• Darkfever - Mac is stunned to discover that her sister's murder was far more than a random act of violence and resents the awakening of a mysterious ability to sense the Fae and their talismans, a talent that sends her on a quest to find a mystical book of dark power. 

• Trailer Park Fae - Jeremy Gallow is just another construction worker, and that's the way he likes it. He's left his past behind, but some things cannot be erased. Like the tattoos on his arms that transform into a weapon, or that he was once closer to the Queen of Summer than any half-human should be. Now the half-sidhe all in Summer once feared is dragged back into the world of enchantment, danger, and fickle fae - by a woman who looks uncannily like his dead wife. Her name is Robin, and her secrets are more than enough to get them both killed. A plague has come, the fullborn-fae are dying, and the dark answer to Summer's Court is breaking loose. Be afraid, for Unwinter is riding.

• A Discovery of Witches - Witch and Yale historian Diana Bishop discovers an enchanted manuscript, attracting the attention of 1,500-year-old vampire Matthew Clairmont. The orphaned daughter of two powerful witches, Bishop prefers intellect, but relies on magic when her discovery of a palimpsest documenting the origin of supernatural species releases an assortment of undead who threaten, stalk, and harass her. 

• Trail of Lightning - While most of the world has drowned beneath the sudden rising waters of a climate apocalypse, Dinétah (formerly the Navajo reservation) has been reborn. The gods and heroes of legend walk the land, but so do monsters. Maggie Hoskie is a Dinétah monster hunter, a supernaturally gifted killer. When a small town needs help finding a missing girl, Maggie is their last hope. But what Maggie uncovers about the monster is much larger and more terrifying than anything she could imagine. 

• Succubus Blues - When it comes to jobs in hell, being a succubus seems pretty glamorous. Granted, they often pay with their souls. Seattle succubus Georgina Kincaid's life is far less exotic. At least there's her day job at a local bookstore--free books; all the white chocolate mochas she can drink; and easy access to bestselling, sexy writer, Seth Mortensen. But something wicked is at work in Seattle's demon underground. 

• Dark Lover - In the shadows of the night in Caldwell, New York, there's a deadly turf war going on between vampires and their slayers. There exists a secret band of brothers like no other - six vampire warriors, defenders of their race. Yet none of them relishes killing their enemies - the lessers - more than Wrath, the leader of the Black Dagger Brotherhood. The only purebred vampire left on earth, Wrath has a score to settle with the slayers who murdered his parents centuries ago. But, when one of his most trusted fighters is killed, leaving his half-breed daughter unaware of his existence or her fate, Wrath must usher her into the world of the undead-a world of sensuality beyond her wildest dreams

• Moon Called - Mercy Thompson's next-door neighbor is a werewolf. She's fixing a VW bus for a vampire. But then, Mercy Thompson isn't exactly normal herself. Mercy is a shapeshifter, and though 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 

• Night Pleasures - He is solitude. He is darkness. He is the ruler of the night. Yet Kyrian of Thrace has just woken up handcuffed to his worst nightmare: An accountant. Worse, she's being hunted by one of the most lethal vampires out there. And if Amanda Devereaux goes down, then he does too. But it's not just their lives that are hanging in the balance.  Kyrian and Amanda are all that stands between humanity and oblivion. Let's hope they win. 

• Dead Witch Walking - All the creatures of the night gather in "the Hollows" of Cincinnati, to hide, to prowl, to party . . . and to feed. Vampires rule the darkness in a predator-eat-predator world rife with dangers beyond imagining--and it's Rachel Morgan's job to keep that world civilized. A bounty hunter and witch with serious sex appeal and an attitude, she'll bring 'em back alive, dead . . . or undead.

• Stray - After narrowly escaping an attack by a Stray, Faythe, a shape-shifting young werecat and rebellious member of a Pride, discovers that two of her fellow female werecats have disappeared and launches a personal campaign to find her missing friends and stop the kidnappers before it is too late. 

• Bitten - On the eve of her marriage, Elena Michaels learns that her fiance has been concealing his secret life as a werewolf, and, as a bonus, he has made her into one also. 

• My Life as a White Trash Zombie - Teenage delinquent Angel Crawford lives with her redneck father in the swamps of southern Louisiana. She's a high school dropout, addicted to drugs and alcohol, and has a police record a mile long. But when she's made into a zombie after a car crash, her addictions disappear, except for her all-consuming need to stay 'alive 

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• Lady Killer - Josie Schuller is a picture-perfect homemaker, wife, and mother-- but she's also a ruthless, efficient killer! She balances cheerful domestic bliss with coldly performed assassinations, but when Josie finds herself in the crosshairs, her American-dream life is in danger! 

• Exquisite Corpse - Zoe isn't the intellectual type, which is why she doesn't recognize world-famous author Thomas Rocher when she stumbles into his apartment...and into his life. Little does she know, she's sitting on the literary scandal of the century.

• Southern Bastards - Earl Tubb is an angry old man with a very big stick. Euless Boss is a high school football coach with no more room in his office for trophies and no more room underneath the bleachers for burying bodies. And they're just two of the folks you'll meet in Castor County, Alabama, home of Boss BBQ, the state champion Runnin' Rebs and more bastards than you've ever seen! 

• Hark! A Vagrant - Hark! A Vagrant" takes readers on a romp through history and literature--with dignity for few and cookies for all--with comic strips about famous authors, their characters, and political and historical figures, all drawn in Kate Beaton's pared-down, excitable style 

• Perfectly Deadly - Death's daughter rides the windon a horse made of smoke and her face bears the skull marks of her father. this harrowing story is a tale of retribution as beautifully lush as it is unflinchingly savage. 

• My Boyfriend is a Bear -  Nora has bad luck with men. When she meets an (actual) bear on a hike in the Los Angeles hills, he turns out to be the best romantic partner she's ever had! He's considerate, he's sweet, he takes care of her. But he's a bear, and winning over her friends and family is difficult. Not to mention he has to hibernate all winter. Can true love conquer all? 

• The Sculptor - David Smith is giving his life for his art--literally. Thanks to a deal with Death, the young sculptor gets his childhood wish: to sculpt anything he can imagine with his bare hands. But now that he only has 200 days to live, deciding what to create is harder than he thought, and discovering the love of his life at the 11th hour isn't making it any easier! 

• Beauty - Modern society is obsessed with outward beauty. What if there was a way to guarantee you could become more and more beautiful every day? What if it was a sexually transmitted disease? In the world of The Beauty, physical perfection is only one sexual encounter away. The vast majority of the population has taken advantage of it, but Detectives Vaughn and Foster will soon discover it comes at a terrible cost. Now, they'll have to find their way past corrupt politicians, vengeful federal agents, and a terrifying mercenary out to collect the price on their heads 

• Drawn to Sex: The Basics - Have you ever had a question about sex, but didn't know who to ask? Well, Erika and Matthew have spent years learning about, talking about, and creating informative comics about all aspects of sex. Using comics, jokes, and frank communication, they're here to demystify the world of sex and answer your questions--including ones you might not even know you had! 

• Girl Town - A collection of short stories. Diana got hurt -- a lot -- and she's decided to deal with this fact by purchasing a life-sized robot boyfriend. Mary and La-La host a podcast about a movie no one's ever seen. Kelly has dragged her friend Beth out of her comfort zone -- and into a day at the fantasy market that neither of them will forget. 

• Yes, Roya - A period piece set in 1963 California. It features a three-way femdom relationship between one woman and two men. Written with humor and humanity, and drawn with effervescent charm, this is a BDSM story that skips the leather-and-chains pageantry and focuses instead on the true bonds between the three partners.

• The Cute Girl Network - Jane's new in town. When she wipes out on her skateboard right in front of Jack's food cart, she finds herself agreeing to go on a date with him. But it turns out that Jack has a spotty romantic history. Cue the Cute Girl Network -- a phone tree information-pooling group of local single women. Poor Jane is about to learn every detail of Jack's past dating misadventures... 

• The Less than Epic Adventures of TJ and Amal - In the span of a single tumultuous evening, Amal calls off his arranged marriage, comes out to his conservative parents, gets disowned, goes on a bender-- and wakes up next morning to find a lanky, dreadlocked vagrant named TJ in his kitchen. TJ claims that the two have made a drunken pact to travel from Berkeley, California to Providence, Rhode Island. 

• Crossplay - Close friends and new acquaintances at an anime convention confront theircrushes, challenge their hang-ups, and question their once-comfortable identities in this erotic graphic novel about discovering who you're meant to truly be and who you're meant to love. 

• Curse Words - A wizard has appeared in present-day New York! His name is Wizord, and he's here to save us all from dark magical forces bent on our destruction. He's the best wizard of all time! Or ... he's not, and he's lying to everyone, and secretly is the dark magical force, but wants to hang out in our world for a while because it's so much nicer than the hellhole he comes from 

• The Divine - Mark's old army buddy Jason comes calling with a lucrative military contract for a mining job in an obscure South-East Asian country called Quanlom. They'll have to operate under the radar--Quanlom is being torn apart by civil war, and the US military isn't strictly supposed to be there. With no career prospects and a baby on the way, Mark finds himself making the worst mistake of his life and signing on with Jason.

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• Blackdog - Caravan-guard Holla-Sayan, escaping the bloody conquest of a lakeside town, stops to help an abandoned child and a dying dog. The girl is the incarnation of a goddess, and the dog a shape-changing guardian spirit . Possessed and nearly driven mad by the Blackdog, Holla-Sayan flees to the desert road, taking the powerless avatar with him. Foes follow hard on the their heels. 

• A Darker Shade of Magic - Kell is one of the last magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel universes. He is the Red Traveler, personal ambassador and adopted Prince of Red London, carrying the monthly correspondences between the royals of each London. Unofficially, Kell is a smuggler, a dangerous hobby, and one that charges him treason. Fleeing into Grey London, Kell runs afoul of Delilah Bard, a cut-purse with lofty aspirations, first robs him, then saves him from a dangerous enemy, and then forces him to spirit her to another world for a proper adventure. 

• City of Blades - A generation ago the city of Voortyashtan was the stronghold of the god of war and death, the birthplace of fearsome supernatural sentinels who killed and subjugated millions. Now the god is dead and the city lies in ruins. So it makes perfect sense for General Turyin Mulaghesh, foul-mouthed hero of the battle of Bulikov, rumoured war criminal, to be exiled here - but she's not just eking out her days in this hellhole till retirement. She's on one final mission.

• The Waking Fire - The blood of drakes can be distilled into elixirs that give powers to the blood-blessed. But the lines of drakes weaken. If they fail, war will follow. There are whispers of the existence of another breed of drake, far more powerful than the rest. Claydon Torcreek is a petty thief and an unregistered blood-blessed, who finds himself pressed into service to search. Lizanne Lethridge is a spy and assassin, on an espionage mission in the heart of enemy territory. And Corrick Hilemore is the second lieutenant, whose pursuit of brigands leads him to a far greater threat at the edge of the world. All three must fight to turn the tide of a coming war, or drown in its wake 

• The Fifth Season - Essun comes home to find that her husband has murdered their son and kidnapped their daughter. Meanwhile, mighty Sanze -- the world-spanning empire whose innovations have been civilization's bedrock for a thousand years -- collapses as most of its citizens are murdered to serve a madman's vengeance. And worst of all, a great red rift has been been torn into the heart of the earth, spewing ash enough to darken the sky for years. Now Essun must pursue the wreckage of her family through a deadly, dying land. There will be war all across the Stillness: a battle royale of nations for resources.

• The Mirror Empire - In the frozen kingdom of Saiduan, invaders from another realm are decimating whole cities, leaving behind nothing but ash and ruin. As the dark star of the cataclysm rises, an illegitimate ruler is tasked with holding together a country fractured by civil war, a precocious young fighter is asked to betray his family and a half-Dhai general must choose between the eradication of her father's people or loyalty to her alien Empress.

• A Crown for Cold Silver - Twenty years ago, feared general Cobalt Zosia led her five villainous captains and mercenary army into battle, wrestling monsters and toppling an empire. When there were no more titles to win and no more worlds to conquer, she retired and gave up her legend to history. Now the peace she carved for herself has been shattered by the unprovoked slaughter of her village. Seeking bloody vengeance, Zosia heads for battle once more.

• Black Wolves - Captain Kellas was lauded as the king's most faithful servant until the day he failed in his duty. Dismissed from service, his elite regiment disbanded, he left the royal palace and took up another life. Now a battle brews within the palace that threatens to reveal deadly secrets and spill over into open war. The king needs a loyal soldier to protect him. Can a disgraced man ever be trusted?" 

• The Black Guard - With their father's blood fresh upon the headsman's sword, Lord Bromvy and Lady Bronwyn, the last scions of the house of Canarn, face fugitive exile or death. In the court of Ro Tiris, men fear to speak their minds. The Army of the Red marches upon the North. Strange accidents befall those who dare question the King's new advisers. The Seven Sisters: witches of the fire god; each as beautiful and as dangerous as a flame. And, called from the long ages of deep time by war and sacrifice, the children of a dead god are waking with a pitiless cry.

• The Grim Company - Five hundred years ago, the world was destroyed in the celestial Godswar. Five hundred years later, Dystopian city states have arisen, each presided over by one of the Magelords who first made war. Corrupted, near-immortal, and far too powerful, those wizards who once sought to free the world now make war upon each other. Davarus Cole, is a boy who burns to do great deeds. One night, Cole gets himself into a brawl with the authories. He quickly finds himself exiled. Outside, the world still groans from the ancient cataclysm, and the corpses of Gods lie deep beneath the bedrock, leaking wild, uncontrolled magic into the world.

• The Copper Promise - There are some far-fetched rumours about the caverns beneath the Citadel: Some say the mages left their most dangerous secrets hidden there; others, that great riches are hidden there; even that gods have been imprisoned in its darkest depths. For Lord Frith, the caverns hold the key to his vengeance.  For Wydrin of Crosshaven and her faithful companion, Sir Sebastian Carverson, a quest to the Citadel looks like just another job. Soon this reckless trio will become the last line of defence against a hungry, restless terror that wants to tear the world apart. 

• Hope and Red - HOPE, the lone survivor of a village massacred by the emperor's forces, is secretly trained as a warrior and instrument of vengeance.RED, an orphan adopted by a notorious matriarch of the criminal underworld, learns to be an expert thief and con artist.Together they will take down an empire 

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CHICK LIT - (NOUN) Slang for a Genre of literature geared towards female readers , which deal with modern issues in women's lives. (Bridget Jones, Nicholas Sparks, e.t.c.)

• It Ends with Us - Lily has graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. She feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, but his "no dating" rule makes her wonder what made him that way in the first place. As questions about her new relationship overwhelm her, so do thoughts of Atlas Corrigan - her first love. When Atlas suddenly reappears, everything Lily has built with Ryle is threatened.  

• Now that you Mention it - It's been over a decade since Nora left her hometown of Scupper Island, Maine, and very seldom looked back. She's carved out a successful life in Boston, where no one knows her as the awkward girl with the delinquent sister and the dad who left. Inspired to reconnect with her prickly mother and snarky teenage niece, Nora returns home for the summer, where she's forced to face the people she's spent the last ten years trying to avoid.

• Sociable - After moving to New York with her journalism degree, Elinor Tomlinson's is offered a job at Journalism.ly ... And is an overnight viral sensation! But Elinor's boyfriend dumps her, two male colleagues insist on 'mentoring' her, and a piece she writes about her personal life lands her on local television. Destitute, single, and consigned to move to a fifth-floor walkup, Elinor must ask herself: Is this the creative life she dreamed of ?

• Attachments - Beth and Jennifer spend all day sending each other messages at the office. Lincoln, the Internet security officer, is supposed to turn people in for misusing company e-mail, but he can't quite bring himself to. By the time Lincoln realizes he's falling for Beth, it's way too late for him to ever introduce himself. Lincoln decides it's time to muster the courage to follow his heart , even if he can't see exactly where it's leading him. 

• The Divorce Papers - 29-year-old Sophie Diehl is a criminal law associate at an old-line New England firm. She gets stuck handling the intake interview for the daughter of the firm's most important client. After 18 years of marriage, Mia Meiklejohn Durkheim has just been served divorce papers. For Sophie, the whole affair will spark a hard look at her own relationships - with her parents, colleagues, friends, lovers, and, most important, herself. 

• Big Girl Panties - Widow Holly Brennan used food to comfort herself through her husband's illness and death. Now she weighs more than she ever has. Then Logan Montgomery, personal trainer to pro athletes, offers to train her. The playful banter of their training sessions follow Logan and Holly into steamy workouts. But can Holly and Logan go the distance as a couple now that other men are noticing her? 

• Big Little Lies - Follows three mothers, each at a crossroads, and their potential involvement in a riot at a school trivia night that leaves one parent dead in what appears to be a tragic accident, but which evidence shows might have been premeditated. 

• I've Got Your Number - After she loses her engagement ring and her phone is stolen, Poppy Wyatt, discovering an abandoned phone in a trash can, uses it to make her wedding preparations. Sam Roxton wants his phone back. What ensues is a hilarious and unpredictable turn of events as Poppy and Sam increasingly upend each other's lives through emails and text messages.

• Crazy Rich Asians - When Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend, Nicholas Young, she doesn't know is that Nick is one of Asia's most eligible bachelors. Nick's formidable mother, a woman who has very strong feelings about who her son should-and should not-marry, does not approve of Rachel.

• Dirty Book Club - M.J. Stark's  elderly neighbor, Gloria, leaves her a mysterious invitation to a secret club--one that only reads erotic books. Curious, M.J. accepts and meets the three other hand-selected clubmembers. As they bond over naughty bestsellers and the shocking letters they inherited from the original clubmembers, the four strangers start to divulge the intimate details of their own lives.

• The Ex-Boyfriend's Handbook - After ten years, Jane's had enough of Edward Middleton. Determined to get her back, Edward realizes he must learn how to make women want him again. If he's going to be Jane's Mr. Right, he needs to turn himself around. From Atkins to Waxing, Edward begins working his way through the makeover alphabet.

• Playing with Matches - After Sasha Goldberg's dream career falls through,  she lands a job as a matchmaker for New York City's elite at the dating service Bliss. Sasha hopes to find her clients The One, like she did. But when her boyfriend betrays her, she falls for a guy who she had previously set up with one of her clients. He's strictly off-limits, but with her relationship on the rocks, all bets are off. 

• Ugly Love - The only thing Tate Collins and  airline pilot Miles Archer have in common is an undeniable mutual attraction. He doesn't want love, she doesn't have time for love, so that just leaves the sex. Tate only has to follow two rules. Never ask about the past. Don't expect a future. They think they can handle it, but realize almost immediately they can't handle it at all.

• My (no so) Perfect Life - When Katie Brenner is fired from her dream job in advertising in London, she's desperate to get away from her mad boss Demeter, and her crush, Alex. Seeking refuge, she goes home to her father's farm in Somerset to help make her stepmother's dream of turning their land into a glamping retreat come true. But then Demeter shows up with Alex not far behind.

• Sweet Tea and Sympathy - After a spectacular failure at an exclusive event in Chicago, event planner Margot Cary takes a job in Lake Sackett, Georgia. Organizing wakes and fishing trips isn't exactly her thing, but she starts feeling more at home when she catches the eye of the elementary school principal Kyle Archer. A offer for a big-city job means Margot must decide between her career, and a possible new love.

• Dating You Hating You - Carter and Evie immediately hit it off. But when their two agencies merge--causing the pair to vie for the same position--all bets are off. What could have been a beautiful, blossoming romance turns into an all-out war of sabotage.

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