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Moon Called by Patricia Briggs
In a world where vampires, the fae and werewolves co-exist with humans, Mercedes "Mercy" Thompson straddles the line as one of the few remaining "walkers" born from a Native American magical bloodline whose descendents can shift at will into the shape of a coyote.
Orphaned as a child and raised by a pack of werewolves, Mercy fled from both pack and an early marriage while in her teens. Now an adult, she lives alone, the owner of her own auto repair shop and a semi-normal life. But when she takes in a newly made, teenage werewolf, she unwittingly draws the attention of a group who are performing experiments on werewolves.
The action heats up from there as both men and werewolves come looking for the teenager, the local Alpha of the werewolf pack gets attacked in his own home, and a dead body is left as a warning on Mercy's front porch. Fortunately, Mercy is quick on her feet, turning her keen, analytical mind to finding out who's causing such trouble and preying on newly made shapeshifters. Even if she'd rather be fixing cars.

Exile's Honor by Mercedes Lackey

Trained from childhood in the arts of war, Alberich strives to walk a careful path between obedience to the priests of Vkandis Sunlord and fairness to the soldiers under his command and the people of his native land of Karse. His attempts to hide his heretical gift of precognition, however, earn him a sentence of death by fire, thwarted by a bold rescue seemingly engineered by his faithful white battle steed-in actuality one of the Companions of the Heralds of Valdemar.

Lackey continues her popular Valdemar series with the story of Alberich, Weaponsmaster and Queen's Champion of a land he was taught to fear and hate, as he struggles to redefine the meaning of the honor he holds so dear while learning to accept the magic he once tried to conceal.

Neuromancer - By William Gibson

Harper Blaine was slogging along as a small-time P.I. when a two-bit perp's savage assault left her dead. For two minutes, to be precise.
When Harper comes to in the hospital, she begins to feel a bit ...strange. She sees things that can only be described as weird-shapes emerging from a foggy grey mist, snarling teeth, creatures roaring.
But Harper's not crazy. Her "death" has made her a Greywalker-able to move between our world and the mysterious, cross-over zone where things that go bump in the night exist. And her new gift (or curse) is about to drag her into that world of vampires and ghosts, magic and witches, necromancers and sinister artifacts. Whether she likes it or not.

Book one of the Dresden Files

Harry Dresden has a one of a kind job because he's the only person in Chicago who holds the title "Wizard for Hire." But being a wizard isn't all it's cracked up to be. He can't make piles of money appear before your eyes or make you a love potion, which is probably why business is so slow.
So when the Chicago Police turn to Harry to consult on a grisly double murder committed by black magic, Harry's seeing dollar signs. But where there's black magic, there's a black mage behind it and Harry gets more than he bargained for when the mage finds out Harry's name.
That's when things start to get more interesting.

Also Available: Book Two - Fool Moon & Book Three - Grave Peril

Urban Shaman

Joanne Walker has three days to learn to use her shamanic powers and save the world from the unleashed Wild Hunt. No worries. No pressure. Never mind the lack of sleep, the perplexing new talent for healing herself from fatal wounds, or the cryptic, talking coyote who appears in her dreams. And if all that's not bad enough, in the three years Joanne's been a cop, she's never seen a dead body -- but she's just come across her second in three days. It's been a hell of a week. And it isn't over yet.

Just in on the Fantasy New Book shelf!

WebMage - Ravirn, the multi-great-grandson of the Fate Lachesis (who measures the thread of life), is in trouble. Great-aunt Atropos (who cuts it) has decided that human free will is a great nuisance. She plans to get rid of it by coding a spell into the Fate Core, the server that rules destiny. But there's a problem with the spell. Dedicated hacker Ravirn can catch the fatal flaw in any software but refuses to debug it. In fact, he's determined to defeat the project. All Hades breaks loose and it seems everyone is intent on pursuing him. His only allies are his webgoblin familiar, his gorgeous cousin (a mean programmer herself), and the webgoblin underground. When Discord and the Furies get involved, things get really complicated.

Summary off back of book
Welcome to the Big Apple. There's a troll under the Brooklyn Bridge, a boggle in Central Park, and a beautiful vampire in a penthouse on the Upper East Side -- and that's only the beginning. Of course, most humans are oblivious to the preternatural nightlife around them, but Cal Leandros is only half human.

While the library was closed September 5-8, the carpeting was being fixed. This was to get rid of the wrinkles that had appeared in various places around the library. In the Reference and Circulation departments, the carpeting was completely replaced.