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1) The watchers
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English
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"This forest isn't charted on any map. Every car breaks down at its treeline. Mina's is no different. Left stranded, she is forced into the dark woodland only to find a woman shouting, urging Mina to run to a concrete bunker. As the door slams behind her, the building is besieged by screams. Mina finds herself in a room with a wall of glass, and an electric light that activates at nightfall, when the watchers come above ground. These creatures emerge...
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Tordotcom, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"At the northern edge of a land ruled by a merciless foreign tyrant lies a wild, forbidden forest ruled by powerful magic. Veris Thorn--the only one to ever enter the forest and survive--is forced to go back inside to retrieve the tyrant's missing children. Inside await traps and trickery, ancient monsters, and hauntings of the past"--
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Mona Awad’s Bunny meets Stranger Things when a summer storm sweeps through a sleepy town, unleashing a monstrous power that threatens to bend reality, from the Bram Stoker award winning author of Queen of Teeth. Three years after running away from home, Olivia is stuck with a dead-end job in nowhere town Chapel Hill, Pennsylvania. At least she has her best friend, Sunflower. Olivia figures she’ll die in Chapel Hill, if not from boredom, then...
4) The Creeper
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Publisher
Head of Zeus Limited
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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''Renowned academic Dr. Sparling seeks help with his project on a remote Irish village. Historical researchers Ben and Chloe are thrilled to be chosen - until they arrive...The village is isolated and forgotten. There is no record of its history, its stories. There is no friendliness from the locals, only wary looks and whispers. The villagers lock down their homes at sundown. A nameless fear stalks the streets...Nobody will talk--nobody except one...
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Convergence saga volume 2
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"The world has undergone many changes in the years since monsters came out of the shadows. An anti-monster group known as the Black Hand has started to organize across the United States. In response, pro-monster organizations have been growing in numbers and militancy. Targeted killings of suspected monsters and their allies, monsters spirited away in the dead of night, and the beginnings of pro-monster legislation are all signs of a cosmic shift...
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And Other Stories
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Italy’s great chronicler of the macabre and of growing up geeky. Long before the latest vogue for autofiction, Michele Mari, one of Italy’s most beloved authors, cast his mind back to the days of his own childhood, and found it crawling with monsters. Raised on comic books and science fiction, the young Mari constructed an alternate universe for himself untouched by uncomprehending grownups or sadistic peers. Compared to the horrors of real life,...
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Fetch Phillips volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"Fetch fought on the wrong side of history, and his actions helped to drain the world of magic. Now he works on the streets of Sunder City, taking what odd jobs he can while trying to help those whose lives he ruined. His first case is to find a missing teacher. Professor Rye is a four-hundred-year-old vampire with a heart of gold in a husk of a body. Most vamps have already crumbled into dust, but Fetch is happy to go looking for some dirt with pointed...
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English
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Imagines the original quest of the adventuring party of Edgin Darvis and his team of occasionally heroic heisters in an official prequel to the upcoming film Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.
"Discover the thrilling origin stories of the bard Edgin, the barbarian Holga, and their whole adventuring party in this official prequel to Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. Edgin Darvis’s life is a mess. All that he has left are his lute,...
9) Wild spaces
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Publisher
TorDotCom, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"An eleven-year-old boy lives an idyllic childhood exploring the remote coastal plains and wetlands of South Carolina alongside his parents and his dog Teach. But when the boy's eerie and estranged grandfather shows up one day with no warning, cracks begin to form as hidden secrets resurface that his parents refuse to explain. The longer his grandfather outstays his welcome and the greater the tension between the adults grows, the more the boy feels...
10) The tainted cup
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Shadow of the Leviathan volume 1
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English
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"An eccentric detective and her long-suffering assistant untangle a web of magic, deceit, and murder in fantasy reimagining of the classic crime novel"--
"In Daretana's greatest mansion, a high imperial officer lies dead-killed, to all appearances, when a tree erupted from his body. Even here at the Empire's borders, where contagions abound and the blood of the leviathans works strange magical changes, it's a death both terrifying and impossible....
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Arsenal Pulp Press
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English
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"A striking and playful anthology of fiction and poetry that removes queer monsters from the subtext and places them front and centre The fiction and poetry of Queer Little Nightmares reimagines monsters old and new through a queer lens, subverting the horror gaze to celebrate ideas and identities canonically feared in monster lit. Throughout history, monsters have appeared in popular culture as stand-ins for the non-conforming, the marginalized of...
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Black winter series volume 2
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"Winterbourne Hall is not safe. Clare and Dorran scramble to secure the ancient building in an effort to protect themselves from the ravenous hollow ones, but that isn't their only concern. Somewhere far away, Beth is alive, but she's trapped, and her oxygen is running out. Hundreds of kilometers separate Clare from her sister. The land between them is infested with monsters, and the roads are a maze of dead ends. She knows she can't survive the trip...
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Scholomance volume lesson 3
Publisher
Umbriel
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
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"SALVAR EL MUNDO es una prueba para la que ninguna escuela de magia puede prepararte en la triunfal conclusión de la trilogía best seller del New York Times que dio comienzo con Una educación mortal y El último graduado. Lo único que nadie menciona nunca dentro de la Escolomancia es lo que hará cuando salga. Ni siquiera el alumno de enclave más rico tentaría al destino de esa forma. Pero no soñamos con nada más que con la exigua posibilidad...
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Series
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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Two years after they saw him die, the man they knew as Victor Helios lives on. Detectives Carson O'Connor and Michael Maddison; Victor's engineered wife, Erika 5, and her companion Jocko; and the original Victor's first creation, the tormented Deucalion, have all arrived at a small Montana town where their old alliance will be renewed--and tested--by forces from within and without, and where the dangers they face will eclipse any they have yet encountered.
"In...
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Titan Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"A follow-up to the explosive showdown of Godzilla vs. Kong. This time the almighty Kong and the fearsome Godzilla face a colossal undiscovered threat hidden within our world, challenging their very existence – and our own. The latest epic will delve further into the histories of these Titans, their origins and the mysteries of Skull Island and beyond, while uncovering the mythic battle that helped forge these extraordinary beings and tied them...
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Publisher
Red Tower Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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''Some things aren’t supposed to exist outside of our imagination. Thirteen years ago, monsters emerged from the shadows and plunged Kierse’s world into a cataclysmic war of near-total destruction. The New York City she knew so well collapsed practically overnight. In the wake of that carnage, the Monster Treaty was created. A truce...of sorts. But tonight, Kierse—a gifted and fearless thief—will break that treaty. She’ll enter the Holly...
17) Medusa: a novel
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Exiled to a far-flung island after being abused by powerful Gods, Medusa has little company other than the snakes that adorn her head instead of hair. Haunted by the memories of a life before everything was stolen from her, she has no choice but to make peace with her present: she is Medusa the Monster. But when the charmed and beautiful Perseus arrives on the island, her lonely existence is blown open, unleashing desire, love--and betrayal."--
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Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"A creepy, charming monster-slaying fantasy romance-from the perspective of the monster-by Nebula Award-winning debut author John Wiswell"--
"Shesheshen is a shapeshifter, who happily resides as an amorphous lump at the bottom of a ruined manor. When her rest is interrupted by hunters intent on murdering her, she constructs a body from the remains of past meals: a metal chain for a backbone, borrowed bones for limbs, and a bear trap as an extra mouth....
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Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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When a terrible Mononoke spares a samurais life in exchange for the samurais daughter, the girl demonstrates the strength of her will and convinces the Mononoke to help her complete an important task before she will consent to marry it.
"After a long, exhausting war, a samurai lost in a forest encounters a giant wildcat-- a mononoke. The beast saves his life, but at the price of his daughter's hand in marriage..."--Jacket.
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Series
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Tordotcom, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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''Nghi Vo's Hugo Award-winning Singing Hills Cycle returns with a standalone gothic mystery that unfolds in the empire of Ahn. "A remarkable accomplishment of storytelling."-NPR on The Empress of Salt and Fortune "Nghi Vo is one of the most original writers we have today."-Taylor Jenkins Reid on Siren Queen The Cleric Chih accompanies a beautiful young bride to her wedding to the aging ruler of a crumbling estate situated at the crossroads of dead...
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