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1) BRIDE
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Pub. Date
2024
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English
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"A dangerous alliance between a Vampyre bride and an Alpha werewolf becomes a love deep enough to sink your teeth into in this new paranormal romance from the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis. Misery Lark, the only daughter of the most powerful Vampyre councilman of the Southwest, is an outcast-again. Her days of living in anonymity among the Humans are over: she has been called upon to uphold a historic peacekeeping alliance...
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DAW book collectors volume no. 1959
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"A creepy, charming monster-slaying fantasy romance-from the perspective of the monster-by Nebula Award-winning debut author John Wiswell"--
"Shesheshen has made a mistake fatal to all monsters: she's fallen in love. Shesheshen is a shapeshifter, who happily resides as an amorphous lump at the bottom of a ruined manor. When her rest is interrupted by hunters intent on murdering her, she constructs a body from the remains of past meals: a metal chain...
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Leopard people volume 15
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Gorya Amurov might be known as his family's peacekeeper, but the leopard inside him wants nothing more than to claw to the surface and unleash hell. A harsh life has shaped him into a vicious fighter with a calm exterior, but Gorya knows it's only a matter of time until he loses all control...Maya Averina has spent years hunting the criminals who destroyed her life...She keeps to herself, stays under the radar...But with her body burning up...an...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Mackenzie Carter has had some very bad dates lately. Model train experts, mansplainers, guys weirdly obsessed with her tail-she hasn't had a successful date in months. Only a year out of residency, her grandmother's obsession with Mackenzie finding the perfect mate to settle down with threatens to drive Mackenzie barking mad. Out of options, it feels like a small thing to tell her grandmother that she's met someone. That is, until she blurts out...
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Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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When he arrives in Los Angeles to spend time with his girlfriend Jenna, SWAT Werewolf Trevor McCall is confronted by danger and must save Jenna and her family while protecting the city from the brink of collapse.
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Series
Publisher
Kuumba Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"On Earth Pact, no species is as feared as the Impundulu shifters of the United Wake of Benekal. For Fayola, a veteran nearing the end of her compulsory military service, being a soldier had never been more than reluctant duty. As she prepares for her final special operation, her goal remains the same: Complete her mission so she can return home to her father." -- Page [4] of cover.
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Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Banished from the Kingdom by Titania, Faerie's Summer Queen, Mother of Illusions, Tybalt, King of Cats, to protect his people and his future, must find the woman he loves in a world designed to keep her from him and unmake the illusion she's trapped in.
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English
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"From the bestselling, award-winning creator of Almost American Girl comes an epic new graphic novel fantasy—a queer, feminist reimagining of the Fox Maiden legend from Korean mythology. Perfect for fans of Nimona, Squire, and The Prince and the Dressmaker. Kai Song dreams of being a warrior. She wants to follow in the footsteps of her beloved father, the commander of the Royal Legion. But while her father believes in Kai and trains her in martial...
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Series
Run with the wolf volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2023].
Language
English
Description
Two wolves are better than one, but a pack of wolves beats trouble any day... Ski Lodge owner and gray wolf Kayla Wolff hasn't had the best romantic history, so dating Private Investigator and fellow pack mate Nate Grayson feels like she's hit the jackpot. When she thinks about the way her last relationship ended, Kayla worries that she'll screw up again and lose Nate too. When Nate's latest investigation puts Kayla in the crosshairs, the pack comes...
11) Mine
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English
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In this finale, Lydia and Daniel are bracing themselves for his inevitable decline, but first they must go on a rescue mission that will put both their lives in danger.
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Honey badger chronicles volume 5
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Emily "Tock" Lepstein-Jackson is on a mission to rid the world of shifters trafficking humans for hunting and cash. And now that she's narrowed down her suspects to a brutal coalition of male lions, nothing will get between this honey badger and her prey--not even a dog-loving tiger with absolutely no time management skills. Doesn't matter that Shay Malone is ferociously adorable. With a war brewing between cat families, Tock doesn't have time to...
13) Lucero
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Series
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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In this electrifying conclusion to the epic trilogy, the prince and the thief must band together one last time to stop the magical imbalance before Sombra regains his full strength once more--and to fulfill their prophecy before darkness reigns.
In the aftermath of Sombra's return, the balance between light and dark magic has been destroyed and chaos has broken out in Castallan and around the world. Sombra's shadows have taken over to create monstrous...
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Yen Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The members of the Armed Detective Agency find they’ve switched bodies, the ladies of Yokohama stay up late chatting online about love, and the Twin Dark duos—both new and old—transform into magical girls (?) to fight monsters?! Every day brings a new surprise!"--
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Series
Witch Hall volume 1
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Two girls reluctantly bound by fate must weather a dangerous courtship as a prophesied war grows ever closer in Jasmine Skye's high-stakes, queernormative dark fantasy debut, Daughter of the Bone Forest. Rosy is a bone familiar, gifted with the power to shift into animals marked with exposed bone. She spends most of her days in the magical Bone Forest, caring for her feral grandmother and hiding her powers to avoid conscription by the Witch King's...
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Embraced by magic volume 4
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Brimming with humor, romance, and magic, the delightful new novel in New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Kerrelyn Sparks's Embraced by Magic series, which Kirkus Reviews calls "an adventurous fantasy romp," is perfect for readers of G.A. Aiken and Lynsay Sands. Princess Lenushka of Norveshka prides herself on her courage. She's faced down the doubters who think a woman dragon shifter is worth less than a man. She will marry to secure...
17) Wild things
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Series
Shifters unbound novel volume 7.75
Publisher
[JA / AG Publishing]
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Wolf Shifter Mason McNaughton is tired of the crazy feral living in his house, endangering him, his brothers, and his sweet auntie Cora. Ferals are Shifters who've reverted to the wild stage, forgetting all about the joys of pizza and satellite TV. Not to mention, Mason is sick of waking up to the feral's rampages, one of which nearly killed him. The feral has been given sanctuary, so Mason can't throw him out--the only thing to do is to find a way...
Series
My gently raised beast volume 2
Publisher
Ize Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Time flies when you're having fun with your talking cat, and Blondina is now a beautiful young lady! In fact, she's right at the age to start hearing talks of marriage--a topic that makes a certain Divine Leopard very flustered ... But speaking of Amon, when will he grow up? And is Blondina ready to see her dear little kitty mature into something beyond her wildest imagination?"--
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"High schooler Nao is adjusting to life on four legs. Not that he has a choice, since a bizarre accident saw him swap bodies with a cat. While part of him longs to investigate the misfortune that's befallen his hospital-bound human body, he can't help but notice that the girl who's adopted him is seriously cute! What's a cat to do?"--
Series
My gently raised beast volume 3
Publisher
Ize Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"All it took was a brush with death to get her there, but Blondina finally realizes her true feelings toward Amon. It’s more than just friendship—it’s love! And so begins her quest to win over the handsome divine beast. But first things first—she’s curious to see how he looks in human form, all grown up. Luckily, Amon’s been waiting for her to ask: “...Think you can handle it?”--
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