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21) The wager
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Having lost everything in a tidal wave in 1169 Sicily, nineteen-year-old Don Giovanni makes a simple-sounding wager with a stranger he recognizes as the devil but, while desperate enough to surrender his pride and good looks for three years, he is not willing to give up his soul.
Author
Series
Stan Lee's The devil's quintet volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Ever since The Armageddon Code, the Devil's Quintet have been using their demonic powers to fight evil and protect the world, while remaining nothing but an urban legend to the general public. But the Devil is not about to let them keep using his powers for good. Created by Satan himself to counter the Quintet, the Shadow Society are five saintly men and women that have been secretly (and strategically) possessed by five of Hell's most powerful demons....
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
Prolific author Stephen King presents a collection of four new novellas. In the story 1922, a man plunges into the depths of madness when his wife attempts to sell off the family home. A mystery writer, who was beaten and raped while driving home from her book club, plots her revenge in Big Driver. Diagnosed with a deadly cancer, a man makes a deal with the devil in Fair Extension. And in A Good Marriage, a woman discovers her husband's darker side...
24) Dead of night
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Mira
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Dancers in the dark: Layla Rue Le May is no ordinary dancer--her partner, Sean McClendon, is a three-hundred-year-old redheaded vampire. When Layla Rue acquires a stalker, she's forced to face the music ... and wonder if this will finally be her last dance.
The Devil's footprint: Years after her sister's unsolved murder, Sarah DeLaune is haunted by the mysteries of her past when two mutilated bodies are found near Sarah's New Orleans home, the crime...
25) Black heart
Author
Series
Black wings novels volume 6
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
As a former Agent of Death, Madeline Black is no stranger to witnessing violent ends. But being the one to cause them is an entirely different story. Despite her having saved Chicago from a vampire invasion, the Agency wants to get Maddy off their payroll, permanently. With the deadly Retrievers hot on her trail, she has no choice but to trust Nathaniel to port her to safety. But even the exotic and dangerous world that she winds up in is not as peaceful...
Author
Series
Stan Lee's The devil's quintet volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"A five-person special ops unit, composed of a diverse assortment of former Navy SEALS from all walks of life, are responding to a terrorist threat deep in the Caucasus Mountains when their mission goes south in a big way. Facing certain death and torture, they're unexpectedly offered a Faustian bargain by the Devil himself, who grants them unearthly powers in order to send evildoers to Hell on his fiendish behalf. But "The Devil's Quintet" do things...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Spanning two thousand years, The Everlasting follows four characters whose struggles resonate across the centuries: an early Christian child martyr; a medieval monk on crypt duty in a church; a Medici princess of Moorish descent; and a contemporary field biologist conducting an illicit affair. Outsiders to a city layered and dense with history, this quartet separated by time grapple with the physicality of bodies, the necessity for sacrifice, and...
28) Diabhal
Author
Series
Diabhal novels volume 1
Publisher
Turner Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Diabhal (Devil) is the story of cults, exorcisms and the devil in 1980's era Los Angeles. Ceit Robertson, age ten, is the next Matrarc to the Society, a cultish, matriarchal group living in an inconspicuous cul-de-sac in Venice Beach. When Ceit's mother is attacked by spirits from the old world, a failed exorcism results in Ceit's exile into the foster care system in Los Angeles. She eventually lands in the infamous MacLaren Hall, a very real and...
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Distraught at the loss of his inspiration, Lionel Savage, a poet from Victorian London, accidentally conjures the Devil and realizes that he has inadvertently sold his rich wife's soul to him, and plots a rescue mission to Hell with an assortment of unlikely companions.
30) The cold eye
Author
Series
Devil's West volume 2
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"In the anticipated sequel to Silver on the Road, Isobel is riding circuit through the Territory as the Devil's Left Hand. But when she responds to a natural disaster, she learns the limits of her power and the growing danger of something mysterious that is threatening not just her life, but the whole Territory. Isobel is the left hand of the old man of the Territory, the Boss--better known as the Devil. Along with her mentor, Gabriel, she is traveling...
Author
Series
Lee Fontana mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Harper Luxe an imnprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A ghost cat, the Devil, a deceitful criminal, a father framed for murder, and a vulnerable young girl combine in this magical tale from the award-winning, critically acclaimed author of the Joe Grey feline mysteries.
Publisher
Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When Pastor Holley's wife, Kelly, is found murdered, FBI agent Garrett takes on the case with local New Jersey Sheriff Mullen. Together they start drumming up a convenient satanic-flavored scapegoat to cover up their own crimes of murder and experimentation. That scapegoat comes in the form of four friends: Mitch, Terri, Lupe, and Jackson. The punks, the queers, and the outcasts. Soon the group becomes the prime suspects of Kelly's murder. Now on...
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Now back in the present, and with the terrible, tragic knowledge of the truth of his and his brother's birth, Rin confronts Yukio aboard the stricken Illuminati airship, Dominus Liminis. As the brothers face off, Satan does his best to drive them both further into his grip. Rin wants to bring Yukio back into the fold of the Knights of the True Cross, but Yukio is firm in his desire to force Rin to kill him. With the airship going down in flames,...
Author
Series
Sandman Slim volume 8
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Sandman Slim returns in a stunning, high-octane thriller filled with the intense kick-ass action and inventive fantasy that are the hallmarks of New York Times bestselling author Richard Kadrey. The request from Thomas Abbot, the Augur of the Sub Rosa council, couldn't come at a better time for James Stark, aka Sandman Slim. For a man who's most recently met Death and death's killer a few months of normal life is more than he can handle. He needs...
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Raised by Father Fujimoto, a famous exorcist, Rin Okumura never knew his real father. One day a fateful argument with Father Fujimoto forces Rin to face a terrible truth--the blood of the demon lord Satan runs in Rin's veins! Rin swears to defeat Satan, but doing that means entering the mysterious True Cross Academy and becoming an exorcist himself. Surrounded by the fiery wreckage of the Illuminati airship, Rin struggles to control his demonic alter...
Author
Series
Johannes Cabal volume 5
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Johannes Cabal, a necromancer of some little infamy, has come into possession of a vital clue that may lead him to his ultimate goal--a cure for death. The path is vague, however, and certainly treacherous as it takes him into strange territories that, quite literally, no one has ever seen before. The task is too dangerous to venture upon alone, so he must seek assistance, comrades for the coming travails. Assisted--ably and otherwise--by his vampiric...
Author
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Devil Land has been the world's premiere horror-themed amusement park for over 50 years, home to the scariest ride ever created- The Devil's Due. But behind it lies a deadly truth about reclusive founder Arthur Dante and the choices he made to ensure his success. Now his children- Samhain and Halloween- will discover the true horror behind their family legacy, and that all their dreams may be founded on the stuff of nightmares..." --
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