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Creatures of the night....Monsters...and lovers?
Updated November 30, 2024
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Baldree, Travis
Paper Book
An Instant #1 New York Times, USA Today, and Indie Bestseller A Barnes & Noble Best Fantasy Book of 2023 An Amazon Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Book of 2023 When an injury throws a young, battle-hungry orc off her chosen path, she may...
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Swamp story : a novel
Barry, Dave
Paper Book
Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author--and actual Florida Man--Dave Barry returns with a "hilariously funny" (Steve Martin) caper full of oddballs and more twists and turns than a snake slithering away from a gator. Jesse Braddock is trapped in a...
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Devolution
Brooks, Max
Paper Book
FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WORLD WAR Z 'A visceral tale of survival horror' FINANCIAL TIMES ______________________________________As the ash and chaos from Mount Rainier's eruption swirled and finally settled, the story...
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Working for Bigfoot : stories from the Dresden files
Butcher, Jim
Paper Book
Chicago wizard-for-hire Harry Dresden is used to mysterious clients with long hair and legs up to here. But when it turns out the long hair covers every square inch of his latest client's body, and the legs contribute to a nine-foot height, even the redoubtable detective realizes he's treading new...
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Grunge
Correia, Larry
Paper Book
TWO MULTIPLE NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHORS TEAM UPTO EXPAND LARRY CORREIA'S MONSTER HUNTER UNIVERSE!
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Lesser known monsters of the 21st century : stories
Fu, Kim
Paper Book
In the twelve unforgettable tales of Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, the strange is made familiar and the familiar strange, such that a girl growing wings on her legs feels like an ordinary rite of passage, while a bug-infested house becomes an impossible, Kafkaesque...
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Two twisted crowns
Gillig, Rachel
Paper Book
In the New York Times bestselling sequel to One Dark Window, Elspeth must confront the weight of her actions as she and Ravyn embark on a perilous quest to save the kingdom--perfect for readers of Hannah Whitten's For the Wolf and ...
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Smolder
Hamilton, Laurell K.
Paper Book
Vampire hunter Anita Blake is no stranger to killing monsters. It's part of her job as a Preternatural U.S. Marshal, after all. But even her experience isn't enough to stop something that is bent on destroying everything--and everyone--she loves. Anita Blake is engaged to...
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Miss Benson's beetle
Joyce, Rachel
Paper Book
WOMAN & HOME BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR and A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Shortlisted for the 2021 WILBUR SMITH ADVENTURE WRITING PRIZE | BEST PUBLISHED NOVEL. 'The perfect escape novel for our troubled times.' PATRICK GALE It is 1950. In a...
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Night's edge
Kerin, Liz
Paper Book
"Complex and fully realized, Kerin's vampire apocalypse has a palpable beating heart."--Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six Night's Edge by Liz Kerin takes a bite out of vampire lore in this blood-soaked novel about the darkest...
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What feasts at night
Kingfisher, T.
Paper Book
An Instant New York Times, USA Today, and Indie Bestseller A Barnes & Noble Best Horror Book of 2024 A Goodreads Best Horror Choice Award Nominee Enter a cold, silent forest and find out what feasts at night in this new gothic tale...
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Chasm
McEwan, Stacey
Paper Book
The second book in the TikTok series sensation The Glacian Trilogy from Stacey McEwan Dawsyn's fight to save the people of the Ledge is far from over in this thrilling and highly anticipated sequel to the bestselling romantasy, Ledge --- Dawsyn's...
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The meister of Decimen City
Raney, Brenna
Paper Book
2023 Foreword INDIES Award Gold Medal Winner "Raney's debut is a blast [and] inventive as all get out . . ." --Booklist, Starred Review "Thoroughly entertaining and utterly delightful." --Publishers Weekly, Starred Review No one...
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St. Lucy's home for girls raised by wolves
Russell, Karen
Paper Book
A dazzling debut, a blazingly original voice: the ten stories in St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves introduce a radiant new talent. In the collection’s title story, a pack of girls raised by wolves are painstakingly reeducated by nuns. In “Haunting...
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Tempest runner
Scott, Cavan
Ebook
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Frankenstein, or, The modern Prometheus
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Paper Book
No-one in the grip of Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN, with its mythic-minded hero and its highly sympathetic monster who reads Goethe and longs to be at peace with himself, can fail to notice how much more excellent the original is than all the adaptations, imitations and outright...
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Phaedra : a novel
Shepperson, Laura
Paper Book
DEBUT AUTHOR: A "powerful and compulsively readable" feminist retelling of one of the most maligned figures of Greek mythology--perfect for fans of Madeline Miller's Circe (Booklist). Phaedra has been cast to the side all her life: daughter of an adulteress, sister...
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Chlorine : a novel
Song, Jade
Paper Book
In the vein of The Pisces and The Vegetarian, Chlorine is a debut novel that blurs the line between a literary coming-of-age narrative and a dark unsettling horror tale, told from an adult perspective on the trials and tribulations of growing up in a society that puts...
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The hobbit, or, There and back again
Tolkien, J. R. R.
Paper Book
This deluxe hardcover edition of J.R.R. Tolkien's classic prelude to his Lord of the Rings trilogy contains a short introduction by Christopher Tolkien, a reset text incorporating the most up-to-date corrections, and all of Tolkien's own drawings and full-color illustrations, including the rare...
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The beast you are : stories
Tremblay, Paul
Paper Book
A haunting collection of short fiction from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club, A Head Full of Ghosts, and The Cabin at the End of the World. Paul Tremblay has won widespread acclaim for illuminating the dark horrors of the mind in novels and stories that push...
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We are the crisis : a novel
Turnbull, Cadwell
Paper Book
The long-awaited sequel to No Gods, No Monsters from award-winning author Cadwell Turnbull, We Are the Crisis sees humans and monsters clash as civil rights collide with preternatural forces. Three years after the Monster Massacre, members of Rebecca's old wolf pack have begun to go...
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