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- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Midnighters
series3 books2004
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The Midnighters Trilogy is a science-fiction fantasy series written by Scott Westerfeld. It was published by Eos in 2004. It comprises three books: The Secret Hour, Touching Darkness. and Blue Noon. Over the course of the trilogy, Jessica encounters other Midnighters with whom she allies herself. The protagonists in the trilogy are the eponymous Midnighters Desdemona, Rex, Jonathan, and Melissa. The antagonists of the series are Darklings and Slithers, dangerous and powerful beings that created and live in the Blue Hour.
- Checquy Files
series4 books2012
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The Rook opens Daniel O'Malley's Checquy Files with Myfanwy Thomas waking up with no memory, surrounded by dead bodies and a letter from her former self explaining that she runs a secretive British agency defending the country from supernatural threats. She has to reconstruct her identity and hunt a traitor inside the organization while keeping up appearances at a job she can no longer remember how to do. The premise of paranormal bureaucracy and espionage continues across the rest of the Checquy novels.
- 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.
- Shadow Police / Detective Inspector James Quill
series3 books2012
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- Chocky
series2 books1968
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Chocky (1968) is John Wyndham's science fiction novel about an eleven-year-old boy, Matthew, whose parents grow alarmed by his conversations with an unseen presence that feeds him unsettling insights into mathematics and human progress, building toward the reveal of what, or who, Chocky really is. Mark Daniel's Chocky's Challenge (1986), published after Wyndham's death, is an authorized continuation that carries the story forward.
- The Magic Nation Thing
Zilpha Keatley Snyderstandalone novel2005
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Abby O'Malley is a girl who likes things to make sense. School makes sense, and her best friend Paige makes sense (most of the time), but Abby's flighty mother never makes sense. Abby's mom seems to think that she and Abby are descended from a line of witches, and that they have special powers--psychic powers that don't make sense at all. The problem is, Abby knows that she can do certain things that other people can't. Sometimes, when she holds an object in her hand, she's overpowered by sounds and pictures that show where the owner is and what he or she is doing. Abby thinks of this as her "magic nation," because that is what her kindergarten teacher told her it was called. Now 11, Abby has an inkling that her teacher may have been saying it was her "imagination," which unfortunately, she knows it is not. Now some things are happening in her mother's detective agency--cases where Abby's magic nation thing might come in handy. But does Abby want to admit that such a sensible girl could have such an unsensible power?From the Hardcover edition.
- Old Magic
Marianne Curleystandalone novel2000
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Kate is at a loss. She meets a boy with curious powers and a bizarre history - but he thinks he is very ordinary. How can she convince him that he has a gift, a gift that he must use to unravel mysteries that have hung over his family for generations? And even if she does persuade him, will his talents prove powerful enough to overcome what lies ahead?
