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  The Fury Trilogy: Book 1

  Fury

  by Elizabeth Miles

  The first book in a paranormal teen trilogy featuring three beautiful, mysterious girls wreaking havoc on a small New England town.Sometimes sorry isn't enough....It’s winter break in Ascension, Maine. The snow is falling and everything looks pristine and peaceful. But not all is as it seems...Between cozy traditions and parties with her friends, Emily loves the holidays. And this... (more)
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  Abandon: Book 1

  Abandon

  by Meg Cabot

  She knows what it's like to die. Now Death wants her back.Seventeen-year-old Pierce knows what happens to us when we die.That's how she met John Hayden, the mysterious stranger who's made returning to normal life—or at least life as Pierce knew it before the accident—next to impossible.Though she thought she escaped him—starting a new school in a whole new place—it turns out she was... (more)
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  The Sandman: Book 9

  The Kindly Ones

  by Neil Gaiman

  They have had many names: The Erinyes. The Eumenides. The Dirae. The Furies. Agents of vengeance, implacable and unstoppable, they do not rest until the crime they seek to punish is washed clean with blood. It is to them, THE KINDLY ONES, that Lyta Hall turns when her baby Daniel is taken from her, and it is Dream of the Endless who becomes their target. But behind a mother's grief and unyielding rage, there are... (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 6

  First Lord's Fury

  by Jim Butcher

  The next book in the thrilling New York Times bestselling series. For years he has endured the endless trials and triumphs of a man whose skill and power could not be restrained. Battling ancient enemies, forging new alliances, and confronting the corruption within his own land, Gaius Octavian became a legendary man of war—and the rightful First Lord of Alera. But now, the savage Vord are on the march, and... (more)
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  Covenant: Book 2

  Pure

  by Jennifer L. Armentrout

  There is need. And then there is Fate...Being destined to become some kind of supernatural electrical outlet isn't exactly awesome--especially when Alexandria's "other half" is everywhere she goes. Seth's in her training room, outside her classes, and keeps showing up in her bedroom--so not cool. Their connection does have some benefits, like staving off her nightmares of the tragic showdown with her... (more)
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  Star Trek: Invasion: Book 4

  The Final Fury

  by Dafydd Ab Hugh

  For ages they have sought to claim our worlds. Now, at last, we take the battle to them. . . . Far from the Federation's desperate war against the invading Furies, the crew of the U.S.S. Voyager TM encounters something they never expected to hear again: a Starfleet distress call. The signal leads them to a vast assemblage of non-humanoid races engaged in a monumental project of incredible magnitude. Here is the... (more)
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  Shades of Fury: Book 1

  Red Hot Fury

  by Kasey MacKenzie

  Hell hath nothing worse than a Fury scorned... As a Fury, Marissa Holloway belongs to an Arcane race that has avenged wrongdoing since time immemorial. As Boston's Chief Magical Investigator for the past five years, she's doing what she was born to: solving supernatural crimes. It's far from business as usual when the body of one of Riss's sister Furies washes up in Boston harbor. Riss discovers that the... (more)
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  Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Book 1

  The Lightning Thief

  by Rick Riordan

  Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out of boarding school ... again. And that's the least of his troubles. Lately, mythological monsters and the gods of Mount Olympus seem to be walking straight out of the pages of Percy's Greek mythology textbook and into his life. And worse, he's angered a few of them. Zeus's master lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect, for Poseidon has evidence of... (more)
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  Codex Alera: Book 4

  Captain's Fury

  by Jim Butcher

  After two years of bitter conflict with the hordes of invading Canim, Tavi of Calderon, now Captain of the First Aleran Legion, realizes that a peril far greater than the Canim exists-the terrifying Vord, who drove the savage Canim from their homeland. Now, Tavi must find a way to overcome the centuries-old animosities between Aleran and Cane if an alliance is to be forged against their mutual enemy. And he must... (more)
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  Crazy Hair

  by Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean

  "In my hair Gorillas leap, Tigers stalk, And ground sloths sleep. Prides of lions Make their lair Somewhere in my crazy hair."
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  Prometheus Unbound

  by Percy Bysshe Shelley

  One of the most ambitious dramatic poems ever written, Percy Bysshe Shelley's Prometheus Unbound tells the story of the Titan Prometheus who gave mankind the secret of fire in open defiance to the decrees of Zeus, and who, as punishment for this generosity, was chained to the Caucasus Mountains and exposed to horrible tortures. Inspired by the Prometheus Bound of Aeschylus, Shelley's play serves as a sort of... (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 Sandman Presents

  The Furies

  by Mike Carey

  If there's an heir to the comics writing tradition of Neil Gaiman's Sandman, it's Carey, who currently writes the spinoff series Lucifer and peppers his stories with Gaiman's brand of clever, learned theology. This tale is a sequel to Gaiman's Sandman book The Kindly Ones. (Both titles, in fact, refer to the Eumenides from Greek mythology.) Those who haven't read Gaiman's book will likely be baffled by a few... (more)
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  Star Trek: Invasion: Book 2

  The Soldiers of Fear

  by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Greg Cox, Dean Wesley Smith

  Decades after the original Starship Enterprise wards off the conquering Furies, who once owned the entire Alpha Quadrant, Captain Picard and his crew face a second confrontation and become subject to the alien's mind-altering powers.
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  Vengeance Bound

  by Justina Ireland

  The Goddess Test meets Dexter in an edgy, compelling debut about one teen’s quest for revenge… no matter how far it takes her.Cory Graff is not alone in her head. Bound to a deal of desperation made when she was a child, Cory’s mind houses the Furies—the hawk and the serpent—lingering always, waiting for her to satisfy their bloodlust. After escaping the asylum where she was trapped for years, Cory knows... (more)
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  Teen Fury: Book 2

  Teen Fury: Embraced

  by Amanda Torrey

  Sixteen-year-old Felicia Murphy has learned the pitfalls of letting the snakes in her head control her life, and she has no intention of letting them interfere in her future. She knows it’s not her duty to dish out vengeance, but, oh, the temptation…Battling near-constant headaches bites, but with Ryder by her side, she’s able to keep the Fury at bay. She doesn’t care that Meg, her... (more)
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  The Oresteia

  Agamemnon / The Libation-Bearers / The Eumenides

  by Aeschylus

  The importance of Æschylus in the development of the drama is immense. Before him tragedy had consisted of the chorus and one actor; and by introducing a second actor, expanding the dramatic dialogue thus made possible, and reducing the lyrical parts, he practically created Greek tragedy as we understand it. Like other writers of his time, he acted in his own plays, and trained the chorus in their dances and... (more)
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  Immortals After Dark: Book 10

  Demon from the Dark

  by Kresley Cole

  A dangerous demon she can't resist...Malkom Slaine: tormented by his sordid past and racked by vampiric hungers, he's pushed to the brink by the green-eyed beauty under his guard.A maddening with he seeks to claim...Carrow Graie: hiding her own sorrows, she lives only for the next party or prank. Until she meets a tortured warrior worth saving.Trapped together in a savage... (more)
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  Ravenwood

  By Midnight

  by Mia James

  April Dunne is not impressed. She's had to move from Edinburgh to Highgate, London, with her parents. She's left her friends - and her entire life - behind. She has to start at a new school and, worst of all, now she's stuck in a creepy old dump of a house which doesn't even have proper mobile phone reception. Ravenwood, her new school, is a prestigious academy for gifted (financially or academically)... (more)