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  • Summer Shadows by Joss Stirling

    Summer Shadows by Joss Stirling

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Summer lives under a terrible shadow. It drains her, manipulates her and threatens to steal her future.A high-stakes mission offers a temporary escape. She must use her mind-shadowing abilities to hunt down her target and find the truth.Hal Robinson is a soldier. He does not get distracted. He wins. But what Hal wants begins to shift once he meets Summer...
  • Wickedly They Dance by May Sage

    Wickedly They Dance by May Sage

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The world has learned to fear vampires and forgotten a greater threat. Before the bloodsuckers rose, the gods had perfected one race of predators. And they’ve chosen their prey. Avani was raised in another pack, another world, away from the secluded werewolves of Oldcrest. But the shadow that has followed her every step since her first shift has forced her into exile...
  • Emily Windsnap and the Land of the Midnight Sun by Liz Kessler

    Emily Windsnap and the Land of the Midnight Sun by Liz Kessler

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    The New York Times best-selling series continues with the half-mermaid embarking on an icy and perilous journey to the Land of the Midnight Sun.Strange storms are blowing up from the ocean, caused by the nightmares of Neptune, King of the Sea...
  • A Matter of Time by W.J. May

    A Matter of Time by W.J. May

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The highly anticipated Sequel to the Chronicles of Kerrigan series, by international bestselling author, W.J. May It's Time. The past can't stay buried forever... Rae Kerrigan and her friends thought all their problems were solved. The corruption in the Council has been exposed. The hybrids have been released from their unjust prisons...
  • The Soul Sacrifice by Megan Linski, Alicia Rades

    The Soul Sacrifice by Megan Linski, Alicia Rades

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Fire and Water make the ultimate sacrifice.SophiaThe final battle has arrived. We’re prepared to face the Elders, but we can’t do it without the Azaimperiai. The ancient artifact will summon the ancestors to fight beside us. It’s our only hope at winning this war.But first, we must find the Familiars the Elders stole— before they can slaughter them and kill our people...
  • Messenger by Laury Falter

    Messenger by Laury Falter

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In this riveting account of Maggie's first life on earth with Eran, the star-crossed lovers romance transpires amidst treacherous enemies, their friends' resistance, and their own opposing wills. ​Fans of the Guardian Saga are also treated in this novel to the origins of the Book of Dossiers, how the Fallen Ones' only vulnerability is discovered, and how the first battle begins...
  • Lorehnin by Jenna Elizabeth Johnson

    Lorehnin by Jenna Elizabeth Johnson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I threw an arm over my eyes and just breathed. Oddly enough, it wasn’t my near-death experience that had me so bothered. It was the confrontation with the blond guy and the odd conversation we’d had. He knew about the Otherworld. His words had proved as much. But was I reading too much into it? Was I secretly hoping he was Faelorehn? And if so, what good was it now? I was human...
  • The Pine Forest by Michelle Dare

    The Pine Forest by Michelle Dare

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    One touch, one spark, two lives forever changed. Pine and Azure. The war between the two kingdoms lasted far too long. Peace was finally established, but the survivors would never forget who fought on the front lines. Oliver Sage had a reputation for being a ruthless knight...
  • Lost Lullaby by Jason Segel

    Lost Lullaby by Jason Segel

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    "Coraline meets Monsters, Inc. in this delightfully entertaining offering from actor [Jason] Segel and co-author [Kirsten] Miller." --Publishers Weekly, on book one in the series Stay up late with the hilariously frightening middle-grade novel Nightmares! The Lost Lullaby...
  • The Book of Destiny by Melissa McShane

    The Book of Destiny by Melissa McShane

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Helena has come far from the day she became custodian of Abernathy’s, the world’s only living oracle. Now, she faces her greatest challenge yet: the oracle’s prediction that it, and she, will end.As monstrous invaders strike city after city, leaving death and destruction behind, the Wardens scramble to defend humanity. Weakened by infighting, they turn to Abernathy’s for guidance and strength...
  • Roots and Wings by Talia Jager

    Roots and Wings by Talia Jager

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Kassia has been given a second chance at life. Everything is finally getting back to normal – she’s back at school with her friends boyfriend. The school is recovering from the recent demon battle. Then a young man shows up claiming to be her brother and tells her their parents are in danger. Soon, she finds herself on a mission to find them, only to find out everything isn't what it seems...
  • Secret of Betrayal by DelSheree Gladden

    Secret of Betrayal by DelSheree Gladden

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When faced with the choice between saving Milo’s life and embracing her destiny, Libby Sparks knew there was only one answer.Become the Destroyer.Libby is about to learn that accepting her fate is only the first step in figuring out what being the Destroyer truly means. Libby must reign in and develop her talents while planning to rescue her captive army of Ciphers from the hands of Guardians...
  • The Glass Gauntlet by Carter Roy

    The Glass Gauntlet by Carter Roy

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Ronan Truelove barely survived his first encounter with his father and the Bend Sinister. Now, he’s determined to become one of the Blood Guard, a sword-wielding secret society sworn to protect thirty-six pure souls crucial to the world’s survival...
  • Fearscape by Simon Holt

    Fearscape by Simon Holt

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The Vours: Evil demonic beings that inhabit human bodies on Sorry Night, the darkest hour of the winter solstice.It's been a year since Reggie first discovered the Vours, and the winter solstice is approaching once again. It will be another night of unspeakable horror for those unlucky enough to be taken by the Vours, because this time, she won't be able to stop them...
  • The Warrior by Sarah Fine

    The Warrior by Sarah Fine

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    For those who deal in the fate of the world, salvation and destruction are not games of chance. Ernestine “Ernie” Terwilliger never intended to live among the Immortal Dealers, much less to be party to an ongoing battle where the fate of humanity is in the draw of a card. And the stakes have gotten only higher now that a shady new Forger has been crowned...
  • In the City of Dreams by Tony Abbott

    In the City of Dreams by Tony Abbott

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The secret is out --- DROON is the series that kids, parents, and teachers are talking about! There are now over 10 million DROON books in print.Eric has been wounded during an epic battle with Ko and his beasts. Now, the young wizard lies in a coma, trapped in a dream-state halfway between fantasy and reality...
  • Misrule by Jodi McAlister

    Misrule by Jodi McAlister

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The third thrilling book in Jodi McAlister’s page-turning Valentine series. Things that happen sometimes when your boyfriend is a magical fairy prince: he gets kidnapped by his older brother and whisked away to fulfil his destiny in their magical fairy kingdom.But Pearl Linford is not having that. It’s time for a rescue mission...
  • The Kindling by Braden Bell

    The Kindling by Braden Bell

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    All thirteen-year-old Connor Dell wants to do is pass pre-algebra, play lacrosse, and possibly kiss Melanie Stephens, but when a run-in with the school bully ignites strange powers inside him, Connor's normal teenage life goes up in flames. Now he'll need his new powers to defeat the Darkness that's coming for him...
  • Invincible by DelSheree Gladden

    Invincible by DelSheree Gladden

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Mason is not imaginary. He's not a ghost, either. And he's definitely not a hallucination. Mason is the one Aerling capable of saving an entire world. He thought he was going home, but surviving Sentinel attacks and making it back to the Aerling world is only the beginning of Mason’s fight to protect the ones he loves...
  • A Kingdom Rises by J.D. Rinehart, Graham Edwards

    A Kingdom Rises by J.D. Rinehart, Graham Edwards

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Family secrets combine with fantasy in this epic tale of battle, magic, strange creatures, power, and fate, in this final novel in a sweeping middle grade series that Publishers Weekly called “Game of Thrones on a mellow day.”An ancient prophecy says that when three stars appear in the sky, triplets will take the throne and peace will come to the land...
  • The Last Windwitch by Jennifer Adam

    The Last Windwitch by Jennifer Adam

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Many years ago, in the kingdom of Fenwood Reach, there was a powerful Windwitch who wove the seasons, keeping the land bountiful and the people happy. But then a dark magic drove her from the realm, and the world fell into chaos.Brida is content in her small village of Oak Hollow...
  • Angel Dares by Joss Stirling

    Angel Dares by Joss Stirling

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Angel 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...
  • Pandora Gets Heart by Carolyn Hennesy

    Pandora Gets Heart by Carolyn Hennesy

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Pandora and her friends Alcie, Iole, and Homer are practically evil-hunting experts. Jealousy, Vanity, and Laziness are all safely in the box and they already know Lust is lurking on Mount Pelion, so this fourth task should be super easy. Just one teeny tiny problem: the evil is hiding at a wedding that took place 1,300 years ago...
  • Blood and Fire by D.N. Hoxa

    Blood and Fire by D.N. Hoxa

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    My name is Ruby Monroe, but most people know me by my other name: the One-eyed Hawk. Back in the day, I wanted to be a superhero, hunt down bad guys and make them pay for doing bad things. Four years later, I'm still paying the price for thinking that there is such a thing as justice in the world. The only thing I have left of that life is a blind eye and the stupid nickname...
  • Allegiance by Wanda Wiltshire

    Allegiance by Wanda Wiltshire

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Book 2 of the Betrothed Series Harry Potter’s magic, Twilight’s heartache... with a message that love and confidence make everything possible – a faery fantasy with a reality check.Having returned home, Marla seems to quickly forget her Faery Prince, Leif... And strangely, she starts seeing her best friend Jack in a different way..
  • Embracing the Flames by Candace Knoebel

    Embracing the Flames by Candace Knoebel

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Stone of Immortality has always been kept under the watch of the Draconta. That is, until the betrayal of a Fate. Now, everything is about to change. Aurora Megalos accepted her destiny without blinking-even if it meant succumbing to her dragon side...
  • Thornlost by Melanie Rawn

    Thornlost by Melanie Rawn

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The third book in Melanie Rawn’s superb new high fantasy series, that blends the worlds of magic, theater, art and politics!Melanie Rawn returns to her rich high fantasy world in this sequel to Touchstone and Elsewhens. Cayden is part Elf, part Fae, part human Wizard—and all rebel...
  • Othersphere by Nina Berry

    Othersphere by Nina Berry

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This new series is sure to be a hit!" --"RT Book Reviews," 4 starsI always wanted to know where I came from. Now that knowledge could destroy me.Dez thought she knew who her mother was, who she was. Thought she had friends, a boy who loved her, and a school where she finally fit in.But across the veil linking our world and the next lurks a monster which can annihilate. . .or liberate her...
  • Wild-born by Adrian Howell

    Wild-born by Adrian Howell

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    An alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here and here.When young Adrian Howell discovers he possesses powerful telekinetic abilities, he is plunged into a sinister world of warring paranormal factions and terrifying government organizations. Adrian must discover what really happened to his missing sister...
  • Othermoon by Nina Berry

    Othermoon by Nina Berry

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Everyone has secrets. I had no idea mine would lead me into shadow. Dez has found the place where she belongs. With the otherkin. With Caleb. Or so she thought. As the barriers between our world and Othersphere fall, a wall rises between Dez and Caleb, leaving her fiercest enemy her only friend. And maybe something more...
  • Havoc: A Deviants Novel by Jeff Sampson

    Havoc: A Deviants Novel by Jeff Sampson

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Emily Webb thought life would return to normal after the death of the man who attacked her and her fellow “Deviants.” Or as normal as it could be, after discovering that she has nighttime superpowers . . . and she’s a werewolf. But when Emily awakes one night to find an otherworldy Shadowman watching her, she knows the danger has only just begun...
  • Fallen Grace by Jessica Cartwright

    Fallen Grace by Jessica Cartwright

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Almost 200 years ago at 18 years old, Grace Kennedy was changed into a vampire. Since this time, she has become part of an elite group of vampires known as the protectors, who serve the Vampire Council. As a protector she is sworn to guard the Sempres and fight the Acelades...
  • The Key of Kilenya by Andrea Pearson

    The Key of Kilenya by Andrea Pearson

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    We all have a choice—but we can’t choose the consequences. Jacob Clark is chased down a path that takes him to another world—a world where he is a wanted young man. The Lorkon want to control him and the special powers he possesses. The people of the new world want him to save them from the destruction of the Lorkon. All Jacob wants is to go home, but even that choice has consequences...
  • Descendant by Nichole Giles

    Descendant by Nichole Giles

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Seventeen-year-old Abigail Johnson is Gifted. Blessed—or cursed—with Sight and Healing, Abby lives an unsettled life, moving from place to place and staying one step ahead of the darkness that hunts her. When she arrives in Jackson, Wyoming, she is desperate to maintain the illusion of normalcy, but she is plagued with visions of past lives mixed with frightening glimpses of her future...
  • A Crown of Dragons by Chris d'Lacey

    A Crown of Dragons by Chris d'Lacey

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Although Michael Malone has completed two missions for the secretive UNICORNE agency, he is still far from finding his missing father. But when he is asked to investigate a scale of a dragon -- the very same artifact his father researched before he disappeared -- Michael realizes he's closer than ever to unlocking the truth...
  • Nachtrijder by Alexandra Penrhyn Lowe

    Nachtrijder by Alexandra Penrhyn Lowe

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Met het openen van de Rode Poort heeft Eveline een vernietigende kracht losgelaten: een horde demonen – de Wilde Jacht – trekt over de aarde en zaait dood en verderf. Geen Wachter is meer veilig.Verteerd door schuldgevoel zoekt Eveline samen met de overgebleven Wachters en Cleo naar een oplossing. Maar de Wilde Jacht wordt elke dag sterker en moordt doelgericht de laatst overbleven Wachters uit...
  • Fall by Jeff Mariotte

    Fall by Jeff Mariotte

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    FALL APART Summer's over. Kerry, Josh, Brandy, Scott, and Rebecca have left their California share and returned to school. Once, there was nothing better than the freedom and energy rush of college. But in the wake of such a life-altering summer, campus life leaves the friends feeling restless -- and bored. Kerry, for one, barely leaves her dorm room...
  • Arielle Immortal Awakening by Lilian Roberts

    Arielle Immortal Awakening by Lilian Roberts

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A mortal soul…From the time college co-ed Arielle Lloyd had been young, she had been able to hear the thoughts and feel the pain of certain others, and those she comes to think of as her special group. One friend’s dabbling with spells and magic showed her the power of love that can endure beyond the grave...
  • The Eternal Sea by Angie Frazier

    The Eternal Sea by Angie Frazier

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Romance and adventure are just around the corner . . .After the thrilling journey that led Camille through the dangerous discovery of love, secrets, and a magical stone that grants immortality, Camille has everything she wants. She's escaped the men who wanted her dead, and now she is ready to build a new life with Oscar, her one true love. But things are not to be so simple...
  • Emily the Emerald Fairy by Daisy Meadows

    Emily the Emerald Fairy by Daisy Meadows

    Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Seven jewels have been stolen from the Fairy Queen's crown! Without them, the Jewel Fairies' magical powers are fading. Read all seven books to find the jewels and save the fairies!Jack Frost is up to no good again! This time, he's stolen the seven jewels from Queen Titania's crown. Without them, the Jewel Fairies can't do their jobs...
  • Charmed by Michelle Krys

    Charmed by Michelle Krys

    Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    “I loved CHARMED . . . I couldn't turn the pages fast enough!” raves Amy Tintera, author of Reboot, of the sequel to HEXED. Indie has spent the last few weeks frantically searching for Paige. She’s tried every spell imaginable, but witchcraft has gotten her nowhere, and she’s going crazy with guilt...
  • Escape by Lynne Ewing

    Escape by Lynne Ewing

    Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Samuel has just landed in modern day LA. The last time he has been free of Nefandus was when he was abducted from his home two hundred years ago. He is totally lost until Ashley shows up. She used to be a servi, like him, but now she helps others who have escaped their bondage. He and Ashley travel back in time to see his great grandfather, a wise shaman...
  • Gift by Andrea J. Buchanan

    Gift by Andrea J. Buchanan

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Daisy has an electrifying secret that could save her life—or kill herHigh school sophomore Daisy Jones is just trying to get by unnoticed. It doesn’t help that she’s the new girl at school, lives in a trailer park, and doesn’t even own a cell phone. But there’s a good reason for all that: Daisy has a secret, unpredictable power—one only her best friend, Danielle, knows about...
  • Magic Lessons by Justine Larbalestier

    Magic Lessons by Justine Larbalestier

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Fifteen-year-old Reason Cansino has learned the painful truth that she?like her mother, grandmother, and new friends Tom and Jay-Tee?must face a choice between using the magic that lives in her blood and dying young, or refusing to use the magic and losing her mind. Now a new threat leaves Reason stranded alone in New York City, struggling to control a power she barely understands...
  • Magic's Child by Justine Larbalestier

    Magic's Child by Justine Larbalestier

    Rated: 3.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In the third installment in the Magic or Madness trilogy, the people Reason Cansino loves most are all in danger. Reason's mother, Sarafina, has disappeared from the mental hospital in Sydney with Reason's evil grandfather, Jason Blake. Jay-Tee, the closest thing Reason has to a best friend, has used all of her magic and faces death at any moment...
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