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  Discworld: Book 19

  Feet of Clay

  by Terry Pratchett

  It's murder in Discworld! -- which ordinarily is no big deal. But what bothers Watch Commander Sir Sam Vimes is that the unusual deaths of three elderly Ankh-Morporkians do not bear the clean, efficient marks of the Assassins' Guild. An apparent lack of any motive is also quite troubling. All Vimes has are some tracks of white clay and more of those bothersome "clue" things that only serve to muck up an... (more)
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  Discworld: Book 33

  Going Postal

  by Terry Pratchett

  Suddenly, condemned arch-swindler Moist von Lipwig found himself with a noose around his neck and dropping through a trapdoor into ... a government job? By all rights, Moist should be meeting his maker rather than being offered a position as Postmaster by Lord Vetinari, supreme ruler of Ankh-Morpork. Getting the moribund Postal Service up and running again, however, may prove an impossible task, what with... (more)
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  The Bartimaeus Series: Book 2

  The Golem's Eye

  by Jonathan Stroud

  Now in paperback -- the exciting second volume in the critically acclaimed series -- a New York Times best seller in hardcover for sixteen weeks. The second book of the Bartimaeus series.
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  The Golem and the Jinni

  by Helene Wecker

  “With a delightful blend of the prosaic and the fanciful, THE GOLEM AND THE JINNI explores what it means to be human as Chava and Ahmad struggle to live and find love while overcoming the powerful adversary who threatens to destroy them.” (Deborah Harkness, author of A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES )
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  The Bloodhound Files: Book 1

  Dying Bites

  by D. D. Barant

  Her job description is the “tracking and apprehension of mentally-fractured killers.” What this really means in FBI profiler Jace Valchek’s brave new world—one in which only one percent of the population is human—is that a woman’s work is never done. And real is getting stranger every day… Jace has been ripped from her reality by David Cassius, the vampire head of the NSA. He knows that she’s the best there... (more)
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  Discworld: Book 36

  Making Money

  by Terry Pratchett

  The Ankh-Morpork Post Office is running like . . . well, not at all like a government office. The mail is delivered promptly; meetings start and end on time; five out of six letters relegated to the Blind Letter Office ultimately wend their way to the correct addresses. Postmaster General Moist von Lipwig, former arch-swindler and confidence man, has exceeded all expectations—including his own. So it's somewhat... (more)
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  Caulborn: Book 1

  Imperium

  by Nicholas Olivo

  Vincent Corinthos leads a triple life. As a secret agent, he handles paranormal threats; as a god, he protects his followers from evil forces; as a stock clerk, he keeps the back room of an antique store tidy. When one of his fellow agents goes missing, Vincent begins with the usual suspects. His investigation takes him to vampire lairs, golem laboratories, and the realm of the fae. Along the way he... (more)
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  The Bloodhound Files: Book 2

  Death Blows

  by D. D. Barant

  FBI profiler Jace Valchek was pulled into this parallel realm to hunt for Aristotle Stoker, a human serial killer who preys on vampires and werewolves. Now she works for the National Security Agency of the Unnatural States of America—and her boss is a vampire. At a bizarre crime scene, Jace finds a bloodsucker murdered by magic, fried to the bone and dressed in the costume of the comic book hero the Flash—a... (more)
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  Fairyland: Book 1

  The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

  by Catherynne M. Valente, Ana Juan

  Twelve-year-old September lives in Omaha, and used to have an ordinary life, until her father went to war and her mother went to work. One day, September is met at her kitchen window by a Green Wind (taking the form of a gentleman in a green jacket), who invites her on an adventure, implying that her help is needed in Fairyland. The new Marquess is unpredictable and fickle, and also not much older than September.... (more)
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  The Bloodhound Files: Book 4

  Better Off Undead

  by D. D. Barant

  Dark magic, unknown enemies, monsters of every stripe - FBI profiler Jace Valcheck have seen it all. In this bizarre parallel universe, shape-shifting werewolves and blood-thirsty vampires don't even warrant a raised eyebrow. That is until Jace has to face what life might look like as one of them...It starts as just another run-of-the-mill assignment: to track down the rogue don of a mafia werewolf family before... (more)
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  Eferum: Book 1

  Stained Glass Monsters

  by Andrea K. Höst

  When a motionless woman dressed in white appears in the village of Falk, Kendall Stockton has no inkling that the strange apparition will soon leave her homeless, and tangled in the affairs of mages and monsters. For the white figure is the first sign of a spell which will shatter cities, and make the caster as powerful as the gods. Saved by a stranger who claims her goal is to stop the woman, Kendall is torn... (more)
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  Emily Laing: Book 3

  Lumen: Roman (ger)

  by Christoph Marzi

  Mysteriöse Gestalten huschen durch die Dunkelheit, Menschen verschwinden und fremde Nebel suchen die Stadt der Schornsteine heim. Erneut muss das Waisenmädchen Emily begleitet von ihrem Mentor, den mürrischen Alchemisten Wittgenstein, in die geheimnisvolle Welt unterhalb Londons hinabsteigen und der Spur eines dunklen Rätsels folgen. Mit seinen preisgekrönten Erfolgsromanen „Lycidas“ und „Lilith“ eroberte... (more)
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  Emily Laing: Book 2

  Lilith: Roman (ger)

  by Christoph Marzi

  Mit „Lycidas“ gelang Christoph Marzi der Überraschungserfolg des letzten Jahres: Zahllose Leserinnen und Leser ließen sich von den Abenteuern der kleinen Emily Laing, ihres Elfenfreundes Maurice Micklewhite und des mürrischen Alchemisten Wittgenstein in der Uralten Metropole unterhalb Londons verzaubern. In „Lilith“ findet diese fantastische Geschichte ihre Fortsetzung – und einmal mehr verwebt Christoph Marzi... (more)
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  Emily Laing: Book 1

  Lycidas

  by Christoph Marzi

  Die Fantasy-Entdeckung des Jahres Als die kleine Emily eines Nachts Besuch von einer sprechenden Ratte erhält, weiß sie, dass nichts in ihrem Leben so bleiben wird, wie es einmal war. Nicht, dass sie ein gutes Leben in dem kleinen Waisenhaus in einem Armenviertel Londons führen würde. Doch dass sie auf der Suche nach dem Geheimnis ihrer Herkunft eine phantastische Stadt unter den Straßen Londons entdecken würde... (more)
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  Witchcanery

  by Sandra Bell Kirchman

  Three hundred and twelve years old, Shelley Kesinkowsky isn't your ordinary, everyday witch; she prides herself on being a modern, computerized witch who has Internet access. She also demonstrates uncharted talents in constructing golems-virtually alive, human-type beings.When planet Earth faces trouble from the fury of the golem legionnaires of Mother Earth, the Grand Council of Wizards turns to Shelley, whose... (more)
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  The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel: Book 1

  The Alchemyst

  by Michael Scott

  He holds the secret that can end the world. The truth: Nicholas Flamel was born in Paris on September 28, 1330. Nearly 700 years later, he is acknowledged as the greatest Alchemyst of his day. It is said that he discovered the secret of eternal life. The records show that he died in 1418. But his tomb is empty. The legend: Nicholas Flamel lives. But only because he has been making the elixir of life for... (more)
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  The Golem of Old Prague

  by Michael Rosen

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  Borges: Selected Non-Fictions

  by Jorge Luis Borges

  This unique volume presents a Borges almost entirely unknown to American readers: his extraordinary non--fiction prose. Borges' unlimited curiosity and almost superhuman erudition become, in his essays, reviews, lectures, and political and cultural notes, a vortex for seemingly the entire universe: Dante and Ellery Queen; Shakespeare and the Kabbalah; the history of angels and the history of the tango; the Buddha,... (more)
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  New Crobuzon: Book 3

  Iron Council

  by China Miéville

  Following Perdido Street Station and The Scar , acclaimed author China Miéville returns with his hugely anticipated Del Rey hardcover debut. With a fresh and fantastical band of characters, he carries us back to the decadent squalor of New Crobuzon—this time, decades later. It is a time of wars and revolutions, conflict and intrigue. New Crobuzon is being ripped apart from without and within. War with the... (more)
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  Fairy Tale Anthologies: Book 6

  Black Heart, Ivory Bones

  by Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling

  Hair bright as gold...Lips red as blood...Heart black as sin...Truth sharp as bone... As in their previous critically acclaimed volumes of reconsidered fairy tales, award-winning editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling have gathered together remarkable stories that illuminate the more sinister, sensual, and sophisticated aspects of the tales we cherished in childhood; the fables of witches and princes and lost... (more)