Faizal, Hafsah
Summary: 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 king. Both are legends in the kingdom of Arawiya-- but neither wants to be. When Zafira embarks on a quest to uncover a lost artifact that can restore magic to her suffering world...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FAIMcLemore, Anna-Marie
Summary: Cade McKenna is a transgender prince who's doubling for his brother. Valencia Palafox is a young dama attending the future queen of Eliana. Gael Palma is the infamous boy assassin Cade has vowed to protect. Patrick McKenna is the reluctant heir to a kingdom, and the prince Gael has vowed to destroy. Cade doesn't know that Gael and Valencia are the same person. Valencia doesn't know that every...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel & Friends 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MCLLloyd-Jones, Emily
Summary: "Once upon a time, the kingdoms of Wales were rife with magic and conflict, and eighteen-year-old Mererid 'Mer' is well-acquainted with both. She is the last living water diviner and has spent years running from the prince who bound her into his service. Under the prince's orders, she located the wells of his enemies, and he poisoned them without her knowledge, causing hundreds of deaths. After...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Audiobooks, Call number: YA PA FIC LLOGriffin, Rachel
Summary: "When eighteen-year-old witch Iris Gray accidentally enacts a curse that could have dire consequences, she must team up with witch-hating Pike Alder to make sure her magic is not unleashed on the world"--OCLC.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GRILópez, Diana
Summary: "The twelve-year-old daughter of La Llorona vows to free her mother and reverse the curses that have plagued the magical town of Tres Leches"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kokila 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LOPBayron, Kalynn
Summary: "Briseis races to save her family even as she discovers more about their ties to ancient goddesses and deadly curses"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2022
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Summary: "Secret Staircase Construction is under attack, and Tempest Raj feels helpless. After former client Julian Rhodes tried to kill his wife, he blamed her "accident" on the home renovation company's craftsmanship. Now the family business - known for bringing magic into homes through hidden doors, floating staircases, and architectural puzzle walls - is at a breaking point. No amount of Scottish...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PANFuentes, Marcela
Summary: "In 1951, a mysterious old woman confronts Pilar Aguirre in the small border town of La Cienega, Texas. The old woman is sure Pilar stole her husband and, in a heated outburst, lays a curse on Pilar and her family. More than forty years later, Lulu Muñoz is dodging chaos at every turn: her troubled father's moods, his rules, her secret life as singer in a punk band, but most of all her upcoming...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FUEBrandes, Nadine
Summary: Myrthe, a girl who can create wishes, teams up with Bastiaan, a boy who can stop time, to break a curse that will bring on her death with the next tear she sheds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BRACalonita, Jen
Summary: "What if Anna and Elsa never knew each other? As the future Queen of Arendelle, Princess Elsa's life is full of expectation and responsibility--not to mention, questions. What type of ruler will she be? When will she have to pick a suitor? And why has she always harbored the feeling that some critical piece of herself is missing? Following the unexpected death of her parents, Elsa is forced to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion, an imprint of Disney Book Group 2019
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1 available in YA Series, Call number: YA FIC CALMiller, Darcy
Summary: When a glowing lost and found box appears and stranger-than-normal things begin to happen at Strangeville School, it is up to Harvey and his friends to solve the mystery of a fifty-year-old curse before it is too late.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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Summary: Sixteen-year-old Nate Campbell, haunted by the curse of Murder Road, relocates with his family to escape the vengeful spirit of the Hiding Boy, but when he joins his new friends' urban legend club, old ghost stories collide with new and Nate must face the curse of the Hiding Boy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2024
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Summary: A twelve-year-old boy who transformed into a rat at birth seeks to undo his family's curse at their abandoned estate where he forms an unlikely friendship with a girl who loathes rodents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2024
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Summary: Ella, Yuki, and Rory are the talk of their elite school, Grimrose Académie. After the mysterious death of their best friend Ariane, the police ruled it a suicide. When Nani Eszes arrives as their newest roommate, it sets into motion a series of events they couldn't have imagined. As the girls retrace their friend's last steps, they uncover dark secrets about themselves and their destinies. They...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2021
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Summary: In Raddith, you must beware of cursers. Only those consumed by hatred are able to curse: set someone on fire, steal their shadow, or even turn them into another form. Only one person has the power to unravel curses: Kellen does not fully understand his talent, but helps those transformed maliciously. He helped Nettle recover from entrapment in bird form, and she is now his constant companion...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC HARWood, Maryrose
Summary: Unhappy Penelope Lumley is trapped in unhappy Plinkst! Even the beets for which Plinkst is inexplicably famous fail to grow in this utterly miserable Russian village. Penelope anxiously counts the days and wonders how she will ever get back to England in time to save all the Ashtons--who, she now knows, include herself and the Incorrigible children, although their precise location on the family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer+Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WOOFoody, Amanda
Summary: "As the curse teeters closer and closer to collapse, the surviving champions each face a choice: dismantle the tournament piece by piece, or fight to the death as this story was always intended."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates 2022
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Summary: Shamrock is excited to study garden science, but when his Golden Rose seed does not grow, he becomes convinced that he has the Gardener's Curse and only a secret visit to Doctor Mush in the Gnome Village will help.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2022
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Summary: "Through blood and sacrifice, Amora Montara has conquered a rebellion and taken her rightful place as queen of Visidia. Now, with the islands in turmoil and the people questioning her authority, Amora cannot allow anyone to see her weaknesses. No one can know about the curse in her bloodline. No one can know that she's lost her magic. No one can know the truth about the boy who holds the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Imprint 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GRADoyle, Catherine
Summary: Twin queens Wren and Rose have claimed their crowns ... but not everyone is happy about witches sitting on Eana's throne. Cool-headed Rose sets off on a Royal Tour to win over the doubters, but soon finds herself drawn to the Sunless Kingdom. Here secrets are revealed about those closest to her, and Rose finds her loyalties divided. Meanwhile rebellious Wren steals away to the icy north to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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Summary: Ignoring a handwritten warning from her grandmother, Amelia reads an old book she finds in the attic, and as elements from the stories begin to come to life around her, she realizes that she may be in a spooky story of her own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC POBGeorge, Caroline
Summary: When Susana's eighteenth birthday triggers a generational curse, prompting her to sleepwalk into the Okefenokee Swamp behind her grandparent's house, she realizes the roots of her family tree run deeper than she believed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GEOMcBride, Lish
Summary: Forced to live as a beast forever unless she agrees to marry a man of her mother's choosing before her 18th birthday, Merit Cravan joins forces with a con artist who is her only hope in finding the best match.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2021
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Summary: After Crown Princess Aria tries to save her kingdom from war by negotiating with the magic-wielding Widow Morton, her failure punishes her with one hundred days without sleep and a slow death, a curse that only the charming Baron Reeves can break.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain Publishing