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Ever After: A Cinderella Story

Wendy Loggia · 192 pages

Based on the screenplay by Susannah Grant. A prince in search of a princess, a domineering baroness and her two daughters, and an orphaned servant girl who sleeps in the ashes by the fireplace.... By the time Danielle is eight years old, her mother and father have died and she has been left in the care of her new stepmother, the Baroness Rodmilla of Ghent. Twelve years later, the baroness and

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The Huntress of Thornbeck Forest

Melanie Dickerson · 320 pages

A beautiful maiden who poaches to feed the poor. A handsome forester on a mission to catch her. Danger and love are about to unite in Thornbeck Forest. The margrave owns the nest hunting grounds for miles around—and Odette Menkels spends her nights poaching his deer to feed the hungry orphans of Thornbeck. By day, Odette is a simple maiden who teaches children to read, but by night this young b

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Winterspell

Claire Legrand · 454 pages

To find her abducted father and keep her sister safe from the lecherous politicians of 1899 New York City, seventeen-year-old Clara must journey to the wintry kingdom of Cane, where Anise, queen of the faeries, has ousted the royal family in favor of her own totalitarian, anti-human regime.

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The Diamond Secret: A Retelling of Anastasia

Suzanne Weyn

Nadya is a mischievous kitchen girl in a Russian tavern. Having nearly drowned in the Iset River during the turmoil of the Revolution, she has no memory of her past and longs for the life she cannot remember. Then two young men arrive at the tavern and announce that Nadya's long-lost grandmother has sent them to find her. Yearning for family and friendship, she agrees to accompany them to Paris fo

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Cinderella's Dress

Shonna Slayton · 322 pages

"Being seventeen during World War II is tough. Finding out you're the next keeper of the real Cinderella's dress is even tougher. Kate simply wants to create window displays at the department store where she's working, trying to help out with the war effort. But when long-lost relatives from Poland arrive with a steamer trunk they claim holds the Cinderella's dress, life gets complicated. Now, wit

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Snow in Summer

Jane Yolen · 257 pages

Recasts the tale of Snow White, setting it in West Virginia in the 1940s with a stepmother who is a snake-handler.

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Scarlet

A.C. Gaughen · 320 pages

The people of Nottinghamshire know Will Scarlet as Robin Hood shadow, a slip of a boy who throws daggers with deadly accuracy and is an accomplished thief with an unerring eye for treasure. A select few know Will was recruited by Robin two years earlier, but no one really knows who the real Scarlet is except Gisbourne, the ruthless thief-taker just hired by the sheriff to capture Robin and his ban

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Never Ever

Sara Saedi · 294 pages

"On her seventeenth birthday, Wylie and her brothers are whisked away by the enigmatic Phinn to an island where teenagers never grow up. This could be Wylie's dream come true, but mysterious disappearances make her expect that there's more to life on the island than Phinn is telling her"--

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Ash

Malinda Lo · 264 pages

In the wake of her father's death, Ash is left at the mercy of her cruel stepmother. Consumed with grief, her only joy comes by the light of the dying hearth fire, rereading the fairy tales her mother once told her. In her dreams, someday the fairies will steal her away. When she meets the dark and dangerous fairy Sidhean, she believes that her wish may be granted. The day that Ash meets Kaisa,

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The Ryn

Serena Chase · 508 pages

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The Thirteenth Child

Erin A. Craig · 498 pages

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Ensnared

Rita Stradling · 412 pages

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Beautiful Beast

Cindy C. Bennett

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Heartless

Marissa Meyer · 480 pages

Long before she was the terror of Wonderland—the infamous Queen of Hearts—she was just a girl who wanted to fall in love. Long before she was the terror of Wonderland, she was just a girl who wanted to fall in love. Catherine may be one of the most desired girls in Wonderland, and a favorite of the unmarried King of Hearts, but her interests lie elsewhere. A talented baker, all she wants is to

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The Frog Prince

Jenni James · 190 pages

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Bound

Donna Jo Napoli · 189 pages

YOUNG XING XING IS BOUND. Bound to her father's second wife and daughter after Xing Xing's father has passed away. Bound to a life of servitude as a young girl in ancient China, where the life of a woman is valued less than that of livestock. Bound to be alone and unmarried, with no parents to arrange for a suitable husband. Dubbed "Lazy One" by her stepmother, Xing Xing spends her days taking car

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The Perilous Gard

Elizabeth Marie Pope · 280 pages

In 1558 while imprisoned at Elwenwood Hall, a remote castle in northern England, teenaged Kate Sutton finds herself involved in a series of mysterious events that eventually bring her to an underground labyrinth peopled by the last practitioners of druidic magic.

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Beheld

Alex Flinn · 368 pages

Kendra, a witch, meets James, another witch, in Salem, Massachusetts during the Salem Witch Trials, and he rescues her. This is the story of the three hundred years Kendra spends looking for James, while helping those around her find love.

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The Midnight Dancers

Regina Doman · 236 pages

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Kissed: Belle / Sunlight and Shadow / Winter's Child

Cameron Dokey · 624 pages

Three stories from the "Once Upon a Time" series. Belle is a retelling of Beauty and the Beast Sunlight and Shadow is a retelling of The Magic Flute Winter's Child is a retelling of The Snow Queen

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Kingdom of Ashes

Rhiannon Thomas · 361 pages

Determined to free the kingdom from the king's tyrannical rule, Aurora, branded a traitor, seeks the help of the handsome but devious Prince Finnegan, who helps her harness her magical powers.

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Ella

Jessilyn Stewart Peaslee · 240 pages

Dreaming of a better life than being treated like a servant in her own home, Ella Blakeley feels a glimmer of hope when she hears that charming Prince Kenton has announced a grand ball.

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The Swan Maiden

Heather Tomlinson · 295 pages

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