Netz, Mo
Summary: "Ever since her dad died, 11-year-old Jerry Blum and her mom have bounced around dead-end towns, staying in a series of rundown motels where her mother picks up housekeeping work and Jerry can get around in her wheelchair. But the Slumbering Giant motel is different. Lights blink on and off in the surrounding trees, a mysterious radio station plays only at midnight, and people disappear into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC NETSummers, Georgia
Summary: "For centuries, the Everlys have seen their best and brightest disappear, taken as punishment for a crime no one remembers, for a purpose no one understands. Their tormentor, a woman named Penelope, never ages, never grows sick - and never forgives a debt. Violet Everly was a child when her mother left on a stormy night, determined to break the curse. When Marianne never returns, Penelope...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Redhook 2024
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Summary: "Julie is a coked-up, burnt-out thirty-year-old whose only retirement plan is dying early. She's been trying to establish herself in the NYC magic scene, and she'll work the most gruesome gigs, exorcize the nastiest demons, and make deals with the cruelest gods to claw her way to the top. But nothing can prepare her for the toughest job yet: when her best friend, Sarah, shows up at her door in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nightfire, Tor Publishing Group 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KHAHoward, Amalie
Summary: Sent to her grandmother's estate in Trinidad, Rika meets a group of kids with elemental powers called Minders, who reveal that her long-lost mom is in danger, sending Rika on a magical adventure where she must learn to believe in herself to destroy evil.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2024
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Summary: In Daretana's most opulent mansion, a high Imperial officer lies dead--killed, to all appearances, when a tree spontaneously erupted from his body. Even in this canton at the borders of the Empire, where contagions abound and the blood of the Leviathans works strange magical changes, it's a death at once terrifying and impossible. Called in to investigate this mystery is Ana Dolabra, an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC BENLeopard, Bones
Summary: Aoe, Thel, and Gen, better known as The Lovely Trio, first burst onto the scene five years ago when they saved Earth from a surprise space monster attack. As a result, everyone idolizes them as super-heroic pop icon magical girls, including Gigi, whose brother died as a bystander in one of their battles. But when Gigi witnesses the Lovely Trio battling a monster firsthand, she sees something...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BOOM! Box 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 LEOAndrew, Kelly
Summary: Wyatt Westlock has returned to her childhood home of Willow Heath, intending to burn it down--until she finds Peter hanging in the basement, a boy whom she considered a friend, semi-immortal and ritually sacrificed every year to keep the ancient forces in the nearby forest at bay.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC ANDGray, Ayana
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GRAWiswell, John
Summary: "Shesheshen has made a mistake fatal to all monsters: she's fallen in love. Shesheshen is a shapeshifter, who happily resides as an amorphous lump at the bottom of a ruined manor. When her rest is interrupted by hunters intent on murdering her, she constructs a body from the remains of past meals: a metal chain for a backbone, borrowed bones for limbs, and a bear trap as an extra mouth....
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Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books 2024
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Summary: "An original graphic novel about being the new kid in a different school, getting picked on by the class bullies, and what happens when a magical presence takes notice. Like, can things get any worse? Starting out at a new school is tough, and Bridgette isn't having much luck, seeing as, well, she's not great at making a first impression. Or, maybe, any impression. Ugh, all these nervous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: IDW Publishing, a division of Idea and Design Works 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 SWISt. Clair, Scarlett
Summary: Isolde, newly coronated queen, has finally found a king worthy of her in the vampire Adrian. But their love for each other has cost Isolde her father and her homeland. With two opposing goddesses playing mortals and vampires like chess pieces against one another, Isolde is uncertain who her allies are. Now, as politics grow more underhanded, Isolde must trust in the bond she's formed with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction St. ClairCammuso, Frank
Summary: Edison Beaker gets introduced to the true nature of his family's pest-control company, Creature Seekers, when his Uncle Earl takes him and his sister Tesla on an emergency call to the Night Door.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 CAMLoux, Matthew
Summary: There are whispers around the village that monsters are lurking outside the gates. Prunella doesn't pay this talk much mind--until she unearths a strange skull-shaped ring in her garden. When she places it on her finger she's transformed into a skeleton girl, terrifying her monster-fearing town! Exiled, Prunella wanders the wilderness, where she discovers that monsters aren't as bad as she's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 LOUScheidt, Dave
Summary: "Milo is just your average twelve-year-old boy. His loving parents are mummies, his best friend is an old wizard, and his babysitters are witches. When Milo isn't busy at school or visiting the comic book store, he loves to hang out with cool teen vampires, play with magical kitties, feed a hungry kaiju, and avoid a love-crazed gorilla at all costs. You know, typical kid stuff"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group 2023