By Benedict Jacka
Series Alex Verus

When he is approached by multiple factions seeking his skills to unlock the mystery surrounding a relic from a long-ago mage war, magic shop owner Alex Verus, an oracle, forsees that his life will be in great danger if he takes this job—and if he doesn’t.

By Charlaine Harris
Series Sookie Stackhouse/Southern Vampires Novels
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

“Betrayed by her longtime vampire lover, cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse has her hands full dealing with every kind of undead and paranormal creature, as well as the new man in her life, the shapeshifter Quinn, and the upcoming vampire summit (From the Publisher).

By Patricia Briggs

A rare Omega werewolf freely abused by her pack, Anna finally gets the courage to inform the local werewolf ruler, the Marrok, about her pack when she discovers that her packmates have kidnapped a young boy. When the Marrok dispatches his eldest son, an Alpha named Charles, to look into the matter, Charles finds himself taking Anna under his wing.

By Patricia Briggs

Anna, after three years at the bottom of the pack, has learned never to trust dominant males, until Charles Cornick, the enforcer and leader of the North American werewolves, declares her as his mate, revealing her true destiny as a rare and valued Omega wolf.

By Neil Gaiman
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian
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Wednesday, April 25. 7:30 PM

“On the plane home to attend the funerals of his wife and best friend, Shadow, just released from prison, encounters Mr. Wednesday, an enigmatic stranger who seems to know a lot about him, and when Mr. Wednesday offers him a job as his bodyguard, Shadow accepts and is plunged into a dark and perilous world, where the soul of America is at stake (From the Publisher).”

By Laurell K. Hamilton

When innocent vampires are found murdered, the city's most powerful vampire hires Anita Blake, a vampire hunter known as "The Executioner," to investigate the crimes.

By Jim Butcher
Series The Dresden Files
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

“Thomas Raith, Harry Dresden's incubus half-brother, comes up with a plan to save Harry from the evil Stygian Sisterhood while continuing to conceal his involvement in the Oblivion War (From the Publisher).”

By Kami Garcia
Series Beautiful Creatures

Ethan is powerfully drawn to Lena, a new classmate with whom he shares a psychic connection and whose family hides a dark secret that may be revealed on her sixteenth birthday.

By Kelley Armstrong
Series Women of the Otherworld Series
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

On the eve of her marriage, Elena Michaels learns that her fiance has been concealing his secret life as a werewolf, and, as a bonus, he has made her into one also.

By Jim Butcher
Series Dresden Files
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

While going undercover on the set of an adult film to investigate the mysterious deaths of several actresses, Chicago wizard Harry Dresden unexpectedly learns the shocking truth about his vampire friend Thomas.

By Samantha Shannon
Series Bone Season
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist

A first entry in a planned seven-part series is set in the mid-21st century where major world cities are controlled by a formidable security force and where clairvoyant underworld cell member Paige commits acts of psychic treason before being captured by an otherworldly race that would make her a part of their supernatural army.

By Deborah Harkness
Series All Souls Trilogy
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Historian and witch Diana Bishop and her vampire scientist husband Matthew Clairmont return from a trip to the past still searching for the elusive alchemy tome “Ashmole 782."

By Phillipa Bornikova
Series Linnet Ellery Novels
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

“When exquisitely beautiful elves start getting all of the roles in Hollywood, a furious lawsuit by human actors compels the Screen Actors Guild to force the two sides into arbitration, prompting human lawyer, Linnet Ellery to uncover sinister forces that are working to shatter the fragile peace between human and supernatural races (From the Publisher).”

By Jane Yolen

A retelling of the Sleeping Beauty tale finds Briar Rose living in forests patrolled by the German army during World War II in a dark tale of the Holocaust.

By Jim Butcher
Series Dresden Files
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

Presents an urban fantasy-story collection starring Windy City wizard Harry Dresden and featuring an assembly of famous guest editors, in an anthology that includes the original novella, "Zoo Day."

By Benedict Jacka
Series Alex Verus
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

When an enemy on the Council of Mages wants him executed along with his closest friends, Alex, a Diviner, must find an ally on the Council to save himself, but his efforts to survive might cause him to lose his soul.

By Glen Duncan
Series Last Werewolf Series

Talulla settles down with her werewolf family only to be tormented by a fanatical cult and nagging thoughts about ancient vampire Remshi, who believes he knows Talulla from another time.

By Rachel Harrison
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist

After being dumped and needing a new start, Annie accepts a job teaching in a picturesque town in Upstate New York, where she befriends the enchanting Sophie, who seems to frighten the townsfolk and just might be a witch.

By Jim Butcher
Series Dresden Files
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Arianna Ortega, Duchess of the vampiric Red Court, discovers the secret being kept by Harry Dresden's ex-lover, Susan Rodriguez, leaving Harry with no choice but to tap into his own dark power and fight to save the world.

By Cassandra Clare
Series Mortal Instruments

Suddenly able to see demons and the Darkhunters who are dedicated to returning them to their own dimension, fifteen–year–old Clary Fray is drawn into this bizzare world when her mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a monster.

By Magnus Flyte
Series City of Dark Magic

A music student working in Prague cataloging Beethoven’s manuscripts discovers clues that her deceased mentor may not have committed suicide and becomes involved with a time-travel drug, a 400-year-old dwarf, a handsome Prince and a powerful U.S. senator.

By Charlaine Harris
Series Sookie Stackhouse/Southern Vampires Novels

“When her boyfriend Bill, a vampire who has been rather distracted of late, disappears, Sookie journeys to Mississippi to find her beloved, who has gotten himself caught in a dangerous web of murder and betrayal at Club Dead, an elite underground society (From the Publisher).”

By Benedict Jacka
Series Alex Verus Series
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

Hired to investigate the resurgence of a ritual that involves harvesting the life force of magical creatures, diviner Alex Verus must distinguish friend from foe as he goes up against those who would risk their sanity for power.

By M. L. Brennan
Series Generation V Novels
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

After a lifetime of avoiding his family, Fort has discovered that working for them isn’t half bad even if his mother, Madeline, is a terrifying, murderous vampire. His newfound career has given him a purpose and a paycheck and has even helped him get his partner, foxy kitsune Suzume, to agree to be his girlfriend. All in all, things are looking up. Only, just as Fort is getting comfortable managing a supernatural empire that stretches from New Jersey to Ontario, Madeline’s health starts failing, throwing Fort into the middle of an uncomfortable and dangerous battle for succession. His older sister, Prudence, is determined to take over the territory. But Fort isn’t the only one wary of her sociopathic tendencies, and allies, old and new, are turning to him to keep Prudence from gaining power. Now, as Fort fights against his impending transition into vampire adulthood, he must also battle to keep Prudence from destroying their mother’s kingdom before she takes him down with it…

By Victoria Schwab
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist

Serving as an ambassador of his own world while carrying messages to parallel-universe Londons with respective magical abilities and conflict, Kell hides his secret smuggling activities only to be set up with a forbidden object from a dark dimension.

By Laini Taylor

Seventeen-year-old Karou, a lovely, enigmatic art student in a Prague boarding school, carries a sketchbook of hideous, frightening monsters--the chimaerae who form the only family she has ever known.

By Charlaine Harris
Series Sookie Stackhouse/Southern Vampires

“When the body of a were-panther is discovered in the parking lot of Merlotte's, Sookie Stackhouse feels compelled to discover the identity of the killer, but encounters a much greater threat to the human and undead communities of Bon Temps (From the Publisher).”

By Charlaine Harris
Series ookie Stackhouse Southern Vampire Mystery
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

Cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse turns sleuth to investigate a mysterious sniper who has set his sights on the local changeling population, especially when her brother Jason becomes the prime suspect in the deadly attacks.

By Jim Butcher
Series Dresden files
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

The only professional wizard in Chicago, Harry Dresden finds himself cast in the role of savior when black magic and necromancy threaten the city.

By Charlaine Harris
Series Sookie Stackhouse/Southern Vampires Novels
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

After witnessing the firebombing of the bar where she works, clairvoyant Sookie Stackhouse has her attention diverted when she realizes her vampire lover, Eric Northman, and his "child," Pam, are plotting to kill the vampire who is now their master.

By Charlaine Harris
Series Sooke Stackhouse/Southern Vampire Novels
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

“Sookie Stackhouse, a waitress with a talent for reading minds, comes to the aid of Eric, a sexy vampire with amnesia, as she tries to save him from whoever took his memory and who now wants his life (From the Publisher).”

By Charlaine Harris
Series Sookie Stackhouse/Southern Vampires Novels
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Love blossoms between Sookie Stackhouse, a cocktail waitress who keeps to herself because of her ability to read minds, and Bill, a vampire with ties to a crowd that may be responsible for the death of one of Sookie's coworkers.

By Kevin J. Anderson
Series Shamble & Die Investigations

Ever since the Big Uneasy unleashed vampires, werewolves and other undead denizens on the world, it's been hell for zombie P.I. Dan Chambeau who works with a human lawyer as his partner. His cases now include a resurrected mummy that is suing the museum that put him on display, two witches that were victims of a curse gone terribly wrong seek restitution from a publisher for not using "spell check" on its magical tomes. And Dan must also find out who caused his own death. 

By Carole Nelson Douglas

Delilah Street, who watched underworld beings like vampires and witches move into the real world during a Y2K television broadcast as an orphan, moves to Las Vegas to search for a possible blood relative shown on "CSI."

By Deborah Harkness
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Arlene Silverman, Library Clerk

Scholar Diana Bishop mistakenly requests a bewitched manuscript for her research. She belongs to a family of witches––but because she's avoiding using her powers in favor of scientific pursuits, she sends the manuscript back into storage. What she doesn't realize is, she's already started down a path toward a life she wants to avoid.

By C. Robert Cargill
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist

“Long ago, friends Ewan and Colby pierced the veil between their world and a supernatural realm, and while trying to lead normal lives, soon discover that fate can never be outrun as they are called back to the Limestone Kingdom (From the Publisher).”

By Jim Butcher

A modern-day mage and consultant to the police finds his stale life suddenly enlivened by the presence of a rival.

Became the TV show: The Dresden Files.

By Bill Willingham
Series Fables
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

This elaborate fantasy series begins as a whodunit, but quickly unfurls into a much larger story about Fabletown, a place where fairy tale legends live alongside regular New Yorkers.

By Benedict Jacka
Series Alex Verus
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

When he is approached by multiple factions seeking his skills to unlock the mystery surrounding a relic from a long-ago mage war, magic shop owner Alex Verus, an oracle, forsees that his life will be in great danger if he takes this job-and if he doesn’t.

By Darynda Jones
Series Charley Davidson Novels
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

Using her ability to see ghosts in her work as a private investigator, Charley Davidson begins experiencing intense sensual dreams about a mysterious entity that has been following her throughout her life.

By Jim Butcher
Series The Dresden Files
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager, Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian, Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

You’d think there’d be a little more action for the only professional wizard listed in the Chicago phone book. But lately, Harry Dresden hasn’t been able to dredge up any kind of work: magical, mundane, or menial. Just when it looks like he can’t afford his next meal, a murder comes along that requires his particular brand of supernatural expertise. There’s a brutally mutilated corpse, and monstrous animal markings at the scene. Not to mention that the killing took place on the night of a full moon. Harry knows exactly where this case is headed. Take three guesses—and the first two don’t count...

By Patricia Briggs
Series Mercy Thompson Novels
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

Mercy Thompson, shapeshifter and mate of the local werewolf pack's Alpha, discovers the entire pack has been abducted while she was in a minor fender bender with her stepdaughter.

By M. L. Brennan
Series Generation V Novels

A partial vampire who has not yet matured into full vampirehood, Fortitude Scott embarks on a dangerous mission to save young girls from a new vampire who is preying on them.

By Helene Wecker
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Chava, a golem brought to life by a disgraced rabbi, and Ahmad, a jinni made of fire, form an unlikely friendship on the streets of New York until a fateful choice changes everything.

By Jim Butcher
Series Dresden Files
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Chicago wizard-for-hire Harry Dresden confronts his latest and most dangerous challenge in the person of a ghost of an evil wizard who possesses the power to invade people's nightmares and uses other ghosts to wreak havoc on the living.

By Kevin Hearne
Series Iron Druid Chronicles
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

“Atticus O’Sullivan, the last of the Druids, finds his peaceful life in Arizona shattered by the arrival of an angry Celtic god who wants Atticus’s magical sword, forcing Atticus to call upon some unlikely allies for help (From the Publisher).”

By M. L. Brennan
Series Generation V Novels
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

After his roommate is murdered, underachieving film theory graduate and vampire Fortitude Scott launches his own investigation and comes face-to-face with a creature that is even more terrifying than his sociopathic family.

By Susanna Clarke

In nineteenth-century England, all is going well for rich, reclusive Mr Norell, who has regained some of the power of England's magicians from the past, until a rival magician, Jonathan Strange, appears and becomes Mr Norrell's pupil.

By A. Lee Martinez
Series Constance Verity

Resolving to live an uneventful life after years spent saving others using her godmother-bequeathed martial arts and detective skills, Constance Verity finds her efforts to settle down in an office job and a healthy relationship stymied by forces that keep her in the role of the world’s defender.

By Sarah Beth Durst

Finding herself in a macabre alternate reality during a car ride that was supposed to give her a few hours' respite, Lauren is trapped in an ever-shifting world where lost objects come and go, locals turn feral and the only people who do not want to kill her are a handsome wild man and a knife-wielding 6 year old girl.