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A strong fit for young adult fantasy readers who enjoy Norse mythology, supernatural mysteries, and reluctant heroes.
River of Night
Fantasy · Teen + Young Adult · Urban Fantasy
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After rescuing a friend from a Viking death cult, Ivan finds himself targeted by its members and begins seeing shadow wolves, ancient gods, and supernatural forces no one else can perceive. With the cult leader missing and dark magic gathering around his hometown, Ivan must uncover what's happening before it consumes him, with a 4.01-star average from more than 490 Goodreads ratings. A strong fit for young adult fantasy readers who enjoy Norse mythology, supernatural mysteries, and reluctant heroes.
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"Ivan didn't know why the shadow wolf showed up. But it did save his life."
Ivan can’t believe how his summer’s going. It’s not that he’s ungrateful. It’s wonderful to discover that magic is real. He just wishes this enchanting new world wasn’t out to get him.
It's the summer before university, and Ivan’s stumbled into a world of shadow magic, monsters, and mayhem. Now all he has going for him is his best friend, a bossy raven, and an enigmatic shadow wolf.
And that’s not nearly enough.
Because Ivan must now defend his hometown from a deadly influx of killer monks, an ancient evil, and a curse will either get him killed - or win him the girl of his dreams.
River of Night is a fun, fast-paced urban fantasy perfect for fans of Holly Black, M.D. Massey, and Rainbow Rowell.
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In postwar Germany, eighteen year old Zofia Lederman searches for her brother after surviving the camps and losing nearly everyone she loved.
They Went Left
Historical Fiction · Romance · Teen + Young Adult · Historical Romance · World War 2
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In postwar Germany, eighteen year old Zofia Lederman searches for her brother after surviving the camps and losing nearly everyone she loved. Moving through displaced persons camps and shattered cities, she clings to a promise that keeps her alive. A New York Times bestselling historical novel praised for its power, compassion, and emotional truth.
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★Booklist ★Bookpage ★The Bulletin ★Publishers Weekly ★Shelf Awareness ★SLC ★SLJ “CRUCIAL.” —The New York Times Book Review In the rubble of a broken continent, a girl must solve a mystery whose answers could rebuild her family—or break her completely, in this New York Times bestselling, critically acclaimed tour de force historical novel from Monica Hesse, author of Girl in the Blue Coat. Germany, 1945. The soldiers who liberated the Gross-Rosen concentration camp say the war is over, but nothing feels over to eighteen-year-old Zofia Lederman. Her body has barely begun to heal, her mind feels broken. And her life is completely shattered: Three years ago, she and her younger brother, Abek, were the only members of their family to be sent to the right, away from the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Everyone else—her parents, her grandmother, radiant Aunt Maja—they went left. Zofia's last words to her brother were a promise: Abek to Zofia, A to Z. When I find you again, we will fill our alphabet. Now her journey to fulfill that vow takes her through Poland and Germany, into a displaced persons camp where everyone she meets is trying to piece together a future from a painful past: Miriam, desperately searching for the twin she was separated from after they survived medical experimentation. Breine, a former heiress, who now longs only for a simple wedding with her new fiancé. And Josef, who guards his past behind a wall of secrets, and is beautiful and strange and magnetic all at once. But the deeper Zofia digs, the more impossible her search seems. How can she find one boy in a sea of the missing? “This is not just a story about death and survival—it’s also about choosing to live on, even in the face of genocide, trauma and devastating loss. And what could be more relevant to our world today?” —Sharon Cameron, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Light in Hidden Places, writing in The New York Times "A heartbreaking, gorgeously written story...The ending left me breathless and awed by its expression of enduring love."―Jewell Parker Rhodes, New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Boys
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When a goblin curse silences a young woman in the woods outside Bellwater, her sister is forced to confront a hidden magical world.
The Goblins of Bellwater
Romantasy · Teen + Young Adult · Paranormal Romance
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When a goblin curse silences a young woman in the woods outside Bellwater, her sister is forced to confront a hidden magical world. As ancient contracts and dangerous enchantments surface, one choice could save her family or lose them forever. A modern fantasy by Molly Ringle that blends folklore, love, and quiet menace.
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Most people have no idea goblins live in the woods around the small town of Bellwater, Washington. But some are about to find out. Skye, a young barista and artist, falls victim to a goblin curse in the forest one winter night, rendering her depressed and silenced, unable to speak of what happened. Her older sister, Livy, is at wit's end trying to understand what's wrong with her. Local mechanic Kit would know, but he doesn't talk of such things: he's the human liaison for the goblin tribe, a job he keeps secret and never wanted, thrust on him by an ancient family contract.Then Kit starts dating Livy, and Skye draws Kit's cousin Grady into the spell through an enchanted kiss in the woods. Skye and Grady are doomed to become goblins and disappear from humankind forever, unless Livy, the only one untainted by enchantment, can unravel the spell by walking a dangerous magical path of her own.
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A young queen believes her imaginary friend is a symptom of madness.
Thorns At Sunrise
Romantasy · Teen + Young Adult
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A young queen believes her imaginary friend is a symptom of madness. A prince believes the woman in his dreams is his only hope of escape. When a royal family dies under mysterious circumstances, their fates collide in a quiet, haunting Sleeping Beauty retelling where the prince is the one asleep, the romance is tender, and time is running out faster than anyone realizes.
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A young queen. Her imaginary friend. A kingdom on the verge of death.
She believes she’s crazy.
Queen Usilea has a secret–and he lives in her mind. Ever since she was six years old, her imaginary friend has been her closest companion, and her arranged marriage has been a great dread. When she learns her betrothed and the royal family have suddenly died, she feels obligated to attend the funeral in the foreign land of Absteph–and perhaps learn more behind their mysterious passing.
He only wants the truth.
Petar endures great pain to protect those he does not remember. His only solace is a shadowy woman who he loves–even though she denies that he exists. When a terrible tragedy occurs in his kingdom, that mysterious woman is his only hope of bringing justice to light. For the cage that imprisons him grows harsher every day, and he is losing the fight.
But there are thorns at sunrise.
Brought together on the barest thread of reality, Usilea and Petar must discover what really happened to the royal family. But Petar’s time is running out. Soon not even a Mender like Usilea will be able to save him.
This YA retelling of Sleeping Beauty adds a unique twist - the prince is asleep! Includes clean/sweet romance, an earnest introvert FMC, a cinnamon roll MMC, a snarky friend sidekick, a haunting, mysterious forest, and a kingdom on the brink of doom. Plus, a dragon AND a cat.
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Cinderella gets a sci-fi upgrade in this fast-paced retelling set in a plague-ravaged future.
Cinder
Dystopian · Sci-Fi · Teen + Young Adult
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Cinderella gets a sci-fi upgrade in this fast-paced retelling set in a plague-ravaged future. Cinder is a brilliant mechanic, a cyborg, and a second-class citizen whose fate collides with a charming prince and a looming intergalactic war. Packed with action, romance, and rebellion, this is where the Lunar Chronicles begin.
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Soon to be adapted into major motion picture!
The first book in the #1 New York Times- and USA Today-Bestselling Lunar Chronicles series by the “Queen of fairytale retellings,” Marissa Meyer! See where the futuristic YA fairytale saga all began, with the tale of a teenage cyborg who must fight for Earth's survival against villains from outer space.
"An interesting mash up of fairy tales and science fiction . . . a cross between Cinderella, Terminator, and Star Wars." —Entertainment Weekly
The prince straightened, forcing her gaze to follow him. “You’re not quite what I was expecting.”
Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth's fate hinges on one girl. . . .
Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She's a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister's illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai's, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world's future.
With high-stakes action and a smart, resourceful heroine, Cinder is a Cinderella retelling that is at once classic and strikingly original.
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In The Wolf and the Woodsman, exile and survival give way to a bond neither character can afford to trust.
The Wolf and the Woodsman
Fantasy · Teen + Young Adult · Dark Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Historical Fantasy
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In The Wolf and the Woodsman, exile and survival give way to a bond neither character can afford to trust. After Évike is surrendered for a king’s sacrifice, she is forced into an uneasy alliance with a disgraced captain whose fate is tied to her own. This is historical fantasy steeped in folklore, political tension, hidden magic, and a slow-burn romance shaped by betrayal and belonging.
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In the vein of Naomi Novik’s New York Times bestseller Spinning Silver and Katherine Arden’s national bestseller The Bear and the Nightingale, this unforgettable debut— inspired by Hungarian history and Jewish mythology—follows a young pagan woman with hidden powers and a one-eyed captain of the Woodsmen as they form an unlikely alliance to thwart a tyrant.
In her forest-veiled pagan village, Évike is the only woman without power, making her an outcast clearly abandoned by the gods. The
villagers blame her corrupted bloodline—her father was a Yehuli man, one of the much-loathed servants of the fanatical king. When soldiers arrive from the Holy Order of Woodsmen to claim a pagan girl for the king’s blood sacrifice, Évike is betrayed by her fellow villagers and surrendered.
But when monsters attack the Woodsmen and their captive en route, slaughtering everyone but Évike and the cold, one-eyed captain, they
have no choice but to rely on each other. Except he’s no ordinary Woodsman—he’s the disgraced prince, Gáspár Bárány, whose father needs pagan magic to consolidate his power. Gáspár fears that his cruelly zealous brother plans to seize the throne and instigate a violent reign that would damn the pagans and the Yehuli alike. As the son of a reviled foreign queen, Gáspár understands what it’s like to be an outcast, and he and Évike make a tenuous pact to stop his brother.
As their mission takes them from the bitter northern tundra to the smog-choked capital, their mutual loathing slowly turns to affection,
bound by a shared history of alienation and oppression. However, trust can easily turn to betrayal, and as Évike reconnects with her estranged father and discovers her own hidden magic, she and Gáspár need to decide whose side they’re on, and what they’re willing to give up for a nation that never cared for them at all.
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Clara Stahlbaum believes her future is set until a mysterious nutcracker pulls her into an enchanted world of rival fairies, living music, and dangerous magic.
The Enchanted Sonata
Fantasy · Teen + Young Adult
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Clara Stahlbaum believes her future is set until a mysterious nutcracker pulls her into an enchanted world of rival fairies, living music, and dangerous magic. As spells are woven through song and loyalties blur, Clara must decide whether the life she planned is worth more than the one unfolding before her in this lush Nutcracker retelling.
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Clara Stahlbaum has her future perfectly planned: marry the handsome pianist, Johann Kahler (ah!), and settle down to a life full of music. But all that changes on Christmas Eve, when Clara receives a mysterious and magical nutcracker.
Whisked away to his world--an enchanted empire of beautiful palaces, fickle fairies, enormous rats, and a prince--Clara must face a magician who uses music as spells...and the future she thought she wanted.
"The Enchanted Sonata," a retelling of The Nutcracker Ballet with a dash of The Pied Piper, will captivate readers of all ages.
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Princess of the Midnight Ball follows Rose, one of twelve princesses cursed to dance each night in a shadowy underground kingdom.
Princess of the Midnight Ball
Romantasy · Teen + Young Adult
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Princess of the Midnight Ball follows Rose, one of twelve princesses cursed to dance each night in a shadowy underground kingdom. When Galen, a young soldier returned from war, uncovers their secret, the two join forces to break the spell. This gentle fairy tale retelling blends romance, courage, and hope as love becomes the key to freedom.
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New York Times bestselling author Jessica Day George re-imagines the classic fairy-tale, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, in this start to an enchanting YA fantasy series.
Rose is one of twelve princesses--sisters condemned to dance every night in the palace of the King Under Stone. Galen is a young soldier returning from war. Together they will search for a way to break the curse that forces the princesses to attend the endless midnight balls. All they need is an invisibility cloak, a black wool chain knit with silver needles, and that most critical fairy tale ingredient--true love.
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A Spindle Splintered follows Zinnia Gray, who knows her twenty-first birthday will be her last.
A Spindle Splintered
Romantasy · LGBTQIA+ · Teen + Young Adult
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A Spindle Splintered follows Zinnia Gray, who knows her twenty-first birthday will be her last. When a Sleeping Beauty–themed celebration ends with a prick of a spindle, Zinnia tumbles through worlds and meets another cursed princess fighting the same fate. This sharp, feminist retelling explores destiny, sisterhood, and the power of knowing fairy tales well enough to break them.
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USA Today bestselling author Alix E. Harrow's A Spindle Splintered brings her patented charm to a new version of a classic story. Featuring Arthur Rackham's original illustrations for The Sleeping Beauty, fractured and reimagined.
“A vivid, subversive and feminist reimagining of Sleeping Beauty, where implacable destiny is no match for courage, sisterhood, stubbornness and a good working knowledge of fairy tales.” —Katherine Arden
It's Zinnia Gray's twenty-first birthday, which is extra-special because it's the last birthday she'll ever have. When she was young, an industrial accident left Zinnia with a rare condition. Not much is known about her illness, just that no-one has lived past twenty-one.
Her best friend Charm is intent on making Zinnia's last birthday special with a full sleeping beauty experience, complete with a tower and a spinning wheel. But when Zinnia pricks her finger, something strange and unexpected happens, and she finds herself falling through worlds, with another sleeping beauty, just as desperate to escape her fate.
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Daughters of a Dead Empire follows two young women on opposite sides of the Russian Revolution who are forced into an uneasy alliance.
Daughters of a Dead Empire
Teen + Young Adult · Thriller · Historical Thriller
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Daughters of a Dead Empire follows two young women on opposite sides of the Russian Revolution who are forced into an uneasy alliance. Hunted after the fall of the tsar, a bourgeois survivor and a reluctant communist flee south together, discovering how dangerous ideals and loyalty become when survival is at stake in a collapsing empire.
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"This fresh, thrilling take on Anastasia establishes that O'Neil is a debut author to watch." —Buzzfeed
From debut author Carolyn Tara O'Neil comes a thrilling alternate history set during the Russian Revolution.
Russia, 1918: With the execution of Tsar Nicholas, the empire crumbles and Russia is on the edge of civil war—the poor are devouring the rich. Anna, a bourgeois girl, narrowly escaped the massacre of her entire family in Yekaterinburg. Desperate to get away from the Bolsheviks, she offers a peasant girl a diamond to take her as far south as possible—not realizing that the girl is a communist herself. With her brother in desperate need of a doctor, Evgenia accepts Anna's offer and suddenly finds herself on the wrong side of the war.
Anna is being hunted by the Bolsheviks, and now—regardless of her loyalties—Evgenia is too.
Daughters of a Dead Empire is a harrowing historical thriller about dangerous ideals, inequality, and the price we pay for change. An imaginative retelling of the Anastasia story.
A Junior Library Guild Selection
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The Only Thing Worse Than Me Is You follows Trixie Watson as her senior-year rivalry with academic nemesis Ben West turns unexpectedly complicated.
The Only Thing Worse Than Me Is You
Romance · Teen + Young Adult · RomCom
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The Only Thing Worse Than Me Is You follows Trixie Watson as her senior-year rivalry with academic nemesis Ben West turns unexpectedly complicated. Forced into an uneasy truce, their competitive war softens into friendship just as scandal, loyalty, and truth threaten to tear everything apart. This sharp, fandom-filled YA romance explores ambition, trust, and what happens when enemies start to understand each other.
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Named One of the 16 Best Young Adult Books of 2016 by Paste Magazine!
Trixie Watson has two very important goals for senior year: to finally save enough to buy the set of Doctor Who figurines at the local comic books store, and to place third in her class and knock Ben West--and his horrendous new mustache that he spent all summer growing—down to number four.
Trixie will do anything to get her name ranked over Ben's, including give up sleep and comic books—well, maybe not comic books—but definitely sleep. After all, the war of Watson v. West is as vicious as the Doctor v. Daleks and Browncoats v. Alliance combined, and it goes all the way back to the infamous monkey bars incident in the first grade. Over a decade later, it's time to declare a champion once and for all.
The war is Trixie's for the winning, until her best friend starts dating Ben's best friend and the two are unceremoniously dumped together and told to play nice. Finding common ground is odious and tooth-pullingly-painful, but Trixie and Ben's cautious truce slowly transforms into a fandom-based tentative friendship. When Trixie's best friend gets expelled for cheating and Trixie cries foul play, however, they have to choose who to believe and which side they're on—and they might not pick the same side.
Stephanie Perkins meets 10 Things I hate About You in The Only Thing Worse than Me Is You, a fresh, romantic debut from author Lily Anderson inspired by Much Ado About Nothing.
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Titan’s Descendant follows Nathan, the weakest disciple in his cultivation sect, cursed with a flaw that blocks his growth and threatens his only hope of returning home.
Titan’s Descendant
Fantasy · Teen + Young Adult · LitRPG · Sword and Sorcery
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Titan’s Descendant follows Nathan, the weakest disciple in his cultivation sect, cursed with a flaw that blocks his growth and threatens his only hope of returning home. When his System awakens, that flaw becomes his greatest weapon. By enduring what should break him, Nathan uncovers a new path to power where survival itself fuels advancement.
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A fatal flaw is his only path to power.
For two years, Nathan has been a failure. Cursed with an abysmal energy absorption rate, he's the weakest disciple in the Verdant Spire Sect and faces certain expulsion. His dream of returning to Earth to save his ailing mother is about to die. He's a talentless cultivator at the bottom of the food chain, with one day left to change his fate.
Just when all hope is lost, his long-dormant System awakens, granting him a bizarre and unique power: The Passive Paradigm.
His flaw is no longer a curse. It's the key to a new kind of advancement where endurance is strength, and survival itself is a source of explosive growth. By discovering loopholes and turning the rules of cultivation on their head, Nathan forges a new path. But this power comes at a cost, forcing him into a brutal tournament where he is the underdog and a deadly forest that wants him dead.
Experience an Epic Cultivation LitRPG where the grind pays double. Perfect for fans of Cradle and He Who Fights with Monsters, this adventure features a clever underdog, a unique skill system, brutal martial arts combat, and a progression from outcast to alpha.
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