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61) Medusa
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Exiled to a far-flung island, Medusa has little company except for the snakes adorning her head instead of hair until a beautiful boy named Perseus arrives, disrupting her lonely existence and unleashing desire, love, and betrayal.
62) Wake the bones
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
After dropping out of college, nineteen-year-old Laurel Early returns to her uncle's tobacco farm, where she encounters a monster as well as her mother's ghost, and soon Laureal realizes that she must tap into her own innate magic to save everyone she loves.
63) Spear
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The girl knows she has a destiny before she even knows her name. She grows up in the wild, in a cave with her mother, but visions of a faraway lake come to her on the spring breeze, and when she hears a traveler speak of Artos, king of Caer Leon, she knows that her future lies at his court. And so, brimming with magic and eager to test her strength, she breaks her covenant with her mother and, with a broken hunting spear and mended armour, rides...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mia Graydon's life looks picket-fence perfect; she has the house, the husband, and dreams of starting a family. Their relocation to small-town Pennsylvania comes with the usual challenges--finding a new job, new friends, new furniture--but the move is nothing the couple can't handle. That is, until Mia finally meets the stranger she has been dreaming about for a decade. And here's the catch: He's been dreaming of her, too. Now Mia must navigate the...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This story starts with a family. For now, it is a father and a mother with two sons. One with his father's violence in his blood. One with his mother's artistry. One leaves. One stays. They will be joined by others whose deeds will determine their fate. It is a beginning. Their stories will intertwine and evolve over the course of two thousand years. They will meet again and again at different times and in different places. From Palestine at the...
67) Your name
Author
Publisher
Yen On
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Mitsuha, a high school girl living in a rural town deep in the mountains, has a dream that she is a boy living an unfamiliar life in Tokyo. Taki, a high school boy living in Tokyo, dreams that he is a girl living in the mountains. As they realize they are changing places, their encounter sets the cogs of fate into motion."--
68) A ruinous fate
Author
Series
Heartless fates volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In a world on the brink ofwar where one more roll from a magical die may set her down a dangerous path, nineteen-year-old Calla Rosewood joins a ragtag group of witches that ventures into an enchanted forest to find a way to reset their fates, only to discover that the forest may be more than any of them bargained for.
Author
Series
Witches of West Harbor volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In her teenage years, lovelorn Jessica Gold cast a spell that went disastrously wrong, and brought her all the wrong kind of attention--as well as a lifetime ban from the World Council of Witches. So no one is more surprised than Jess when, fifteen years later, tall, handsome WCW member Derrick Winters shows up in her quaint little village of West Harbor and claims that Jess is the Chosen One. Not chosen by West Harbor's snobby elite to style them...
Author
Series
Nine realms volume 1
Publisher
TOR, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Exiled and hunted, Cerulia, Princess of Weirandale, knows she has one destiny. Her enemies failed to kill her, and no one harboring her is safe. Raised in obscurity, she has no resources, no army, nothing that can help her against her enemies. Except their gods"--
71) A kiss in time
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Princess Talia persuades seventeen-year-old Jack, the modern-day American who kissed her awake after a 300-year sleep, to take her to his Miami home, where she hopes to win his love before the witch who cursed her can spirit her away.
72) Shadowrise
Author
Series
Shadowmarch volume 3
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
With King Olin imprisoned and Prince Kendrick slain, the royal twins Barrick and Briony have been forced to flee their homeland. But both families and nations can hide dark and terrible secrets, and even if Barrick and Briony survive learning the astonishing truths at the heart of their own family and of Southmarch itself, they must still find a way to reclaim their kingdom and rescue their home--from traitors, tyrants, a god-king, and even the angry...
73) The Ugly One
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"At the height of the Incan empire, a girl called the Ugly One because of a disfiguring scar on her face, seeks to have the scar removed and instead finds a life path as a shaman"
74) Stepsister
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Isabelle is one of Cinderella's ugly stepsisters, who cut off their toes in an attempt to fit into the glass slipper; but there is more to her story than a maimed foot, for the Marquis de la Chance is about to offer her a choice and the opportunity to change her fate--there will be blood and danger, but also the possibility of redemption and triumph, and most of all the chance to find her true self.
75) The Forest Grimm
Author
Series
Forest Grimm volume 1
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Despite the ominous warning of a fortune-telling grandmother, seventeen-year-old Clara ventures into the treacherous Forest Grimm to retrieve Sortes Fortunae, a magical book that can reverse a curse and save her village, facing deadly twists and defying fate alongside her friend Axel.
76) Ruling destiny
Author
Series
Publisher
Entangled Teen, an imprint of Entangled Publishing LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Forced to pair up with Killian on a new assignment in Renaissance Italy, Natasha soon discovers his task is nothing like hers and learns the startling truth behind Arthur's ultimate invention that would allow him to control time--and control the world"--
Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"As a romance blooms in an isolated Italian Alpine town, fate and free will shape the lives of many in this gorgeously written novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Eight Mountains"--
78) Ice forged
Author
Series
Ascendant Kingdoms saga volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"Condemned for killing the man who dishonored his sister, Blaine "Mick" McFadden has spent the last six years in Velant, a penal colony in the frigid northern wastelands. Harsh discipline and oppressive magic keep a fragile peace as colonists struggle against a hostile environment. But the supply ships from Dondareth have stopped coming, boding ill for the kingdom that banished the colonists. Now, as the world s magic runs wild, McFadden and the people...
79) Dark stars
Author
Series
Dark stars volume 3
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Dorothy finds herself completely alone. Roman is dead. The Chronology Protection Agency wants nothing to do with her. The Black Cirkus no longer trusts her...and Ash is gone. Dorothy has seen the evidence with her own eyes, she knows that she was the one who killed Ash. But she still has no idea how, when, or most importantly, why. But the discovery of several missing pages from the Professor's journal drives a narrow sliver of hope into her heart"--...
Author
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Late one night, fate brings together DJ Aspirin and ten-year-old Alyona. After he tries to save her from imminent danger, she ends up at his apartment. But in the morning sinister doubts set in. Who is Alyona? A young con artist? A plant for a nefarious blackmailer? Or perhaps a long-lost daughter Aspirin never knew existed? Whoever this mysterious girl is, she now refuses to leave."--
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