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2) Thornhedge
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Meet Toadling. On the day of her birth, she was stolen from her family by the fairies, but she grew up safe and loved in the warm waters of faerieland. Once an adult, though, the fae ask a favor of Toadling: return to the human world and offer a blessing of protection to a newborn child. Simple, right? But nothing with fairies is ever simple. Centuries later, a knight approaches a towering wall of brambles, where the thorns are as thick as your...
Author
Series
Pandava volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Twelve-year-old Aru stretches the truth to fit in at her private school, but when she is dared to prove an ancient lamp is cursed, she inadvertently frees an ancient demon.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"People lived because she killed. People died because he lived. Zafira is the Hunter, disguising herself as a man when she braves the cursed forest of the Arz to feed her people. Nasir is the Prince of Death, assassinating those foolish enough to defy his autocratic father, the sultan. If Zafira was exposed as a girl, all of her achievements would be rejected; if Nasir displayed his compassion, his father would punish him in the most brutal of ways....
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Series
Six crimson cranes volume 1
Language
English
Description
The exiled Princess Shiori must unravel the curse that turned her six brothers into cranes, and she is assisted by her spurned betrothed, a capricious dragon, and a paper bird brought to life by her own magic.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Cursed Princess Harbor Rose lives on a remote island as she waits for a hero to sweep her away, but when a foe rooted in dark magic threatens her beloved island, Harbor Rose must find a way to call the hero before time runs out.
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Series
Kingdom of the wicked (Maniscalco) volume 3
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Emilia is determined to clear Vittoria's name when she is implicated in the murder of a high-ranking member of a rival demon court--even when her investigation forces Emilia to face the demons of her own past.
9) Ever cursed
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
To save her sisters from a spell that has forced them to be Without, Princess Jane of Ever must work with Reagan, the witch who set the curse on her family.
11) The Mirrorwood
Author
Language
English
Description
Since birth Fable has been cursed by the Blight, a twisted magic that has left her without a face of her own, forced to "steal" the face of others; now the Blighthunters, who believe anything touched by the Blight must be destroyed, have found her, and pursued by apprentice Blighthunter Vycorax, she and her telepathic cat, Moth, flee into the Mirrorwood, a thorny forest trapped in time and filled with perils--determined to confront the source of the...
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Series
Dragon Kingdom of Wrenly volume 8
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Ruskin, Cinder, Groth, and Roke travel to the Shattered Shore to honor of Villinelle, and while there, the four dragons make discoveries that will help in the upcoming battle."--
13) Reading Beauty
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In this version of Sleeping Beauty, told in verse, the Princess is threatened with a curse which will start with a paper cut; devastated that all her books have been taken away, she sets out with her dog, Prince, to find the fairy who cast the curse and make her reverse it.
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Series
Language
English
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Follows fifteen-year-old Samantha Mather, who has moved to Salem with her stepmother 300 years after her family hanged witches there, to find she is ostracized by the witch descendants at school, as she unravels the lost secrets of the hangings and her family.
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Series
Omega Morales volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Omega will have to learn to trust her powers once again as she comes face to face with the Mexican legend El Cucuy.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Good Omens meets The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in Ryka Aoki's Light From Uncommon Stars, a defiantly joyful adventure set in California's San Gabriel Valley, with cursed violins, Faustian bargains, and queer alien courtship over fresh-made donuts. Shizuka Satomi made a deal with the devil: to escape damnation, she must entice seven other violin prodigies to trade their souls for success. She has already delivered six. When Katrina Nguyen,...
20) Magic lessons
Author
Series
Practical magic volume 3
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
We first met the Owens in the glorious novel Practical Magic. We discovered the tragedy of the Owens siblings in Rules of Magic. Now we learn how it all began ... with a baby abandoned in a snowy English field in the 1600s. Under the care of gentle Hannah Owens, little Maria learns about the 'Unnamed Arts'. Maria has a gift for them - a gift that may well prove her undoing. When Maria is abandoned by the man she loves, she invokes the curse that will...