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Magic Knight Rayearth I, Vol. 3

CLAMP · 205 pages

Three teenage girls are summoned to be "magic knights" by Princess Emerōdo and asked to save a mysterious place, Sefīro. Although their adventurous journey begins with confusion, these young heroines soon accept their duty as fighters.

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The Awakening of Ren Crown

Anne Zoelle · 400 pages

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Sword of the Bright Lady

M.C. Planck

"Christopher Sinclair goes out for a walk on a mild Arizona evening and never comes back. He stumbles into a freezing winter under an impossible night sky, where magic is real -- but bought at a terrible price. A misplaced act of decency lands him in a brawl with an arrogant nobleman and puts him under a death sentence. In desperation he agrees to be drafted into an eternal war, serving as a pries

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Skin Hunger

Kathleen Duey · 362 pages

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The Midnight Queen

Sylvia Izzo Hunter · 417 pages

"In the hallowed halls of Oxford's Merlin College, the most talented--and highest born--sons of the Kingdom of Britain are taught the intricacies of magickal theory. But what dazzles can also destroy, as Gray Marshall is about to discover... Gray's deep talent for magick has won him a place at Merlin College. But when he accompanies four fellow students on a mysterious midnight errand that ends in

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Apprentice

Rachel E. Carter · 335 pages

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Exile

Shannon Messenger · 576 pages

Sophie is settling in nicely to her new home and her new life in the world of the lost cities. And it helps that living at Havenfield means getting to spend time with rare, precious species—including the first female Alicorn, who shows herself to Sophie and trusts no one but her. Sophie is tasked with helping to train the magical creature so that the Alicorn can be revealed to the people of the

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Fire Falling

Elise Kova · 378 pages

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Enchantress

James Maxwell · 612 pages

Ella and her brother, Miro, are orphans, their parents killed long ago in the ongoing struggle against the mad Emperor. From the day Ella witnesses an enchanter using his talents to save Miro from drowning, she knows what she wants to be. But the elite Academy of Enchanters expects tuition fees and knowledge. Determined, Ella sells flowers and studies every book she can. Meanwhile, Miro dreams of

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The Magicians' Guild

Trudi Canavan · 480 pages

This year, like every other, the magicians of Imardin gather to purge the city of undesirables. Cloaked in the protection of their sorcery, they move with no fear of the vagrants and miscreants who despise them and their work--until one enraged girl, barely more than a child, hurls a stone at the hated invaders ... and effortlessly penetrates their magical shield. What the Magicians' Guild has lon

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The Queen of Blood

Sarah Beth Durst · 392 pages

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Sourcery

Terry Pratchett · 288 pages

When last seen, the singularly inept wizard Rincewind had fallen off the edge of the world. Now magically, he's turned up again, and this time he's brought the Luggage.But that's not all...Once upon a time, there was an eighth son of an eighth son who was, of course, a wizard. As if that wasn't complicated enough, said wizard then had seven sons. And then he had an eighth son -- a wizard squared (

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Harry Potter Boxset

J.K. Rowling

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New Spring

Robert Jordan · 336 pages

Since its debut in 1990, The Wheel of Time® by Robert Jordan has captivated millions of readers around the globe with its scope, originality, and compelling characters. The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. In the Third Age, an Age of Prophecy, the Wo

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Gift of the Unmage

Alma Alexander · 395 pages

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Stranger Skies

Pascale Lacelle · 608 pages

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Negima!: Magister Negi Magi, Volume 5

Ken Akamatsu · 208 pages

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Vita Nostra

Marina Dyachenko, Sergey Dyachenko · 411 pages

"While vacationing at the beach with her mother, Sasha Samokhina meets the mysterious Farit Kozhennikov under the most peculiar circumstances. The teenage girl is powerless to refuse when this strange and unusual man with an air of the sinister directs her to perform a task with potentially scandalous consequences. He rewards her effort with a strange golden coin. As the days progress, Sasha carri

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House of Marionne

J. Elle · 432 pages

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The Incandescent

Emily Tesh · 416 pages

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The Magician King

Lev Grossman · 432 pages

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The Trials of Morrigan Crow

Jessica Townsend · 650 pages

A cursed girl who escapes death and finds herself in a magical world, but is then tested beyond her wildest imagination Morrigan Crow is cursed. Having been born on Eventide, the unluckiest day for any child to be born, she's blamed for all local misfortunes, from hailstorms to heart attacks: and, worst of all, the curse means that Morrigan is doomed to die at midnight on her eleventh birthday. Bu

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Hidden Truth

Dawn Cook · 359 pages

Alissa never believed in magic. But then she went to the Hold, a legendary fortress where human Keepers once learned magic from enigmatic Masters. Under the tutelage of the last surviving Master, Alissa discovered that she had inherited her father’s magical ability. But the Hold is ruled by Bailic, the renegade Keeper who seized the First Truth, a book of magic he will use to harness the might of

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