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WARNING! As of today, there are only 7 CHILDREN who have ever read this book and lived to tell about it. 95 CHILDREN successfully read the first chapter, but upon beginning chapter 2, they started BLABBERING in some language known only as "flibberish." 38 CHILDREN made it halfway through this wretched book before they began SUCKING THEIR THUMBS THROUGH THEIR NOSES. If you're VERY BRAVE, perhaps you are willing to TAKE YOUR CHANCES. Be sure that you...
2) Mob Rules
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I'm Domino Riley, an enforcer for Shanar Rashan. Like most mob bosses in L. A., he's a powerful sorcerer, battling for control of the city, gathering up the magic of violent and powerful emotions and storing it for his own use. Back in the day, Rashan saved me from the streets and made me his lieutenant. You could say I'm his go-to girl. When a fellow gangster is ritually executed, I have to find out which of Rashan's enemies was behind it-and why....
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Sabin, atado al demonio de la Duda, destruía sin querer a todas sus amantes. Por esa razón, el guerrero inmortal se pasaba la vida en el campo de batalla en vez de en el dormitorio. La victoria era lo único que le interesaba... hasta que conoció a la tímida Gwen. Gwen, también inmortal, siempre había pensado que se enamoraría de un humano que no despertara su lado oscuro. Pero cuando Sabin la liberó de la prisión, combatir a sus enemigos...
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An entire floor of St. Phobics Hospital for Really Scared Children has been set aside just for readers of this book. You may wish to take a minute before you start reading and reserve yourself a bed there. As you read, you may begin to understand myctophobia (mic-tofo- be-a), or the fear of darkness. However, do not expect this book to help you with arachibutyrophobia (a-rak-i-something-be-a), the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your...
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Bodies are hitting the pavement in L. A. like they always do, but this time they're getting right back up, death be damned. My mobbed-up outfit of magicians may be the strongest in the city, but even they aren't immune to the living dead. And I've yet to develop a resistance to Adan Rashan. If I don't team up with the boss's son, we won't just be at each other's throats over control of the outfit. We'll be craving hearts and brains, as well. Because...
6) Under Attack
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Underworld Detection Agency volume 2
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She's one of the Underworld Detection Agency's best. But her job is really starting to bite . . .
Sophie Lawson is a human immune to magic, which comes in handy for helping paranormal beings transition into everyday life. But fallen angel Alex Grace and his search for the Vessel of Souls is one curse she never saw coming. Suddenly an unexplainable string of killings and destruction has even San Francisco's demons fearing for their immortal lives....
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Underworld Detection Agency volume 3
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She's the new head of the Underworld Detection Agency's strangest division. What a nightmare. . .
Being a human immune to magic helped Sophie Lawson get promoted. It's also made her a major, very reluctant player in a game that stretches beyond even the Underworld. Having handsome buttoned-down Englishman Will as her new guardian is one tempting blessing, especially since sexy fallen angel Alex is mysteriously MIA lately. But as a frightening number...
8) Under Wraps
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Underworld Detection Agency volume 1
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Sick of wrongful-death lawsuits every time a full moon comes around?
Call the Underworld Detection Agency.
As a human immune to magic, Sophie Lawson can help everyone from banshee to zombie transition into normal, everyday San Francisco life. With a handsome werewolf as her UDA boss and a fashionista vampire for a roommate, Sophie knows everything there is to know about the undead, the unseen, and the uncanny. . .
Until a rash of gruesome murders...
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An action-packed, mythological chapter book series from Tony Abbott!
There's something lurking under Owen's school. . . .Owen Brown is your average fourth grader. Or he was, until his best friend, Dana, disappeared. Right in front of his face. Through the floor of the school.Owen's average life has turned upside down.He's determined to find Dana -- before anyone realizes she's missing. Owen sets out on a mysterious, mythological rescue mission with...
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The epic conclusion to the action-packed arc!
It all comes down to this.Owen, Dana, Jon, and Sydney have to prevent Loki from finding the powerful Crystal Rune. That means they need to find it first, no matter what. But tracking down the rune is only the beginning. . . .Loki is taking his battle for power to the world of the Norse gods -- and he's bringing an army of Underworldly creatures with him, including a fierce ice dragon. The stakes are high:...
11) Retribution
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In the underworld, there are tricks to killing.
Like executing rivals at crossroads so ghosts won't follow you home. But sometimes retribution is hard to avoid-and now a supernatural hit man has a contract on Domino Riley's life. Luckily she knows a thing or two about death
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An Underworld Cycle series novella. Previously published in the anthology Harvest Moon.
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IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
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An action-packed, mythological chapter book series from Tony Abbott!
The underworlds are rising -- and no one is safe.Loki is waging war, and Pinewood Bluffs is about to become his battlefield. Owen, Dana, Jon, and Sydney know they have to stop him. They'll do whatever it takes.But when they stow away in Loki's sledge and emerge in a new, mysterious underworld they know nothing about, things get complicated. The Babylonian underworld is dark as night...
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An action-packed, mythological chapter book series from Tony Abbott!
The underworld is in our world now. . . .Owen, Jon, and Sydney managed to rescue Dana from the underworld. But if they don't fulfill their end of the bargain with Hades, she might be headed back -- forever. As if that wasn't bad enough, some very creepy, very one-eyed mythological beasts are on the loose. Cyclopes have taken over the power plant in Pinewood Bluffs! Owen and his...
14) Under A Spell
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Underworld Detection Agency volume 5
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Count your blessings, guard your curses--and watch your back. . .
Sophie Lawson was seriously hoping life at the UDA would get back to relative normal now that her boss Pete Sampson has been reinstated. Unfortunately, her new assignment is sending her undercover into a realm where even the most powerful paranormals fear to tread. . .her old high school. Being a human immune to magic is no defense against soulless picture-perfect mean girls--or a...
15) Under the Gun
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Underworld Detection Agency volume 4
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When you're near the top of the Underworld Detection Agency, the claws really come out. . .
Quick thinking and loyalty have taken human Sophie Lawson a long way in the UDA--along with a healthy dose of magic immunity. But when her old boss Pete Sampson asks for help after a mysterious two-year disappearance, she's determined to find out what high-placed demon has put two ruthless werewolf killers on his tail. Of course, sucking up to her icy vampire...
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Bernard O'Mahoney begins his journey in Glasgow, an epicentre for criminal activity over the past 50 years. Bernie meets the city's first Godfather of crime, Walter Norval, former leader of the XYY gang, who talks of Glasgow's underworld during the 50s and 60s. Walter discusses his eventual arrest and trial, which was abandoned after the High Court was blown up by his daughter and her partner in order to destroy evidence.
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Panda Anderson will tell the story of the Krays visit to Newcastle. (To purchase gaming machines from a man named Vince Landa). We meet Billy Robinson, a man who recruited every top villain and fighter in Newcastle to work as doormen. One of these men was Viv Graham, something of a cult hero, who was gunned down on New Year's Eve in 1993. Bernie talks to Paddy Conroy and Michael `The Bull` Bullock, two Geordies who became close friends with Massey...
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With a history rich in crime activity, England's capital gives Bernie the chance to meet numerous 'faces' that have shaped London's colourful past, as well as present day names. Mad Frank Fraser talks about Jack Spot and 1950s London up until he joined the Richardson gang in the early 60s. We meet gangster Eddie Richardson, younger sibling of crime boss Charlie Richardson. The brothers operated in scrap metal and fruit machines, businesses that were...
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One of Manchester's most infamous gangs, formed in the 60s, was the Quality Street Gang. Named after the advert which showed a group of well-dressed men walking into a pub with a certain swagger, the gang was well known for supposedly sending the Krays 'packing' from Manchester when the brothers tried to expand their operations. Bernie chats to three of the members: Jimmy 'The Weed' Donnelly, whose fame is such that Thin Lizzy wrote the song Jimmy...
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In the final episode of the series, Bernie attempts to answer the age old question "Does crime pay?" For many 'faces', the initial adrenalin thrill of fast money and high rewards leads to decades of violence, prison life, destruction, fear and loss of life. Drugs and guns led to more murders, leading to government initiatives to crack down on crime organisations and the tougher prison sentencing. Many of the old guard saw the wheel of fortune turn...
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