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Rainbow Reads: LGBTQIA+ Fantasy for Teens
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Of fire and stars
by Audrey Coulthurst
A girl betrothed since childhood to a handsome prince to seal an alliance between their kingdoms hides her magical affinity for wielding fire powers while falling unexpectedly in love with her intended's prickly sister.
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Runebinder
by A. R Kahler
A debut entry in a dark, post-apocalyptic fantasy introduces a paranormal hunter who endeavors to master his abilities to fight the monsters overrunning his world before falling into a deadly triangle of love and power with a seductive supernatural and a fellow hunter. 50,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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Wench
by Maxine Kaplan
When Tanya's guardian dies, having lost her home and the tavern where she has spent most of her life, she sets out on a perilous quest to petition the queen for help
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Cinderella is dead
by Kalynn Bayron
It's 200 years after Cinderella found her prince, but the fairy tale is over. Teen girls are now required to appear at the Annual Ball, where the men of the kingdom select wives based on a girl's display of finery. If a suitable match is not found, the girls not chosen are never heard from again. 16-year-old Sophia would much rather marry Erin, her childhood best friend, than parade in front of suitors. At the ball, Sophia makes the desperate decision to flee, and finds herself hiding in Cinderella's mausoleum. There, she meets Constance, the last known descendant of Cinderella and her step sisters. Together they vow to bring down the king once and for all-and in the process, they learn that there's more to Cinderella's story than they ever knew.
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Belle r©♭volte
by Linsey Miller
A noblewoman longing to become a doctor and a firstborn daughter who has been trained in the magical arts secretly trade places before teaming up to prevent a frivolous war that threatens the lives of thousands of innocent people. By the author of Mask of Shadows.
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Carry On
by Rainbow Rowell
Simon Snow is the worst chosen one who’s ever been chosen. That’s what his roommate, Baz, says. And Baz might be evil and a vampire and a complete git, but he’s probably right. Half the time, Simon can’t even make his wand work, and the other half, he sets something on fire. His mentor’s avoiding him, his girlfriend broke up with him, and there’s a magic-eating monster running around wearing Simon’s face. Baz would be having a field day with all this, if he were here—it’s their last year at the Watford School of Magicks, and Simon’s infuriating nemesis didn’t even bother to show up.
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Girls of paper and fire
by Natasha Ngan
Haunted by the mysterious arrest of her mother a decade earlier, a girl from the kingdom's most persecuted class is unexpectedly chosen to serve the king in the opulent but oppressive palace, before a forbidden romance enmeshes her in a plot that threatens her entire world.
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A dark and hollow star
by Ashley Shuttleworth
A queer cast of characters-a half-fae teenager, a temperamental ex-Fury, a fae prince, and his brooding guardian-must track down a serial killer whose disturbing murders are threatening to expose the hidden faerie courts to the human world.
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Infinity son
by Adam Silvera
In a world where some people are born with powers and some people take them, brothers Emil and Brighton Rey get swept up in a supernatural turf war generations in the making.
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These Witches Don't Burn
by Isabel Sterling
When evidence of dark magic begins to appear all over Salem, Massachusetts, Elemental Witch Hannah and her ex-girlfriend Veronica are forced to team up to stop the deadly attacks
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Sweet & bitter magic
by Adrienne Tooley
Exiled and cursed never to love, the most powerful witch in a generation steals small amounts of love from others before encountering a rare girl who offers to use her own secret magic to stop the dark witch behind a deadly plague. 30,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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Beyond the black door
by AdriAnne Strickland
Everyone has a soul. Some are beautiful gardens, others are frightening dungeons. Soulwalkers--like Kamai and her mother--can journey into other people's souls while they sleep. But no matter where Kamai visits, she sees the black door. It follows her into every soul, and her mother has told her to never ever open it. When Kamai touches the door, it is warm and beating, like it has a pulse. When she puts her ear to it, she hears her own name whispered from the other side. And when tragedy strikes, Kamai does the unthinkable: she opens the door. A. M. Strickland's imaginative dark fantasy features court intrigue and romance, a main character coming to terms with her asexuality, and twists and turns as a seductive mystery unfolds that endangers not only Kamai's own soul but the entire kingdom... -- From dust jacket
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Cemetery boys
by Aiden Thomas
Determined to prove himself a real brujo to the traditional Latinx family that does not accept his true gender, a trans boy summons the ghost of the resident bad boy, who refuses to return quietly to death. A first novel.
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The scapegracers
by Hannah Abigail Clarke
Forging an unexpected coven with the three most popular girls in school, an outcast lesbian witch casts curses, searches for love and eludes fundamentalist witch hunters while privately struggling with the realities of human friendships and supernatural perils. A first novel. Simultaneous eBook.
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Monster of the week
by F. T. Lukens
As graduation gets closer, Bridger Whitt finds his perfect life unraveling when his estranged father returns and a monster-hunting television show arrives to investigate the strange events happening in town
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