demonology

"Growing up in the small town of Winston, Pennsylvania, feels like drowning. Leah goes to church every Sunday, works when she isn't at school, and takes care of her baby brother, Owen. Like every girl in Winston, she tries to be right and good and holy. If she isn't, the Lord of the Wood will take her, and she'll disappear like so many other girls before her. But living up to the rigorous standards of the town takes its toll. One night, when Owen won't stop screaming, Leah wishes him away, and the Lord listens. The screaming stops, and all that's left in the crib is a small bundle of sticks tied with a ribbon. Filled with shame and the weight of the town's judgment, Leah crosses the river into the Lord of the Wood's domain to bring Owen back. But the devilish figure who has haunted Winston for generations isn't what she expects. He tells her she can have her brother back--for a price. It's a bargain that will uncover secrets her hometown has tried to keep buried for decades. And what she unearths will have her questioning everything she's been taught to fear"--Provided by publisher.

A descendent from a long line of demons who build interspecies relationships to fight tyranny works competitively to control her dangerous fire-breathing skills, before a Serpentine Governor's charming son enlists her help to defeat a growing rebellion.

"Growing up in Slater, Isadora Chang never felt at ease in the repressive small town, even before she realized she was bisexual--but after the deaths of two childhood friends, Slater went from feeling claustrophobic to suffocating. So, Isa took off before the town could swallow her, too. Even though it meant leaving everything she knew behind, including her last surviving friend, Mason. When Isa's abusive father dies, however, she agrees to come back from art school just long enough to collect the inheritance. But then Mason turns up at the cemetery with a revelation and a plea: their friends were murdered by an evil that haunts the town, and he needs Isa to help stop it--before it takes anyone else. When Isa begins to hear strange songs on the wind, and eerie artwork fills her sketchbook that she can't recall drawing, she's forced to stop running and confront her past. Because something is waiting in the shadows of Slater's valleys, something that feeds on the pain and heartbreak of its children. Whatever it is, it knows Isa's back... and it won't let her escape again"--Provided by publisher.

Kay reluctantly joins the youth group at Stone Mission Church in Orange County California, but she's shocked when she walks in on her youth group leaders, Meg and Cortland, in the middle of a read-life exorcism. They reveal that they are a part of a secret organization of demon hunters in a war that's heating up, and Kay soon discovers she's a "Blight," a human who demons can't possess. Kay joins Meg, Cortland, and members of other interfaith groups fighting demons in Orange County, and they soon find themselves facing an even bigger threat.

In a land where the supernatural is believed to be real, non-believer Ellery and familiar Knox from the Other World form an unexpected alliance to strike a deal that could alter their lives forever.

"Dami is a demon determined to cancel every deal they've ever made. It's the only way to tether their soul to earth and become human again. There's just one person standing in their way. Silas. [A] . . . boy cursed to die young--except for the deal with Dami that is keeping him alive. If he cancels the deal, Silas is dead. Unless they can kill the curse that has plagued Silas's family for generations. Together, Dami and Silas make their way to a dangerous island off the New England coast, where Captain Kidd's pirate treasure is said to be buried. With the help of their new friend Marisol, who knows the island well, they might just be able to find it. And if they return the treasure to the place of Captain Kidd's burial, the curse will be broken and Silas can cancel the deal, freeing Dami. That is, if the island doesn't kill them first"--Provided by publisher.

While staying in the strange town of Slumbering Giant and discovering her missing mother is actually a demon slayer, 11-year-old Jerry ventures into the forbidden woods in her trusty wheelchair to unravel the truth about the town to save her mom.

". . . delves into the story of Kyoshi, the Earth Kingdom-born Avatar . . . [following] her journey from a girl of humble origins to the merciless pursuer of justice who is still feared and admired centuries after she became the Avatar"--Provided by publisher.

Karou struggles to come to terms with who and what she is and finds out how far her loyalty to her people will go.

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.