Cassandra Clare. S&S/McElderry, $24.99 (720p) ISBN 978-1-4424-6835-1
Clare returns to her Shadowhunters world with this enjoyable if drawn-out tale. Set in contemporary Los Angeles, it centers on Emma Carstairs, a Shadowhunter adopted by members of the Blackthorn family who, like her, were orphaned in the Dark War...
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Cassandra Clare, Author . S&S/McElderry $17.99 (485p) ISBN 978-1-4169-1428-0
Clare's debut novel, first in the Mortal Instruments series, is a sprawling urban fantasy packed with just about every type of creature known to the genre, and still spacious enough to hold more. Fifteen-year-old Clary Fray witnesses a killing...
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Cassandra Clare, S&S/McElderry, $19.99 (496p) ISBN 978-1-416-97586-1
This first book in Clare's Infernal Device series, a prequel to her bestselling Mortal Instruments books, opens as Tessa's pleasant life in 1878 New York is coming to an end when her guardian aunt dies. Upon her arrival in London, where her brother...
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Cassandra Clare, read by Morena Baccarin. S&S Audio, , unabridged, 17 CDs, 22 hrs., $49.99 ISBN 978-1-4423-5710-5
Clare returns to her Shadowhunters world with this enjoyable tale set in present-day Los Angeles. Shadowhunter Emma Carstairs must join forces with the faeries to solve a gruesome series of murders of humans and faeries. The murders have...
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Cassandra Clare, Author, Ari Graynor, Read by , read by Ari Graynor. Simon & Schuster Audio $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7435-6657-5
This Buffy-esque YA novel does not translate well to the audio medium, and part of the problem lies in the story’s pacing. Teenager Clary discovers she can see supernatural beings that no one else can, gets drawn into the world of the “Sh
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Holly Black and Cassandra Clare. Scholastic Press, $17.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-545-52225-0
Set in a magic-inflected version of the present-day U.S., this first title in the Magisterium series combines the talents of Black (Doll Bones) and Clare (the Mortal Instruments series) in a thrilling coming-of-age story that embraces fantasy tropes
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Cassandra Clare. McElderry, $24.99 (624p) ISBN 978-1-4814-3187-3
When Cordelia Carstairs’s father is arrested in 1903, her mother attempts to salvage the family’s reputation by moving them to London and encouraging 16-year-old Cordelia to find an influential suitor. Cordelia, however, prefers to focus her efforts
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Cassandra Clare and Wesley Chu. McElderry, $24.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-4814-9508-0
Hedonistic High Warlock Magnus Bane is vacationing with his boyfriend, demon-slaying Shadowhunter Alec Lightwood, in Paris when Magnus’s friend Tessa delivers bad news. A cult called the Crimson Hand is sacrificing faeries to raise a Prince of Hell...
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Cassandra Clare. Del Rey, $30 (624p) ISBN 978-0-525-61999-4
Bestselling YA author Clare (the Shadowhunter Chronicles series) makes her adult debut with this enchanting if somewhat bloated fantasy, the first in a series. Kel is the Sword Catcher, bodyguard to Conor Aurelian, Prince of Castellane. Having sworn
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