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In this retelling of the Korean legend The tale of Shim Cheong, sixteen-year-old Mina is swept away to the Spirit Realm, where, assisted by a motley crew of demons, gods, and lesser spirits, she sets out to awaken the sleeping Sea God and save her homeland and family from deadly storms.
Deadly storms have ravaged Mina's homeland for generations. Floods sweep away entire villages, while bloody wars are waged over the few remaining resources. Her people...
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"When a girl who's never longed for adventure is hit with a curse that begins to transform her into a demon, she embarks on a quest to reverse the curse and return to her normal life, but along the way is forced to confront her true power within"--Publisher.
In the realm of Awara, where gods, monsters, and humans exist side by side, Miuko is an ordinary girl resigned to a safe, if uneventful, existence as an innkeeper's daughter. But when Miuko is...
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A modern retelling of the myth, Orpheus and Eurydice, in which Eury leaves Puerto Rico for the Bronx, haunted by losing all to Hurricane Maria and by evil spirit Ato, and meets a bachata-singing charmer, Pheus. She fully expects the tragedy that befell her and her family in Puerto Rico to catch up with her in New York. Pheus is a golden-voiced, bachata-singing charmer, ready to spend the summer on the beach with his friends. When he meets Eury, all...
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Life as a teenager is complicated at the best of times, pale Irish skin, red hair and chronic shyness mean Saoirse O Donnell is an outsider, but following a meeting with a new classmate, Sean, Saoirse realises that the nightmares that have haunted her all her life contain real people. She is left confused, frightened and frustrated. A strange inherited gift, from her grandmother holds the answers, and opens the doors to a world that Saoirse thought,...
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Old Peter's Russian Tales is a collection of the greatest Russian folk-tales for children. The first chapter tells of Maroosia and Vanya who live in a hut of pine logs in the forest with their grandfather, the forester Old Peter. This story is followed by twenty stories that Russian peasants tell their children told by Old Peter to Maroosia and Vanya.
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The Hut in the Forest
The Tale of the Silver Saucer and the Transparent Apple
Sadko
Frost
The...
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Finding your happily ever after is complicated when your matchmaker is a cat...Etta's happy with her simple life in the mill, but when her aunt passes and leaves her a very peculiar cat, everything goes awry. Now, determined to find her place in the world, Etta's learning to hunt, having audiences with a king, and falling for a man who's keeping something from her.Beau's happy at sea until his father passes and leaves him with an odd last request....
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Star-crossed lovers, meddling immortals, feigned identities, battles of wits, and dire warnings: these are the stuff of fairy tale, myth, and folklore that have drawn us in for centuries.
Fifteen bestselling and acclaimed authors reimagine the folklore and mythology of East and South Asia in short stories that are by turns enchanting, heartbreaking, romantic, and passionate.
Compiled by We Need Diverse Books's Ellen
...8) Of the Book
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For nearly 6000 years the Jewish people have been gathering stories. Stories of sheydim and golem. Stories of heroes and monsters. For as long as the People of the Book have been, they have been story tellers.Gathered here are tales of contemporary Jewish folklore. Frightening, supernatural, uplifting and upsetting. These Jewish writers took old tropes, legends and concepts of an ancient faith and spun it into something incredible and new.From across...
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This magical collector's edition contains all four books in The Stolen Kingdom Series by award-winning author, Bethany Atazadeh, in a classic hardcover omnibus.___A dainty princess and a friendly genie are replaced with a tough heroine who fights back and a magical race everyone fears in this addicting fairy tale twist on Aladdin and other fairytales. Here's how the story begins...Princess Arie never expects to manifest a forbidden Jinni's Gift. When...
10) Son of Shadow
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From the author of the Shadowmagic trilogy.A world of faeries, leprechauns and dragons – and magic fueled by the blood of trees.A mystery portal to the Real World.And a pair of curious young adventurers who know they shouldn' t step through it... ?Meet Fergal the Second, nicknamed ‘ two' . Or ‘ Doe' , in his own language. He can do magic. But, for...
11) Fae Secrets
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A captured friendAn annoying brother.Can her return to faery get any worse?After returning to the human realm, Zoe is determined to keep her head down and stay out of trouble until after her exams are over. In the meantime, she refuses to dwell on what it means to be the missing Princess of Starlight...or which realm she belongs in.But her best laid plans crumble when she learns that her foster parents are fae and have have hidden her heritage all...
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The Dark army marches for Teionyr...
Ayla's family secrets all come to a head as she realizes she has magic-and that her magic might be the only thing that can stop the Dark King from conquering Teionyr and stealing the powerful resources hidden in its vault in his maddening quest for control of Faeside.
The problem? Ayla doesn't know how to use her magic-and her fear is only making things worse. The people Ayla loves most are in the Dark King's...
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You've heard of Happily Ever After, but have you heard of the unhappy fairies that came first?A pair of little girls, alone in the wilderness. Two young fairy women, in a contest for power. A troubled fairy city.Meihui wants to be the next Grandmother, and leader, of the fairy city. But her fellow fairies hate her. And everyone loves her rival, Marah.Two mischievous lost souls enter the city. Meihui and Marah must each mentor one in the ways of the...
14) Encantado
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Romance y drama y diosas que chupan el alma, oh Dios.
En el último año, lo tengo todo: un novio estupendo, un trabajo emocionante y clases fáciles. Y por fin estoy descubriendo cómo usar mi capacidad de ver la muerte antes de que ocurra. Después del fiasco del año pasado, un poco de descanso es bien merecido.
Así que, por supuesto, no puede durar. Porque ahora hay otra diosa en la escena, y sus poderes son extrañamente fuertes. Más...
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Two worlds. A princess in exile. And the sorcerous flames that will consume everything...Rose Valrois thought she'd sacrificed everything to save her loved ones and her entire world - but fate has other ideas. Now that the red priests have arrived, hidden truths are revealed that force Rose to make yet another impossible choice.
With her sister trapped in the magical land of the Dark Elves, and her heart given to the guardian of the Darkwood, Rose...
16) A Mortal Song
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Sora's life was full of magic-until she discovered it was all a lie.Heir to Mt. Fuji's spirit kingdom, Sora yearns to finally take on the sacred kami duties. But just as she confronts her parents to make a plea, a ghostly army invades the mountain. Barely escaping with her life, Sora follows her mother's last instructions to a heart-wrenching discovery: she is a human changeling, raised as a decoy while her parents' true daughter remained safe but...
17) The Seer
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The Seer was trained to see the fate of others, but nothing prepared her for her own destiny...In the last leg of Asheva's journey, new stories and secrets will be revealed. Secrets that will shake the very foundation of the Territories. Secrets that have to do with a young prince, a monarch, and a Seer...
18) In My Hands
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Sixteen-year-old Chandra S. Chengappa, a competitive classical dancer, passes for an average American teenager. But she has a monster of a secret: She can see evil in the form of the rakshasi-a demon supposed to exist only in South Asian folklores.
After discovering a glowing disc hidden among a collection of ancient Indian artifacts in her mother's yoga studio, Chandra starts having strange visions of a past she cannot remember, and the kind of...
19) Heartless Hette
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SPFBO8 Semi-Finalist 2022
When Princess Hette refuses a sorcerer's proposal, he retaliates by stealing her heart-literally.
Desperate to resist his influence, Hette makes herself emotionless, stifling all feelings until she can find her heart and win it back. Only Konrad, the despised Court Fool, knows where to find the sorcerer, and he has his own curse to battle.
Riddles and magic plague their path, including a memory stealing witch, an unbeatable...
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GOLD MEDAL WINNER - 2019 E-Lit Book Awards Best Multicultural NovelSILVER MEDAL WINNER - 2018 Nautilus Awards Best YA NovelIn this intro/prequel to the Snog Team Six series, readers encounter a princess trapped in a high tree and a brash young man determined to "rescue" her; a devoted daughter searching for a magical spring to save her ailing father; a teenage girl who is forced to replace her mobile phone with a machete to protect her family from...
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