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• The Waking Land

  Bates, Callie,

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  A young girl is kidnapped by the king to punish her father's rebellion against him. Years later, she returns home a fugitive, while grappling with a repressed magic that could, if mastered, make her the most powerful person in two kingdoms.

• Gods of Jade and Shadow

  Moreno-Garcia, Silvia,

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  The Mayan God of Death sends a young woman on a harrowing, life-changing journey in this dark fairy tale inspired by Mexican folklore.

• The Shining Girls

  Beukes, Lauren

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  A time-traveling serial killer is impossible to trace - until one of his victims survives. In Depression-era Chicago, Harper Curtis finds a key to a house that opens into other times. But it comes at a cost. He has to kill the shining girls: bright…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Every Heart a Doorway

  McGuire, Seanan,

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  In Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children, kids have always disappeared under the right conditions; slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe, tumbling down rabbit holes and into old wells, and emerging somewhere...…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Smoke

  a Novel

  Vyleta, Dan,

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  In an alternate England, where people who are wicked in thought or deed are marked by the Smoke that pours from their bodies, Thomas, Charlie, and Livia begin to suspect that everything they have been taught about Smoke is a lie; but if that is a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The City We Became

  Jemisin, N. K,

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  Five New Yorkers must come together in order to save their city. Every great city has a soul. Some are as ancient as myths, and others are as new and destructive as children. New York? She's got six.

• NOS4A2

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  Charlie Manx, a seductive immortal who feeds off the souls of children, has his entire world threatened when a young woman in New England discovers she has a dangerous gift. Based on the novel by Joe Hill.

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