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Juvenile

All the Colors of Magic

Valija Zinck - Chicken House
Format: Hardcover

"An exciting new voice among the world's storytellers." -- Cornelia FunkeA heartfelt, adventure-filled, and charming novel about a peculiar girl who embarks on a journey to find her father, the wizard.Penelope has always been different from other children. Her hair has been gray...
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Dragon Pearl

Yoon Ha Lee - Rick Riordan Presents
Format: Hardcover

Rick Riordan Presents Yoon Ha Lee's space opera about thirteen-year-old Min, who comes from a long line of fox spirits. But you'd never know it by looking at her. To keep the family safe, Min's mother insists that none of them use any fox-magic, such as Charm or shape-shifting. They must...
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Dragon Prince Book One: Moon

Aaron Ehasz - Scholastic Inc.
Format: Paperback

With their world on the brink of war, three young heroes from opposite sides of the conflict embark on a dangerous quest that could change everything. This beautiful book expands on the events of Season 1 of the hit Netflix show The Dragon Prince.Moonshadow elvin assassin Rayla has bound...
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Dragon Slippers

Jessica Day George - Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Format: Paperback

When an orphan girl named Creel befriends a dragon, she unknowingly inherits a pair of slippers that could be used to save her kingdom, or destroy it. Perfect for fans of Shannon Hale and Cornelia Funke’s Dragon Rider, the light tone and charming characterizations bring this heartwarming...
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Dragonsong

Anne McCaffrey - Saga Press; Reissue edition
Format: Print book

A young woman allies with magnificent dragons in the first book in the Harper Hall trilogy, set within science fiction legend Anne McCaffreys beloved and bestselling Dragonriders of Pern series. Every two hundred years or so, on the planet colony of Pern, shimmering Threads fall from space,...
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Princess Academy: Palace of Stone

Shannon Hale - Bloomsbury USA Childrens; 1 edition
Format: Print book

Coming down from the mountain to a new life in the city is a thrill to Miri. She and her princess academy friends have been brought to Asland to help the future princess Britta prepare for her wedding.There, Miri also has a chance to attend school-at the Queen's Castle. But as Miri...
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The Raven Heir

Stephanie Burgis - Bloomsbury Children's Books
Format: Hardcover

Deep within an enchanted forest lies a castle where a set of triplets and their sorceress mother have lived for years--safe from the decades-long war for the Raven Throne that rages in the kingdom. Cordelia, one of the triplets, has the power to become any animal with just a thought, and she yearns...
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Rise of the Dragon Moon

Gabrielle K. Byrne - Imprint
Format: Hardcover

The princess of a frozen queendom fights to free her mother from the clutches of terrifying dragons in Rise of the Dragon Moon, a middle grade fantasy debut from Gabrielle K. Byrne.Princess Toli may be heir to the throne, but she longs to be a fierce hunter and warrior. Alone in a frozen...
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The Search for WondLa

Tony DiTerlizzi - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

When a marauder destroys the underground sanctuary that Eva Nine was raised in by the robot Muthr, the twelve-year-year-old girl is forced to flee aboveground. Eva Nine is searching for anyone else like her, for she knows that other humans exist, because of an item she treasures - a scrap...
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Thornwood

Leah Cypess
Format: Hardcover

For years, Briony has lived in the shadow of her beautiful older sister, Rosalin, and the curse that has haunted her from birth--that on the day of her sixteenth birthday she would prick her finger on a spindle and cause everyone in the castle to fall into a 100-year sleep. When the day the curse...
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Young Adult

Air Awakens

Elise Kova - Silver Wing Press
Format: Print book

A library apprentice, a sorcerer prince, and an unbreakable magic bond... The Solaris Empire is one conquest away from uniting the continent, and the rare elemental magic sleeping in seventeen-year-old library apprentice Vhalla Yarl could shift the tides of war.Vhalla has always been taught...
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Alanna: The First Adventure

Tamora Pierce - ‎Simon Pulse; 1st Simon Pulse Ed edition
Format: Mass Market Paperback

From Tamora Pierce, the first book in the Song of the Lioness Quartet, honored with the Margaret A. Edwards Award."From now on Im Alan of Trebond, the younger twin. Ill be a knight." In a time when girls are forbidden to be warriors, Alanna of Trebond wants nothing more...
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Aurora Rising

Kaufman, Amie

From the New York Times and internationally bestselling authors of the Illuminae Files comes a new science fiction epic . . .The year is 2380, and the graduating cadets of Aurora Academy are being assigned their first missions. Star pupil Tyler Jones is ready
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A Beautiful Friendship (Star Kingdom)

David Weber - Baen; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal and international bestselling phenomenon David Weber delivers the first entry in an original young adult science fiction adventure series, the Star Kingdom saga! Young teen Stephanie Harrington forms a telepathic bond with an intelligent alien...
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Bring Me Their Hearts

SARA WOLF - Entangled
Format: Hardcover

Zera is a Heartless -- the immortal, unaging soldier of a witch. Bound to the witch Nightsinger, Zera longs for freedom from the woods they hide in. With her heart in a jar under Nightsinger's control, she serves the witch unquestioningly.Until Nightsinger asks Zera for a prince's heart...
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Cinder: Book One of the Lunar Chronicles

Marissa Meyer - Feiwel & Friends; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earths fate hinges on one girl. . . . Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. Shes a second-class...
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A court of thorns and roses

Sarah J Maas - Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Format: Hardcover

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERPerfect for fans of Kristin Cashore and George R.R. Martin, this first book in a sexy and action-packed new series is impossible to put down!When nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a beast-like creature arrives to demand...
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Dreadnought: Nemesis - Book One

April Daniels - Diversion Distribution Se
Format: Print book

An action-packed series-starter perfect for fans of The Heroine Complex and Not Your Sidekick. "I didn't know how much I needed this brave, thrilling book until it rocked my world. Dreadnought is the superhero adventure we all need right now." -- Charlie Jane...
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Forest of Souls

Lori M. Lee - Page Street Kids
Format: Hardcover

Danger lurks within the roots of Forest of Souls, an epic, unrelenting tale of destiny and sisterhood, perfect for fans of Naomi Novik and Susan Dennard."A tantalizing beginning to a rich new fantasy series." -- Traci Chee, NYT bestselling author of The Reader trilogy"Absolutely...
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The Golden Compass

Philip Pullman - ill.
Format: Book

Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far North.
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Princess of the Midnight Ball

Jessica Day George - Bloomsbury USA Childrens; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

Rose is one of twelve princesses forced to dance through the night in an underground palace. The key to breaking the spell lies in magic knitting needles, an invisibility cloak, and—of course—true love. Inspired by "The Twelve Dancing Princesses,"this novel is as captivating...
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The Princess Will Save You: Kingdoms of Sand and Sky

Sarah Henning - Tor Teen
Format: Hardcover

When a princesss commoner true love is kidnapped to coerce her into a political marriage, she doesnt give inshe goes to rescue him.
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The Privilege of the Sword (Swords of Riverside, Book 2)

Ellen Kushner - Spectra
Format: Paperback

Welcome to Riverside, where the aristocratic and the ambitious battle for power in the city's ballroom, brothels and boudoirs. Into this alluring world walks Katherine, a well-bred country girl versed in the rules of conventional society. Her mistake is thinking that they apply. For Katherine's...
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Shielded

KayLynn Flanders - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Sorcery of Thorns and Furyborn comes a thrilling new fantasy about a kingdom ravaged by war, and the princess who might be the key to saving not only those closest to her, but the kingdom itself, if she reveals the very secret that could destroy her.The kingdom of Hlendi is in trouble....
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Skylark

Meagan Spooner - Carolrhoda Lab
Format: Hardcover

Vis in magia, in vita vi. In magic there is power, and in power, life. For fifteen years, Lark Ainsley waited for the day when her Resource would be harvested and she would finally be an adult. After the harvest she expected a small role in the regular, orderly operation of the City within...
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Sorcery of Thorns

Margaret Rogerson - Margaret K. McElderry Books
Format: Book

From the New York Times bestselling author of An Enchantment of Ravens comes an imaginative fantasy about an apprentice at a magical library who must battle a powerful sorcerer to save her kingdom.

All sorcerers are evil. Elisabeth has known that as long as she has known...
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Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow

Jessica Day George - Bloomsbury
Format: Hardcover

Blessed--or cursed--with an ability to understand animals, the Lass (as she's known to her family) has always been an oddball. And when an isbjorn (polar bear) seeks her out, and promises that her family will become rich if only the Lass will accompany him to his castle, she doesn't...
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Throne of Glass

Sarah J Maas - Bloomsbury
Format: Print book

After serving out a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, 18-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien is dragged before the Crown Prince. Prince Dorian offers her her freedom on one condition: she must act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin....
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These Broken Stars (Starbound)

Amie Kaufman - Hyperion Book CH
Format: Hardcover

Its a night like any other on board the Icarus. Then, catastrophe strikes: the massive luxury spaceliner is yanked out of hyperspace and plummets into the nearest planet. Lilac LaRoux and Tarver Merendsen survive. And they seem to be alone. . Lilac is the daughter of the richest man in the universe....
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Tithe : A Modern Faerie Tale

Holly Black - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

Welcome to the realm of very scary faeries! Sixteen-year-old Kaye is a modern nomad. Fierce and independent, she travels from city to city with her mother's rock band until an ominous attack forces the sixteen-year-old back to her childhood home. There, amid the industrial, blue-collar...
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Trickster's Choice

Tamora Pierce - Random House
Format: Paperback

Tamora Pierce brings readers another Tortall adventure! Alianne is the teenage daughter of the famed Alanna, the first lady knight in Tortall. Young Aly follows in the quieter footsteps of her father, however, delighting in the art of spying. When she is captured and sold as a slave to an exiled...
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Adult

Bloodsucking Fiends

Christopher Moore

Jody never asked to become a vampire. But when she wakes up under an alley Dumpster with a badly burned arm, an aching neck, superhuman strength, and a distinctly Nosferatuan thirst, she realizes the decision has been made for her.Making the transition from the nine-to-f
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The Color of Magic: A Discworld Novel

Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett's profoundly irreverent, bestselling novels have garnered him a revered position in the halls of parody next to the likes of Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen.The Color of Magic is Terry Pratchett's maiden voyage through the now-l
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The Crystal Shard: The Icewind Dale Trilogy, Part 1 (Forgotten Realms: The Legend of Drizzt, Book IV) (Bk. 4)

R.A. Salvatore - Wizards of the Coast
Format: Paperback

The fourth in a series of premiere hardcover editions of Salvatore’s classic dark elf tales.This new release of the classic R.A. Salvatore novel continues the classic tale of Salvatore’s signature dark elf character Drizzt Do’Urden™. Although this was the first title...
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Diplomacy of Wolves: Book 1 of the Secret Texts

Holly Lisle - Warner Books
Format: Paperback

This first volume of The Secret Texts trilogy builds a complete fantasy world with systems of magic, politics, geography & history.
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Dragons of Autumn Twilight (Dragonlance Chronicles, Volume I)

Margaret Weis - Wizards of the Coast
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Lifelong friends, they went their separate ways. Now they are together again, though each holds secrets from the others in his heart. They speak of a world shadowed with rumors of war. They speak of tales of strange monsters, creatures of myth, creatures of legend. They do not speak of their...
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The Elvenbane

Andre Norton - Tom Doherty Associates Book
Format: Paperback

Two masters of epic fantasy have combined in this brilliant collaboration to create a rousing tale of the sort that becomes an instant favorite. This is the story of Shana, a halfbreed born of the forbidden union of an Elvenlord father and a human mother. Her exiled mother dead, she was rescued...
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House of Four Winds.

Mercedes Lackey
Format:  Book : English

Mercedes Lackey is the New York Times bestselling author of the Valdemar series and romantic fantasies like Beauty and the Werewolf and The Fairy Godmother. JAMES MALLORY and Lackey have collaborated on six novels. Now. these New York Times and USA Today bestselling collaborators bring...
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The Lost King (Star of the Guardians #1)

Margaret Weis - Bantam Books (August 1, 1990)
Format: Book

As a corrupt Commonwealth rules the galaxy through the might of its armies, its most influential general--a renegade Guardian of the deposed Starfire royal line--pursues the rumor of a hidden heir to the throne and searches for a woman he loves and is destined to destroy.
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Mistborn: The Final Empire

Brandon Sanderson - Tor Teen; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sandersons epic Mistborn Trilogy begins.Once, a hero rose to save the world. He failed.For a thousand years since, the world has been a wasteland of ash and mist ruled by the immortal emperor known as the Lord Ruler. Every revolt has failed miserably.Yet...
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Shadowrun: Born To Run

Stephen Kenson - RoC Books
Format: Book

Earth, 2063. Long-dormant magical forces have reawakened, and the creatures of mankind's legends and nightmares have come out of hiding. Megacorporations act as the new world superpowers, and the dregs of society fight for their own power. Sliding through the cracks in between are shadowrunners-underworld...
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Ship Who Searched

Anne McCaffrey - Baen; 30 Anv edition
Format: Paperback

Special 20th Anniversary Edition, with a new introduction by Mercedes Lackey.  A beloved classic of romantic space adventure returns.  A novel of Anne McCaffrey’s Brainship series.  A young woman becomes paralyzed and must become a brainship—and find her Brawn,...
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Split Infinity

Piers Anthony - Ballantine Books
Format: Paperback

On the technological, decadent world of Proton, someone was trying to destroy Stile, serf and master Gamesman. His only escape lay in Phaze, a world totally ruled by magic. Soon he learned that his alternate self had already been murdered, and that he was next. On Proton, his fate depended...
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Spymaster

Margaret Weis - Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

The start of a swashbuckling adventure from New York Times bestselling author Margaret Weis and Robert KrammesCaptain Kate Fitzmaurice was born to sail. She has made a life of her own as a privateer and smuggler. Hired by the notorious Henry Wallace, spymaster for the queen of Freya,...
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Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy

Mike Baron - Dark Horse Books; Third Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Five years after the fall of the Empire, Luke Skywalker is the first in a new line of Jedi Knights. Han Solo and Princess Leia have married, together assuming many burdens of the New Republic's government. But across the galaxy lies a dying part of the Empire — all the more dangerous...
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Storm Front

Jim Butcher - Roc
Format: Mass Market Paperback

In the first novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Dresden Files series, Harry Dresden's investigation of a grisly double murder pulls him into the darkest depths of magical Chicago ... As a professional wizard, Harry Dresden knows firsthand that the "everyday" world...
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Thrawn

Timothy Zahn - Del Rey
Format: Hardcover

In this definitive novel, readers will follow Thrawn's rise to power - uncovering the events that created one of the most iconic villains in Star Wars history. One of the most cunning and ruthless warriors in the history of the Galactic Empire, Grand Admiral Thrawn is also one of the most...
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Through Wolf's Eyes

Jane M Lindskold - Tor
Format: Book

Firekeeper only vaguely remembers a time when she didn't live with her "family," a pack of "royal wolves"-bigger, stronger, and smarter than normal wolves. Now her pack leaders are sending her back to live among the humans, as they promised her mother years ago.Some...
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The Time Traveler's Wife

Audrey Niffenegger - Scribner; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

A MOST UNTRADITIONAL LOVE STORY, this is the celebrated tale of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who inadvertently travels through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clares passionate affair endures across a sea of time...
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To the King a Daughter

Andre Norton

To the King a Daughter begins the cycle of Oak, Yew, Ash, and Rowan: the four powers of the world who have been warring for centuries. The Clan of Ash is slowly dying, their totem tree in the sacred square withering away to nothing. There is a prophecy that a daughter o
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