Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Re=7431&browse=true&N=3+8031+7439 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715966 The werewolf pack and Mercy Thompsons mate Adam have been abducted. Outclassed and on her own, Mercy may be forced to seek assistance from any ally she can get, no matter how unlikely. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743326 While investigating a mobsters mysterious death, police officers Quill, Costain, Sefton, and Ross come into contact with a strange artifact and accidentally develop the Sight. Suddenly they can see the true evil haunting Londons streets. Now the four officers take on the otherworldly creatures secretly prowling London. Football lore and the tragic history of a Tudor queen become entwined in their pursuit of an age-old witch with a penchant for child sacrifice. But when Londons monsters become aware of their meddling, the officers must decide what they are willing to sacrifice to clean up their city. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1547300 When telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse investigates the body of a woman discovered in vampire Eric Northmans yard, she has no idea the murderer is an enemy out to get her. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1566122 When a fifteen-year-old girl is abducted by vampires, its up to U.S. Marshal Anita Blake to find her. And when she does, shes faced with something shes never seen before: a terrifyingly ordinary group of people--kids, grandparents, soccer moms--all recently turned and willing to die to avoid serving a master. And where theres one martyr, there will be more... But even vampires have monsters that theyre afraid of. And Anita is one of them..-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1544111 Sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shape shifter, a skin man, Roland Deschain takes charge of Bill Streeter, a brave but terrified boy who is the sole surviving witness to the beasts most recent slaughter. Roland, himself only a teenager, calms the boy by reciting a story from the Magic Tales of the Eld that his mother used to read to him at bedtime, The Wind through the Keyhole. (The novel can be placed between Dark Tower IV and Dark Tower V.) http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1647017 Survivors of a government-induced apocalypse endure their violent and disease-stricken world while protecting their loved ones; while a century into the future, members of a transformed society determinedly search for the original twelve virals. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1202035 Bornstellar Makes Eternal Lasting is a young rebellious Forerunner who seeks out the marvelous artifacts left behind by the Precursors --long-vanished superbeings of unknowable power and intent -- an act that forces his fathers hand and forever changes Bornstellars destiny ... and the fate of the entire galaxy. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1204138 Alina is dead and her sister Mac has returned to Ireland, the country that expelled them, to hunt her sisters murderer. But after discovering that she descends from a bloodline both gifted and cursed, she descends into an epic battle between humans and Fae immortals as the Sinsar Dubh turns on her, and begins mowing a deadly path through those she loves. Macs journey will force her to face the truth of her exile, and make a choice that will either save the world ... or destroy it. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1234813 Car mechanic and shapeshifter Mercy Thompson has never known any others of her kind. Until now. As Mercy comes to terms with this new information, an evil is stirring in the depths of the Columbia River--and if Mercy and her mate, the Alpha werewolf Adam, are to have any hope of surviving, they will need all the resources the shifters can offer. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1234631 Condemned to death for practicing witchcraft, bounty hunter Rachel Morgan is given three days to clear her name and get to the annual witches convention in San Francisco, an effort that forces her to endure a cross-country drive with a motley crew of supernatural companions. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1336076 In his life, Harrys been shot, stabbed, sliced, beaten, burned, crushed, and tortured. And after someone puts a bullet through his chest and leaves him to die in the waters of Lake Michigan, things really start going downhill. But even trapped in the realm between life and death, Harry cant catch a break. He learns that three of his friends are destined to experience unbearable torment and agony. Only by bringing his murderer to justice can he save his friends and move on to what comes next--a feat that would be a lot easier if he had a body and access to his powers. Instead, Harry must work as a ghost, unable to interact with the physical world, invisible and inaudible to almost everyone. Unfortunately hes not the only specter roaming Chicago. There are malevolent shadows who havent forgotten Harrys predilection for putting evil in its place while he was alive. And now that Harrys on their turf, they are looking for some serious payback. So the late Harry Dresden will have to pull off the ultimate trick without using any magic--or face an eternity as just another lost soul-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1235579 Revisits the world of the Black Jewels with four new novellas set in the Blood realm featuring Daemon, the Black Jeweled Warlord Prince of Dhemlan, Queen Sylvia, and Surreal SaDiablo. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1261477 With her knack for being in troubles way, Sookie Stackhouse witnesses the firebombing of Merlottes, the bar where she works. Since Sam Merlotte is now known to be two-natured, suspicion falls immediately on the anti-shifters in the area. Sookie suspects otherwise, but her attention is divided when she realizes that her lover, Eric Northman, and his child Pam are plotting to kill the vampire who is now their master. Gradually, Sookie is drawn into the plot--which is much more complicated than she knows. Caught up once again in the politics of the vampire world, Sookie will learn that she is as much of a pawn as any ordinary human--and that there is a new queen on the board...-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1215487 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. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1351237 A deep underground machine awakens after thousands of years and foretells ominous events including a catastrophic prediction involving Richard Cypher and Kahlan Amnell. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1378366 Waging a fierce competition for which they have trained since childhood, circus magicians Celia and Marco unexpectedly fall in love with each other and share a fantastical romance that manifests in fateful ways. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1277007 The adventures of U.S. Marshal and vampire hunter Anita Blake continue when word is leaked to her that hit men are headed to St. Louis and that she, Jean-Claude, and Richard are targets. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1336405 Someone has cut off the powers of headstrong young witch Savannah Levine and theres a witch-hunter out to kill her. Savannah, who just tackled her first murder case as a private investigator, now has to rely on mundane skills and her half-demon best friend, Adam, to turn the tables on her would-be killer and recover her magic. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1425405 Glinda, former Throne Minister, held under house arrest by General Cherrystone, obtains the infamous Grimmerie, supposedly a volume of magical lore, coveted by Oz. Meanwhile, Lirs daughter Rain begins her quest to discover her true identity and unravel the layers of political and personal secrets that have caused strife and division in Oz. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1088379 In the twelfth book of the series, Harry finds out he has a daughter and has to work with his former lover, Susan Rodriguez, to protect them both. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1187658 As the seals on the Dark Ones prison crumble and the armies of the Shadow boil out of the Blight, Perrin Aybara, hunted by specters from his past, must seek answers in Telaranrhiod and find a way to master the wolf within him--or lose himself to it forever. Meanwhile, Matrim Cauthon prepares for the most difficult challenge of his life ... as The Tower of Ghenjei awaits. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1055053 A malicious coven accuses witch detective Rachel Morgan of consorting with demons, which could mean imprisonment--or death. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1171277 Here, together for the first time, are the shorter works of #1 New York Times bestselling author Jim Butcher -- a compendium of cases that Harry Dresden and his cadre of allies managed to close in record time. The tales range from the deadly serious to the absurdly hilarious. Also included is a new, never-before-published novella that takes place after the cliff-hanger ending of the new April 2010 hardcover, Changes. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1154792 A new epic series by the best-selling writer of Robert Jordans final Wheel of Time novels introduces the world of Roshar through the experiences of a war-weary royal compelled by visions, a highborn youth condemned to military slavery and a woman who would save her impoverished house. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1153478 Shape-shifter Dev Peltier and Dark-Hunter Samia fall in love in spite of Samias painful history as a betrayed Amazon warrior and the presence of old and new enemies in New Orleans. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=994815 Ben Holiday, High Lord of the magic kingdom of Landover, and his wife Willow have sent their 15-year-old daughter Mistaya to our world to attend a prestigious girls boarding school. Mistaya, Misty to her friends, is not pleased with the arrangement. She is forbidden to use her magic for any reason, cant understand why other girls her own age dont revere the natural world, and is too clever for her own good in coming up with activities definitely not contained in the private school charter. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1014831 Rand alThor, the Dragon Reborn, struggles to unite a fractured network of kingdoms and alliances in preparation for the Last Battle. Meanwhile, Egwene alVere, the Amyrlin Seat of the rebel Aes Sedai, is being held captive by the White Tower. Knowing the Seanchan attack is imminent, she fights to hold the Aes Sedai together in an epic contest that will prove the mettle of her followers and will decide the future of the White Tower---and possibly the world itself. The first of three novels that will make up A Memory of Light and mark the conclusion of the Wheel of Time. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=833592 Car mechanic/shapeshifter Mercy Thompson must protect her friends from vampire queen Marsilias revenge. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=677071 Being dead sucks. Make that being undead sucks. Literally. Just ask Thomas C. Flood. Waking up after a fantastic night unlike anything hes ever experienced, he discovers that his girlfriend, Jody - the woman of his dreams - is a vampire. And surprise! Now hes one, too. For some couples, the whole biting-and-blood thing would have been a deal breaker. But Tommy and Jody are in love, and they vow to work through their issues. Like how much Jody should teach Tommy about his new superpowers (and how much he needs to learn on his own). Plus theres Tommys cute new minion, sixteen-year-old goth girl Abby Normal. (Well, someone has to run errands during daylight hours!) Making the relationship work, however, is the least of Jody and Tommys problems. Word has it that the vampire who nibbled on Jody wasnt supposed to be recruiting any new members into the club. Even worse, Tommys erstwhile turkey-bowling pals are out to get him, at the urging of a blue-dyed Las Vegas call girl named (duh) Blue. And that really sucks.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=712934 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=693265 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=695477 Someone is targeting the citys magic practitioners, the members of the supernatural underclass who dont possess enough power to become full-fledged wizards. Many have vanished. Others appear to be victims of suicide. But the murderer has left a calling card at one of the crime scenes - a message for Harry, referencing the book of Exodus and the killing of witches. Harry sets out to find the killer before he can strike again, but his investigation turns up evidence pointing to the one suspect he cannot possibly believe guilty: his half brother, Thomas. Determined to bring the real murderer to justice and clear his brothers name, Harry attracts the attention of the White Court of vampires, becoming embroiled in a power struggle that renders him outnumbered, outclassed, and dangerously susceptible to temptation. Harry knows that if he screws this one up, people will die - and one of them will be his brother.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=671628 Despite dating one vampire and living with another, Rachel Morgan has always managed to stay just ahead of trouble ... until now. A fiendish serial killer stalks the Hollows, claiming victims across society, and the resulting terror ignites a vicious Inderland gang war. And while the ancient artifact Rachel is hiding may be the key to stopping the murderer, revealing it could also create a battle to the death among the numerous supernatural races that live in and around Cincinnati. For every action has its price, and when the vampire master Piscary is set free and the demonic Algaliarept dares to walk openly under the sun, even Rachel Morgan cant hide forever.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=693251 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=642204 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=654338 Logan Tom is doomed to remember the past and determined to rescue the future. Far behind him lies a boyhood cut violently short by his familys slaughter, when the forces of madness and hate swept our world after decadent excesses led to civilizations downfall. Somewhere ahead of him rests the only chance to beat back the minions of evil that are systematically killing and enslaving the last remnants of humanity. Navigating the scarred and poisoned landscape that once was America and guided by a powerful talisman, Logan has sworn an oath to seek out a remarkable being born of magic, possessed of untold abilities, and destined to lead the final fight against darkness. Across the country, Angel Perez, herself a survivor of the malevolent death-dealing forces combing the land, has also been chosen for an uncanny mission in the name of her ruined worlds salvation. From the devastated streets of Los Angeles, she will journey to find a place - and a people - shrouded in mystery, celebrated in legend, and vital to the cause of humankind...even as a relentless foe follows close behind, bent on her extermination. Meanwhile, in the nearly forsaken city of Seattle, a makeshift family of refugees has carved out a tenuous existence among the street gangs, mutants, and marauders fighting to stay alive against mounting odds - and something unspeakable that has come from the shadows in search of prey. In time, all their paths will cross. Their common purpose will draw them together. Their courage and convictions will be tested and their fates will be decided, as their singular crusade begins: to take back, or lose forever, the only world they have.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=655223 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=642325 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=595372 The High Druid of Shannara trilogy draws to a close as a young hero nears completion of his trial by fire, a banished ruler fights for her life in a wilderness of dread, and forces of darkness and light square off in a battle unto death for the right to absolute rule. For reasons known only to himself, the King of the Silver River has charged young Penderrin Ohmsford, barely more than a boy, with the daunting task of rescuing his aunt, Grianne, Ard Rhys of the Druid order, from her forced exile in the terrifying dimension of all things damned: the Forbidding. With the noble dwarf Tagwen and the prodigal elven princess Khyber Elessedil by his side - and with the outcome of the bloody war between the Federation and the Free-born at stake - Pen has accepted his mission without question. But not without risk ... or sacrifice. Because Shadea aRu, the ruthless Druid responsible for imprisoning the true Ard Rhys and usurping leadership at Paranor, has sent her agents and assassins in relentless pursuit of Pen and his comrades. And in securing the talisman he needs to breach the Forbidding, Pen has paid a devastating price. Now if the Free-born forces - already decimated by the Federations death-dealing new weapon - should fall, Shadeas domination of the Four Lands will be assured. Nothing short of Pens success can turn the tide. But Pens challenge grows greater when he learns that his parents, Bek Ohmsford and Rue Meridian, have fallen into Shadeas hands. He must try to help them - but once within the walls of Druids Keep, where Shadeas minions and dark magic lurk at every turn, Pens survival is far from assured. Yet it will all pale in comparison to the horrors that wait inside the Forbidding - horrors poised to break free upon the Four Lands when the time is right.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=789470 The final book in the Dark Tower cycle. Thus continues Roland the Gunslinger and his relentless quest to reach The Tower in a last ditch effort to save all that is. Rolands ka-tet remains intact, though scattered over wheres and whens. Susannah-Mia has been carried from the Dixie Pig (in the summer of 1999) to a birthing room -- really a chamber of horrors -- in Thunderclaps Fedic; Jake and Father Callahan, with Oy between them, have entered the restaurant on Lex and Sixty-first with weapons drawn, little knowing how numerous and noxious are their foes. Roland and Eddie are with John Cullum in Maine, in 1977, looking for the site on Turtleback Lane where walk-ins have been often seen. They want desperately to get back to the others, to Susannah especially, and yet they have come to realize that the world they need to escape is the only one that matters. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=590525 Ten years after the publication of Wicked, novelist Gregory Maguire returns at last to the land of Oz. There he introduces us to Liir, an adolescent boy last seen hiding in the shadows of the castle after Dorothy did in the Witch. Bruised, comatose, and left for dead in a gully, Liir is shattered in spirit as well as in form. But he is tended at the Cloister of Saint Glinda by the silent novice called Candle, who wills him back to life with her musical gifts. What dark force left Liir in this condition? Is he really Elphabas son? He has her broom and her cape - but what of her powers? Can he find his supposed half-sister, Nor, last seen in the forbidding prison, Southstairs? Can he fulfill the last wishes of a dying princess? In an Oz that, since the Wizards departure, is under new and dangerous management, can Liir keep his head down long enough to grow up?--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=582946 The dead are walking, men die impossible deaths, and it seems as though reality itself has become unstable: All are signs of the imminence of Tarmon Gaidon, the Last Battle, when Rand alThor, the Dragon Reborn, must confront the Dark One as humanitys only hope. But Rand dares not fight until he possesses all the surviving seals on the Dark Ones prison and has dealt with the Seanchan, who threaten to overrun all nations this side of the Aryth Ocean and increasingly seem too entrenched to be fought off. But his attempt to make a truce with the Seanchan is shadowed by treachery that may cost him everything. Whatever the price, though, he must have that truce. And he faces other dangers. There are those among the Forsaken who will go to any length to see him dead - and the Black Ajah is at his side. Unbeknownst to Rand, Perrin has made his own truce with the Seanchan. It is a deal made with the Dark One, in his eyes, but he will do whatever is needed to rescue his wife, Faile, and destroy the Shaido who captured her. Among the Shaido, Faile works to free herself while hiding a secret that might give her her freedom or cause her destruction. And at a town called Maiden, the Two Rivers longbow will be matched against Shaido spears. Fleeing Ebou Dar through Seanchan-controlled Altara with the kidnapped Daughter of the Nine Moons while traveling with Valan Lucas Grand Traveling Show and Magnifiencent Display of Marvels and Wonders, Mat attempts to court the woman to whom he is half-married, knowing that she will complete that ceremony eventually, but Tuon coolly leads him on a merry chase as he learns that even a gift can have deep significance among the Seanchan Blood and what he thinks he knows of women is not enough to save him. For reasons of her own, which she will not reveal until a time of her choosing, she has pledged not to escape, but Mat still sweats whenever there are Seanchan soldiers near. Then he learns that Tuon herself is in deadly danger from those very soldiers. To get her to safety, he must do what he hates worse than work. In Caemlyn, Elayne fights to gain the Lion Throne while trying to avert what seems a certain civil war should she win the crown. In the White Tower, Egwene struggles to undermine the sisters loyal to Elaida from within. The winds of time have become a storm, and things that everyone believes are fixed in place forever are changing before their eyes. Even the White Tower itself is no longer a place of safety. Now Rand, Perrin and Mat, Egwene and Elayne, Nynaeve and Lan, and even Loial must ride those storm winds, or the Dark One will triumph.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=609077 Human assassin Artemis Entreri and his dark elf companion Jarlaxle have come to the monster-infested wastelands of the frozen north at the request of their dragon patron. It doesnt take long for them to find themselves caught in the middle of a struggle between powerful forces that would like nothing more than to see them both dead...or worse. But Entreri and Jarlaxle arent just any wandering sellswords, and the ancient evils and bitter rivalries of the wild Bloodstone Lands may have finally met their match.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=507337 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=478368 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=531435 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=478369 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=506636 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=517719 In her role as consort of Jean-Claude, the seductive Master Vampire of the City, Anita Blake is faced with a dangerous conflict of interest--and her struggle to control her fierce desires--when she is called in to assist with the search for a vampire serial killer preying on strippers. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=464199 Wolves of the Calla continues the adventures of Roland, the Last Gunslinger and survivor of a civilized world that has moved on. Rolands quest is ka, an inevitable destiny -- to reach and perhaps save the Dark Tower, which stands at the center of everywhere and everywhen. This pursuit brings Roland, with the three others whove joined his quest to Calla Bryn Sturgis, a town in the shadow of Thunderclap, beyond which lies the Dark Tower. Before advancing, however, they must face the evil wolves of Thunderclap, who threaten to destroy the Calla by abducting its young. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=461791 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694764 In the Field of Merrilor the rulers of the nations gather to join Rand alThor or to stop him, in Andor the Trollocs seize Caemlyn, in the wolf dream, Perrin Aybara battles Slayer, Mat Cauthon visits his wife in Ebou Dar and all humanity is in peril. The Wheel of Time is turning, and the Age is coming to its end. The Last Battle will determine the fate of the world.--Taken from book jacket.