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When Phoebe Meadows gets struck by a strange light in the stock room of Macy's, life as she knows it flies out the window. As if being hit by lightning isn't bad enough, she's accosted in the subway by a man with a missing hand, arrives home to find a raven on her kitchen counter, and her neighbor Ingrid shows up dressed like a gladiator, hell-bent on protecting her. Before Ingrid can shuttle her off to safety, Phoebe is kidnapped and tossed into...

When a massive storm at sea blows the Brotherband crew off course to a land so far west Hal cannot recognize it from his maps, they face an unknown enemy.

"Kyra Greene is out of this world-literally. Jacoby, her fire dervish, has been lost in the Nether for weeks. Only Kyra can find him but not without help from her estranged father. There's only one snag in that plan. Daddy is dead. To save Jacoby, Kyra will travel between worlds with her band of misfit creatures. And this time, she won't be facing ghosts from Mason's past. She'll be going head to head with the distant dryad branch of her family and...

A retelling of Greek, Roman and Norse myths.

"Critter wrangler rule #20: You can't save them all. Rage is boiling inside Kyra. Friends are dead, the world is burning, and her husband is...gone, his body and mind taken over by a demon. Death would have been kinder. But she can't kill a demon, so Kyra must hunt down the creature wearing Mason's face and do the unthinkable--trap him for all eternity in a bloodstone. In between hunting expeditions, Kyra continues to rescue critters in need, including...

"The Inbetween is full of magic, monsters and marauders. It's also full of booty, if you know where to look. Roden & Hogg Reclamation Services knows just where to find those resources that are so scarce and valuable in the post- Flood-War era. But when dragons nest on a valuable copper reclamation site, who do they call? Kyra Greene. No pest too large or too small. Now Kyra must leave home days before her baby's first Christmas, for a weekend trek...

Some weird things--worse than the usual weirdness--have been going on at Mythos Academy, a school of myths and magic . After mean girl Jasmine Ashton is murdered in the Library of Antiquities, Gwen Frost is determined to figure out what's going on, especially since she was the one the killer wanted.

The gods of the Vikings come to life as never before in this extraordinary illustrated anthology by Carnegie Medal-winning author Kevin Crossley-Holland and artist Jeffrey Alan Love. Fast-moving and ice-bright, these dramatic, enthralling and atmospheric tales are based on the Scandinavian myth cycle - one of the greatest and most culturally significant stories in the world. The stories of dazzling magic and thrilling journeys tell of the creation...

To defeat Thor, the Norse god of thunder who has killed scores of innocents, Viking vampire Leif Helgarson teams up with Atticus O'Sullivan, the last of the Druids, a werewolf, a sorcerer, and an army of frost giants.