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The Spellcoats

Diana Wynne Jones · 279 pages

Tanqui discovers she has the only means to conquer the evil Kankredin who threatens her own people and the Heathens who have invaded prehistoric Dalemark.

Water and RiversYoung AdultFantasySeries
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Horizon

Lois McMaster Bujold · 444 pages

In a world where malices--remnants of ancient magic--can erupt with life-destroying power, only soldier-sorcerer Lakewalkers have mastered the ability to kill them. But Lakewalkers keep their uncanny secrets--and themselves--from the farmers they protect, so when patroller Dag Redwing Hickory rescued farmer girl Fawn Bluefield, neither expected to fall in love, join their lives in marriage, or def

Water and RiversFantasySeriesMagic System
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Stormlord Rising

Glenda Larke

Water and RiversFantasySeriesFemale Lead
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Song of the Current

Sarah Tolcser · 384 pages

Water and RiversFantasyYoung AdultSeries
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Troubled Waters

Sharon Shinn

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Ripple

Mandy Hubbard

Water and RiversFantasyYoung AdultFemale Lead
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Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits

Robin McKinley · 269 pages

What magical beings inhabit earth’s waters? Some are as almost-familiar as the mer-people; some as strange as the thing glimpsed only as a golden eye in a pool at the edge of Damar’s Great Desert Kalarsham, where the mad god Geljdreth rules; or as majestic as the unknowable, immense Kraken, dark beyond the darkness of the deepest ocean, who will one day rise and rule the world.  These six tales fr

Water and RiversFantasyYoung AdultFemale Lead
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Midnight Riot

Ben Aaronovitch · 310 pages

"As a wave of brutal and bizarre murders engulfs the city, Peter is plunged into a world where gods and goddesses mingle with mortals and a long-dead evil is making a comeback on a rising tide of magic"--P. [4] of cover.

Water and RiversFantasySeriesMagic System
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The Borrowers Afloat

Mary Norton · 191 pages

The Borrowers, a family of miniature people, journey down a drain, live briefly in a teakettle, and are swept away in a flood before finding a new home. Sequel to "The Borrowers Afield."

Water and RiversFantasySeriesFemale Lead
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The Lake

AnnaLisa Grant · 302 pages

At 17, Layla Weston is already starting over. Having lost both her parents and grandparents, and with nowhere else to go, Layla is moving from Florida to a small town in North Carolina to live with the only family she has left: her estranged uncle and aunt. The last five years of Layla's life were spent appeasing her less-than-loving grandmother, followed by being her grandfather's caretaker. Grow

Water and RiversYoung AdultSeriesFemale Lead
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Deep Blue Secret

Christie Anderson · 358 pages

Water and RiversYoung AdultSeriesFemale Lead
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Deep Betrayal

Anne Greenwood Brown · 335 pages

"As dead bodies start washing ashore, Lily and Calder realize someone's on a killing spree--and they fear it's either Calder's mermaid sisters or Lily's father."--

Water and RiversYoung AdultFantasySeries
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White Water Terror

Carolyn Keene · 149 pages

Nancy and her friends find their lives in danger when a maniac stalks them while they are on a white water rafting expedition.

Water and RiversYoung AdultSeriesFemale Lead
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Not a Drop to Drink

Mindy McGinnis · 336 pages

"Sixteen-year-old Lynn will do anything to protect her valuable water source, but the arrival of new neighbors forces her to reconsider her attitudes"-- Sixteen-year-old Lynn will do anything to protect her valuable water source, but the arrival of new neighbors forces her to reconsider her attitude. The plot contains profanity, sexual references, and violence.

Water and RiversYoung AdultSeriesFemale Lead
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The Bird of the River

Kage Baker · 268 pages

Sharp-eyed orphan Eliss and her half-brother make a new home on a river barge and clash with a teen assassin amid an escalating series of pirate attacks on riverside cities.

Water and RiversFantasySeriesFemale Lead
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Dragon Haven

Robin Hobb · 570 pages

The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Dragon Keeper returns with a second enthralling tale of dragons and humans, adventure and discovery, love and freedom. Centuries had passed since dragons last roamed the war-torn world of the Rain Wild River. But as peace once again settled upon the land, a lost generation of sea serpents—ancient, half-starved, and weary—returned to cocoon, certai

Water and RiversFantasySeriesFemale Lead
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Poppy and Rye

Avi · 190 pages

When their home next to a brook is destroyed by beavers, a large family of golden mice is aided by Poppy the deer mouse and her grumpy porcupine friend, who in the process forges a relationship with the son he had abandoned.

Water and RiversFantasySeriesFemale Lead
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Mississippi Jack: Being an Account of the Further Waterborne Adventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman, Fine Lady, and Lily of the West

L.A. Meyer · 611 pages

In 1806, the exploits of Jacky Faber continue as she heads west to avoid capture by the British and discovers adventure aboard a keelboat on the mighty Mississippi River.

Water and RiversYoung AdultSeriesFemale Lead
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The Drowning City

Amanda Downum · 384 pages

Water and RiversFantasySeriesFemale Lead
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The Water Witch

Carol Goodman · 400 pages

Water and RiversFantasySeriesFemale Lead
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Little Knife

Leigh Bardugo · 32 pages

A young girl's beauty causes discord in her small town, but her father's solution may prove far more dangerous. ***Little Knife*** is a companion story to the third book of the Grisha Trilogy, ***Ruin and Rising***, and the stories ***The Witch of Duva*** and ***The Too-Clever Fox***.

Water and RiversFantasySeriesFemale Lead
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Angel with the Sword

C.J. Cherryh · 298 pages

Merovingen C.J. Cherryh's fantastic city of canals, where the wealthy and powerful dwell in the highest towers, and the boaters, beggars, spies and thieves lurke on the hightly polluted waterways below.... Merovingen where gutsy young canaler Altair Jones earns her livelihood on the danger-filled byways of the canals and in the dark "lower city," always staying just the right side of the law

Water and RiversFantasySeriesFemale Lead
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The Water Wars

Cameron Stracher · 240 pages

Vera and her brother, Will, live in the shadow of the Great Panic, in a country that has collapsed from environmental catastrophe. Water is hoarded by governments, rivers are dammed, and clouds are sucked from the sky. But then Vera befriends Kai, who seems to have limitless access to fresh water.

Water and RiversYoung AdultSeriesFemale Lead
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Gale Force

Rachel Caine · 320 pages

Water and RiversFantasySeriesFemale Lead

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