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  Motorcycles & Sweetgrass

  by Drew Hayden Taylor

  A story of magic, family, a mysterious stranger . . . and a band of marauding raccoons.   Otter Lake is a sleepy Anishnawbe community where little happens. Until the day a handsome stranger pulls up astride a 1953 Indian Chief motorcycle – and turns Otter Lake completely upside down. Maggie, the Reserve’s chief, is swept off her feet, but Virgil, her teenage son, is less than enchanted. Suspicious of the... (more)
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  The Iron Druid Chronicles: Book 3

  Hammered

  by Kevin Hearne

  Thor, the Norse god of thunder, is worse than a blowhard and a bully—he’s ruined countless lives and killed scores of innocents. After centuries, Viking vampire Leif Helgarson is ready to get his vengeance, and he’s asked his friend Atticus O’Sullivan, the last of the Druids, to help take down this Norse nightmare.One survival strategy has worked for Atticus for more than two thousand years: stay away... (more)
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  Coppermine [Paperback]

  by Keith Ross Leckie

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  The Iron Druid Chronicles: Book 4

  Tricked

  by Kevin Hearne

  Druid Atticus O’Sullivan hasn’t stayed alive for more than two millennia without a fair bit of Celtic cunning. So when vengeful thunder gods come Norse by Southwest looking for payback, Atticus, with a little help from the Navajo trickster god Coyote, lets them think that they’ve chopped up his body in the Arizona desert.But the mischievous Coyote is not above a little sleight of paw, and Atticus soon... (more)
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  The Chronicles of Faerie: Book 4

  The Book of Dreams

  by O. R. Melling

  Dana Faolan, the spunky half-faerie heroine of The Light-Bearer’s Daughter , the third book in The Chronicles , has been using her access to the land of Faerie to escape the troubles of being a teenager in a new town. But a dark, mysterious enemy is determined to sever the two worlds forever, thus dooming both. It will take all of Dana’s bravery and resourcefulness, plus the help of friends old and new, to save... (more)
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  The Walker Papers: Book 5

  Demon Hunts

  by C. E. Murphy

  THIS NEXT CASE IS WAY OUT OF HER JURISDICTION...Seattle police detective Joanne Walker started the year mostly dead, and she's ending it trying not to be consumed by evil. Literally.She's proven she can handle the gods and the walking dead. But a cannibalistic serial killer? That's more than even she bargained for. What's worse, the brutal demon can only be tracked one way. If Joanne is to stop... (more)
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  Mercy Thompson: Book 6

  River Marked

  by Patricia Briggs

  Car mechanic Mercy Thompson has always known there was something different about her, and not just the way she can make a VW engine sit up and beg. Mercy is a shapeshifter, a talent she inherited from her long-gone father. And she's never known any others of her kind. Until now. As Mercy comes to terms with this new information, an evil is stirring in the depths of the Columbia River. Something deadly is coming,... (more)
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  The Walker Papers: Book 6

  Spirit Dances

  by C. E. Murphy

  For Seattle detective Joanne Walker, spring is about new beginnings. She's mastered her shamanic abilities (mostly), survived a cannibalistic serial killer (barely) and now she's facing the biggest challenge of her career -- attending a dance concert with her sexy boss, Captain Michael Morrison. But when the performance -- billed as transformative -- actually changes her into a coyote, she and Morrison have bigger... (more)
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  Anansi Boys

  by Neil Gaiman

  Fat Charlie Nancy's normal life ended the moment his father dropped dead on a Florida karaoke stage. Charlie didn't know his dad was a god. And he never knew he had a brother. Now brother Spider's on his doorstep—about to make Fat Charlie's life more interesting . . . and a lot more dangerous.
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  The Walker Papers: Book 2

  Thunderbird Falls

  by C. E. Murphy

  It's the end of the world . . . Again. For all the bodies she's encountering, you'd think beat cop Joanne Walker works in Homicide. But no, Joanne's a reluctant shaman who last saved mankind three months ago -- surely she deserves more of a break! Yet, incredibly, " Armageddon, take two " is mere days away. There's not a minute to waste. Yet when her spirit guide... (more)
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  The Walker Papers: Book 1

  Urban Shaman

  by C. E. Murphy

  Joanne Walker has three days to learn to use her shamanic powers and save the world from the unleashed Wild Hunt.No worries. No pressure. Never mind the lack of sleep, the perplexing new talent for healing herself from fatal wounds, or the cryptic, talking coyote who appears in her dreams.And if all that's not bad enough, in the three years Joanne's been a cop, she's never seen a dead body --... (more)
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  The Wood Wife

  by Terri Windling

  When prize-winning poet Davis Cooper died mysteriously in the canyons east of Tucson, Arizona, he left his estate to Maggie Black, a young writer who knew him only from his letters. There, in his desert home, Maggie begins a journey of self-discovery that changes her forever, encountering terrible danger and passionate love, coming face to face with the wild spirits that inhabit that strange and magical place. The... (more)
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  The Walker Papers: Book 3

  Coyote Dreams

  by C. E. Murphy

  Much of the city can't wake up. And more are dozing off each day. Instead of powerful forces storming Seattle, a more insidious invasion is happening. Most of Joanne Walker's fellow cops are down with the blue flu—or rather the blue sleep. Yet there's no physical cause anyone can point to—and it keeps spreading. It has to be magical, Joanne figures. But what's up with the crazy dreams... (more)
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  The Walker Papers: Book 4

  Walking Dead

  by C. E. Murphy

  SEATTLE'S A GREAT PLACE TO LIVE...IF IT WEREN'T FOR THE UNDEAD.For once, Joanne Walker's not out to save the world. She's come to terms with the host of shamanic powers she's been given, her job as a police detective has been relatively calm, and she's got a love life for the first time in memory. Not bad for a woman who started out the year mostly dead.But it's Halloween, and the undead have... (more)
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  The Walker Papers: Book 7

  Raven Calls

  by C. E. Murphy

  Something wicked this way comes…Suddenly, being bitten by a werewolf is the least of Joanne Walker’s problems.Her personal life in turmoil, her job as a cop over, she’s been called to Ireland by the magic within her. And though Joanne’s skills have grown by leaps and bounds, Ireland’s magic is old and very powerful….In fact, this is a case of unfinished business. Because the woman... (more)
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  Jane Yellowrock

  Easy Pickings

  by Faith Hunter, C. E. Murphy

  Two heroines. Two magics. One world. There’s nowhere in America like the Big Easy. Just ask Jane Yellowrock, shapeshifting vampire killer, whose hunting grounds run the length and breadth of the Bayou. Just ask Joanne Walker, whose shamanic magic has drawn her to the heart of American Weird. But it’s not Joanne’s world, and it isn’t Jane’s either. In a New Orleans where Katrina never hit and supposedly-dead... (more)