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  • 神様はじめました 20 [Kamisama Hajimemashita 20] by Julietta Suzuki

    神様はじめました 20 [Kamisama Hajimemashita 20] by Julietta Suzuki

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    When Nanami inherits a shrine, it comes with divine powers and a hot fox spirit!Nanami Momozono is alone and homeless after her dad skips town to evade his gambling debts and the debt collectors kick her out of her apartment. So when a man she's just saved from a dog offers her his home, she jumps at the opportunity...
  • Sun Warrior by P.C. Cast

    Sun Warrior by P.C. Cast

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The blockbuster bestselling series is back! #1 New York Times bestselling author of the House of Night series, P.C. Cast, brings us Sun Warrior , an epic fantasy set in a world where humans, their animal allies, and the earth itself has been drastically changed...
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  • Uglies, The Collector's Set by Scott Westerfeld

    Uglies, The Collector's Set by Scott Westerfeld

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    The complete New York Times bestselling Uglies series is available as a collectible boxed set. The future isn’t far away.In Tally Youngblood’s world, looks matter. She lives in a society created to function with perfect-looking people who never have a chance to think for themselves. And she’s tired of it...
  • A Beautiful Curse by Kenley Davidson

    A Beautiful Curse by Kenley Davidson

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Follow your heart…But you might just end up snacking on flies.When a bumbling fairy godfather gifts a humble woodcutter’s fourth child with extraordinary beauty, she spends the next eighteen years trying to hide it—behind a book. Now, Elisette is ready to follow her dreams and become a scholar, but her admirers keep getting in the way of her ambitions...
  • The Discovery by Marley Gibson

    The Discovery by Marley Gibson

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After some time off, Kendall's ready to begin ghost hunting again. But her life is still in flux. She misses Patrick, her new love. She needs to find a photographer to replace Taylor. Plus, she may have discovered who her real father is, but to be sure, she has to convince his family she's not a fake. And then there's a certain doll that seems to be out to get her and her friends...
  • Heritage by S.M. Boyce

    Heritage by S.M. Boyce

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Kara Magari isn't normal, even by Ourea's standards--and in a world of shape-shifters and soul stealers, that's saying something. To the royalty, she's a loose cannon. To the masses, she's a failure. But Kara doesn't have a home to go back to anymore. This war-torn world is all she has left, and she'll save it even if she dies trying...
  • The Farseekers by Isobelle Carmody

    The Farseekers by Isobelle Carmody

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    A Children's Book Council of Australia Honor Book In this powerful sequel to Obernewtyn , young Elspeth Gordie-possessed of extraordinary mental powers-has united with others Misfits for refuge on the remote mountain keep of Obernewtyn. Yet the threat from the totalitarian Council to their safety is ever present...
  • Fell by David Clement-Davies

    Fell by David Clement-Davies

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    "The book fans have been waiting for! A sequel to the acclaimed animal fantasy novel" The Sight. With the same bold storytelling that has made "The Sight" a cult favorite, David Clement-Davies tells the story of Fell, the black wolf whose betrayal of his family in "The Sight" almost led to the enslavement of all wolves by the evil Morgra...
  • Awaken by Kristen Day

    Awaken by Kristen Day

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The sacrifices we make have the power to shift the very fabric of who we are, and ultimately who we are meant to be… After learning of her true destiny as the intended Leader of the Tydes, Anastasia Whitman must now embark on a perilous quest to the Underworld before the age of eighteen in order to plant the seed of immortality and complete her essence to become a true Sea Goddess...
  • The Head of the Saint by Socorro Acioli

    The Head of the Saint by Socorro Acioli

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    After walking for days across the harsh Brazilian landscape only to be rejected by his last living relative, Samuel finds his options for survival are dwindling fast - until he comes to the hollow head of a statue, perfect for a boy to crawl into and hide..
  • The Ascended by Tiffany King

    The Ascended by Tiffany King

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    The Ascended is the final installment of The Saving Angels Trilogy. With Krista's life in turmoil, she is now struggling with the responsibilities that have been passed down to her. With the help of Haniel and her friends, Krista risks everything, including her soul, to march into the den of the Dark Angel...
  • Afterglow by Karsten Knight

    Afterglow by Karsten Knight

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In this conclusion to the Wildefire trilogy, teen volcano goddess Ashline Wilde learns her former love, Colt Halliday, has an evil plan to kill the Cloak, benevolent beings who oversee the gods. Also, he wants to merge Ash and her two sisters back into a single, too-powerful goddess, Pele. Ash must stop her trickster-god ex-boyfriend once and for all, by feeding a few flames...
  • The Calling / Changeling by Cate Tiernan

    The Calling / Changeling by Cate Tiernan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Morgan Rowlands holds profound magickal power . . . a power that some will stop at nothing to obtain. Though she knows she has much still to learn, magick has brought her more than she could ever have imagined: the love of her soul mate. Yet her dreams uncover something elseÑa dark force threatening her entire world...
  • Awakening / Spellbound by Cate Tiernan

    Awakening / Spellbound by Cate Tiernan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The second three Sweep books bound into one gorgeous edition at a fabulous price! Morgan Rowlands is a blood witch, the last of a long line of ancient and powerful witches and the holder of an unfathomable power. With the help of her love, her soul mate, Cal, she has realized her true self-but at a price...
  • Ember by Mindy Hayes

    Ember by Mindy Hayes

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    One decision changed her life forever. One choice could seal her fate for eternity. By accepting her destiny, Calliope entered the enchanting world of Faylinn. She wasn’t prepared for all the compromises she would be forced to make. After being thrown into her duties as queen, she must pick her battles wisely or risk loosing the respect of her kingdom...
  • Genesis Academy: The Seer's Legacy by Barbara Hartzler

    Genesis Academy: The Seer's Legacy by Barbara Hartzler

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    One day I’m the darling of the Guardians and the next our whole family is running for their lives.All because I saw my first premonition ever …Now they want me to go undercover at Genesis Academy, the Guardian’s school for rebels and rejects. Me—the goody-goody science nerd with the brand new powers. Oh, and I have to keep my budding Seer powers a secret. Too bad they manifest at the worst times...
  • Chosen by Kristen Day

    Chosen by Kristen Day

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The essence of who we are lies not in what we have, but in what we are willing to give up. Because in the end, Time and Tide wait for no one. After sacrificing all that she had, the evil princess of the Underworld is still successful in her bid to tear Finn from Stasia’s life...
  • Gaia's Secret by Barbara Kloss

    Gaia's Secret by Barbara Kloss

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    **AN AMAZON #1 BESTSELLER IN TEEN FANTASY/ROMANCE** A young girl travels to a new world in search of her missing father, only to find that she's being hunted by an evil sorcerer. Daria Jones didn't expect she'd have to chase her missing father through a portal into another, magical world she never knew existed...
  • Kilala Princess, Vol. 04 by Rika Tanaka, Nao Kodaka

    Kilala Princess, Vol. 04 by Rika Tanaka, Nao Kodaka

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Meet Kilala, an ordinary girl who loves all the Disney Princesses. When she awakens a sleeping prince named Rei, she magically gains the power of the princesses! Rei is searching for the missing princess of his world, and has a magical tiara that will lead him to her...
  • Blade of Fire by Stuart Hill

    Blade of Fire by Stuart Hill

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Following THE CRY OF THE ICEMARK, a huge success in England and critically acclaimed in the U.S., the second epic adventure in The Icemark Chronicles.Many years have passed since Queen Thirrin and her allies defended the Icemark against a brutal invasion. But now General Bellorum is back, along with his bloodthirsty spawn, twin sons even more vicious than him...
  • Wavesong by Isobelle Carmody

    Wavesong by Isobelle Carmody

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    With the end of the wintertime that isolates Obernewtyn from the rest of the world, Farseeker guildmistress Elspeth Gordie again sets out for the lowlands. But she soon finds that not everyone welcomes the changes brought about by the rebellion. There is a traitor among the rebels—a traitor whose hatred of Misfits puts Elspeth in danger as she attempts to thwart an invasion of fanatical Herders...
  • The Stone Key by Isobelle Carmody

    The Stone Key by Isobelle Carmody

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    There was a great crash and wood splintered...I had a brief glimpse of a group of Herder priests, bald and robed, peering at me, and then the sundered remnants of the locker door were torn aside and a rough hand reached in to haul me out by the hair. A Hedra captain stared into my face with eyes that burned with a fanatical fire above a thin nose and a lipless slash of a mouth..
  • Friends and Traitors by C.J. Hill, Janette Rallison

    Friends and Traitors by C.J. Hill, Janette Rallison

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Slayers – teens who have powers to fight dragons—are back by popular demand in this high-octane sequel, now with a new cover package! Tori is at a White House dinner party when she hears a horrifying sound: dragon eggs hatching. It means in less than a year, the dragons will be mature and dangerous...
  • The Sending by Isobelle Carmody

    The Sending by Isobelle Carmody

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    It came to me then, like a chilly draught from an unseen gap, that I had always known in my deepest heart that it would be like this, a slipping away from a life full of people I had come to love, in a place I had helped to shape, in a land I had helped to free...
  • Altered by Shelly Crane

    Altered by Shelly Crane

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Enoch is tested. His brother is human, the thing he hates. He watches as the brother he knew is stripped away by his love for Clara. He's never hated someone as much as he hated her...but the bond forced him to not only want to protect her, but feel things he never had before. When a girl needs his help, that split second decision changes his whole world in one instant. A Devourer's Fate...
  • Forgotten Souls by Tiffany King

    Forgotten Souls by Tiffany King

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Forgotten Souls is Book 2 of the Saving Angels series. Any chance Krista Miller had at a normal teenage life is now gone. Less than a year ago she lived under the radar, avoiding any relationships that would send her emotional sensitivities out of control. Little did she know that her life was destined for something more. Something that will test her very soul...
  • The Lighthouse by Christopher Parker

    The Lighthouse by Christopher Parker

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Enchanting, mysterious, and deeply romantic, The Lighthouse follows a young woman's breathtaking journey far from home to discover where she truly belongs.Something strange is happening in Seabrook. The town's lighthouse–dormant for over thirty years and famously haunted–has inexplicably started shining, and its mysterious glow is sparking feverish gossip throughout the spooked community...
  • Flora's Dare by Ysabeau S. Wilce

    Flora's Dare by Ysabeau S. Wilce

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Flora Fyrdraaca wants nothing more than to be a ranger, and for that she must master the magickal—and dangerous—language of Gramatica. But before she can find the ideal teacher, her aspirations are put to the test...
  • 하백의 신부 [Bride of the Water God], Volume 9 by Mi-Kyung Yun

    하백의 신부 [Bride of the Water God], Volume 9 by Mi-Kyung Yun

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Deceived by a shape-shifter, brainwashed by his fellow gods, and a victim of the Emperor's schemes, Habaek is a cursed and deeply confused Water God! Still yearning for Soah, his human bride, Habaek reveals that his memories have been restored and that he's now ready to uncover the truth about his half-human, former bride, Nakbin -- but Nakbin's ghost will not be laid to rest...
  • Infinite by Jodi Meadows

    Infinite by Jodi Meadows

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    DESTRUCTION The Year of Souls begins with an earthquake—an alarming rumble from deep within the earth—and it’s only the first of greater dangers to come. The Range caldera is preparing to erupt. Ana knows that as Soul Night approaches, everything near Heart will be at risk...
  • The Keeping Place by Isobelle Carmody

    The Keeping Place by Isobelle Carmody

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    'Look out,' I screamed. The flying creature lashed out and I stared in horror at Rushton's bloodied arm. Maruman leapt between us in his tyger form. 'Let me go to him!' I screamed.'He is in a dream but the beast is not. It comes! Wake!' After a kidnapping, Elspeth Gordie and the Misfits are forced to join the rebellion against the oppressive Council, using their extraordinary mind powers...
  • 하백의 신부 [Bride of the Water God], Volume 13 by Mi-Kyung Yun

    하백의 신부 [Bride of the Water God], Volume 13 by Mi-Kyung Yun

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Love triangles between gods, goddesses, and humans lead to betrayals and deaths in this shocking new volume of Bride of the Water God! Mura — the manipulative goddess who's been trying to separate Habaek and his human bride, Soah — forces Habaek into a showdown on Cheong-Yo Mountain, where she's most powerful...
  • Immortal Destiny by Samantha Adams

    Immortal Destiny by Samantha Adams

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What do you do when your best friend becomes your enemy? How do you feel when crimson flowers begin haunting you? And just when Ally thinks things couldn’t get any worse, someone from her past comes back into her life with two shocking secrets that will destroy someone she loves...
  • Choices by Deborah Lynn Jacobs

    Choices by Deborah Lynn Jacobs

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    SHIFTING BETWEEN MULTIPLE REALITIES A teenage girl consumed by guilt over her brother's death tries to find a universe in which he is still alive.   Sticky notes rim the mirror in rainbow colors.  REMEMBER.  DON'T FORGET HIM.  READ THE NOTEBOOK.  Remember what?  Remember who?  And what's this about a notebook?  There's another note, bottom center of the mirror.  THE DREAMS ARE REAL...
  • Seven Crowns by E.V. Everest

    Seven Crowns by E.V. Everest

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An unclaimed crown. Six deadly rivals. A world she never knew existed.Sixteen-year-old Ana is a waitress, foster kid, and liar. She might also be the sole heir to a crown on another planet. A crown she never asked for or even wanted.One year after her mom's death, Ana discovers her mom's biggest secret-- she was a political refugee from a planet called Bellaton...
  • Broken Stone by Kelly Walker

    Broken Stone by Kelly Walker

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    UNABLE TO AVOID HER DESTINY ANY LONGER, Emariya has become the leader her mother always envisioned. Before she can focus on embracing her gifts to unify her three lands, she must first stop her own land from dissolving into civil war. Spurred by her brother’s devious policies and thirst for power, the people of the Uplands have surged into revolt...
  • 하백의 신부 [Bride of the Water God], Volume 10 by Mi-Kyung Yun

    하백의 신부 [Bride of the Water God], Volume 10 by Mi-Kyung Yun

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Trapped in a luxurious castle on the moon, Soah''s still separated from her husband, Habaek, who''s dealing with his own troubles in the Emperor''s fortress on Earth...
  • 하백의 신부 [Bride of the Water God], Volume 11 by Mi-Kyung Yun

    하백의 신부 [Bride of the Water God], Volume 11 by Mi-Kyung Yun

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Betrayed, horribly injured, and still reeling from the fate that befell his former human bride, Habaek is reunited with Soah and seeks to patch things up with her...
  • 하백의 신부 [Bride of the Water God], Volume 12 by Mi-Kyung Yun

    하백의 신부 [Bride of the Water God], Volume 12 by Mi-Kyung Yun

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    At long last, Habaek and Soah are married in a lavish ceremony before all the gods! But that very night, before the troubled water god and his beautiful human bride can consummate their love, the barriers surrounding the lunar palace are breached...
  • Shadowfell by Juliet Marillier

    Shadowfell by Juliet Marillier

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 34 ratings
    Sixteen-year-old Neryn is alone in the land of Alban, where the oppressive king has ordered anyone with magical strengths captured and brought before him...
  • Raven Flight by Juliet Marillier

    Raven Flight by Juliet Marillier

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Neryn has finally found the rebel group at Shadowfell, and now her task is to seek out the elusive Guardians, vital to her training as a Caller. These four powerful beings have been increasingly at odds with human kind, and Neryn must prove her worth to them. She desperately needs their help to use her gift without compromising herself or the cause of overthrowing the evil King Keldec...
  • State of Sorrow by Melinda Salisbury

    State of Sorrow by Melinda Salisbury

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Sorrow - for that is all she brings us.A people laid low by grief and darkness.A cut-throat race for power and victory.A girl with everything and nothing to lose…By day, Sorrow governs the Court of Tears, covering for her grief-maddened father, who has turned their once celebrated land into a living monument for the brother who died before she was born...
  • Undone by Elizabeth Norris

    Undone by Elizabeth Norris

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Before the accident. Before their universes collided. Before they fell in love. Riveting and romantic, Undone: An Unraveling Novella contains three short stories set in the world of Unraveling, the first book in the gripping sci-fi duology by Elizabeth Norris...
  • Ravencliffe by Carol Goodman

    Ravencliffe by Carol Goodman

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Avaline Hall is no ordinary girl.  She’s a student at Blythewood Academy, an elite boarding school that trains young women to defend human society from the shadowy forces that live among us.  After the devastating events of her first year at Blythewood, Ava is eager to reunite with her friends—and with Raven, the compelling but elusive winged boy who makes her pulse race...
  • Sworn To Defiance by Terah Edun

    Sworn To Defiance by Terah Edun

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Available Today Ciardis Weathervane returned to the imperial court of Sandrin to unite her foes. But her efforts hit a stumbling block. The imperial kind. She never thought that before rallying an empire, she'd have to fight the emperor himself. An imposter sits the throne and the court she turned to for help is in turmoil...
  • Flora's Fury by Ysabeau S. Wilce

    Flora's Fury by Ysabeau S. Wilce

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Despite her troublesome attraction to magick, Flora Fyrdraaca has — more or less — spent her life doing what's been expected of her. Yet now, at sixteen, she knows that this path has been strewn with secrets. Secrets have kept her from following her passion of becoming a ranger, of perfecting her use of magick, of proclaiming her hidden identity. But Flora has had enough of living with lies...
  • The Shattered Mountain by Rae Carson

    The Shattered Mountain by Rae Carson

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    On the outskirts of Joya d'Arena, small villages fight for survival against the onslaught of sorcerers and raiders. Mara's village has been safe--so far--but Mara decides to escape anyway. Escape from her harsh, abusive father. Escape with her first love. But when their plans fall on the same day that the animagi burn the village to the ground, Mara faces losses that could destroy her...
  • Second Stone by Kelly Walker

    Second Stone by Kelly Walker

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    You are only a pawn if you don't know the game you are playing. In the second installment in Souls of the Stones, the stakes are higher, the romance is hotter, and Emariya's power as a Cornerstone is growing...
  • Kilala Princess Volume 2 by Rika Tanaka, Nao Kodaka

    Kilala Princess Volume 2 by Rika Tanaka, Nao Kodaka

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    The wicked Queen has captured Kilala and Rei! Unless Kilala gives the wicked Queen Rei's magic tiara, she will be forced to eat the poison apple! Snow White shows up just in time and offers to eat the apple instead--can Kilala defend the tiara and save Snow White?This latest volume of the hit Manga Readers series is filled with the most enchanting Disney princesses and packed with tons of...
  • The Vast and Brutal Sea by Zoraida Córdova

    The Vast and Brutal Sea by Zoraida Córdova

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This epic clash of sand and sea will pit brother against brother-and there can only be one winner In two days, the race for the Sea Court throne will be over-but all the rules have changed. The sea witch, Nieve, has kidnapped Layla and is raising an army of mutant sea creatures to overthrow the crown...
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