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1) Winterkeep
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Series
Graceling Realm volume 4
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Queen Bitterblue of Monsea must head to the nation of Winterkeep after her envoys drown in suspicious circumstances, and somewhere there, Lovisa Cavenda waits and watches while tragedy with devastating political and personal ramification strikes."--
Author
Series
Wayward children volume 6
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Regan loves, and is loved, though her school-friend situation has become complicated, of late. When she suddenly finds herself thrust through a doorway that asks her to "Be Sure" before swallowing her whole, Regan must learn to live in a world filled with centaurs, kelpies, and other magical equines - a world that expects its human visitors to step up and be heroes. But after embracing her time with the herd, Regan discovers that not all forms of...
3) Circe
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English
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In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child -- not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power -- the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves. Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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When the witch built the forty-flight tower, she made very sure to do the whole thing properly. Each flight contains a dreadful monster, ranging from a diamond-scaled dragon to a pack of slavering goblins. Should a prince battle his way to the top, he will be rewarded with a golden sword—and the lovely Princess Floralinda. But no prince has managed to conquer the first flight yet, let alone get to the fortieth. In fact, the supply of fresh princes...
Author
Series
Guild of night volume 1
Language
English
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"As a member of the Charmers Council, Gaige is able to form lasting bonds with the magical beasts of his world. At least, he used to be a Charmer...until he died and was brought back as one of the immortal assassins of Cruor. Now he's far more dangerous. ...and something beyond the shadows lies in wait, hungry to claim him for its own. As leader of the assassins, all Kost can do is watch as Gaige struggles with his new life day by day. He wants nothing...
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English
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This is the novel of the idea that inspired the motion picture. An other-worldly fairy tale set against the backdrop of the Cold War-era United States circa 1962. In the hidden high-security government laboratory where she works, lonely Elisa is trapped in a life of silence and isolation. Elisa's life is changed forever when she and co-worker Zelda discover a secret classified experiment.
Author
Series
Lailu Loganberry volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Thirteen-year-old chef Lailu must uncover the truth behind a murder before the elves and the scientists of Twin Rivers declare war on each other"--
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Series
Tales of Sasha volume 2
Publisher
Little Bee Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Sasha has just discovered she has wings and can fly so she, her best friend Wyatt, and their teacher Caleb journey into a magical forest to try and find where Sasha came from.
10) Questland
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"It's said that sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, and an eccentric billionaire has set out to prove it by building an island retreat that brings the fantastic to life. In an action-packed novel for fans of Ready Player One, Carrie Vaughn asks what happens when a bunch of tech geeks and fantasy nerds don't realize the game they are now playing is for real?"--
Literature professor Dr. Addie Cox is contacted by Harris...
Author
Series
Companions quartet volume 4
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Connie and Col band together to save the world for all creatures, including the mythical ones of which few humans are aware, from the shape-shifter Kullervo's army and, along the way, Connie finds herself transformed in an amazing way.
12) Relics
Author
Series
Relics (Tim Lebbon) volume 1
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
There's an underground black market for arcane things: remains of gryphons, faeries, goblins, and other fantastic creatures. When Angela Gough's fiancé Vince goes missing, she discovers that he was a part of this secretive trade. It's a big-money business, shadowy, brutal, and sometimes fatal. As the trail leads deeper into London's dark side, Angela crosses paths with a crime lord whose life is dedicated to collecting such relics ... and some of...
13) Carousel tides
Author
Series
Carousel novels volume 1
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Kate Archer left home years ago, swearing that she would die before she returned to Maine. As plans go, it was a pretty good one - simple and straightforward. Not quite fast enough, though. Before she can quite manage the dying part, Kate gets notice that her grandmother is missing, leaving the carousel that is the family business untended. And in Archers Beach, that means way more trouble than just a foreclosure. -- from Amazon.
14) Menagerie
Author
Series
Menagerie (Rachel Vincent) volume 1
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
When Delilah Marlow visits a famous traveling carnival, Metzger's Menagerie, she discovers a fierce, sharp-clawed creature lurking just beneath her human veneer. Captured and put on exhibition, Delilah in her black swan burlesque costume "performs" in town after town. Despite the breathtaking beauty behind the seamy and grotesque reality of the carnival and despite the kindness of the cryptic handler Gallagher, she and her fellow menagerie of mermaids,...
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"Award-winning author Andrea Hairston weaves together African folktales and postcolonial literature into unforgettable fantasy in Master of Poisons. The world is changing. Poison desert eats good farmland. Once-sweet water turns foul. The wind blows sand and sadness across the Empire. To get caught in a storm is death. To live and do nothing is death. There is magic in the world, but good conjure is hard to find. Djola, righthand man and spymaster...
16) Alias Hook
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
"Meet Captain James Benjamin Hook, a witty, educated Restoration-era privateer cursed to play villain to a pack of malicious little boys in a pointless war that never ends. But everything changes when Stella Parrish, a forbidden grown woman, dreams her way to the Neverland in defiance of Pan's rules. From the glamour of the Fairy Revels, to the secret ceremonies of the First Tribes, to the mysterious underwater temple beneath the Mermaid Lagoon, the...
17) Herc
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"This should be the story of Hercules: his twelve labours, his endless adventures... everyone's favorite hero, right? Well, it's not. This is the story of everyone else: Alcmene: Herc's mother (She has knives everywhere) Hylas: Herc's first friend (They were more than friends) Megara: Herc's wife (She'll tell you about their marriage) Eurystheus: Oversaw Herc's labours (He never asked for the job) His friends, his enemies, his wives, his children,...
18) Fairy lies
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Half-fairy Tamisin and her boyfriend, Jak, have been arguing over whether she should return to the land of the fey when Oberon, king of the fairies, kidnaps her and Jak must return to that place of fairies, goblins, and sphinxes to rescue her.
Author
Series
Feylawn chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Rufus Takada Collins discovers feylings on his grandfather's farm and it is up to him and his cousin Abigail to find the magical train cars that will carry them safely home.
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
* / Gahan Wilson -- The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees / E. Lily Yu -- The Griffin and the Minor Canon / Frank R. Stockton -- Ozioma the Wicked / Nnedi Okorafor -- Sunbird / Neil Gaiman -- The Sage of Theare / Diana Wynne Jones -- Gabriel-Ernest / Saki -- The Cockatoucan; or, Great-Aunt Willoughby / E. Nesbit -- Moveable Beast / Maria Dahvana Headley -- The Flight of the Horse / Larry Niven -- Prismatica / Samuel R. Delany -- The Manticore,...
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