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Emblem Island volume 2
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Tor, Engle, and Melda must stop a band of cursed pirates from taking over their home.
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"Lush world-building and intoxicating magic"—Entertainment Weekly
"A sweeping swords-and-sorcery romance"—The New York Times
Assassin's Creed meets Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them in this gripping, epic fantasy romance.
My heart wasn't part of the deal when I bargained for my life,
But assassins so rarely keep their word.
Exiled Charmer Leena Edenfrell
...4) Happy medium
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2024.
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"Fake spirit medium Gretchen Acorn is happy to help when her best (read: wealthiest) client hires her to look into the unexplained phenomena preventing the sale of her bridge partner's struggling goat farm. Gretchen may be a complete fraud, but she'd like to think she's a beneficent one. So if "cleansing" the historic property will help a nice old man get on with his retirement and put some much-needed cash in her pockets at the same time, who's she...
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"In the small mountain town of Jasper, North Carolina, June Farrow is waiting for fate to find her. The Farrow women are known for their thriving flower farm--and the mysterious curse that has plagued their family line. The whole town remembers the madness that led to Susanna Farrow's disappearance, leaving June to be raised by her grandmother and haunted by rumors. It's been a year since June started seeing and hearing things that weren't there....
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A pinch of magic volume 1
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"All Betty Widdershins wants is an adventure--one that takes her far away from the gloomy island wehre she's always lived. But instead of an adventure, Betty and her sisters, Fliss and Charlie, are each given a magical object: a carpet bag, a set of nesting dolls, and a mirror. And these gifts come with their own terrible secret: their family is haunted by a deadly curse. The sisters set out to change their fate. But when a mysterious prisoner claims...
7) Dark witch
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An American searches for her Irish ancestors to learn more about her powers and break an ancient curse.
8) Unraveller
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Amulet Books
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Fifteen-year-old Kellen's unique ability to unravel curses unfortunately does not protect him from becoming cursed, and unless he and his best friend and ally Nettle can remove his hex, Kellen is in danger of unravelling everything--and everyone--around him.
9) Thornhedge
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2023.
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"There's a princess trapped in a tower. This isn't her story. Meet Toadling. On the day of her birth, she was stolen from her family by the fairies, but she grew up safe and loved in the warm waters of faerieland. Once an adult though, the fae ask a favor of Toadling: return to the human world and offer a blessing of protection to a newborn child. Simple, right? But nothing with fairies is ever simple. Centuries later, a knight approaches a towering...
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Nevermoor volume 1
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2017.
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"A cursed child destined to die on her eleventh birthday is rescued and whisked away to a secret realm called Nevermoor and given the chance to compete for a place in a prestigious organization called the Wundrous Society."--
11) This wicked fate
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This poison heart volume 2
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2022.
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"Briseis races to save her family even as she discovers more about their ties to ancient goddesses and deadly curses"--
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Immortally sexy series volume 1
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If you think life is complicated, try immortality. Justine Bennett is cursing her life. She's the Guardian of the Goblet of Eternal Youth, she hasn't left the house in ages, and it's been over 200 years since she's had sex. Oh, and the Goblet has shape shifted into an espresso machine. Not exactly the stuff grand destiny is made of...
Derek LaValle is worried. Due to a family curse, he'll be dead in the space of a week unless...
Derek LaValle is worried. Due to a family curse, he'll be dead in the space of a week unless...
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Thorne Chronicles volume 1
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Princess Rory Thorne must use the fairy blessings gifted to her at birth to change the multiverse--or possibly destroy it. How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse is a feminist reimagining of familiar fairytale tropes and a story of resistance and self-determination--how small acts of rebellion can lead a princess to not just save herself, but change the course of history.
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Dreadful tale of Prosper Redding volume 1
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Disney-Hyperion
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2017.
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A modern New England boy must rid himself of the ancient demon inhabiting his body and break his family's curse.
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2024.
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Aubry Tourvel is 9 when she and her sisters, Pauline and Sylvie, stumble across a strange well in a courtyard secreted between empty apartment buildings. The well is made of smooth gray stone, and its opening has been carved to resemble a face. The siblings assume it's a wishing well, and because the papers are full of terrible news, each resolves to sacrifice something precious for the greater good. Pauline drops in a gold chain to stop the socialists...
18) The Witchstone
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2024
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"Meet Laszlo, eight-hundred-year-old demon and Hell's least productive Curse Keeper. From his office beneath Midtown, he oversees the Drakeford Curse, which involves a pathetic family upstate and a mysterious black monolith. It's a sexy enough assignment--colonial origins, mutating victims, et cetera--but Laszlo has no interest in maximizing the curse's potential; he'd rather sunbathe in Ibiza, quaff martinis, and hustle the hustlers on Manhattan's...
19) Lightlark
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Lightlark volume 1
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Bedford Public Library Staff Summer Reading 2024
HPL: Thrills and Chills for Teens
NYT - Children’s & Young Adult Series
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Every 100 years the island of Lightlark appears. Its purpose: to host the Centennial, a deadly game that only the rulers of six realms are invited to play. The Centennial offers the six rulers one final chance to break the curses that have plagued their realms for centuries. Each realm's curse is uniquely wicked. To destroy the curses, one ruler must die. Isla Crown is the ruler of Wilding, a realm of temptresses cursed to kill anyone they fall in...
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"Vivienne Jones handled the biggest break-up of her life the way that any witch would: vodka, bubble baths, and a curse on her ex. That was nine years ago. Now Rhys Penhallow, descendant of the town's founders, breaker of hearts and still irritatingly gorgeous, is back. Rhys has returned to the quaint town of Graves Glen to recharge the ley lines and make an appearance at the annual fall festival. But when his every move results in calamity, Vivi...