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Everywhere You Want to Be

Christina June - Blink
Format: Paperback

From author Christina June comes Everywhere You Want to Be, a modern tale inspired by the classic Red Riding Hood story.Matilda Castillo has always followed the rules, but when she gets injured senior year, she's sure her dreams of becoming a contemporary dancer have slipped away....
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The Shadow Queen

C J Redwine - Balzer & Bray/Harperteen
Format: Print book

A dark epic fantasy inspired by the tale of Snow White, from C. J. Redwine, the author of the Defiance series. Perfect for fans of A Court of Thorns and Roses and Cinder.Lorelai Diederich, crown princess and fugitive at large, has one mission: kill the wicked queen who took both the Ravenspire...
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A Curse Dark as Gold

Elizabeth C. Bunce - Arthur A. Levine Books
Format: Hardcover

Upon the death of her father, seventeen-year-old Charlotte struggles to keep the family's woolen mill running in the face of an overwhelming mortgage and what the local villagers believe is a curse, but when a man capable of spinning straw into gold appears on the scene she must decide...
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Briar Rose

Jane Yolen - Tor Teen
Format: Print book

Briar Rose is a historically sensitive retelling of Sleeping Beauty set amid forests patrolled by the German army during World War II.In the heat of midsummer 1942, deep in a forest in the heart of Poland, Briar Rose arrives at a castle that has fallen into the hands of an evil army. Corrupted...
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Cruel Beauty

Rosamund Hodge - Balzer + Bray
Format: Hardcover

If you're excited about the upcoming Disney film Beauty and the Beast, starring Emma Watson, don't miss Cruel Beauty. The romance of Beauty and the Beast meets the adventure of Graceling in this dazzling fantasy novel about our deepest desires and their power to change our destiny.Perfect...
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The Silence of the Girls: A Novel

PAT BARKER - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

One of The Washington Post's 50 Most Notable Books of 2018One of NPR's Best Books of 2018One of Vanity Fair's Best Fall Books of 2018 "An important, powerful, memorable book that invites us to look differently not only at The Iliad but at our own ways of telling...
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Circe

Madeline Miller - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Paperback

"A bold and subversive retelling of the goddess's story," this #1 New York Times bestseller "manages to be both epic and intimate in its scope, recasting the most infamous female figure from the Odyssey as a hero in her own right" (Alexandra Alter, The...
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The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus

Margaret Atwood

"Homer's Odyssey is not the only version of the story. Mythic material was originally oral, and also local -- a myth would be told one way in one place and quite differently in another. I have drawn on material other than the Odyssey, especially for the details
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The Children of Jocasta

Natalie Haynes - Europa Editions
Format: Paperback

Thebes is a city in mourning, still reeling from a devastating attack of plague that invaded every home and left the survivors devastated and fearful. This is the Thebes that Jocasta has known her entire life, a city ruled by a king -- her husband-to-be.Jocasta struggles through this miserable...
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Elementals 3: The Head of Medusa

Michelle Madow - Dreamscape Publishing
Format: eBook

The epic story of witches, gods, and monsters that USA Today called a "must read" continues in the third book of the Elementals series! When Nicole Cassidy moved to a new town, she discovered that she was a witch descended from gods. But that was nothing compared to learning...
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