July 2017 list by Laura Berube
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Bone Jack
by Sara Crowe
Enduring difficult challenges in his northern England home, including his father's PTSD and an outbreak of disease that has decimated local livestock, Ash trains for a legendary race to restore his father's spirits only to be confronted by terrible forces of magic at the boundary between the worlds of life and death.
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Crystal Storm
by Morgan Rhodes
When Mytica is threatened by an epic clash between gods and mortals, Magnus and Cleo are forced to test the strength of their love in the face of a redemption-seeking Gaius.
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The Dark Days Pact
by Alison Goodman
A sequel to The Dark Days Club finds demon-hunter Lady Helen and her maid, Darby, spending the summer season in Bristol, where she hones her Reclaimer powers while rebuffing the advances of a stealthy rival.
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Roar
by Cora Carmack
Groomed to be an ideal ruler despite an absence of the magical abilities shared by her predecessors, Aurora is committed by her mother to an arranged marriage with a brooding prince from another kingdom whose secrets compel Aurora to investigate allegations of black-market magic.
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Traitor to the Throne
by Alwyn Hamilton
A sequel to Rebel of the Sands finds reluctant heroine gunslinger Amani al'Hiza taken captive by the forces of the Sultan, whose agenda seems less tyrannical than originally believed.
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What to Say Next
by Julie Buxbaum
Distancing herself from her friends when she realizes that nobody she knows will understand the difficulties she is facing in the wake of her father's death, Kit impulsively sits at the lunch table beside longtime loner David, with whom she forges an unexpected connection.
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Wintersong
by S. Jae-Jones
Having heard tales of the beautiful but dangerous Goblin King all her life, Liesl infuses her musical compositions with her romantic dreams before the abduction of her sister forces her to journey to the Underground, where she faces an impossible choice.
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