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Marla Mason has been a mercenary, a chief sorcerer, a protector of an entire city, and an occult detective, and now she's a goddess of death...but only part time. She gets to spend six months a year living as a mortal woman on Earth, and she's decided to devote those months to hunting monsters for fun and personal redemption. Armed with ax and dagger, with the living severed head of her worst enemy in a birdcage for a traveling companion, she sets off by motorcycle into the American Southwest on a journey of self-discovery and other destruction.

Collector Benjamin Byrd has added a new and eerie item to his archives: a set of fangs embedded in silver. As he grows more and more obsessed with his new treasure, he finds himself experiencing dreams and visionary adventures. Soon Benjamin's normal, successful routine is transformed beyond anything he ever imagined; he has to confront the truth that he is no longer simply human.

Detective Sergeant Mariko Oshiro has been promoted to Japan's elite Narcotics unit - and with this promotion comes a new partner, a new case, and new danger. The underboss of a powerful yakuza crime syndicate has put a price on her head, and he'll lift the bounty only if she retrieves an ancient iron demon mask that was stolen from him in a daring raid. However, Mariko has no idea of the tumultuous past carried within the mask - or of its deadly link with the famed Inazuma blade she wields.

The streets of New York are hungry tonight...Carlos Delacruz straddles the line between the living and the not-so alive. As an agent for the Council of the Dead, he eliminates New York's ghostlier problems. This time it's a string of gruesome paranormal accidents in Brooklyn's Von King Park that has already taken the lives of several locals - and is bound to take more. The incidents in the park have put Kia on edge. When she first met Carlos, he was the weird guy who came to Baba Eddie's botánica, where she worked.

When Samantha's parents died, she lost everything. Her home. Her friends. Her hope. Then a life-loving spring witch at the children's shelter fills her life with light and joy once again. But like the springtime, Samantha's happiness doesn't last forever. Her friend dies violently in front of her, the victim of a mysterious killing spell. Furious and grief-stricken, Samantha resents her own weak spring magic. She doesn't need life and renewal. She wants revenge...and death.

For centuries, the extremely powerful and ruthless vampire witches of the European Council have wandered the Earth, controlling governments, fostering war, creating political conflict, and often leaving absolute destruction in their wake. One of the strongest of them is set to create some havoc in the city of New Orleans, and it's definitely personal.

Wie wird man Magier, wenn man nicht zaubern kann? Mit diesem Problem kämpft Joel tagtäglich, denn nichts wünscht er sich sehnlicher, als ein Rithmatist, ein berühmter Kreidemagier, zu werden. Doch so sehr er sich auch bemüht, seine Kreidefiguren bleiben leblos - bis zu dem Tag, an dem plötzlich das Schicksal aller Rithmatisten auf Joels Schultern ruht. Einem Tag, an dem eine lange verborgene Gabe in ihm erwacht...

 Orson Scott Card, Kevin J. Anderson, and Larry Niven have seen the future. Now you can, too. A constellation of the brightest lights in the science fiction and fantasy firmament have judged these authors to be the best, the brightest, the truest emerging stars in the field.  

Trying to escape her embarrassing immigrant mother, Vimbai moves into a dilapidated house in the dunes and discovers that one of her new roommates has a pocket universe instead of hair, there's a psychic energy baby living in the telephone wires, and her dead Zimbabwean grandmother is doing dishes in the kitchen.

Sweeney Cassidy is the typical college freshman at the University of the Archangels and St. John the Divine in Washington, DC. She drinks. She parties. And she certainly doesn't suspect that underneath its picturesque Gothic facade, the university is a haven for the Benandanti, a cult devoted to suppressing the powerful and destructive Moon Goddess. But everything is about to change as Sweeney learns that her two new best friends are the goddess' Chosen Ones.

I like my women like I like my whiskey: more than is good for me. Name's Kane, Kate Kane. I'm a paranormal private investigator, which is like a normal private investigator except—and stop me if you're having trouble following this—more paranormal. This business comes with a few basic rules...

When the resurrectionists of Fissure's Whipp begin disappearing, 18-year-old Allie knows someone is after their blood - or, more accurately, the genetic mutation that allows their blood to heal wounds, save lives, and even bring back the recently deceased. She's trained her whole life to protect herself by any means necessary, from self-defense classes to extensive weapons training in knives. Now she’s gone so far as to befriend a homeless boy named Ploy who unknowingly trades a few nights a week on her couch in exchange for being a human tripwire to those hunting her.

A heartwarming tale of hope, fate, and folk magic unfolds when a young woman travels to a sleepy southern town in the Appalachian Mountains to bury her best friend. At the age of eleven, Mel Smith’s life found its purpose when she met Sarah Ross. Ten years later, Sarah’s sudden death...

Matt enters the violent world of underground cage fighting…where a brutal death match becomes a horrific fight-to-the-undead that could lead him to the truth about his reincarnation or to his gruesome demise. The black death is a deadly new form of crystal meth that turns its users into black-eyed, homicidal maniacs. Matt must destroy the virulently addictive drug before the madness spreads from a backwoods community to the entire nation.

S'installer à la campagne pour y vivre tranquillement sans attirer l'attention ? Quand j'ai choisi mon trou perdu suédois, moi aussi j'y croyais. Avec mon herboristerie, mes connaissances pour ne tuer personne avec mes plantes un rien trop efficaces, je partais pour une petite vie planquée à l'abri des regards indiscrets. Ou pas... Il aura suffi d'une herbe, anodine bien que peu commune, pour nous griller, mes pouvoirs et moi.

Dès leur arrivée à New York, les sept loups-garous composant la Horde se font attaquer par un gang de sorciers. Qui peut avoir l'audace d'affronter l'élite guerrière des lycans ? La Horde va mener l'enquête, et elle n'est pas la seule puisque les humains sont aussi sur l'affaire. Silence, le lycan le plus expérimenté de la bande, devra se surpasser afin de protéger ses frères et, plus encore, le secret de l'existence des loups-garous. Une mission difficile à accomplir, surtout avec cette policière sur leurs traces.

Ils sont sept guerriers loups-garous et forment la Horde, l'élite guerrière de leur race. Ils se nomment Domination, Abomination, Thunder, Silence, Ombre, Temptation et Ash. Leur rôle est de protéger les leurs contre les attaques de leurs plus farouches ennemis, les sorciers et sorcières. Depuis quatre cents ans, les lycans subissent leurs assauts aussi magiques que violents, et ce, sur tout le territoire nord-américain. De nos jours, sur la côte Est des USA, des morts suspectes de jeunes gens attirent l'attention.

It wasn't the most hospitable invitation she'd ever received. Archaeologist Annja Creed is being rushed to Massachusetts, abducted by a famous environmental terrorist - a zealot willing to kill anyone who gets in his or the planet's way. He has taken the book dealer hostage in order to steal a rare and very valuable treatise called the Tome of Prossos. Annja is the key to retrieving the ancient manuscript hidden somewhere deep within the mansion.  

Deep in the Amazon jungle, a tribe holds the key to the truest form of dreaming — where the human spirit walks the petal-thin line between life and death. In an elaborate ceremony, the dreamer ingests a toxic brew, then submerges herself in an herbal bath that turns human skin a vivid shade of midnight-blue. And the experience changes the dreamer forever....

L und seinem Ermittlerteam gelingt es, Misa als neues Werbegesicht und Doppelagentin in Kyosuke Higuchis Firma einzuschleusen. Doch noch wissen sie nicht genau, wer dort das DEATH NOTE besitzt. Kyosuke indes ahnt nicht, dass sich die Schlinge um seinen Kopf immer weiter zuzieht und prahlt vor der verführerischen Misa mit seinen tödlichen Fähigkeiten. Um ihm ein öffentliches Geständnis zu entlocken, entwickeln L und Light einen gefährlichen Plan.