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2022.
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"Sixteen-year-old Prudence Perry is a legacy Ladybird Scout, born to a family of hunters sworn to protect humans from mulligrubs - interdimensional parasites who feast on human emotions like sadness and anger. Masquerading as a prim and proper ladies' social organization, the Ladybirds brew poisons masked as teas and use knitting needles as daggers, at least until they graduate to axes and swords. Three years ago, Prue's best friend was killed during...
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Wingfeather saga volume 4
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English
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Separated when the Fangs of Drang invade Ban Rona, the three Igiby siblings face sea dragons, Stranders, Ridgerunners, Cloven, and more in their final, epic battle.
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Laundry files novels volume 1
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English
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Computer science guru Alan Turning paves the way for esoteric mathematical computations that Nazi Germany uses to perform a summoning, bringing an unexpected evil to Earth through a portal to an alternate universe.
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Scholomance volume 2
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English
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The specter of graduation looms large as Naomi Novik's ground-breaking New York Times bestselling series continues. In Widsom, Shelter. That's the official motto of the Scholomance. I suppose you could argue that it's true--only the wisdom is hard to come by, so the shelter's rather scant. Our beloved school does its best ot devour all its students--but now that I've reached my senior year and have actually won myself a handful of allies, it's suddenly...
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Not even Victor Helios--once Frankenstein--can stop the engineered killers he's set loose on a reign of terror through modern-day New Orleans. Now the only hope rests in a one-time "monster" and his all-too-human partners, Detectives Carson O'Connor and Michael Maddison.
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2022.
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English
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"In the twelve unforgettable tales of Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, the strange is made familiar and the familiar strange, such that a girl growing wings on her legs feels like an ordinary rite of passage, while a bug-infested house becomes an impossible, Kafkaesque nightmare. Each story builds a new world all its own: a group of children steal a haunted doll; a runaway bride encounters a sea monster; a vendor sells toy boxes that seemingly...
11) Harrow Lake
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Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"Lola Nox is sent to live with her estranged maternal grandmother in the mining town where her horror movie director father's most iconic film was set, when paranormal incidents and whispers of a century-old monster make her question if she'll make it out alive"--
12) Only a monster
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"Joan has just learned the truth: her family are monsters, with terrifying, hidden powers. And the cute boy at work isn't just a boy: he's a legendary monster slayer, who will do anything to destroy her family. To save herself and her family, Joan will have to do what she fears most: embrace her own monstrousness. Because in this story ... she is not the hero"--
13) Season of storms
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Orbit
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"Geralt of Rivia is a Witcher, one of the few capable of hunting the monsters that prey on humanity. A mutant who is tasked with killing unnatural beings. He uses magical signs, potions, and the pride of every Witcher--two swords, steel and silver. But a contract has gone wrong, and Geralt finds himself without his signature weapons. Now he needs them back, because sorcerers are scheming, and across the world clouds are gathering"--Amazon.com.
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Roda isn't afraid of the monsters that roam the wilds of the Aerlands. She's safe in her small town, which is surrounded by a wall of freezing, enchanted mist that keeps the beasts away. So when Roda rescues an injured crow on the instruction of her secret pen pal, Anonymous, whose letters arrive without warning and correctly predict the future, she's surprised to learn she's brought one of the so-called monsters home. Because her crow is really a...
15) Boris y Bella
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Publisher
Picarona
Pub. Date
2021
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Español
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"Bella Lasquito es el monstruo más desordenado de todo Villasusto. Su baba es la más viscosa y su mugre es la más mugrienta. Boris Limpitoff es el más ordenado. Aspira sus murciélagos y quita el polvo de las telarañas. Boris y Bella son vecinos. No se llevan bien. ¿Qué podría unirlos?"--Back cover.
16) Nobody's ghoul
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Series
Ordinary magic volume 8
Publisher
Odd House Press
Pub. Date
[2021].
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English
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"Police Chief Delaney Reed can handle supernatural disasters. With gods vacationing in her little town of Ordinary, Oregon, and monsters living alongside humans, she's had plenty of practice. But trying to handle something so normal, so average, so very ordinary as planning her own wedding to the man she loves? Delaney is totally out of her depth. When a car falls out of the sky and lands on the beach, Delaney is more than happy to push guest lists...
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"Noe Wiley couldn't be more excited to move. After the slumber party sleepwalking incident of last year, she's ready to make some new friends. But Noe didn't expect the sullen, strange girls who live on her new street. And she certainly didn't expect the strange warning they give her--to stay out of her basement, no matter what. Noe's not going to let these girls boss her around. She'll go in her own basement whenever she wants. So she does. And there...
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Publisher
Gran Travesía
Pub. Date
2019, 2019
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Español
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"¿No estás harto de tener miedo? ¿No querrías tener la certeza, pro primera vez en la vida, de que no estás loco? ¿De saber que todo lo que ves y lo que te pasa ... es real?" Durante casi toda su vida, Elisse ha sido acosado por criaturas horripilantes que al parecer nadie más puede ver ni escuchar. Desesperado por huir tanto de ellas como de su pasado decide marcharse de la mística India, el país donde estuvo refugiado, para sumergirse dentro...
19) Beasts of ruin
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Beasts of prey volume 2
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English
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Now separated, sixteen-year-old indentured beastkeeper Koffi and seventeen-year-old warrior candidate Ekon will have to find their way back to each other as they face off against the god of death.
Koffi has saved her city and the boy she loves-- but now, as a servant to Fedu, the god of death, she must use her newfound power to further his continental conquest, or risk the safety of her home and loved ones. Reluctantly learning to survive amidst...
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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2011.
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English
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The war against humanity is raging. As the small town of Rainbow Falls, Montana, comes under siege, scattered survivors come together to weather the onslaught of the creatures set loose upon the world. As they ready for battle against overwhelming odds, they will learn the full scope of Victor Frankenstein's nihilistic plan to remake the future--and the terrifying reach of his shadowy, powerful supporters. Now the good will make their last, best stand....
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