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Born to Endless Night by Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan
Simon, like the rest of the Academy, is stunned when a navy-skinned warlock baby is found on the Academy steps... -
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, Vol. 8 by Naoko Takeuchi
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsChibi Usa’s sickly friend Hotaru isn’t just Sailor Saturn, Deity of Destruction. She’s also possessed by Master Pharaoh 90. Facing this cataclysmic power will be impossible--unless Sailor Moon can unite the powers of every Guardian of the Solar System. Then, when the moon eclipses the sun, a mystical unicorn begs for help... -
Cardcaptor Sakura: Master of the Clow, Vol. 1 by CLAMP
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsCapturing Cards was only the beginning...Once upon a magic night, an English sorcerer mixed Western wizardry with Eastern enchantments to create a magical deck of cards called the Clow Cards. These cards were hidden inside a dusty old book for decades, their powers virtually wasted. Then one fateful day, a young girl named Sakura Kinomoto discovered the book in her father's library... -
Instinct by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsZombies, demons, vampires, shapeshifters— another day in the life of Nick Gautier– and those are just his friends. But now that he’s accepted the demon that lives inside him, he must learn to control it and temper the very emotions that threaten the lives of everyone he cares for. Something that’s hard to do while trying to stay off the menus of those who want his head on a platter... -
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Twelfth Grade Kills by Heather Brewer
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 43 ratingsIt all comes down to this. Vlad’s running out of time. The Elysian Council has given him weeks to live, and that’s if the Slayer Society doesn’t kill him – along with all the citizens of Bathory – first... -
Sovereign by April Daniels
Only nine months after her debut as the superhero Dreadnought, Danny Tozer is already a scarred veteran. Protecting a city the size of New Port is a team-sized job and she’s doing it alone. Between her newfound celebrity and her demanding cape duties, Dreadnought is stretched thin, and it’s only going to get worse... -
The Course of True Love [and First Dates] by Cassandra Clare
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsMagnus Bane and Alec Lightwood might fall in love—but first they have a first date. When Magnus Bane, warlock, meets Alec Lightwood, Shadowhunter, sparks fly. And what happens on their first date lights a flame.. -
Eleventh Grade Burns by Heather Brewer
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 44 ratingsThings have taken a darker turn for the half-human teenager with an appetite for blood. Joss, a vampire slayer and Vlad’s former friend, has moved back to Bathory. A mysterious and powerful new vampire, Dorian, appears with a shocking secret and an overwhelming desire to drink Vlad’s blood. And Vlad’s arch enemy, D’Ablo, has a sinister plan to eliminate Vlad once and for all... -
The Mortal Instruments: The Graphic Novel, Vol. 4 by Cassandra Clare
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsTHE FOURTH INSTALLMENT OF THE GRAPHIC NOVEL ADAPTATION OF CASSANDRA CLARE'S BESTSELLING THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS!Maia and Simon are kidnapped, and Jace knows exactly who took them. It's time to face the terror known as Valentine to stop him from slaughtering the Downworlders and activating the Soul-Sword... -
Bitter of Tongue by Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsWhen Simon is kidnapped by the fey, he’s amazed to find a friend in former Shadowhunter Mark Blackthorn. One of ten adventures in Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy.After Simon is kidnapped by faeries (why is he always kidnapped?), he uncovers rumors of a secret weapon Sebastian left behind for the faerie queen... -
Tenth Grade Bleeds by Heather Brewer
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 46 ratingsIn Tenth Grade Bleeds , it’s another sucky year at Bathory High for Vladimir Tod. The evil vampire D’Ablo is hunting for the ritual that could steal Vlad’s powers. His best friend Henry doesn’t want to be his drudge anymore. And as if all that weren’t enough, it’s getting harder for Vlad to resist feeding on the people around him... -
The Fiery Trial by Cassandra Clare, Maureen Johnson
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsEmma Carstairs and Julian Blackthorn become parabatai. Simon and Clary both act as their witnesses, so they can see what a parabatai bond forming looks like as they want to become parabatai as soon as Simon graduates — and because Emma asked Clary... -
The Mortal Instruments: The Graphic Novel, Vol. 5 by Cassandra Clare, Cassandra Jean
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsTHE FIFTH INSTALLMENT OF THE GRAPHIC NOVEL ADAPTATION OF CASSANDRA CLARE'S BESTSELLING THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS!On a mission to save her mom, Clary prepares to leave for Idris, the homeland of the Shadowhunters. Sure, Jace is adamantly against the idea and Magnus refuses to help, but Clary now has powers of her own... -
The Electric Heir by Victoria Lee
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsIn the sequel to The Fever King , Noam Álvaro seeks to end tyranny before he becomes a tyrant himself. Six months after Noam Álvaro helped overthrow the despotic government of Carolinia, the Atlantians have gained citizenship, and Lehrer is chancellor... -
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What to Buy the Shadowhunter Who Has Everything by Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsMagnus Bane may or may not be dating Alec Lightwood, but he definitely needs to find him the perfect birthday present.Set in the time between City of Ashes and City of Glass, warlock Magnus Bane is determined to find the best birthday present possible for Alec Lightwood, the Shadowhunter he may or may not be dating... -
The Mortal Instruments: The Graphic Novel, Vol. 6 by Cassandra Clare, Cassandra Jean
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsTHE SIXTH INSTALLMENT OF THE GRAPHIC NOVEL ADAPTATION OF CASS ANDRA CLARE’S BESTSELLING THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS!With the Mortal Instruments in his possession, Valentine means to unleash havoc on Shadowhunter and Downworlder alike. Despite this, for many in the Clave, fighting alongside werewolves, faeries, warlocks, and vampires would be as terrible as submitting to Valentine... -
This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 47 ratingsDarkness blooms in bestselling author Kalynn Bayron's new contemporary fantasy about a girl with a unique and deadly power.Briseis has a gift: she can grow plants from tiny seeds to rich blooms with a single touch.When Briseis's aunt dies and wills her a dilapidated estate in rural New York, Bri and her parents decide to leave Brooklyn behind for the summer... -
DeadEndia: The Watcher's Test by Hamish Steele
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsBarney and his best friend Norma are just trying to get by and keep their jobs, but working at the Dead End theme park also means battling demonic forces, time traveling wizards, and scariest of all--their love lives!Follow the lives of this diverse group of employees of a haunted house, which may or may not also serve as a portal to hell, in this hilarious and moving graphic novel, complete... -
The Lost Herondale by Cassandra Clare, Robin Wasserman
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsSimon learns the worst crime a Shadowhunter can commit: desertion of their comrades. In the early nineteenth century, Tobias Herondale abandoned his fellow Shadowhunters in the heat of battle and left them to die. His life was forfeit, but Tobias never returned, and the Clave claimed his wife’s life in exchange for Tobias’s... -
Call Down the Hawk by Maggie Stiefvater
The dreamers walk among us . . . and so do the dreamed. Those who dream cannot stop dreaming – they can only try to control it. Those who are dreamed cannot have their own lives – they will sleep forever if their dreamers die.And then there are those who are drawn to the dreamers. To use them. To trap them. To kill them before their dreams destroy us all.Ronan Lynch is a dreamer... -
Ninth Grade Slays by Heather Brewer
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 50 ratingsHigh school totally bites when you’re half human, half vampire. Freshman year sucks for Vlad Tod. Bullies still harass him. The photographer from the school newspaper is tailing him. And failing his studies could be deadly... -
Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy by Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 43 ratingsAfter living as a Mundane and a Vampire, Simon never thought he would become a Shadowhunter, but today he begins his training at Shadowhunter Academy... -
The Eidolon by K.D. Edwards
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn the epic conclusion to K.D. Edwards' first blockbuster trilogy in The Tarot Sequence series, readers followed Rune on a race against time as an age-old threat rose to threaten the city of New Atlantis. Now, for the first time, The Eidolon tells what really happened to Max, Quinn, and Anna as prisoners in the Hourglass Throne's base of operation... -
Zero Sum by B. Justin Shier
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsMy name is Dieter Resnick. I was planning to turn eighteen in May, but I don't think I'm gonna make it. I've just been drafted into a war. And this war isn't usual. It's kinda sorta fought with spells. Six months ago today, I was my high school's valedictorian. Now I'm Elliot College's newest combat-certified mage, and one of the few to survive a Talmax raid...Categorized as:
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The Meeting by Richelle Mead
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 49 ratingsA scene from the first book of the Vampire Academy series, as told from Dimitri's point of view...Categorized as:
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Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Short Stories, Vol. 2 by Naoko Takeuchi
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsThe second collection of short stories actually consists of one long, and two short tales. The first and longest story pays homage to one of the oldest folk tales of Japan, “the Tale of the Bamboo Cutter.” Usagi’s faithful sidekick Luna is saved by and ends up developing a crush on an astrophysicist whose dream of becoming an astronaut has been dashed by heart disease... -
Spark by Brigid Kemmerer
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 43 ratingsGabriel Merrick plays with fire. Literally. Sometimes he can even control it. And sometimes he can't. Gabriel has always had his brothers to rely on, especially his twin, Nick. But when an arsonist starts wreaking havoc on their town, all the signs point to Gabriel. Only he's not doing it. And no one seems to believe him... -
The Evil We Love by Cassandra Clare, Robin Wasserman
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsAll evil starts somewhere, and Simon Lewis learns how The Circle—led by Valentine Morgenstern—began. One of ten adventures in Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy.The Shadowhunter Academy has only just reopened following the disastrous rise of the Circle. Now the faculty can finally admit to what happened when Valentine was a student... -
Secret by Brigid Kemmerer
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsEARTH. FIRE. AIR. WATER. Nick Merrick is stretched to breaking point. He's trying to keep his grades sky-high or he won't get in to college. He's trying to keep his brother's business afloat or the Merricks will be out on the street. He's trying to keep the secret of where he's going in the evenings from his twin brother Gabriel - or he fears he'll lose his family... -
Lovesong Part II by T.J. Klune
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsA Green Creek short story.(Spoilers for Wolfsong, Ravensong and Heartsong... -
Life Is Strange: Waves by Emma Vieceli
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsBeloved heroines Max and Chloe return, in the official comic for smash hit game series Life Is Strange! Three years after the events of Life Is Strange: Dust, Max Caulfield has been left stranded on the shores of an unfamiliar reality. Her new world seems too good to be true: Rachel, a girl who suffered a terrible fate in Max's timeline, is alive and well, and with Chloe... -
Blood Justice by Terry J. Benton-Walker
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsCristina and Clement Trudeau have conjured the impossible: justice.They took back their family’s stolen throne to lead New Orleans’ magical community into the brighter future they all deserve.But when Cris and Clem restored their family power, Valentina Savant lost everything. Her beloved grandparents are gone and her sovereignty has been revoked—she will never be Queen... -
Sixteen Souls by Rosie Talbot
Sixteen-year-old Charlie Frith has problems. His crush is dating someone else, his sisters have glitter-bombed his prosthesis (again), and he's a seer-of-spirits in York, the most haunted city in England, and all his friends are ghosts.To make matters worse, it seems that famous spirits are mysteriously vanishing from York's haunted streets and alleys... -
The Drifting by L. Filloon
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsIt is Lily’s first day in the Velesi realm but not as the princess she was made to believe, but as a captive to a strange Lithi elf name Ziri – Tharin and Tolan’s mysterious brother... -
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Rogue Community College by David R. Slayton
StandardFrom the author of White Trash Warlock and Dark Moon Shallow Sea, Rogue Community College is a delightful fantasy full of magic and mayhem …Isaac Frost is an assassin... -
The Insiders by Mark Oshiro
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsThree kids who don’t belong. A room that shouldn’t exist. A year that will change everything.Perfect for fans of Rebecca Stead and Meg Medina, this debut middle grade novel from award-winning author Mark Oshiro is a hopeful and heartfelt coming-of-age story for anyone who’s ever felt like they didn’t fit in... -
The Key by Mats Strandberg, Sara Bergmark Elfgren
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsThe heart-stopping conclusion to the internationally bestselling Engelsfors TrilogyThe final installment of the Engelsfors Trilogy—an international sensation with rights sold in 29 countries—The Key combines thrilling action and dark magic with all the passion and drama of teen life. The result is nothing less than explosive... -
Die for Her by Amy Plum
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsSet in the romantic and death-defying world of the international bestselling Die for Me trilogy, this digital original novella follows Jules, a brooding, immortal French artist who has fallen in love with his best friend's girlfriend. Jules Marchenoir is a revenant—an undead being whose fate forces him to sacrifice himself over and over again to save human lives... -
Adrian's Lost Chapter by Richelle Mead
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsWhen Richelle first sat down to write Bloodlines each chapter was narrated by a different Character. This is Adrian's lost story... -
The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 72 ratings“There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark’s Eve,” Neeve said. “Either you’re his true love . . . or you killed him.”It is freezing in the churchyard, even before the dead arrive.Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past... -
The Heartbreak Bakery by A.R. Capetta
Teenage baker Syd sends ripples of heartbreak through Austin’s queer community when a batch of post-being-dumped brownies turns out to be magical—and makes everyone who eats them break up.“What’s done is done.”Unless, of course, it was done by my brownies. Then it’s getting undone.Syd (no pronouns, please) has always dealt with big, hard-to-talk-about things by baking... -
Otherworldly by F.T. Lukens
New York Times bestselling author of Spell Bound and So This Is Ever After.Seventeen-year-old Ellery is a non-believer in a region where people swear the supernatural is real. Sure, they’ve been stuck in a five-year winter, but there’s got to be a scientific explanation. If goddesses were real, they wouldn’t abandon their charges like this, leaving farmers like Ellery’s family to scrape by... -
Death Rites by Theophilus Monroe
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsThe Voodoo Trials have been evoked. One student from each College will be called.Kalfu has taken a host. Lives have been lost. Most blame Annabelle. If the Academy—and all of Vilokan—is going to stand against Kalfu they must find a way to unite. Headmistress Erzulie has evoked the Voodoo Trials. A new High Hougan or Mambo must be chosen to unite the Academy’s five colleges... -
Afterlove by Tanya Byrne
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 34 ratingsIn this powerful, all-encompassing YA love story, a girl who becomes a grim reaper must figure out what the future holds—especially when it comes to the girlfriend she left behind.When Ashana Persaud meets Poppy Morgan on a school trip, she’s sure it’s too good to be true. Ash has never had much luck with girls, but Poppy proves different... -
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Power & Magic: The Queer Witch Comics Anthology by Aatmaja Pandya, Ann Xu
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsPOWER & MAGIC is a comics anthology about queer witches of color for teens and adults ages 14-and-up. The book is over 160 pages long, black and white, and contains 15 original stories blending fantasy, drama, humor, and romance... -
Shadowshaper Legacy by Daniel José Older
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe epic conclusion to the acclaimed Shadowshaper Cypher series!A house dividedSierra and the shadowshapers have been split apart. Juan, Anthony, and Izzy are in jail, anxiously waiting to find out what will become of them... -
The Great Atlantean Battle Royalchemy by K.D. Edwards
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTaking place before the events of The Hourglass Throne, The Great Atlantean Battle Royalchemy follows Rune, Brand, and Max as they investigate a threat to peace among the ruling Arcana, all while Rune serves as a celebrity judge for an Atlantean alchemy competition.The compiled version is available for free on the author's website in PDF, MOBI, and ePUB versions... -
Now, Conjurers by Freddie Kölsch
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsNovember 1999. North Dana, Massachusetts. Nesbit Nuñez discovers the partially devoured body of Bastion Attia: star quarterback, secret witch, and Nesbit’s even-more-secret boyfriend.No one knew why brilliant, gentle Bastion lived his life by a seemingly arcane set of rules, including a strange manner of speech and an inability to say his own name... -
Opal by Maggie Stiefvater
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 50 ratingsAn enchanting story from Maggie Stiefvater featuring Opal, Ronan, and Adam from her bestselling Raven Cycle, taking place after the events of The Raven King... -
Godly Heathens by H.E. Edgmon
Infatuation. Reincarnation. Damnation. Gem Echols is a nonbinary Seminole teen living in the tiny town of Gracie, Georgia. Known for being their peers’ queer awakening, Gem leans hard on charm to disguise the anxious mess they are beneath. The only person privy to their authentic self is another trans kid, Enzo, who’s a thousand long, painful miles away in Brooklyn...
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