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Wild Magic

Tamora Pierce · 348 pages

Young Daine's knack with horses gets her a job helping the royal horsemistress drive a herd of ponies to Tortall. Soon it becomes clear that Daine's talent, as much as she struggles to hide it, is downright magical. Horses and other animals not only obey, but listen to her words. Daine, though, will have to learn to trust humans before she can come to terms with her powers, her past, and herself.

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The False Prince

Jennifer A. Nielsen · 352 pages

In the country of Carthya, a devious nobleman engages four orphans in a brutal competition to be selected to impersonate the king's long-missing son in an effort to avoid a civil war.

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Magic Study

Maria V. Snyder · 400 pages

Yelena is a survivor. Kidnapped as a child, held prisoner as a teen, then released to act as a poison taster, she is now a student of magic. But these magic skills place her in imminent danger, and with an execution order on her head, she has no choice but to escape to Sitia, the land of her birth. But nothing in Sitia is familiar. As she struggles to understand where she belongs and how to cont

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Rowan Hood: Outlaw Girl of Sherwood Forest

Nancy Springer · 192 pages

In her quest to connect with Robin Hood, the father she has never met, thirteen-year-old Rosemary disguises herself as a boy, befriends a half-wolf, half-dog, a runaway princess, and an overgrown boy whose singing is hypnotic, and makes peace with her elfin heritage.

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Seraphina

Rachel Hartman · 465 pages

In a world where dragons and humans coexist in an uneasy truce and dragons can assume human form, Seraphina, whose mother died giving birth to her, grapples with her own identity amid magical secrets and royal scandals, while she struggles to accept and develop her extraordinary musical talents.

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By Darkness Hid

Jill Williamson

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Inkspell

Cornelia Funke · 635 pages

When Dustfinger finds a crooked storyteller who can read him back to Inkscape, he leaves his apprentice Farid behind. Farid seeks out Meggie and the two follow him back into the enchanted book. Although a year has passed, not a day goes by without Meggie thinking of Inkheart, the book whose characters became real. But for Dustfinger, the fire-eater brought into being from words, the need to return

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Lhind the Thief

Sherwood Smith · 305 pages

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The Magicians' Guild

Trudi Canavan · 480 pages

This year, like every other, the magicians of Imardin gather to purge the city of undesirables. Cloaked in the protection of their sorcery, they move with no fear of the vagrants and miscreants who despise them and their work--until one enraged girl, barely more than a child, hurls a stone at the hated invaders ... and effortlessly penetrates their magical shield. What the Magicians' Guild has lon

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A Matter of Magic

Patricia C. Wrede · 448 pages

When a stranger offers her a small fortune to break into a traveling magician's wagon, Kim doesn't hesitate. Having grown up a waif in the dirty streets of London, Kim isn't above a bit of breaking-and-entering. A hard life and lean times have schooled her in one lesson: steal from them before they steal from you. But when the magician catches her in the act, Kim thinks she's done for. Until he su

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Serpent & Dove

Shelby Mahurin · 513 pages

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The Royal Ranger

John Flanagan · 479 pages

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A Gathering of Shadows

V.E. Schwab · 512 pages

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The Goose Girl

Shannon Hale · 383 pages

Anidori-Kiladra Talianna Isilee, or simply Ani for short, was destined to be the queen of Kiladree. But then her father died. Now she is being whisked away to Bayern to marry a prince she's never met in order to ensure peace between the two countries. However, she faces betrayal after betrayal from those she least expects it from- her mother, her guards, and even her seemingly faithful ladyinwaiti

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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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Sword Catcher

Cassandra Clare · 624 pages

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Truthwitch

Susan Dennard · 415 pages

"On a continent ruled by three empires, some are born with a 'witchery,' a magical skill that sets them apart from others. In the Witchlands, there are almost as many types of magic as there are ways to get in trouble--as two desperate young women know all too well"--Front jacket flap.

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Egg & Spoon

Gregory Maguire · 475 pages

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The Crimson Crown

Cinda Williams Chima · 598 pages

"In the fourth and final novel in the Seven Realms series, Queen Raisa 'ana Marianna and Han Alister join forces to right a thousand-year-old wrong"--

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The Kiss of Deception

Mary E. Pearson · 493 pages

"On the morning of her wedding, Princess Lia flees to a distant village. She settles into a new life, intrigued when two mysterious and handsome strangers arrive--and unaware that one is the jilted prince and the other an assassin sent to kill her. Deception abounds, and Lia finds herself on the brink of unlocking perilous secrets--even as she finds herself falling in love"-- On the morning of

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Roar

Cora Carmack · 382 pages

As the sole heir of Pavan, Aurora's been groomed to be the perfect queen. She's intelligent and brave and honorable. But she's yet to show any trace of the magic she'll need to protect her people. To keep her secret and save her crown, Aurora's mother arranges for her to marry a dark and brooding Stormling prince from another kingdom. At first, the prince seems like the perfect solution to all her

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The Free Bards

Mercedes Lackey · 712 pages

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A Dance with Dragons

George R.R. Martin · 1,040 pages

In the aftermath of a colossal battle, the future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance once again–beset by newly emerging threats from every direction. In the east, Daenerys Targaryen, the last scion of House Targaryen, rules with her three dragons as queen of a city built on dust and death. But Daenerys has three times three thousand enemies, and many have set out to find her. Yet, as they

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