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Beastly

Alex Flinn · 320 pages

A beast. Not quite wolf or bear, gorilla or dog but a horrible new creature who walks upright — a creature with fangs and claws and hair springing from every pore. I am a monster.You think I'm talking fairy tales? No way. The place is New York City. The time is now. It's no deformity, no disease. And I'll stay this way forever — ruined — unless I can break the spell.Yes, the spell, the one the wit

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Howl's Moving Castle

Diana Wynne Jones · 304 pages

As the oldest daughter, willful, outspoken Sophie knew that her life could lead to nothing but mistakes. When her father dies, her stepmother sends her two sisters out to make their fortunes while Sophie continues to work in the family hattery. As she whispers her thoughts to the hats she trims, the shop begins to grow in popularity, until she offends the Wicked Witch of the Waste. The witch casts

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Belle: A Retelling of Beauty and the Beast

Cameron Dokey

Belle is convinced she has the wrong name, as she lacks her sisters' awe-inspiring beauty. So she withdraws from society, devoting her time to wood carving. Secretly, Belle longs to find the fabled Heartwood Tree. If carved by the right hands, the Heartwood will reveal the face of one's true love. During a fierce storm, Belle's father stumbles upon the mysterious Heartwood -- and encounters a

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The Two Princesses of Bamarre

Gail Carson Levine · 248 pages

A kingdom beset by monsters, a disease that weakens and destroys, an epic poem and a hero of long ago, a story of danger and desperation. The Two Princesses of Bamarre couldn't be more different. Princess Addie is fearful and shy. Her deepest wish is for safety. Princess Meryl is bold and brave. Her deepest wish is to save the kingdom of Bamarre. They are sisters, and they mean the world to each o

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Tress of the Emerald Sea

Brandon Sanderson · 443 pages

\#1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson expands his Cosmere universe shared by The Stormlight Archive and Mistborn with a new standalone novel for everyone who loved The Princess Bride. Narrated by Michael Kramer. The only life Tress has known on her island home in an emerald-green ocean has been a simple one, with the simple pleasures of collecting cups brought by sailors from

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Hunted

Meagan Spooner · 387 pages

Beauty knows the Beast s forest in her bones and in her blood. She knows that the forest holds secrets and that her father is the only hunter who s ever come close to discovering them. But Yeva s grown up far from her father s old lodge, raised to be part of the city s highest caste of artistocrats. Still, she s never forgotten the feel of a bow in her hands, and she s spent a lifetime longing for

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The Goddess Test

Aimee Carter · 298 pages

Eden, Michigan, high school student Kate Winters strikes a bargain with Henry, Greek god of the underworld, if he'll cure her dying mother of cancer. The bargain she strikes with him is a grim one, but the full enormity of what she has undertaken--"live forever or die trying"--is not revealed until it's too late to recant.

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Among the Beasts & Briars

Ashley Poston · 342 pages

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Princess of Glass

Jessica Day George · 272 pages

Hoping to escape the troubles in her kingdom, Princess Poppy reluctantly agrees to take part in a royal exchange program, whereby young princes and princesses travel to each other's countries in the name of better political alliances--and potential marriages. It's got the makings of a fairy tale--until a hapless servant named Eleanor is tricked by a vengeful fairy godmother into competing with

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Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast

Robin McKinley · 247 pages

A retelling of the story Beauty and the Beast. There is also a sequel available titled Rose Daughter by Robin McKinley.

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Bonded by Thorns

Elizabeth Helen · 348 pages

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As Old as Time

Liz Braswell · 496 pages

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Once Upon a Broken Heart

Stephanie Garber · 416 pages

***How far would you go for happily ever after?*** For as long as she can remember, Evangeline Fox has believed in true love and happy endings... until she learns that the love of her life will marry another. Desperate to stop the wedding and to heal her wounded heart, Evangeline strikes a deal with the charismatic but wicked Prince of Hearts. In exchange for his help, he asks for three kiss

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Dearest

Alethea Kontis · 288 pages

Alethea Kontis weaves together some fine-feathered fairy tales to focus on Friday Woodcutter, the kind and loving seamstress. When Friday stumbles upon seven sleeping brothers in her sister Sunday's palace, she takes one look at Tristan and knows he's her future. But the brothers are cursed to be swans by day. Can Friday's unique magic somehow break the spell? When Friday stumbles upon seven slee

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A Curse Dark as Gold

Elizabeth C. Bunce · 400 pages

This book starts of as a sad day. Then, it transforms into a happy life, with romance involved. A 'foreign - bred banker has designs on a miller', as the banker puts it. With this, there is a climax. Rosellen Miller feels happy to have a brother, and they are always pleasant. However, Randall Woodstone and Charlotte Miller's relationship deteriorates. By the time Charlotte gives birth to a child,

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The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

Axie Oh · 325 pages

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The Last Unicorn

Peter S. Beagle · 233 pages

*The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone…* …so she ventured out from the safety of the enchanted forest on a quest for others of her kind. Joined along the way by the bumbling magician Schmendrick and the indomitable Molly Grue, the unicorn learns all about the joys and sorrows of life and love before meeting her destiny in the castle of a despondent monarch—and confronting

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Where the Dark Stands Still

A.B. Poranek · 336 pages

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Spelled

Betsy Schow · 344 pages

As the crown princess of Emerald, Dorthea lives a charmed life full of Hans Christian Louboutin glass slippers and Glenda Original ball gowns. But when she unknowingly wishes upon a cursed star, all spell breaks loose and the rules of fairy tale disappear--taking Dorthea's parents with them.

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Six Crimson Cranes

Elizabeth Lim · 454 pages

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Beauty and the Beast

K.M. Shea · 252 pages

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Princess Ben

Catherine Gilbert Murdock · 368 pages

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Kill Me Softly

Sarah Cross · 336 pages

When sixteen-year-old Mira runs away to discover her secret past, she finds a place where Grimm's fairy tales come to life, and she cannot avoid her accursed fate.

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Beastkeeper

Cat Hellisen · 210 pages

"Deep in the forest, in a crumbling ruin of a castle, Sarah begins to untangle the layers of curses affecting her family, until she discovers that the curse has carried over to her, too. The day she falls in love for the first time, Sarah will transform into a beast . . . unless she can figure out a way to break the curse forever"--

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