

  Spy High Mission One

  by A. J. Butcher

  They can hack any computer, break any code, take out bad guys with SleepShot from two hundred metres, and vanish utterly without trace. The one thing Bond Team haven't got their heads round is, er, bonding. Jake and Ben want to kill each other, Jen thinks Lori is an airhead bimbo, and the only thing Eddie respects about Cally is her butt. All this is very bad news. Because if they don't get it together for their... (more)