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All Our Pretty Songs

Sarah McCarry · 240 pages

**This is a story about love, but not the kind of love you think. You’ll see…** In the lush and magical Pacific Northwest live two best friends who grew up like sisters: charismatic, mercurial, and beautiful Aurora, and the devoted, watchful narrator. Each of them is incomplete without the other. But their unbreakable bond is challenged when a mysterious and gifted musician named Jack comes be

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The Unicorn Sonata

Peter S. Beagle · 154 pages

In Los Angeles a thirteen-year-old girl follows haunting music across an invisible border into an enchanted land known as Sheiʹrah that is inhabited by satyrs, unicorns, and phoenixes.

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Wintersong

S. Jae-Jones · 448 pages

Dark, romantic, and unforgettable, Wintersong is an enchanting coming-of-age story for fans of Labyrinth and The Cruel Prince. The last night of the year. Now the days of winter begin and the Goblin King rides abroad, searching for his bride… All her life, Liesl has heard tales of the beautiful, dangerous Goblin King. They’ve enraptured her mind, her spirit, and inspired her musical composit

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RoseBlood

A.G. Howard · 428 pages

Rune Germaine moves to a boarding school outside of Paris, only to discover that at this opera-house-turned-music-conservatory, phantoms really do exist. RoseBlood is a Phantom of the Opera inspired retelling in which Rune s biggest talent her voice is also her biggest curse.

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Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception

Maggie Stiefvater · 356 pages

On the day of an important music competition, talented but painfully introverted and nervous Deirdre Monaghan is helped to perform by the compelling and enigmatic Luke Dillon and finds herself inexorably drawn into the mysteries and dangers of the faerie world.

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Tithe

Holly Black · 320 pages

Young adult fantasy novel about a young girl who discovers she's not human, but a faerie. Trouble follows.

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The Queen of the Damned

Anne Rice · 491 pages

Akasha, the most powerful living vampire and queen of the undead, is awoken from her statue like existence by the vampire lestat playing his rock music. She immediately sets out on the hunt for both mortal and vampire victims alike. Her ultimate goal to create an earth completely dominated by vampires.

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A Fire Endless

Rebecca Ross · 512 pages

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Our Strange Duet

Erin A. Craig

Christine Daaé is visited by the Opera Ghost. Inspired by “The Phantom of the Opera.” (Ages 12 and up)

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Catherine

April Lindner · 328 pages

In this retelling of "Wuthering Heights," Catherine explains how she fell in love with a brooding musician and left her family to return to him, and her daughter describes searching for her mother many years later.

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Together We Burn

Isabel Ibañez · 354 pages

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Ravencliffe

Carol Goodman · 432 pages

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The Poison Diaries

Maryrose Wood, The Duchess Of Northumberland

In late eighteenth-century Northumberland, England, sixteen-year-old Jessamine Luxton and the mysterious Weed uncover the horrible secrets of poisons growing in Thomas Luxton's apothecary garden.

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The Beast Is an Animal

Peternelle van Arsdale · 352 pages

A girl with a secret talent must save her village from the encroaching darkness in this haunting and deeply satisfying tale.

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The Little Country

Charles de Lint · 630 pages

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Hazelthorn

C.G. Drews · 358 pages

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Wisteria

Adalyn Grace · 419 pages

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Vampire Knight, Vol. 1

Matsuri Hino · 200 pages

Yuki Cross and Zero Kiryu are the guardians of Cross Academy. Their duty is to protect the school's secret that the night class is full of vampires and to protect the day class from the night class. Yuki believes that vampires and humans can coexist peacefully but Zero has other ideas.

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A Great and Terrible Beauty

Libba Bray · 416 pages

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Seraphina

Rachel Hartman · 465 pages

In a world where dragons and humans coexist in an uneasy truce and dragons can assume human form, Seraphina, whose mother died giving birth to her, grapples with her own identity amid magical secrets and royal scandals, while she struggles to accept and develop her extraordinary musical talents.

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Malas

Marcela Fuentes · 375 pages

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Hunted

Meagan Spooner · 387 pages

Beauty knows the Beast s forest in her bones and in her blood. She knows that the forest holds secrets and that her father is the only hunter who s ever come close to discovering them. But Yeva s grown up far from her father s old lodge, raised to be part of the city s highest caste of artistocrats. Still, she s never forgotten the feel of a bow in her hands, and she s spent a lifetime longing for

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Seven Black Diamonds

Melissa Marr · 381 pages

Lily's father has always shielded her from the truth, but when she's sent to the prestigious St. Columba's school, she's delivered straight into the arms of a fae Sleeper cell the Black Diamonds. The Diamonds are planted in the human world as the sons and daughters of the most influential families, and tasked with destroying it from within. Against her will, Lilywhite's been chosen to join them .

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