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For Fans of J.R.R. Tolkien
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Bone Crier's Dawn
by Kathryn Purdie
A conclusion to the duology that began with Bone Crier’s Moon finds Ailesse challenging the rules of the afterlife to break her soul bond with Bastien, while Sabine fights the violent jackal power that complicates her leadership responsibilities.
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Throne of Glass
by Sarah J. Maas
Appearing before the Crown Prince after a year of hard labor in the salt mines, 18-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien is offered her freedom in exchange for representing the throne during a competition to find a new royal assassin, a challenge that is marked by grueling training and the murders of fellow contestants.
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Echoes and Empires
by Morgan Rhodes
Snarky seventeen-year-old Josslyn Drake gets infected by a dangerous piece of forbidden magic and teams up with wanted criminal Jericho Nox to remove the spell corrupting her soul.
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The Accidental Apprentice
by Amanda Foody
Accidentally breaking a sacred community rule about never entering a magically haunted wood, an apprentice mushroom farmer is run out of town by an angry mob when he becomes inadvertently bonded to a not-so-vicious magical beast.
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All the Stars and Teeth
by Adalyn Grace
Raised in the arts of royal magic as heir to the throne of her island kingdom, Amora Montara is forced to flee in the wake of a spell gone wrong and teams up with a mysterious pirate to prove her worthiness to rule.
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Chain of Gold
by Cassandra Clare
Cordelia Carstairs, a Shadowhunter trained to battle demons, travels with her brother to London where they reconnect with childhood friends but soon must face devastating demon attacks in the quarantined city
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Lore
by Alexandra Bracken
After her family was murdered, Lore Perseous turns her back on a hunt that is held every seven years to punish former Greek gods, but when a new hunt begins, Athena convinces Lore to form an alliance to end the hunt and stop the rise of a new more vengeful god.
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Arrow
by Samantha M. Clark
Twelve-year-old Arrow, the only human in a magical rainforest that is closed off from the rest of the world, must make a difficult decision, whether to be accepted by his own kind or fight to save his home, when other humans pierce the veil.
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Beasts of Prey
by Ayana Gray
Ekon, the second son of a decorated hero, and Koffil, who holds a power inside her that could cost her life, form a tentative alliance to destroy a vicious monster that has plagued their city for nearly a century.
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The Gilded Ones
by Namina Forna
Inspired by the culture of West Africa, a feminist fantasy debut traces the experiences of an intuitive girl who is invited to leave her discriminatory village to join the emperor’s army of near-immortal women warriors.
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Once Upon a Broken Heart
by Stephanie Garber
Desperate to stop the love of her life from marrying another, Evangeline Fox strikes a deal with the wicked Prince of Hearts—a bargain that will either end in the greatest happily ever after, or the most exquisite tragedy.
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Six Crimson Cranes
by Elizabeth Lim
After unleashing forbidden magic, being banished by her stepmother and unable to speak or her brothers will die, Shiori’anma must find a way to save them with the help of a paper bird, a mercurial dragon and the very boy she fought so hard not to marry.
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Fable
by Adrienne Young
A first entry in a planned duology by the author of the Sky in the Deep series finds the teen daughter of a seaside village’s most powerful trader testing the limits of skills imparted by her late mother to reconnect with her father and establish her place among his crew.
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Blade of Secrets
by Tricia Levenseller
Spending her days tucked into her forge to escape society and the anxiety it triggers, 18-year-old Ziva uses her magical gifts to craft unique weapons before she is forced to go on the run to protect the world from an unexpectedly powerful sword she has created.
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Briar Girls
by Rebecca Kim Wells
When a mysterious girl offers her a bargain, Lena, who can kill with the touch of her skin, must choose who to trust and decide what is more important—freedom from her curse or power.
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Realm Breaker
by Victoria Aveyard
A strange darkness grows in Allward. Even Corayne an-Amarat can feel it, tucked away in her small town at the edge of the sea. She soon discovers the truth. She is the last of an ancient lineage--and the last hope to save the world from destruction. But she won't be alone. Even as darkness falls, she is joined by a band of unlikely companions. Together they stand against a vicious opponent, invincible and determined to burn all kingdoms to ash, and an army unlike anything the realm has ever witnessed.
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We hunt the flame
by Hafsah Faizal
Zafira, who disguises herself as a man to become The Hunter, and Nasir, an assassin for his father, the sultan, are both seeking a lost artifact that could return magic to their cursed world.
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Briarheart
by Mercedes Lackey
A fresh and feminist reinterpretation of Sleeping Beauty from a beloved fantasy author finds princess Aurora’s older sister, Miriam, discovering that she possesses incredible powers that must be used to protect her little sister and combat the shadowy threats that are moving closer and closer to their kingdom.
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The Bright & The Pale
by Jessica Rubinkowski
A fantasy debut inspired by Russian folklore follows the experiences of a survivor from a community under a magical deep-freeze curse who joins the Thieves Guild before leading a perilous expedition to rescue her loved ones.
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The Good Hawk
by Joseph Elliott
A maligned defender with unique animal-communication talents and a sea-hating angler who wants to avoid an arranged marriage team up on a quest in a haunted region of nomads to protect their clans from a mysterious threat.
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