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Vessel

Sarah Beth Durst

When the goddess Bayla fails to take over Liyana's body, Liyana's people abandon her in the desert to find a more worthy vessel, but she soon meets Korbyn, who says the souls of seven deities have been stolen and he needs Liyana's help to find them.

DesertQuest NarrativeAdventureFantasy
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A Torch Against the Night

Sabaa Tahir

Elias and Laia are running for their lives. After the events of the Fourth Trial, Martial soldiers hunt the two fugitives as they flee the city of Serra and undertake a perilous journey through the heart of the Empire. Laia is determined to break into Kauf—the Empire’s most secure and dangerous prison—to save her brother, who is the key to the Scholars' survival. And Elias is determined to

Quest NarrativeDesertAdventureFantasy
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Goldenhand

Garth Nix · 421 pages

Lirael lost one of her hands in the binding of Orannis, but now she has a new hand, one of gilded steel and Charter Magic. On a dangerous journey, Lirael returns to her childhood home, the Clayr s Glacier, where she was once a Second Assistant Librarian. There, a young woman from the distant North brings her a message from her long-dead mother, Arielle. It is a warning about the Witch with No Face

Quest NarrativeDesertAdventureYoung Adult
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The Blue Sword

Robin McKinley · 272 pages

This is the story of Corlath, golden-eyed king of the Free Hillfolk, son of the sons of the Lady Aerin. And this is the story of Harry Crewe, the Homelander orphan girl who became Harimad-sol, King's Rider, and heir to the Blue Sword, Gonturan, that no woman had wielded since the Lady Aerin herself bore it into battle. And this is the song of the kelar of the Hillfolk, the magic of the blood

DesertQuest NarrativeAdventureFantasy
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We Hunt the Flame

Hafsah Faizal · 480 pages

DesertQuest NarrativeFantasyYoung Adult
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Sands of Nezza

M.L. Forman · 380 pages

When Alexander Taylor, wizard and warrior, is summoned to the land of Nezza in order to save a friend in need, he finds a country where war is a part of daily life, where adventurers are imprisoned by the Brotherhood, and where all magic is believed to be black.

DesertQuest NarrativeAdventureFantasy
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Castle in the Air

Diana Wynne Jones · 293 pages

Having long indulged himself in daydreams more exciting than his mundane life as a carpet merchant, Abdullah unexpectedly purchases a magic carpet and his life changes dramatically as his daydreams come true and dangerous adventures become daily fare.

DesertQuest NarrativeAdventureFantasy
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What the River Knows

Isabel Ibañez · 404 pages

DesertQuest NarrativeAdventureYoung Adult
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The Stardust Thief

Chelsea Abdullah · 468 pages

DesertQuest NarrativeAdventureFantasy
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The Girl of Fire and Thorns

Rae Carson · 437 pages

Once a century, one person is chosen for greatness. Elisa is the chosen one. But she is also the younger of two princesses. The one who has never done anything remarkable, and can't see how she ever will. Now, on her sixteenth birthday, she has become the secret wife of a handsome and worldly king--a king whose country is in turmoil. A king who needs her to be the chosen one, not a failure o

DesertQuest NarrativeAdventureFantasy
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The Burning Bridge

John Flanagan · 278 pages

Bracing for a final clash with the evil warlord Morgarath, the Rangers rally the kingdom's allies, and Will is chosen, along with his friend Horace, as special envoys to nearby Celtica. But the simple mission soon takes an unsettling turn - the Celticans have disappeared, their town abandoned. The scheming hand of Morgarath, it seems, has been far from idle. He has found a way to bring his legions

DesertQuest NarrativeFantasyAdventure
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Way of the Argosi

Sebastien de Castell · 400 pages

DesertQuest NarrativeAdventureFantasy
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Sword-Born

Jennifer Roberson · 416 pages

TIGER Left as an infant to die in the desert, and enslaved by the Southron tribe who found him, he had won his freedom and his name by slaying a deadly sandtiger. Now he was a legendary sword-dancer--possibly the best in the South. But his true origins were still unknown. DEL Born in the frozen North, she had seen her family brutally murdered and her youngest brother carried away to be so

DesertQuest NarrativeAdventureFantasy
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Small Gods

Terry Pratchett · 334 pages

In the beginning was the Word. And the Word was: "Hey, you!" For Brutha the novice is the Chosen One. He wants peace and justice and brotherly love. He also wants the Inquisition to stop torturing him now, please...

DesertQuest NarrativeAdventureFantasy
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A Gathering of Gargoyles

Meredith Ann Pierce · 283 pages

Painfully aware that her husband Irrylath is still not free of the White Witch's spell, Aeriel sets out on a dangerous quest to gather the winged steeds that Irrylath and his brothers need to do battle against the powerful witch.

DesertQuest NarrativeFantasyYoung Adult
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The Thin Executioner

Darren Shan

In a nation of warriors where weakness is shunned and all crimes, no matter how minor, are punishable by beheading, young Jebel Rum, along with a slave who is fated to be sacrificed, sets forth on a quest to petition the Fire God for invincibility, but when the long and arduous journey is over, Jebel has learned much about fairness and the value of life.

DesertQuest NarrativeYoung AdultFantasy
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The Subtle Knife

Philip Pullman · 352 pages

As the boundaries between worlds begin to dissolve, Lyra and her daemon help Will Parry in his search for his father and for a powerful, magical knife. She had asked: What is he? A friend or an enemy? The alethiometer answered: He is a murderer. When she saw the answer, she relaxed at once. Lyra finds herself in a shimmering, haunted otherworld – Cittàgazze, where soul-eating Spectres

Quest NarrativeAdventureFantasyGods Walking Among Us
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The Gunslinger

Stephen King · 238 pages

***The Gunslinger is the first book of the Dark Tower series. "Set in a world of extraordinary circumstances, filled with stunning visual imagery and unforgettable characters, The Dark Tower series is unlike anything you've ever read." Roland of Gilead, the last gunslinger, is in relentless pursuit of the man in black through his strange and desolate world that is oddly similar to our own. He enc

DesertQuest NarrativeAdventureFantasy
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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.

DesertQuest NarrativeFantasyYoung Adult
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Emperor Mage

Tamora Pierce · 344 pages

When she is sent as part of the delegation from Tortall to negotiate a peace treaty with Carthak, fifteen-year-old Daine must use her powers to communicate with animals for more than healing the Carthak emperor's dying birds.

Quest NarrativeYoung AdultFantasyAdventure
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Silver on the Road

Laura Anne Gilman · 408 pages

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The Tombs of Atuan

Ursula K. Le Guin · 160 pages

Tenar was the priestess of the Nameless Ones-the ancient powers. She was responsible for remembering and worshipping them. She forgot her family and home. Then came the young wizard, Ged, who trespassed where none had gone before and none had lived.

DesertQuest NarrativeFantasyYoung Adult
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Blood Red Road

Moira Young

To escape, she will have to fight. To survive, she will have to lead. Saba's world is shattered when her twin brother, Lugh, is captured by four cloaked horsemen. Determined to rescue him, Saba sets off into the lawless, wasted landscape left behind by the Wreckers. It's a brutal world where Saba discovers some surprising things about herself: She's a fierce fighter, a cunning opponent, and above

DesertQuest NarrativeYoung AdultAdventure
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Crossed

Ally Condie · 408 pages

Seventeen-year-old Cassia sacrifices everything and heads to the Outer Provinces in search of Ky, where she is confronted with shocking revelations about Society and the promise of rebellion.

DesertQuest NarrativeYoung AdultAdventure

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