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  • The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer

    The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 32 ratings
    Years ago, a reclusive mega-bestselling children’s author quit writing under mysterious circumstances. Suddenly he resurfaces with a brand-new book and a one-of-a-kind competition, offering a prize that will change the winner’s life in this absorbing and whimsical novel.“Clever, dark, and hopeful . .
  • Velocity by Abigail Boyd

    Velocity by Abigail Boyd

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    The final book in the "Gravity" series. The end is finally here. After being threatened by Phillip Rhodes, Ariel confronts her father and finds out just how deeply the conspiracies in town run. She discovers more about what she is and where she came from...
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  • The Back Door of Midnight by Elizabeth Chandler

    The Back Door of Midnight by Elizabeth Chandler

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Psychic...or psychotic? Anna knows her family is crazy. But when she goes to visit her aunt and uncle for the summer and learns that her uncle’s charred body has been found, her life reaches a new level of insanity. Her erratic aunt’s “psychic” abilities are exaggerated by her grief, and have become borderline violent...
  • King of Ashes by Raymond E. Feist

    King of Ashes by Raymond E. Feist

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Feist's first non-Midkemia based book for many years. King of Ashes is the first book in the planned War of Five Crowns trilogy and draws influences from medieval history and Arthurian legend...
  • Blue is for Nightmares Collections by Laurie Faria Stolarz

    Blue is for Nightmares Collections by Laurie Faria Stolarz

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    With over 500,000 in print, this best-selling series about a teen witch has cast a spell upon young adults across the world! In commemoration of this remarkable success, each volume—Blue is for Nightmares, White is for Magic, Silver is for Secrets, and Red is for Remembrance—has been updated with a new cover...
  • Dead Is Not An Option by Marlene Perez

    Dead Is Not An Option by Marlene Perez

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    It’s springtime of senior year, and psychic sleuth Daisy Giordano is preparing to say goodbye to Nightshade High. But no college acceptance letters have arrived yet, and she’s beginning to worry about where she’ll end up come fall—and if it will be anywhere near her boyfriend, Ryan. But that’s not the only uncertainty Daisy’s dealing with...
  • The Riddle by Alison Croggon

    The Riddle by Alison Croggon

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    A young woman embraces her power — and her destiny — as the thrilling quest begun in THE NAMING continues! Maerad is a girl with a tragic and bitter past, but her powers grow stronger by the day. Now she and her mentor, Cadvan, hunted by both the Light and the Dark, must unravel the Riddle of the Treesong before their fractured kingdom erupts in chaos...
  • The Oceanography of the Moon by Glendy Vanderah

    The Oceanography of the Moon by Glendy Vanderah

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A heartfelt novel of shedding secrets, facing the past, and embracing the magic of love and family by the Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Where the Forest Meets the Stars.After the untimely deaths of her aunt and mother, young Riley Mays moved from Chicago to her cousins’ Wisconsin farm...
  • Conjured by Chelsea Bellingeri

    Conjured by Chelsea Bellingeri

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After the disastrous fallout on Halloween and the tragic events that followed in the Hazel Cove Cemetery, Alexandria is left picking up the pieces of her broken life. Peter is adjusting. James hates her. Grandma Claudia is gone. Emma is incoherent. Victor went rogue. And Gamma still wants her dead. If that wasn't enough to deal with, two burning questions are driving Alex insane...
  • Antebellum Awakening by Katie Cross

    Antebellum Awakening by Katie Cross

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Never underestimate the power of a volatile witch. Still reeling in the wake of her mother’s death, sixteen-year-old Bianca Monroe is forced to move to Chatham Castle. Not even the sudden appearance of ancient dragons in haunted Letum Wood nor her two best friends can distract her from the strength of her deep, dark rage...
  • The Reason by Marley Gibson

    The Reason by Marley Gibson

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It's not everyday you have a premonition of your own demise. But two months after Kendall had a vision of her own death, all is well in her world. Maybe some cosmic wires got crossed. Then Kendall gets a request by the mayor of Radisson to investigate the mayoral manor. Emily and Loreen warn her against it: This spirit is dangerous. But not even they can see just how dangerous...
  • Dead Is Just A Rumor by Marlene Perez

    Dead Is Just A Rumor by Marlene Perez

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    As the creepy little town of Nightshade prepares to celebrate its 200th anniversary—on Halloween, of course—many of its paranormal residents are receiving mysterious blackmail letters. Psychic teen Daisy Giordano and her sisters set out to find out who is behind the threats. But launching an investigation isn’t easy for Daisy with her overprotective father watching her every move...
  • Stolen Magic by Stephanie Burgis

    Stolen Magic by Stephanie Burgis

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When Kat’s family travels to a grand country house on the Devon coast for her sister Angeline’s wedding, Kat is stalked by a dangerous magical enemy - and finds everything she thought she knew about her late mother called into question...
  • Spells for Lost Things by Jenna Evans Welch

    Spells for Lost Things by Jenna Evans Welch

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Willow has never felt like she belonged anywhere and is convinced that the only way to find a true home is to travel the world. But her plans to act on her dream are put on hold when her aloof and often absent mother drags Willow to Salem, Massachusetts, to wrap up the affairs of an aunt Willow didn’t even know she had. An aunt who may or may not have been a witch...
  • 'Til Death by Carol J. Perry

    'Til Death by Carol J. Perry

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The staff at Salem, Massachusetts’s local station, WICH-TV, is looking forward to the wedding of their program director, Lee Barrett. But when Lee heads off on her Maine honeymoon, she’ll be haunted by the ghosts of her own past . . . Lee and Detective Sergeant Pete Mondello are finally tying the knot—and Lee is tying up loose ends before the big day...
  • Dead Is So Last Year by Marlene Perez

    Dead Is So Last Year by Marlene Perez

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Something very strange starts happening in Nightshade the summer that the eldest Giordano sister, Rose, gets a job working at Dr. Franken's research laboratory. People are starting to see double. Doppelgängers of Nightshade residents are popping up all over town...
  • Fatal Charm by Linda Joy Singleton

    Fatal Charm by Linda Joy Singleton

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In this vivid fifth volume of The Seer series, Sabine Rose is reunited with her ill grandmother Nona and her friends at Sheridan Valley. But the excitement of curing Nona-and discovering love with someone new-doesn't outweigh the burden of her father's dark secret: a daughter no one but Sabine knows about. Riddled with curiosity, Sabine uses astral projection to spy on her half sister Jade...
  • Discovering by Wendy Corsi Staub

    Discovering by Wendy Corsi Staub

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    After finally learning who was behind her mother’s death, Calla still doesn’t understand why it happened. Somewhere out there, someone seems to share the powerful psychic abilities that allow Calla to see not only into the past, but to the Other Side—someone who apparently doesn’t want to be found...
  • The Grace of Wild Things by Heather Fawcett

    The Grace of Wild Things by Heather Fawcett

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    An inventive and fantastical reimagining of Anne of Green Gables—with magic and witches!—that explores found family, loss, and the power of a girl's imagination, from the acclaimed author of The Language of Ghosts and The School Between Winter and Fairyland. Perfect for readers who loved The Girl Who Drank the Moon and Serafina and the Black Cloak...
  • Uncovering Cobbogoth by Hannah L. Clark

    Uncovering Cobbogoth by Hannah L. Clark

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Norah Lukens needs to uncover the truth about the fabled lost city of Cobbogoth. After her archaeologist uncle’s murder, Norah is asked to translate his old research journal for evidence and discovers that his murder was a cover-up for something far more sinister...
  • Moment of Truth by Michael Pryor

    Moment of Truth by Michael Pryor

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Aubrey has a difficult choice to make to save his friends when Albion erupts into war—and it could cost him his life   The war that has been looming for so long finally erupts, sending Albion and the continent into chaos. Aubrey, George, and Caroline are brought into a top-secret espionage unit and sent on a mission to investigate a mysterious magical facility on the Gallia–Holmland border...
  • Renegade Magic by Stephanie Burgis

    Renegade Magic by Stephanie Burgis

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The feisty Kat Stephenson is back in the second installment of the Regency era magical trilogy Kirkus Reviews calls “enjoyable mayhem...
  • My Date From Hell by Tellulah Darling

    My Date From Hell by Tellulah Darling

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sophie Bloom’s junior year has been a bit of a train wreck. After the world’s greatest kiss re-awakened Sophie’s true identity as Persephone (Goddess of Spring and Savior of Humanity), she fought her dragon-lady guidance counselor to the death, navigated mean girl Bethany’s bitchy troublemaking, and dealt with the betrayal of her backstabbing ex, Kai (sexy Prince of Darkness)...
  • The Guidance by Marley Gibson

    The Guidance by Marley Gibson

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Kendall and her ghost hunting team is the talk of Radisson, Georgia, but one person isn’t so pleased. Courtney Langdon doesn’t appreciate Kendall’s new popularity or her relationship with Jason, Courtney’s ex.So Courtney begins dabbling in the paranormal world. At first it’s all a game to draw attention away from Kendall. But Courtney doesn’t know what she’s getting into—or what wants in her...
  • Witch Ball by Linda Joy Singleton

    Witch Ball by Linda Joy Singleton

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Sabine is finally starting to feel accepted at her new high school. She's friends with the popular girls and even has a cute boyfriend. But Sabine also has a dark secret-she's psychic, and was forced to leave her old school after she accurately predicted the death of a football player...
  • The Lighthouse by Christopher Parker

    The Lighthouse by Christopher Parker

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Enchanting, mysterious, and deeply romantic, The Lighthouse follows a young woman's breathtaking journey far from home to discover where she truly belongs.Something strange is happening in Seabrook. The town's lighthouse–dormant for over thirty years and famously haunted–has inexplicably started shining, and its mysterious glow is sparking feverish gossip throughout the spooked community...
  • Last Dance by Linda Joy Singleton

    Last Dance by Linda Joy Singleton

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Sabine can't wait to show off her new boyfriend at the upcoming school dance, but she's also worried about her grandmother, Nona, who's suffering from a fatal hereditary illness. The only cure lies within a remedy book, lost long ago. Determined to save Nona, Sabine goes to Pine City to visit a distant relative who may have clues...
  • Sword Play by Linda Joy Singleton

    Sword Play by Linda Joy Singleton

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    "Help her," insists the spirit of Kip, the jock from her old school who died in a car accident. But his cryptic message is the last thing on Sabine's mind as she packs up to move back home. She's not happy about leaving her friends, her boyfriend, and Nona who's gravely ill, but won't dare challenge her mother's orders...
  • Flecks of Gold by Alicia Buck

    Flecks of Gold by Alicia Buck

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Mary Margaret is not the type of girl to fall in love - especially after seeing what a string of bad relationships has done to her mother. That's why it's so weird when Mary finds herself strangely attracted to Kelson, a guy at her new school. It's almost . . . unnatural. What she doesn't know is that she's been put under a spell...
  • Believing by Wendy Corsi Staub

    Believing by Wendy Corsi Staub

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    After her tumultuous summer in Lily Dale, Calla has decided to stay, hoping to unearth more about her mother’s untimely death.  As she starts school at Lily Dale High and begins to explore her relationships with Jacy and Blue, her visions begin to occur with greater urgency. There may be a killer on the loose, and he may be after Calla for her role in solving his first victim’s disappearance...
  • Sistersong by Lucy Holland

    Sistersong by Lucy Holland

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    “A beautiful reimagining of an old British folklore ballad, Sistersong weaves a captivating spell of myth and magic around the reader.” —Jennifer Saint, author of Ariadne My sister’s heart broke on the river – and the river took it and bore it away.In the ancient kingdom of Dumnonia, there is old magic to be found in the whisper of the wind, the roots of the trees, the curl of the grass...
  • Magician's Muse by Linda Joy Singleton

    Magician's Muse by Linda Joy Singleton

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Final Book in Linda Joy Singleton's Popular Paranormal Series, The Seer A whisper, too soft to swirl wispy candle smoke, carried across time, beyond life and death—and was heard. "Our bargain is sealed. My secrets will be yours-when the girl dies...
  • Ominous by Kate Brian

    Ominous by Kate Brian

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    After the shocking revelations made in the Private prequel, The Book of Spells , Noelle and Reed know they are descendants of the original Billings Girls, and their legacy includes a mysterious coven of witches...
  • The Waterless Sea by Kate Constable

    The Waterless Sea by Kate Constable

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    The sequel to the critically aclaimed THE SINGER OF ALL SONGS draws readers even deeper into the magical world of Tremaris--and presents a temptation that Calwyn may not be able to overcome... The second novel in the captivating Chanters of Tremaris Trilogy follows Calwyn and her friends to the desolate Merithuran Empire...
  • Secrets of the Time Society by Alexandra Monir

    Secrets of the Time Society by Alexandra Monir

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    There exists a secret society where one's ability to travel through time is "gifted" to members only by blood. Those who try to enter the society quickly come to realize that time is a force not to be reckoned with...
  • The Witches of the Glass Castle by Gabriella Lepore

    The Witches of the Glass Castle by Gabriella Lepore

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Mia’s life is thrown through a loop when she discovers her family secret — that she and her brother Dino are witches. After they are sent away to study their craft, they begin down a path that will change their lives forever...
  • The Deep by Helen Dunmore

    The Deep by Helen Dunmore

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    The third spellbinding story about Sapphy and Conor's adventures in the powerful and dangerous underwater world of Ingo. A devastating flood has torn through the worlds of Air and Ingo, and now, deep in the ocean, a monster is stirring. Mer legend says that only those with dual blood -- half Mer, half human -- can overcome the Kraken...
  • Taurus Eyes by Bonnie Hearn Hill

    Taurus Eyes by Bonnie Hearn Hill

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Having been accepted into the summer writing camp in Monterey, CA, Logan worked so hard for in "Aries Rising," she is on her way to becoming a real published author She needs to impress the camp's instructor, Henry Jaffa, a renowned journalist, paranormal investigator, and fellow Aquarian, whom she hopes will see the promise in her writing and become her mentor...
  • Suddenly Sorceress by Erica Lucke Dean

    Suddenly Sorceress by Erica Lucke Dean

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    PMS can be a real witch. Ivie McKie isn’t your run-of-the-mill kindergarten teacher. After an encounter with a horny goat, Ivie has a confrontation with her lying, cheating fiancé. She is shocked when the big jerk suddenly transforms into a skunk—the black and white furry variety...
  • With a Little Luck by Marissa Meyer, Chuck Gonzales

    With a Little Luck by Marissa Meyer, Chuck Gonzales

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 13 ratings
    After being magically gifted with incredible luck, a boy discovers this gift just may be a curse when it comes to love, in this YA novel by #1 New York Times -bestselling author Marissa Meyer.Jude is determined to fly under the radar...
  • Awakening by Wendy Corsi Staub

    Awakening by Wendy Corsi Staub

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Calla thought that her boyfriend breaking up with her in a text message was the worst thing that could ever happen to her. But just two weeks later, her mother died in a freak accident, and life as she knew it was completely over. With her father heading to California for a new job, they decide that Calla should spend a few weeks with the grandmother she barely knows while he gets them set up...
  • The Third Eye by Lois Duncan

    The Third Eye by Lois Duncan

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    When Karen closes her eyes, the visions come. Through time and space, she sees a place where stolen children sleep. And if Karen denies a young policeman's request for help, the children may never go home again. Lois Duncan presents a ticking clock mystery with thrills at every turn...
  • The Lost Boys by Lilian Carmine

    The Lost Boys by Lilian Carmine

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    An intensely addictive romance novel about girls, ghosts, and forbidden love, ideal for fans of Stephenie Meyer  Fate has brought them together. But will it also keep them apart? Having moved to a strange town, 17-year-old Joey Gray is feeling a little lost, until she meets a cute, mysterious boy near her new home...
  • Destiny by Gillian Shields

    Destiny by Gillian Shields

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In Destiny , the fourth and final book in Gillian Shields’s romantic, gothic Immortal series, Helen, Evie, and Sarah, the Sisters of the Mystic Way, must use their powers to battle for their souls.   Malevolent forces haunt Wyldcliffe Abbey School for Young Ladies, the girls’ elite boarding school on the English moors. Dr. Franzen, an evil man from Helen’s past, has taken over as headmaster...
  • Thin Space by Jody Casella

    Thin Space by Jody Casella

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Ever since the car accident that killed his twin brother, Marshall Windsor has been consumed with guilt and crippled by secrets of that fateful night. He has only one chance to make amends, to right his wrongs and set things right. He must find a Thin Space—a mythical point where the barrier between this world and the next is thin enough for a person to step through to the other side...
  • Luminescence by J.L. Weil

    Luminescence by J.L. Weil

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    My dreams are anything but normal. My temper sucks. And the new guy at school is anything but average. I was a goner. We are talking, picking my drooling tongue off the floor kind of gone. One reckless decision to skip school, and I find myself in the arms of a bad boy with an attitude, disarming smirks, and uber mystery shrouding him...
  • Buried by Linda Joy Singleton

    Buried by Linda Joy Singleton

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A new, darker paranormal mystery series from award-winning author Linda Joy Singleton—featuring popular goth girl Thorn from The Seer series Thorn Matthews is a Finder, a person with the psychic ability to find things just by touching an object. The visions she gets from objects—events and memories—are what guide her to the things that need to be found...
  • The First Midnight Spell by Claudia Gray

    The First Midnight Spell by Claudia Gray

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In this suspenseful companion novella to New York Times bestselling author Claudia Gray's Spellcaster, learn the tragic origins of the dark witch Elizabeth. It's 1695, and Elizabeth Cooper is a young witch in Fortune's Sound, Rhode Island. She spends her days perfecting spells with the local coven and dreaming about one day marrying Nat Porter...
  • Kiss of Darkness by Brandon Alexander, Constance M. Burge

    Kiss of Darkness by Brandon Alexander, Constance M. Burge

    Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In the shadow of the tower We lovers two entwine, Bringing beat to breath and life to power And forging your soul to mine! Something changed Prue Halliwell on New Year's Eve, when a stranger gave her the most passionate kiss of her life. Now Prue feels driven to kiss every man she meets. At first, Piper and Phoebe think the new Prue is fun...
  • The Hawkweed Legacy by Irena Brignull

    The Hawkweed Legacy by Irena Brignull

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Poppy is discovering a purpose for her powers in Africa, but she is haunted by a vision of her own death. Taken in by a boy and his great-grandmother, a healer, they vow to keep her safe-even if that ultimately means holding her captive. But Poppy never stops longing for Leo and, when she feels his magic begin to spark, she will do anything to be reunited with him...
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