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The Snow Queen's Shadow

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A Spindle Splintered

Alix E. Harrow · 119 pages

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The Last Ever After

Soman Chainani · 677 pages

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The Grimrose Girls

Laura Pohl · 400 pages

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Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Gregory Maguire · 448 pages

When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale, we heard only her side of the story. But what about her arch-nemesis, the mysterious witch? Where did she come from? How did she become so wicked? And what is the true nature of evil? Gregory Maguire creates a fantasy world so rich and vivid that we will never look at Oz the same way again. Wicked is about a

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A Wonderlandiful World

Shannon Hale · 320 pages

At Ever After High, everyone is expected to sign the Storybook of Legends, pledging to follow in their fairytale parent's footsteps. But when Raven Queen came along, things became fairy, fairy confusing. Now no one's destiny is certain, not even for the most royal of them all, Apple White.When a mysterious being from Wonderland begins to infect Ever After High with a strange magic, everything goes

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Letters to Zell

Camille Griep · 326 pages

"Everything is going according to story for CeCi (Cinderella), Bianca (Snow White), and Rory (Sleeping Beauty)-- until the day that Zell (Rapunzel) decides to leave Grimmland and pursue her life. Now, Zell's best friends are left to wonder whether their own passions are worth risking their predetermined "happily ever afters," regardless of the consequences. CeCi wonders whether she should become a

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Spinning Silver

Naomi Novik · 465 pages

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The Black Swan

Mercedes Lackey · 402 pages

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Flunked

Jen Calonita · 256 pages

Tossed into Cinderella's stepmother's reform school for fairy-tale villains after stealing a hair clip, twelve-year-old petty thief Gilly meets fellow students Jax and Kayla, who reveal the school's true evil purpose. Book #1 When petty thief Gilly, who lives with five younger brothers and sisters in a run-down boot, gets caught stealing, she is sentenced to three months at Fairy Tale Reform Scho

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Rat Queens, Vol. 3: Demons

Kurtis J. Wiebe

Having survived the end of the world, the Queens follow Hannah back to where it all began: Mage University. A long perilous journey awaits the Rat Queens as they attempt to find out what happened to Hannah's father while battling their own demons. --Publisher

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Winter

Marissa Meyer · 763 pages

Princess Winter is admired for her grace, kindness and beauty, despite the scars on her face. She's said to be even more breath-taking than her stepmother, Queen Levana... When Winter develops feelings for the handsome palace guard, Jacin, she fears the evil Queen will crush their romance before it has a chance to begin. But there are stirrings against the Queen across the land. Together wit

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Seasons of Glass and Iron: Stories

Amal El-Mohtar · 196 pages

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The Seventh Bride

T. Kingfisher · 226 pages

Rhea is an ordinary miller’s daughter, engaged to be married under suspicious circumstances to a man not of her choosing. He has unknown powers and a manor house full of mysterious women. Rhea has a hedgehog. It claims to be ordinary, but normal hedgehogs don’t act like that. It’s probably not going to be enough.

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Her Majesty's Royal Coven

Juno Dawson · 448 pages

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Lumberjanes #12

Noelle Stevenson, Shannon Watters

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Bloody Rose

Nicholas Eames · 512 pages

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The Will of the Empress

Tamora Pierce · 550 pages

For years the Empress of Namorn has pressed her young cousin, Lady Sandrilene fa Toren, to visit her vast lands within the Empire's borders. Sandry has avoided the invitation for as long as it was possible. Now, listening to her guilty conscience, Sandry has agreed to pay that overdue visit. Sandry's uncle promises guards to accompany her. But they're hardly a group of warriors! They're her old

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The Magic Circle

Donna Jo Napoli · 118 pages

Deep in the woods lives the old witch called the Ugly One. All she wants is to forget that she was once a loving mother and a healer, blessed and powerful within her magic circle, and not a witch, claimed by the devils. Then one day she hears the footsteps she dreads. Then real voices - children's voices. The Ugly One longs to take care of sturdy, sensible Gretel and her young brother Hansel. They

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The Snow Queen

Hans Christian Andersen · 61 pages

After the Snow Queen abducts her friend Kai, Gerda sets out on a perilous and magical journey to find him. Includes suggested discussion questions and Bible verses.

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Lumberjanes To The Max Edition, Vol. 1

Noelle Stevenson, Shannon Watters, Grace Ellis · 272 pages

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The Sweet Far Thing

Libba Bray · 633 pages

IT HAS BEEN A YEAR OF CHANGE since Gemma Doyle arrived at the foreboding Spence Academy. Her mother murdered, her father alaudanum addict, Gemma has relied on an unsuspected strength and has discovered an ability to travel to an enchanted world called the realms, where dark magic runs wild. Despite certain peril, Gemma has bound the magic to herself and forged unlikely new alliances. Now, as Gemma

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Girls Made of Snow and Glass

Melissa Bashardoust · 384 pages

"Frozen meets The Bloody Chamber in this feminist fantasy reimagining of the Snow White fairytale At sixteen, Mina's mother is dead, her magician father is vicious, and her silent heart has never beat with love for anyone--has never beat at all, in fact, but she'd always thought that fact normal. She never guessed that her father cut out her heart and replaced it with one of glass. When she moves

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Mechanica

Betsy Cornwell · 307 pages

"A retelling of Cinderella about an indomitable inventor-mechanic who finds her prince but realizes she doesn't want a fairy tale happy ending after all"--

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House of Earth and Blood

Sarah J. Maas · 803 pages

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