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In a country divided between humans and witchers, Venus Stoneheart hustles as a brewer making illegal love potions to support her family. Love potions is a dangerous business. Brewing has painful, debilitating side effects, and getting caught means death or a prison sentence. But what Venus is most afraid of is the dark, sentient magic within her. Then an enemy's iron bullet kills her mother, Venus's life implodes. Keeping her reckless little sister...
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Legends of Lotus Island volume 3
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English
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"Doing the New Year's break, Plum and her friends travel to fancy, fashionable Nakhon Island to stay with Sam and his mother, the powerful Lady Ubon. The New Year always brings food, parties, and the grand old tradition of making a wish. At first, Plum is dazzled by the big city. But under the glittering surface, many secrets lurk. Mysterious tremors that shake the ground are growing worse by the day. Nakhon's troubles give Plum a chance to fulfill...
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Nightshade crown novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"The corrupt king August is dead. Prince Bastian has seized the throne and raised Lore--a necromancer and former smuggler--to his right hand side. Together they plan to cut out the rot from the heart of the sainted court and help the people of Dellaire. But not everyone is happy with the changes. The nobles are sowing dissent, the Kyrithean Empire is beating down their door, and Lore's old allies are pulling away. Even Prince Bastian's changed. No...
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2024.
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English
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Cursed with immortality at the age of 9, but with a requirement that she stays in perpetual motion, Aubry flees Paris and embarks on a century-spanning, globe-trotting odyssey, seeking a cure and discovering a world beyond the boundaries of time and space.
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To gaze upon wicked gods volume 1
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English
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"Ruying, born with the power over death, must weigh if her family's life is worth betraying her country to strike a deal with an enemy prince. Heroes die, cowards live. Daughter of a conquered world, Ruying hates the invaders who descended from the heavens long before she was born and defeated the magic of her people with technologies unlike anything her world had ever seen. Blessed by Death, born with the ability to pull the life right out of mortal...
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Eighteen-year-old Ruby Santos, grappling with her mother's death and financial struggles, discovers her father's secret life as a magical underworld delivery person, leading her to take over his station and jump train lines, only to realize the perilous nature of the job and the dangerous world she has entered.
7) The familiar
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2024.
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English
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"In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers the lump of a servant cowering in the kitchen is actually hiding a talent for little miracles, she demands Luzia use those gifts to better the family's social position. What begins as simple amusement for the bored nobility takes a perilous turn when...
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Waxways volume 2
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Margaret K. McElderry Books
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English
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Seeking revenge, Ren Monroe teams up with Vin'Tori siblings Dahvid and Nevelyn to take down House Brood, the most powerful family in Kathor, but Ren's magical bond with Theo Brood complicates her plans.
9) Ferris
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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During the summer before fifth grade, Ferris Wilkey has her hands full with her little sister terrorizing the town, her Aunt Shirley moving into their basement and her grandmother seeing a ghost--one who has wild, impractical and illuminating plans.
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Library trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
[2024]
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xii, 364 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"The Library of Alexandria died in fire. Others fade away with less drama, ignored, forgotten, left to dust. To the athenaeum though, the great library of which all others are echoes, fires are merely a temporary inconvenience. The only true threat to the library's existence is a book--the one Livira wrote. Livira's book also brought her together with Evar, a young man who was raised in the library itself, and they discovered secrets that no one else...
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Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
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259 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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"From the author of the breakout fantasy novel 'Thistlefoot,' a collection of dark fairytales and fractured folklore exploring all the ways love can save us -- or go monstrously wrong. The stories in Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart are about the abomination that resides within us all. That churning, clawing, hungry yearning: the desire to be loved, and seen, and known. And the terror of those things too: to be loved too well, or not enough, or for...
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Holy Mackerel Enterprises
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
317 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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"A wildly imaginative book containing three short stories, The Fabled Oceans tracks the adventures of marine creatures as they dive into uncharted waters, where nothing is quite what it seems, and powerful currents shape all our destinies."--
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(James E.)Apprentice witch volume 3
Publisher
Chicken House
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 20 cm.
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English
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The war is over and Arianwyn has discovered the secret of the quiet glyphs, but her troubles are far from over. Her day-to-day work as Lull's witch is tricky enough: winter has set in, bringing bad weather, ice imps and befuddling Yule traditions. But when Arianwyn's grandmother is abducted by the traitor on the Council, our witch faces her greatest challenge yet. What really makes a witch come true? Our lovable heroine is about to find out.
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
391 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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An illness cursing the land forces seventeen-year-old Vega, the Last Astronomer, to venture across the wilderness to discover the stars message that will save her people.
15) Famine
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Series
Four horsemen (Laura Thalassa) volume 3
Publisher
Bloom Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
503 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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"Ana da Silva always assumed she'd die young, she just never expected it to be at the hands of Famine, the haunting immortal who once spared her life so many years ago. But if the horseman remembers her at all, he must not care, for when she comes face to face with him for the second time in her life, she's stabbed and left for dead. Only, she doesn't quite die. If there's one thing Famine is good at, it's cruelty. And how these blighted bastards...
16) Death
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Series
Four horsemen (Laura Thalassa) volume 4
Publisher
Bloom Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
547 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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"The day Death comes to Lazarus Gaumond's town and kills everyone in one fell swoop, the last thing he expects to see is one woman left alive and standing. But Lazarus has an extraordinary gift: she cannot be killed. Not by humans, not by the elements, not by Death himself. She is the one soul Death doesn't recognize. The one soul he cannot pry free from her flesh. Nor can he ignore the unsettling desire he has for her. And the longer she tries to...
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Chronicles of Chrestomanci volume 2
Publisher
Greenwillow
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
548 pages ; 17 cm
Language
English
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The adventures of the Chrestomanci, an enchanter with nine lives, whose job is to control the practice of magic in the infinite parallel universes of the Twelve Related Worlds.
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Series
Chronicles of Chrestomanci volume 1
Publisher
Greenwillow
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
598 pages ; 17 cm
Language
English
Description
The adventures of the Chrestomanci, an enchanter with nine lives, whose job is to control the practice of magic in the infinite parallel universes of the Twelve Related Worlds.
20) War
Author
Series
Four horsemen (Laura Thalassa) volume 2
Publisher
Bloom Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
535 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"The day Jerusalem falls, Miriam Elmahdy knows her life is over. Houses are burning, the streets run red with blood, and a traitorous army is massacring every last resident. There is no surviving this, especially not once Miriam catches the eye of War himself. But when the massive and terrifying horseman corners Miriam, he calls her his wife, and instead of killing her, he takes her back to his camp. Now Miriam faces a terrifying future, one where...
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