Tan, Sue Lynn
Summary: "An enthralling debut fantasy inspired by the legend of Chang'e, the Chinese moon goddess, in which a young woman's quest to free her mother sets her on a dangerous path and pits her against the most powerful immortal in the realm. Growing up on the moon, Xingyin is accustomed to solitude, unaware that she is being hidden from the feared Celesial Emperor who exiled her mother for stealing the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC TANTan, Sue Lynn
Summary: "After winning her mother's freedom from the Celestial Emperor, Xingyin thrives in the enchanting tranquility of her home. But her fragile peace is threatened by the discovery of a strange magic on the moon and the unsettling changes in the Celestial Kingdom as the emperor tightens his grip on power. While Xingyin is determined to keep clear of the rising danger, the discovery of a shocking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TANPau Preto, Nicki
Summary: Seventeen-year-old failed ghost-fighting warrior, Wren, journeys to the haunted wasteland of the Breach to rescue a kidnapped prince and must team up with the very person responsible for the kidnapping.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PAUManiscalco, Kerri
Summary: "Emilia and her twin sister Vittoria are streghe - witches who live secretly among humans, avoiding notice and persecution. One night, Vittoria misses dinner service at the family's renowned Sicilian restaurant. Emilia soon finds the body of her beloved twin...desecrated beyond belief. Devastated, Emilia sets out to find her sister's killer and to seek vengeance at any cost-even if it means...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jimmy Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fantasy ManiscalcoQuinn, Jordan.
Summary: Eight-year-old Lucas, Prince of Wrenly, is eager to explore and Clara, daughter of the queen's seamstress, knows the kingdom well, so they team up to find a lost jewel and visit all of the land's main attractions as they search.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2014
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC QUIMandanna, Sangu
Summary: "The first book in a scifi retelling of the Mahabrahata. When Esmae wins a contest of skill, she sets off events that trigger an inevitable and unwinnable war that pits her against the family she would give anything to return to. In a universe of capricious gods, dark moons, and kingdoms built on the backs of spaceships, a cursed queen sends her infant daughter away, a jealous uncle steals the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sky Pony Press 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MANMull, Brandon
Summary: Whisked through a portal to The Outskirts, an in-between world, sixth-grader Cole must rescue his friends and find his way back home--before his existence is forgotten.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MULNix, Garth.
Summary: Arthur Penhaligon is supposed to die at a young age, but is saved by a key that is shaped like the minute hand of a clock. The key causes bizarre creatures to come from another realm, bringing with them a plague. A man named Mister Monday will stop at nothing to get the key back. Arthur goes to a mysterious house that only he can see, so that he can learn the truth about himself and the key.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC NIXSeifert, Brandon
Summary: "When their parent's were kidnapped by Despoina and the sinister Shadow Society, Maxwell and Melody Keep followed their mysterious Uncle Roland through a portal to the Museum of the Weird, a vast depository of the world's most powerful--and threatening--supernatural objects."--Title page.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC SEIWilliamson, Joshua
Summary: "When a ghostly woman appears to Danny urging him to come to the haunted mansion and help his dead grandpa's spirit, Danny enters the house and agrees to help the spirits trapped inside, that is if he can survive"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC WILSutanto, Jesse Q.
Summary: A twelve-year-old Chinese American boy must learn to embrace his heritage and accept his beloved older brother's spirit companion--a mystical fox named Kai--to solve the mystery of Jamie's death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SUTEwing, Amy
Summary: Sera has finally recognized the true power of her Cerulean blood. But in order to return home, she'll need help from Agnes, Leo, and their grandmother, the only person with knowledge about the mysterious island of Braxos, where the Cerulean tether is anchored. Though the journey will be treacherous, Sera will risk anything to see her City again. Meanwhile, the High Priestess's power has reached...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC EWIPearson, Ridley.
Summary: "With the defeat of the Overtakers behind them, the five teenagers known as the Kingdom Keepers should be celebrating. By all accounts they saved Disneyland from certain destruction. Why then did their mentor leave one last puzzle for them to decipher? The Keepers must solve a puzzle of the past, or be crushed under an evil that makes the Overtakers seem like gentle souls"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC PEABlack, Holly
Summary: "The changeling queen, Suren, must venture back into the Court of Teeth with the help of the Prince of Faerie, Oak"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BLAOkorafor, Nnedi
Summary: In West Africa in 2070, after fifteen-year-old "shadow speaker" Ejii witnesses her father's beheading, she embarks on a dangerous journey across the Sahara to find Jaa, her father's killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC OKOZhao, Amélie Wen
Summary: Lan's last remnant of her mother--and the fallen Hin dynasty of her ancestors--is a symbol seared onto her wrist, which, if the mysterious boy she encounters is to be trusted, may be the key to freeing her people by mastering the ancient, forgotten art of practitioning.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ZHABrooks, Terry.
Summary: Ben Holiday purchases the magical kingdom of Landover for a million dollars only to learn that Iron Mark, lord of the demons, expects him to fight a duel to the death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1987
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROBlack, Holly
Summary: "A runaway queen. A reluctant prince. And a quest that may destroy them both. Eight years have passed since the Battle of the Serpent. But in the icy north, Lady Nore of the Court of Teeth has reclaimed the Ice Needle Citadel. There, she is using an ancient relic to create monsters of stick and snow who will do her bidding and exact her revenge. Suren, child queen of the Court of Teeth, and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: The sorceress Lady Lamorna has her heart set on a very expensive new robe, and she will stop at nothing--including kidnapping and black magic--to get the money to pay for it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FREDasGupta, Sayantani
Summary: Up until her twelfth birthday, Kiranmala considered herself an ordinary sixth-grader in Parsippany, New Jersey, but then her parents disappear and a drooling rakkhosh demon shows up in her kitchen, and soon she is swept into another dimension, full of magic, winged horses, talking birds (very annoying), and cute princes--and somehow Kiranmala needs to sort it all out, find her parents, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2018
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1 available in JT Fantasy, Call number: JT Fantasy Dasgupta 2018Jacobs, Bethany
Summary: "Jun Ironway--hacker, con artist, and occasional thief--has gotten her hands on a piece of contraband that could set her up for life: proof that implicates the powerful Nightfoot family in a planet-wide genocide seventy-five years ago. The Nightfoots control the precious sevite that fuels interplanetary travel through three star systems. And someone is sure to pay handsomely for anything that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JACDavenport, N. E.
Summary: After her grandfather is assassinated, Ikenna, bent on revenge, pledges herself to the Praetorian Trials where she subjects herself to racism to hide the power that--if found out--would lead to her execution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAVElsbai, Hadeer
Summary: In a novel set wholly in a new world, but inspired by modern Egyptian history, two young women--Nehal, a spoiled aristocrat used to getting what she wants, and Giorgina, a poor bookshop worker used to having nothing--find they have far more in common, particularly in their struggle for the rights of women and their ability to fight for it with forbidden elemental magic.
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Summary: "In the midst of a tyrannical regime and political invasion, Dèmi just wants to survive: to avoid the suspicion of the nonmagical Ajes who occupy her ancestral homeland of Ife; to escape the King's brutal genocide of her people--the darker skinned, magic wielding Oluso; and to live peacefully with her secretive mother while learning to control the terrifying blood magic that is her birthright....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023