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Series
Daughter of smoke and bone trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
"The otherworldly Karou struggles to come to terms with who and what she is, and how far she'll go to avenge her people"--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Suddenly able to see demons and the Darkhunters who are dedicated to returning them to their own dimension, fifteen-year-old Clary Fray is drawn into this bizzare world when her mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a monster.
3) Sweet evil
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sweet southern girl Anna discovers at age sixteen that she is the daughter of a guardian angel and a demon, the only one of her kind. As Anna struggles to fight the dark legacy of her father, she falls for the mysterious Kaidan Row, the ultimate bad boy. Forced to face her destiny, she must decide whether to embrace her halo or her horns"--
Author
Series
Mortal instruments volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
As mysterious murders threaten the new peace between Shadowhunters and Downworlders, only Simon, the Daylighter vampire, can help bring both groups together.
Author
Series
Mortal instruments volume 5
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Jace vanishes with Sebastian, Clary and the Shadowhunters struggle to piece together their shattered world and Clary infiltrates the group planning the world's destruction.
Author
Series
Daughter of smoke and bone trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Karou, a lovely, enigmatic art student in a Prague boarding school, carries a sketchbook of hideous, frightening monsters--the chimaerae who form the only family she has ever known.
7) Pale demon
Author
Series
Hollows (Kim Harrison) volume 9
Language
English
Description
Condemned to death for practicing witchcraft, bounty hunter Rachel Morgan is given three days to clear her name and get to the annual witches' convention in San Francisco, an effort that forces her to endure a cross-country drive with a motley crew of supernatural companions.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Emilia and her twin sister Vittoria are streghe - witches who live secretly among humans, avoiding notice and persecution. One night, Vittoria misses dinner service at the family's renowned Sicilian restaurant. Emilia soon finds the body of her beloved twin...desecrated beyond belief. Devastated, Emilia sets out to find her sister's killer and to seek vengeance at any cost-even if it means using dark magic that's been long forbidden.
Author
Series
Dark artifices volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
Formats
Description
Emma resolves to avenge the deaths of her parents and foil a demonic plot while her parabatai, Julian, struggles to bond with a returned brother who does not recognize him.
Author
Series
Lords of the Underworld volume 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Torin, a host to the demon of Disease, knows his touch could kill Keeleycael, the Red Queen, but he finds it difficult to ignore this powerful beauty with shocking vulnerabilities.
Author
Series
Demonica volume 4
Language
English
Description
In order to earn his freedom and save his sister's life, Lore, a Seminus half-breed demon, must assassinate a human for his master, but his mission is thwarted by Idess, a wild earthbound angel sworn to protect his target.
Author
Series
Demonica volume 3
Language
English
Description
After he is poisoned by an enemy, Wraith, a Seminus demon, tries to persuade archeologist Serena Kelley to give him the only thing that can save him, the powerful charm that makes her immortal as long as she remains a virgin.
Author
Series
Demonica volume 2
Language
English
Description
Falling in love with a sexy stranger who seems to know her every desire, Runa Wagner discovers that he has betrayed her and vows revenge.
14) Rule of wolves
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
As Fjerda's massive army prepares to invade, Nikolai Lantsov will summon every bit of his ingenuity and charm to win this fight, and Zoya Nazyalensky must embrace her powers to become the weapon her country needs, meanwhile Nina Zenik risks discovery and death as she wages war on Fjerda from inside its capital.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 37
Language
English
Description
In a future so real and near it might be now, something happens when women go to sleep: they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze. If they are awakened, if the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed or violated, the women become feral and spectacularly violent. And while they sleep they go to another place, a better place, where harmony prevails and conflict is rare. One woman, the mysterious "Eve Black," is immune to the blessing or curse of...
Author
Series
Laundry files novels volume 1
Language
English
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Description
The first novel in Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross's witty Laundry Files series.
Bob Howard is a low-level techie working for a super-secret government agency. While his colleagues are out saving the world, Bob's under a desk restoring lost data. His world was dull and safe - but then he went and got Noticed.
Now, Bob is up to his neck in spycraft, parallel universes, dimension-hopping terrorists, monstrous elder gods and...
Bob Howard is a low-level techie working for a super-secret government agency. While his colleagues are out saving the world, Bob's under a desk restoring lost data. His world was dull and safe - but then he went and got Noticed.
Now, Bob is up to his neck in spycraft, parallel universes, dimension-hopping terrorists, monstrous elder gods and...
17) Witch king
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"After being murdered, his consciousness dormant and unaware of the passing of time while confined in an elaborate water trap, Kai wakes to find a lesser mage attempting to harness Kai's magic to his own advantage. That was never going to go well. But why was Kai imprisoned in the first place? What has changed in the world since his assassination? And why does the Rising World Coalition appear to be growing in influence? Kai will need to pull his...
Author
Series
Laundry files novels volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
View our feature on Charles Stross' The Fuller Memorandum.
National bestselling author Charles Stross brings back Bob Howard-"a British super spy with a long-term girlfriend, no fashion sense, and an aversion to martinis" (San Francisco Chronicle)
Bob Howard is taking a much needed break from the field to catch up on his filing in The Laundry's archives when a top secret dossier known as The Fuller Memorandum
...19) Last things
Author
Language
English
Description
"Anders Thorson, front man of his metal band, Last Things, is unusually gifted for a teenager, but strange things in the Minnesota woods near his hometown are threatening him. Thea, the new girl in town, says she's there to protect him, but is that the whole truth?"--
Author
Series
Women of the Otherworld volume 9
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
They're smart, sexy, and supernatural. They're the men and women of the Otherworld--a realm of witches, ghosts, and werewolves who live unseen among us. Only now a reckless killer has torn down the wall, trapping one very human woman in the supernatural cross fire.
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