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• The River Has Roots

  El-Mohtar, Amal,

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  In the small town of Thistleford, on the edge of Faerie, dwells the mysterious Hawthorn family. There, they tend and harvest the enchanted willows and honour an ancient compact to sing to them in thanks for their magic. None more devotedly than the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Thief of Night

  Black, Holly,

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  There'd always been something wrong with Charlie Hall. Crooked from the day she was born. Never met a bad decision she wasn't willing to double down on. She may be good enough to steal a shadow from a tower, but will she be good enough to steal back…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

  Schwab, Victoria,

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  This is a story about hunger. 1532. Santo Domingo de la Calzada. A young girl grows up wild and wily—her beauty is only outmatched by her dreams of escape. But María knows she can only ever be a prize, or a pawn, in the games played by men. When an…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Red City

  Lu, Marie

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  Alchemy is the hidden art of transformation. An exclusive power wielded by crime syndicates that market it to the world’s elites in the form of sand, a drug that enhances those who take it into a more perfect version of themselves: more beautiful,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Everlasting

  Harrow, Alix E.,

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  Sir Una Everlasting was Dominion’s greatest hero: the orphaned girl who became a knight, who died for queen and country. Her legend lives on in songs and stories, in children’s books and recruiting posters―but her life as it truly happened has been…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Raven Scholar

  Hodgson, Antonia

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  Let us fly now to the empire of Orrun, where after twenty-four years of peace, Bersun the Brusque must end his reign. In the dizzying heat of mid-summer, seven contenders compete to replace him. They are exceptional warriors, thinkers,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Society of Unknowable Objects

  a Novel

  Brown, Gareth (Novelist),

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  The world of unknowable objects - magical items that most people have no idea possess powers - has been quiet for decades. But three current members of a secret society have remained watchful, meeting every six months in the basement of a bookshop…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hemlock & Silver

  Kingfisher, T.,

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  Healer Anja regularly drinks poison. Not to die, but to save—seeking cures for those everyone else has given up on. But a summons from the King interrupts her quiet, herb-obsessed life. His daughter, Snow, is dying, and he hopes Anja’s unorthodox…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Incandescent

  a School Story

  Tesh, Emily,

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  Doctor Walden is the Director of Magic at Chetwood Academy and one of the most powerful magicians in England. Her days consist of meetings, teaching A-Level Invocation to four talented, chaotic sixth formers, more meetings, and securing the school's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Katabasis

  a Novel

  Kuang, R. F. (Rebecca F.),

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  Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become one of the brightest minds in the field of Magick. She has sacrificed everything to make that a reality—her pride, her health, her love life, and most definitely her sanity. All to work with Professor…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Devils

  Abercrombie, Joe,

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  Brother Diaz has been summoned to the Sacred City, where he is certain a commendation and grand holy assignment awaits him. But his new flock is made up of unrepentant murderers, practitioners of ghastly magic, and outright monsters, and the mission…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• King Sorrow

  a Novel

  Hill, Joe,

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  Arthur Oakes is a reader, a dreamer, and a student at Rackham College, Maine, renowned for its frosty winters, exceptional library, and beautiful buildings. But his idyll—and burgeoning romance with Gwen Underfoot—is shattered when a local drug…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Water Moon

  a Novel

  Sotto, Samantha,

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  On a backstreet in Tokyo lies a pawnshop, but not everyone can find it. Most will see only a cosy ramen restaurant. And just the chosen ones – those who are lost – will find a place to pawn their life choices and deepest regrets. Hana Ishikawa wakes…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Alchemy of Secrets

  a Novel

  Garber, Stephanie,

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  Folklore 517: Local Legends and Urban Myths, taught by a woman called the Professor. Most students believe the Professor’s stories are just fiction, but Holland St. James has always been convinced that magic is real. When she tracks down a local…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Drop of Corruption

  An Ana and Din Mystery

  Bennett, Robert Jackson, 1984-

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  The second book in the Shadow of the Leviathan series.

• The Sirens

  a Novel

  Hart, Emilia,

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  2019: Lucy awakens in her ex-lover’s room in the middle of the night with her hands around his throat. Horrified, she flees to her sister’s house on the coast of New South Wales hoping Jess can help explain the vivid dreams that preceded the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Resistance of Witches

  Ryan, Morgan,

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  Stubborn, plainspoken, and from an unimpressive family, Lydia Polk never expected to be accepted into the Royal Academy of Witches. Now, with Hitler’s army rampaging across Europe, the witches of Britain have joined the war effort, and Lydia is key…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wind and Truth

  Sanderson, Brandon,

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  Dalinar Kholin challenged the evil god Odium to a contest of champions with the future of Roshar on the line. The Knights Radiant have only ten days to prepare―and the sudden ascension of the crafty and ruthless Taravangian to take Odium’s place has…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Book of Lost Hours

  a Novel

  Gelfuso, Hayley,

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  Enter the time space, a soaring library filled with books containing the memories of those have passed and accessed only by specially made watches once passed from father to son—but mostly now in government hands. This is where eleven-year-old…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Once and Future Me

  A Novel

  Pace, Melissa

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  Virginia November 12th, 1954: A young woman wakes, agitated and confused, on a patient transport bus arriving at Hanover State Psychiatric Hospital. She remembers nothing of her life before that moment, none of the dark things she must've seen—and…Read moreRead more of this annotation