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Rory and her magical family are almost ready for the holiday season, but the preparations have an unexpected interruption when one of Rory’s Aunt Candace’s book characters walks right out of the pages. And then, to complicate matters, he’s the first to discover a dead body at the local karaoke club. As if defending a fictional character against a murder accusation isn’t enough, Rory also has to contend with someone spreading rumours that might lead to the library’s deepest secrets being exposed to the vampires hunting her family.

La suerte no siempre está echada a este lado del espejo.El día en el que su pareja, Roger, finalmente se dispone a asesinarla, Alicia no duda en defenderse y asestarle diecisiete profundas puñaladas. Sin embargo, cuando acude a comisaría para confesar, se sorprende enormemente al recibir la noticia de que Roger no solo está vivo, sino que está indemne y afirma no haber sufrido agresión alguna. Por si eso no fuera poco, su apartamento, donde los hechos han ocurrido, no presenta ningún indicio de haber sido el escenario de un crimen.

In this ordinary North Carolina suburb, family secrets are always in bloom. Samantha Montgomery pulls into the driveway of her family home to find a massive black vulture perched on the mailbox, staring at the house. Inside, everything has changed. Gone is the eclectic warmth Sam expects; instead the walls are a sterile white. Now, it's very important to say grace before dinner, and her mother won't hear a word against Sam's long-dead and little-missed grandmother, who was the first to put down roots in this small Southern town.

Maura has faced her fair share of monsters since moving to the haunted town of Hawkwood Hollow. When a series of disappearances in the area suggests a more sinister cause than a simple kidnapping, she assumes she can handle it alone.

A young musician escapes from the kingdom on the night before a great battle is to occur. In his attempt to sneak away in the darkness, he is met by others who soon become traveling companions as his journey to discover his role in a war that will sweep the entire world begins.

Penelope has embraced her destiny as the new Archivist for the magicians, but with an impending war against the formidable priests of Thevetat looming, and the tides of magic intensifying, she must swiftly navigate her perilous new world if she's going to outwit their adversaries. To vanquish them, Penelope and Alexis must unearth a weapon capable of obliterating him forever.

Even better, no one suspects she is human. Masquerading as a goblin Traveler, she roams Reality in her glittering van pulled by her two trusty world walking birds, Warp and Weft. But when a storm of cosmic chaos strands her in an outer thread, the only refuge in sight is the legendary Darkhouse of Doom. Goblin legend says it is cursed; that the appearance of the wandering darkhouse foretells the appearance of world-devouring monsters and the death of all who see it.

Zander is in an auction house for the sole purpose of getting someone to sign a contract. He doesn't have any interest in owning a blood slave—until he lays eyes on Max. That, he must have. Max is there for reasons of his own, mostly desperate reasons, and he's braced himself for a year of hell, which doesn't seem to be forthcoming. Someone needs to explain to this vampire that he's supposed to use Max, not spoil him. Zander doesn't seem to get it.

Thomas never thought he would live this long. He expected the usual lifespan of 60 to 70 years. But one terrifying night in 1946, San Francisco has changed all that. He's now been alive 86 years and still looks 20. He and his associates, Jonathan and Kathryn, have been granted immortality by a group of sylphs belonging to the Zie Council–led by their queen, Malina–who possess an elixir called Enchantment.

Nascosta tra le foreste della Pennsylvania, Catherine House è una scuola d'eccellenza che ha sfornato premi Nobel, giudici della Corte suprema e personalità di primo piano nel mondo dell'arte, della cultura e della politica. I suoi criteri di ammissione sono rigidissimi, e le poche persone che ogni anno superano la selezione avranno vitto, alloggio e istruzione gratuiti, ma per tre anni - estati comprese - saranno completamente tagliate fuori dal mondo esterno: niente visite, telefonate, televisione, musica.

Sie sah mich an, mit ihren dunklen, dunklen Augen voller Geheimnisse. Irgendwann, versprach ich mir, irgendwann werde ich jedes einzelne davon kennen. Als Winnie mit ihrer Schwester Sasha nach New York zog, hatte sie nur ein Ziel: ihren Vater zu finden und zu erfahren, warum er vor vierzehn Jahren plötzlich aus ihrem Leben verschwand. Doch den Mut aufzubringen, sich der eigenen Vergangenheit zu stellen, ist leichter gesagt als getan, zumal Winnie mehr denn je das Gefühl hat, ein Auge auf ihre jüngere Schwester haben zu müssen.

Après avoir échappé aux griffes de Corrigan, le Seigneur Alpha de la Fraternité, Mack essaye de mener une vie tranquille dans la campagne écossaise, le plus loin possible des métamorphes. Mais lorsqu'elle trouve un travail dans une vieille librairie, tenue par une mystérieuse dame âgée qui semble non seulement passionnée par les bienfaits des herbes mais aussi connaître plus de choses qu'elle ne le devrait, Mack se retrouve prise dans un maelström impliquant le ministère des Mages, le peuple des Faes et la Fraternité.

Moist von Lipwig is a con artist and a fraud and a man faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put the ailing postal service of Ankh-Morpork back on its feet. It's a tough decision. The post is a creaking old institution, overshadowed by new technology. But there are people who still believe in it and Moist must become one of them if he's going to see that the mail gets through, come rain, hail, sleet, dogs, the Post Office Workers Friendly and Benevolent Society, an evil chairman...and a midnight killer. Getting a date with Adora Bell Dearheart would be nice, too.

Mordak isn't bad as far as goblin kings go, but when someone - or something - starts pumping gold into the human kingdoms, it puts his rule in serious jeopardy. Suddenly he's locked in an arms race with a species whose arms he once considered merely part of a calorie-controlled diet. Helped by an elf with a background in journalism and a master's degree in being really pleased with herself, Mordak sets out to discover what on Earth (if indeed, that's where he is) is going on.

The Pearl Saga continues as a small-town private detective, Evan Gold, tries to solve a series of baffling murders while keeping his neck out of the noose! Evan is surrounded by a beautiful client, a sly grifter, and an ominous man dressed in black. Each of them crossing and double-crossing each other to gain possession of a mysterious, pearl-like stone with some strange properties...and nothing is what it seems!

Thirty-year-old magic Bearer Julia Harrison had never given the notion of past lives or grand destinies any real credence or thought. She has knowledge of magic and the power she shares with the women of her bloodline.

Dr. Richard Arden is a man of science, a renowned and respected forensic anthropologist who at the age of 80 and now afflicted with an incurable disease has seen a few things, had some unusual experiences, and done some “connecting of the dots” to formulate a rather unorthodox and a bit “unscientific-sounding” hypothesis: that we are not, in fact, alone on this planet.

Cassandra ist Nachtjägerin. Für Geld jagt sie Vampire, Werwölfe und andere Monster. An Halloween erhält sie jedoch einen ganz besonderen Auftrag: Ein Werwolf-Welpe ist von seinem Rudel ausgerissen und hat sich unter die verkleideten Menschen gemischt. Zusammen mit dem Dämon Lester, ihrem ehemaligen Lehrmeister und Geliebten, macht Cassandra sich kurzerhand auf die Suche nach dem Welpen. Mit den Werwölfen hat sie nämlich noch eine ganz besondere Rechnung offen. Doch die Nacht verläuft ganz anders, als sie erwartet hätte.

After months on the run, sneaking onto a luxury cruise liner wouldn’t be easy, but she’d done worse things to survive. The ship is owned by Roslyn Travel Co, the sole proprietor of a mysterious vacation destination exclusively for the filthy rich.

Moira and Carl Morgan have saved the city from the horror of Michael and his wives, but victory has come at terrible cost. And there are consequences to every choice, every victory. Word has spread that someone has broken Lilith’s power, that someone has defied the ancient queen. And she’s not happy.