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61) Burning lamp
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Series
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English
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The Arcane Society was born in turmoil when the friendship of its two founders evolved into a fierce rivalry. Sylvester Jones and Nicholas Winters each sought to enhance their individual psychic talents. Winters' efforts led to the creation of a device of unknown powers called the Burning Lamp. Each generation the Winters man who inherits it is destined to develop multiple talents -- and the curse of madness. Plagued by hallucinations and nightmares,...
62) Flameout
Author
Series
Souls of fire volume 3
Language
English
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Description
Emberly and her red-hot partner, Jackson, have hit an impasse in their battle against the crazed humans infected by a plague-like virus derived from vampire blood. Their quest to unearth the leader of the group leads them into an ambush -- and leaves Emberly at odds with her former lover, Sam, who's pressuring her to join his Paranormal Investigations Team. To make matters worse, three local witches have been kidnapped -- and if their spells fall...
63) Midnight crystal
Author
Series
Publisher
Jove Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
x, 406 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sylvester Jones and Nicholas Winters, founders of the Arcane Society, each sought to enhance their individual psychic talents. Winters' efforts led to the creation of a device called the Burning Lamp. Each generation the Winters man who inherits it is destined to develop multiple talents and the curse of madness. Now, plagued by hallucinations and nightmares, notorious crime lord Griffin Winters is convinced he's been struck with the Winters Curse...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"A wildly successful innovator to rival Steve Jobs or Elon Musk, Vivian Liao is prone to radical thinking, quick decision-making, and reckless action. On the eve of her greatest achievement, she tries to outrun people who are trying to steal her success. In the chilly darkness of a Boston server farm, Viv sets her ultimate plan into motion. A terrifying instant later, Vivian Liao is catapulted through space and time to a far future where she confronts...
Author
Series
Miriam Black novels volume 1
Publisher
Angry Robot/Osprey Group
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
381 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Miriam Black knows when you will die. Still in her early twenties, she's foreseen hundreds of car crashes, heart attacks, strokes, suicides, and slow deaths by cancer. But when Miriam hitches a ride with truck driver Louis Darling and shakes his hand, she sees that in thirty days Louis will be gruesomely murdered while he calls her name. Miriam has given up trying to save people; that only makes their deaths happen. But Louis will die because he met...
Author
Series
Miriam Black novels volume 2
Publisher
Angry Robot
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
392 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Miriam is trying. Really, she is. But this whole "settling down thing" that Louis has going for her just isn't working out. She lives on Long Beach Island all year around. Her home is a run-down double-wide trailer. She works at a grocery store as a check-out girl. And her relationship with Louis -- who's on the road half the time in his truck -- is subject to the piss and vinegar Miriam brings to everything she does. It just isn't going well. Still,...
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Series
Krewe of hunters volume 6
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
376 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
A Hollywood shrine hides unholy deeds. The 1940s: Hard-boiled detectives and femmes fatale are box-office gold. In one iconic scene, set in a deserted museum, the private eye arrives too late, and the buxom beauty is throttled by an ominous Egyptian priest. Now: The Black Box Cinema immortalizes Hollywood's Golden Age in its gallery of film noir tributes. But the mannequin of that Egyptian priest is hardly lifeless. He walks -- and a young starlet...
68) Councilor
Author
Series
The grand illusion volume 2
Publisher
Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
514 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"L. E. Modesitt, Jr., bestselling author of Saga of Recluce and the Imager Portfolio, continues his brand new, gaslamp, political fantasy series with Councilor the thrilling sequel to Isolate. Continued poor harvests and steam-powered industrialization displace and impoverish thousands. Protests grow and gather followers. Against this rising tide of social unrest, Steffan Dekkard, newly appointed to the Council of Sixty-Six, is the first Councilor...
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Series
Miriam Black novels volume 4
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mariam is on the road again, this time with a purpose: she's heard of a woman, another psychicgrifter who may be able to help with her power. Mariam is tracking her down across the southwest, always a step behind . . . until she comes across a boy on the run with his mother, both of whom are in the sights of a sniper. Miriam is not a hero -- she's looking out for herself -- but this boy leads her into the center of a storm of domestic terrorists who...
70) Marked
Author
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
329 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Detective Dana Rohan has an excellent arrest and conviction rate. But even her partner doesn't know the real reason why. All her life Dana has borne a Mark of unknown origin that she's kept secret. A Mark that allows her to walk into alternate pasts and futures. A Mark that allows her to go back and see any crime as it's being committed. But the life she's carefully built around this secret ability begins to crumble when she's assaulted by a ragged...
Author
Series
Miriam Black novels volume 6
Publisher
SAGA Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Miriam has beaten off serial killers, psychics, and won a major battle in her struggle against her nemesis, but this is a long war and the Trespasser only fights dirty. It's usually Miriam-against-the-world, but not this time. She holds the power to break the curse and the Trespasser's influence in the world. It's her fight to lose, and she's learning to work with a team. Wendig builds Miriam Black's story towards a razor's edge, with all of her...
Author
Series
The grand illusion volume 1
Publisher
Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
596 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Steffan Dekkard is an isolate, one of the small percentage of people who are immune to the projections of empaths. As an isolate, he has been trained as a security specialist and he and his security partner Avraal Ysella, a highly trained empath are employed by Axel Obreduur, a senior Craft Minister and the de facto political strategist of his party. When a respected Landor Councilor dies of "heart failure" at a social event, because of his political...
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Language
English
Description
"Blindsided by her mother's sudden death, and wrecked by a recent love affair, Casey Peabody has arrived in Massachusetts in the summer of 1997 without a plan. Her mail consists of wedding invitations and final notices from debt collectors. A former child golf prodigy, she now waits tables in Harvard Square and rents a tiny, moldy room at the side of a garage where she works on the novel she's been writing for six years. At thirty-one, Casey is still...
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Series
Krewe of hunters volume 14
Publisher
Harlequin MIRA
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
One night, New York FBI agent Aiden Mahoney receives a visitor in a dream — an old friend named Richard Highsmith. The very next day he's sent to Sleepy Hollow because Richard's gone missing there. Maureen — Mo — Deauville now lives in the historic town and works with her dog, Rollo, to search for missing people. She's actually the one to find Richard… or more precisely his head, stuck on a statue of the legendary Headless Horseman. Mo and...
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Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Magnus "Steps" Craig is part of the elite three-man Special Tracking Unit of the FBI. Called in on special cases where his skills are particularly needed, he works as a tracker. The media dubs him "The Human Bloodhound," since Steps is renowned for his incredible ability to find and follow trails over any surface better than anyone else. But there's a secret to his success. Steps has a special ability --- a kind of synesthesia --- where he can see...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
450 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In a moment of crisis, Ellis Abbey leaves her daughter, Viola, unattended--for just a few minutes. But when she returns, Viola is gone. A breaking point in an already fractured marriage, Viola's abduction causes Ellis to disappear as well--into grief, guilt, and addiction. Convinced she can only do more harm to her family, Ellis leaves her husband and young sons, burying her desperate ache for her children deeper with every step into the mountain...
Author
Series
Krewe of hunters volume 20
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
315 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
They say it's about the journey, not the destination… Charlene 'Charlie' Moreau is back in St. Francisville, Louisiana, to work on a movie. One night, she stumbles across the body of a Civil War reenactor, the second murdered in two days. Charlie is shocked to learn that her father -- a guide on the Journey, a historic paddle wheeler that's sponsoring the reenactment -- is a suspect. Meanwhile, Ethan Delaney, new to the FBI's Krewe of Hunters, is...
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Series
Krewe of hunters volume 19
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
c2016
Physical Desc
363 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Alaska — the final frontier? When Clara Avery, an entertainer working on the Fate, an Alaskan cruise ship, goes to nearby Bear Island, she comes across a scene of bloody mayhem. She also comes across Thor Erikson, who will soon be a member of the FBI's elite paranormal unit, the Krewe of Hunters. Thor's been sent from the Alaska field office to investigate several grotesque killings, with the dead posed to resemble the victims of notorious murderers....
Author
Series
Guardians trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
As the hunt for the Star of Ice leads the six guardians to Ireland, Doyle, the immortal, must face his tragic past. Three centuries ago, he closed off his heart, yet his warrior spirit is still drawn to the wild. And there's no one more familiar with the wild than Riley -- and the wolf within her.... An archaeologist, Riley is no stranger to the coast of Clare, but now she finds herself on unsure footing, targeted by the dark goddess who wants more...
80) In too deep
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Group
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
339 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Scargill Cove is the perfect place for Fallon Jones, confirmed recluse and investigator of the paranormal. It's a hot spot, a convergence point for unusually strong currents of energy, which might explain why the town draws misfits and drifters like moths to a flame. Now someone else has been drawn to the cove -- Isabella Valdez, on the run from some very dangerous men. When she starts work as Fallon's assistant, she impresses him by organizing his...
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