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Legend by Sever Bronny
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsImagine a spell that can age you a lifetime in heartbeats, turn loved ones into enemies, and set demons upon your soul…and imagine having to use it to save the kingdom… Battle-tested Augum, Bridget and Leera prepare for a final confrontation with the increasingly vicious Lord of the Legion...Categorized as:
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Daughters of Sea and Storm by E.E. Holmes
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"And what is your destiny, Little Bird? Who will you be?"Sixteen-year-old Wren Vesper is just like every other kid she trying to survive high school and figure out what she wants to do with her life. But when news of her grandmother's death reaches her, she discovers she is not like everyone else, and that question about what to do with her life may no longer be hers to answer...Categorized as:
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Den Mund voll ungesagter Dinge by Anne Freytag
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWenn Sophie es sich aussuchen könnte, wäre ihr Leben simpel. Aber das ist es nicht. Und das war es auch nie. Das fängt damit an, dass ihre Mutter sie direkt nach der Geburt im Stich gelassen hat. Und endet damit, dass Sophies Vater plötzlich beschließt, mit seiner Tochter zu seiner Freundin nach München zu ziehen. Alle sind glücklich. Bis auf Sophie... -
The Chosen Witch by Chandelle LaVaun
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMy magic doesn’t define me.Within my secret, ancient race of witches, everyone prays to join the most powerful circle of all—The Coven. Well, everyone except for me. All I want is to discover the truth of the past that was stolen from me. So I lay low, defending the world from demons and training to strengthen my magic...Categorized as:
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A Feiticeira de São Judas Tadeu dos Milagres by Isa Prospero
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAos 83 anos, Dona Simone leva uma vida pacata no interior de São Paulo – até que um dia recebe uma herança mágica extraviada há décadas. Com a ajuda do neto e de um amigo inesperado, Simone terá que descobrir o que significa exatamente ser uma bruxa... -
Dandelion Daughter: A Novel by Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWinner 2022, Prix des Libraires Rights for TV adaptation purchased by Zone 3 A runaway bestseller in Québec, where it has captured the hearts of readers and pushed trans-identity into the mainstream conversation, Dandelion Daughter is an intimate, courageous portrait of what it’s like to grow up having been assigned the wrong sex at birth...Categorized as:
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Reborn by C.M. Raymond, L.E. Barbant
Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsWhat doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Lilith is dying. The Laughing Queen is coming. A series of mysterious disappearances are plaguing New Romanov. Good thing Team Triple B is on the case. In order to save the people that she loves, Hannah must push her magical abilities to the limit... -
The Undying Illusionist by Candy Crum, Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRemnant invaders. Evil druids. A murderer on the loose. Good thing Arcadia has found a new ally.With Doyle’s grim warning to Amelia before he was killed, the Chancellor is struggling to find clues to who the wolf in their blossoming city could be.But Arryn has already found her. The problem is proving it...Categorized as:
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Living in the Past by W.J. May
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe past is your lesson. The present is your gift. The future is your motivation. From USA Today bestselling author, W.J. May brings you a spin off from the Chronicles of Kerrigan. This is a stand alone series, or can be read with the Chronicles of Kerrigan series How can you build a future, when a part of you is trapped in the past? Gabriel Alden’s problems were supposed to be over...Categorized as:
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Storm Surge - Book Two by Melissa Good
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe conclusion of the story begun in Storm Surge, Book One. Its fall. Dar and Kerry are traveling - Dar overseas to clinch a deal with their new ship owner partners in England, and Kerry on a reluctant visit home for her high school reunion... -
Liberty by Seth King
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAt 2:01 AM on Labor Day Monday, the first gunshots ring out inside Liberty gay dance club in Jacksonville, Florida. The next few hours find August Brees and Corey Ross, both eighteen and coming off the most transformative and romantic summer of their lives, fighting against all odds to forge something everlasting out of two ephemeral lives... -
Pride High : Book 1 - Red by Jay Bell
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat’s it like being a teenager in the 90s? Let’s ask the characters of Pride High:Anthony Cullen: My life would be perfect, if I wasn’t in the closet. And in love with my straight best friend. Do you think he’ll ever notice me?Omar Jafari: Dude! I’m flunking out of most of my classes, but you know what really matters? A girl talked to me... -
Elementals Academy: The Discovery of Magic by Michelle Madow
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsWelcome to Elementals Academy, where magic is the only hope of survival, forbidden romance beckons, and an ancient secret threatens to end it all.Summer Donovan thinks paying her way through her expensive private college is her biggest problem.She's about to find out how wrong she is...Categorized as:
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Rri po te mundesh. Shko nese duhet. by Helga Flatland
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRomanen tar utgangspunkt i tre unge barndomsvenner - Tarjei, Trygve og Kristian - og deres beslutning om å verve seg til de norske styrkene i Afghanistan. Ingen av de tre kommer tilbake... -
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Vista desde una acera by Fernando Molano Vargas
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEsta es la historia de Fernando y Adrián, dos jóvenes colombianos, estudiantes universitarios de literatura, novios. También es la historia de sus dificultades –económicas, familiares, personales– y de sus deseos y proyectos compartidos... -
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A Wind From the Rift by Bonnie Wynne
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe sorceress has broken free of her shackles. Months of imprisonment have forged Gwyn into something new; something dangerous. Eight dead sorceresses whisper in her ear, hungry for blood and vengeance – and after unleashing the red magic to make her escape, she fears she won’t be able to stop.All Gwyn really wants is to go home... -
Firewalker by Loren K. Jones
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFor Java Mountainstand, the only way to avoid an arranged marriage to a brute is to run away from her life, her home, and him. Java joins the all-female mercenary company called Freeholm's Firewalkers where she is made a Scout. As a scout, Java finds herself in one of the most dangerous positions in the company--and the most exciting... -
Soaring Flame and the Dragon-transcending Magimal by Weiqi Wang
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis is the first book of a teen fantasy book series that nurtures the bloom of MAGIC in the soil of SCIENCE - something rarely attempted. The transition from magic to science will be bit by bit, so the early books do read like a "mainstream" magic fantasy.Soarame has a pair of special eyes. He can see magic elements in this world, which are supposed to be invisible... -
The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhere would I start, and how would it even make sense? How could you understand the year in Shandon Street unless you were there, with us, living it?Rachel Murray is twenty-one years old, platonically infatuated with her housemate James, and less-than-platonically infatuated with her enigmatic, married English professor Dr Byrne... -
Love and Other Poems by Alex Dimitrov
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAlex Dimitrov’s third book, Love and Other Poems, is full of praise for the world we live in. Taking time, and specifically the months of the year as an overarching structure, Dimitrov elevates the every day and speaks directly to the reader as if the poem were a phone call or a text message... -
The Tower at the Edge of the World by Victoria Goddard
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn unnamed young man lives in a tower at the edge of the world, content with the orderly rituals and freedom to study that his lot--or he is content, until one day he discovers something in a bird's nest outside the tower window, and his efforts to reach it discover far more than he expects... -
Bad At Existing: Poems by Madisen Kuhn
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“Madisen’s poetry is thoughtful and makes one feel seen and heard. I can’t wait for readers to dive in.” —Rupi Kaur, #1 New York Times bestselling authorFind yourself in the pages of this moving poetry and prose collection from the author of Eighteen Years and Please Don’t Go Before I Get Better... -
Mein Leben basiert auf einer wahren Geschichte by Anne Freytag
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsRosa und Frank begegnen sich am anderen Ende der Welt. Durch Zufall oder weil es so sein soll. Sie sind sich ähnlich und doch grundverschieden – Rosa widersprüchlich, Frank ruhig. Zusammen sind sie nicht nur weniger allein, sondern ziemlich nah dran an vollständig. Sie beschließen, gemeinsam weiterzureisen und einen alten Camper zu kaufen... -
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Mais ou menos 9 horas by Vitor Martins
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsO quarto romance de Vitor Martins, autor de Um milhão de finais felizes, Quinze dias e do finalista do Prêmio Jabuti 2022 Se a casa 8 falasse.Júnior não imaginava que, às vésperas de seu aniversário de trinta anos, receberia a notícia da morte do pai... -
Sooner or Later by Bruce Hart, Carole Hart
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThirteen-year-old Jessie Walters experiences her first feelings of love when she meets a seventeen-year-old musician but she feels she must lie about her age to him... -
Into This World We're Thrown by Mark Kendrick
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratings“While Desert Sons deftly handles the difficult and sometimes dangerous coming out process of young lovers Ryan and Scott, the sequel finds that lingering tensions remain, while new challenges continue to surface. Infidelity, jealousy, town gossip, and buried feelings threaten to destroy their relationship. Worse yet, the threat of violence looms constantly in their lives... -
The Lake House by Dick Parker
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDanny has spent the summer at his Grandparent's lake house since he was twelve. Now, at eighteen and out of high school he's spending one more summer with them. While fishing off their dock, he notices a handsome young guy walking down the dock next door. The guy strips off his swimming suit and dives in the lake naked. A bit later the guy climbs out of the lake and notices Danny... -
Whitewater Love Story by Dick Parker
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsColin is fresh out of high school and working at his first job. He's the dishwasher at a summer camp. It's a crappy job but he needs the money. He makes friends with one of the counselors who tells him about his last summer job working as a guide on a whitewater rafting outfitter, and in fact, the place is looking for someone to work there for the rest of the summer... -
The Blackwing War by K.B. Spangler
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThree thousand years ago, the Deep appeared without warning. This alien life form was quickly put to service teleporting people and cargo across great distances, which allowed mass colonization throughout the galaxy. It has also allowed Lancaster, the organization which controls access to the Deep, to grow wealthy and powerful... -
My Best Friend, Sam by Dick Parker
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEthan has moved to a new town and new school right before his junior year of high school. He has no friends and is pretty miserable. Then he meets Sam in his first homeroom meeting. Sam is a cute, funny kid and one of the first things he asks Ethan is "Do you fish?" The two hit off and soon they spend all of their time together... -
Life with Brad Rabbit by Dick Parker
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTim works as a waiter at a restaurant and one evening as he was leaving as they closed, the boss asked him to take a couple bags of garbage to the dumpster. As Tim is tossing the bags into the dumpster he hears someone whispering. There is a pile of cardboard boxes next to the dumpster and he sees movement in them. "Come out of there" he says. Two homeless guys crawl out... -
Season of the Witch: A Novel by James Leo Herlihy
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBy the author of Midnight Cowboy: A teenage girl runs away to the East Village in “one of the best and most convincing novels . . . of the Woodstock generation” (Publishers Weekly). As she explains in her diary, seventeen-year-old Gloria Random is running away from her Midwest childhood home. It’s the fall of 1969, and her best friend John has been called up for the draft... -
The Witch’s Blood by Katharine Corr
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJust who can you trust…?The final spell-binding book in THE WITCH’S KISS trilogy by authors and sisters, Katharine and Elizabeth Corr.Life as a teenage witch just got harder for Merry when her brother, Leo is captured and taken into an alternative reality by evil witch Ronan. Determined to get him back, Merry needs to use blood magic to outwit her arch-rival and get Leo back... -
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Rosen und Knochen by Christian Handel
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFürchtest du dich, bei Mondschein das Grab einer Hexe zu betreten?Unter den Decknamen Schneeweißchen und Rosenrot ziehen die Dämonenjägerinnen Muireann und Rose durch die Lande. Sie bekämpfen Trolle, retten Jungfrauen vor Wassermännern und vertreiben Kobolde aus Mühlen und Bauernhäusern... -
Sea of Tranquillity by Paul Russell
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPaul Russell's delicately layered, richly textured novels have won him widespread acclaim as one of the finest contemporary American novelists... -
Boys on a Train by Amy Coomer
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings2022 FINALIST: Leapfrog Press Global Fiction PrizeA journey through adolescence, one ride at a time...EDDIE: Resident loser. Hair that never sits right. Vintage acoustic guitar.DYLAN: Brooding charm. Good genes. Rising star of the footy team.Despite the distance that divides them, fate sees these two sharing more than just a train to school... -
Glass Closet: The Price of Silence, The Triumph of Voice by Iam Obsydian
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings'Glass Closet' is not merely a story—it's a symphony of emotion, a rich, resounding anthem of self-love and acceptance. It offers a profound reflection on the battles fought in silence, the quiet strength drawn from the soul's deepest wells. Every page unfurls with an elegance that will stir your heart and ignite a flame of understanding within... -
Cousin Calvin by Dick Parker
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Liam graduated from high school, he had plans to go to college at UW Superior, in Superior Wisconsin. What he hadn't planned on was living with his Aunt Alma, who was in her eighties, to help take care of her and save money that his parents had put away for his college fund. Liam was lonely, being in a new place. He didn't know anyone and the first few days were hard... -
Das Gegenteil von Hasen by Anne Freytag
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSie sind in derselben Jahrgangsstufe und trotzdem in verschiedenen Welten. Julia, Marlene und Leonard im Zentrum der Aufmerksamkeit, der Rest irgendwo in ihrer Umlaufbahn. Dann geschieht etwas, das alles verändert: Eines Morgens macht plötzlich eine Internetseite die Runde, die bis dato auf privat gestellt war... -
The Witch's Tears by Katharine Corr, Elizabeth Corr
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCan true love's kiss break your heart...? It's not easy being a teenage witch. Just ask Merry. She's drowning in textbooks and rules set by the coven; drowning in heartbreak after the loss of Jack. But Merry's not the only one whose fairy tale is over. Big brother Leo is falling apart and everything Merry does seems to push him further to the brink... -
When You Don't See Me by Timothy James Beck
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBeing Invisible Is Nick Dunill's M.O. For nineteen years, he's been "the one who disappears" to his disapproving, Midwestern family. And now in New York City, a metropolis of anonymity built on not making eye contact, he feels right at home... -
Here Again Now by Okechukwu Nzelu
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom award-winning author Okechukwu Nzelu comes a spellbinding literary novel that asks, how do you move forward when the past keeps pulling you back?Achike Okoro feels like his life is coming together at last. His top-floor flat in Peckham is as close to home as he can imagine and after years of hard work, he's about to get his break as an actor... -
Atusparia by Gabriela Wiener
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsUna política de izquierda víctima del lawfare se encuentra prisionera en una cárcel de alta seguridad en las entrañas de la selva amazónica.Se hace llamar Atusparia, como el líder de la resistencia indígena peruana del siglo XIX y como el delirante colegio comunista donde estudió en los estertores de la guerra fría... -
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Mageborn by Michael DeAngelo
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn this fantasy magician series, Adelia Kreegan begins her new life as a pupil under the tutelage of a master wizard, Gaston Camlann. He educates her in all the spells and rituals that she will need to know to make her way in the dangerous world of Tellest, where dragons and dark magic abound. Though hers are spells for beginners, Gaston is confident that she will become a truly capable sorceress... -
If I Told You So by Timothy Woodward
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe summer you turn sixteen is supposed to be unforgettable. It's the stuff of John Hughes movies and classic songs, of heart-stopping kisses and sudden revelations. But life isn't always like the movies. . . For Sean Jackson, sixteen is off to an inauspicious start... -
Becoming Nancy by Terry Ronald
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFor David Starr, being cast as Nancy in the upcoming school production of Oliver! is quite a shock. But David is up to the challenge. Living in a three-bedroom semi in 1970s' working-class East Dulwich, surrounded by his somewhat colourful relatives, he is bright, smart-mouthed, fanatical about pop music and ready to shine... -
The Witch of Maracoor by Gregory Maguire
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFollowing a confrontation with her reclusive great-grandfather, the one-time Wizard of Oz, Rainary Ko—the granddaughter of Oz’s Wicked Witch of the West—has re-upped in a mission to settle a few scores and right a wrong or two. Her memory and her passions reviving, Rain turns her gaze back to her native Oz...Categorized as:
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What's Not Broken by D.J. Parker
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBeing a teenager is hard enough without the added pressure of keeping a secret.Eli is a typical teenage boy in the South. He goes to school and hates it, plays football and loves it, and goes to church because it's expected... -
The Little Red Stroller by Joshua Furst, Katy Wu
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOne handy little stroller is passed from family to family in this uplifting picture book celebration of community, diversity, and sharingWhen Luna is born, her mommy gives her a little red stroller. It accompanies her and her mommy through all the activities of their day, until she outgrows the stroller and is able to pass it down to a toddler in her neighborhood who now needs it...
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