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Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 52 ratingsYadriel has summoned a ghost, and now he can’t get rid of him.When his traditional Latinx family has problems accepting his gender, Yadriel becomes determined to prove himself a real brujo. With the help of his cousin and best friend Maritza, he performs the ritual himself, and then sets out to find the ghost of his murdered cousin and set it free...Categorized as:
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Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 75 ratingsThe third installment in the all-new series from the #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Maggie Stiefvater!Blue Sargent has found things. For the first time in her life, she has friends she can trust, a group to which she can belong. The Raven Boys have taken her in as one of their own. Their problems have become hers, and her problems have become theirs... -
The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 79 ratingsNow that the ley lines around Cabeswater have been woken, nothing for Ronan, Gansey, Blue, and Adam will be the same. Ronan, for one, is falling more and more deeply into his dreams, and his dreams are intruding more and more into waking life... -
Born of Earth by A.L. Knorr, Gabra Zackman
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA trip abroad. A dark secret. Her family's legacy of magic may cost a teen her life....Georjie’s summer is shaping up to be a big disappointment. Trapped in Ireland with her aunt’s gorgeous but cold adopted son, Jasher, her "vacation" gets worse with each passing day... -
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The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 75 ratingsThe fourth and final installment in the spellbinding series from the irrepressible, #1 New York Times bestselling author Maggie Stiefvater.All her life, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love's death... -
Destiny by P.T. Michelle
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen destiny is on the line, will love be enough to light the way? In order to save Ethan, Nara gets pulled deeper into his dark world, where everything she thought she knew about Ethan and herself turns on its head... -
All That Lives Must Die by Eric S. Nylund
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEliot and Fiona Post are twins whose parental clans are foes. Mom is Immortal goddess Atropos, eldest Fate. Dad is Infernal Lucifer, Satan. High School is Paxington, where gods and goddesses, warriors and sorcerers, learn to harness their powers. Classmates are allies in battle or threats to your life. To flunk is to die. Only the toughest graduate... -
Lost by P.C. Cast, Kristin Cast
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThings have settled down at the Tulsa House of Night since Zoey and the gang closed the tear between worlds and sent Other Kevin back to the Other World. Neferet hasn't stirred. Damien and Jack are falling in love all over again. Stevie Rae and Rephaim are back in Tulsa where they belong. The Depot Restaurant is being rebuilt with the enthusiastic involvement of local humans... -
Firecracker by A.L. Knorr
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn love with one twin, bonded by fire to the other. Welcome to Arcturus Academy.98% of fire magi who attempt the agonizing forbidden ritual known as The Burning don’t survive. Those who do… level up in ways undreamt of by the Unburned.I survived.Now I've got other problems...Categorized as:
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House of Cards by W.J. May
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRae Kerrigan is three months away from graduating from Guilder Boarding school. She is now moonlighting as an operative for the Privy Council, a black ops division for British Intelligence. She’s given a mentor, Jennifer, who fights like a demon –fast, tough, and incredibly strong-willed. Rae finds a strange maternal bond with her...Categorized as:
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Wolf's Bane by Kelley Armstrong
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsPaperback & ebook release of 2018’s serialized novel about the teen children of Elena & Clay from my Otherworld series. When Kate and Logan Danvers are targeted by a pack of Australian werewolves, they aren’t nearly as concerned your average sixteen-year-olds might be. The twins are werewolves themselves, children of the American Pack Alpha and her enforcer mate... -
Lucid by P.T. Michelle
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOnce Nara combines her prophetic ability with Ethan’s power to outsmart Fate at his own deadly cat-and-mouse game, she’s more determined than ever to help Ethan learn the meaning behind the raven sword tattoo that suddenly appeared on his back after their confrontation with Fate... -
In an Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsThis fourth entry and prequel tells the story of Lundy, a very serious young girl who would rather study and dream than become a respectable housewife and live up to the expectations of the world around her. As well she should.When she finds a doorway to a world founded on logic and reason, riddles and lies, she thinks she's found her paradise...Categorized as:
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Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance by Ruth Emmie Lang
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsOrphaned, raised by wolves, and the proud owner of a horned pig named Merlin, Weylyn Grey knew he wasn’t like other people. But when he single-handedly stopped that tornado on a stormy Christmas day in Oklahoma, he realized just how different he actually was.That tornado was the first of many strange events that seem to follow Weylyn from town to town, although he doesn’t like to take credit...Categorized as:
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Shadowshaper Legacy by Daniel José Older
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe epic conclusion to the acclaimed Shadowshaper Cypher series!A house dividedSierra and the shadowshapers have been split apart. Juan, Anthony, and Izzy are in jail, anxiously waiting to find out what will become of them...Categorized as:
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Burning Bright by Chris Cannon
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBryn is back for her senior year at the Institute for Excellence, also known as shape-shifting dragon school. She isn’t sure which is scarier, the life-force sucking dragons stalking campus or the fact that she’s officially betrothed to Jaxon, a guy who will never love her. Not that she could ever love him, either… That’s just ridiculous. Senior year should be fun... -
Illuminate by Lisa Oliver
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsStefan de Marco was looking for a position... again. Being a high scoring magical anchor was only useful in his world when he had someone to partner with. His slender body and elfin looks meant he was usually only chosen to anchor people who believed his duties should extend well past working hours, and that wasn't something Stefan was interested in... -
More than a Little Warped by Annette Marie, Rob Jacobsen
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsAs a conman-turned-MPD-Agent, I'm fairly new to the whole "upholder of justice" thing, but even for me, there are some lines you just don't cross. Agent Söze of the MPD's Internal Affairs department, on other hand, seems determined to slime his way across every ethical line in existence like an over-sized eel on a power trip... -
Dealing with Demons by Melissa Haag
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSome deals can’t be broken. According to the family curse, Tessa has until her next birthday to select her future husband. However, choosing would mean his premature death. Unwilling to condemn any man to that fate, Tessa searches for an explanation behind the curse and the rules that dictate her life. What she learns is more terrifying than she could have imagined...Categorized as:
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Spellbound by Cate Tiernan
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsMorgan knows that a great battle is to come. More immediately, she senses that someone is out to harm Hunter...Categorized as:
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Telesa: The Covenant Keeper by Lani Wendt Young
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen Leila moves to her new home, all she wants is a family, a place to belong. Instead she discovers the local ancient myths of the telesa spirit women are more than just scary stories. The more she finds out about her heritage, the more sinister her new home turns out to be... -
The Cracks in the Kingdom by Jaclyn Moriarty
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAward-winning Astonishingly originalArtistic and magicalTime slides around the world so strangely ...It's not easy being Princess Ko.Her family is missing, taken to the World through cracks in the Kingdom, which were then sealed tightly behind them.Now Princess Ko is running the Kingdom, and war is looming...Categorized as:
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The Dark Rising by Lacey Weatherford
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen Portia Mullins discovers the love of her life is still alive her heart soars. But reality sets in immediately causing it to plummet when she realizes he doesn’t remember his past life with her. Unwilling to give up, she embarks on a loving quest to restore his life to him... -
Hallowed by Cynthia Hand
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 58 ratingsFor months Clara Gardner trained to face the fire from her visions, but she wasn't prepared for the choice she had to make that day. And in the aftermath, she discovered that nothing about being part angel is as straightforward as she thought...Categorized as:
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Challenging Zed by Joss Stirling
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsWant to know what Zed Benedict was thinking when he met his soulmate Sky Bright for the first time? Find out for FREE in this compelling short story. The Benedict brothers all have different abilities and powers. One can move things with his mind, another can heal...Categorized as:
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Secret by Brigid Kemmerer
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsEARTH. FIRE. AIR. WATER.Nick Merrick is stretched to breaking point. He's trying to keep his grades sky-high or he won't get in to college. He's trying to keep his brother's business afloat or the Merricks will be out on the street. He's trying to keep the secret of where he's going in the evenings from his twin brother Gabriel - or he fears he'll lose his family... -
Scumble by Ingrid Law
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsNine years after Mibs's Savvy journey, her cousin Ledge has just turned thirteen . . . But Ledger Kale's savvy is a total dud-all he does is make little things fall apart. So his parents decide it's safe to head to Wyoming, where it's soon revealed that Ledge's savvy is much more powerful than anyone thought...Categorized as:
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Changeling by Cate Tiernan
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsWhen Morgan receives a shocking revelation about her family, she's thrown into a moral tailspin, believing that her essential nature is evil...Categorized as:
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Dream a Little Dream by Kerstin Gier
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsMysterious doors with lizard-head knobs. Talking stone statues. A crazy girl with a hatchet. Yes, Liv's dreams have been pretty weird lately. Especially the one where she's in a graveyard at night, watching four boys conduct dark magic rituals.The strangest part is that Liv recognizes the boys in her dream...Categorized as:
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Awakening by Cate Tiernan
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsFor now, Morgan is safe from the dark wave that has been attacking witches. Betrayed by her first love, she is trying to come to grips with her Woodbane heritage and with Wicca -- its thorn and its rose...Categorized as:
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The Calling by Cate Tiernan
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsMorgan, Hunter and other members of their coven go to New York for a few days in search of the Amyranth witches. Hunter, a Seeker for the Council, is looking for Killian, a young witch in danger. It seems that Ciaran, Killian's father, is looking for him and intending to wipe his magic...Categorized as:
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Shadowhouse Fall by Daniel José Older
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsShadowhouse risingSierra and her friends love their new lives as shadowshapers, making art and creating change with the spirits of Brooklyn. Then Sierra receives a strange card depicting a beast called the Hound of Light—an image from the enigmatic, influential Deck of Worlds...Categorized as:
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Taste of Wrath by Matt Wallace
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWith seven books for seven sins, Taste of Wrath is the adrenaline-fuelled finalé to the Sin du Jour series, which Chuck Wendig calls “a raucous, riotous tale of culinary madness”!Bronko and his team of crack chefs and kitchen staff have been serving the New York supernatural community for decades. But all that could be about to change... -
The Rules and Regulations for Mediating Myths & Magic by F.T. Lukens
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDesperate to pay for college, Bridger Whitt is willing to overlook the peculiarities of his new job—entering via the roof, the weird stacks of old books and even older scrolls, the seemingly incorporeal voices he hears from time to time—but it’s pretty hard to ignore being pulled under Lake Michigan by… mermaids? Worse yet, this happens in front of his new crush, Leo, the dreamy football star... -
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Ethan by P.T. Michelle
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEthan Harris never thought monsters and darkness would consume his daily thoughts, but every night the same visions repeat in his dreams. He's careful to project a semblance of normalcy, keeping the suffocating darkness locked inside. As much as he wishes he could focus on girls, sports, and cars like other seventeen-year-olds, nothing distracts him from his own demons or shines through... -
American Monsters by Derek Landy
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe epic conclusion in the mind-blowing supernatural thriller from bestselling author DEREK LANDY, creator of international sensation Skulduggery Pleasant.Bigger, meaner, stronger, Amber closes in on her murderous parents as they make one last desperate play for power... -
Angel Dares by Joss Stirling
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAngel is impulsive. Disguising her savant ability to control water doesn't come easily to her. Then she meets the broodingly handsome Marcus at a music festival where they're both performing, and finds herself all at sea. For when he sings, her soul answers with its own music. Like the tide, their mutual attraction cannot be held back, but Marcus's mistrust of Angel's gift is even stronger... -
Strife by Cate Tiernan
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsMorgan has been so involved in the world of magick that her parents are furious with her for neglecting school. And now the members of her coven are being persecuted. Morgan is falling to pieces...Categorized as:
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The Paladin Prophecy by Mark Frost
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWill West is careful to live life under the radar. At his parents' insistence, he's made sure to get mediocre grades and to stay in the middle of the pack on his cross-country team. Then Will slips up, accidentally scoring off the charts on a nationwide exam.Now Will is being courted by an exclusive prep school . . . and is being followed by men driving black sedans...Categorized as:
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The Evil We Love by Cassandra Clare, Robin Wasserman
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsAll evil starts somewhere, and Simon Lewis learns how The Circle—led by Valentine Morgenstern—began. One of ten adventures in Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy.The Shadowhunter Academy has only just reopened following the disastrous rise of the Circle. Now the faculty can finally admit to what happened when Valentine was a student... -
The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 84 ratings“There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark’s Eve,” Neeve said. “Either you’re his true love . . . or you killed him.”It is freezing in the churchyard, even before the dead arrive.Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past...Categorized as:
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Dream On by Kerstin Gier
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsThings seem to be going well for Liv Silver: she’s adjusting to her new home in London; she has a burgeoning romance with Henry Harper, one of the cutest boys in school; and the girl who’s been turning her dreams into nightmares, Anabel, is now locked up. But serenity doesn’t last for long.It seems that Liv’s troubles are far from over—in fact, suddenly they’re piling up...Categorized as:
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Black Heart by Holly Black
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsIn a world where magic is illegal, Cassel Sharpe has the most deadly ability of all. With one touch, he can transform any object--including a person--into something else entirely. And that makes him a wanted man. The Feds are willing to forgive all his past crimes if he'll only leave his con artist family behind and go straight...Categorized as:
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Charlie Bone and the Hidden King by Jenny Nimmo
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsThe fifth book in the New York Times bestselling CHILDREN OF THE RED KING series! When Charlie turns twelve on New Year's Eve, the Flame Cats give him a grave warning: Something ancient has awoken, and Charlie must be watchful. Soon Charlie learns that the shadow from the Red King's portrait has been released, and that it will do anything to keep Charlie from finding his father... -
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Breathless by Brigid Kemmerer
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsToo many secrets. Not enough time.Nick Merrick is supposed to be the level-headed one. The peacemaker. Since it’s just him and his three hotheaded brothers against the world, that’s a survival tactic.But now he’s got problems even his brothers can’t help him survive.His so-called girlfriend, Quinn, is going quick as mercury from daring to crazy... -
Awakened by Ednah Walters
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAwakened is the prequel to the Guardian Legacy series.Most teens turn sixteen and get the license to drive, but Lil Falcon gets the license to kill demons. Orphaned as a child and raised by an eccentric grandfather, Lil is concerned with surviving high school and is unaware that she's a Guardian-a being with super powers charged with killing demons and protecting humanity... -
Remembered by Krista Street
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLena, Flint and their unique family have discovered what created their extrasensory abilities and hidden memories. When a new opportunity arises to give them answers to a past they thought was lost, an entire world is reopened.Now, stronger than they were before, they venture to the heart of what created them knowing they may not all return... -
Demon Trap by P.S. Power
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNo one said that life as a Greater Demon would be fair, and Keeley Thomson is feeling the pinch as someone tries very hard to kill her.Now she has to uncover even more secrets about her world and find new ways to survive as the clock ticks down and her greatest secret is exposed to the world. Which is exactly what she needed, of course... -
Hell Cop 2 by Astrid Amara, Nicole Kimberling
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTrust Me by Astrid AmaraBrian Day's no longer the naïve country boy Jay Yervant fell in love with. A hardened hell cop with dangerous powers, Brian's osmotic abilities are growing out of control. When two men are found dead, killed by an osmotic, Jay wants to clear Brian's name... -
Called by Darkness by Sean Fletcher
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“Love love love!!!! I can't wait to read more from this series!” —Crystal, Amazon Reviewer ★★★★★There’s a darkness inside her, and an evil only she can stop…Skylar’s world is comprised of a few things: Getting out from under her famous mother’s shadow. Making it through the Academy of Magic without getting herself killed...Categorized as:
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