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Sixteen-year-old Mirae, crown princess of her kingdom and fated to destroy an enemy of the gods, must embark on a dark journey to save her brother when her coronation ceremony goes terribly wrong.

"Witches Iraya and Jazmyne must once again work together as a new enemy threatens Aiyca, even as betrayal lurks around every corner"-- The Doyenne is dead, and the throne is empty. Iraya, her revenge taken and magic unfettered, turns her sights on a bigger goal: freeing Aiyca for the Obeah. First she must shed the guise of the rogue warrior and become the Lost Empress her people need. Jazmyne has crowned herself the doyenne and is prepared to go...

"In the first book in Tricia Levenseller's exciting new YA fantasy duology, a teenage blacksmith with social anxiety is forced to go on the run to protect the world from the most powerful magical sword she's ever made"-- Ziva prefers metal to people. She spends her days tucked away in her forge, safe from society and the anxiety it causes her, using her magical gift to craft unique weapons imbued with power. She receives a commission from a powerful...

"From award-winning author R.F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire. Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. 1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious...

While struggling with her new role as Matriarch, Voya has a vision of a terrifying, deadly future, and with a newfound sense of purpose, she vows to do whatever it takes to bring her shattered community together and prevent the destruction of them all. Voya Thomas is struggling with her new role as Matriarch, and her family doesn't believe that she has what it takes to lead them. She can't let go of her feeling for Luc, who believes that Voya killed...

"Sisters Matilde, Pastora, Camila, and Flor thought they knew each other well, until Flor-inspired by a documentary her daughter Ona made her watch-decides she wants a living wake, a party to bring her family and community together and celebrate the long life she's led, while she's still around to enjoy it. She's not ill, as far as anybody knows, but Flor does have a gift: she can predict, to the day, when someone will die. Has she foreseen her own...

Now separated, sixteen-year-old indentured beastkeeper Koffi and seventeen-year-old warrior candidate Ekon will have to find their way back to each other as they face off against the god of death. Koffi has saved her city and the boy she loves-- but now, as a servant to Fedu, the god of death, she must use her newfound power to further his continental conquest, or risk the safety of her home and loved ones. Reluctantly learning to survive amidst...

With her parents the victims of a misplaced curse, Willa and her army of cats are drawn into a mystery to save Willa's city, her friends, and herself when it is revealed that she is a witch.

When twelve-year-old Yara finds a strange set of instructions left behind by her deceased mother, she starts on a journey to discover the truth about her mother's past and her true identity.

"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...