I WILL NEVER HAVE A HUSBAND, BUT I HAVE THE BEST BROTHER IN THE WORLD. YOUR BREATH ON MY CHEEK -- ON MY SCAR -- FELT LIKE THE BREATH OF ALLAH. Nadira is spoiled goods. Scars from a beating she received for a crime that her older brother allegedly committed tell the world that she is worth less than nothing -- except to her little brother, Umar, who sees beauty in her scars and value in her. But Umar is gone -- perhaps kidnapped or maybe sold. All Nadira knows is that Umar has been taken...
The fairytales never mentioned this.Pressured to choose a bride before his eighteenth birthday, Prince Lex is determined to do things the way he's read about in legends: run away to find his true love. But soon he is at the mercy of a band of outlaws who know more about his kingdom than he does. Traveling with them, he is forced to face the reality--and naïveté--of his privileged palace life. His people suffer at the hands of greedy nobility, and they look not to Lex's parents for help, but to t...
Lives of Kings (Seven Wanderers Trilogy, #2)
by Lucy Leiderman
Gwen must reunite her fellow reincarnated magical guardians and save the world from three magicians threatening to bring on the apocalypse. Book Two in the Seven Wanderers Trilogy. After discovering she led a past life full of magic in Britannia thousands of years ago, Gwen must race against time to stop an ancient enemy who threatens to tear the world apart. Gwen may have won the battle to save her own magic, but she is still reeling from memories of her past life and dangers to her present...
After witnessing a terrible event that left Kaira changed in unimaginable ways, Chris knows he has to find a way to defy his destiny in this second novel in the suspenseful Ravenborn series. In the aftermath of the deaths plaguing Islington’s campus, a terrible pall has fallen over the students. Kaira is passed-out sick, and Chris—the only witness to the night Kaira invoked something otherworldly—is questioning his sanity. Everyone is willing to believe the deaths were normal, and without Kaira...
The Vanquisher of Water (The Power of Princirum, #1)
by Logan Young
You thought magic would be easy?Kym wanted nothing to do with the magical world since the deaths of her aunt and uncle, but that was before the river attacked her. Now, with her magic discovered, Kym must join a world she never liked or understood.Kym's inability to keep up with her magical training, as well as her resistance to her almost-royal status, makes her an outcast among the Favored. But she doesn't give up, and trains even harder as she competes for Lady Nila's attention. But the Ruler...
Thrust into leadership upon the death of his emperor father, young Prince Ahkin feels completely unready for his new position. Though his royal blood controls the power of the sun, he's now responsible for the lives of all the Chicome people. And despite all Ahkin's efforts, the sun is fading--and the end of the world may be at hand.For Mayana, the only daughter of the Chicome family whose blood controls the power of water, the old emperor's death may mean that she is next. Prince Ahkin must be...
The Underwater Bridge (The Warriors of Tir Nan Og, #1)
by Alison Scott
… there is nothing more powerful than the courage of a fearful heart …Fourteen-year-old Gil Lake, haunted by his father’s death in a kayaking accident, is at the river with his best-friend Danni and her brother, Percy, when a strange bird drops a hollow stone at Percy’s feet. When Gil sees a beautiful green-eyed girl through the stone, Danni throws it into a whirlpool. Percy jumps after it; she leaps to rescue him. Fear holds Gil back a fateful moment before he follows. Drawn ferociously down, h...
An enthralling, historically rich, small-town mystery in which a teen works with her deceased sister to solve an assumed murder. Sixteen-year-old Clara Morris is facing an awkward summer with her father in the tiny upstate town of Redmarch Lake. Clara’s relationship with her parents—and with life in general—has been strained since she lost her twin sister, Zoe, when the girls were eight. As a child, her sister had been her whole world—they even shared a secret invented twin language. Clara has...
Shiva: The Legend Of Rudra (Campfire Graphic Novels)
by Ashok K Banker
Have you ever wondered if Shiva was always the God of Destruction? Or is there an origin story about the most revered of Hindu gods? After years of meditation and spending time with Ganas, Rudra attains spiritual insight through yoga and extreme penitence. But Daksha, the son of Bramha, has other plans. He attacks villages to carry out his great vision of building an empire. No one can stop the mighty Daksha, but Rudra. But the battle was not easy as Rudra found himself falling in love with Sat...
A Universe of Wishes: A We Need Diverse Books Anthology
by V.E. Schwab, Zoraida Córdova, Libba Bray, Nic Stone, Tessa Gratton, Rebecca Roanhorse, Samira Ahmed, Natalie C. Parker, and Anna-Marie McLemore
Anything is possible. From We Need Diverse Books fifteen award-winning and celebrated diverse authors deliver stories about a princess without need of a prince, a monster long misunderstood, memories that vanish with a spell, and voices that refuse to stay silent in the face of injustice. Alucard and Prince Rhy’s relationship in V.E. Schwab's Shades of Magic series is finally revealed, Anna-Marie McLemore gives “Cinderella” a trans retelling, while letters supernaturally cross borders between...
Sanguine (Sentinels of Eden, #2) (Songlines of Eden)
by Carolyn Denman
The Beast Within Saga (Beast Within Saga, #1) (Beast Within, #1)
by Kl Stedman
The Language of Thorns (The Language of Thorns)
by Leigh Bardugo
From bestselling author of SIX OF CROWS, Leigh Bardugo, comes a lavishly illustrated collection of short stories filled with betrayals, revenge, sacrifice and love. Inspired by myth, fairy tale and folklore, THE LANGUAGE OF THORNS will transport you to both lands familiar and strange that millions have visited through the novels of the Grishaverse.Love speaks in flowers. Truth requires thorns.Travel to a world of dark bargains struck by moonlight, of haunted towns and hungry woods, of talking be...