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Multi-cultural fiction, Fantasy, Ghost and horror stories
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* REESE'S BOOK CLUB FALL 2021 YA PICK * "Lauren Blackwood's can't-miss debut is a magical, Ethiopian-inspired remix of Jane…
Eyre ." - Harper's Bazaar What the heart desires, the house destroys... Andromeda is a debtera—an exorcist hired to cleanse households of the Evil Eye. She would be hired, that is, if her mentor hadn't thrown her out before she could earn her license. Now her only hope of steady work is to find a Patron—a rich, well-connected individual who will vouch for her abilities. When a handsome young heir named Magnus Rochester reaches out to hire her, she takes the job without question. Never mind that he's rude and demanding and eccentric, that the contract comes with a number of outlandish rules... and that almost a dozen debtera had quit before her. If Andromeda wants to earn a living, she has no choice. But she quickly realizes this is a job like no other, with horrifying manifestations at every turn, and that Magnus is hiding far more than she has been trained for. Death is the most likely outcome if she stays, the reason every debtera before her quit. But leaving Magnus to live out his curse alone isn't an option because—heaven help her—she's fallen for him. Stunningly romantic, Lauren Blackwood's heartstopping debut, Within These Wicked Walls, ushers in an exciting new fantasy voice. "An intricate magic system, a grimly humorous Black heroine, AND a heart-thumping romance? This book leaves nothing wanting." - Jordan Ifueko, New York Times bestselling author of Raybearer
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What do you do when you try to turn into a dragon or a kitten, but you accidentally turn into…
a dritten instead? Or you try to conjurefire but can only make flurries? Or maybe you get to fly, but you can't come back down? For Nory and her friends in DunwiddleMagic School's Upside-Down Magic class, magic is amazing, unpredictable, and out of control! This collection includes the first six hilarious, upside-down magical adventures! Upside-Down Magic #1: Upside-Down Magic Upside-Down Magic #2: Showing Off Upside-Down Magic #3: Sticks & Stones Upside-Down Magic #4: Dragon Overnight Upside-Down Magic #5: Weather or Not Upside-Down Magic #6: The Big Shrink
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Fantasy, Ghost and horror stories, General fiction
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Sorcery of Thorns and An Enchantment of Ravens comes a thrilling new…
YA fantasy about a teen girl with mythic abilities who must defend her world against restless spirits of the dead. The dead of Loraille do not rest. Artemisia is training to be a Gray Sister, a nun who cleanses the bodies of the deceased so that their souls can pass on; otherwise, they will rise as spirits with a ravenous hunger for the living. She would rather deal with the dead than the living, who trade whispers about her scarred hands and troubled past. When her convent is attacked by possessed soldiers, Artemisia defends it by awakening an ancient spirit bound to a saint's relic. It is a revenant, a malevolent being that threatens to possess her the moment she drops her guard. Wielding its extraordinary power almost consumes her—but death has come to Loraille, and only a vespertine, a priestess trained to wield a high relic, has any chance of stopping it. With all knowledge of vespertines lost to time, Artemisia turns to the last remaining expert for help: the revenant itself. As she unravels a sinister mystery of saints, secrets, and dark magic, her bond with the revenant grows. And when a hidden evil begins to surface, she discovers that facing this enemy might require her to betray everything she has been taught to believe—if the revenant doesn't betray her first
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Fantasy, LGBTQ+ fiction
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Under the Whispering Door is a contemporary fantasy with TJ Klune's signature "quirk and charm" ( PW ) about a…
ghost who refuses to cross over and the ferryman he falls in love with When a reaper comes to collect Wallace Price from his own funeral, Wallace suspects he really might be dead. Instead of leading him directly to the afterlife, the reaper takes him to a small village. On the outskirts, off the path through the woods, tucked between mountains, is a particular tea shop, run by a man named Hugo. Hugo is the tea shop's owner to locals and the ferryman to souls who need to cross over. But Wallace isn't ready to abandon the life he barely lived. With Hugo's help he finally starts to learn about all the things he missed in life. When the Manager, a curious and powerful being, arrives at the tea shop and gives Wallace one week to cross over, Wallace sets about living a lifetime in seven days. By turns heartwarming and heartbreaking, this absorbing tale of grief and hope is told with TJ Klune's signature warmth, humor, and extraordinary empathy. A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books
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Fantasy, Science fiction
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"Morgan Rice a une imagination sans bornes. Dans une autre série qui promet d'être aussi divertissante que les précédentes, UN…
TRÔNE POUR DES SŒURS nous présente l'histoire de deux sœurs (Sophia et Kate), des orphelines qui se battent pour survivre dans le monde cruel et difficile de l'orphelinat. C'est un succès immédiat. J'ai hâte d'acquérir le deuxième et le troisième tomes !"—Books and Movie Reviews (Roberto Mattos)Morgan Rice, l'auteur à succès n°1, nous propose une nouvelle série d'inoubliables récits fantastiques.Dans UNE CHANSON POUR DES ORPHELINES (Un Trône pour des Sœurs : Tome Trois), Sophia, 17 ans, est à la recherche de ses parents. Sa quête l'emmène dans des pays étrangers et étranges et lui révèle un secret choquant qu'elle n'aurait jamais pu imaginer.Kate, 15 ans, est convoquée par la sorcière car le temps est venu de lui accorder sa faveur. Cependant, Kate change, devient une femme, a de plus en plus de pouvoirs : qu'adviendra-t-il d'elle si elle fait un pacte avec les ténèbres ?Sebastian le romantique suit son cœur et renonce à tout, même à sa famille, pour aller retrouver Sophia. Cependant, Lady D'Angelica compte encore la tuer et elle a peut-être son propre plan.UNE CHANSON POUR DES ORPHELINES (Un Trône pour des Sœurs : Tome Trois) est le troisième tome d'une nouvelle série de fantasy éblouissante plein d'amour, de cœurs brisés, de tragédie, d'action, d'aventure, de magie, d'épées, de sorcellerie, de dragons, de destinée et de suspense haletant. Ce roman captivant déborde de personnages qui vous charmeront et se déroule dans un monde que vous n'oublierez jamais. Le tome n°4 de la série paraîtra bientôt."UN TRÔNE POUR DES SŒURS est le début puissant d'une série qui produira un mélange de protagonistes fougueux et de circonstances difficiles et qui plaira non seulement aux jeunes adultes mais aussi aux fans de fantaisie adulte à la recherche d'épopées nourries d'amitiés et d'adversaires de grande envergure."—Midwest Book Review (Diane Donovan)
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Fantasy, General fiction
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« Morgan Rice a imaginé ce qui promet d'être une autre série brillante et nous plonge dans une histoire de…
fantasy avec trolls et dragons, bravoure, honneur, courage, magie et foi en sa propre destinée. Morgan Rice a de nouveau réussi à produire un solide ensemble de personnages qui nous font les acclamer à chaque page .... Recommandé pour la bibliothèque permanente de tous les lecteurs qui aiment les histoires de fantasy bien écrites ».—Books and Movie Reviews, Roberto Mattos (pour Le Réveil des Dragons)Morgan Rice, l'auteur à succès n°1, nous propose une nouvelle série de fantasy inoubliable.Dans UNE COUR DE VOLEURS (UN TRÔNE POUR DES SŒURS, Tome Deux), Sophia, 17 ans, voit ses espoirs s'écrouler quand elle est chassée du monde romantique de l'aristocratie et qu'elle est obligée de revenir aux horreurs de l'orphelinat. Cette fois-ci, on dirait que les bonnes sœurs comptent la tuer. Pourtant, son cœur brisé la fait encore plus souffrir. Est-ce que Sebastian comprendra son erreur et reviendra la chercher ?Sa sœur cadette, Kate, 15 ans, commence sa formation auprès de la sorcière, atteint la maturité sous ses auspices, maîtrise l'art du combat à l'épée, gagne plus de pouvoir qu'elle n'avait jamais imaginé pouvoir en posséder — et décide de partir à la rescousse de sa sœur. Elle se retrouve au milieu d'un monde où règnent violence et combat, et également tentée par une magie qu'elle désire fortement mais qui risque de la consumer.Un secret sur les parents perdus de Sophia et de Kate est révélé et, pour les deux sœurs, les apparences sont trompeuses. En fait, il se pourrait que le destin soit complètement chamboulé.UNE COUR DE VOLEURS (UN TRÔNE POUR DES SŒURS, Tome Deux) est le deuxième tome d'une nouvelle série de fantasy éblouissante plein d'amour, de cœurs brisés, de tragédie, d'action, d'aventure, de magie, de sorcellerie, de dragons, de destinée et de suspense haletant. Ce roman captivant déborde de personnages qui vous charmeront et se déroule dans un monde que vous n'oublierez jamais.Le tome n°3 de la série, UNE CHANSON POUR DES ORPHELINES, sortira bientôt.« Une fantasy pleine d'action qui saura plaire aux amateurs des romans précédents de Morgan Rice et aux fans de livres tels que le cycle L'Héritage par Christopher Paolini .... Les fans de fiction pour jeunes adultes dévoreront ce dernier ouvrage de Rice et en demanderont plus. »—The Wanderer, A Literary Journal (pour Le Réveil des Dragons)
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« Morgan Rice a imaginé ce qui promet d'être une autre série brillante et nous plonge dans une histoire de…
fantasy avec trolls et dragons, bravoure, honneur, courage, magie et foi en sa propre destinée. Morgan Rice a de nouveau réussi à produire un solide ensemble de personnages qui nous font les acclamer à chaque page .... Recommandé pour la bibliothèque permanente de tous les lecteurs qui aiment les histoires de fantasy bien écrites."—Books and Movie Reviews, Roberto Mattos (pour Le Réveil des Dragons)Morgan Rice, l'auteur à succès n°1, nous propose une nouvelle série fantastique inoubliable.Dans UN TRÔNE POUR DES SŒURS (Tome Un), Sophia, 17 ans, et Kate, sa sœur cadette de 15 ans, veulent désespérément quitter leur horrible orphelinat. Elles sont toutes les deux des orphelines dont personne ne veut et que personne n'aime mais elle rêvent quand même d'atteindre leur maturité ailleurs, de trouver une meilleure vie, même si cela signifie qu'elles devront vivre dans les rues de la violente cité d'Ashton.Sophia et Kate sont les meilleures amies du monde et elles sont solidaires l'une de l'autre. Pourtant, elles attendent des choses différentes de la vie. Sophia, qui est romantique et plus élégante que sa sœur, rêve d'entrer à la cour, de trouver un noble et d'en tomber amoureux. Kate est une combattante qui rêve d'apprendre à manier l'épée, d'affronter des dragons et de devenir guerrière. Cela dit, elles sont unies par leur secret. Elles ont le pouvoir paranormal de lire l'une dans l'esprit de l'autre, ce qui est leur seul avantage dans un monde qui semble vouloir à tout prix les détruire.Alors qu'elles partent chacune de leur côté pour une quête et une aventure, elles se battent pour survivre. Confrontées à des décisions qu'aucune d'elles ne peut imaginer, elles arriveront peut-être aux sommets du pouvoir ou chuteront peut-être jusqu'aux abysses les plus profonds.UN TRÔNE POUR DES SŒURS est le premier tome d'une nouvelle série fantastique éblouissante qui déborde d'amour, de cœurs brisés, de tragédies, d'action, de magie, de sorcellerie, de destinées et de suspense haletant. Ce livre captivant est rempli de personnages dont vous tomberez amoureux et vous fera entrer dans un monde que vous n'oublierez jamais.Le TOME N°2, UNE COUR DE VOLEURS, sortira bientôt."Une fantasy pleine d'action qui saura plaire aux amateurs des romans précédents de Morgan Rice et aux fans de livres tels que le cycle L'Héritage par Christopher Paolini .... Les fans de fiction pour jeunes adultes dévoreront ce dernier ouvrage de Rice et en demanderont plus." —The Wanderer, A Literary Journal (pour Le Réveil des Dragons)
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Fantasy, General fiction
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"L'imagination de Morgan Rice est sans limite. Dans une autre série qui promet d'être aussi passionnante que les précédentes, UN…
TRÔNE POUR DES SŒURS nous présente l'histoire de deux sœurs (Sophia et Kate), des orphelines qui se battent pour survivre dans le monde cruel et contraignant d'un orphelinat. Le charme est immédiat. Je suis impatient de lire les deux tomes suivants !"—Books and Movie Reviews (Roberto Mattos)Morgan Rice, l'auteur à succès n°1, nous propose une nouvelle série fantastique inoubliable.Dans UN CHANT FUNÈBRE POUR DES PRINCES (Un Trône pour des Sœurs : Tome Numéro Quatre), Sophia, 17 ans, se bat contre la mort en essayant de se remettre de la blessure qui lui a été infligée par Lady D'Angelica. Est-ce que les nouveaux pouvoirs de sa sœur Kate suffiront à la ramener à la vie ?Le navire emmène les sœurs dans le pays lointain et exotique de leur oncle, leur dernier espoir et le seul lien avec leurs parents qu'elles connaissent. Cependant, le voyage est dangereux et, même si elles retrouvent leur oncle, les sœurs ne savent pas s'il les accueillera avec gentillesse ou avec hostilité.Kate, liée par contrat synallagmatique à la sorcière, se trouve dans une situation de plus en plus désespérée jusqu'au moment où elle rencontre une autre sorcière qui détient peut-être le secret de sa liberté.Sebastian retourne à la cour, le cœur brisé. Il veut désespérément savoir si Sophia est en vie. Alors que sa mère le force à épouser Lady D'Angelica, il sait qu'il est maintenant temps de risquer le tout pour le tout.UN CHANT FUNÈBRE POUR DES PRINCES (Un Trône pour des Sœurs : Tome Numéro Quatre) est le quatrième tome d'une nouvelle série de fantasy éblouissante plein d'amour, de cœurs brisés, de tragédie, d'action, d'aventure, de magie, d'épées, de sorcellerie, de dragons, de destinée et de suspense haletant. Ce roman captivant déborde de personnages qui vous charmeront et se déroule dans un monde que vous n'oublierez jamais.Le tome n°5 de la série paraîtra bientôt."UN TRÔNE POUR DES SŒURS est le début puissant d'une série qui produira un mélange de protagonistes fougueux et de circonstances difficiles et qui plaira non seulement aux jeunes adultes mais aussi aux fans de fantaisie adulte à la recherche d'épopées nourries d'amitiés et d'adversaires de grande envergure."—Midwest Book Review (Diane Donovan)
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Friendship stories, General fiction, Fantasy
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Auggie and his magical companions are tending to the Fabled Stables when the building shakes and shudders to make room…
for a new arrival: the Tattle-Tail. Auggie and friends travel through the portal to a town called Rainbow's End in search of this mysterious creature. Auggie assumes that the Tattle-Tail is in danger, but he learns that it's actually the town that needs rescuing... from an infestation of Tattle-Tails! These talking tails have taken over, attaching themselves to every backside in town (including Auggie's!). The Tails tattle on whomever they're attached to: She picked her nose! He just double-dipped! The constant stress of being tattled on has thrown all of Rainbow's End into chaos! Soon, Auggie and friends hatch a plan to collect the Tattle-Tails and bring them safely to the Stables—foiling the evil Rooks along the way
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Fantasy, General fiction, Multi-cultural fiction
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"Fans of The House on Mango Street and The House of Spirits will be riveted"- Booklist , Starred Review A…
13-year-old girl growing up in Mexico is visited by her 30-year-old future self in this powerful Young Adult novel in verse about accepting yourself. Out of nowhere, a lady comes up to Anamaria and says she&’s her , from the future . But Anamaria&’s thirteen, she knows better than to talk to a stranger. Girls need to be careful, especially in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico-it&’s the 90&’s and fear is overtaking her beloved city as cases of kidnapped girls and women become alarmingly common. This thirty-year-old &“future&” lady doesn&’t seem to be dangerous but she won&’t stop bothering her, switching between cheesy Hallmark advice about being kind to yourself, and some mysterious talk about saving a girl. Anamaria definitely doesn&’t need any saving, she&’s doing just fine. She works hard at her strict, grade-obsessed middle school-so hard that she hardly gets any sleep; so hard that the stress makes her snap not just at mean girls but even her own (few) friends; so hard that when she does sleep she dreams about dying-but she just wants to do the best she can so she can grow up to be successful. Maybe Thirty&’s right, maybe she&’s not supposed to be so exhausted with her life, but how can she ask for help when her city is mourning the much bigger tragedy of its stolen girls? This thought-provoking, moving verse novel will lead adult and young adult readers alike to vital discussions on important topics-like dealing with depression and how to recognize this in yourself and others-through the accessible voice of a thirteen-year-old girl
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Animal stories, Fantasy
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Niña de día. Gata de noche. ¡Siempre lista para la aventura! Kitty puede hablar con los animales y tiene superpoderes…
felinos, pero... ¿estará lista para ser una superheroína como su madre? En Kitty salva el festival... La familia de Kitty tiene un secreto. Su madre es una heroína con poderes felinos… ¡y Kitty también! A Kitty le encanta el Festival de la Luz de Hallam. Al menos hasta que descubre a un ladronzuelo aprovechando la oportunidad... y tiene que usar sus poderes gatunos para investigar. ¡Pero esta vez tendrá que hacerlo sin ayuda! ¿Conseguirá detener al ladrón ella sola? ¡Únete a Kitty y a su pandilla de gatos para vivir fascinantes aventuras a la luz de la luna!
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Fantasy, General fiction
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"Mystical, magical, and wildly original...If Alice Hoffman and Sara Addison Allen had a witchy love child, she would be Paige…
Crutcher. Do not miss this beautifully realized debut!"—- JT Ellison, New York Times bestselling author of Her Dark Lies on The Orphan Witch. A deeper magic. A stronger curse. A family lost...and found. Persephone May has been alone her entire life. Abandoned as an infant and dragged through the foster care system, she wants nothing more than to belong somewhere. To someone. However, Persephone is as strange as she is lonely. Unexplainable things happen when she's around—changes in weather, inanimate objects taking flight—and those who seek to bring her into their family quickly cast her out. To cope, she never gets attached, never makes friends. And she certainly never dates. Working odd jobs and always keeping her suitcases half-packed, Persephone is used to moving around, leaving one town for another when curiosity over her eccentric behavior inevitably draws unwanted attention. After an accidental and very public display of power, Persephone knows it's time to move on once again. It's lucky, then, when she receives an email from the one friend she's managed to keep, inviting her to the elusive Wile Isle. The timing couldn't be more perfect. However, upon arrival, Persephone quickly discovers that Wile is no ordinary island. In fact, it just might hold the very things she's been searching for her entire life. Answers. Family. Home. And some things she did not want. Like 100-year-old curses and an even older family feud. With the clock running out, love might be the magic that saves them all. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Griffin
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The specter of graduation looms large as Naomi Novik&’s groundbreaking, New York Times bestselling trilogy…
continues in the stunning sequel to A Deadly Education . &“The climactic graduation-day battle will bring cheers, tears, and gasps as the second of the Scholomance trilogy closes with a breathtaking cliff-hanger.&”— Booklist (starred review) In Wisdom, Shelter. That&’s the official motto of the Scholomance. I suppose you could even argue that it&’s true—only the wisdom is hard to come by, so the shelter&’s rather scant. Our beloved school does its best to devour all its students—but now that I&’ve reached my senior year and have actually won myself a handful of allies, it&’s suddenly developed a very particular craving for me. And even if I somehow make it through the endless waves of maleficaria that it keeps throwing at me in between grueling homework assignments, I haven&’t any idea how my allies and I are going to make it through the graduation hall alive. Unless, of course, I finally accept my foretold destiny of dark sorcery and destruction. That would certainly let me sail straight out of here. The course of wisdom, surely. But I&’m not giving in—not to the mals, not to fate, and especially not to the Scholomance. I&’m going to get myself and my friends out of this hideous place for good—even if it&’s the last thing I do. With keen insight and mordant humor, Novik reminds us that sometimes it is not enough to rewrite the rules—sometimes, you need to toss out the entire rulebook. The magic of the Scholomance trilogy will continue in 2022
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Fantasy, Adventure stories, Family stories
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Irish Twins Myles and Beckett, Artemis Fowl's younger brothers, return in their third and most bizarre adventure yet. *"Like its…
bestselling progenitors, a nonstop spinoff afroth with high-tech, spectacular magic, and silly business."— Kirkus (starred review) For almost two years, Lord Teddy Bleedham-Drye, the Duke of Scilly, has been plotting revenge against the Fowl Twins, who humiliated him in Book One. Teddy plans to give them exactly what they deserve: permanent death. He threatens Myles with his weaponized jet and Beckett and Specialist Lazuli succeed in disarming the aircraft and causing an accident that kills the duke. But does it really? Ghosts, clones, and fairy magic come to play in this ultimate and ridiculous showdown between the twins and their worst enemy. Complete your middle grade fantasy collection with these best-selling fan favorites: • Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer • Airman by Eoin Colfer • The Percy Jackson and the Olympians series by Rick Riordan • Rick Riordan Presents The Storm Runner by J.C. Cervantes Artemis Fowl is now a major motion picture streaming on Disney+  
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Fantasy, Romantic suspense, Ghost and horror stories
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From the Bram Stoker-nominated author of The Luminous Dead comes a gothic fantasy horror— The Death of Jane Lawrence .…
"Intense and amazing! It's like Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell meets Mexican Gothic meets Crimson Peak ." — BookRiot Practical, unassuming Jane Shoringfield has done the calculations, and decided that the most secure path forward is this: a husband, in a marriage of convenience, who will allow her to remain independent and occupied with meaningful work. Her first choice, the dashing but reclusive doctor Augustine Lawrence, agrees to her proposal with only one condition: that she must never visit Lindridge Hall, his crumbling family manor outside of town. Yet on their wedding night, an accident strands her at his door in a pitch-black rainstorm, and she finds him changed. Gone is the bold, courageous surgeon, and in his place is a terrified, paranoid man—one who cannot tell reality from nightmare, and fears Jane is an apparition, come to haunt him. By morning, Augustine is himself again, but Jane knows something is deeply wrong at Lindridge Hall, and with the man she has so hastily bound her safety to. Set in a dark-mirror version of post-war England, Caitlin Starling crafts a new kind of gothic horror from the bones of the beloved canon. This Crimson Peak -inspired story assembles, then upends, every expectation set in place by Shirley Jackson and Rebecca , and will leave readers shaken, desperate to begin again as soon as they are finished. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press "Claustrophobic in a way that Starling does best, The Death Of Jane Lawrence is tense and unsettling, treading the finest line between brilliance and madness. I absolutely adored it." —Emily Duncan, New York Times bestselling author of the Something Dark and Holy trilogy
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Fantasy, Folklore, fables and fairy tales
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Multimillion-copy bestselling author Gregory Maguire unveils the first in a three-book series spun off the iconic Wicked Years, featuring Elphaba's…
granddaughter, the green-skinned Rain. Ten years ago this season, Gregory Maguire wrapped up the series he began with Wicked by giving us the fourth and final volume of the Wicked Years, his elegiac Out of Oz. But "out of Oz" isn't "gone for good." Maguire's new series, Another Day, is here, twenty-five years after Wicked first flew into our lives. Volume one, The Brides of Maracoor, finds Elphaba's granddaughter, Rain, washing ashore on a foreign island. Comatose from crashing into the sea, Rain is taken in by a community of single women committed to obscure devotional practices. As the mainland of Maracoor sustains an assault by a foreign navy, the island's civil-servant overseer struggles to understand how an alien arriving on the shores of Maracoor could threaten the stability and wellbeing of an entire nation. Is it myth or magic at work, for good or for ill? The trilogy Another Day will follow this green-skinned girl from the island outpost into the unmapped badlands of Maracoor before she learns how, and becomes ready, to turn her broom homeward, back to her family and her lover, back to Oz, which—in its beauty, suffering, mystery, injustice, and possibility—reminds us all too clearly of the troubled yet sacred terrain of our own lives
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Adventure stories, Fantasy, Science fiction
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An African tightrope walker who can't die gets embroiled in a secret society's deadly gladiatorial tournament in this thrilling historical…
fantasy set in an alternate 1880s London, perfect for fans of The Last Magician and The Gilded Wolves . As an African tightrope dancer in Victorian London, Iris is used to being strange. She is certainly a strange sight for leering British audiences always eager for the spectacle of colonial curiosity . But Iris also has a secret that even "strange" doesn't capture... She cannot die. Haunted by her unnatural power and with no memories of her past, Iris is obsessed with discovering who she is. But that mission gets more complicated when she meets the dark and alluring Adam Temple, a member of a mysterious order called the Enlightenment Committee. Adam seems to know much more about her than he lets on, and he shares with her a terrifying revelation: the world is ending, and the Committee will decide who lives...and who doesn't. To help them choose a leader for the upcoming apocalypse, the Committee is holding the Tournament of Freaks, a macabre competition made up of vicious fighters with fantastical abilities. Adam wants Iris to be his champion, and in return he promises her the one thing she wants most: the truth about who she really is. If Iris wants to learn about her shadowy past, she has no choice but to fight. But the further she gets in the grisly tournament, the more she begins to remember—and the more she wonders if the truth is something best left forgotten
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Fantasy, Historical fiction, Ghost and horror stories
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Master storyteller Alice Hoffman brings us the conclusion of the Practical Magic series in a spellbinding and enchanting final Owens…
novel brimming with lyric beauty and vivid characters. The Owens family has been cursed in matters of love for over three-hundred years but all of that is about to change. The novel begins in a library, the best place for a story to be conjured, when beloved aunt Jet Owens hears the deathwatch beetle and knows she has only seven days to live. Jet is not the only one in danger—the curse is already at work. A frantic attempt to save a young man's life spurs three generations of the Owens women, and one long-lost brother, to use their unusual gifts to break the curse as they travel from Paris to London to the English countryside where their ancestor Maria Owens first practiced the Unnamed Art. The younger generation discovers secrets that have been hidden from them in matters of both magic and love by Sally, their fiercely protective mother. As Kylie Owens uncovers the truth about who she is and what her own dark powers are, her aunt Franny comes to understand that she is ready to sacrifice everything for her family, and Sally Owens realizes that she is willing to give up everything for love. The Book of Magic is a breathtaking conclusion that celebrates mothers and daughters, sisters and brothers, and anyone who has ever been in love
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Fantasy
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Alexander Eden is one unhappy teenager. A geeky, social pariah, he's the victim of constant bullying at school. His home…
life isn't much better with a stepfather who resents him and a half brother who is better than him at everything. But that all changes the day the mysterious and beautiful Gabriella De Luca walks into his life. Everyone wants to know her, to be with her. But she is interested in Alex. Because Alex is different. Soon afterwards he is thrown into a world he never thought possible. A world where he and others like him are the last line of defence. A world where an ancient unspeakable evil lurks. Evil which seeks to consume him. DILECTI SURGEMUS - SOCII POLLEMUS Chosen we rise - Allied we prevail
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Fantasy, General fiction
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From the author of international bestseller Before the Coffee Gets Cold, this book follows four new customers who hope to…
travel back in time in a little Japanese café. In a back alley in Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers something else besides coffee—the chance to travel back in time. With faces both familiar and new, Tales from the Cafe follows the story of four patrons who visit to take advantage of café Funiculi Funicula's time-traveling offer and revisit moments with family, friends and lovers. Each one must face up to the past to move on with their lives. Kawaguchi's wistful and heartwarming new novel once again invites the reader to ask themselves, "What would you change if you could travel back in time?"