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Black Heart

Holly Black

Cassel Sharpe, a powerful transformation worker, is torn between his decision to work for the federal government and his love for Lila, who has joined her father's criminal organization.

Organized CrimeThieves and RoguesUrban FantasyYoung Adult
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Wicked Lovely

Melissa Marr · 336 pages

Rule #3: Don't stare at invisible faeries.Aislinn has always seen faeries. Powerful and dangerous, they walk hidden in mortal world. Aislinn fears their cruelty — especially if they learn of her Sight — and wishes she were as blind to their presence as other teens.Rule #2: Don't speak to invisible faeries.Now faeries are stalking her. One of them, Keenan, who is equal parts terrifying and alluring

Trials and TournamentsUrban FantasyYoung AdultFast-Paced
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Powerless

Lauren Roberts · 528 pages

Only the extraordinary belong in the kingdom of Ilya—the exceptional, the empowered, the Elites. The powers these Elites have possessed for decades were graciously gifted to them by the Plague, though not all were fortunate enough to both survive the sickness and reap the reward. Those born Ordinary are just that—ordinary. And when the king decreed that all Ordinaries be banished in order to pr

Trials and TournamentsThieves and RoguesYoung AdultFast-Paced
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The Games Gods Play

Abigail Owen

Trials and TournamentsThieves and RoguesFast-PacedFirst Person Narrator
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Legendborn

Tracy Deonn · 512 pages

After her mother dies in an accident, sixteen-year-old Bree Matthews wants to escape. A residential programme for bright high-schoolers seems like the perfect opportunity – until she witnesses a magical attack her very first night on campus . . . A flying demon feeding on human energies.

Trials and TournamentsUrban FantasyYoung AdultFirst Person Narrator
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Silver in the Bone

Alexandra Bracken · 497 pages

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the critically acclaimed author of Lore comes a stunning contemporary fantasy inspired by Celtic lore—the tale of a teenage girl who seeks her destiny in the cursed ruins of Avalon, driven by love, revenge, and pure adrenaline! "Simmering with magic, peril, romance, and heartbreak." —Leigh Bardugo, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Shadow and Bone

Thieves and RoguesUrban FantasyYoung AdultFirst Person Narrator
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The Goddess Test

Aimee Carter · 298 pages

Eden, Michigan, high school student Kate Winters strikes a bargain with Henry, Greek god of the underworld, if he'll cure her dying mother of cancer. The bargain she strikes with him is a grim one, but the full enormity of what she has undertaken--"live forever or die trying"--is not revealed until it's too late to recant.

Trials and TournamentsYoung AdultFirst Person NarratorFast-Paced
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Death Masks

Jim Butcher · 416 pages

Harry Dresden, Chicago's only practicing professional wizard, is hired by a mysterious priest to find the stolen shroud of Turin.

Urban FantasyTrials and TournamentsThieves and RoguesFast-Paced
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An Ember in the Ashes

Sabaa Tahir · 464 pages

"Laia is a Scholar living under the iron-fisted rule of the Martial Empire. When her brother is arrested for treason, Laia goes undercover as a slave at the empire's greatest military academy in exchange for assistance from rebel Scholars who claim that they will help to save her brother from execution"--

Trials and TournamentsYoung AdultFast-PacedFirst Person Narrator
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Siren's Song

Ella Summers · 270 pages

Trials and TournamentsUrban FantasyFast-PacedFirst Person Narrator
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Dying Is My Business

Nicholas Kaufmann · 369 pages

Given his line of work in the employ of a psychotic Brooklyn crime boss, Trent finds himself on the wrong end of too many bullets. Yet each time he's killed, he wakes a few minutes later completely healed of his wounds but with no memory of his past identity. What's worse, each time he cheats death someone else dies in his place.

Organized CrimeThieves and RoguesUrban FantasyFast-Paced
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Poisoned Blade

Kate Elliott · 468 pages

Now a Challenger, Jessamy is moving up the ranks of the Fives--the complex athletic contest favored by the lowliest Commoners and the loftiest Patrons alike. Pitted against far more formidable adversaries, success is Jes's only option, as her prize money is essential to keeping her hidden family alive.

Trials and TournamentsYoung AdultFirst Person NarratorFast-Paced
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Firebug

Lish McBride · 352 pages

Ava, a contract killer who can start fires with her mind, hits the road with her friends, desperately trying to escape the Coterie, a magical mafia, while keeping the murder to a minimum after she's asked to kill a family friend by Venus, who killed Ava's mother. Ava, a contracted assassin who starts fires with her mind, desperately tries to escape a magical mafia after she is asked to kill a fam

Urban FantasyOrganized CrimeYoung AdultFast-Paced
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Spirit and Dust

Rosemary Clement-Moore · 400 pages

Raised in a family of psychics and witches, teen Daisy Goodnight is happy to help local police solve cold cases but when the FBI seeks her talents, she becomes involved in a mess that even has the spirits terrified.

Organized CrimeUrban FantasyYoung AdultFirst Person Narrator
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Jhereg

Steven Brust · 239 pages

Organized CrimeThieves and RoguesFast-PacedFirst Person Narrator
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A Gathering of Shadows

V.E. Schwab · 512 pages

Trials and TournamentsThieves and RoguesFast-PacedFemale Lead
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House of Marionne

J. Elle · 432 pages

Trials and TournamentsUrban FantasyYoung AdultFirst Person Narrator
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The Grimm Legacy

Polly Shulman · 325 pages

Thieves and RoguesUrban FantasyFirst Person NarratorYoung Adult
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Lightlark (the Lightlark Saga Book 1)

Alex Aster · 432 pages

Trials and TournamentsYoung AdultFast-PacedFirst Person Narrator
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Hunger Games 5-Book Box Set (The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, Mockingjay, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Sunrise on the Reaping)

Suzanne Collins · 1,748 pages

Get Suzanne Collins's full Hunger Games series with this complete five-book set including The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, Mockingjay, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, and Sunrise on the Reaping. "Whereas Katniss kills with finesse, Collins writes with raw power." -- Time Magazine In the nation of Panem lies a shining Capitol, surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol keeps the distr

Trials and TournamentsYoung AdultFirst Person NarratorFast-Paced
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The Elite

Kiera Cass · 336 pages

Thirty-five girls came to the palace to compete in the Selection. All but six have been sent home. And only one will get to marry Prince Maxon and be crowned princess of Illea. America still isn’t sure where her heart lies. When she’s with Maxon, she’s swept up in their new and breathless romance, and can’t dream of being with anyone else. But whenever she sees Aspen standing guard around the p

Trials and TournamentsYoung AdultFirst Person NarratorFast-Paced
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Owl and the City of Angels

Kristi Charish · 361 pages

Alix Hiboux, better known as Owl, international antiquities thief for hire, is settling into her new contract job for Vegas mogul Mr. Kurosawa, a red dragon with a penchant for ancient, supernatural artifacts. And now he has his sights set on some treasures of the mysterious Syrian City of the Dead that are sitting in a recluse's private collection.

Urban FantasyThieves and RoguesFirst Person NarratorFast-Paced
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Frost Blood

Elly Blake · 371 pages

Trials and TournamentsYoung AdultFirst Person NarratorFast-Paced
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Eon: Dragoneye Reborn

Alison Goodman · 576 pages

Sixteen-year-old Eon has a dream, and a mission. For years, he's been studying sword-work and magic, toward one end. He and his master hope that he will be chosen as a Dragoneye-an apprentice to one of the twelve energy dragons of good fortune. But Eon has a dangerous secret. He is actually Eona, a sixteen-year-old girl who has been masquerading as a twelve-year-old boy. Females are forbidden t

Trials and TournamentsYoung AdultFast-PacedFirst Person Narrator

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