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A Knot in the Grain and Other Stories

Robin McKinley · back to the book

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Finale

Stephanie Garber · 478 pages

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Lips Touch: Three Times

Laini Taylor · 274 pages

Three short stories about kissing, featuring elements of the supernatural.

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Dream Country

Neil Gaiman · 160 pages

Presents four Sandman stories, including "A Midsummer Night's Dream," in which Shakespeare's company, at the instigation of the Lord of Dreams, gives an open-air performance of the play to an audience of fairies.

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Tales from Earthsea

Ursula K. Le Guin · 320 pages

In this final episode of "The Earthsea Cycle", the widowed Tenar finds and nurses her aging friend, Sparrowhawk, a magician who has lost his powers.

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A Dreamer's Tales

Lord Dunsany · 96 pages

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Wonders of the Invisible World

Patricia A. McKillip · 288 pages

Stylistically rooted in fairy tale and mythology, McKillip explores imperceptible landscapes in these stories. There are princesses dancing with dead suitors, a knight in love with an official of exotic lineage, and fortune's fool stealing into the present instead of the future. In one tale, a time-traveling angel is forbidden to intervene in Cotton Mather's religious ravings, while another narrat

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The Bone Witch

Rin Chupeco · 411 pages

Tea's gift for death magic means that she is a bone witch, a title that makes her feared and ostracized by her community, but when an older bone witch trains her to become an asha--one who can wield elemental magic--Tea will have to overcome her obstacles and make a powerful choice in the face of danger as dark forces approach.

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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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Where Dreams Descend

Janella Angeles · 464 pages

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In the Night Garden

Catherynne M. Valente · 496 pages

A Book of Wonders for Grown-Up ReadersEvery once in a great while a book comes along that reminds us of the magic spell that stories can cast over us--to dazzle, entertain, and enlighten. Welcome to the Arabian Nights for our time--a lush and fantastical epic guaranteed to spirit you away from the very first page....Secreted away in a garden, a lonely girl spins stories to warm a curious prince: p

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The Unicorn Sonata

Peter S. Beagle · 154 pages

In Los Angeles a thirteen-year-old girl follows haunting music across an invisible border into an enchanted land known as Sheiʹrah that is inhabited by satyrs, unicorns, and phoenixes.

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The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

Axie Oh · 325 pages

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The Tempest

William Shakespeare · 144 pages

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The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

Leigh Bardugo · 304 pages

"The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic" by Leigh Bardugo is a collection of six beautifully written and illustrated short stories inspired by folklore and fairy tales. Each tale is steeped in dark magic, moral lessons, and intricate storytelling, making it feel like an ancient book of fables from the Grishaverse.

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The Color Master

Aimee Bender · 240 pages

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A Face Like Glass

Frances Hardinge · 496 pages

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Harry Potter Boxset

J.K. Rowling

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A River Enchanted

Rebecca Ross · 467 pages

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The Night Circus

Erin Morgenstern · 514 pages

The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night. But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway—a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, wh

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Abarat

Clive Barker · 489 pages

Candy Quackenbush, a sixteen-year-old girl, is bored with her life and is desperate for something new. She lives in Chickentown, Minnesota, has a drunkard father, and is often made fun of by other kids. One day at school, a strange image enters her head, and she draws it in a textbook. When her teacher notices, she is furious, and Candy has the sudden impulse to simply walk out of school. She wand

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Infinite Shores

Pascale Lacelle · 592 pages

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Heart of the Sun Warrior

Sue Lynn Tan · 480 pages

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Mary Poppins

P.L. Travers · 206 pages

An extraordinary English nanny blows in on the East Wind with her parrot-headed umbrella and magic carpetbag and introduces her charges, Jane and Michael, to some delightful people and experiences.

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