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For as long as she can remember, Phoenix Fraser has been stuck. Stuck in the wrong body, losing both friends and family, and no future to plan for. So when a mysterious entity known as the Night Witch appears in her room, offering her a new start in a strange land, she can't believe the opportunity to fulfill her ever-elusive potential.

One wouldn't think that getting magically whisked away to a new world would make someone suddenly feel at home, but that's exactly what being transported to Makera has done for Phoenix Fraser. Gone are the ailments that kept her bedridden, the body that didn't fit her soul, and the endless loneliness. Reborn are her strength, passion, and hopes of building the community she never knew she needed. But while the burdens of Phoenix's old life have been lifted, that doesn't mean her new existence is without its struggles.

After reclaiming the reality rift and saving Tulimeir from annihilation, Phoenix finds herself in a world of nobility and political intrigue. Joining the illustrious House Wayland, she's thrust into the spotlight, struggling to fight against a completely different type of enemy and discovering even more about herself in the process.

Someone paid the vampire king’s creepy son to turn me into one of the bitey undead. I’m not hanging about to find out who or why. The vampires want me to stay with them for one hundred years of indentured servitude but I have this thing about following orders so I ran from the streets of London to the wilds of Alaska. I have an eidetic memory and a can-do attitude. I can-do anything to get away from the vampire king. So when the Sheriff of Portlock, a hidden paranormal town, invites me to be his assistant, I say sure thing. It beats servitude hands down.

The song calls me to the gates, but vengeance demands I ignore it. Now a student at the Academy, Leo has complicated his training by joining a second school. The School of Aura will teach him the Song and the power within it, but the School of Craftsmanship may lead to the vengeance he seeks. First, he must prove himself within the School of Craftsmanship. However, a threat to the fae lingers outside the city, and only an aura can stop it. Halden might not know how to stop the danger that comes.

Two young women, living centuries apart, both accused of madness, communicate across time to fight a common enemy...their doctors. Emilie begins a secret diary to document her terrifying experience and to maintain her sanity in the asylum for wayward Victorian girls. But when Emilie opens her notebook to find a desperate letter from a young woman, imprisoned within an insane asylum in Victorian England and bearing her own name and description, a portal to another world is blasted wide open.

Zara Riddle would do anything for her daughter. Zoey Riddle is studious and kind. She's a dream teenager who plays the harp like an angel. Everything changes when a new boy arrives at Zoey's high school and catches her eye. Soon, Zoey is behaving in a very un-Zoey-like fashion. What's a mother to do when her perfect teen daughter falls for the baddest boy around? Besides gather the coven, cast a bunch of half-baked spells, and make everything much, much worse?

Leo Surinar is a wanderer, traveling with his mother in the Wayward caravan in the only life he's ever known, finding their own peace while parts of the world descend into war. When a traveling minstrel joins the caravan, everything begins to change. As Leo learns the power of song and begins to dream of a world beyond the caravan—one only the Academy can show him—he starts to think there might be more to the world than what he sees from the top of a wagon. Until his mother's illness forces him to make a difficult choice.

Lovers Lula and Brogan Gauge have dealt with magic, monsters, and gods for eighty years. Bound to travel the lonely roads of Route 66, Brogan’s a spirit with no chance of leaving the earthly realm while Lula, neither human nor monster, is only half-alive.

It is not easy being the most supernatural family in England. Nell talks to the dead; Lord Werth is too often to be found out in the churchyard at the dead of night; and the less said about Lord Bedgberry, the better. Only Miss Gussie Werth has missed out on the family curse. She sups on chocolate, not blood; she's blissfully oblivious to specters (except for Great-Aunt Honoria, of course); and she hasn't the smallest inclination to turn into a beast upon the full moon and go ravening about the countryside.

Lorsqu'Ethan Burke se réveille, il ne sait plus qui il est ni où il se trouve. Mais les souvenirs lui reviennent peu à peu : agent des services secrets des États-Unis, il est venu à Wayward Pines, petite bourgade tranquille du fin fond de l'Idaho, enquêter sur la disparition de deux de ses collègues, quand il a eu un accident de voiture aux abords de la ville. Pourquoi l'hôpital ne veut-il pas le laisser sortir alors que ses blessures sont superficielles?

Winner of the Hugo Award, Hugo Award for Best Series, Alex Award, Locus Award, and Nebula Award Nominated for the World Fantasy Award, British Fantasy Award, and Tiptree Honor List "A mini-masterpiece of portal fantasy — a jewel of a book that deserves to be shelved with Lewis Carroll's and C...

A fan-favorite character returns in this action-packed installment of the Hugo Award-winning Wayward Children series. "Cynthia Hopkins narrates this fantasy in a detached tone that fits the serious and logical perspective" —AudioFile on In An Absent Dream After Nancy was cast out of the Halls...

Lovers Brogan and Lula Gauge have traveled the haunted byways of Route 66 for almost a hundred years. Their deal with the god Cupid has brought Brogan back to life, but the return to the living world hasn’t been easy for him. What’s more, that deal left them deeply indebted to the god. Now the god is demanding his due. To honor their side of the deal, Brogan and Lula must find what Cupid wants found. The god hasn’t given them much to go on other than: find the rabbit that is not a rabbit. Do the right thing.

Brogan and Lula Gauge have spent a lifetime traveling Route 66, hunting the monsters that attacked them and left Brogan an earthbound spirit and Lula a near-vampire. They never wanted to catch the attention of Cupid, the god of connections and destruction. They never expected the god to want to strike a deal with them, either. Cupid's deal brought Brogan back to life, but now they owe the god a favor. They must find the spell book of the gods. A book of magic so powerful, it could destroy the world.

"Jesse Vilinsky brings expert narration to another installment of the Wayward Children series...Vilinsky creates fun, expressive banter between Antsy and the group as they journey back home, finding new goals along the way. Some characters are depicted with quirky personalities, but the...

A father. A mentor. A leader. Still, a soldier. Tyrus expected his world to change once the Geneshan War ended. He expected it to change more once he finally reunited with his family. He did not foresee that the biggest upheaval to his world would be caused by Turine sorcerers tampering with an ancient Geneshan artifact in the capital city of Hol. The land stands devastated and covered in a haze. Sorcerers are unable to use their power. The king and capital are likely destroyed.

Giant turtles, impossible ships, and tidal rivers ridden by a Drowned girl in search of a family in the latest in the bestselling Hugo and Nebula Award–winning Wayward Children series from Seanan McGuire. “Nadya’s story reads like a fairy tale, thanks to narrator Barrie Kreinik, whose...

"Jesse Vilinsky's versatile performance brightens this dark tale of a child who is forced to grow up too fast. Listeners will be captivated by how Vilinksy balances tragedy and hope in this eighth installment of the Wayward Children series."- AudioFile Winner: 2022 Hugo Award for Best Series A...

Another fantasy audiobook from Seanan McGuire's Wayward Children series, which began with the Alex, Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award-winning, World Fantasy Award finalist, Every Heart a Doorway. Beneath the Sugar Sky, the third audiobook in McGuire's Wayward Children series, returns listeners to...