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Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic, Vol. 10

Shinobu Ohtaka · 191 pages

Deep within the desert lie the mysterious Dungeons, vast stores of riches there for the taking by anyone lucky enough to find them and brave enough to venture into the depths from where few have ever returned. Plucky young adventurer Aladdin means to find the Dungeons and their riches, but Aladdin may be just as mysterious as the treasures he seeks.

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Blood Passage

Heather Demetrios · 481 pages

When Nalia arrives in Morocco to fulfill Malek's third and final wish, she's not expecting it to be easy. Especially because Malek isn't the only one after Solomon's sigil, an ancient magical ring that gives its wearer the power to control the entire jinn race. Nalia has also promised to take Raif, leader of the jinn revolution, to its remote location.

Middle Eastern MythologyDjinnYoung AdultFantasy
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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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These Infinite Threads

Tahereh Mafi · 432 pages

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The Book of Wonders

Jasmine Richards · 400 pages

In a tale loosely based on the Arabian nights, thirteen-year-old Zardi and her best friend, Ridhan, join forces with Captain Sinbad to defeat an evil sultan and restore magic to the world of Arribitha.

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HWJN

Ibraheem Abbas, Yasser Bahjatt · 320 pages

Middle Eastern MythologyDjinnYoung AdultFantasy
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Spindle

E.K. Johnston · 369 pages

"Yashaa sets out to break the curse over the kingdom with his three friends and the princess herself in this lush, transformative retelling of Sleeping Beauty"--

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As You Wish

Jackson Pearce

Ever since Viola's boyfriend broke up with her, she has spent her days silently wishing—to have someone love her again and, more importantly, to belong again—until one day she inadvertently summons a young genie out of his world and into her own. He will remain until she makes three wishes.Jinn is anxious to return home, but Viola is terrified of wishing, afraid she will not wish for the right thi

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Traitor to the Throne

Alwyn Hamilton · 518 pages

Mere months ago, gunslinger Amani al'Hiza fled her dead-end hometown on the back of a mythical horse with the mysterious foreigner Jin, seeking only her own freedom. Now she's fighting to liberate the entire desert nation of Miraji from a bloodthirsty sultan who slew his own father to capture the throne.

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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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The Fire Wish

Amber Lough · 310 pages

"When a princess captures a jinn and makes a wish, she is transported to the fiery world of the jinn, while the jinn must take her place in the royal court of Baghdad"--

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The Ring of Solomon

Jonathan Stroud · 433 pages

Wise-cracking djinni Bartimaeus finds himself at the court of King Solomon with an unpleasant master, a sinister servant, and King Solomon's magic ring.

Middle Eastern MythologyDjinnFantasyYoung Adult
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The Arabian Nights: Their Best-Known Tales

Kate Douglas Wiggin, Nora Archibald Smith · 339 pages

Ten stories from the Tales of a Thousand and One Nights, including the well-known ones of Aladdin and the lamp, Ali Baba and the forty thieves, and Sinbad the sailor.

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The Arabian Nights

Andrew Lang, Anonymous

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The Tapestry of Fate

S.A. Chakraborty · 487 pages

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The Kingdom of Copper

S. A. Chakraborty · 684 pages

S. A. Chakraborty continues the sweeping adventure begun in The City of Brass—"the best adult fantasy I’ve read since The Name of the Wind" (#1 New York Times bestselling author Sabaa Tahir)—conjuring a world where djinn summon flames with the snap of a finger and waters run deep with old magic; where blood can be dangerous as any spell, and a clever con artist from Cairo will alter the fate of a

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Cairo

G. Willow Wilson · 160 pages

In bustling modern-day Cairo, the lives of a drug runner, a down-on-his-luck journalist, an American expatriate, a young activist, an Israeli soldier, and a genie are interwoven as they navigate the city's streets and spiritual underworld to find a stolen hookah sought by a wrathful gangster-magician.

Middle Eastern MythologyDjinnFantasy
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The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye

A.S. Byatt · 277 pages

A collection of fairy tales for adults. The title novella is on a middle-aged Englishwoman attending a writers' conference in Turkey. She picks up an antique bottle and as she is washing it a djinn appears, offering to grant her three wishes. She asks for a younger body, then requests he make love to her.

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Smokeless Fire

Samantha Young · 355 pages

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One Thousand and One Arabian Nights

Geraldine McCaughrean, Anonymous · 264 pages

King Shahryar kills a new wife every night, because he is afraid she will stop loving him. But his new bride Shahrazad has a clever plan to save herself. Her nightly stories--of Sinbad the Sailor, Ali Baba, and many other heroes and villains--are so engrossing that King Shahryar has to postpone her execution again and again... This illustrated edition brings together all the Arabian Nights tales i

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The Ashfire King

Chelsea Abdullah · 544 pages

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The Paladin of the Night

Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman · 375 pages

Khardan y Zohra, acompañados por Mathew, son conducidos al castillo de Zhakrin, plaza fuerte gobernada por la hechicera negra y por su esposo, el Señor de los Caballeros, servidores ambos del perverso dios de la noche y el mal. Mientras tanto, en la ciudad de Kich, el imán feisal intenta convertir a los nómadas capturados y encarcelados por las tropas del emir, para luego emprender una cruel guerr

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Vathek

William Beckford

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