Jim Butcher, Author . Roc $6.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-451-45844-5
Wizard Harry Dresden stars in the third installment of the Dresden Files (following Fool Moon), a haunting, fantastical novel that begins almost as innocently as those of another famous literary wizard named Harry. In the opening scene, Dresden and...
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Jim Butcher, Roc, $25.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-451-46365-4
Fans of Butcher's long-running and bestselling urban fantasy series featuring Chicago wizard PI Harry Dresden were stunned by the concluding events of the 2010 novel Changes. They'll probably want to skip ahead to the last of this collection's 11...
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Jim Butcher. Roc, $27.95 (496p) ISBN 978-0-45146-379-1
Butcher's 13th supernatural crime novel featuring Chicago-based wizard Harry Dresden (after 2010's Changes) is less accessible to newcomers than many of its predecessors, though longtime fans will be gratified. The current volume opens with Dresden...
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Jim Butcher, read by John Glover. Penguin Audio, , unabridged, 15 CDs, 18 hrs., $49.95 ISBN 978-0-14-242906-8
Chicago wizard/detective Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden has survived just about every kind of deadly attack: he’s been stabbed, shot, burned, and even crushed. But in this 13th installment in Butcher’s Dresden Files series, it looks as though...
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Jim Butcher. Roc, $27.95 (496p) ISBN 978-0-451-46440-8
In yet another engaging urban fantasy that leavens apocalyptic threats with smart-ass humor, Butcher just keeps upping the ante for wizard Harry Dresden, appearing in his 14th novel after 2011’s Ghost Story. Being killed has barely slowed down the...
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Jim Butcher. Roc, $27.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-451-46439-2
Even fans of Butcher’s long-running urban fantasy series may find this 15th outing (after Cold Days) does little to advance the overall story. The setup is different, but, once again, wizard turned Winter Knight Harry Dresden must team up with some...
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Jim Butcher. Roc, $27.95 (640p) ISBN 978-0-451-46680-8
Butcher (the Dresden Files series) opens the imaginative Cinder Spires series with this sweeping fantastical epic with pseudo-Victorian sensibilities. In this strange realm, some cataclysm has left the surface world uninhabitable, but the ancient...
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Jim Butcher. Ace, $28 (448p) ISBN 978-0-451-49210-4
This entertaining collection assembles 11 reprints and one brand new novella, all set in the world of Butcher’s popular Chicago-based wizard PI, Harry Dresden (last seen in 2014’s Skin Game). In a trio of lighthearted Bigfoot-centric stories, Harry...
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Jim Butcher, Author Buzzy Multimedia Publishing Corp $47.95 () ISBN ASIN B002CSL0CA
As in the audio adaptation of Butcher's first Dresden Files novel, Storm Front
, Marsters (who played Spike on Buffy the Vampire Slayer
) slips easily into the role of down-on-his-luck wizard Harry Dresden. Marsters's self-deprecating tone fits the...
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Jim Butcher, Author . Ace $25.95 (465p) ISBN 978-0-441-01769-0
The creativity Butcher displays in his Dresden Files series is less apparent in the derivative sixth fantasy yarn set in quasi-Roman Alera (after 2008's Princeps' Fury
). New readers are tossed into a complex plot without any explanation...
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Jim Butcher, Author , read by James Marsters. Buzzy Multimedia $47.95 (www.mediafans.com ) ISBN 978-0-9657255-0-7
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assessment of the audio adaptation of a book and should be quoted only in reference to the audio version.FictionSTORM FRONTJim Butcher, read by James Marsters. Buzzy Multimedia (www.mediafans.com), unabridged, eight...
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Jim Butcher, Author . Ace $23.95 (440p) ISBN 978-0-441-01199-5
At the start of Butcher's absorbing fantasy, the first in a new series, the barbarians are at the gates of the land of Alera, which has a distinct flavor of the Roman Empire (its ruler is named Quintus Sextus and its soldiers are organized in...
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Jim Butcher, Author . Roc $23.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-451-46027-1
Butcher's seventh comic supernatural Dresden Files novel makes a welcome leap to hardcover (after 2004's Blood Rites
). Harry Dresden, a wizard PI living in Chicago with his half-brother, who's an incubus, and his dog, Mouse, learns that
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Jim Butcher, Author . Ace $24.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-441-01283-1
Best known for his Harry Dresden fantasy noir novels (Dead Beat
, etc.), bestseller Butcher shows he's equally adept at epic fantasy in the second Codex Alera book. Two years after the events of Furies of Calderon
(2004), the First Lord of...
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Jim Butcher, Author . Roc $23.95 (406p) ISBN 978-0-451-46085-1
Harry Dresden, Chicago's only consulting wizard, takes on phobophages, creatures that feed on fear who attack a horror film convention, in the diverting eighth installment of Butcher's increasingly complicated Dresden Files series (Dead...
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Jim Butcher, Author . Ace $24.95 (442p) ISBN 978-0-441-01434-7
Butcher deftly mixes military fantasy and political intrigue in the rollicking third Codex Alera book (after 2005's Academ's Fury
). Gaius Sextus, the First Lord of Alera, plants his nephew Tavi in a new legion, where Tavi can gather...
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Jim Butcher, Author . Roc $23.95 (407p) ISBN 978-0-451-46140-7
At the start of Butcher's superlative ninth Dresden Files novel (after 2006's Proven Guilty
), hardboiled wizard detective Harry Dresden learns that someone is killing Chicago's minor wizards. Joined by his police friend, Sergeant Murphy,
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Jim Butcher, Author . Ace $24.95 (451p) ISBN 978-0-441-01527-6
Sharp tactical plotting, hazardous cross-country travel and a dash of sardonic humor mark Butcher’s fourth Codex Alera novel (after 2006’s Cursor’s Fury
). Two years into a difficult campaign against the wolflike Canim invaders,...
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Jim Butcher, Author . Roc $23.95 (423p) ISBN 978-0-451-46189-6
Intricate yet accessible plotting and near-Arctic winter weather mark the 10th Harry Dresden adventure from bestseller Butcher (after 2007's White Night
). A friendly snowball fight opens the Chicago-based wizard-detective's latest tale,...
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Jim Butcher, Author . Subterranean $20 (70p) ISBN 978-1-59606-182-8
The many fans of Butcher's Chicago-based Dresden Files series (most recently Small Favor
) will enjoy this spin-off novella featuring Thomas Raith, Harry Dresden's incubus half-brother. After reluctantly attending a rendezvous arranged by...
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Jim Butcher, Author . Ace $25.95 (386p) ISBN 978-0-441-01638-9
The rousing fifth installment of Butcher’s military fantasy cycle (after 2007’s Captain’s Fury
) finds the land of Alera recovering from Lord Kalarus’s rebellion, an invasion by the wolven Canim and a bloody slave revolt. Now
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Jim Butcher, Author Roc $25.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-451-46256-5
The search for a traitor in the highest circles of power forms the main plot thread of Butcher's 11th hard-boiled fantasy novel featuring Chicago's wizard detective Harry Dresden (last seen in 2008's Small Favor
). Harry, a warden of...
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Jim Butcher, Author . Roc $25.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-451-46317-3
The fast-paced and compelling 12th book in Butcher's bestselling series (after 2009's Turn Coat
) is aptly titled. Beginning with the revelation that wizard detective Harry Dresden has a daughter, Butcher throws one high-stakes curveball...
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Jim Butcher. Subterranean (subterraneanpress.com), $35 (136p) ISBN 978-1-59606-730-1
Butcher emphasizes the lighter
side of his Chicago-based wizard PI, Harry Dresden, in this collection of
three novellas with a common client, a Sasquatch known as River Shoulders.
In “B Is for Bigfoot,” River Shoulders hires Harry to look out for
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Edited by Joseph Nassise. Gallery, $16 trade paper (448p) ISBN 978-1-5011-5508-6
Fans of urban fantasy can read stories from some of the best-known names in the genre and discover new writers in this well-arranged anthology, which focuses on villains. In Jim Butcher’s “Even Hand,” the human crime lord who has been a thorn in...
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Jim Butcher, read by James Marsters. Penguin Audio, unabridged, 15 CDs, 19 hrs., $49.95 ISBN 978-1-61176-160-3
Chicago’s resident wizard Harry Dresden is back from the dead and finds his life changed as the once down-and-out wizard detective becomes the powerful Winter Knight. But this new life comes at a price: he’s forced to swear allegiance to Mab, the...
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Jim Butcher, Mark Powers, and Joseph Cooper. Dynamite Entertainment, (Diamond, dist.), $24.99 (160p) ISBN 978-1-60690-438-1
This spinoff from Butcher’s popular Dresden Files series is just the right blend of magic, horror, and good old-fashioned monster butt kicking. Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden might be Chicago’s only wizard for hire, but this time he’s been...
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Jim Butcher, Author, Kat Richardson, Author, Simon R. Green, Author . Roc $15 (368p) ISBN 978-0-451-46249-7
Readers will be delighted with this collection of original novellas tied to popular crime/fantasy series. The standout is Sniegoski’s “Noah’s Orphans,” in which angel PI Remy Chandler must solve the murder of the biblical Ark&
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Jim Butcher, Author, Ardian Syaf, Illustrator . Del Rey $19.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-345-50746-4
Author Butcher is the creator of the Dresden Files series of novels (the basis for the short-lived Sci-Fi channel series), and this fun graphic novel is the prequel to his first Dresden book, Storm Front
. Blurring the lines between fantasy and noir,
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Jim Butcher, Author, Ardian Syaf, Illustrator, Rick Ketcham, Illustrator . Del Rey $22.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-345-50639-9
Beginning an unusually successful adaptation, this volume covers the first part of the book that introduced Harry Dresden, a modern wizard who’s set up shop in downtown Chicago. Unlike Hellblazer
’s
John Constantine, Dresden is...
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Jim Butcher. Ace, $28 (352p) ISBN 978-0-451-46441-5
Butcher ramps up the tension for wizard Harry Dresden in this open-ended 16th installment to the Dresden Files urban fantasy series (after Skin Game). The supernatural world is coming together for a cease-fire, and Harry is called to serve on the...
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Jim Butcher. Ace, $28 (432p) ISBN 978-0-593-19930-5
With this urban fantasy blockbuster, Butcher swiftly pays off on the major cliffhanger from Peace Talks, launching wizard Harry Dresden and the city of Chicago into a no-holds-barred battle. As the previous work ended, the Fomor King Corb and the...
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Jim Butcher. Ace, $30 (624p) ISBN 978-0-451-46682-2
After a lengthy hiatus, bestseller Butcher returns to his Cinder Spires series with an explosive second installment (following 2015’s The Aeronaut’s Windlass), again starring aeronaut Capt. Francis Madison Grimm. In a world grown uninhabitable,...
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