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Cruel Beauty

Rosamund Hodge · 357 pages

Betrothed to the demon who rules her country and trained all her life to kill him, seventeen-year-old Nyx Triskelion must now fulfill her destiny and move to the castle to be his wife.

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For the Wolf

Hannah Whitten · 437 pages

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The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

Axie Oh · 325 pages

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A Thousand Nights

E.K. Johnston · 338 pages

Lo-Melkhiin killed three hundred girls before he came to her village, looking for a wife. When she sees the dust cloud on the horizon, she knows he has arrived. She knows he will want the loveliest girl: her sister. She vows she will not let her be next. And so she is taken in her sister's place, and she believes death will soon follow. Lo-Melkhiin's court is a dangerous palace filled with pretty

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Spindle Fire

Lexa Hillyer · 355 pages

It all started with the burning of the spindles. No. It all started with a curse… Half sisters Isabelle and Aurora are polar opposites: Isabelle is the king’s headstrong illegitimate daughter, whose sight was tithed by faeries; Aurora, beautiful and sheltered, was tithed her sense of touch and her voice on the same day. Despite their differences, the sisters have always been extremely clo

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The Star-Touched Queen

Roshani Chokshi · 355 pages

Fate and fortune. Power and passion. What does it take to be the queen of a kingdom when you’re only seventeen? Maya is cursed. With a horoscope that promises a marriage of death and destruction, she has earned only the scorn and fear of her father’s kingdom. Content to follow more scholarly pursuits, her whole world is torn apart when her father, the Raja, arranges a wedding of political conve

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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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I, Medusa

Ayana Gray · 336 pages

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The Wrath and the Dawn

Renee Ahdieh · 404 pages

A sumptuous and epically told love story inspired by A Thousand and One Nights Every dawn brings horror to a different family in a land ruled by a killer. Khalid, the eighteen-year-old Caliph of Khorasan, takes a new bride each night only to have her executed at sunrise. So it is a suspicious surprise when sixteen-year-old Shahrzad volunteers to marry Khalid. But she does so with a clever plan

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Princess of the Midnight Ball

Jessica Day George · 292 pages

A retelling of the tale of twelve princesses who wear out their shoes dancing every night, and of Galen, a former soldier now working in the king's gardens, who follows them in hopes of breaking the curse.

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Rose Daughter

Robin McKinley · 295 pages

Once upon a time an enchanting young woman named Beauty nurtured a rose garden in barren soil. Her gift for cultivating such rare flowers was truly magical and her roses adorned homes throughout the village, bringing joy and love to all who chanced upon their exotic scent. But one summer, Beauty’s roses did not blossom. Without their presence her family and neighbors became ill-tempered and nat

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Finale

Stephanie Garber · 478 pages

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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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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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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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Tiger's Curse

Colleen Houck · 456 pages

The last thing teenager Kelsey Hayes thought she'd be doing over the summer was meeting Ren, a mysterious white tiger and cursed Indian prince! When she learns she alone can break the Tiger's curse, Kelsey's life is turned upside-down. The unlikely duo journeys halfway around the world to piece together an Indian prophecy, find a way to free the man trapped by a centuries-old spell, and discover t

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The Night Dance: A Retelling of The Twelve Dancing Princesses

Suzanne Weyn · 208 pages

Rowena, the youngest of twelve sisters, loves to slip out of the castle at night and dance in a magical forest. Soon she convinces her sisters to join her. When Sir Ethan notices that his daughters' slippers look tattered every morning, he is certain they've been sneaking out. So he posts a challenge to all the suitors in the kingdom: The first man to discover where his daughters have been is free

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The Thirteenth Child

Erin A. Craig · 498 pages

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A Thousand Beginnings and Endings

Ellen Oh · 336 pages

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Little Thieves

Margaret Owen · 512 pages

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Enchanted

Alethea Kontis · 320 pages

When Sunday Woodcutter, the youngest sibling to sisters named for the other six days of the week, kisses an enchanted frog, he transforms back into Rumbold, the crown prince of Arilland--a man Sunday's family despises.

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Ash & Bramble

Sarah Prineas · 464 pages

After Pin and Shoe escape from servitude in the Godmother's fortress, they learn that she has taken control of Story, which can warp the world around it, forcing people into its shape, and they decide to try to break out and create their own destinies in this tale that features many familiar characters.

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The Oath of the Vayuputras

Amish Tripathi · 575 pages

Shiva is gathering his forces. He reaches the Naga capital, Panchavati, and Evil is finally revealed. The Neelkanth prepares for a holy war against his true enemy, a man whose name instils dread in the fiercest of warriors. India convulses under the onslaught of a series of brutal battles. It's a war for the very soul of the nation. Many will die. But Shiva must not fail, no matter what the co

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Govinda

Krishna Udayasankar · 472 pages

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