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  • Pandora Hearts, Volume 24 by Jun Mochizuki

    Pandora Hearts, Volume 24 by Jun Mochizuki

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Someone once said that all they would find there was darkness that swallowed everything whole. But that never meant that light was nowhere to be found--They finally arrive at an answer to the question of how to save their world. It is the product of many months, even years. Cruel yet kind, it is a simple formula. Now, led on by the cogs of destiny, it spells the end of but one story..
  • Pandora Hearts, Volume 9 by Jun Mochizuki

    Pandora Hearts, Volume 9 by Jun Mochizuki

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    The incuse on Oz Vessalius’s chest ticks onward, but the young heir to one of the four great dukedoms directs his gaze back, seeking the facts behind a centuries-old tragedy...
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  • Island of Dragons by Lisa McMann

    Island of Dragons by Lisa McMann

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Head mage Alexander Stowe and his friends successfully fended off the latest threat to their magical world of Artime with the help of a surprise ally. United at last, they re exploring exciting new territory. But old enemies have secretly been plotting against them, and danger strikes when they re most vulnerable...
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    dystopian  magic  suspense  mystery  fantasy  young adult  war  humor
  • Pandora Hearts, Volume 6 by Jun Mochizuki

    Pandora Hearts, Volume 6 by Jun Mochizuki

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Though Oz’s sudden appearance in the midst of Pandora wreaks havoc, the initially chilly reception to the prison-breaker runs more than warm when Jack Vessalius, hero of the tragedy of Sablier and the man from Alice’s memories, manifests in Oz’s body...
  • Island of Fire by Lisa McMann

    Island of Fire by Lisa McMann

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    The fate of Artimé is at stake—and an unlikely alliance could redeem it.The magical world of Artimé is gone. The Unwanteds have no food, no water, and no hope. And everyone is looking to Alex Stowe for answers...
  • Gakuen Alice, Vol. 02 by Tachibana Higuchi

    Gakuen Alice, Vol. 02 by Tachibana Higuchi

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Mikan joins her best friend, Hotaru, at the Alice Academy, a special school for people with an "Alice," or paranormal talent, and she must learn to know and use her own such talent if she hopes to stay...
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    mystery  magic  fantasy  young adult  paranormal  humor
  • Island of Shipwrecks by Lisa McMann

    Island of Shipwrecks by Lisa McMann

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Alex and his friends from Artimé are stranded on a newly discovered island after barely surviving a storm that destroys their ship. And it turns out they’re not alone…Back in Quill, Aaron’s power base grows as he aligns himself with an unlikely ally...
  • Island of Legends by Lisa McMann

    Island of Legends by Lisa McMann

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Uncover adventure and dangerous secrets in book four of the New York Times bestselling Unwanteds series, which Kirkus Reviews called The Hunger Games meets Harry Potter.As Alex grows more confident in his role as the mage of Artime, he expands his skills and brings his first creature to life with results that are both painful and wonderful...
  • The Spoken Mage: Complete Series by Melanie Cellier

    The Spoken Mage: Complete Series by Melanie Cellier

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    In Elena's world words have power over life and death—but none more so than hers.As the daughter of shopkeepers, Elena has always known that the mysteries of reading and writing are closed to her. Only the mageborn can risk harnessing the power unleashed from putting pen to paper. Until Elena discovers an impossible new ability and joins the elite ranks of the mages...
  • Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE, Vol. 07 by Clamp

    Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE, Vol. 07 by Clamp

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    SYAORAN OVERMATCHED?!Young Syaoran and his friends are on a quest to retrieve the magically potent feather-shaped shards of Princess Sakura’s memory. The search has led them to the country of Ôto, a world with the romantic feel of Japan in the early 1900s. However, another dimension traveler has shown up as well–the immensely powerful Seishirô, who first trained Syaoran...
  • The Twelve Dancing Princesses by Marianna Mayer

    The Twelve Dancing Princesses by Marianna Mayer

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    For generations, children have loved the enchanting story of the twelve beautiful princesses and the handsome young lad who solves the mystery of their tattered shoes.Now Marianna Mayer brings to life all the splendor and romance of this beloved classic, from the dazzling forests Of silver, gold, and diamonds to a twilight palace where the bewitched princesses dance to hypnotic music...
  • Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 4 by CLAMP

    Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 4 by CLAMP

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    A FAIRYTALE TURNED NIGHTMARE!Young Syaoran embarks on a worlds-spanning adventure to restore the memory of the most important person in his life, the princess Sakura– even though he knows that she’ll never remember her love for him...
  • Dragon Fury by Lisa McMann

    Dragon Fury by Lisa McMann

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    As the greatest army ever assembled in the seven islands flies to the land of the dragons, everyone’s mind is haunted by the same thought: Thisbe Stowe betrayed them all. Thisbe struggles to regain the trust of her brother Aaron and the people of Artimé after one crucial mistake forces her to abandon her intricate plan against the Revinir...
  • Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card, Vol. 05 by Clamp

    Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card, Vol. 05 by Clamp

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Legacies and FuturesSakura finally has a date with her darling Syaoran! She's working hard to make the perfect picnic lunch for him, but on the big day, a strange messages arrives, calling Sakura away to her great-grandfather's home...
  • Dragon Slayers by Lisa McMann

    Dragon Slayers by Lisa McMann

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    The Revinir is getting desperate.Following her dramatic abduction of Fifer and Thisbe, the dragon woman traps the twins in an isolated, crumbling palace and surrounds them with four killer dragons in an attempt to coerce them to join her side...
  • Dragon Bones by Lisa McMann

    Dragon Bones by Lisa McMann

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Ten years after Alex and Aaron Stowe brought peace to Quill and Artimé, their younger twin sisters journey beyond Artimé in the second novel in the New York Times bestselling sequel series to The Unwanteds, which Kirkus Reviews called “The Hunger Games meets Harry Potter.”The Artiméans have suffered some devastating blows...
  • Deadly Little Voices by Laurie Faria Stolarz

    Deadly Little Voices by Laurie Faria Stolarz

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    High school junior Camelia thought her powers of psychometry only gave her the ability to sense the future through touch. But now she’s started to hear voices. Mean voices. Berating her, telling her how ugly she is, and that she’d be better off dead...
  • Blessed Child (The Caleb Books Series Book 1) by Ted Dekker, Bill Bright

    Blessed Child (The Caleb Books Series Book 1) by Ted Dekker, Bill Bright

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    A young orphaned boy was abandoned and raised in an Ethiopian monastery. He has never seen outside its walls—at least, not the way most people see. Now he must flee or die.But the world beyond is hardly ready for a boy like Caleb...
  • The Unwanteds by Lisa McMann

    The Unwanteds by Lisa McMann

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    Every year in Quill, thirteen-year-olds are sorted into the strong, intelligent Wanteds go to university, and the artistic Unwanteds are sent to their deaths.Thirteen-year-old Alex tries his hardest to be stoic when his fate is announced as Unwanted, even while leaving behind his twin, Aaron, a Wanted...
  • The Farseekers by Isobelle Carmody

    The Farseekers by Isobelle Carmody

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    A Children's Book Council of Australia Honor Book In this powerful sequel to Obernewtyn , young Elspeth Gordie-possessed of extraordinary mental powers-has united with others Misfits for refuge on the remote mountain keep of Obernewtyn. Yet the threat from the totalitarian Council to their safety is ever present...
  • Eye of the Labyrinth by Jennifer Fallon

    Eye of the Labyrinth by Jennifer Fallon

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Since the Age of Shadows ended, the people of Ranadon have lived under the merciless heat of two suns and the tyranny of Antonov, the Lion of Senet. Consumed by his lust for power and his unshakable belief in the capricious, almighty Goddess, Antonov's rule is absolute. Only one man has the intelligence and will to break that hold... a man who could be King...
  • Another Girl Lost by Mary Burton

    Another Girl Lost by Mary Burton

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    A woman’s harrowing past comes back to haunt her in a novel of twisting psychological suspense by New York Times bestselling author Mary Burton.Ten years ago, fifteen-year-old Scarlett Crosby was held captive in a terrifying ordeal with a girl named Della. Scarlett escaped, their predator was killed, and Della simply vanished. Detective Kevin Dawson always wondered if Della even existed...
  • Ghost Hunt, Vol. 1 by Shiho Inada, Fuyumi Ono

    Ghost Hunt, Vol. 1 by Shiho Inada, Fuyumi Ono

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    PARTNERS IN FEAR The decrepit building was condemned long ago, but every time the owners try to tear it down, “accidents” start to happen–people get hurt, sometimes even killed. Mai Taniyama and her classmates have heard the rumors that the creepy old high school is haunted–possibly by ghosts from the Second World War...
  • Nil Unlocked by Lynne Matson

    Nil Unlocked by Lynne Matson

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    On the island of Nil, the rules are set. You have exactly 365 days to escape—or you die. Rives is now the undisputed Leader of Nil City, but keeping the City united is tougher than ever.Raiders have grown bolder, supplies are dwindling, and non-human inhabitants have taken a turn toward the deadly...
  • DarkSkull Hall by Lisa Cassidy

    DarkSkull Hall by Lisa Cassidy

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    All she wanted was to be a princess….… instead she was born with magic.Could one girl be enough to save them all?Soon after her sixteenth birthday, Lady Alyx Egalion’s world is shattered when she learns that she is the daughter of a mage and must leave the boy she loves to travel to the distant DarkSkull Hall and learn her magic.
  • The Sending by Isobelle Carmody

    The Sending by Isobelle Carmody

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    It came to me then, like a chilly draught from an unseen gap, that I had always known in my deepest heart that it would be like this, a slipping away from a life full of people I had come to love, in a place I had helped to shape, in a land I had helped to free...
  • Shadowstone Academy, Book 1: Broken Trinity: A Young Adult Urban Fantasy Academy Novel by Barbara Hartzler

    Shadowstone Academy, Book 1: Broken Trinity: A Young Adult Urban Fantasy Academy Novel by Barbara Hartzler

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    I'm back at the school I hate after my sister just took down the biggest, baddest secret society. At least I only have two secret societies to deal with now, and my sister close enough to begin my training.There's only one problem. The most popular guy in school has finally noticed me, but so has the biggest bully I’ve ever met...
  • Forevermore by Cindy Miles

    Forevermore by Cindy Miles

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    On a misty cliffside, mystery and romance await. . . . Ivy Calhoun's life has been turned upside down. Her new stepdad has uprooted Ivy and her mom, bringing them to live in an actual castle in the misty Scottish countryside. There are stone-faced servants and shadowy corridors, and the ancient walls seem full of secrets. Ivy is at once frightened and intrigued...
  • The Oceanography of the Moon by Glendy Vanderah

    The Oceanography of the Moon by Glendy Vanderah

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    A heartfelt novel of shedding secrets, facing the past, and embracing the magic of love and family by the Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Where the Forest Meets the Stars.After the untimely deaths of her aunt and mother, young Riley Mays moved from Chicago to her cousins’ Wisconsin farm...
  • Echoes by Melinda Metz

    Echoes by Melinda Metz

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Can't believe she did that . . . . . . at four-thirty I have to . . . . . . I hate this place . . . Rae Voight is losing her mind. When she walks down the halls of Sanderson Prep, she hears voices . . . even when no one is talking. Other people's thoughts crowd her head, a confusing tangle of insecurities and dark secrets...
  • The Lighthouse by Christopher Parker

    The Lighthouse by Christopher Parker

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Enchanting, mysterious, and deeply romantic, The Lighthouse follows a young woman's breathtaking journey far from home to discover where she truly belongs.Something strange is happening in Seabrook. The town's lighthouse–dormant for over thirty years and famously haunted–has inexplicably started shining, and its mysterious glow is sparking feverish gossip throughout the spooked community...
  • Inu x Boku SS, Vol. 7 by Cocoa Fujiwara

    Inu x Boku SS, Vol. 7 by Cocoa Fujiwara

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Ririchiyo has decided to make a fresh start, removing the blinders from her eyes and releasing Soushi from his contract. From now on, she has resolved to treat this incarnation of Soushi as his own person and to mourn the loss of the man she loved in a previous life. The change has given Ririchiyo a clear perspective, but Soushi's heart remains clouded...
  • Inu x Boku SS, Vol. 11 by Cocoa Fujiwara

    Inu x Boku SS, Vol. 11 by Cocoa Fujiwara

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Efforts to reunite the members of Ayakashi Hall take an unexpected, tragic turn when one of their number falls in the battle. The death of a close friend serves to strengthen the remaining throwbacks' resolve to prevent the grim outcome relayed by their future selves, even if it means exposing the dark truth of one of their most trusted allies..
  • To Shatter a Slipper by Abigail Manning

    To Shatter a Slipper by Abigail Manning

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What if the glass slipper fit the wrong girl?Kirsi Allerednic was never one to enjoy balls, corsets, or fake smiles. She would much rather chat with the charming servant, Caden, than catch the eye of a prince who is already far more interested in a girl with glass slippers...
  • The Lightness of Water by Toni Cabell

    The Lightness of Water by Toni Cabell

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The only thing more dangerous than divining for water is falling in love with the enemy…Solace is beautiful, strong-willed, and called the water witch by her neighbors. She divines for water in the arid hills of her home—a dangerous pastime across the border, where the king controls access to all the water.Rhees is brooding, bitter, and hiding a deadly secret...
  • Still the Sun by Charlie N. Holmberg

    Still the Sun by Charlie N. Holmberg

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    An ancient machine holds the secrets of a distant world’s past for two intimate strangers in the latest romantic fantasy adventure by Wall Street Journal bestselling author Charlie N. Holmberg.Pell is an engineer and digger by trade—unearthing and repairing the fascinating artifacts left behind by the mysterious Ancients who once inhabited the sunbaked planet of Tampere...
  • Alice 19th, Vol. 5 by Yuu Watase

    Alice 19th, Vol. 5 by Yuu Watase

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Alice's sister, Mayura Seno, is under the control of Darva, dark mistress of the Maram Words--and Alice and Kyo Wakamiya are the only two people who have a chance of saving her from the dark side! Can they become masters of the Lotis Words in time to save her? With Mayura's power over the Maram words rapidly growing stronger, it seems almost all hope is lost..
  • Tracing Shadows by Alex Lidell

    Tracing Shadows by Alex Lidell

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    To protect the throne, seventeen-year-old spy Kali must play a male guardsman trainee by day and royal lady by night. Orphaned and trained on a spymaster’s remote estate, Kali is a scout who works alone in the shadows. But when a terror group threatens the Dansil throne, the king forces Kali to accept a mission at the palace or forfeit her sister’s life...
  • A Court of Masks and Roses by Alex Lidell

    A Court of Masks and Roses by Alex Lidell

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A royal lady by night. A guardsman by day. A spy always.Orphaned and trained on a spymaster’s remote estate, Kali is a scout who works alone in the shadows. But when a terror group threatens the Dansil throne, the king forces Kali to accept a mission at the palace or forfeit her sister’s life...
  • Ominous by Kate Brian

    Ominous by Kate Brian

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    After the shocking revelations made in the Private prequel, The Book of Spells , Noelle and Reed know they are descendants of the original Billings Girls, and their legacy includes a mysterious coven of witches...
  • Unquiet Land by Sharon Shinn

    Unquiet Land by Sharon Shinn

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    From the national bestselling author of Jeweled Fire and Royal Airs comes the latest novel in the Elemental Blessings series. Leah Frothen has returned home. But she can scarcely catch her breath before she is summoned by regent Darien Serlast, the man who made her a spy...
  • Princess of Dawn by Megan Gilbert

    Princess of Dawn by Megan Gilbert

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    7 days, 5 suitors, 3 enemies...but she only needs 1 elemental gift to become queen.Galdinia Elderwin, the nineteen-year-old Princess of Crysterra, has lived in the safety of her father’s shadow her whole life. When the king unexpectedly dies, Galdinia is left with the task of becoming queen, but she is missing the key to her ascension to the her gift of elemental power from the Gods...
  • Mystery Royale by Kaitlyn Cavalancia

    Mystery Royale by Kaitlyn Cavalancia

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    THE INHERITANCE GAMES meets HOTEL MAGNIFIQUE in this genre splicing YA fantastical mystery.The only thing sixteen-year-old Mullory Prudence has left of her mom is a "Run if the strange finds you." But mysterious warnings don’t pay the bills or help take care of her sick Gran. And they certainly don’t make her miserable after-school job any more bearable...
  • Vengeance by Kate Brian

    Vengeance by Kate Brian

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    After the devastating events at Reed's birthday party, Noelle is determined to put the past to rest, but Reed is adament about rebuilding Billings. Coming up against endless roadblocks from the headmaster, not to mention Billings alumni, Reed will not let her legacy end with a pile of rubble. As if that weren't enough, old ghosts come back to haunt to the Billings Girls...
  • The Lightning Tree by Lene Fogelberg

    The Lightning Tree by Lene Fogelberg

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Nature finally rises against humanity. Flora Reed discovers a lifeless body in her front yard the morning after the last day of her junior year of high school. Matters get worse when more people from her small town are found dead under mysterious circumstances and police take an interest in the boy next door, Carl...
  • State of Sorrow by Melinda Salisbury

    State of Sorrow by Melinda Salisbury

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Sorrow - for that is all she brings us.A people laid low by grief and darkness.A cut-throat race for power and victory.A girl with everything and nothing to lose…By day, Sorrow governs the Court of Tears, covering for her grief-maddened father, who has turned their once celebrated land into a living monument for the brother who died before she was born...
  • Arata: The Legend, Vol. 2 by Yuu Watase

    Arata: The Legend, Vol. 2 by Yuu Watase

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Framed for the assassination of Princess Kikuri, Hinohara is sent to prison island Gatoya, where the fearsome warden Tsutsuga awaits him...
  • Vanished by Kate Brian

    Vanished by Kate Brian

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Against all odds, Reed Brennan re-established Billings as an underground literary society. She and the new initiates created a glamorous secret headquarters and were ready to show Easton Academy that even though Billings House is gone, the Billings Girls are stronger than ever. But before Reed had a chance to revel in her success, something horrible happened: Noelle disappeared...
  • Disruptor by Arwen Elys Dayton

    Disruptor by Arwen Elys Dayton

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    For readers of Sarah J. Maas and of Marie Lu’s Legend trilogy comes Disruptor, the sequel to Traveler, the thrilling conclusion to the Seeker series.Quin has spent her life as her father’s pawn. She was trained to kill and manipulated to guarantee her family’s power...
  • Annabelle by Ruby Jean Jensen

    Annabelle by Ruby Jean Jensen

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Make Believe TerrorJessica liked to play make believe in the old abandoned stone mansion. She liked to pretend that the beautiful golden haired woman in the portrait was her mother. And that the big dollhouse she had found upstairs was hers, along with the family of dolls who lived there. Sometimes she was sure the dolls moved all by themselves. Sometimes she even heard them whisper to her...
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