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- Otherworld (Kelley Armstrong)
series100 books1996
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Women of the Otherworld is Kelley Armstrong's long-running urban fantasy series about werewolves, witches, sorcerers, and other supernatural beings trying to pass as ordinary people in the contemporary world, told across thirteen novels plus assorted novellas published between 2001 and 2012. Each book tends to follow a different member of this hidden community while slowly building a shared, continuing world.
- The Haunting of Cassie Palmer
Vivien Alcockstandalone novel1980
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WorldCat: Thirteen-year-old Cassie, the seventh child of a seventh child, begins to exhibit the gift of second sight which enables her to communicate with the Other World.
- Black Dragon
series2 books1983
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R. A. MacAvoy's Tea with the Black Dragon pairs Martha Macnamara, a folk musician searching for her missing daughter, with Mayland Long, a courtly stranger who reveals himself to be a dragon living in human form, as they investigate a computer-fraud scheme in 1980s San Francisco. Its low-key blend of contemporary mystery and gentle fantasy proved popular enough to spawn a sequel, Twisting the Rope, following the same pair into a new case years later.
- Krewe of Hunters Offshoots
series4 books2012
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- The Gift
Peter Dickinsonstandalone novel1973
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A Welsh youth with extrasensory perception is warned by his grandmother that bad luck happens to family members who try to use the ability.
- Later
Stephen Kingstandalone novel2021
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A young boy, with the power of seeing and talking with the recently deceased, and his single mother try to avoid personal and financial disasters.
- The Lathe of Heaven
Ursula K. Le Guinstandalone novel1971
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The Lathe of Heaven is a 1971 science fiction novel by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin, first serialized in the American science fiction magazine Amazing Stories. It won the 1972 Locus Award for Best Novel and was a finalist for the 1971 Nebula Award for Best Novel and 1972 Hugo Award for Best Novel. Two television film adaptations were released: the PBS production, The Lathe of Heaven (1980), and Lathe of Heaven (2002), a remake produced by the A&E Network.
- Alex Verus
series14 books2012
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Benedict Jacka's urban fantasy series follows Alex Verus, a diviner - a mage who can see probable futures - running a small magic shop in London while trying to stay independent of the Light and Dark mage councils that both distrust him for his past as apprentice to a dark mage. Starting with Fated, the series escalates from small jobs and favors into open conflict with the Council structure and Alex's own former master, as his precognitive gift proves more dangerous to wield than it first appears. It is a long-running, tightly serialized series rather than standalone urban-fantasy cases.
- Edinburgh Nights
series5 books2021
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T. L. Huchu's Edinburgh Nights series opens with The Library of the Dead, set in a dystopian reimagining of Edinburgh where magic and decline sit over the recognizable city. It's Huchu's third novel and the start of a run of five books following the same world further across later entries. The series stays grounded in a working-class, present-day Scotland rather than a wholly secondary fantasy world.
- Blue Is for Nightmares
series5 books2003
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Blue Is for Nightmares is a young adult mystery novel and subsequent eponymous series by Laurie Faria Stolarz. The first book in the series, Blue is for Nightmares, was made an "ALA’s Young Adult Library Services Association as a Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers in 2005 and as a Popular Paperback for Young Adults in 2007."
- Childhood's End
Arthur C. Clarkestandalone novel1953
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Childhood's End is a 1953 science fiction novel by the British author Arthur C. Clarke. The story follows a peaceful alien invasion of Earth by mysterious Overlords, whose arrival begins decades of apparent utopia under indirect alien rule, at the cost of human identity and culture.
