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Breath of the dragon
by Shannon Lee
Sixteen-year-old Jun, determined to restore his father's honor despite not being breathmarked, secretly enters in the elite Guardian's Tournament, where he discovers he is fighting for the country's fate
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Twin flames
by Olivia Abtahi
"On estranged twins Leila and Bianca's eighteenth birthday, Leila suddenly gains a djinn's superpowers, and the twins realize that their town can only survive the djinns' secret plans if they learn to work together as sisters"
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Somewhere in the deep
by Tanvi Berwah
"To erase her debts, Krescent Dune joins a dangerous rescue mission deep beneath the island where she is trapped in the darkness with her childhood enemy and people who would gladly kill her if they knew who her parents were.
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The hedgewitch of Foxhall
by Anna Bright
In need of power beyond her wildest dreams to get back what she's lost, hedgewitch Ffion agrees to help Prince Taliesin while secretly striking a bargain with his brother Dafydd, and soon the fate of Wales depends on their quest?—?and so might the fate of her heart.
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Book, beast, and crow
by Elizabeth Byrne
When her best friend, Olivia, is attacked in the woods, bitten and left for dead, Anna, who can see things others can't, discovers she was the real target and the miss has set in motion a catastrophic, world-bending chain of events.
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Infinity alchemist
by Kacen Callender
Discovered practicing alchemy by apprentice Ramsay Thorne, Ash must help her find a sacred text of extraordinary power?—?a journey that forces him to discover his own definition of true power and how far he will go to seize it.
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Kindling
by Traci Chee
After the war is over, seven outlawed kindlings?—?elite, magic-wielding warriors whose devastating power comes at the cost of their own young lives?—?must confront their pasts, their trauma and their grim fates to reclaim who they once were and fight one last time.
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The girl with no reflection
by Keshe Chow
Chosen to wed the crown prince, Ying finds her husband-to-be cold and indifferent, and confined to her room with only her reflection for company, is pulled into a mirror world where she discovers the dark truth the royal family has been hiding for centuries.
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The vanishing station
by Ana Ellickson
"Discovering her father has been living a secret life in a magical underworld,“jumping” trains to deliver packages for a powerful family, but has fallen behind and deeper into alcoholism, 18-year-old Ruby volunteers to take over and soon realizes she may be in over her head. "
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Sky's end
by Marc J. Gregson
"To save the only family he has left from his murderous uncle, Conrad enters the Selection of the Twelve Trades where he overhears whispers of rebellion in the dark while enduring vigorous training, manipulative peers and the Gauntlet?—?a brutal final test.
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The dark fable
by Katherine Harbour
"Able to turn invisible, orphan Evie Wilder joins The Dark Fable, a legendary group of thieves known for stealing obscure and occult artifacts, and soon discovers her new family's past is linked to her own?—?and the price of uncovering The Dark Fable's secrets could be death. "
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Beneath these cursed stars
by Lexi Ryan
From a #1 New York Times best-selling author comes a romantic fantasy in which human princess Jasalyn, armed with death's kiss, and fae shifter Felicity become unlikely allies when a mission to assassinate an evil king collides with a fatal prophecy.
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The temptation of magic
by Megan Scott
"Nicole Palmer and her family have been in hiding for years from the Wake--a shadowy organization that governs all supernatural creatures. If the Wake discovers that Nicole is an Empyreal--a rare kind of creature that can shapeshift into any creature's natural predator--they'll force her to join them or kill her for resisting. Like they did her mother. Nicole is close to uncovering a secret message hidden in a supernatural art collection--a message from her mother about how to destroy the Wake for good. But when the collector is murdered and a key painting stolen, the Wake sends their best Empyreal assassin to track down the dangerous creature on the loose. Kyan McCarter is handsome, perceptive, and the last person Nicole wants to work with to find the stolen painting. Their search sparks a powerful connection between them, but if Kyan finds out that Nicole is a rogue Empyreal, he'll have no choice but to hunt her next. After all, no one disobeys the Wake and survives"
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Daughter of the Bone Forest
by Jasmine Skye
Two girls reluctantly bound by fate must weather a dangerous courtship as a prophesied war grows ever closer in this high-stakes, queernormative dark fantasy debut.
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Darker by four
by June CL Tan
"When their paths cross in the shadows, Rui, who is seeking to avenge her mother's death; Yiran, who is honing his newfound powers; and Nikai, who is searching for his missing master, the Fourth King of Hell, must rise against destiny to prevent all hell from breaking loose?—?literally. "
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Dead things are closer than they appear
by Robin Wasley
During a magical apocalypse, which has unleashed monsters and murderers, ordinary teen Sid Spencer teams up with a ragtag crew of would-be heroes to save the world as she knows it and do something extraordinary.
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Blood at the root
by LaDarrion Williams
"Ten years ago, Malik's life changed forever the night his mother mysteriously vanished and he discovered he had uncontrollable powers. Since then, he has kept his abilities hidden, looking out for himself and his younger foster brother, Taye. Now, at 17, Malik is finally ready to start a new life for both of them, far from the trauma of his past. However, a daring act to rescue Taye reveals an unexpected connection with his long-lost grandmother: a legendary conjurer with ties to a hidden magical university that Malik's mother attended. At Caiman University, Malik's eyes are opened to a future he never could have envisioned for himself--one that includes the reappearance of his first love, Alexis. His search for answers about his heritage, his powers, and what really happened to his mother exposes the cracks in their magical community as it faces a reawakened evil dating back to the Haitian Revolution.
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Flowerheart
by Catherine Bakewell
A stunning fantasy romance follows Clara, a girl with powerful and violent magic, as she seeks help with a difficult spell from former best friend Xavier, who names a terrible price for helping Clara save her father, even as Clara uncovers the root of a terrible darkness that's taken hold in the queendom?—?a darkness only Clara's magic is powerful enough to stop.
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Silver in the bone
by Alexandra Bracken
To recover a powerful ring of Arthurian legend, which is her last hope of saving her brother, Tamsin teams up with her rival Emrys and together they enter a world of dark magic to edge out their competitors, where a deadly secret is exposed.
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Chaos & flame
by Tessa Gratton
To save her adoptive Kraken father from House Dragon, Darling Seabreak must join forces with the enemy, the dutiful War Prince for House Dragon, to survive the fiery prophecies and ancient blood magic threatening to devastate their entire world.
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Divine rivals : a novel
by Rebecca Ross
When 18-year-old journalist Iris Winnow's personal letters fall into the hands of her rival at the paper, she forges a magical connection that follows her into the battle for her family, the fate of humankind, and love.
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Midnight strikes
by Zeba Shahnaz
Trapped in a nightmarish time loop, 17-year-old Anaïs must take control of her own fate by stopping the explosion that rips through the palace killing everyone, including herself, by entering a dark world of courtly intrigue to untangle a web of deadly deception.
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Song of silver, flame like night
by Amâelie Wen Zhao
When Zen, one of the fabled magicians of the Last Kingdom, saves her life, Lan, a practitioner with a powerful ability hidden in the mark on her arm, finds an ally on her quest to overthrow the Elantian regime and fulfill her destiny.
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Violet made of thorns
by Gina Chen
When asked by the king to falsely prophesy the prince's love story for an upcoming ball, prophet and a liar Violet awakens a dead curse that will end in either damnation or salvation for the kingdom—and her own fate.
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Edgewood
by Kristen Ciccarelli
To save her grandfather's life, singer Emeline Lark must enter the forest she has spent years trying to escape and, offering to exchange her voice for his freedom, stumbles into a curse larger than the life she has worked so hard to forget.
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Ruinsong
by Julia Ember
Two young women from rival factions must work together to reunite their country, as they wrestle with their feelings for each other. Her voice was her prison... Now it's her weapon. In a world where magic is sung, a powerful mage named Cadence has been forced to torture her country's disgraced nobility at her ruthless queen's bidding. But when she is reunited with her childhood friend, a noblewoman with ties to the underground rebellion, she must finally make a choice: Take a stand to free their country from oppression, or follow in the queen's footsteps and become a monster herself.
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Only a monster
by Vanessa Len
When she discovers that her family are monsters with terrifying, hidden powers, Joan must embrace her own monstrousness if she is to save herself and her family from a legendary monster slayer who will do anything to bring her family down.
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Master of iron
by Tricia Levenseller
Captured by an ambitious prince, 18-year-old blacksmith Ziva, who struggles with crippling social anxiety, is forced into magicking dangerous weapons meant for world domination and must risk everything to save those she loves from an uncertain fate.
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The drowned woods
by Emily Lloyd-Jones
The last living water diviner, 18-year-old Mererid joins forces with her old handler to bring down the very prince who abused them both and, with a ragtag group of allies, sets out to topple a kingdom.
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The ones we burn
by Rebecca Mix
"Arriving in Isodal to kill the prince, Ranka instead finds an ally in the prince's sister as she tries to stop a magical, murderous plague, forcing her to choose between her coven and the princess who sees beyond the monster they shaped her to be.
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Ballad & dagger
by Daniel Josâe Older
While performing for a music legend on the night of the Grand Fete, piano prodigy Mateo witnesses a brutal murder that awakens a power within him, linking him to the killer and possibly unlocking the dark mystery behind his lost homeland.
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From dust, a flame
by Rebecca Podos
When she begins to mutate on her 17th birthday, Hannah discovers a family she never knew, while searching for the truth, and a history linked to Jewish mysticism and legend, which holds the key to breaking the curse and saving those she loves most.
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This vicious grace
by Emily Thiede
As demons invade her island home when her people turn on her, Alessa fights for her survival while trying to master her gift from the gods with the help of a cynical outcast.
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A consuming fire
by Laura E. Weymouth
"After her twin sister's life is taken by the god of the mountain, Anya, driven by love and vengeance?—?and refusing to let any other girls suffer the same fate?—?sets out to kill him.
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All of us villains
by Amanda Foody
When a tell-all book exposes a fight to the death to control a secret wellspring of high magick, seven new champions are armed with new information that gives them the choice to accept their fate or rewrite their legacy.
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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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Before we disappear
by Shaun David Hutchinson
In this queer ahistorical fantasy set during the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle, two ambitious magician assistants—and rivals—have a near-instant connection but are forced to choose between loyalty and love.
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Dark rise
by C. S. Pacat
Discovering that his destiny is to fight beside the Stewards, 16-year-old Will, who is on the run from his mother's killer, is plunged into a world of magic where he must train to play a vital role in the oncoming battle against the Dark.
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Vespertine
by Margaret Rogerson
When her convent is attacked by possessed soldiers, Artemisia wields the extraordinary power of a revenant and forms a bond with this malevolent being as she unravels a sinister mystery of saints, secrets and dark magic.
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These hollow vows
by Lexi Ryan
To save her sister from the sadistic king of the Unseelie court, Brie makes a deal to steal three magical relics from the Seelie court and finds herself caught between two dangerous faerie courts and their seductive princes.
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The witch haven
by Sasha Peyton Smith
In 1911 New York City, 17-year-old seamstress France Hallowell discovers that she is a witch and must choose between justice for her murdered brother or the safety of her city and fellow witches.
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Where dreams descend
by Janella Angeles
A star showgirl endeavors to win a high-risk magician's competition in order to secure her freedom, an effort that is complicated by an enigmatic circus keeper and a brooding judge with a dark past. A first novel.
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House of dragons
by Jessica Cluess
Unexpectedly summoned to compete for the throne, five outcasts—including a liar, a soldier, a servant, a thief and a murderer—navigate respective secrets during a trial that tests the limits of their abilities. By the author of the Kingdom on Fire series.
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Incendiary
by Zoraida Córdova
Set in a lush world inspired by Inquisition-era Spain, a hotly anticipated fantasy epic by the award-winning author of Labyrinth Lost follows the experiences of a kidnapped memory thief whose freedom is compromised by those who blame her for her role in a massacre.
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Seasons of the storm
by Elle Cosimano
"One cold, crisp night, Jack Sommers was faced with a choice--live forever according to the ancient, magical rules of Gaia, or die. Jack chose to live, and in exchange, he became a Winter. Like the other Seasons, each year Jack must hunt and kill the onebefore him. Gaia's rules are pretty straightforward. Winter kills Autumn. Autumn kills Summer. Summer kills Spring. And Spring kills Winter...But when Jack and Fleur--Winter and Spring--fall for each other against all odds, the true brutality of their eternal lives becomes all too personal"
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The Queen's assassin
by Melissa De la Cruz
A first entry in a planned duology finds a royal assassin and a secret magical apprentice teaming up to reclaim their land's stolen magic from an adversarial sect only to confront dangerous lies that bring everything they believe into question.
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Diamond city
by Francesca Flores
Trained as a highly skilled assassin, a young woman from a magical kingdom of immigrants is forced to betray her mentor to establish her career by targeting a wealthy industrialist in support of a mysterious conspiracy.
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Havenfall
by Sara Holland
Seeking solace from her complicated life in a Colorado inn that is an unrecognized gateway to other dimensions, Maddie is embroiled in a murder that implicates her crush and reveals terrifying otherworldly dangers. By the best-selling author of Everless.
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Reverie
by Ryan La Sala
While recovering from an attack that leaves him without his memory, gay teenager Kane Montgomery stumbles into a world where dreams known as reveries take on a life of their own, and it is up to Kane and a few unlikely allies to stop them before they spillover into the waking world.
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Wardens of eternity
by Courtney Allison Moulton
Follows the experiences of an abandoned teen in New York City who discovers powers she can barely control before supernatural compatriots help her battle otherworldly monsters that are changing the course of World War II.
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Infinity son
by Adam Silvera
Manifesting supernatural phoenix fire abilities when he turns 18, Emil becomes a reluctant defender against the specters that overshadow his world and reluctantly joins a vigilante team that his powerless brother idolizes.
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The mermaid, the witch, and the sea
by Maggie Tokuda-Hall
Disguising herself as a male pirate to escape poverty, Flora follows a strict survival code that is challenged by her unexpected feelings for a noblewoman on her way to a dreaded arranged marriage. A first novel by the author of Also an Octopus.
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A peculiar peril
by Jeff VanderMeer
A first entry in a planned duology by the best-selling author of the Southern Reach trilogy follows a teen's quest to protect the world from a magical alternate universe where history has been rewritten.
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White stag
by Kara Barbieri
Raised as a boy before becoming the only survivor of a village that was destroyed by fire, 17-year-old Janneke is sent to work in the court of merciless monsters for her captor's alluring nephew, Soren, who compels her to sever her ties to the human world.
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We rule the night
by Claire Eliza Bartlett
A factory worker caught using illegal magic and a soldier who disguised herself as a boy to enlist become reluctant partners in a special women's military flight unit, where they use forbidden powers to fly and fight in dangerous missions.
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The gilded wolves
by Roshani Chokshi
Keeping close secrets in the wake of the Exposition Universelle in 1889 Paris, a wealthy hotelier and treasure-hunter is tapped by a powerful order to lead an elite team on a quest to track down an ancient artifact of world-changing significance.
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Ink, iron, and glass
by Gwendolyn Clare
A prodigy in the science of scriptology uses her talents to write new worlds into creation before following her abducted mother into the real world, where she is challenged to recruit the help of a secret society of fellow "mad geniuses" to unveil a dangerous political conspiracy.
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The orphanage of gods
by Helena Coggan
Twenty years ago, the humans came for their gods. In the bloody revolution, gods were all but wiped out. Ever since, the children they left behind have been imprisoned in an orphanage, watched day and night by the ruthless Guard. Any who show signs of divine power vanish from their beds in the night, all knowledge of their existence denied. No one has ever escaped the orphanage. Until now. Seventeen-year-old Hero is finally free - but at a terrible price. Her sister has been captured by the Guard and is being held in a prison in the northern sea. Hero desperately wants to get her back, and to escape the murderous Guardsmen hunting her down. But not all the gods are dead, and the ones waiting for Hero in the north have their own plans for her - ones that will change the world forever ... As she advances further and further into the unknown, Hero will need to decide: how far is she willing to go to do what needs to be done?
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We hunt the flame
by Hafsah Faizal
Disguising herself as a man to hunt food for her people in the cursed and forbidden forest, a Hunter in a fantasy realm inspired by ancient Arabia is targeted by the Prince of Death, who would kill her for her disobedience to an autocratic king and claim the powerful artifact she seeks.
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Descendant of the crane
by Joan He
"Princess Hesina of Yan is thrust into power when her beloved father is murdered, and she's determined to find his killer--whatever the cost"
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Angel mage
by Garth Nix
An ageless young woman with terrifying angelic powers resolves to reunite with her Ystara archangel lover, risking the lives of four young Sarancians who have caught her attention. By the best-selling author of the Old Kingdom series.
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The merciful Crow
by Margaret Owen
A 16-year-old chieftain from a lowly caste of mercy-killers and undertakers tests the limits of her bone magic when a lucrative job leads to the discovery of a still-living crown prince and powerful enemies who would orchestrate his assassination.
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There will come a darkness
by Katy Rose Pool
A century after their land's protective Seven Prophets disappear in the wake of a secret prediction about an age of darkness, five very different individuals are intertwined in a prophecy that says one of them will save or destroy the world.
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Circle of shadows
by Evelyn Skye
Eager to prove themselves in a peaceful kingdom, two magic apprentice warriors on the brink of graduating infiltrate a camp of mysterious soldiers who lead one of them on a transformative mission of deception.
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An affair of poisons : no one looks kindly on the killer of a king
by Addie Thorley
A reimagining of the infamous 17th-century poisoning scandal involving Louis XIV finds a young alchemist discovering her mother's secret criminal activities before teaming up with an illegitimate royal in a rebellion against a murderous underground society.
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The Girl King
by Mimi Yu
An exile destined to become the Diyi Huo empire's first female ruler seeks to reclaim her birthright through an alliance with a lone surviving shapeshifter, while her shy sister manifests forbidden powers that pit the siblings against one another.
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The cruel prince
by Holly Black
A decade after her parents are murdered by the fey who have kidnapped her and her sisters, Jude harbors a seething hatred for a wicked faerie prince and becomes embroiled in court politics as part of her plan to exact revenge.
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Rule
by Ellen Goodlett
Summoned by a dying king who informs them that they are his illegitimate daughters and that one of them will succeed him, three girls find themselves blackmailed by a mysterious adversary who knows their dangerous secrets.
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Between the blade and the heart
by Amanda Hocking
A first entry in a fantasy duology by the best-selling author of the Kanin Chronicles follows the experiences of a Valkyrie whose world is thrown into chaos when she discovers that her mother spared the life of an immortal who was destined to die.
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Shadow of the fox
by Julie Kagawa
A debut entry in a lush fantasy series inspired by Japanese mythology follows the adventures of a secret shapeshifter who escapes an attack on her temple with a piece of an ancient scroll before meeting a samurai who would kill her for it.
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Grave mercy
by Robin LaFevers
In the fifteenth-century kingdom of Brittany, seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where she learns that the god of Death has blessed her with dangerous gifts--and aviolent destiny
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Beyond a darkened shore
by Jessica Leake
Princess Ciara of Mide, who has the ability to control others' minds and actions, has been using her powers to protect her people from the plundering Northmen, but when she captures Lief, a young Northman leader, she learns she is not the only one to harness this power
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Isle of blood and stone
by Makiia Lucier
When two maps surface, each bearing the same hidden riddle, nineteen-year-old Elias, a royal mapmaker, sets sail with King Ulises to uncover long-held secrets behind the mysterious disappearance of the king's two young brothers eighteen years earlier
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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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Beneath the citadel
by Destiny Soria
Growing up in a city ruled by ancient prophecies and a high council that has been in power for centuries, an orphaned daughter of rebels struggles to come to terms with her parents' legacy before uncovering a formidable final prophecy.
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Sky in the deep
by Adrienne Young
Raised to be a warrior, seventeen-year-old Eelyn fights alongside her Aska clansmen in an ancient rivalry against the Riki clan, but when faced with her brother's betrayal, and driven by a growing love for her brother's friend Fiske, she attempts to unite the two clans
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The last magician
by Lisa Maxwell
Raised to steal magical artifacts from a sinister Order that traps her people in a magical New York, thief Esta uses her time-manipulating abilities to travel back to 1902 to steal an ancient spell book that a wizard plans to use to destroy all magic-wielding people.
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Strange the dreamer
by Laini Taylor
The best-selling author of the Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy presents the story of a guilt-ridden hero, a dreamer librarian and a girl with dangerous powers who all combat monsters and treachery in the aftermath of a war between gods and men.
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The star-touched queen
by Roshani Chokshi
Treated with scorn and fear in her father's kingdom because of a formidable horoscope, 16-year-old Maya commits herself to her education only to land in an arranged marriage that culminates in her sudden elevation to the throne, a situation that is threatened by dark secrets and Otherworldly magic.
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The marked girl
by Lindsey Klingele
When Prince Cedric of Caelum, his fellow royals, and his betrothed, Kat, find themselves stranded in modern-day Los Angeles, they meet Liv, a filmmaker foster girl who just wants out of the system and to move on with her life
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Red queen
by Victoria Aveyard
When her latent supernatural powers manifest in front of a noble court, Mare, a thief in a world divided between commoners and superhumans, is forced to assume the role of lost princess before risking everything to help a growing rebellion.
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The girl at midnight
by Melissa Grey
Hidden from humans beneath the streets of New York City are an ancient magical people, the Avicen, who are the only family that Echo, a runaway pickpocket, has ever known, and she will stop at nothing to find the mythical Firebird to end the centuries-old war that crests on the borders of her home, endangering those she loves most.
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Talon
by Julie Kagawa
In a world in which near-extinct dragons pass as humans to grow their numbers secretly, siblings Ember and Dante Hill prepare for destined positions in the world of Talon only to be hunted by a dragon-slaying soldier
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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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Graceling
by Kristin Cashore
Having the ability to kill a man with her bare hands since she was a young girl, Katsa, a Graceling, has been forced to do the king's dirty work for years in order to live in his kingdom, but things change dramatically when she falls in love with Prince Po and secrets about her powers are suddenly revealed.
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