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The Hazel Wood

Melissa Albert · 368 pages

When the scary, magical world in her grandmother's book of dark feminist fairy tales becomes real, seventeen-year-old Alice, partnered with Ellery, an obsessed fan of the fairy tales, must enter the world to rescue Alice's kidnapped mother.

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Winterspell

Claire Legrand · 454 pages

To find her abducted father and keep her sister safe from the lecherous politicians of 1899 New York City, seventeen-year-old Clara must journey to the wintry kingdom of Cane, where Anise, queen of the faeries, has ousted the royal family in favor of her own totalitarian, anti-human regime.

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New Girl

Paige Harbison · 300 pages

Welcome to Manderley Academy I hadn't wanted to go, but my parents were so excited... So here I am, the new girl at Manderley, a true fish out of water. But mine's not the name on everyone's lips. Oh, no. It's Becca Normandy they can't stop talking about. Perfect, beautiful Becca. She went missing at the end of last year, leaving a spot open at Manderley— the spot that I got. And everyone ac

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Bone Gap

Laura Ruby · 368 pages

Eighteen-year-old Finn, an outsider in his quiet Midwestern town, is the only witness to the abduction of town favorite Roza, but his inability to distinguish between faces makes it difficult for him to help with the investigation, and subjects him to even more ridicule and bullying.

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Rapunzel Untangled

Cindy C. Bennett · 294 pages

Not your average teenager, Rapunzel's illness confines her to the Gothel Mansion, her hair is 15 feet long, and she's the key to saving the world from destruction. But then she meets a boy named Fane on Facebook, her world expands, and she decides to risk the familiar to discover who she really is. A modern retelling of the classic fairy tale.

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Tris & Izzie

Mette Ivie Harrison

When sixteen-year-old Izzie makes a love potion for her best friend, she is unaware that she, like her long-dead father, has real magic, and while she is trying to sort out her friends' love lives she must also deal with monsters that have her magical scent and want to destroy her.

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The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

Axie Oh · 325 pages

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Tiger Lily

Jodi Lynn Anderson

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Wicked Jealous

Robin Palmer

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The Swan Maiden

Heather Tomlinson · 295 pages

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Cinderella's Dress

Shonna Slayton · 322 pages

"Being seventeen during World War II is tough. Finding out you're the next keeper of the real Cinderella's dress is even tougher. Kate simply wants to create window displays at the department store where she's working, trying to help out with the war effort. But when long-lost relatives from Poland arrive with a steamer trunk they claim holds the Cinderella's dress, life gets complicated. Now, wit

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Kingdom of Ashes

Rhiannon Thomas · 361 pages

Determined to free the kingdom from the king's tyrannical rule, Aurora, branded a traitor, seeks the help of the handsome but devious Prince Finnegan, who helps her harness her magical powers.

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The Forbidden Wish

Jessica Khoury · 340 pages

"Forced to hid her true identity, Zahra, a teenage genie, finds her chance for freedom challenged by her love for her master,"--NoveList.

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Spinning Starlight

R.C. Lewis · 327 pages

Sixteen-year-old heiress and paparazzi darling Liddi Jantzen hates the spotlight. But as the only daughter in the most powerful tech family in the galaxy, it's hard to escape it. So when a group of men shows up at her house uninvited, she assumes it's just the usual media-grubs. That is, until shots are fired. Liddi escapes, only to be pulled into an interplanetary conspiracy more complex than she

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Sunlight and Shadow: A Retelling of The Magic Flute

Cameron Dokey · 196 pages

A new spin on "The Magic Flute" by an acclaimed author! In a time when the world was young and many things were quite commonplace that are now entirely forgotten, Sarastro, Mage of the Day, wed Pamina, the Queen of the Night. And in this way was the world complete, for light was joined to dark. For all time would they be joined together. Only the ending of the world could tear them apart. In othe

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The Diamond Secret: A Retelling of Anastasia

Suzanne Weyn

Nadya is a mischievous kitchen girl in a Russian tavern. Having nearly drowned in the Iset River during the turmoil of the Revolution, she has no memory of her past and longs for the life she cannot remember. Then two young men arrive at the tavern and announce that Nadya's long-lost grandmother has sent them to find her. Yearning for family and friendship, she agrees to accompany them to Paris fo

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Never Ever

Sara Saedi · 294 pages

"On her seventeenth birthday, Wylie and her brothers are whisked away by the enigmatic Phinn to an island where teenagers never grow up. This could be Wylie's dream come true, but mysterious disappearances make her expect that there's more to life on the island than Phinn is telling her"--

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Fathomless

Jackson Pearce

Celia, who shares mental powers with her triplet sisters, finds competition for a handsome boy with Lo, a sea monster who must persuade a mortal to love her and steal his soul to earn back her humanity.

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A Thousand Beginnings and Endings

Ellen Oh · 336 pages

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The Ryn

Serena Chase · 508 pages

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The Rose & the Dagger

Renee Ahdieh · 432 pages

In a land on the brink of war, Shahrzad has been torn from the love of her husband Khalid, the Caliph of Khorasan. She once believed him a monster, but his secrets revealed a man tormented by guilt and a powerful curse—one that might keep them apart forever. Reunited with her family, who have taken refuge with enemies of Khalid, and Tariq, her childhood sweetheart, she should be happy. But Tariq n

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The Wife Upstairs

Rachel Hawkins · 320 pages

"A delicious twist on a Gothic classic, Rachel Hawkins' The Wife Upstairs pairs Southern charm with atmospheric domestic suspense, perfect for fans of B.A. Paris and Megan Miranda. Meet Jane. Newly arrived to Birmingham, Alabama, Jane is a broke dog-walker in Thornfield Estates--a gated community full of McMansions, shiny SUVs, and bored housewives. The kind of place where no one will notice if Ja

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Book of a Thousand Days

Shannon Hale · 320 pages

Fifteen-year-old Dashti, sworn to obey her sixteen-year-old mistress, the Lady Saren, shares Saren's years of punishment locked in a tower, then brings her safely to the lands of her true love, where both must hide who they are as they work as kitchen maids.

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