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The Runaway Queen

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What Really Happened in Peru

Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan

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The Hidden Oracle

Rick Riordan · 384 pages

How do you punish an immortal? By making him human. After angering his father Zeus, the god Apollo is cast down from Olympus. Weak and disorientated, he lands in New York City as a regular teenage boy. Now, without his godly powers, the four-thousand-year-old deity must learn to survive in the modern world until he can somehow find a way to regain Zeus's favour. But Apollo has many enemie

Urban FantasyLightheartedWitty BanterMagic System
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The End of the World

Derek Landy · 127 pages

Pursued by a gang of insane sorcerers who want to destroy the planet, Ryan's only chance for survival rests with the skeleton-detective Skulduggery Pleasant and his teenage partner, Valkyrie Cain. They have only one day to save Ryan. One day to save the world. The clock is ticking.

NovellaUrban FantasyWitty BanterFantasy
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A Case of Possession

K.J. Charles

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The Bane Chronicles

Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson · 520 pages

A collection of eleven short stories, previously published online, that illuminate the life of the enigmatic, flashy, and flamboyant High Warlock of Brooklyn, Magnus Bane, a character in The Mortal Instruments series.

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Hounded

Kevin Hearne · 352 pages

Two-thousand-year-old druid Atticus O'Sullivan, Granuaile and the wolfhound Oberon race across modern-day Europe to try to escape the clutches of Olympian goddesses Artemis and Diana and the Norse god of mischief, Loki.

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Three Mages and a Margarita

Annette Marie · 312 pages

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Working for Bigfoot

Jim Butcher · 136 pages

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A Cruel and Fated Light

Ashley Shuttleworth · 640 pages

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Spell Bound

Rachel Hawkins

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Kiss and Spell

Shanna Swendson · 198 pages

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Artemis Fowl

Eoin Colfer · 288 pages

Artemis Fowl is the first of a series of semi-realist novels produced by Eoin Colfer. They document the adventures of a precocious prodigal child of the criminal empire, Artemis Fowl. In this book, accompanied by his huge and loyal bodyguard/sidekick/advisor Butler, Artemis engages in a series of surreal activities; the absence of his missing father and the mental disorder of his mother allow him

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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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Carry On

Rainbow Rowell · 519 pages

Simon Snow is the worst Chosen One who’s ever been chosen. That’s what his roommate, Baz, says. And Baz might be evil and a vampire and a complete git, but he’s probably right. Half the time, Simon can’t even make his wand work, and the other half, he sets something on fire. His mentor’s avoiding him, his girlfriend broke up with him, and there’s a magic-eating monster running around wearing

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Off to Be the Wizard

Scott Meyer · 373 pages

Martin Banks is just a normal guy who has made an abnormal discovery: he can manipulate reality, thanks to reality being nothing more than a computer program. With every use of this ability, though, Martin finds his little "tweaks" have not escaped notice. Rather than face prosecution, he decides instead to travel back in time to the Middle Ages and pose as a wizard. What could possibly go wrong?

Magic SystemWitty BanterLightheartedFantasy
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Invincible

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Urban FantasyMagic SystemYoung AdultWitty Banter
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PC Grant Novels

Ben Aaronovitch

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Paranormalcy

Kiersten White · 327 pages

Sixteen-year-old Evie has always taken comfort in the fact that she is a normal human, even though her best friend is a mermaid and her ex-boyfriend is a lunatic - and a faery. In a world where paranormals are monitored and controlled, Evie works for the International Paranormal Containment Agency because of her unique ability to see through glamours. But someone - or something - starts killing va

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The Indigo Spell

Richelle Mead

In the aftermath of a forbidden moment that rocked Sydney to her core, she finds herself struggling to draw the line between her Alchemist teachings and what her heart is urging her to do. Then she meets alluring, rebellious Marcus Finch—a former Alchemist who escaped against all odds, and is now on the run. Marcus wants to teach Sydney the secrets he claims the Alchemists are hiding from her. But

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The Stranger

Max Frei · 544 pages

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Codex Born

Jim C. Hines

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The Demon's Surrender

Sarah Rees Brennan · 387 pages

Sin's world is turned upside down when she has to ally with a demon and his brother to save her beloved Goblin Market from the evil magicians.

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Newt's Emerald

Garth Nix · 291 pages

After Lady Truthful's magical Newington Emerald is stolen from her she devises a simple plan: go to London to recover the missing jewel. She quickly learns, however, that a woman cannot wander the city streets alone without damaging her reputation, and she disguises herself as a mustache-wearing man. During Truthful's dangerous journey she discovers a crook, an unsuspecting ally, and an evil sorce

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