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In San Francisco, the souls of the dead are mysteriously disappearing—and you know that can’t be good—in New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore’s delightfully funny sequel to A Dirty Job. Something really strange is happening in the City by the Bay. People are dying, but...

"Es ist schwer zu glauben, dass etwas so wunderschönes so tödlich sein kann, oder?" Alessa ist verzweifelt. Als auserwählte Finestra ist es ihre Bestimmung, mit ihren Kräften das Land vor einem Angriff dämonischer Wesen zu schützen. Doch sie hat ihre magische Gabe nicht unter Kontrolle - alle Menschen, die sie berührt, sterben. Um niemanden mehr zu gefährden, lebt sie daher vollkommen isoliert im Palast. Als auch noch ein Attentat auf sie verübt wird, engagiert Alessa einen Leibwächter.

A favor for a friend puts Anita Blake in the center of a full-blown scandal that threatens master vampire Jean- Claude's reign-and makes her a pawn in an ancient vampire queen's new rise to power...

A London rocker is faced with a life-or-death choice when he realizes that a powerful society of magic wielders are the only ones keeping London safe in this deft contemporary fantasy cowritten by #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson with author and musician Peter Orullian...

A quirky witch must pretend to date a handsome vampire duke. It's a grumpy/sunshine romance with magical hijinks, found family, and a beautiful seaside village that is like a vacation in a book.

Supernatural Squad might be small, but we're growing in power. The vampires and werewolves of London are beginning to respect me more, and I feel like I know what I'm doing - even if I don't yet understand what I truly am. Unfortunately, there might be a few snags to deal with. I'm trying to avoid Lord Horvath, the black-eyed vampire leader who seems intent on a more intimate relationship. There's also Devereau Webb, who runs a small criminal syndicate and has offered me a mysterious gift that I'm certain I don't want.

Mags was a Herald of Valdemar. But he had once lived the brutal life of a child slave. When he was Chosen by his Companion Dallen, his young life was saved, and he slowly adjusted to being well fed, educated, and treasured as a trainee in the Herald's Collegium at Haven. Singled out by the King's Own Herald, Mags would thrive in his secret training as a spy. His unusually strong Gift - an ability to Mindspeak and Mindhear anyone, not just others who were Gifted - made him a perfect undercover agent for the king.

Magische Flammen wüten. Klingen schmelzen. Seelen werden im wilden Gefecht zu Asche. Das große Finale des Krieges um den Ersten Tempel steht unmittelbar bevor. Die letzten Trümpfe sind ausgespielt, die Reserven sind erschöpft und selbst die Götter haben sich auf den Kampf der Plebejer eingelassen. Das Universum steht kurz vor dem Zusammenbruch. Die Ketten, die die Welten zusammenhalten, sind gesprengt. Das eisige Wasser der Ostsee kühlt den glühenden Sand der Grenzlande.

It's done. Christopher Jupiter is coming for me. It’s only a matter of time before he catches me, and I know exactly what he’s going to do. He’s going to open me up, let the Evils escape, and then, the whole world will be destroyed. And right now, I can’t think of a way to stop him. None of us can. The pressure is unbearable. Romeo is tormented, teetering right on the edge of madness. But even I didn't realize how far he was willing to go to protect me.

Teenage delinquent Angel Crawford lives with her redneck father in the swamps of southern Louisiana. She's a high school dropout, addicted to drugs and alcohol, and has a police record a mile long. But when she's made into a zombie after a car crash, her addictions disappear, except for her all-consuming need to stay "alive".

Jane Yellowrock is the queen of the vampires, and that makes her a target as she fights to maintain control and keep peace in the city of New Orleans. She has enemies at every turn, because vampires live forever, and they keep their grudges alive with them. That includes the Heir, the vampire sire of the Pellissier bloodline, which gave rise to Leo Pellissier himself—Jane’s old boss and the former master of the city.

By the divine promise of sacrifice, he awakened an Ash Angel with a new body, new powers, and a new war to fight. Cassandra, his temperamental trainer, tries to get him ready to battle Ghostpackers and Dreads, but it might be too little too late: for the first time in history, the Ash Angels are faltering against the fury of an evil more ancient than they are. While he fights to survive run-ins with a Sheid-hunted pop star and a gorgeous but dangerous Dread, Trace realizes his new life cannot erase the trauma of the old.

Mercurius' und Ferats Berliner Nachtclub liegt nach dem erneuten Wüten des Wasserschemens in Trümmern. Während die Hexe Agnes weiterhin Mercurius verdächtigt, etwas mit der Beschwörung dieses Elementarwesens zu tun zu haben, kann für diesen nur einer dahinterstecken: der dunkle und überaus mächtige Magier Phineus Magnus. Doch der ist seit Jahren tot. Könnte ihm jemand nacheifern? Da von Agnes keine Hilfe zu erwarten ist, beschließen Merc und Ferat, der Sache selbst auf den Grund zu gehen - und stoßen in den finsteren Abwasserkanälen auf jede Menge unangenehme Überraschungen.

Meet Laszlo, eight-hundred-year-old demon and Hell’s least productive Curse Keeper. From his office beneath Midtown, he oversees the Drakeford Curse, which involves a pathetic family upstate and a mysterious black monolith. It’s a sexy enough assignment—colonial origins, mutating victims, et cetera—but Laszlo has no interest in maximizing the curse’s potential; he’d rather sunbathe in Ibiza, quaff martinis, and hustle the hustlers on Manhattan’s subway.

"Listeners will be captivated as each narrator provides glimpses of Jamie's present and Serena's past, interspersed with snippets from the book of magic that Jamie is studying." — AudioFile In the vein of Alice Hoffman and Charlie Jane Anders's own All the Birds in the Sky comes a multicast...

Als die zwanzigjährige Kiera Hudson in das weit abgelegene Städtchen Ragged Cove versetzt wird, ändert sich ihr Leben von Grund auf. Sie muss einen Fall mit schrecklichen Morden, Grabschändungen und vermissten Personen aufklären, und durch ihr spezielles Talent, bestimmte Dinge sehen zu können, stellt sie bald fest, dass sie selbst in Lebensgefahr schwebt. Doch als Kiera sich in ihren Kollegen, den Polizisten Luke Bishop, verliebt, lernt sie eine furchteinflößende neue Welt kennen.

Seth, Herr von Ombos und abtrünniger Gott des Chaos, findet sich unversehens im modernen Las Vegas wieder. Niemand fürchtet ihn, niemand huldigt ihm und seine göttlichen Kräfte gehorchen ihm nicht mehr. Glücklicherweise muss er diese missliche Lage nicht allein durchstehen. Tara, Billy und Fernando, eine Gruppe von wohnungssuchenden Außenseitern, nehmen den gefallenen Gott unter ihre Fittiche und weihen ihn in die Magie von Punk, Bikes und Bier ein.

Mack begins her training at the mages' academy in the hope that, by complying, the stasis spell will be lifted from her old friend Mrs. Alcoon. However, once there, she finds herself surrounded by unfriendly adults and petulant teenagers, the majority of whom seem determined to see her fail. Feeling attacked on all fronts, Mack finds it harder and harder to keep a rein on her temper. Forced to attend anger management classes and deal with the predatory attentions of Corrigan, the Lord Alpha of the shapeshifter world, her emotions start to unravel.

Once a devoted children's librarian, Jane Jameson now works at a rundown occult bookstore. Once a regular gal, she's now a vampire. And instead of a bride, she's an eternal bridesmaid -- which leads her to question where exactly her relationship with her irresistibly sexy sire, Gabriel, is headed. Mercurial, enigmatic, apparently commitment-phobic vampires are nothing if not hard to read.

A family secret catapults Rory into a magical library - and a new life she never knew she wanted. Bookshop assistant Aurora "Rory" Hawthorn thinks reality will never be as interesting as fiction. Content to spend her time escaping into a good book to escape her micromanaging boss, the very last thing she expects is to be cornered by a group of terrifying strangers hunting down a journal that belonged to her late father.