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• Tress of the Emerald Sea

  Sanderson, Brandon

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  The only life Tress has known on her island home in an emerald-green ocean has been a simple one, with the simple pleasures of collecting cups brought by sailors from faraway lands and listening to stories told by her friend Charlie. But when his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• In the Lives of Puppets

  Klune, TJ

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  In a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees, live three robots--fatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson, a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine, and a small vacuum desperate for love and attention. Victor Lawson, a human,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Other Ever Afters

  New Queer Fairy Tales

  Gillman, Melanie

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  Once upon a time...happily ever after turned out differently than expected. In this new, feminist, queer fairy-tale collection, you’ll find the princesses, mermaids, knights, barmaids, children, and wise old women who have been forced to sit on the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Fairy Bargains of Prospect Hill

  Miller, Rowenna

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  In the early 1900s, two sisters must navigate the magic and the dangers of the Fae in this enchanting and cozy historical fantasy about sisterhood and self-discovery.

• Once Upon a Broken Heart

  Garber, Stephanie

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  How far would you go for happily ever after? For as long as she can remember, Evangeline Fox has believed in true love and happy endings... until she learns that the love of her life will marry another. Desperate to stop the wedding and to heal her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Silver in the Bone

  Bracken, Alexandra

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  Tamsin Lark didn’t ask to be a Hollower. As a mortal with no magical talent, she was never meant to break into ancient crypts, or compete with sorceresses and Cunningfolk for the treasures inside. But after her thieving foster father disappeared…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• White Cat, Black Dog

  Stories

  Link, Kelly

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  Seven ingeniously reinvented fairy tales that play out with astonishing consequences in the modern world. In "The White Cat's Divorce," an aging billionaire sends his three sons on a series of absurd goose chases to decide which will become his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Atalanta

  Saint, Jennifer

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  A reimagining of the myth of Atalanta, a fierce huntress raised by bears and the only woman in the world’s most famous band of heroes, the Argonauts Princess, Warrior, Lover, Hero. When Princess Atalanta is born, a daughter rather than the son her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Priory of the Orange Tree

  Shannon, Samantha, 1991-

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  A world divided. A queendom without an heir. An ancient enemy awakens. The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction – but assassins are…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The House in the Cerulean Sea

  Klune, TJ

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  Linus Baker leads a quiet, solitary life. At forty, he lives in a tiny house with a devious cat and his old records. As a case worker at the Department in Charge of Magical Youth, Linus is unexpectedly summoned by Extremely Upper Management where…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Daughters of Nri

  Amayo, Reni K

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  A gruesome war results in the old gods' departure from earth. The only remnants of their existence lie in two girls. Twins, separated at birth. Goddesses who grow up believing that they are human. Daughters Of Nri explores their epic journey of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Curse So Dark and Lonely

  Kemmerer, Brigid

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  Fall in love, break the curse. Cursed by a powerful enchantress to repeat the autumn of his eighteenth year, Prince Rhen, the heir of Emberfall, thought he could be saved easily if a girl fell for him. But that was before he turned into a vicious…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Monster of Elendhaven

  Giesbrecht, Jennifer

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  The city of Elendhaven sulks on the edge of the ocean. Wracked by plague, abandoned by the South, stripped of industry and left to die. But not everything dies so easily. A thing without a name stalks the city, a thing shaped like a man, with a dark…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Awakening

  Roberts, Nora

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  When Breen Kelly was a girl, her father would tell her stories of magical places. Now she’s an anxious twentysomething mired in student debt and working a job she hates. But one day she stumbles upon a shocking discovery: her mother has been hiding…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Witch's Heart

  Gornichec, Genevieve

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  Angrboda's story begins where most witches' tales end: with a burning. A punishment from Odin for refusing to provide him with knowledge of the future, the fire leaves Angrboda injured and powerless, and she flees into the farthest reaches of a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black Sun

  Roanhorse, Rebecca

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  A god will return, When the earth and sky converge, Under the black sun. In the holy city of Tova, the winter solstice is usually a time for celebration and renewal, but this year it coincides with a solar eclipse, a rare celestial event…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We All Fall Down

  Szabo, Rose

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  In River City, where magic used to thrive and is now fading, the witches who once ruled the city along with their powerful King have become all but obsolete. The city's crumbling government is now controlled primarily by the new university and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Howl's Moving Castle

  Jones, Diana Wynne

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  Sophie has the great misfortune of being the eldest of three daughters, destined to fail miserably should she ever leave home to seek her fate. But when she unwittingly attracts the ire of the Witch of the Waste, Sophie finds herself under a horrid…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Cruel Prince

  Black, Holly

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  Jude was seven when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. Ten years later, Jude wants nothing more than to belong there, despite her mortality. But many of the fey…Read moreRead more of this annotation