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241) A far wilder magic
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Sharpshooter Margaret Welty and alchemical apprentice Weston Winters form an unlikely team competing for glory in a magical fox hunt--while she wants to lure her mother home, Wes needs the prize money to support his family and his political aspirations.
243) Fracturing fate
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While consumed in a devastating battle with the demigod Llaw, Klara is mysteriously catapulted five hundred years into the past, suddenly alone and distraught that she and her fated love Callum killed the demigod at the expense of Callum's own life. As the last Pillar of Time, an anchor point in the timeline of the world, Klara must navigate dangerous magic, confusing visions, and powerful adversaries to determine the fate of the world and avenge...
244) Diamonds & deceit
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"In the second book in the At Somerton series, Rose grows into her new titled position in the Averley family, while Ada must decide between saving her family or betraying her heart"--
245) The Memory of Things
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"On the morning of September 11, 2001, sixteen-year-old Kyle Donohue watches the first twin tower come down from the window of Stuyvesant High School. Moments later, terrified and fleeing home to safety across the Brooklyn Bridge, he stumbles across a girl perched in the shadows, covered in ash, and wearing a pair of costume wings. With his mother and sister in California and unable to reach his father, a NYC detective likely on his way to the disaster,...
246) Romeo and Juliet
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Has any other love story become so enmeshed in our culture as the tragic story of Romeo and Juliet? In fair Verona the families of Montague and Capulet are locked in a long-standing, bitter blood feud when young Romeo Montague slips into a masquerade party at the Capulet's. During the dance he glimpses Juliet, the daughter of the house, and is struck by love at first sight. She returns his passion and they promise each other everlasting love notwithstanding...
247) Tree Girl
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When, protected by the branches of one of the trees she loves to climb, Gabriela witnesses the destruction of her Mayan village and the murder of nearly all its inhabitants, she vows never to climb again until, after she and her traumatised sister find safety in a Mexican refugee camp, she realizes that only by climbing and facing their fears can she and her sister hope to have a future.
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Adelle and Connie have been best friends for years, united by their love of a little-known novel called Moira. Unable to reach Moira's reclusive author, Robin Amery, the girls have to settle for reading the book over and over again, dreaming about how much better their lives would be in the world of this romantic fantasy. When the girls are tempted by a mysterious purveyor to enter the world of the book, the hardly suspect that it will actually work....
249) Romanov
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Anastasia 'Nastya' Romanov was given a mission: to smuggle an ancient spell into her suitcase on her way to exile in Siberia. It might be her family's only salvation. But the leader of the Bolshevik army is after them, and he's hunted Romanov before. Her only chances of survival are to either release the spell and deal with the consequences, or enlist help from Zash, the handsome soldier who doesn't act like the average Bolshevik. She thinks he might...
250) Before we disappear
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Fifteen-year-old Jack and sixteen-year-old Wilhelm, assistants to--and captives of--rival magicians, fall in love against the backdrop of Seattle's 1908 world's fair, the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition.
252) The next together
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"Katherine and Matthew are reborn generation after generation to find each other, only to be devastatingly ripped apart. But why?"--
253) My imaginary Mary
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When two masterminds--Mary, the daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, and Ada, the daughter of Lord Byron--are brought together by fate, they make a shocking--and magical--discovery that draws the attention of a mad scientist.
254) Illusions of Fate
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"Jessamin has been an outcast since she moved from her island home of Melei to the dreary country of Albion. Everything changes when she meets the gorgeous, enigmatic Finn, who introduces her to the secret world of Albion's nobility, a world that has everything Jessamin doesn't--power, money, status. and magic. But Finn has secrets of his own, and the vicious Lord Downpike will do anything to possess them. Unless Jessamin, armed only with her wits,...
255) Stalking shadows
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"Seventeen-year-old Marie mixes perfumes to sell on market day...She wants to make enough to save a dowry for her sister, Ama, in hopes of Ama marrying well...But her perfumes are more than sweet scents in cheap, cut-glass bottles: A certain few are laced with death. Marie laces the perfume delicately--not with poison but with a hint of honeysuckle she's trained her sister to respond to. Marie marks her victim, and Ama attacks. But she doesn't attack...
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Would you marry the wrong man to save the right one?
As the king's new healer, Ellanora has two secrets that could destroy her: she's a psychic with witchy insights, and she's in love with King Meade.
When Ellanora's secrets are exposed in court, not only is her reputation at stake, but so is the king's.
Her only recourse is to become betrothed immediately to the first suitable man who presents himself. Marriage will quiet
259) Haunting Violet
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Sixteen-year-old Violet Willoughby has been part of her mother's Spiritualist scam since she was nine, but during an 1872 house party in Hampshire, England, she is horrified to learn that she can actually see ghosts, one of whom wants Violet to solve her murder.
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