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  • Draekora by Lynette Noni

    Draekora by Lynette Noni

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    “I swear by the stars that you and the others slain tonight will be the first of many. Of that you have my word.” With Aven Dalmarta now hiding in the shadows of Meya, Alex is desperate to save Jordan and keep the Rebel Prince from taking more lives...
  • Graevale by Lynette Noni

    Graevale by Lynette Noni

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Book 4 in The Medoran Chronicles: Who will live and who will die? “Light or dark, only one can win. This world cannot survive in shades of grey.” Now that Aven Dalmarta sits upon the throne of Meya, Alex is in a race against the clock to save the mortals of Medora from the Rebel Prince’s wrath...
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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 . .
  • 神様はじめました 20 [Kamisama Hajimemashita 20] by Julietta Suzuki

    神様はじめました 20 [Kamisama Hajimemashita 20] by Julietta Suzuki

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    When Nanami inherits a shrine, it comes with divine powers and a hot fox spirit!Nanami Momozono is alone and homeless after her dad skips town to evade his gambling debts and the debt collectors kick her out of her apartment. So when a man she's just saved from a dog offers her his home, she jumps at the opportunity...
  • Treason by S.M. Boyce

    Treason by S.M. Boyce

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Kara Magari ignited a war when she stumbled into Ourea and found the Grimoire: a powerful artifact filled with secrets. To protect the one person she has left, she strikes a deal that compromises everything she believes in... and things don't go as planned. Braeden Drakonin can no longer run from who--and what--he is. He has to face the facts. He's a prince. He's a murderer. He's a wanted man...
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    fae  magic  contemporary  young adult  fantasy  paranormal
  • Summer of Frost by L.P. Dover

    Summer of Frost by L.P. Dover

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Land of the Fae is strong with all four courts banded as one, but uncertainty still remains as they all work together to end the dark sorcerer’s evil reign. Sorcha—the one and only Winter Court princess—has a secret, a secret that she has enjoyed keeping for the past six months...
  • First Rider's Call by Kristen Britain

    First Rider's Call by Kristen Britain

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 38 ratings
    Karigan G'ladheon had been a Green Rider, one of the king of Sacoridia's elite magical messengers...
  • 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...
  • Uglies, The Collector's Set by Scott Westerfeld

    Uglies, The Collector's Set by Scott Westerfeld

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    The complete New York Times bestselling Uglies series is available as a collectible boxed set. The future isn’t far away.In Tally Youngblood’s world, looks matter. She lives in a society created to function with perfect-looking people who never have a chance to think for themselves. And she’s tired of it...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • The Farseekers by Isobelle Carmody

    The Farseekers by Isobelle Carmody

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    A Children's Book Council of Australia Honor Book In this powerful sequel to Obernewtyn , young Elspeth Gordie-possessed of extraordinary mental powers-has united with others Misfits for refuge on the remote mountain keep of Obernewtyn. Yet the threat from the totalitarian Council to their safety is ever present...
  • The Cracks in the Kingdom by Jaclyn Moriarty

    The Cracks in the Kingdom by Jaclyn Moriarty

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The second in Jaclyn Moriarty's brilliant, acclaimed fantasy trilogy, THE COLORS OF MADELEINE! Princess Ko's been bluffing about the mysterious absence of her father, desperately trying to keep the government running on her own. But if she can't get him back in a matter of weeks, the consequence may be a devastating war...
  • The Caller by Juliet Marillier

    The Caller by Juliet Marillier

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Neryn has made a long journey to perfect her skills as a Caller. She has learned the wisdom of water and of earth; she has journeyed to the remote isles of the west and the forbidding mountains of the north. Now, Neryn must travel in Alban's freezing winter to seek the mysterious White Lady, Guardian of Air...
  • Ashling by Isobelle Carmody

    Ashling by Isobelle Carmody

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Reminiscent of Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Darkover novels, Obernewtyn introduced Isobelle Carmody as a writer to watch and began a series of novels to entice and enthrall readers of all ages...
  • Forevermore by Cindy Miles

    Forevermore by Cindy Miles

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    On a misty cliffside, mystery and romance await. . . . Ivy Calhoun's life has been turned upside down. Her new stepdad has uprooted Ivy and her mom, bringing them to live in an actual castle in the misty Scottish countryside. There are stone-faced servants and shadowy corridors, and the ancient walls seem full of secrets. Ivy is at once frightened and intrigued...
  • Genesis Academy: The Seer's Legacy by Barbara Hartzler

    Genesis Academy: The Seer's Legacy by Barbara Hartzler

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    One day I’m the darling of the Guardians and the next our whole family is running for their lives.All because I saw my first premonition ever …Now they want me to go undercover at Genesis Academy, the Guardian’s school for rebels and rejects. Me—the goody-goody science nerd with the brand new powers. Oh, and I have to keep my budding Seer powers a secret. Too bad they manifest at the worst times...
  • Chasing the Red Queen by Karen Glista

    Chasing the Red Queen by Karen Glista

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Donja Bellanger, suffering after the death of her father, finds herself in dire straits when her mom takes a new husband. Forced not only to move to a strange city, but to share a room with her glamorous, new stepsister, Makayla Hampton, her life spirals out of control. Makayla lures her from goth to glam, straight into an exclusive club, not only for wealthy elites but Immortal Descendants...
  • The Stone Key by Isobelle Carmody

    The Stone Key by Isobelle Carmody

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    There was a great crash and wood splintered...I had a brief glimpse of a group of Herder priests, bald and robed, peering at me, and then the sundered remnants of the locker door were torn aside and a rough hand reached in to haul me out by the hair. A Hedra captain stared into my face with eyes that burned with a fanatical fire above a thin nose and a lipless slash of a mouth..
  • Green Rider by Kristen Britain

    Green Rider by Kristen Britain

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 44 ratings
    On her long journey home from school after a fight which will surely lead to her expulsion, Karigan G'ladheon ponders her future as she trudges through the immense forest called Green Cloak. But her thoughts are interrupted by the clattering of hooves as a galloping horse bursts from the woods, the rider slumped over his mount's neck, impaled by two black-shafted arrows...
  • 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 Two Princesses of Bamarre by Gail Carson Levine

    The Two Princesses of Bamarre by Gail Carson Levine

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 54 ratings
    Twelve-year-old Addie admires her older sister Meryl, who aspires to rid the kingdom of Bamarre of gryphons, specters, and ogres. Addie, on the other hand, is fearful even of spiders and depends on Meryl for courage and protection...
  • 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...
  • The Sending by Isobelle Carmody

    The Sending by Isobelle Carmody

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    It came to me then, like a chilly draught from an unseen gap, that I had always known in my deepest heart that it would be like this, a slipping away from a life full of people I had come to love, in a place I had helped to shape, in a land I had helped to free...
  • Echoes by Melinda Metz

    Echoes by Melinda Metz

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Can't believe she did that . . . . . . at four-thirty I have to . . . . . . I hate this place . . . Rae Voight is losing her mind. When she walks down the halls of Sanderson Prep, she hears voices . . . even when no one is talking. Other people's thoughts crowd her head, a confusing tangle of insecurities and dark secrets...
  • 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...
  • Visions by Kimberly Readnour

    Visions by Kimberly Readnour

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    ★★★★★ 5 Star Readers' Favorite "The seamless prose fruitfully rewards the well-crafted plot, making it a completely accomplished novel that is easy for readers to enjoy."— Lit Amri, Readers' Favorite Book One of a Thrilling Trilogy Having clairvoyance isn’t easy..
  • 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)...
  • False Covenant by Ari Marmell

    False Covenant by Ari Marmell

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It’s been over half a year, now, since the brutal murder of Archbishop William de Laurent during his pilgrimage to the Galicien city of Davillon. During that time, the Church of the Hallowed Pact has assigned a new bishop to the city—but it has also made its displeasure at the death of its clergyman quite clear. Davillon’s economy has suffered beneath the weight of the Church’s displeasure...
  • Sora's Quest by T.L. Shreffler

    Sora's Quest by T.L. Shreffler

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    This book is permanently free on Amazon, BN.com, Apple, Kobo and more! Sora Fallcrest always dreamed of adventure, but as a member of the nobility, she learned the ways of a Lady instead. Now seventeen, she is expected to choose a husband and marry. She plots to run away, but just as she is stepping out the door, she runs into a mysterious man--and is kidnapped...
  • 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...
  • The Demon Prince of Momochi House, Vol. 13 by Aya Shouoto

    The Demon Prince of Momochi House, Vol. 13 by Aya Shouoto

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Himari Momochi inherits Momochi House, an estate which exists on the barrier between the human and spiritual realms. Aoi’s and Himari’s shikigami restraint rings release after Aoi reveals his true feelings for her. Kasha appears and shoots Himari, and she sees her own corpse...
  • 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...
  • Raven Flight by Juliet Marillier

    Raven Flight by Juliet Marillier

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Neryn has finally found the rebel group at Shadowfell, and now her task is to seek out the elusive Guardians, vital to her training as a Caller. These four powerful beings have been increasingly at odds with human kind, and Neryn must prove her worth to them. She desperately needs their help to use her gift without compromising herself or the cause of overthrowing the evil King Keldec...
  • State of Sorrow by Melinda Salisbury

    State of Sorrow by Melinda Salisbury

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Sorrow - for that is all she brings us.A people laid low by grief and darkness.A cut-throat race for power and victory.A girl with everything and nothing to lose…By day, Sorrow governs the Court of Tears, covering for her grief-maddened father, who has turned their once celebrated land into a living monument for the brother who died before she was born...
  • Undone by Elizabeth Norris

    Undone by Elizabeth Norris

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Before the accident. Before their universes collided. Before they fell in love. Riveting and romantic, Undone: An Unraveling Novella contains three short stories set in the world of Unraveling, the first book in the gripping sci-fi duology by Elizabeth Norris...
  • Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin

    Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 45 ratings
    Welcome to Elsewhere. It is warm, with a breeze, and the beaches are marvelous. It's quiet and peaceful. You can't get sick or any older. Curious to see new paintings by Picasso? Swing by one of Elsewhere's museums. Need to talk to someone about your problems? Stop by Marilyn Monroe's psychiatric practice. Elsewhere is where fifteen-year-old Liz Hall ends up, after she has died...
  • 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 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...
  • 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...
  • Dreamquake by Elizabeth Knox

    Dreamquake by Elizabeth Knox

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The dreamhunting began as a beautiful thing, when Tziga Hame discovered that he could enter the Place and share the dreams he found there with other people. But Tziga Hame has disappeared and Laura, his daughter, knows that the art of projecting dreams has turned sour. On St...
  • 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...
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