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1) Unraveller
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In Raddith, you must beware of cursers. Only those consumed by hatred are able to curse: set someone on fire, steal their shadow, or even turn them into another form. Only one person has the power to unravel curses: Kellen does not fully understand his talent, but helps those transformed maliciously. He helped Nettle recover from entrapment in bird form, and she is now his constant companion and closest ally. But Kellen has also been cursed. Unless...
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YOUNG ADULT FICTION MAHONEY
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YOUNG ADULT FICTION MAHONEY
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"For generations, a monster called the Memory Eater has lived in the caves of Whistler Beach, Maine, surviving off the unhappy memories of those who want to forget. And for generations, the Harlows have been in charge of keeping her locked up—and keeping her fed. After her grandmother dies, seventeen-year-old Alana Harlow inherits the family business. But there’s something Alana doesn’t know: the strange gaps in her memory aren’t from an accident....
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YOUNG ADULT FICTION DIMALINE
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YOUNG ADULT FICTION DIMALINE
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Winifred has lived in the apartment above the cemetery office with her father, who works in the crematorium all her life, close to her mother's grave. With her sixteenth birthday only days away, Winifred has settled into a lazy summer schedule, lugging her obese Chihuahua around the grounds in a squeaky red wagon to visit the neglected gravesides and nursing a serious crush on her best friend, Jack. Her habit of wandering the graveyard at all hours...
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House of Marionne volume 1
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Oak Lawn Public Library - Young Adult
YOUNG ADULT FICTION ELLE
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YOUNG ADULT FICTION ELLE
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From New York Times bestselling author J. Elle comes a modern-day YA romantic fantasy series opener about a glamorous magical world of social elites, forbidden love, and a dark magic that could destroy it all. BURY YOUR SECRET OR DIE FOR IT. 17 year-old Quell has lived her entire life on the run. She and her mother have fled from city to city, in order to hide the deadly magic that flows through Quell's veins. Until someone discovers her dark secret....
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YOUNG ADULT FICTION NIX
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YOUNG ADULT FICTION NIX
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"There is often trouble of a mythical sort in Bath. The booksellers who police the Old World keep a careful watch there, particularly on the entity that inhabits the ancient hot spring. This time trouble comes from the discovery of a sorcerous map, leading left-handed bookseller Merlin into great danger, requiring a desperate rescue attempt from his sister, the right-handed bookseller Vivien, and art student Susan Arkshaw, who is still struggling...
6) Zhara
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Guardians of Dawn volume 1
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Oak Lawn Public Library - Young Adult
YOUNG ADULT FICTION JAEJONES
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YOUNG ADULT FICTION JAEJONES
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Forbidden from practicing magic and burdened by her responsibilities, Jin Zhara's life takes an unexpected turn when she becomes involved with the Guardians of Dawn, a group dedicated to fighting a demonic plague that is corrupting magicians.
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"Two sisters, one as beautiful as the moon and the other monstrous, must fight to save each other when a betrothal contest goes wrong. One sister must fall for the other to rise. Channi was not born a monster. But when her own father offers her in sacrifice to the Demon Witch, she is forever changed. Cursed with a serpent's face, Channi is the exact opposite of her beautiful sister, Vanna--the only person in the village who looks at Channi and doesn't...
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Waxways volume 1
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Oak Lawn Public Library - Young Adult
YOUNG ADULT FICTION REINTGEN
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YOUNG ADULT FICTION REINTGEN
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Follows six teenage wizards as they fight to make it home alive after a malfunctioning spell leaves them stranded in the wilderness.
9) Blood debts
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Blood debts volume 1
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Oak Lawn Public Library - Young Adult
YOUNG ADULT FICTION BENTONWA
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YOUNG ADULT FICTION BENTONWA
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Sixteen-year-old twins Clement and Cristina feel lost after their father's death, but find a new sense of purpose as they work to quell the rising tensions between New Orleans's magic and non-magic communities and find out who cursed their mother.
10) Hotel Magnifique
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YOUNG ADULT FICTION TAYLOR
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YOUNG ADULT FICTION TAYLOR
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"Hotel Magnifique. Decadent and darkly enchanting, this lavish YA fantasy debut follows seventeen-year-old Jani as she uncovers the deeply disturbing secrets of the legendary Hotel Magnifique. All her life, Jani has dreamed of Elsewhere. Just barely scraping by with her job at a tannery, she's resigned to a dreary life in the port town of Durc, caring for her younger sister Zosa. That is, until the Hotel Magnifique comes to town. The hotel is legendary...
11) Our violent ends
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These violent delights volume 2
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Oak Lawn Public Library - Young Adult
YOUNG ADULT FICTION GONG
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YOUNG ADULT FICTION GONG
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"Though secrets and lies keep Juliette and Roma apart, a monster still prowls the city of Shanghai, and the two are going to have to put aside their differences to end this threat once and for all"--
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"Uriel the angel and Little Ash (short for Ashmedai) are the only two supernatural creatures in their shtetl (which is so tiny, it doesn't have a name other than Shetl). The angel and the demon have been studying together for centuries, but pogroms and the search for a new life have drawn all the young people from their village to America. When one of those young people, Essie, goes missing. Uriel and Little Ash set off to find her. Along the way...
13) Ballad & dagger
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Outlaw saints volume 1
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Oak Lawn Public Library - Young Adult
YOUNG ADULT FICTION OLDER
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YOUNG ADULT FICTION OLDER
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When sixteen-year-old Mateo and Chela discover each other and their powers during a political battle between neighborhood factions, they set aside their differences to unravel the mystery behind their sunken homeland and to stop a dangerous political operative who is trying to harness their gifts to unleash terror on the world.
14) Rust in the root
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YOUNG ADULT FICTION IRELAND
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YOUNG ADULT FICTION IRELAND
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"It is 1937, and Laura Ann Langston lives in an America divided--between those who work the mystical arts and those who do not. Ever since the Great Rust, a catastrophic event that blighted the arcane force called the Dynamism and threw America into disarray, the country has been rebuilding for a better future. And everyone knows the future is industry and technology--otherwise known as Mechomancy--not the traditional mystical arts. Laura disagrees....
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Cursebreaker series volume 1
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Oak Lawn Public Library - Young Adult
YOUNG ADULT FICTION KEMMERER
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YOUNG ADULT FICTION KEMMERER
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Eighteen for the three hundred twenty-seventh time, Prince Rhen despairs of breaking the curse that turns him into a beast at the end of each day until feisty Harper enters his life.
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These violent delights volume 1
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Oak Lawn Public Library - Young Adult
YOUNG ADULT FICTION GONG
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YOUNG ADULT FICTION GONG
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In 1926 Shanghai, eighteen-year-old Juliette Cai, heir of the Scarlet Gang, and her first love-turned-rival Roma Montagov, leader of the White Flowers, must work together when mysterious deaths threaten their city.--
17) Pet
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Pet is here to hunt a monster. Are you brave enough to look? There are no monsters anymore, or so the children in Lucille are taught. Jam and her best friend, Redemption, have grown up with the lesson that the city is safe for everyone. But when Jam meets Pet, a creature who some might call monstrous but, in reality, is anything but, she must reconsider what she's been told. Pet has emerged from one of her mother's paintings to hunt a true monster--and...
18) Legendborn
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Legendborn volume 1
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Oak Lawn Public Library - Young Adult
YOUNG ADULT FICTION DEONN
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YOUNG ADULT FICTION DEONN
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Oak Lawn Public Library - Young Adult
YOUNG ADULT CD FICTION DEONN
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YOUNG ADULT CD FICTION DEONN
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"Filled with mystery and an intriguingly rich magic system, Tracy Deonn's YA contemporary fantasy reinvents the King Arthur legend and "braids together Southern folk traditions and Black Girl Magic into a searing modern tale of grief, power, and self-discovery" (Dhonielle Clayton, New York Times bestselling author of The Belles). After her mother dies in an accident, sixteen-year-old Bree Matthews wants nothing to do with her family memories or childhood...
19) The Raven Boys
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Raven cycle volume 1
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Oak Lawn Public Library - Young Adult
YOUNG ADULT FICTION STIEFVATER
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YOUNG ADULT FICTION STIEFVATER
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Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue herself never sees them--not until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks directly to her. His name is Gansey, and Blue soon discovers that he is a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Known as Raven Boys, they can only mean trouble. But Blue is drawn to Gansey, in...
20) The Young Elites
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Young elites volume 1
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Oak Lawn Public Library - Young Adult
YOUNG ADULT FICTION LU
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YOUNG ADULT FICTION LU
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Adelina Amouteru is a survivor of the blood fever. A decade ago, the deadly illness swept through her nation. Most of the infected perished, while many of the children who survived were left with strange markings. Adelina's black hair turned silver, her lashes went pale, and now she has only a jagged scar where her left eye once was. Her cruel father believes she is a malfetto, an abomination, ruining their family's good name and standing in the way...