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The Rules of Magic

Alice Hoffman · 400 pages

From beloved author Alice Hoffman comes the spellbinding prequel to her bestseller, Practical Magic.Find your magic.For the Owens family, love is a curse that began in 1620, when Maria Owens was charged with witchery for loving the wrong man.Hundreds of years later, in New York City at the cusp of the sixties, when the whole world is about to change, Susanna Owens knows that her three children are

Magical RealismWitches & WitchcraftMultiple POVFemale Lead
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Malas

Marcela Fuentes · 375 pages

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The Bewitching

Silvia Moreno-Garcia · 360 pages

“Back then, when I was a young woman, there were still witches”: That was how Nana Alba always began the stories she told her great-granddaughter Minerva—stories that have stayed with Minerva all her life. Perhaps that’s why Minerva has become a graduate student focused on the history of horror literature and is researching the life of Beatrice Tremblay, an obscure author of macabre tales. In t

Witches & WitchcraftCollege CampusMultiple POVFemale Lead
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A Discovery of Witches

Deborah Harkness · 720 pages

**An epic, richly inventive, historically sweeping, magical romance.** When historian Diana Bishop opens an alchemical manuscript in the Bodleian Library, it's an unwelcome intrusion of magic into her carefully ordered life. Though Diana is a witch of impeccable lineage, the violent death of her parents while she was still a child convinced her that human fear is more potent than any witchcraft

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The Girl with No Shadow

Joanne Harris · 454 pages

Be careful what you wish for . . . Hailed as an "irresistible confection" (Entertainment Weekly), "as sweet, rich and utterly satisfying as a fine truffle" (Wall Street Journal), and "an amazement of riches" (New York Times), Chocolat won the hearts of readers and critics everywhere. At last, Joanne Harris returns with The Girl with No Shadow, an exquisite treat that continues the story that began

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Mama Day

Gloria Naylor · 312 pages

Mama day is about many things. It's the story of Ophelia and George two black American's and how they fall in love in try to reconcile their differences of upbringing and culture. It's about the dying culture of Gullah on the Georgia sea islands and it is even a reworking of Shakespeare's Tempest.

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A Secret History of Witches

Louisa Morgan · 484 pages

"From early 19th century Brittany to London during the Second World War, five generations of witches fight the battles of their time, deciding how far they are willing to go to protect their family, their heritage, and ultimately, all of our futures. After Grand-mère Ursule gives her life to save her tribe, her magic seems to dies with her. Even so, her family keeps the Old Faith, practicing the s

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Spellbook of the Lost and Found

Moira Fowley-Doyle · 384 pages

Olive, Rose, Laurel, Ivy, Hazel, Rowan. Six teenagers, connected in ways they could never have imagined.

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The Wishing Thread

Lisa Van Allen · 481 pages

"Known for its ties to the infamous "Legend of Sleepy Hollow," Tarrytown, N.Y., is a prime destination for those hoping to have a brush with the occult. But those native to the area know that the real magic happens deep within its trenches--in the ramshackle neighborhood of Tappan Square--where the Van Ripper women are believed to have the power to grant wishes by stitching them into the fibers of

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Brida

Paulo Coelho · 285 pages

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The Language of Spells

Sarah Painter

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The Witch of Little Italy

Suzanne Palmieri

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All the Birds in the Sky

Charlie Jane Anders · 318 pages

An ancient society of witches and a hipster technological startup go war as the world from tearing itself. To further complicate things, each of the groups’ most promising followers (Patricia, a brilliant witch and Laurence, an engineering “wunderkind”) may just be in love with each other. As the battle between magic and science wages in San Francisco against the backdrop of international chao

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The Demon Lover

Carol Goodman · 437 pages

Callie has a demon lover--an incubus--and he will seduce her, pleasure her, and eventually suck the very life from her. Then she makes another startling discovery. As the tenured witches of the college and the resident fairies in the surrounding woods prepare to cast out the incubus, Callie must accomplish something infinitely more difficult--banishing this demon lover from her heart.

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Lost Lake

Sarah Addison Allen · 344 pages

"Suley, Georgia, is home to Lost Lake Cottages and not much else. Which is why it's the perfect place for newly-widowed Kate and her eccentric eight-year-old daughter Devin to heal. Kate spent one memorable childhood summer at Lost Lake, had her first almost-kiss at Lost Lake, and met a boy named Wes at Lost Lake. It was a place for dreaming. But Kate doesn't believe in dreams anymore, and her Aun

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The Secret of a Heart Note

Stacey Lee · 382 pages

An aroma expert embarks on what she fears will be a life of solitude and dreams of a normal high school existence before an accident leads to an unexpected forbidden romance. As one of only two aromateurs left on the planet, Mimosa knows her future holds a lifetime of using her sense of smell to mix base notes, top notes, and heart notes into elixirs that help others fall in love-- while she rema

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A Little Night Magic

Lucy March

Olivia Kiskey has been working at the same waffle house since she was a teenager. She's been in love with the same man for the last four years (he's never made a move). Every Saturday night she meets up with the same friends over the same margaritas for the same old stories. But now everything is about to change, because magic is coming to Olivia's town. It's time to discover who she really is

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How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky

Lydia Netzer · 368 pages

"Beyond the skyline of Toledo stands the Toledo Institute of Astronomy, ... a beacon of scientific learning for astronomers far and wide. One of these is George Dermont, ... who's trying to prove the scientific existence of a Gateway to God ... Its newest star is Irene Sparks, a pragmatist and mathematician invited to lead the Institute's work on a massive superconductor being constructed below To

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The Black Witch

Laurie Forest · 601 pages

Elloren Gardner is the spitting image of her grandmother, who drove back the enemy forces in the last Realm War. But while her people believe she will follow in her grandmother's footsteps and become the next Black Witch of prophecy, Elloren is devoid of power in a society that prizes magical ability above all else. When she is granted the opportunity to pursue her dream of becoming an apothecary

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Wither

J.G. Passarella · 376 pages

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The Weight of Feathers

Anna-Marie McLemore · 314 pages

Lace Paloma and Cluck Corbeau, from feuding families of traveling performers, fall in love.

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The Ex Hex

Erin Sterling · 308 pages

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Carnival of Souls

Melissa Marr

"A centuries-long war between daimons and witches sets the stage for three teens caught up in a deadly struggle for power and autonomy in the exotic and otherworldly Carnival of Souls, the mercantile center of the daimon dimension"--Provided by publisher.

Witches & WitchcraftMultiple POVFemale LeadFantasy
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Vassa in the Night

Sarah Porter · 303 pages

In the enchanted kingdom of Brooklyn, the fashionable people put on cute shoes, go to parties in warehouses, drink on rooftops at sunset, and tell themselves they ve arrived. A whole lot of Brooklyn is like that now but not Vassa s working-class neighborhood.

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