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Blood Passage

Heather Demetrios · 481 pages

When Nalia arrives in Morocco to fulfill Malek's third and final wish, she's not expecting it to be easy. Especially because Malek isn't the only one after Solomon's sigil, an ancient magical ring that gives its wearer the power to control the entire jinn race. Nalia has also promised to take Raif, leader of the jinn revolution, to its remote location.

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The Fire Wish

Amber Lough · 310 pages

"When a princess captures a jinn and makes a wish, she is transported to the fiery world of the jinn, while the jinn must take her place in the royal court of Baghdad"--

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The Wrath and the Dawn

Renée Ahdieh · 416 pages

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We Hunt the Flame

Hafsah Faizal · 480 pages

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Traitor to the Throne

Alwyn Hamilton · 518 pages

Mere months ago, gunslinger Amani al'Hiza fled her dead-end hometown on the back of a mythical horse with the mysterious foreigner Jin, seeking only her own freedom. Now she's fighting to liberate the entire desert nation of Miraji from a bloodthirsty sultan who slew his own father to capture the throne.

Middle Eastern MythologyDesertFantasyYoung Adult
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A Thousand Nights

E.K. Johnston · 338 pages

Lo-Melkhiin killed three hundred girls before he came to her village, looking for a wife. When she sees the dust cloud on the horizon, she knows he has arrived. She knows he will want the loveliest girl: her sister. She vows she will not let her be next. And so she is taken in her sister's place, and she believes death will soon follow. Lo-Melkhiin's court is a dangerous palace filled with pretty

Middle Eastern MythologyDesertYoung AdultFantasy
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The Kingdom of Copper

S. A. Chakraborty · 684 pages

S. A. Chakraborty continues the sweeping adventure begun in The City of Brass—"the best adult fantasy I’ve read since The Name of the Wind" (#1 New York Times bestselling author Sabaa Tahir)—conjuring a world where djinn summon flames with the snap of a finger and waters run deep with old magic; where blood can be dangerous as any spell, and a clever con artist from Cairo will alter the fate of a

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The Ashfire King

Chelsea Abdullah · 544 pages

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Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic, Vol. 1

Shinobu Ohtaka · 200 pages

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Throne of the Crescent Moon

Saladin Ahmed · 336 pages

The Crescent Moon Kingdoms, home to djenn and ghuls, holy warriors and heretics, are at the boiling point of a power struggle between the iron-fisted Khalif and the mysterious master thief known as the Falcon Prince. In the midst of this brewing rebellion a series of brutal supernatural murders strikes at the heart of the Kingdoms. It is up to a handful of heroes to learn the truth behind these ki

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This Woven Kingdom

Tahereh Mafi · 512 pages

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The Paladin of the Night

Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman · 375 pages

Khardan y Zohra, acompañados por Mathew, son conducidos al castillo de Zhakrin, plaza fuerte gobernada por la hechicera negra y por su esposo, el Señor de los Caballeros, servidores ambos del perverso dios de la noche y el mal. Mientras tanto, en la ciudad de Kich, el imán feisal intenta convertir a los nómadas capturados y encarcelados por las tropas del emir, para luego emprender una cruel guerr

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The Storyteller's Daughter: A Retelling of the Arabian Nights

Cameron Dokey · 221 pages

In a faraway kingdom, a king has been betrayed. Deeply hurt and bitterly angry, he vows never to be deceived again. Unfortunately, the king's plan to protect himself will endanger all of the realm's young women, unless one of them will volunteer to marry the king - and surrender her life. To everyone's relief and horror, one young woman steps forward. The daughter of a legendary storyteller, Sha

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The Forbidden Wish

Jessica Khoury · 340 pages

"Forced to hid her true identity, Zahra, a teenage genie, finds her chance for freedom challenged by her love for her master,"--NoveList.

Middle Eastern MythologyFantasyYoung AdultFemale Lead
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Rise of a Hero

Hilari Bell · 471 pages

Although the Hrum believe their war against Farsala is nearly over, Soraya has strategic information that will help if she can reach Jiaan and Kavi and their separate resistance movements, but discord and Time's Wheel seem destined to keep them apart.

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Smokeless Fire

Samantha Young · 355 pages

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HWJN

Ibraheem Abbas, Yasser Bahjatt · 320 pages

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Bound by Blood and Sand

Becky Allen · 311 pages

"A slave living in a dying desert world must decide if she wants to help the kingdom's prince save their world"--

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The Waterless Sea

Kate Constable · 288 pages

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The Secret of Ka

Christopher Pike · 416 pages

When fifteen-year-old Sara unearths a flying carpet in Turkey, it takes her and new friend Amesh to the mysterious Island of the Djinn where she faces terrible creatures and an impossible decision--whether to save mankind, herself, or the boy she is coming to love.

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The Crown of Embers

Rae Carson · 424 pages

"Hero. Foreigner. Queen. Elisa, at the age of seventeen, is all three. And all three draw enemies. Faced with assassins, court politics, and the threat of civil war, Elisa despairs of being the ruler her people need. Her only hope is the Godstone. She must master its power once and for all. She finds clues hidden in a long forgotten--and forbidden--scripture. Accompanied by a one-eyed warrior, an

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Mystic

Alyson Noel · 305 pages

"Since coming to Enchantment, New Mexico, everything in Daire Santos life has changed. And not all for the better. While she's come to accept and embrace her new powers as a Soul Seeker, Daire struggles with the responsibility she holds navigating between the worlds of the living and the dead"-- Since coming to Enchantment, New Mexico, everything in Daire's life has changed. While she has come

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Habibi

Craig Thompson · 672 pages

Sprawling across an epic landscape of deserts, harems, and modern industrial clutter, Habibi tells the tale of Dodola and Zam, refugee child slaves bound to each other by chance, by circumstance, and by the love that grows between them. We follow them as their lives unfold together and apart; as they struggle to make a place for themselves in a world (not unlike our own) fueled by fear, lust, and

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The Tapestry of Fate

S.A. Chakraborty · 487 pages

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