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- The Talon Saga
series5 books2014
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Julie Kagawa's Talon Saga follows Ember Hill, a young dragon raised by the secretive Talon organization to pass as an ordinary human teenager, as she is pulled between loyalty to her own kind and a connection to Garret, a soldier sworn to hunt dragons. The five-book series follows the widening conflict between dragons and the humans who hunt them as Ember is forced to choose a side.
- The Time Traveler's Wife
Audrey Niffeneggerstandalone novel2003
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The Time Traveler's Wife is the debut novel by American author Audrey Niffenegger, published in 2003. It is a love story about Henry, a man with a genetic disorder that causes him to time travel unpredictably, and about Clare, his wife, an artist who has to cope with his frequent absences. Niffenegger, who was frustrated with love when she began the novel, wrote the story as a metaphor for her failed relationships. The tale's central relationship came to Niffenegger suddenly and subsequently supplied the novel's title. The novel has been classified as both science fiction and romance.
- Every Day
series3 books2012
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David Levithan's Every Day follows A, a consciousness with no fixed body who wakes each morning inside a different person's life, and who falls for a girl named Rhiannon despite the impossibility of ever staying in one body to be with her. The story continues from other perspectives in Another Day and, years later, Someday.
- The Hollow Universe (Jessica Verday)
series4 books2009
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- Wicked Lovely
series17 books2007
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Melissa Marr's Wicked Lovely opens a YA urban-fantasy series about Aislinn, a teenage girl who has always been able to see faeries and has spent her life following her grandmother's rules to avoid their notice - until Keenan, the Summer King, decides she is meant to be his queen. Later books widen out to other faerie courts and other narrators drawn into the same modern-day faerie politics layered invisibly over ordinary life. It helped kick off the mid-2000s wave of YA faerie romance.
- Fallen
series7 books2009
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Lauren Kate's Fallen opens with Luce Price, sent to a reform school in Savannah after a fire she can't explain, where she meets Daniel, a boy she is certain she has met before. The series follows Luce's growing entanglement with fallen angels and a curse of repeated lifetimes across several sequels running through 2015.
- The Siren
Kiera Cassstandalone novel2009
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"You must never do anything that might expose our secret. This means that, in general, you cannot form close bonds with humans. You can speak to us, and you can always commune with the Ocean, but you are deadly to humans. You are, essentially, a weapon. A very beautiful weapon. I won't lie to you, it can be a lonely existence, but once you are done, you get to live. All you have to give, for now, is obedience and time..." The same speech has been given hundreds of times to hundreds of beautiful girls who enter the sisterhood of sirens. Kahlen has lived by these rules for years now, patiently waiting for the life she can call her own. But when Akinli, a human, enters her world, she can't bring herself to live by the rules anymore. Suddenly the life she's been waiting for doesn't seem nearly as important as the one she's living now.
- Teardrop Trilogy
series2 books2013
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- Old Magic
Marianne Curleystandalone novel2000
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Kate is at a loss. She meets a boy with curious powers and a bizarre history - but he thinks he is very ordinary. How can she convince him that he has a gift, a gift that he must use to unravel mysteries that have hung over his family for generations? And even if she does persuade him, will his talents prove powerful enough to overcome what lies ahead?
- Halo (Alexandra Adornetto)
series3 books2010
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Alexandra Adornetto's Halo trilogy follows three angels sent to a small American town to counter a rising darkness, centered on Bethany, the youngest of them, who falls in love with a mortal boy despite the assignment's rules. Hades and Heaven escalate the conflict between her human attachments and her angelic duties. The series belongs to the wave of angel-themed YA romance that followed the mid-2000s vampire boom.
- Prison Camp
series3 books2020
part of Black Dagger
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Prison Camp is a three-book arc within J. R. Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood, the long-running paranormal romance series about vampire warriors defending their race against soulless enemies called lessers. The Jackal, The Wolf, and The Viper follow different members of that same vampire society rather than opening a new setting. It sits within a Brotherhood franchise that has run continuously since 2005.
- The Radleys
Matt Haigstandalone novel2010
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The Radleys is a paranormal fantasy novel for young adults by Matt Haig, published 1 July 2010 by Canongate Books.
- Embrace / The Violet Eden Chapters
series5 books2010
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