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Pandian, Gigi

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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Pandian, Gigi

Summary: After a disastrous accident derails stage magician Tempest Raj's career, she heads back to her childhood home in California to comfort herself with her grandfather's Indian home-cooked meals. She resists working for her father's company. Secret Staircase Construction, which specializes in transforming clients' homes with sliding bookcases, intricate locks, and hidden reading nooks. When Tempest...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2023

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Clare, Cassandra

Summary: While the Clave teeters on the brink of civil war, Julian and Emma take desperate measures to put their forbidden love aside and focus on saving the world of Shadowhunters before the parabatai curse destroys everyone.--Provided by Publisher.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION CLA

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC CLA

Kemmerer, Brigid

Summary: Eighteen for the three hundred twenty-seventh time, Prince Rhen despairs of breaking the curse that turns him into a beast at the end of each day until feisty Harper enters his life.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2019

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION KEM

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC KEM

Maunakea, Malia

Summary: 12-year-old Lei is forced to spend summers in Hawaiʻi with her grandma who is determined to make sure she knows all her family's moʻolelo--stories the kids back home donʻt care about or believe. But after insulting Pele, the Goddess of Fire, she learns just how real these legends are when the goddess takes her best friend and places a curse on her family--one that only Lei can lift.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MAU

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MAU

Mandanna, Sangu

Summary: "War is destroying the galaxy. Esmae has vanished without a trace. A terrifying, ravenous beast is devouring the stars one by one. Titania is offered a gift that may well be a curse. Alexi, the exiled prince, is asked to pay a heavy price for his mistakes. And far, far away, on a dark, mysterious planet, a sleeping god stirs awake. As the end of the world draws ever closer, Esmae and Alexi must...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sky Pony Press 2021

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MAN

Salerni, Dianne K.

Summary: Twelve-year-old Garnet regrets that she doesn't know her family. Her mother has done her best to keep it that way, living far from the rest of the magical Carrefour clan and their dark, dangerous mansion known as Crossroad House. But when Garnet finally gets summoned to the estate, it isn't quite what she hoped for. Then Garnet learns the family secret: their dying patriarch fights to retain...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC SAL

Townsend, Jessica

Summary: A cursed girl who escapes death and finds herself in a magical world, but is then tested beyond her wildest imagination Morrigan Crow is cursed. Having been born on Eventide, the unluckiest day for any child to be born, she's blamed for all local misfortunes, from hailstorms to heart attacks: and, worst of all, the curse means that Morrigan is doomed to die at midnight on her eleventh birthday....

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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MacHale, D. J.

Summary: "When supernatural phenomenon start following Marcus O'Mara around, he discovers a key that leads to The Library, a place where all the stories of the living and dead are kept that will help him and his friends solve a terrifying mystery"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION MAC

Benton-Walker, Terry J.

Summary: Thirty years ago, a young woman was murdered, a family was lynched, and New Orleans saw the greatest magical massacre in its history. In the days that followed, a throne was stolen from a queen. On the anniversary of these brutal events, Clement and Cristina Trudeau--the sixteen-year-old twin heirs to the powerful, magical, dethroned family--are mourning their father and caring for their sick...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Teen, Tor Publishing Group 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BEN

Aster, Alex

Summary: Tor, Engle, and Melda must stop a band of cursed pirates from taking over their home.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Young Readers 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC AST

McLemore, 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 MCL

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MCL

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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Podos, Rebecca

Summary: On her seventeenth birthday, Hannah Williams begins exhibiting impossible, temporary mutations--gills one day and horns the next--that are the consequences of a desperate bargain her mother made with a sheyd decades ago, and to break the family curse, Hannah and her brother track down their mother's estranged family and discover a legacy that traces back to the Golem of Prague.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC POD

Peters, Elizabeth

Summary: The Emersons learn of a mysterious death that has been attributed to a curse, a situation that enables Amelia Peabody and her family to enter the banned Valley of the Kings in order to return a stolen statue.

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2005

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PET

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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS PET

Wood, 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 WOO

Pohl, Laura

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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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC POH

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Summary: "Edited by New York Times best-selling author, Elizabeth Lim, this Twisted Tale anthology features sixteen twisted short stories with new takes on fan-favorite Disney films. Swoon as Ariel and Eric meet right after the Little Mermaid saves her prince; join Tiana and Naveen on a race to get back to Maldonia; take a ride on a pirate space ship with Jim Hawkins; and uncover just what power Tinker...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Hyperion 2023

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Hoffman, Alice

Summary: Twig, aged twelve, is practically ignored by classmates and other residents of Sidwell, Massachusetts, but gets along fine with just her mother and brother, whose presence must be kept secret, until descendants of the witch who cursed her family move in next door and want to be her friends.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books 2015

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HOF

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC HOF

Houck, Colleen.

Summary: Kelsey returns home to Oregon, where Mr. Kadam has enrolled her in college, but danger sends her back to India to begin another quest, this time with Kishan, to try to break the curse that forces Kisham and his brother Ren to live as tigers.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2011

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC HOU

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HOU

Lloyd-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...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Audiobooks, Call number: YA PA FIC LLO

Stilton, Thea

Summary: The Thea Sisters are summoned to the Seven Roses Unit by Will Mystery, but when they get there Will is missing; the sisters follow a trail of clues to the Fantasy Kingdoms, and find out that the Mayhem Mirror has been disturbed, and a terrible curse is about to be unleashed on the Fantasy Kingdoms, and it will be up to them to find the eight Harmonies which can break the curse and save the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic, Inc. 2020

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Watson, Jude

Summary: March and Jules are teenage twins, following in their father's footsteps as jewel thieves, but when their latest job goes wrong they end up with one jewel, a sapphire called the Morning Star, one of three cursed jewels--and the only way they can break the curse is to elude the FBI, Interpol, and a gang of international criminals, find the other two jewels, and reunite them.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2016

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC WAT

Curran, Kitty

Summary: Molly Dade has big problems. She's got an important violin audition coming up, she's been paired with her nemesis for a group project, and she's struggling to hide a life-or-death secret from...well, from everyone. It wasn't long ago that the Dades were just a regular Maine family living in their reportedly haunted house in the local cemetery. But then Molly's mom and twin brother Marty were...

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Publisher / Publication Date: DisneyHyperion 2023

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