Paige's bookshelf: all en-US Fri, 17 Jan 2025 16:44:08 -0800 60 Paige's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[The Book of Life (All Souls, #3)]]> 16054217 The #1 New York Times bestselling series finale and sequel to A Discovery of Witches and Shadow of Night

Bringing the magic and suspense of the All Souls Trilogy to a deeply satisfying conclusion, this highly anticipated finale went straight to #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. In The Book of Life, Diana and Matthew time-travel back from Elizabethan London to make a dramatic return to the present—facing new crises and old enemies. At Matthew’s ancestral home, Sept-Tours, they reunite with the beloved cast of characters from A Discovery of Witches—with one significant exception. But the real threat to their future has yet to be revealed, and when it is, the search for Ashmole 782 and its missing pages takes on even more urgency.]]> 561 Deborah Harkness 0670025593 Paige 5 4.15 2014 The Book of Life (All Souls, #3)
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average rating: 4.15
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rating: 5
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]]> Amethyst Rain 9767479
Mark and Jarrod never imagined when they accepted an invite to an off-to-war bash they'd find a woman who would make them both rock hard and ready. But with her strange amethyst necklace flipping everyone's libido into overdrive and the sky raining amethyst, will they be able to convince her their attraction is more than magic?]]> 53 Alison Paige 1419914480 Paige 0 2.97 2008 Amethyst Rain
author: Alison Paige
name: Paige
average rating: 2.97
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]]> <![CDATA[First Contact (Eclipsed Evolution, #1)]]> 203085891 In the wake of the solar eclipse, a portal between our world and a paranormal realm opens—and a scientist’s life will never be the same, in this thrilling serialized adventure from the New York Times bestselling author of The Hollows.

Dr. Renee Caisson knows there are worse things than an attractive man in uniform drafting her into a secret government project—especially when Major Jackson makes it clear that he isn’t bothered by her questionable past. But when her labs come back with decidedly odd results, the Major is forced to come clean over who the government is actually studying. Renee is shocked to learn her subjects are demonic-looking beings who call themselves “Neighbors”—refugees from a dying world, who arrived during the nation-wide solar eclipse.

The Neighbors� technology is unlike anything Renee’s ever encountered. At first, she dismisses an injury that inexplicably heals as “just one of those things�. And surely August, the most gregarious Neighbor, begins to speak English overnight because of the team linguist’s skills?

Not until August begins evolving in real time to withstand Earth’s brighter, dryer atmosphere does she admit that the Neighbors� “tech� feels less like science and more like magic—the same magic that brought them here in the first place, and the same they’re trying to rekindle with a mysterious labyrinth in order to return home and save their world.

At least, that’s what August claims they came for…]]> 168 Kim Harrison 0593816234 Paige 0 to-read 4.17 2024 First Contact (Eclipsed Evolution, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Three Kinds of Lucky (The Shadow Age, #1)]]> 122563730
Petra Grady has known since adolescence that she has no talent for magic—and that’s never going to change. But as a sweeper first-class, she’s parlayed her rare ability to handle dross—the damaging, magical waste generated by her more talented kin’s spellwork—into a decent life working at the mages� university.

Except Grady’s relatively predictable life is about to be upended. When the oblivious, sexy, and oh-so-out-of-reach Benedict Strom needs someone with her abilities for a research project studying dross and how to render it harmless, she’s stuck working on his team—whether she wants to or not.

Only Benedict doesn’t understand the characteristics of dross like Grady does. After an unthinkable accident, she and Benedict are forced to go on the run to seek out the one person who might be able to help: an outcast exiled ten years ago for the crime of using dross to cast spells. Now Grady must decide whether to stick with the magical status quo or embrace her own hidden talents . . . and risk shattering their entire world.]]> 459 Kim Harrison 0593437489 Paige 0 to-read 4.30 2024 Three Kinds of Lucky (The Shadow Age, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Killing Dance (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #6)]]> 30244 368 Laurell K. Hamilton 0425209067 Paige 5 4.14 1997 The Killing Dance (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #6)
author: Laurell K. Hamilton
name: Paige
average rating: 4.14
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rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English]]> 608947 648 Géza Vermes 0140449523 Paige 0 to-read 4.06 -200 The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English
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]]> Decimate 59009238 A desperate family confronts the mysteries that lie between life and death in this soul-gripping novel of supernatural suspense by Amazon Charts and New York Times bestselling author Christopher Rice.

Claire Huntley and her brother, Poe, were on a midnight hike in Montana when the woods went wild. A blinding, devouring light and a rumbling pulse that blasted them off their feet left both kids with little memory of what happened. Their father insisted it was a violent extraterrestrial abduction; his wild obsession would tear their family apart in the wake of the trauma.

Fourteen years later, Claire, who’s battled anxiety attacks since that fateful hike, wants to heal her relationship with her brother, which has been damaged by his years of addiction. But only hours before their reunion, Poe’s crowded passenger plane plunges into the Colorado mountains. No one survives the fiery crash. In the midst of her grief, Claire accepts her estranged father’s request to join him in Montana, where he continues to investigate the paranormal force he believes altered his children down to their bones.

As they reunite, Claire’s anxiety attacks take on a new dimension. Is she experiencing hallucinations or visions? Is her brother’s presence in them a symptom of grief, or is she receiving messages from beyond life? The answers Claire and her father seek will take them on a breakneck journey deep into the Montana wilderness and the shadows of history, where they will unearth a secret force with terrifying implications for their family—and the world.]]> 426 Christopher Rice 154203275X Paige 0 to-read 4.00 2022 Decimate
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]]> <![CDATA[A Terrible Fall of Angels (Zaniel Havelock, #1)]]> 57602240 Angels walk among us, but so do other unearthly beings in this brand new series by #1 New York Times Bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton.

Meet Detective Zaniel Havelock, a man with the special ability to communicate directly with angels. A former trained Angel speaker, he devoted his life to serving both the celestial beings and his fellow humans with his gift, but a terrible betrayal compelled him to leave that life behind. Now he’s a cop who is still working on the side of angels. But where there are angels, there are also demons. There’s no question that there’s evil at work when he’s called in to examine the murder scene of a college student—but is it just the evil that one human being can do to another, or is it something more? When demonic possession is a possibility, even angelic protection can only go so far. The race is on to stop a killer before he finds his next victim, as Zaniel is forced to confront his own very personal demons, and the past he never truly left behind.

The first in a new series from the author of the Anita Blake and Merry Gentry series.
]]> 400 Laurell K. Hamilton 1984804480 Paige 0 to-read 4.07 2021 A Terrible Fall of Angels (Zaniel Havelock, #1)
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]]> Wild Sign (Alpha & Omega, #6) 54233580 Mated werewolves Charles Cornick and Anna Latham must discover what could make an entire community disappear—before it's too late—in this thrilling entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling Alpha and Omega series.

In the wilds of the Northern California mountains, all the inhabitants of a small town have gone missing. It's as if the people picked up and left everything they owned behind. Fearing something supernatural might be going on, the FBI taps a source they've consulted in the the werewolves Charles Cornick and Anna Latham. But Charles and Anna soon find a deserted town is the least of the mysteries they face.

Death sings in the forest, and when it calls, Charles and Anna must answer. Something has awakened in the heart of the California mountains, something old and dangerous—and it has met werewolves before.]]> 368 Patricia Briggs 0440001595 Paige 0 to-read 4.69 2021 Wild Sign (Alpha & Omega, #6)
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]]> <![CDATA[Battle Ground (The Dresden Files, #17)]]> 42419826
But this time it’s different. A being more powerful and dangerous on an order of magnitude beyond what the world has seen in a millennium is coming. And she’s bringing an army. The Last Titan has declared war on the city of Chicago, and has come to subjugate humanity, obliterating any who stand in her way.

Harry’s mission is simple but impossible: Save the city by killing a Titan. And the attempt will change Harry’s life, Chicago, and the mortal world forever.]]> 432 Jim Butcher 0593199324 Paige 0 currently-reading 4.59 2020 Battle Ground (The Dresden Files, #17)
author: Jim Butcher
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average rating: 4.59
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]]> <![CDATA[The Turn: The Hollows Begins with Death (The Hollows, #0.1)]]> 31180840 New York Times bestselling author Kim Harrison returns to her beloved Hollows series with The Turn, the official prequel to the series that will introduce fans and readers to a whole new side of Rachel Morgan's world as they've never seen it before!

Can science save us when all else fails?

Trisk and her hated rival, Kalamack, have the same goal: save their species from extinction.

Death comes in the guise of hope when a genetically modified tomato . Plague takes the world, giving the paranormal species an uncomfortable choice .

Under accusations of scientific misconduct, Trisk and Kal flee across a plague torn United States to convince leaders of the major paranormal species to save their supposedly weaker kin, but not everyone thinks humanity should be saved.

Trisk fights the prejudices of two societies to prove that not only does humanity have something to offer, but that long-accepted beliefs against women, dark magic, and humanity itself can turn to understanding; that when people are at their worst that the best show their true strength, and that love can hold the world together as a new balance is found.]]> 448 Kim Harrison Paige 0 currently-reading 4.23 2017 The Turn: The Hollows Begins with Death (The Hollows, #0.1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Peace Talks (The Dresden Files, #16)]]> 49370109 HARRY DRESDEN IS BACK AND READY FOR ACTION, in the new entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling Dresden Files.

When the Supernatural nations of the world meet up to negotiate an end to ongoing hostilities, Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, joins the White Council's security team to make sure the talks stay civil. But can he succeed, when dark political manipulations threaten the very existence of Chicago--and all he holds dear?]]> 348 Jim Butcher 0399587071 Paige 5 4.42 2020 Peace Talks (The Dresden Files, #16)
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]]> <![CDATA[Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941]]> 44020533 The author of the international bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich offers a personal account of life in Nazi Germany at the start of WWII.

By the late 1930s, Adolf Hitler, Führer of the Nazi Party, had consolidated power in Germany and was leading the world into war. A young foreign correspondent was on hand to bear witness.

More than two decades prior to the publication of his acclaimed history, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William L. Shirer was a journalist stationed in Berlin. During his years in the Nazi capital, he kept a daily personal diary, scrupulously recording everything he heard and saw before being forced to flee the country in 1940.

Berlin Diary is Shirer’s first-hand account of the momentous events that shook the world in the mid-twentieth century, from the annexation of Austria and Czechoslovakia to the fall of Poland and France. A remarkable personal memoir of an extraordinary time, it chronicles the author’s thoughts and experiences while living in the shadow of the Nazi beast. Shirer recalls the surreal spectacles of the Nuremberg rallies, the terror of the late-night bombing raids, and his encounters with members of the German high command while he was risking his life to report to the world on the atrocities of a genocidal regime.

At once powerful, engrossing, and edifying, William L. Shirer’s Berlin Diary is an essential historical record that illuminates one of the darkest periods in human civilization.]]> 386 William L. Shirer 0795316984 Paige 0 currently-reading 4.62 Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941
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]]> <![CDATA[Smoke Bitten (Mercy Thompson, #12)]]> 50092495
My only "superpowers" are that I turn into a thirty-five pound coyote and fix Volkswagens. But I have friends in odd places and a pack of werewolves at my back. It looks like I'm going to need them.

Centuries ago, the fae dwelt in Underhill--until she locked her doors against them. They left behind their great castles and troves of magical artifacts. They abandoned their prisoners and their pets. Without the fae to mind them, those creatures who remained behind roamed freely through Underhill wreaking havoc. Only the deadliest survived.

Now one of those prisoners has escaped. It can look like anyone, any creature it chooses. But if it bites you, it controls you. It lives for chaos and destruction. It can make you do anything--even kill the person you love the most. Now it is here, in the Tri-Cities. In my territory.

It won't, can't, remain.

Not if I have anything to say about it.]]> 368 Patricia Briggs 0440001560 Paige 5 4.62 2020 Smoke Bitten (Mercy Thompson, #12)
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average rating: 4.62
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]]> <![CDATA[Sucker Punch (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #27)]]> 50627130 A brutal murder, a suspect in jail, and an execution planned, but what if the wrong person is about to be killed?⠀⠀⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶
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When a fellow U.S. Marshal asks Anita Blake to fly to a tiny community in Michigan's Upper Peninsula on an emergency consult, she knows time is running short. When she arrives, there is plenty of proof that a young wereleopard killed his uncle in the most gruesome and bloody way possible. As the mounting evidence points to him, a warrant of execution is already under way.⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠀⠀
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But something seems off about the murder, and Anita has been asked for her expert opinion on the crime scene. Despite the escalating pressure from local cops and the family’s cries for justice for their dead patriarch, Anita quickly realizes that the evidence doesn't quite add up.⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠀⠀
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Time is against Anita, as the tight-knit community is up in arms and fear against supernaturals is growing. She races to uncover the truth and determine whether the Marshals have caught the killer or are about to execute an innocent man—all in the name of justice.]]> 624 Laurell K. Hamilton 198480443X Paige 0 to-read 3.82 2020 Sucker Punch (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #27)
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]]> Shakespeare for Squirrels 52216445 New York Times Bestseller!

Shakespeare meets Dashiell Hammett in this wildly entertaining murder mystery from New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore—an uproarious, hardboiled take on the Bard’s most performed play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, featuring Pocket, the hero of Fool and The Serpent of Venice, along with his sidekick, Drool, and pet monkey, Jeff.

Set adrift by his pirate crew, Pocket of Dog Snogging—last seen in The Serpent of Venice—washes up on the sun-bleached shores of Greece, where he hopes to dazzle the Duke with his comedic brilliance and become his trusted fool.

But the island is in turmoil. Egeus, the Duke’s minister, is furious that his daughter Hermia is determined to marry Demetrius, instead of Lysander, the man he has chosen for her. The Duke decrees that if, by the time of the wedding, Hermia still refuses to marry Lysander, she shall be executed . . . or consigned to a nunnery. Pocket, being Pocket, cannot help but point out that this decree is complete bollocks, and that the Duke is an egregious weasel for having even suggested it. Irritated by the fool’s impudence, the Duke orders his death. With the Duke’s guards in pursuit, Pocket makes a daring escape.

He soon stumbles into the wooded realm of the fairy king Oberon, who, as luck would have it, IS short a fool. His jester Robin Goodfellow—the mischievous sprite better known as Puck—was found dead. Murdered. Oberon makes Pocket an offer he can’t refuse: he will make Pocket his fool and have his death sentence lifted if Pocket finds out who killed Robin Goodfellow. But as anyone who is even vaguely aware of the Bard’s most performed play ever will know, nearly every character has a motive for wanting the mischievous sprite dead.

With too many suspects and too little time, Pocket must work his own kind of magic to find the truth, save his neck, and ensure that all ends well.

A rollicking tale of love, magic, madness, and murder, Shakespeare for Squirrels is a Midsummer Night’s noir—a wicked and brilliantly funny good time conjured by the singular imagination of Christopher Moore.]]> 271 Christopher Moore 0062434020 Paige 0 to-read 3.85 2020 Shakespeare for Squirrels
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]]> <![CDATA[American Demon (The Hollows #14)]]> 50819846 Rachel Morgan is back--and The Hollows will never be the same.

What happens after you've saved the world? Well, if you're Rachel Mariana Morgan, witch-born demon, you quickly discover that something might have gone just a little bit wrong. That the very same acts you and your friends took to forge new powers may have released something bound by the old. With a rash of zombies, some strange new murders, and an exceedingly mysterious new demon in town, it will take everything Rachel has to counter this new threat to the world--and it may demand the sacrifice of what she holds most dear.]]> 473 Kim Harrison 0593101413 Paige 0 to-read 4.34 2020 American Demon (The Hollows #14)
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average rating: 4.34
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]]> <![CDATA[Shifting Shadows: Stories from the World of Mercy Thompson]]> 21440543
A collection of all-new and previously published short stories featuring Mercy Thompson, “one of the best heroines in the urban fantasy genre today� (Fiction Vixen Book Reviews), and the characters she calls friends�

Includes the new stories�
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“Roses in Winter�
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…and reader favorites
“Fairy Gifts�
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“Alpha and Omega� (Alpha & Omega 0.5)
“Seeing Eye� (Alpha & Omega 1.5)
“The Star of David� (Mercy Thompson 1.5)
“In Red, with Pearls� (Mercy Thompson 6.5)]]> 464 Patricia Briggs 1101609508 Paige 0 4.56 2014 Shifting Shadows: Stories from the World of Mercy Thompson
author: Patricia Briggs
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average rating: 4.56
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]]> <![CDATA[The Mayfair Witches Series Bundle: Witching Hour, Lasher, Taltos (Lives of Mayfair Witches)]]> 18874332 Interview with the Vampire and The Vampire Lestat, The Mayfair Witches is a wondrous journey through the centuries, across the globe, and between the human and demonic worlds. Now all three novels in Anne Rice’s spellbinding series have been collected for the first time in this stunning eBook

THE WITCHING HOUR
LASHER
TALTOS

On the screened porch of a great New Orleans house, now faded, a mute and fragile woman sits rocking. She belongs to a legendary dynasty of witches—a family that is itself haunted over the ages by a dangerous and seductive being named Lasher. Their story begins in our time, with a rescue at sea. Rowan Mayfair, a brilliant neurosurgeon aware of her abilities but oblivious to her ancient line, finds the drowned body of Michael Curry off the coast of California and brings him to life. In his brief interval of death, he has acquired a sensory power that mystifies and frightens him. Fiercely drawn to each other, Rowan and Michael set out to solve the mystery of her past and his unwelcome gift, and an intricate tale of evil an evil unleashed in seventeenth-century Scotland, where the first “witch,� Suzanne of the Mayfair, conjures up the spirit that spells her own destruction and torments each of her descendants in turn.

Praise for Anne Rice and The Mayfair Witches

“Behind all the velvet drapes and the gossamer winding sheets, this is an old-fashioned family saga. . . . Rice’s descriptive writing is so opulent that it almost begs to be read [by] candlelight.��The Washington Post Book World

“[A] huge and sprawling tale of horror.��The New York Times Book Review

“Lush prose, dense atmosphere, steamy sex, Gothic tension . . . Rice stages her scenes in a wide variety of times and locales, tapping deeply into the richest veins of mythology and history.��San Francisco Chronicle

“Spellbinding . . . mythical . . . Rice is a pure storyteller.��Cosmopolitan

“Rice sees things on a grand scale. . . . There is a wide-screen historical sweep to the tale as it moves from one generation of witches to the other.��The Boston Globe

“An intricate, stunning imagination.��Los Angeles Times Book Review

“It is hard to praise sufficiently the originality of Miss Rice. . . . She has made a masterpiece of the morbid, worthy of Poe’s daughter.��The Wall Street Journal]]> 1058 Anne Rice 0345546105 Paige 0 4.32 1999 The Mayfair Witches Series Bundle: Witching Hour, Lasher, Taltos (Lives of Mayfair Witches)
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]]> <![CDATA[Brief Cases (The Dresden Files, #15.1)]]> 36844711 An all-new Dresden Files story headlines this urban fantasy short story collection starring the Windy City’s favorite wizard.The world of Harry Dresden, Chicago’s only professional wizard, is rife with intrigue—and creatures of all supernatural stripes. And you’ll make their intimate acquaintance as Harry delves into the dark side of truth, justice, and the American way in this must-have short story collection. From the Wild West to the bleachers at Wrigley Field, humans, zombies, incubi, and even fey royalty appear, ready to blur the line between friend and foe. In the never-before-published “Zoo Day,� Harry treads new ground as a dad, while fan-favorite characters Molly Carpenter, his onetime apprentice, White Council Warden Anastasia Luccio, and even Bigfoot stalk through the pages of more classic tales. With twelve stories in all, Brief Cases offers both longtime fans and first-time readers tantalizing glimpses into Harry’s funny, gritty, and unforgettable realm, whetting their appetites for more to come from the wizard with a heart of gold. The collection � “Curses,� from Naked City, edited by Ellen Datlow� “AAAA Wizardry,� from the Dresden Files RPG� “Even Hand,� from Dark and Stormy Knights, edited by P. N. Elrod� “B is for Bigfoot,� from Under My Tales from the Cauldron, edited by Jonathan Strahan. Republished in Working for Bigfoot.� “I was a Teenage Bigfoot,� from Blood Lite Aftertaste, edited by Kevin J. Anderson. Republished in Working for Bigfoot.� “Bigfoot on Campus,� from Hex Appeal, edited by P. N. Elrod. Republished in Working for Bigfoot.� “Bombshells,� from Dangerous Women, edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois� “Jury Duty,� from Unbound, edited by Shawn Speakman� “Cold Case,� from Shadowed Souls, edited by Jim Butcher and Kerrie Hughes� “Day One,� from Unfettered II, edited by Shawn Speakman� “A Fistful of Warlocks,� from Straight Outta Tombstone, edited by David Boop� “Zoo Day,”a brand-new novella, original to this collection]]> 444 Jim Butcher Paige 0 4.59 2018 Brief Cases (The Dresden Files, #15.1)
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average rating: 4.59
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]]> <![CDATA[Burn Bright (Alpha & Omega, #5)]]> 36194120
They are the wild and the broken. The werewolves too damaged to live safely among their own kind. For their own good, they have been exiled to the outskirts of Aspen Creek, Montana. Close enough to the Marrok's pack to have its support; far enough away to not cause any harm.

With their Alpha out of the country, Charles and Anna are on call when an SOS comes in from the fae mate of one such wildling. Heading into the mountainous wilderness, they interrupt the abduction of the wolf--but can't stop blood from being shed. Now Charles and Anna must use their skills--his as enforcer, hers as peacemaker--to track down the attackers, reopening a painful chapter in the past that springs from the darkest magic of the witchborn...]]> 336 Patricia Briggs 0698195833 Paige 5 4.53 2018 Burn Bright (Alpha & Omega, #5)
author: Patricia Briggs
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average rating: 4.53
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rating: 5
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]]> Becoming 38745806
In her memoir, a work of deep reflection and mesmerizing storytelling, Michelle Obama invites readers into her world, chronicling the experiences that have shaped her—from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago to her years as an executive balancing the demands of motherhood and work, to her time spent at the world’s most famous address. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private, telling her full story as she has lived it—in her own words and on her own terms. Warm, wise, and revelatory, Becoming is the deeply personal reckoning of a woman of soul and substance who has steadily defied expectations—and whose story inspires us to do the same.]]> 428 Michelle Obama Paige 0 to-read 4.67 2018 Becoming
author: Michelle Obama
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]]> <![CDATA[Storm Cursed (Mercy Thompson, #11)]]> 25026912 In this powerful entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, Mercy Thompson must face a deadly enemy to defend all she loves...

My name is Mercedes Athena Thompson Hauptman, and I am a car mechanic.

And a coyote shapeshifter.

And the mate of the Alpha of the Columbia Basin werewolf pack.

Even so, none of that would have gotten me into trouble if, a few months ago, I hadn't stood upon a bridge and taken responsibility for the safety of the citizens who lived in our territory. It seemed like the thing to do at the time. It should have only involved hunting down killer goblins, zombie goats, and an occasional troll. Instead, our home was viewed as neutral ground, a place where humans would feel safe to come and treat with the fae.

The reality is that nothing and no one is safe. As generals and politicians face off with the Gray Lords of the fae, a storm is coming and her name is Death.

But we are pack, and we have given our word.

We will die to keep it.]]> 384 Patricia Briggs 0698195825 Paige 5 4.43 2019 Storm Cursed (Mercy Thompson, #11)
author: Patricia Briggs
name: Paige
average rating: 4.43
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]]> Dead Heat (Alpha & Omega, #4) 22586294
For once, mated werewolves Charles and Anna are not traveling because of Charles’s role as his father’s enforcer. This time, their trip to Arizona is purely personal, as Charles plans to buy Anna a horse for her birthday. Or at least it starts out that way...

Charles and Anna soon discover that a dangerous Fae being is on the loose, replacing human children with simulacrums. The Fae’s cold war with humanity is about to heat up—and Charles and Anna are in the cross fire.]]> 336 Patricia Briggs 0698184637 Paige 5 4.51 2015 Dead Heat (Alpha & Omega, #4)
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name: Paige
average rating: 4.51
book published: 2015
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]]> Fair Game (Alpha & Omega, #3) 12359238
When the FBI requests the pack’s help on a local serial-killer case, Charles and Anna are sent to Boston to join the investigation. It soon becomes clear that someone is targeting the preternatural. And now Anna and Charles have put themselves right in the killer’s sights. . . .
]]> 304 Patricia Briggs 1101560002 Paige 5 4.48 2012 Fair Game (Alpha & Omega, #3)
author: Patricia Briggs
name: Paige
average rating: 4.48
book published: 2012
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Silence Fallen (Mercy Thompson, #10)]]> 30656252 In the #1 New York Times bestselling Mercy Thompson novels, the coyote shapeshifter has found her voice in the werewolf pack. But when Mercy’s bond with the pack—and her mate—is broken, she’ll learn what it truly means to be alone...

Attacked and abducted in her home territory, Mercy finds herself in the clutches of the most powerful vampire in the world, taken as a weapon to use against alpha werewolf Adam and the ruler of the Tri-Cities vampires. In coyote form, Mercy escapes—only to find herself without money, without clothing, and alone in the heart of Europe...

Unable to contact Adam and the rest of the pack, Mercy has allies to find and enemies to fight, and she needs to figure out which is which. Ancient powers stir, and Mercy must be her agile best to avoid causing a war between vampires and werewolves, and between werewolves and werewolves. And in the heart of the ancient city of Prague, old ghosts rise...]]> 379 Patricia Briggs 0698195817 Paige 5 4.59 2017 Silence Fallen (Mercy Thompson, #10)
author: Patricia Briggs
name: Paige
average rating: 4.59
book published: 2017
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Hunting Ground (Alpha & Omega, #2)]]> 8130498
Anna and Charles have just been enlisted to attend a summit to present Bran’s controversial proposition: that the wolves should finally reveal themselves to humans. But the most feared Alpha in Europe is dead set against the plan � and it seems like someone else might be too. When Anna is attacked by vampires using pack magic, the kind of power only werewolves should be able to draw on, Charles and Anna must combine their talents to hunt down whoever is behind it all � or risk losing everything...]]> 308 Patricia Briggs 1101133481 Paige 5 4.45 2009 Hunting Ground (Alpha & Omega, #2)
author: Patricia Briggs
name: Paige
average rating: 4.45
book published: 2009
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Fire Touched (Mercy Thompson, #9)]]> 25752072 Mercy Thompson has been hailed as “a heroine who...always remains true to herself� (Library Journal). Now she’s back, and she’ll soon discover that when the fae stalk the human world, it’s the children who suffer...

Tensions between the fae and humans are coming to a head. And when coyote shapeshifter Mercy and her Alpha werewolf mate, Adam, are called upon to stop a rampaging troll, they find themselves with something that could be used to make the fae back down and forestall out-and-out war: a human child stolen long ago by the fae.

Defying the most powerful werewolf in the country, the humans, and the fae, Mercy, Adam, and their pack choose to protect the boy no matter what the cost. But who will protect them from a boy who is fire touched?
]]> 350 Patricia Briggs 0698180917 Paige 5 4.55 2016 Fire Touched (Mercy Thompson, #9)
author: Patricia Briggs
name: Paige
average rating: 4.55
book published: 2016
rating: 5
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]]> The Magic Bedknob 7912855 This story was later republished, together with Bonfires and Broomsticks, as Bedknobs and Broomsticks.]]> 112 Mary Norton Paige 0 to-read 3.79 1943 The Magic Bedknob
author: Mary Norton
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average rating: 3.79
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]]> <![CDATA[On the Prowl (Alpha & Omega, #0.5)]]> 285212 Alpha and Omega 0.5 by Patricia Briggs
The werewolf Anna finds a new sense of self when the son of the werewolf king comes to town to quell unrest in the Chicago pack- and inspires a power in Anna that she's never felt before.

Inhuman by Eileen Wilks
Kai has a secret gift of sensing thoughts and desires. What she senses in her neighbor Nathan could be dangerous. Because he has a secret gift, too, and it's about to be let loose.

Buying Trouble by Karen Chance
In a New York auction house, a Lord of the Fey crosses paths with a fiery redheaded mage named Claire. But in this strange underground society, the rarity up for sale is Claire herself.

Mona Lisa Betwining by Sunny
Among the children of the moon, Mona Lisa is of Mixed Blood- part Monere, part human, and destined to be alone. Then she meets a man who could be her salvation- or her downfall.]]> 341 Patricia Briggs 0425216594 Paige 5 4.07 2007 On the Prowl (Alpha & Omega, #0.5)
author: Patricia Briggs
name: Paige
average rating: 4.07
book published: 2007
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Beginning (Jessica Christ, #1)]]> 32506850
Jessica McCloud is God’s only begotten daughter, and she’s not super thrilled about that. Sure, she can smite and she knows juicy gossip about folks in her tiny West Texas town, but that’s about where the perks stop. Because add an overbearing Father and a handsome shyster with a knack for founding churches to the already tricky mix of girlhood and puberty, and you’ve got yourself a recipe for ultimate humiliation.

After a close call with a demon, Jessica decides that developing her ability to tell good from evil could be an especially useful survival skill for a messiah. But hopefully that can wait until, oh, high school? In the meantime, she must contend with twin bullies, abstinence-based sex education, and intense menstrual cramping (followed by lightning storms), meaning Jessica has a few things to clear off her plate before she can worry about any nonsense with the Devil.

Feel like the world's gone crazy? You're not alone. The Beginning is the first book in an epic satire series with unforgettable characters and the fresh take on politics, religion, and feminism that you've been waiting for.]]> 195 H. Claire Taylor Paige 0 to-read 3.94 The Beginning (Jessica Christ, #1)
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]]> The Naked Sun (Robot, #2) 11225395 271 Isaac Asimov Paige 0 4.46 1958 The Naked Sun (Robot, #2)
author: Isaac Asimov
name: Paige
average rating: 4.46
book published: 1958
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Future Chronicles: Special Edition]]> 26082797
Its companion series Alt Chronicles, The Illustrated Chronicles and Chronicle Worlds � are similarly ground-breaking in their coverage of less mainstream tropes such as alternative history and shared universes.

Created by award-winning author Samuel Peralta, and edited by some of the most-respected editors in the genre, each volume brings together work from visionary new voices and from the grandmasters of modern science fiction and fantasy.

This Future Chronicles Special Edition volume is a compendium of stories selected from the Chronicles� standalone titles, and includes five new stories, never before published, from some of today’s best writers in speculative fiction.]]> 477 Hugh Howey Paige 0 to-read 3.99 2015 The Future Chronicles: Special Edition
author: Hugh Howey
name: Paige
average rating: 3.99
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]]> <![CDATA[Ghost of a Chance (Paranormal Cowboy #1)]]> 19224446 290 Eric Wilder Paige 0 to-read 4.50 2005 Ghost of a Chance (Paranormal Cowboy #1)
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]]> The Branches of Time 22726826 A Highly Rated Read Voted To The Following Positions on #1 in Parallel Universes #1 in Best Genuinely Unusual Fiction #1 in The Most Addictive Page-Turners of All Time #2 in The Best Time-Travel Romance #2 in Amazing Paranormal Books #2 in Literary Fantasy #2 in Sci-Fi Fantasy Lady Bounty Hunters #20 in Best Fantasy Book Covers #23 in Fall in Love With the Cover #33 in 2014's Most Anticipated Kindle Releases This book contains explicit scenes of sexual nature.]]> 158 Luca Rossi Paige 0 to-read 3.33 2014 The Branches of Time
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average rating: 3.33
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]]> <![CDATA[The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)]]> 11097712 271 Isaac Asimov 0307792412 Paige 0 to-read 4.34 1953 The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)
author: Isaac Asimov
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average rating: 4.34
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]]> Cry Wolf (Alpha & Omega, #1) 8141390 #1 New York Timesbestselling authorPatricia Briggs presents the first Alpha and Omega novel—the start of an extraordinary series set in Mercy Thompson’s world, but with rules of its own...Anna never knew werewolves existed until the night she survived a violent attack…and became one herself. After three years at the bottom of the pack, she’d learned to keep her head down and never, ever trust dominant males. But Anna is that rarest kind of an Omega. And one of the most powerful werewolves in the country is about to recognize her value as a pack member—and as his mate.]]> 321 Patricia Briggs 144063081X Paige 5 4.28 2008 Cry Wolf (Alpha & Omega, #1)
author: Patricia Briggs
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average rating: 4.28
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rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Night Broken (Mercy Thompson, #8)]]> 18371985 #1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Briggs’s Mercy Thompson series has been hailed as “one of the best� (Fiction Vixen). Now, Mercy must deal with an unwanted guest—one that brings a threat unlike anything she’s ever known.

An unexpected phone call heralds a new challenge for Mercy. Her mate Adam’s ex-wife is in trouble, on the run from her new boyfriend. Adam isn’t the kind of man to turn away a person in need—and Mercy knows it. But with Christy holed up in Adam’s house, Mercy can’t shake the feeling that something about the situation isn’t right.

Soon, her suspicions are confirmed when she learns that Christy has the farthest thing from good intentions. She wants Adam back and she’s willing to do whatever it takes to make it happen, including turning Adam’s pack against Mercy.

Mercy isn’t about to step down without a fight, but there’s a more dangerous threat circling. Christy’s ex is more than a bad man—in fact, he may not be human at all. As the bodies start piling up, Mercy must put her personal troubles aside to face a creature with the power to tear her whole world apart.]]> 353 Patricia Briggs 1101638834 Paige 5 4.57 2014 Night Broken (Mercy Thompson, #8)
author: Patricia Briggs
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average rating: 4.57
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rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Frost Burned (Mercy Thompson, #7)]]> 17278540
After an accident in bumper-to-bumper traffic, Mercy and Jesse can’t reach Adam—or anyone else in the pack for that matter. They’ve all been abducted.

Through their mating bond, all Mercy knows is that Adam is angry and in pain. With the werewolves fighting a political battle to gain acceptance from the public, Mercy fears Adam’s disappearance may be related—and that he and the pack are in serious danger. Outclassed and on her own, Mercy may be forced to seek assistance from any ally she can get, no matter how unlikely.]]> 343 Patricia Briggs 1101619651 Paige 5 4.50 2013 Frost Burned (Mercy Thompson, #7)
author: Patricia Briggs
name: Paige
average rating: 4.50
book published: 2013
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[River Marked (Mercy Thompson, #6)]]> 10631790
Being a different breed of shapeshifter—a walker—Mercy can see ghosts, but the spirit of her long-gone father has never visited her. Until now. An evil is stirring in the depths of the Columbia River—and innocent people are dying. As other walkers make their presence known to Mercy, she must reconnect with her heritage to exorcise the world of the legend known as the river devil.]]> 337 Patricia Briggs 1101475552 Paige 5 4.40 2011 River Marked (Mercy Thompson, #6)
author: Patricia Briggs
name: Paige
average rating: 4.40
book published: 2011
rating: 5
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]]> Blood Echo (Burning Girl, #2) 38320093 A conspiracy that promises bloodshed and the only woman who can stop it collide in the page-turning thriller by Christopher Rice, Amazon Charts bestselling author of Bone Music.

Kidnapped and raised by serial killers, Charlotte Rowe suffered an ordeal that made her infamous. Everyone in the world knew who she was. But no one in the world has any idea what she’s become�

Charlotte is an experiment. And a weapon. Enabled by a superpower drug, she’s partnered with a shadowy pharmaceutical company to hunt down and eliminate society’s most depraved human predators. But her latest mission goes off the rails in a horrifying way. Unsettled by her own capacity for violence, Charlotte wants some time to retreat so she can work on her new relationship with Luke, a sheriff’s deputy in the isolated Central California town she now calls home.

If only the threats hadn’t followed Charlotte there.

Something sinister is evolving in Altamira, California—a massive network of domestic terrorists with ties to Charlotte’s influential and corrupt employers. As a vast and explosive criminal conspiracy grows, the fate of Charlotte’s hometown hangs in the balance. With everyone she cares about in danger, Charlotte has no choice but to bring her powers home.

Charlotte Rowe has been triggered, and now she’ll have to take matters into her own powerful hands.]]> 355 Christopher Rice 1503959333 Paige 0 to-read 4.15 2019 Blood Echo (Burning Girl, #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[Silver Borne (Mercy Thompson, #5)]]> 7891248 351 Patricia Briggs 1101186119 Paige 5 4.44 2010 Silver Borne (Mercy Thompson, #5)
author: Patricia Briggs
name: Paige
average rating: 4.44
book published: 2010
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Blood Communion (The Vampire Chronicles, #13)]]> 38093767 The Vampire Chronicles continue with a riveting, rich saga--part adventure, part fairy-tale--of Prince Lestat and the story of the Blood Communion as he tells the tale of his coming to rule the vampire world and the eternal struggle to find belonging, a place in the universe for the undead, and how, against his will, he must battle the menacing, seemingly unstoppable force determined to thwart his vision and destroy the entire vampire netherworld.

In this spellbinding novel, Lestat, rebel outlaw, addresses the tribe of vampires, directly, intimately, passionately, and tells the riveting story of the formation of the Blood Communion and how he became Prince of the vampire world, the true ruler of this vast force, and how his vision for all the Children of the Universe to thrive as one, came to be.
The tale spills from Lestat's heart, as he speaks first of his new existence as reigning monarch--and then of his fierce battle of wits and words with the mysterious Rhoshamandes, proud Child of the Millennia, reviled outcast for his senseless slaughter of the legendary ancient vampire Maharet, who brought forth the Great Family of the undead; Rhoshamandes, a force who refuses to live in harmony at the Court of Prince Lestat and threatens all that Lestat has dreamt of.
As the tale unfolds, Lestat takes us from the towers and battlements of his ancestral castle in the snow-covered mountains of France to the verdant wilds of lush Louisiana with its lingering fragrances of magnolias and night jasmine; from the far reaches of the Pacific's untouched islands to the 18th-century city of St. Petersburg and the court of the Empress Catherine . . .]]> 288 Anne Rice 1524732656 Paige 5 3.91 2018 Blood Communion (The Vampire Chronicles, #13)
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average rating: 3.91
book published: 2018
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Practical Demonkeeping (Pine Cove, #1)]]> 33457 243 Christopher Moore 0060735422 Paige 5 3.84 1992 Practical Demonkeeping (Pine Cove, #1)
author: Christopher Moore
name: Paige
average rating: 3.84
book published: 1992
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Darkest Night (Lords of the Underworld, #1)]]> 28170567 277 Gena Showalter 1459294602 Paige 0 3.78 2008 The Darkest Night (Lords of the Underworld, #1)
author: Gena Showalter
name: Paige
average rating: 3.78
book published: 2008
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Bone Crossed (Mercy Thompson, #4)]]> 6512051 303 Patricia Briggs 1440698805 Paige 5 4.40 2010 Bone Crossed (Mercy Thompson, #4)
author: Patricia Briggs
name: Paige
average rating: 4.40
book published: 2010
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Iron Kissed (Mercy Thompson, #3)]]> 6584407 321 Patricia Briggs 1101128518 Paige 5 4.43 2008 Iron Kissed (Mercy Thompson, #3)
author: Patricia Briggs
name: Paige
average rating: 4.43
book published: 2008
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Blood Bound (Mercy Thompson, #2)]]> 6282698
But this new vampire is hardly ordinary - and neither is the demon inside of him.]]> 335 Patricia Briggs 1101208554 Paige 5 4.38 2007 Blood Bound (Mercy Thompson, #2)
author: Patricia Briggs
name: Paige
average rating: 4.38
book published: 2007
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Moon Called (Mercy Thompson, #1)]]> 6354356 Moon Called is the novel that introduced Patricia Briggs’s Mercy Thompson to the world and launched a #1 bestselling phenomenon...

Mercy Thompson is a shapeshifter, and while she was raised by werewolves, she can never be one of them, especially after the pack ran her off for having a forbidden love affair. So she’s turned her talent for fixing cars into a business and now runs a one-woman mechanic shop in the Tri-Cities area of Washington State.

But Mercy’s two worlds are colliding. A half-starved teenage boy arrives at her shop looking for work, only to reveal that he’s a newly changed werewolf—on the run and desperately trying to control his animal instincts. Mercy asks her neighbor Adam Hauptman, the Alpha of the local werewolf pack, for assistance.

But Mercy’s act of kindness has unexpected consequences that leave her no choice but to seek help from those she once considered family—the werewolves who abandoned her...]]> 298 Patricia Briggs 1101208430 Paige 5 4.27 2006 Moon Called (Mercy Thompson, #1)
author: Patricia Briggs
name: Paige
average rating: 4.27
book published: 2006
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Something from the Nightside (Nightside, #1)]]> 155421 per se, but he has a knack for finding lost things. That's why he's been hired to descend into the Nightside, an otherworldly realm in the center of London where fantasy and reality share renting space and the sun never shines.]]> 230 Simon R. Green 0441010652 Paige 5 3.78 2003 Something from the Nightside (Nightside, #1)
author: Simon R. Green
name: Paige
average rating: 3.78
book published: 2003
rating: 5
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Really enjoyed this. Reminded me a lot of Jim Butcher's Dresden series but a little edgier. Can't wait to read the next in the series.
]]> <![CDATA[The Passion of Cleopatra (Ramses the Damned #2)]]> 34400370 The Mummy and The Vampire Chronicles, a mesmerizing, glamorous new tale of ancient feuds and modern passions.

Ramses the Great, former pharaoh of Egypt, is reawakened by the elixir of life in Edwardian England. Now immortal with his bride-to-be, he is swept up in a fierce and deadly battle of wills and psyches against the once-great Queen Cleopatra. Ramses has reawakened Cleopatra with the same perilous elixir whose unworldly force brings the dead back to life. But as these ancient rulers defy one another in their quest to understand the powers of the strange elixir, they are haunted by a mysterious presence even older and more powerful than they, a figure drawn forth from the mists of history who possesses spectacular magical potions and tonics eight millennia old. This is a figure who ruled over an ancient kingdom stretching from the once-fertile earth of the Sahara to the far corners of the world, a queen with a supreme knowledge of the deepest origins of the elixir of life. She may be the only one who can make known to Ramses and Cleopatra the key to their immortality--and the secrets of the miraculous, unknowable, endless expanse of the universe.]]> 320 Anne Rice 1101970480 Paige 4 3.93 2017 The Passion of Cleopatra (Ramses the Damned #2)
author: Anne Rice
name: Paige
average rating: 3.93
book published: 2017
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis (The Vampire Chronicles #12)]]> 31223416 From Anne Rice, conjurer of the beloved best sellers Interview with a Vampire and Prince Lestat, an ambitious and exhilarating new novel of utopian vision and power, uniting the ancient worlds and the legends of the Vampire Chronicles.

"In my dreams, I saw a city fall into the sea. I heard the cries of thousands. I saw flames that outshone the lamps of heaven. And all the world was shaken . . ."--Anne Rice, Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis

At the novel's center: the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt, hero, leader, inspirer, irresistible force, irrepressible spirit, battling (and ultimately reconciling with) a strange otherworldly form that has somehow taken possession of Lestat's undead body and soul. This ancient and mysterious power and unearthly spirit of vampire lore has all the force, history, and insidious reach of the unknowable Universe.

It is through this spirit, previously considered benign for thousands of vampire years and throughout the Vampire Chronicles, that we come to be told the hypnotic tale of a great sea power of ancient times; a mysterious heaven on earth situated on a boundless continent--and of how and why, and in what manner and with what far-reaching purpose, this force came to build and rule the great legendary empire of centuries ago that thrived in the Atlantic Ocean.

And as we learn of the mighty, far-reaching powers and perfections of this lost kingdom of Atalantaya, the lost realms of Atlantis, we come to understand its secrets, and how and why the vampire Lestat, indeed all the vampires, must reckon so many millennia later with the terrifying force of this ageless, all-powerful Atalantaya spirit.]]> 480 Anne Rice 0385353804 Paige 5 4.14 2016 Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis (The Vampire Chronicles #12)
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average rating: 4.14
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]]> Bone Music (Burning Girl, #1) 35566332 An Amazon Charts bestseller.

There’s more than one way to stoke the flames of revenge�

Charlotte Rowe spent the first seven years of her life in the hands of the only parents she knew—a pair of serial killers who murdered her mother and tried to shape Charlotte in their own twisted image. If only the nightmare had ended when she was rescued. Instead, her real father exploited her tabloid-ready story for fame and profit—until Charlotte finally broke free from her ghoulish past and fled. Just when she thinks she has buried her personal hell forever, Charlotte is swept into a frightening new ordeal. Secretly dosed with an experimental drug, she’s endowed with a shocking new power—but pursued by a treacherous corporation desperate to control her.

Except from now on, if anybody is going to control Charlotte, it’s going to be Charlotte herself. She’s determined to use the extraordinary ability she now possesses to fight the kind of evil that shattered her life—by drawing a serial killer out from the shadows to face the righteous fury of a victim turned avenger.]]> 455 Christopher Rice 1542097789 Paige 0 to-read 3.89 2018 Bone Music (Burning Girl, #1)
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]]> Noir 35301333
It’s not every afternoon that an enigmatic, comely blonde named Stilton (like the cheese) walks into the scruffy gin joint where Sammy "Two Toes" Tiffin tends bar. It’s love at first sight, but before Sammy can make his move, an Air Force general named Remy arrives with some urgent business. ’Cause when you need something done, Sammy is the guy to go to; he’s got the connections on the street.

Meanwhile, a suspicious flying object has been spotted up the Pacific coast near Mount Rainier, followed by a mysterious plane crash in a distant patch of desert in New Mexico that goes by the name Roswell. But that's nothing compared to the real weirdness happening on the streets of the City by the Bay.

Before long, Sammy and the Cheese are making time and having a gas. But when one of Sammy’s schemes goes south and the lady vanishes, Sammy must contend with his own dark secrets as he follows a tortuous trail from Chinatown to Telegraph Hill to a hidden forest enclave in a desperate search to find his girl.

Think Raymond Chandler meets "Men in Black" with more than a dash of the Looney Tunes All Stars. It's all very, very "Noir."]]> 339 Christopher Moore 0062433970 Paige 0 to-read 3.74 2018 Noir
author: Christopher Moore
name: Paige
average rating: 3.74
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]]> <![CDATA[The Witch With No Name (The Hollows, #13)]]> 21911670 At long last... The final book in the New York Times bestselling Hollows series by Kim Harrison!

Rachel Morgan's come a long way from the clutzy runner of Dead Witch Walking. She's faced vampires and werewolves, banshees, witches, and soul-eating demons. She's crossed worlds, channeled gods, and accepted her place as a day-walking demon. She's lost friends and lovers and family, and an old enemy has become something much more.

But power demands responsibility, and world-changers must always pay a price. That time is now.

To save Ivy's soul and the rest of the living vampires, to keep the demonic ever after and our own world from destruction, Rachel Morgan will risk everything.]]> 433 Kim Harrison Paige 5 4.56 2014 The Witch With No Name (The Hollows, #13)
author: Kim Harrison
name: Paige
average rating: 4.56
book published: 2014
rating: 5
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]]> Cinder (Månkrönikan, #1) 15992524
Fartfyllt, roligt, spännande! Den romantisk sagan placerad i en hisnande framtid.

Cinder - en cyborg med elak styvmor och mystiskt förflutet. Nu står hon i centrum för en intergalaktisk maktkamp.

Cinder är 17 år och Nya Beijings bästa mekaniker. Som cyborg har hon inga rättigheter, och hennes styvmor lägger beslag på allt hon tjänar. En dag dyker prins Kai upp vid Cinders marknadsstånd. Den omsvärmade prinsen har ett uppdrag åt henne - och snart är de båda indragna i den onda Måndrottningens intriger. Samtidigt härjar en dödlig pest på Jorden. Cyborger som utses till försökskaniner har ingen chans att överleva ...

Aldrig förr har sagan varit så aktuell - och inte för barn! Cinder är Marissa Meyers debutroman, och den gick omedelbart upp på New York Times bästsäljarlista. Nästa del i Månkrönikan utkommer 2013. Fyra delar är planerade.]]> 399 Marissa Meyer 9186843001 Paige 0 to-read 3.95 2012 Cinder (Månkrönikan, #1)
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]]> Tasty the Cookbook 31843837 150 recipes to help you master the cooking basics, hack the pantry, and make everything from vegetarian go-tos to crowd-pleasing snacks to irresistible desserts.

Tasty Ultimate is THE must-have companion for home cooks of all skill levels--whether you're a sometimes cook or a master meal prepper. With 150 recipes, clever hacks, and must-know techniques, this cookbook will teach you how to kill it in the kitchen.

In no time at all, you'll be poaching like a pro, searing perfectly tender steaks, chopping veggies at warp speed, and frosting cakes better than Betty Crocker. You'll tackle brand-new recipes as well as all your Tasty faves; think Fried Egg Pizza, Salmon Poke Bowl, Mozzarella Stick Onion Rings, and Molten Lava Brownies. Beyond knockout cheese pulls, slow-cooked stunners, vegetarian go-tos, meals for meat-lovers, and insanely good sweets, discover large-scale showstoppers perfect for hosting Friendsgiving or Super Bowl Sunday.

With Tasty Ultimate in your kitchen, there is no meal--big or small--you can't conquer.]]> Buzzfeed 0062653512 Paige 0 to-read 3.98 Tasty the Cookbook
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]]> Werebiker 35390889 238 Paige Cuccaro 1250129249 Paige 5 3.04 2017 Werebiker
author: Paige Cuccaro
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]]> Marriage Claws 35058420 A sassy, sexy debut about a young woman who agrees to marry her billionaire playboy nemesis to save her business, only to find out he's also a werewolf and that her problems are just getting started.There are two things Kate Affetto will do anything to the younger brother she's raised ever since their father walked out, and the small diner she's managed to start from nothing in New York City. Things might not always be easy, but at least she gets to call all the shots and follow her own heart. That is until Jack Pensione, irritatingly gorgeous billionaire playboy and CEO/heir to the family empire shows up at her diner with an find $3 million to purchase the space, or vacate so it can be turned into condos.But Kate isn't going down without a fight. So when Jack offers a third option—marry him, and he'll gift her the space—she agrees, knowing it'll save the life she's built for herself and her brother, and that the marriage will be over practically before it's begun. After all, it's not as if she actually likes Jack, or as if he's actually attracted her at all... Little does she know he's also a werewolf, that he's vying to be the alpha of his pack, and that her problems are just getting started.]]> 227 Paige Cuccaro 1250129230 Paige 5 3.61 2017 Marriage Claws
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]]> Gifted: Empath/ Obey Me 6535743 Empath by Bonnie Dee
Jordan Langley’s empathic “gift� drove him to live as a hermit. Only a plea for help in finding a boy’s killer could bring him out of seclusion. Detective Lauren Sadler specializes in blocking her emotions. She hadn’t counted on how his touch affects her.

In one blazing night they shatter all their barriers. But Lauren isn’t sure if she’s ready to yield to the power of the most intimate exchange she has ever known. Even if it’s the only way to catch a killer.

Obey Me by Paige Cuccaro
Sophie Merlo’s uncanny nose for news has led her into the path of a brutal serial killer. Now she’d be happy just to survive the week. Alex thinks he’s being set up in a string of murders, and he’s sure Sophie’s hiding something that could clear him.

Caught in the middle of a century-old feud between two rival vampires, there are only three things Sophie knows for sure: One of them is a killer. The other wants to take her to bed. If she can’t figure out who’s lying about what soon, her career hopes could vanish. Right along with her last drop of blood.]]> 213 Paige Cuccaro 1605044016 Paige 5 3.82 2008 Gifted: Empath/ Obey Me
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]]> Obey Me: A Gifted Story 6716834
Sophie Merlo dreams of becoming an international journalism star. Until her uncanny nose for news leads her into the path of a brutal serial killer. Now she’d be happy just to survive the week. Alex wants only one answer from Sophie—how she wormed her way into his exclusive vampires-only club, something no human should be able to do. He thinks he’s being set up in a string of murders, and he’s got a good idea who it is—Octavius, his long-time, bitter rival. Only Octavius could figure out how to leave Alex’s distinctive mark behind on the victims� throats. One drop of Alex’s saliva on Sophie’s skin has her babbling a river, swimming in desire for him—and agreeing to use her persuasive powers to help find the real murderer. Caught in the middle of a century-old feud between two rival vampires, there are only three things Sophie knows for One of them is a killer. The other wants to take her to bed. And they’re both lying. If she can’t figure out who’s lying about what soon, her career hopes could vanish. Right along with her last drop of blood.]]> 95 Paige Cuccaro 1605042234 Paige 5 3.83 2008 Obey Me: A Gifted Story
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]]> <![CDATA[Prince Lestat (The Vampire Chronicles, #11)]]> 21412673 458 Anne Rice 0307962520 Paige 5 3.80 2014 Prince Lestat (The Vampire Chronicles, #11)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Writer's Digest Guide to Science Fiction & Fantasy]]> 7946341 Craft an otherworldly experience for your readers!

Do you dream of writing tales that pull readers into extraordinary realms? The Writer's Digest Guide to Science Fiction & Fantasy gives you everything you need to build a fantastic world, inhabit it with original and believable characters, and create an authentic and enthralling story.

Two complete books in one, this comprehensive guide includes invaluable and timeless advice for writing and selling speculative fiction from best-selling author Orson Scott Card's How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy, as well as world-building information and instruction from the indispensable classic The Writer's Complete Fantasy Reference.

You'll discover:
—how to wield story elements that "define" the science fiction and fantasy genres
—ways to build, populate and dramatize fantastic new worlds
—how to construct compelling stories by developing ideas, characters, and events that keep readers turning pages
—historically accurate information about world cultures, legends, folklore and mysticism
—how to authentically portray the rituals of magic and witchcraft
—in-depth descriptions of mythological creatures, fantasy races, clothing, weapons, armor, and more

The boundaries of your imagination are infinite, but to truly hook your reader you must ground your fiction with credible details. Let this book be your guide as you venture into the fantastic and you'll create vibrant, captivating new worlds that spring off the page.]]> 422 Orson Scott Card 1582976090 Paige 0 to-read 4.15 2010 The Writer's Digest Guide to Science Fiction & Fantasy
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]]> The Book of Enoch 616329 The book coorborates the with the writers of Holy scriptures and revolutionizes many theological axioms on the Trinity, angels, demons, final judgment, creation, etc.

The Book of Enoch gives illumination to the origin of many statements made by Old Testament prophets as well as New Testament writers and prophets.

]]> 146 Enoch 096757370X Paige 5 4.27 -300 The Book of Enoch
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]]> Table for One 19210009
Ward, intrigued by the single woman in a restaurant full of couples, sets out to tease her palate. Claudia has never tasted anything so luscious as the special meal Ward prepares for her, but when the seduction moves from the restaurant to his bedroom, Claudia discovers the only thing more tempting than his food is the chef himself.

Their connection is instantaneous, sizzling, and spicy—until Claudia comes clean about her job, reopening a wound Ward had thought long-healed. Could one accidental lie of omission end a delicious relationship before it even has a chance to start?]]> 47 Ros Clarke Paige 5 3.23 2012 Table for One
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This book will make you hungry...in more ways than one. Steamy hot!! Quick easy ready and lots of fun!
]]> Hellsbane 25109144 258 Paige Cuccaro Paige 5 3.90 2011 Hellsbane
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]]> The Malleus Maleficarum 771091
Contemporary cases illustrate methods by which witches attempt to control and subvert the How and why women roast their first-born male child; the confession of how to raise a tempest by a washwoman suspended "hardly clear of the ground" by her thumbs; methods of making a formal pact with the Devil; how witches deprive men of their vital member; and many others. Methods of destroying and curing witchcraft, such as remedies against incubus and succubus devils, are exemplified and weighed by the authors.

Formal rules for initiating a process of justice are set how it should be conducted and the method of pronouncing sentence; when to use the trial by the red-hot-iron; how the prosecutor should protect himself; how the body is to be shaved and searched for tokens and amulets, including those sewn under the skin. As Summers says, it was the casebook on every magistrate's desk.

Montague Summers has given a very sympathetic translation. His two introductions are filled with examples of witchcraft and the historical importance of Malleus Maleficarum. This famous document should interest the historian, the student of witchcraft and the occult, and the psychologist who is interested in the medieval mind as it was confronted with various forces which could be explained only by witchcraft.]]> 323 Heinrich Kramer 0486228029 Paige 0 to-read 3.30 1485 The Malleus Maleficarum
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]]> Blood Moon (Moon, #3) 18593156 "Lisa Kessler is an up and coming author to remember" - Sherrilyn Kenyon - #1 NYT Best Selling author of the Dark Hunters Series

One bite can change you.
And one kiss can change your destiny...

Nadya Dalca has been handed a death sentence. She's been bitten by the last living genetically enhanced werewolf―part of the Nero Organization's disastrous Moonlight project. With the poisonous blood now coursing through her system and pushing her to the limits, it is only a matter of time before Nadya's fate is sealed...

Gareth Takoda told himself he couldn't get involved. Caught up in a maelstrom of grief and bitterness, he has been isolating himself from his Pack. But when he is charged with watching over Nadya's first transformation―or bear witness should it go horribly wrong―Gareth is torn further by unwanted desire and the need to protect what is his.

One kiss changes everything. One shattering, all-consuming kiss. And with it, Nadya and Gareth face either salvation...or death.]]> 314 Lisa Kessler Paige 5 4.28 2014 Blood Moon (Moon, #3)
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]]> The Serpent of Venice 22249457
This trio of cunning plotters—the merchant, Antonio; the senator, Brabantio; and the naval officer, Iago—have lured Pocket to a dark dungeon, promising a spirited evening with a rare Amontillado sherry and a fetching young noblewoman. Their invitation is, of course, a ruse. The wine is drugged; the girl is nowhere in sight. These scoundrels have something far less amusing planned for the man who has consistently foiled their quest for power and wealth. But this Fool is no fool . . . and the story is only beginning.

Once again, Christopher Moore delivers a rousing literary satire and a cast Shakespeare himself would be proud of: Shylock; Iago; Othello; a dozen or so disposable villains; a cadre of comely wenches; the brilliant Fool; his sidekick, Drool; his monkey, Jeff; a lovesick sea serpent; and a ghost (there's always a bloody ghost).

Wickedly witty and outrageously inventive, The Serpent of Venice pays cheeky homage to the Bard and illuminates the absurdity of the human condition as only Christopher Moore can.]]> 352 Christopher Moore 0061779776 Paige 0 to-read 3.99 2014 The Serpent of Venice
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]]> <![CDATA[Hellsbane Hereafter (Hellsbane, #3)]]> 18594428 Being heaven's bounty hunter isn't easy... Emma Jane Hellsbane just makes it look that way.

The war between good and evil is on and as a nephilim—half angel, half human, Emma Jane is caught in the middle. She’s trained hard, lost a lot, and made some horrible mistakes. But too often it’s been those she loves who’ve paid the price. She can’t let that happen anymore. What she used to believe about right and wrong, good and evil, what she used to believe about herself is changing. Emma Jane is changing and that scares her most of all.

Both sides want her working for them, and someone is using innocent humans as pawns to sway her. If Emma doesn’t figure out who’s behind it and why, the human race as we know it could end. To save humanity Emma will have to betray everything and everyone she’s ever known, but when it comes down to a choice between saving the world or the man she was never meant to love, whose side will Emma ultimately chose?]]> 390 Paige Cuccaro Paige 5 4.05 2014 Hellsbane Hereafter (Hellsbane, #3)
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]]> The Heavens Rise 17571317 New York Times bestselling author Christopher Rice brilliantly conjures the shadowed terrors of the Louisiana bayou—where three friends confront a deadly, ancient evil rising to the surface—in this intense and atmospheric new supernatural thriller.

It’s been a decade since the Delongpre family vanished near Bayou Rabineaux, and still no one can explain the events of that dark and sweltering night. No one except Niquette Delongpre, the survivor who ran away from the mangled stretch of guardrail on Highway 22 where the impossible occurred…and kept on running. Who left behind her best friends, Ben and Anthem, to save them from her newfound capacity for destruction…and who alone knows the source of her very bizarre—and very deadly—abilities: an isolated strip of swampland called Elysium.

An accomplished surgeon, Niquette’s father dreamed of transforming the dense acreage surrounded by murky waters into a palatial compound befitting the name his beloved wife gave to it, Elysium: “the final resting place for the heroic and virtuous.� Then, ten years ago, construction workers dug into a long-hidden well, one that snaked down into the deep, black waters of the Louisiana swamp and stirred something that had been there for centuries—a microscopic parasite that perverts the mind and corrupts the body.

Niquette is living proof that things done can’t be undone. Nothing will put her family back together again. And nothing can save her. But as Niquette, Ben, and Anthem uncover the truth of a devastating parasite that has the potential to alter the future of humankind, Niquette grasps the most chilling truths of all: someone else has been infected too. And unlike her, this man is not content to live in the shadows. He is intent to use his newfound powers for one reason only: revenge.]]> 321 Christopher Rice 1476716080 Paige 0 to-read 3.56 2013 The Heavens Rise
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]]> <![CDATA[The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty (Sleeping Beauty, #1)]]> 26582 253 A.N. Roquelaure Paige 5 3.25 1983 The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty (Sleeping Beauty, #1)
author: A.N. Roquelaure
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average rating: 3.25
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No one does it like Anne Rice. She's the only author who's books I read more than once. Just finished my second read of this book and LOVED it all over again.
]]> <![CDATA[Hearts of the Anemoi Bundle (Hearts of the Anemoi, #1-3)]]> 21805604 North of Need

Called to life by Megan Snow’s tears, snow god Owen Winters appears unconscious on the widow’s doorstep in the midst of a raging blizzard. Owen finds unexpected solace in her company and unimagined pleasure in the warmth of her body, and vows to win her heart for a chance at humanity. Megan is drawn to Owen, but this Christmas miracle comes with an expiration—before the snow melts and the temperature rises, Megan must let go of her widow’s grief and learn to trust love again, or she’ll lose Owen forever.

West of Want

When Marcella Raines' twin brother dies, she honors his request to be buried at sea, never expecting the violent storm that swamps her boat. Zephyros Martius is the Supreme God of the West Wind and Spring. Ella is drawn to the vulnerability Zeph hides beneath his otherworldly masculinity. She and Zeph struggle to let go of the past, defend their future, and embrace a love that can be trusted.

South of Surrender

Laney Summerlyn needs the organized routine of her life at Summerlyn Stables. But everything changes when a ferocious storm brings an impossible—and beautiful—creature crashing down from the heavens. Injured while fighting Eurus, Chrysander Notos, Supreme God of the South Wind and Summer, finds himself at the mercy of a mortal woman whose compassion and acceptance he can't resist. As they surrender to the passion flaring between them, immortal enemies close in, forcing Chrys to choose between his brother and the only woman who's ever loved the real him.
]]> 1600 Laura Kaye 1622665848 Paige 5 4.39 2014 Hearts of the Anemoi Bundle (Hearts of the Anemoi, #1-3)
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Very sexy. Very romantic. Gripping story. That's all I need!
]]> <![CDATA[The Undead Pool (The Hollows, #12)]]> 17285883
Rachel must stop the occurrences before the undead vampire masters who keep the rest of the undead under control are lost and it becomes all-out supernatural war. However, the only way to do so is through the ancient elven wild magic, which carries its own perils.]]> 423 Kim Harrison 0061957933 Paige 5 4.42 2014 The Undead Pool (The Hollows, #12)
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]]> <![CDATA[Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir]]> 12868761 318 Jenny Lawson 0399159010 Paige 0 to-read 3.89 2012 Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
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]]> <![CDATA[Shadow of Night (All Souls, #2)]]> 11559200 A Discovery of Witches� cliffhanger ending, Shadow of Night takes Diana and Matthew on a trip through time to Elizabethan London, where they are plunged into a world of spies, magic, and a coterie of Matthew’s old friends, the School of Night. As the search for Ashmole 782 deepens and Diana seeks out a witch to tutor her in magic, the net of Matthew’s past tightens around them, and they embark on a very different—and vastly more dangerous—journey.]]> 584 Deborah Harkness 0670023485 Paige 4 4.04 2012 Shadow of Night (All Souls, #2)
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]]> A Dirty Job (Grim Reaper, #1) 33456
It's a dirty job. But, hey! Somebody's got to do it.]]> 387 Christopher Moore 0060590270 Paige 5 4.04 2006 A Dirty Job (Grim Reaper, #1)
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]]> Ungifted (Supernaturals, #2) 18740852
There’s something about human Grace that has all the supernaturals around her going crazy. Her best friend’s brother suddenly wants to date her. Her worst enemy has sworn to protect her even against her wishes. Someone with very powerful magic wants her dead, and the vampire that attacked her has developed an obsession with making her his eternal mate.

In order to survive—and not as Count Dracula’s undead bride—Grace dives head first into the terrifying world of the supernatural. She teams up with a charming but mysterious warlock who strolled into town causing trouble and spouting stories of a Prophesy and Chosen One that looks exactly like Grace. Together they must figure out why Grace is different, who wants her dead, how she’s connected to the Chosen One, and who they can really trust.]]> Kelly Oram Paige 0 to-read 4.19 2014 Ungifted (Supernaturals, #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[Claimed by a Demon King (Eternal Mates, #2)]]> 18741572
Intent on achieving the coveted position of commander at Archangel, Sable leads her small team into the dark underworld and the Third Realm, to a war where her allies are the very creatures she normally hunts—vampires, werewolves, and demons. Her eagerness to lead the deadly mission has everything to do with winning her promotion, and nothing to do with the kingdom’s brash, lethally seductive demon king—a king who stirred fierce desire and wildfire heat in her with just a look and an innocent touch when they first met, and has been in her wicked dreams ever since.

As the gathering storm between rivals unleashes irresistible passion that flares white-hot and the heat of the battle brings life-shattering realisations, can Sable place her duty before her heart? Or will she surrender to her deepest desires and be claimed by a demon king?]]> 269 Felicity Heaton 1909306614 Paige 0 to-read 4.17 2014 Claimed by a Demon King (Eternal Mates, #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)]]> 8667848
Deep in the stacks of Oxford's Bodleian Library, young scholar Diana Bishop unwittingly calls up a bewitched alchemical manuscript in the course of her research. Descended from an old and distinguished line of witches, Diana wants nothing to do with sorcery; so after a furtive glance and a few notes, she banishes the book to the stacks. But her discovery sets a fantastical underworld stirring, and a horde of daemons, witches, and vampires soon descends upon the library. Diana has stumbled upon a coveted treasure lost for centuries-and she is the only creature who can break its spell.

Debut novelist Deborah Harkness has crafted a mesmerizing and addictive read, equal parts history and magic, romance and suspense. Diana is a bold heroine who meets her equal in vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont, and gradually warms up to him as their alliance deepens into an intimacy that violates age-old taboos. This smart, sophisticated story harks back to the novels of Anne Rice, but it is as contemporary and sensual as the Twilight series-with an extra serving of historical realism.]]> 592 Deborah Harkness 0670022411 Paige 5 4.01 2011 A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Beauty's Punishment (Sleeping Beauty, #2)]]> 18750 The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, from the author of Beauty's Kingdom.

This sequel to The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, the first of Anne Rice's (writing as A.N. Roquelaure) volumes of erotica, continues her explicit, teasing exploration of the psychology of human desire. Now Beauty, having indulged in a secret and forbidden infatuation with the rebellious slave Prince Tristan, is sent away from the Satyricon-like world of the Castle. Sold at auction, she will soon experience the tantalizing punishments of "the village," as her education in love, cruelty, dominance, submission, and tenderness is turned over to the brazenly handsome Captain of the Guard. And once again Rice's tale of pleasure and pain dares to explore the most primal and well-hidden desires of the human heart. This series [predates the eroticism of E.L. James' Fifty Shades of Grey and Sylvia Day's Bared to You.]]> 256 A.N. Roquelaure 0452281431 Paige 5 3.64 1984 Beauty's Punishment (Sleeping Beauty, #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[Beauty's Release (Sleeping Beauty, #3)]]> 25190
Before E.L. James' Fifty Shades of Grey and Sylvia Day's Bared to You,, there was Anne Rice’s provocative take on the timeless fairy tale “Sleeping Beauty. � In the final volume of Anne Rice's deliciously tantalizing erotic trilogy, Beauty's adventures on the dark side of sexuality make her the bound captive of an Eastern Sultan and a prisoner in the exotic confines of the harem. As this voluptuous adult fairy tale moves toward conclusion, all Beauty's encounters with the myriad variations of sexual fantasy are presented in a sensuous, rich prose that intensifies this exquisite rendition of Love's secret world, and makes the Beauty series and incomparable study of erotica. In it, Anne Rice, writing as A.N. Roquelaure, makes the forbidden side of passion a doorway into the hidden regions of the psyche and the heart.]]> 238 A.N. Roquelaure 0452281458 Paige 5 3.72 1985 Beauty's Release (Sleeping Beauty, #3)
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]]> Exit to Eden 43799 336 Anne Rice 0727853414 Paige 3 3.61 1985 Exit to Eden
author: Anne Rice
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rating: 3
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]]> Violin 31333 289 Anne Rice 8466302204 Paige 3 3.36 1997 Violin
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]]> <![CDATA[The Wolf Gift (The Wolf Gift Chronicles, #1)]]> 12880428
The place, the rugged coast of northern California. A bluff high above the Pacific. A grand mansion full of beauty and tantalizing history set against a towering redwood forest.

A young reporter on assignment from the San Francisco Observer. . . an older woman, welcoming him into her magnificent, historic family home that he has been sent to write about and that she must sell with some urgency . . . A chance encounter between two unlikely people . . . an idyllic night—shattered by horrific unimaginable violence. . .The young man inexplicably attacked—bitten—by a beast he cannot see in the rural darkness . . . A violent episode that sets in motion a terrifying yet seductive transformation as the young man, caught between ecstasy and horror, between embracing who he is evolving into and fearing who—what—he will become, soon experiences the thrill of the wolf gift.

As he resists the paradoxical pleasure and enthrallment of his wolfen savagery and delights in the power and (surprising) capacity for good, he is caught up in a strange and dangerous rescue and is desperately hunted as “the Man Wolf,� by authorities, the media and scientists (evidence of DNA threaten to reveal his dual existence). . . As a new and profound love enfolds him, questions emerge that propel him deeper into his mysterious new world: questions of why and how he has been given this gift; of its true nature and the curious but satisfying pull towards goodness; of the profound realization that there are others like him who may be watching—guardian creatures who have existed throughout time and may possess ancient secrets and alchemical knowledge and throughout it all, the search for salvation for a soul tormented by a new realm of temptations, and the fraught, exhilarating journey, still to come, of being and becoming, fully, both wolf and man.]]> 404 Anne Rice 0307595110 Paige 4 3.54 2012 The Wolf Gift (The Wolf Gift Chronicles, #1)
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]]> The Feast of All Saints 43798
Mega-selling author Anne Rice's probing, lyrical style sweeps us into their midst as she introduces Marcel, the sensitive, blue-eyed scholar, Marie, his breathtakingly beautiful sister, whose curse is to pass for white; Christophe, novelist and teacher, the idol of all young gens and stunning Anna Bella, whose allure for the well-to-do white man would become legend.

Here is a compelling and richly textured tale of a people forever caught in the shadows between black and white.
]]> 570 Anne Rice 0345376048 Paige 4 3.88 1979 The Feast of All Saints
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]]> <![CDATA[Blood Canticle (The Vampire Chronicles, #10)]]> 31331 400 Anne Rice 0099460173 Paige 4 3.76 2003 Blood Canticle (The Vampire Chronicles, #10)
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]]> Cry to Heaven 31335 As we are drawn into their dark and luminous story, as the crowds of Venetians, Neopolitans, and Romans, noblemen and peasants, musicians, prelates, princes, saints, and intriguers swirl around them, Anne Rice brings us into the sweep of eighteenth-century Italian life, into the decadence beneath the shimmering surface of Venice, the wild frivolity of Naples, and the magnetic terror of its shadow, Vesuvius.]]> 566 Anne Rice 0345396936 Paige 3 3.87 1982 Cry to Heaven
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rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Vittorio, The Vampire (New Tales of the Vampires, #2)]]> 31342 352 Anne Rice 5559609129 Paige 3 3.57 1999 Vittorio, The Vampire (New Tales of the Vampires, #2)
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average rating: 3.57
book published: 1999
rating: 3
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]]> Servant of the Bones 43805 416 Anne Rice 0963192566 Paige 4 3.77 1996 Servant of the Bones
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average rating: 3.77
book published: 1996
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Blackwood Farm (The Vampire Chronicles, #9)]]> 31337 774 Anne Rice 0099446723 Paige 4 3.90 2002 Blackwood Farm (The Vampire Chronicles, #9)
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average rating: 3.90
book published: 2002
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Blood And Gold (The Vampire Chronicles, #8)]]> 31341 752 Anne Rice 0099271494 Paige 4 3.93 2001 Blood And Gold (The Vampire Chronicles, #8)
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]]> <![CDATA[Pandora (New Tales of the Vampires, #1)]]> 31343
The novel opens in present-day Paris in a crowded café, where David meets Pandora. She is two thousand years old, a Child of the Millennia, the first vampire ever made by the great Marius. David persuades her to tell the story of her life.

Pandora begins, reluctantly at first and then with increasing passion, to recount her mesmerizing tale, which takes us through the ages, from Imperial Rome to eighteenth-century France to twentieth-century Paris and New Orleans. She carries us back to her mortal girlhood in the world of Caesar Augustus, a world chronicled by Ovid and Petronius. This is where Pandora meets and falls in love with the handsome, charismatic, lighthearted, still-mortal Marius. This is the Rome she is forced to flee in fear of assassination by conspirators plotting to take over the city. And we follow her to the exotic port of Antioch, where she is destined to be reunited with Marius, now immortal and haunted by his vampire nature, who will bestow on her the Dark Gift as they set out on the fraught and fantastic adventure of their two turbulent centuries together.]]> 383 Anne Rice 8466302948 Paige 4 3.82 1998 Pandora (New Tales of the Vampires, #1)
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average rating: 3.82
book published: 1998
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]]> <![CDATA[Merrick (The Vampire Chronicles, #7)]]> 43781 In this mesmerizing new novel, Anne Rice demonstrates once again her gift for spellbinding storytelling and the creation of myth and magic, as she weaves together two of her most compelling worlds? those of the Vampire Chronicles and the Mayfair witches.
 ]]> 370 Anne Rice 0345422406 Paige 5 3.77 2000 Merrick (The Vampire Chronicles, #7)
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average rating: 3.77
book published: 2000
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Mummy (Ramses the Damned #1)]]> 43782 480 Anne Rice 009947137X Paige 5 3.86 1989 The Mummy (Ramses the Damned #1)
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average rating: 3.86
book published: 1989
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Taltos (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #3)]]> 119091 When Ashlar learns that another Taltos has been seen, he is suddenly propelled into the haunting world of the Mayfair family, the New Orleans dynasty of witches forever besieged by ghosts, spirits, and their own dizzying powers. For Ashlar knows this powerful clan is intimately linked to the heritage of the Taltos.
In a swirling universe filled with death and life, corruption and innocence, this mesmerizing novel takes us on a wondrous journey back through the centuries to a civilization half-human, of wholly mysterious origin, at odds with mortality and immortality, justice and guilt. It is an enchanted, hypnotic world that could only come from the imagination of Anne Rice . . .]]> 4 Anne Rice 0679436545 Paige 5 3.80 1994 Taltos (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #3)
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average rating: 3.80
book published: 1994
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Vampire Armand (The Vampire Chronicles, #6)]]> 31332 Interview with the Vampire, the first of The Vampire Chronicles, the novel that established its author worldwide as a magnificent storyteller and creator of magical realms.

Now, we go with Armand across the centuries to the Kiev Rus of his boyhood - a ruined city under Mongol dominion - and to ancient Constantinople, where Tartar raiders sell him into slavery. And in a magnificent palazzo in the Venice of the Renaissance we see him emotionally and intellectually in thrall to the great vampire Marius, who masquerades among humankind as a mysterious, reclusive painter and who will bestow upon Armand the gift of vampiric blood. As the novel races to its climax, moving through scenes of luxury and elegance, of ambush, fire, and devil worship to nineteenth-century Paris and today's New Orleans, we see its eternally vulnerable and romantic hero forced to choose between his twilight immortality and the salvation of his immortal soul.]]> 457 Anne Rice 0345434803 Paige 5 3.80 1998 The Vampire Armand (The Vampire Chronicles, #6)
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average rating: 3.80
book published: 1998
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]]> <![CDATA[Memnoch the Devil (The Vampire Chronicles, #5)]]> 31338 354 Anne Rice 096319254X Paige 4 3.78 1995 Memnoch the Devil (The Vampire Chronicles, #5)
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average rating: 3.78
book published: 1995
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Tale of the Body Thief (The Vampire Chronicles, #4)]]> 31336 Interview with the Vampire. For centuries, Lestat—vampire-hero, enchanter, seducer of mortals—has been a courted prince in the dark and flourishing universe of the living dead. Now he is alone. And in his overwhelming need to destroy his doubts and his loneliness, Lestat embarks on the most dangerous enterprise he has undertaken in all the years of his haunted existence.

Praise for The Tale of the Body Thief

“Tinged with mystery, full of drama . . . The story is involving, the twists surprising.��People

“Rice is our modern messenger of the occult, whose nicely updated dark-side passion plays twist and turn in true Gothic form.��San Francisco Chronicle

“Fast-paced . . . . mesmerizing . . . silkenly sensuous . . . No one writing today matches her deftness with the erotic.��The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

“Hypnotic . . . masterful.��Cosmopolitan


From the Paperback edition.]]> 464 Anne Rice 0345419634 Paige 5 3.76 1992 The Tale of the Body Thief (The Vampire Chronicles, #4)
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]]> <![CDATA[Vampire Academy (Vampire Academy, #1)]]> 345627 Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies...

Lissa Dragomir is a Moroi princess: a mortal vampire with a rare gift for harnessing the earth's magic. She must be protected at all times from Strigoi; the fiercest vampires—the ones who never die. The powerful blend of human and vampire blood that flows through Rose Hathaway, Lissa's best friend, makes her a dhampir. Rose is dedicated to a dangerous life of protecting Lissa from the Strigoi, who are hell-bent on making Lissa one of them.

After two years of freedom, Rose and Lissa are caught and dragged back to St. Vladimir's Academy, a school for vampire royalty and their guardians-to-be, hidden in the deep forests of Montana. But inside the iron gates, life is even more fraught with danger... and the Strigoi are always close by.

Rose and Lissa must navigate their dangerous world, confront the temptations of forbidden love, and never once let their guard down, lest the evil undead make Lissa one of them forever...]]> 332 Richelle Mead 159514174X Paige 4 4.12 2007 Vampire Academy (Vampire Academy, #1)
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average rating: 4.12
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rating: 4
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