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City of Brass: And Other Simon Ark Stories
by Edward D. HochThree stories starring Simon Ark—one of history&’s most unusual detectivesIn a college in upstate New York, a professor is carrying out devilish experiments. At Grand Central Station, a student named Cathy Clark corners a friend of her sister&’s who runs a large publishing company. She tells him of the evil at Baine University, but he dismisses her panic as undergraduate paranoia, so Cathy vows to take matters into her own hands. A few weeks later, she appears in the paper: gunned down on the side of the road.The only man fit to unravel the mystery is Simon Ark, a friend of the publisher and an aficionado of the peculiar. A two-thousand-year-old Coptic priest, cursed at the Crucifixion to spend eternity wandering the earth, Ark has seen all that the world has to offer. But in these three stories, he will encounter things that even he could never have imagined.
City of Crows
by Chris Womersley"A gothic masterpiece."Better Read Than Dead Set in seventeenth-century Francea country in the thrall of dark magic, its social fabric weakened by years of plagueChris Womersley's City of Crows is a richly imagined and engrossing tour de force. Inspired by real-life events, it tells the story of Charlotte Picot, a young woman from the country forced to venture to the fearsome city of Paris in search of her only-remaining son, Nicolas. Fate (or coincidence) places the quick-witted charlatan Adam Lesage in her path. Lesage is newly released from the prison galleys and on the hunt for treasure, but, believing him to be a spirit she has summoned from the underworld, Charlotte enlists his help in finding her child. Charlotte and Lesagecomically ill-matched but nevertheless essential to one anotherjourney to Paris, then known as the City of Crows: Charlotte in search of Nicolas, and Lesage seeking a fresh start. Dazzlingly told, with humor and flair, City of Crows is a novel for readers who like their fiction atmospheric, adventurous, spine-tingling, and beautifully written. Pre-revolutionary France, with all its ribaldry, superstition, and intrigue is mesmerizing, and Charlotte Picot's storythe story of a mother in search of her lost sonholds universal appeal.
City of Endless Night (Agent Pendergast series #17)
by Douglas Preston Lincoln Child<P>When Grace Ozmian, the beautiful and reckless daughter of a wealthy tech billionaire, first goes missing, the NYPD assumes she has simply sped off on another wild adventure. Until the young woman's body is discovered in an abandoned warehouse in Queens, the head nowhere to be found. <P>Lieutenant CDS Vincent D'Agosta quickly takes the lead. He knows his investigation will attract fierce scrutiny, so D'Agosta is delighted when FBI Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast shows up at the crime scene assigned to the case. "I feel rather like Brer Rabbit being thrown into the briar patch," Pendergast tells D'Agosta, "because I have found you here, in charge. Just like when we first met, back at the Museum of Natural History." But neither Pendergast nor D'Agosta are prepared for what lies ahead. <P>A diabolical presence is haunting the greater metropolitan area, and Grace Ozmian was only the first of many victims to be murdered . . . and decapitated. Worse still, there's something unique to the city itself that has attracted the evil eye of the killer. <P>As mass hysteria sets in, Pendergast and D'Agosta find themselves in the crosshairs of an opponent who has threatened the very lifeblood of the city. It'll take all of Pendergast's skill to unmask this most dangerous foe-let alone survive to tell the tale. <P><b>A New York Times Bestseller</b>
City of Eternal Night: Crescent City: Book Two (Crescent City #2)
by Kristen PainterALL HAIL THE QUEENMardi Gras approaches, bringing with it hordes of tourists eager to see the real life Faery Queen holding court atop her festival float. When the Queen is kidnapped, it's up to Augustine, the fae-blooded Guardian of the city, to rescue her before time runs out.But Augustine's mystifying protégée, Harlow, complicates the task by unintentionally aiding the forces of evil, drawing danger closer with each step. The Queen might not be the first to die . . .
City of Evil: सिटी ऑफ इविल
by Dilshad Ali"सिटी ऑफ़ इविल" एक रोमांचक हॉरर थ्रिलर उपन्यास है, जिसमें रहस्य, भय और साज़िश का अनूठा मिश्रण है। कहानी की पृष्ठभूमि एक प्राचीन और रहस्यमय स्थान बखुन्दा में स्थापित है, जहाँ पुरातत्व विभाग को एक खजाने का पता चलता है। इस खजाने की खोज के लिए भेजी गई टीम को वहाँ अजीबोगरीब और भयानक घटनाओं का सामना करना पड़ता है। मुख्य पात्र समर, दिव्या और उनकी टीम को पता चलता है कि वहाँ के मृत सैनिक पुनर्जीवित हो जाते हैं और इंसानों पर हमला करते हैं। रहस्यमयी सुरंगें, खंडहरों में दबी साजिशें, और अप्रत्याशित ट्विस्ट इस कहानी को बेहद दिलचस्प बनाते हैं। कहानी में डर, रोमांच और मानवीय जिज्ञासा का गहरा मिश्रण है, जो पाठकों को अंत तक बांधे रखता है। क्या समर और दिव्या इन खौफनाक घटनाओं से बच पाते हैं? क्या इस खजाने का कोई गहरा राज़ है? इन सवालों के जवाब उपन्यास में लगातार बढ़ते रहस्य के साथ मिलते हैं।
City of Ghosts (City of Ghosts #1)
by Victoria Schwab V. E. SchwabFrom #1 NYT bestselling author Victoria Schwab comes a sweeping, spooky, evocative adventure, perfect for fans of "Stranger Things" and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.A New York Times bestseller!Ever since Cass almost drowned (okay, she did drown, but she doesn't like to think about it), she can pull back the Veil that separates the living from the dead . . . and enter the world of spirits. Her best friend is even a ghost.So things are already pretty strange. But they're about to get much stranger.When Cass's parents start hosting a TV show about the world's most haunted places, the family heads off to Edinburgh, Scotland. Here, graveyards, castles, and secret passageways teem with restless phantoms. And when Cass meets a girl who shares her "gift," she realizes how much she still has to learn about the Veil -- and herself.And she'll have to learn fast. The city of ghosts is more dangerous than she ever imagined.#1 NYT bestselling author Victoria Schwab delivers a thrillingly spooky and action-packed tale of hauntings, history, mystery, and the bond between friends (even if that friend is a ghost . . .).
City of Iron and Dust
by J.P. OakesFast-paced and razor-sharp dark fantasy for readers of Nicholas Eames, Anna Smith Spark and Robert Jackson Bennett "A fantastic book, full of wit and sharp humor, City of Iron and Dust careens through a modernized faerie at a breakneck pace, full of verve and unforgettable characters. Oakes spins a smart, electric, and sometimes snarky tale, showing that the beating heart of modern fantasy is alive and well." – John Hornor Jacobs, author of A Lush and Seething Hell and The Incorruptibles The Iron City is a prison, a maze, an industrial blight. It is the result of a war that saw the goblins grind the fae beneath their collective boot heels. And tonight, it is also a city that churns with life. Tonight, a young fae is trying to make his fortune one drug deal at a time; a goblin princess is searching for a path between her own dreams and others&’ expectations; her bodyguard is deciding who to kill first; an artist is hunting for his own voice; an old soldier is starting a new revolution; a young rebel is finding fresh ways to fight; and an old goblin is dreaming of reclaiming her power over them all. Tonight, all their stories are twisting together, wrapped up around a single bag of Dust—the only drug that can still fuel fae magic—and its fate and theirs will change the Iron City forever.
City of Others (10th Anniversary Edition)
by Steve Niles Bernie WrightsonA masterwork from two horror comics legends in a deluxe oversized edition!From the writer who created 30 Days of Night and the artist who created Swamp Thing comes a horror graphic novel like no other! Stosh Bludowski is a killer, born with the capacity for no apparent human emotion other than rage. Killing comes easy for Blud, and he makes a good living doing what's easy--until the day he meets two jobs in an alley who just won't die, and a grotesque mystery unfolds right in front of him. Soon, the remorseless killer is confronted by a reality he could never imagine, and he will be invited to make a decision once and for all . . . is he human, or is he Other?Collects City of Others #1-4
City of Saints and Madmen: A Novel (The Ambergris Trilogy #1)
by Jeff VanderMeerFrom Jeff VanderMeer, the author of Borne and Annihilation, comes the paperback reissue of his cult classic City of Saints and Madmen. In this reinvention of the literature of the fantastic, you hold in your hands an invitation to a place unlike any you’ve ever visited—an invitation delivered by one of our most audacious and astonishing literary magicians.City of elegance and squalor. Of religious fervor and wanton lusts. And everywhere, on the walls of courtyards and churches, an incandescent fungus of mysterious and ominous origin. In Ambergris, a would-be suitor discovers that a sunlit street can become a killing ground in the blink of an eye. An artist receives an invitation to a beheading—and finds himself enchanted. And a patient in a mental institution is convinced that he’s made up a city called Ambergris, imagined its every last detail, and that he’s really from a place called Chicago . . .By turns sensuous and terrifying, filled with exotica and eroticism, this interwoven collection of stories, histories, and “eyewitness” reports invokes a universe within a puzzle box where you can lose—and find—yourself again.
City of Shadows
by Celia ReesIn the midsummer of his twelfth birthday, Davey, his twin cousins and his sister Kate, embark on a tour of the underground city in Davey's hometown. As the tour progresses, Davey finds himself separated from the others, and inside an eerie chamber.
City of Shadows
by Celia ReesIn the midsummer of his twelfth birthday, Davey, his twin cousins and his sister Kate, embark on a tour of the infamous underground city in Davey's hometown. As the tour progresses, Davey finds himself separated from the others, and inside an eerie chamber. Here he is drawn to a large and hazy-glassed mirror. In a moment, Davey's reflection blurs, and he finds himself back on the streets of the ancient city - but the residents are not of his time - they are ghosts, and some do not take kindly to those from 'the other side'. Davey encounters some friendly spirits, too - but they urge him to try to make it back to his own time, before an evil ghost crew discovers he is mortal. A frantic search for his own world begins, and Davey makes it just in time. But he senses there is unfinished business and, come Hallowe'en, the ghosts will be on the lookout for him - and this time they will be visiting his world . . .
City of Whispering Stone (The Mongo Mysteries #2)
by George C. ChesbroA circus-performer-turned-PI takes on &“murder and intrigue from New York to Iran&” in this &“well done, suspenseful&” unconventional mystery (Newsday). With a genius IQ, a past career as a circus acrobat, and a black belt in karate, criminology professor Dr. Robert Frederickson—better known as &“Mongo the Magnificent&”—has a decidedly unusual background for a private investigator. He also just so happens to be a dwarf. When his former big-top boss asks him to find a missing Iranian strongman, Mongo is plunged into a three-ring circus of murder, espionage, and international intrigue. And when Mongo&’s own brother—police officer Garth Frederickson—gets involved, the detective must fly to Iran, a country on the brink of a revolution. Now he&’s searching for two missing men, from Tehran to the ancient city of Persepolis, playing a game of a cat-and-mouse with forces far beyond his control. And unlike his days as an acrobat, this time, if he slips up, there&’s no net . . . With a fearless sense of fun, author George C. Chesbro continues the adventures of &“one of the most appealing creations in the detective world&” (Publishers Weekly). City of Whispering Stone is the 2nd book in the Mongo Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
City of Wonders (Seven Forages #3)
by James A. MooreOld Canhoon, the City of Wonders, is having a population explosion as refugees from Tyrne and Roathes alike try to escape the Sa'ba Taalor. All along the border between the Blasted Lands and the Fellein Empire armies clash and the most powerful empire in the world is pushed back toward the old Capital. From the far east the Pilgrim gathers an army of the faithful, heading for Old Canhoon.In Old Canhoon itself the imperial family struggles against enemies old and new as the spies of their enemies begin removing threats to the gods of the Seven Forges and prepare the way for the invading armies of the Seven Kings. In the distant Taalor valley Andover Lashk continues his quest and must make a final decision, while at the Mounds, something inhuman is awakened and set free.War is Here. Blood will flow and bodies will burn.File Under: Fantasy
City of the Dead
by Brian KeeneSequel to The Rising. Cities have become overrun with legions of the dead. A group of human survivors trapped in a skyscraper prepare to make their last stand against an unstoppable undying enemy.
City of the Dead (The Haunting of Derek Stone #1)
by Tony AbbottDerek Stone has suffered a horrible train accident, which left his brother and father dead -- and left Derek all alone. Until his brother, Ronny, reappears weeks later, alive and well. But Ronny doesn't seem like himself. Since the train accident, he seems ...like someone else. Derek is haunted by suspicions, uncertainty, and fear. But he's also haunted by something even more real. He's hearing voices, and everything around him -- including Ronny -- seems a little off. Could the road to the afterlife be a two-way street?
City of the Gods - Starybogow: Whispers in the Dark
by Brandon RospondAmidst the backdrop of Eastern Europe in the year 1500, an earthquake releases factions of the Eldar Gods and Slavic Deities who have battled millenniums for the control of humanity. On the cross-roads of empires, political and military forces compete for control of a town which contains great treasure and power for those who are willing to take it. Teutonic Knights, Polish and Lithuanian soldiers, Cossacks, Hanseatic Merchants, Templars, Tartars and Imperial spies battle each other on behalf of their own ends. This anthology of short stories brings some of the newest and best in high fantasy to start off this new world of adventure.
City of the Gods: Cross of Saint Boniface
by Robert E. WatersSet against the backdrop of Eastern Europe, The Cross of St. Boniface starts in the cursed city of Starybogow, then travels the Ottoman Empire as Djin and Eldar gods battle for the souls of humans
City of the Undead: A Zombicide Black Plague Novel (Zombicide #3)
by CL WernerA group of unlikely heroes are all that stand in the way of humanity&’s demise as the zombie apocalypse engulfs the kingdom in this high fantasy adventure set in the world of Zombicide: Black Plague.Witch Hunter Helchen mourns her dear friend, one of many heroes The Black Plague has sent to their grave as it consumes the kingdom. Yet she is determined to save what remains of humanity. Helchen and her companions travel to the labyrinthine canals of Zanice to obtain magical resources that would change the course of the zombie plague. Horrendous swaths of the undead mark their journey, and the companions are pursued relentlessly by necromantic forces of evil. When they discover a friend turned foe, Helchen must decide if all zombies are monsters… or if a new darkness is taking shape across the land.
Ciudad de los djinn
by Historias Del AticoEn Occidente, el "djinn" es una figura divertida. Un personaje de pantomima hecho de colores primarios y dibujos animados. Un ejemplo, si es que alguna vez hubo uno, de cómo Occidente trata de domar sus terrores riéndose de ellos. En Oriente, en Nusaybin, la gente no se ríe de esas cosas. Aquí la palabra "djinn" se susurra con reverencial silencio. Las cosas a las que se refiere se consideran no solo reales, sino peligrosas. Porque en estos lugares y para esta gente, los djinn no son solo historias, son los gritos en el desierto, el calor de una llama sin humo. Aquí los djinn son reales y aquí, quieren hacerte daño.
Ciudad de zombis
by Homero AridjisIn Misteca, the social order has been replaced with an alternate reality that feeds into organized crime. In this terrible reality, two types of zombies coexist: the "dead living" (criminals, drug addicts, prostitutes, and psychopath police) and the "living dead," revived cadavers that destroy Misteca like a plague. The Lord of the Zombies, an unstoppable pedophile, imposes his reign of violence, corruption, and terror upon the inhabitants of Misteca. His bunker, protected by hitmen and rogue policemen, is also a harem of girls kidnapped by Malinche Negra and El Matagatos. One of them is the youngest daughter of Daniel Medina, a journalist who continues his search for her while avenging the murder of his parents.
Civil War in Paradise! (The Secret World Of Alex Mack #27)
by Bonnie D. StoneWhen Alex Mack finds out that the historic Civil War landmark Fort Paradise will be demolished for a new road, she and her friends go into action to stop the deconstruction process. Alex leads the charge, only to find trouble around every corner. Time is running out, but Alex and her powers have to keep a low profile. If she and her friends don't move fast, Fort Paradise--and maybe Alex--will be history.
Ciò che mi ossessiona - Il cacciatore di fantasmi, Libro 1
by Margaret Millmore Beatrice LunguGeorge è afflitto da sogni strani di fantasmi che vagano tra i vivi, ossessionando le loro vittime, contagiandole con varie malattie e deformità. Un istinto che era profondamente sepolto, sta emergendo: lui può uccidere questi mostri guarendo le loro vittime. Ossessionato da memorie soppresse, la salute mentale di George comincia ad essere in pericolo quando lui inizia ad essere divorato dalla sua nuova responsabilità. Questo percorso oscuro e pericoloso li porterà nuovi amici e alleati, ma anche nemici che George non avrebbe mai potuto immaginare.
Ciò che vuoi vedere: Una raccolta di racconti spaventosi
by L. P. MastersGuarda dentro la tua anima. Cosa vedi? Cosa vuoi vedere? Un astronauta che cerca di sopravvivere su Marte. Una donna catturata nell’eterno cerchio della morte. Un marinaio salvato dall'annegamento, ora intrappolato per sempre in un luogo sottomarino. Questa raccolta di storie ti sorprenderà e ti spaventerà. Ma non preoccuparti; non dovrebbe spaventarti troppo. Inoltre ... È solo ciò che vuoi vedere.
Claimed by the Mate, Vol. 1: A BBW Werewolf Menage 2-in-1 Romance
by Kate Douglas A. C. ArthurTHE ALPHA'S WOMAN by A.C. ArthurKira Radney is all delicious curves and strong will and has no desire to be a subservient mate. When a member of her father's pack attempts to make her his mate by force, Kira has no choice but to flee. The last thing she wants is to submit to any male and their pack. But when her escape attempt leads her straight into the arms of an alpha wolf-a sexy, dangerous, protective alpha-Kira must fight against her need to be free, and her secret desire to be controlled... FERAL PASSIONS (A Feral Passions Novel) by Kate Douglas Welcome to Feral Passions, a luxurious private resort nestled in a preserve and staffed by dangerously sexy men, making it a haven for women who want to get away from it all. But Feral Passions is a front for a deeper, sexier secret-it's a hunting ground for these men. Men focused on meeting each woman's every need. Men who are also the beautiful wolves running wild...and who are looking for mates.Chereza Dubios is more comfortable solving math equations than she is with her voluptuous body and meeting men. But when her younger sister and best friend trick her into vacationing at Feral Passions, Cherry finds herself attracted and torn between two men who find her curvy body and intelligent mind irresistible. Two men who share a secret-they want to share her.But that takes trust-can Cherry open herself to love with two sensual and powerful werewolves?
Claimed by the Mate, Vol. 3: A BBW Shifter/Werewolf 2-in-1 Romance
by Kate Douglas A. C. ArthurKate Douglas and A.C. Arthur return with another scorching volume in their Claimed by the Mate series featuring two delicious, unforgettable novels in one! In Dangerous Passions, Feral Passions Resort is the place for women to find romance and seduction with a hot, hard werewolf alpha mate. Traker Jakes and Evan Dark of the Trinity Alps pack have yet to find a strong, sexy BBW woman to consume with heady pleasure. But a special woman has arrived at Feral Passions Resort. The one who will burn with passion between these two sexy werewolf shifters. Desire will reach its peak…and the best these three can do is hold on to the sensations that erupt between them. In Bound to the Wolf, Phelan Sava is a lycan werewolf shifter with a dark side to his soul. He lives for pleasure and revels in pain. But what burns for more than anything is a woman to dominate with his unbridled passion and desperate lust for good. Marena Panos is an attorney with a dark secret that follows her into the mountains and into the bed of a Phelan Sava. And when she is hunted by the feral beast that ravishes her body and claims her soul, Marena has no choice but to give in with no intention of ever looking back.