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  The Eyes of the Dragon

  by Stephen King

  The evil wizard Flagg has watched and waited. King Roland, once powerful, is old and weak. Prince Peter, the measure of a king in all ways stands to inherit the realm. His younger brother, Thomas, is more to Flagg's liking. A few grains of Dragon Sand will change everything. Within minutes the king is dead, Prince Peter imprisoned for the murder, and Thomas is King. Flagg is in control of Delain. But... (more)
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  The Stolen Child

  by Keith Donohue

  Inspired by the W.B. Yeats poem that tempts a child from home to the waters and the wild, The Stolen Child is a modern fairy tale narrated by the child Henry Day and his double. On a summer night, Henry Day runs away from home and hides in a hollow tree. There he is taken by the changelings—an unaging tribe of wild children who live in darkness and in secret. They spirit him away, name him Aniday, and make... (more)
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  Mirror Mirror

  by Gregory Maguire

  The year is 1502, and seven-year-old Bianca de Nevada lives perched high above the rolling hills and valleys of Tuscany and Umbria at Montefiore, the farm of her beloved father, Don Vicente. But one day a noble entourage makes its way up the winding slopes to the farm -- and the world comes to Montefiore. In the presence of Cesare Borgia and his sister, the lovely and vain Lucrezia -- decadent children of a... (more)
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  Confessions of An Ugly Stepsister

  by Gregory Maguire

  Is this new land a place where magic really happens? From Gregory Maguire, the acclaimed author of Wicked, comes his much-anticipated second novel, a brilliant and provocative retelling of the timeless Cinderella tale. In the lives of children, pumpkins can turn into coaches, mice and rats into human beings.... When we grow up, we learn that it's far more common for human beings to turn into rats.... We... (more)
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  Lost

  by Gregory Maguire

  Winifred Rudge, a bemused writer struggling to get beyond the runaway success of her mass-market astrology book, travels to London to jump-start her new novel about a woman who is being haunted by the ghost of Jack the Ripper. Upon her arrival, she finds that her stepcousin and old friend John Comestor has disappeared, and a ghostly presence seems to have taken over his home. Is the spirit Winnie's... (more)
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  Beauty

  by Sheri S. Tepper

  On her sixteenth birthday, the princess Beauty sidesteps the sleeping curse placed upon her by her wicked aunt, the fairy Carabosse -- only to be kidnapped by visitors from another time and place, far from the picturesque castle in fourteenth century EnglandShe is taken to the world of the future, a savage society where, even amongst the teeming billions, she is utterly alone. And as she travels... (more)
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  The Walking Dead

  This Sorrowful Life

  by Charlie Adlard, Robert Kirkman

  Trapped in a town surrounded by madmen, Rick must find a way out or die trying. Meanwhile, back at the prison, the rest of the survivors come to grips with the fact Rick may be dead, and a major turning point in the series is reached.
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  Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town

  by Cory Doctorow

  Alan is a middle-aged entrepeneur in contemporary Toronto, who has devoted himself to fixing up a house in a bohemian neighborhood. This naturally brings him in contact with the house full of students and layabouts next door, including a young woman who, in a moment of stress, reveals to him that she has wings--wings, moreover, which grow back after each attempt to cut them off. Alan understands. He himself has... (more)
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  The Book of Lost Things

  by John Connolly

  New York Times bestselling author John Connolly's unique imagination takes readers through the end of innocence into adulthood and beyond in this dark and triumphantly creative novel of grief and loss, loyalty and love and the redemptive power of stories. High in his attic bedroom, twelve-year-old David mourns the death of his mother. He is angry and alone, with only the books on his shelf for company. But those... (more)
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  The Wicked Years: Book 1

  Wicked

  The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

  by Gregory Maguire

  When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale, we heard only her side of the story. But what about her arch-nemesis, the mysterious witch? Where did she come from? How did she become so wicked? And what is the true nature of evil? Gregory Maguire creates a fantasy world so rich and vivid that we will never look at Oz the same way again. Wicked is about a land where... (more)
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  The Wicked Years: Book 2

  Son of a Witch

  by Gregory Maguire

  In this captivating New York Times bestseller, beloved author Gregory Maguire returns to the land of Oz and introduces us to Liir, an adolescent boy last seen hiding in the shadows of the castle after Dorothy did in the Witch. Bruised, comatose, and left for dead in a gully, Liir is shattered in spirit as well as in form. At the Cloister of Saint Glinda the silent novice Candle tends to him, willing him back to... (more)
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  The Tale of Despereaux

  Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread

  by Kate DiCamillo

  Despereaux Tilling is a mouse. A small mouse. A different mouse. He becomes a complete outcast and has to face harsh punishment even more than ever when he falls in love with a princess- imagine! A human! Despereaux is sentenced to the dungeon by his fellow mice and even his own family. Fortunately with a little luck, a lot of skill, and some friends, Despereaux finds himself on a special quest- a quest to find... (more)
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  Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End

  by Manel Loureiro

  The dead rise… A mysterious incident in Russia, a blip buried in the news—it’s the only warning humanity receives that civilization will soon be destroyed by a single, voracious virus that creates monsters of men. Humanity falls… A lawyer, still grieving over the death of his young wife, begins to write as a form of therapy. Bur he never expected that his anonymous blog would ultimately record... (more)
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  The Wicked Years: Book 3

  A Lion Among Men

  by Gregory Maguire

  Since the publication of Wicked, millions of readers have discovered Gregory Maguire's fantastically encyclopedic Oz, a world filled with characters both familiar and new, darkly conceived and daringly reimagined. In the third volume of the Wicked Years, we return to Oz, seen now through the eyes of the Cowardly Lion. At once a portrait of a would-be survivor and a panoramic glimpse of a world gone shrill with... (more)
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  The Walking Dead

  Too Far Gone

  by Robert Kirkman

  Life in the community is as near as Rick and his group can ever hope to come to life returning to normal. So why is Rick so on edge? Will his behavior spell doom for everyone else? Will they let it get that far?
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  Southern Vampire Mysteries: Book 11

  Dead Reckoning

  by Charlaine Harris

  With her knack for being in trouble’s way, Sookie witnesses the firebombing of Merlotte’s, the bar where she works. Since Sam Merlotte is now known to be two-natured, suspicion falls immediately on the anti-shifters in the area. Sookie suspects otherwise, but her attention is divided when she realizes that her lover Eric Northman and his “child” Pam are plotting to kill the vampire who is now their master.... (more)
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  The Night Circus

  by Erin Morgenstern

  In this mesmerizing debut, a competition between two magicians becomes a star-crossed love story.The circus arrives at night, without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within nocturnal black and white striped tents awaits a unique experience, a feast for the senses, where one can get lost in a maze of clouds, meander through a lush garden made of ice,... (more)
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  Winterland

  by Mike Duran

  Summoned into her dying mother’s coma, recovering addict Eunice Ames must traverse a surreal, apocalyptic dreamscape in search of three generational spirits who have imprisoned her mother’s soul. Together with Joseph, a crippled drifter who serves as her guide, Eunice treks an abandoned highway strewn with debris from her mother’s “emotional” wars. Along the way, she encounters Mister Mordant, a perpetually whiny... (more)
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  The Last Survivors: Book 3

  This World We Live In

  by Susan Beth Pfeffer

  It's been nearly a year since a meteor collided with the moon catastrophically altering the earth’s climate. For Miranda Evans life as she knew it no longer exists. Her friends and neighbors are dead, the landscape is frozen, and food is increasingly scarce. The struggle to survive intensifies when Miranda’s father and stepmother arrive with a baby and three strangers in tow. One of the newcomers is Alex Morales,... (more)
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  Need: Book 1

  Need

  by Carrie Jones

  Zara collects phobias the way other high school girls collect Facebook friends. It's little wonder, since she's had a fairly rough life. Her father left when she was a baby, her stepfather just died and her mother's almost given up - in fact, she's sent her to live with her grandmother in cold and sleepy Maine to 'keep Zara safe'. Zara doesn't think she's in danger; she thinks her mother just can't... (more)