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Carry On

Rainbow Rowell - Macmillan Audio
Format: Paperback

Number one New York Times best-selling author!Simon Snow is the worst Chosen One whos ever been chosen.Thats what his roommate, Baz, says. And Baz might be evil and a vampire and a complete git, but hes probably right.Half the time, Simon cant even make his wand work, and the other half,...
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The Gilded Ones

Namina Forna - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

"Namina Forna Could Be The Toni Morrison Of YA Fantasy."-Refinery 29 The start of a bold and immersive West African-inspired, feminist fantasy series for fans of Children of Blood and Bone and Black Panther. In this world, girls are outcasts by blood and warriors by choice.Sixteen-year-old...
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Infinity Son

Adam Silvera - Quill Tree Books
Format: Hardcover

Balancing epic and intensely personal stakes, bestselling author Adam Silvera's Infinity Son is a gritty, fast-paced adventure about two brothers caught up in a magical war generations in the making. Growing up in New York, brothers Emil and Brighton always idolized the Spell Walkers - a vigilante...
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Shadow and Bone

Leigh Bardugo - Henry Holt
Format: Hardcover

Surrounded by enemies, the once-great nation of Ravka has been torn in two by the Shadow Fold, a swath of near impenetrable darkness crawling with monsters who feast on human flesh. Now its fate may rest on the shoulders of one lonely refugee. Alina Starkov has never been good at anything....
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Seraphina

Rachel Hartman - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Lyrical, imaginative, and wholly original, this New York Times bestseller with 8 starred reviews is not to be missed. Rachel Hartman's award-winning debut will have you looking at dragons as you've never imagined them before ... In the kingdom of Goredd, dragons and humans live...
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Legendborn

Tracy Deonn - Simon Pulse
Format: Hardcover

Filled with mystery and an intriguingly rich magic system, Tracy Deonn's YA contemporary fantasy Legendborn offers the dark allure of City of Bones with a modern-day twist on a classic legend and a lot of Southern Black Girl Magic.After her mother dies in an accident, sixteen-year-old...
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City of Bones: 10th Anniversary Edition

CASSANDRA CLARE - Margaret K. McElderry Books
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Celebrate the tenth anniversary of Cassandra Clare's City of Bones with this gorgeous new edition, complete with special content and exclusive color illustrations.The tenth anniversary of Cassandra Clare's phenomenal City of Bones...
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Labyrinth Lost

Zoraida Córdova - Sourcebooks Fire
Format: Print book

"Enchanting and complex. Every page is filled with magic." -- Danielle Paige, New York Times best-selling author of Dorothy Must DieNothing says Happy Birthday like summoning the spirits of your dead relatives. Alex is a bruja, the most powerful witch in a generation...and she hates...
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Burn

Patrick Ness - Quill Tree Books
Format: Hardcover

On a cold Sunday evening in early 1957, Sarah Dewhurst waited with her father in the parking lot of the Chevron gas station for the dragon he'd hired to help on the farm ... Sarah Dewhurst and her father, outcasts in their little town of Frome, Washington, are forced to hire a dragon...
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The Hunger Games

Suzanne Collins - Scholastic Inc.
Format: eBook

Winning means fame and fortune. Losing means certain death. The Hunger Games have begun. . . . In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts...
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Divergent

Veronica Roth - HarperCollins
Format: Print book

In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue - Candor (the honest) , Abnegation (the selfless) , Dauntless (the brave) , Amity (the peaceful) , and Erudite (the intelligent) . On an appointed...
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Hunted by the Sky

Bhathena, Tanaz - FARRAR STRAUSS & GIROUX

Gul has spent her life running. She has a star-shaped birthmark on her arm, and in the kingdom of Ambar, girls with such birthmarks have been disappearing for years. Gul's mark is what caused her parents' murder at the hand of King Lohar's ruthless soldiers and forced her into...
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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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Court of Fives

Kate Elliott - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book

When a scheming lord tears Jess's family apart, she must rely on her unlikely friendship with Kal, a high-ranking Patron boy, and her skill at Fives, an intricate, multi-level athletic competition that offers a chance for glory, to protect her Commoner mother and mixed-race sisters...
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A Hero at the End of the World

Erin Claiborne - Big Bang Press
Format: Paperback

Sixteen year-old Ewan Mao knows one thing for certain: according to prophecy, it's his destiny to kill the evil tyrant whose dark reign has terrorized Britain for as long as he can remember. Although he's just a normal boy, deep down Ewan is confident that he has exactly what it takes...
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Steelheart

Brandon Sanderson - Brilliance Audio; Unabridged edition
Format: Audio CD

Ten years ago, Calamity came. It was a burst in the sky that gave ordinary people extraordinary powers. The awed public started calling them Epics. Epics are no friends of man. With incredible gifts came the desire to rule. And to rule man, you must crush his will. Now, in what was once...
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