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The Invasion of the Tearling

Erika Johansen · 536 pages

With each passing day, Kelsea Glynn is growing into her new responsibilities as Queen of the Tearling. By stopping the shipments of slaves to the neighboring kingdom of Mortmesne, she crossed the Red Queen, a brutal ruler whose power derives from dark magic, who is sending her fearsome army into the Tearling to take what is hers. And nothing can stop the invasion.

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Dark Passage

M.J. Putney

Safely back in 1803 England, Merlin's Irregulars are more confident, proud, and powerful, but class distinctions complicate their relationships until the mages are called upon to rescue a vitally important French scientist and his family from Nazi-occupied France.

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The Last Magician

Lisa Maxwell · 528 pages

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Waging War

April White · 386 pages

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Once a Villain

Vanessa Len · 416 pages

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The Dark

Marianne Curley · 336 pages

A year after Marduke's death, the Order's revenge is about to take shape. As they gain the upper hand in their battle against the Guardians, the Order's attempts to change history bear fruit and Ethan and Isabel notice subtle changes in their daily lives as an altered past impacts on the future.

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Once Every Never

Lesley Livingston · 387 pages

Clarinet Reid is a typical teenager on the surface, except she has a centuries-old Druid blood curse running through her veins. She is locked in a deadly race to find a stolen artifact, avert an explosive catastrophe, save a Celtic warrior princess, and right a wrong that happened centuries before.

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Once a Witch

Carolyn MacCullough · 309 pages

Born into a family of witches, seventeen-year-old Tamsin is raised believing that she alone lacks a magical "Talent," but when her beautiful and powerful sister is taken by an age-old rival of the family in an attempt to change the balance of power, Tamsin discovers her true destiny.

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Wander Dust

Michelle Warren · 364 pages

Ever since her sixteenth birthday, strange things keep happening to Seraphina Parrish. The Lady in Black burns Sera's memories. Unexplainable Premonitions catapult her to other cities. The Grungy Gang wants to kill her. And a beautiful, mysterious boy stalks her. But when Sera moves to Chicago, and her aunt reveals their family connection to a centuries-old secret society, she is immediately thrus

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The 57 Lives of Alex Wayfare

M.G. Buehrlen · 324 pages

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Into the Dim

Janet B. Taylor · 428 pages

When fragile, sixteen-year-old Hope Walton loses her mom to an earthquake overseas, her secluded world crumbles. Agreeing to spend the summer in Scotland, Hope discovers that her mother was more than a brilliant academic, but also a member of a secret society of time travelers. Trapped in the twelfth century in the age of Eleanor of Aquitaine, Hope has seventy-two hours to rescue her mother and ge

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Passenger

Alexandra Bracken · 504 pages

"Two worlds collide in this sweeping, romantic novel about a love that crosses centuries by bestselling author of the Darkest Minds series, Alexandra Bracken"-- "In one devastating night, violin prodigy Etta Spencer loses everything she knows and loves... Nicholas Carter is content with his life at sea, free from the Ironwoods-a powerful family in the Colonies-and the servitude he's known at thei

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Sapphire Blue

Kerstin Gier

Sixteen-year-old Gwen, the newest and final member of the secret time-traveling Circle of Twelve, searches through history for the other time-travelers, aided by friend Lesley, James the ghost, Xemerius the gargoyle demon, and Gideon, the Diamond, whose fate seems bound with hers.

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The Hourglass Door

Lisa Mangum · 400 pages

Dante, a prisoner sent from fifteenth-century Italy into the present time as punishment, meets and falls in love with Abby, a high school senior who may be the only one who can save him.

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Scorched

Mari Mancusi · 350 pages

Sixteen-year-old Trinity Foxx does not believe her grandfather's latest treasure is a real dragon's egg until soldiers invade trying to steal it, a strange boy tells her she must work with him to stop an impending dragon war, and the dragon inside the egg begins telling her what to do.

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Uglies: Cutters

Scott Westerfeld, Devin Grayson

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Losing the Plot

Annie Dalton · 149 pages

Second book in the Angels Unlimited fantasy series. Once Mel was just an ordinary teenager. Now she's a time-traveling angel. When the Agency sends her and her two best mates off to sixteenth-century London to rescue a troublesome teenage trio, Mel has to wonder if they're worth the effort. What's so special about these three? Then disaster strikes, and Mel had better act *fast.*

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In 27 Days

Alison Gervais · 352 pages

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My Unfair Godmother

Janette Rallison · 339 pages

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The Ship Beyond Time

Heidi Heilig · 480 pages

Sixteen-year-old Nix confronts a terrible choice about her relationship with best friend and thief Kashmir when she learns that she is destined to lose the person she most loves.

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Longbow Girl

Linda Davies · 349 pages

Sixteen-year-old expert archer Merry Owen is desperate to save her family's farm in Wales, in the shadow of the Black Castle, and when she finds a buried chest containing an ancient and hopefully valuable Welsh text, she hopes it will be the key to a fortune--and so it is, but not in the way she expected, for it sends her and her friend James de Courcy into past.

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An Acceptable Time

Madeleine L'Engle · 363 pages

Polly's stay with her grandparents in Connecticut becomes an extraordinary experience as she encounters old friends and mysterious strangers and finds herself traveling back in time to play a crucial role in a prehistoric confrontation.

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The Ancient One

T.A. Barron · 339 pages

While helping her Great Aunt Melanie try to protect an Oregon redwood forest from loggers, thirteen-year-old Kate goes back five centuries through a time tunnel and faces the evil creature Gashra, who is bent on destroying the same forest.

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The Becoming

Lynne Ewing · 281 pages

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