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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...
Author
Publisher
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"--
3) The Creeper
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Publisher
Head of Zeus Limited
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
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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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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Series
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
Publisher
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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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.
Language
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....
Author
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
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
Publisher
Tordotcom, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
''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...
12) Wild spaces
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Publisher
TorDotCom, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"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...
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