Magic -- Fiction
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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 36 Collections and/or Records:
The Emrys School of Art, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023fall_wong_jennifer.pdf
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"As a senior at Morgan University, Grace Huang often feels more comfortable with the paintings than with her classmates. When she sneaks into a party thrown by the distinguished Emrys School of Art, she finds a grisly tableau: a portrait that screams while its subject is bleeding to death. When Grace is invited to join the Emrys School of Art, she can’t refuse. She finds a place to belong with fellow students and artists. As Grace digs into the Emrys School, she uncovers the secrets of magic...
Dates:
2023
The Fire of Witches, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024fall_birmingham_madelyn.pdf
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"The Fire of Witches is a new-adult, fantasy novel centered around Eliza Barton, a fire elemental amidst the Asnian nation's first witch hunt. Throughout the duration of the novel, Eliza struggles to keep herself and her mother, Jasmine, safe as she becomes a valuable asset to the king's regime, all while her magic-- and her beliefs about magic-- begin to waver. Eliza encounters several characters within the story who challenge her spiritually and mentally, contributing to a waning belief in...
Dates:
2024
The Ghosts We Eat, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_prusko_gabrielle.pdf
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"The Ghosts We Eat is an original collection of short fiction that takes place within a world just like ours alongside all too familiar monsters and magic living among us. Filled with brutal beauty and sprinkled with dry unflinching humor, this particular compilation explores hauntings that take on various shapes. From cannibals to aliens to young women redefining their constructed places within sex and intimacy, Prusko uses her stories to investigate how we face trauma head on whether it be...
Dates:
2024
The Golden Rabbit and the Silver Wolf, 2024
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Identifier: vm_2024summer_jones_imani.pdf
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"In an enchanted forest, a timid rabbit gains the protection of the Spirit Shepherd, a majestic silver wolf, to deter predators by becoming her shadow. As she discovers courage and explores the world, her newfound power alienates her from her fellow creatures. Faced with a choice between fear and companionship, she unwittingly seals her fate, becoming an eternal, golden-souled companion to the deceitful wolf." -- Abstract
Dates:
2024
The Midnight Trolley and The Arlingtons, 2023
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Identifier: sf_2023spring_lee_ariele.pdf
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"THE MIDNIGHT TROLLEY When a magical trolley appears in a child's closet and whisks her away from her turbulent home to find the Last Poppy Flower, her moody and disengaged older sister must embark on a perilous journey across fantastical/educational, art-history-inspired worlds to get them both back before the Bog Man destroys the trolley, and the childrens' parents return for the night. THE MIDNIGHT TROLLEY is an animated childrens limited series featuring stylistic world-building,...
Dates:
2023
The Prestige of Power, 2021
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Identifier: pf_2021spring_cormier_jason.pdf
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"There is no destiny, no fated hero prophesized to save the world of Sobrius from the tyrant, Geirdaan. But there are legends of those who sacrificed everything to unite the people and free the lands. The Prestige of Power is the first of four planned books in an epic fantasy series that takes readers across the world of Sobrius and explores the unique races, creatures, and cultures that call it home. It follows three key protagonists with a rotating point-of-view: A Magi male with...
Dates:
2021
The Promise in Ironhart Manor, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024fall_nieves_jazmine.pdf
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"When twenty-year-old Anne strikes a deal with a dragon named Bael, it doesn't end in the happily ever after like the fairy tales suggest. For the past 200 years, she has been trapped in Ironhart Manor, which sits at the center of the faeries' forest, inhabited by dangerous and deceitful creatures, including the dragon who imprisoned her. Anne must become a beast herself in order to finally escape her prison, and so another human is lured to Ironhart Manor. Anne strikes a deal with the...
Dates:
2024
The Raven Maiden, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024fall_cal-williamson_brittani.pdf
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"In a city where magic has been outlawed for centuries, Yira performs at The White Moth, a theater where those who still practice magic share their gifts under the disguise of illusion. Protecting themselves behind unused trap doors and pulleys, they live an enchanting life of dancing fire, spellbinding melodies, and secrets that would make even the moon blush. But there are two rules that must never be broken. Never perform magic outside of The White Moth and never fall in love. Yira...
Dates:
2024
The Scattering Winds, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024fall_carlson_robert.pdf
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"The Scattering Winds is a high fantasy novel, and though it stands alone, it is also the first in a planned trilogy called The Iean Cycle. There are Avrathians (bird-like people), Lacertians (snake-like people), Groukis, Humans, and yes, Gnomes. A human city is sacked and that sets in motion a series of events. We follow three primary characters in third person omniscient point-of-view: Xobb, a human warrior; Haro, an Avrathian shifter, and Cinder, a human woman with powers she doesn't know...
Dates:
2024
The Thirteenth Zodiac, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_fasone_christina.pdf
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"The Thirteenth Zodiac is a bildungsroman fantasy novel. It follows Ella Brando, a junior in high school living in a small North Carolina town, who becomes the Pisces a member of the Zodiac Guardians after the previous Guardian dies mysteriously. The duty of the Guardians is to defeat the Physic Parasites who syphon off positive energy from people and create negative emotions, throwing people's lives off balance. When an old enemy of the Guardians' arises causing people in Ella's town to go...
Dates:
2023
The View From Monday, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_cortes_marissa.pdf
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"Sonnie has been able to see ghosts since she was revived on an operating table at twelve years old. Now at twenty, it's just an everyday part of her life – and why she's always late for her cashier shifts at the local drugstore. She helps ghosts pass on to another plane, all the while hoping to understand what happened to her late brother's ghost. Her coworker Murphy is understanding. He's been dead for the last seven years, courtesy of his ex-girlfriend binding Murphy's spirit to his...
Dates:
2023
The wizard in the lighthouse, 2018
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Identifier: cw_2018spring_martin_bradley.pdf
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"Emily Miles has been adrift ever since she failed a mysterious test her parents gave her at the age of ten; since then she has been a stranger in her own home. Rebelling, she decides to skip her college applications. In an effort to unload their disappointing daughter, Emily’s family enrolls her at a mysterious, two-year institution in Maine. Emily is shipped across the country, only to find that her new school has a hidden curriculum: magic. With no inherent aptitude, Emily is barred from...
Dates:
2018
Their Savage Daughters, 2022
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Identifier: pf_2022summer_hill_ashley.pdf
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"Abducted from her homeland and forced into slavery, the magic that lives within Rana Nari is buried and diminished. But a single spark can start an inferno. An act of defiance escalates until Rana is a fugitive marked for death. Resolute to reclaim what was taken from her, Rana has no intention of dying before she has lived. Born of a magically powerful bloodline, Oni Machawi has never been cowed by others. When an unrefusable proposition is made by a foreign prince, Oni accompanies him to...
Dates:
2022
Transfixed, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024fall_callihan_lia.PDF
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"In 1860s Chicago, two young ladies with supernatural abilities come of age while their guardians perform pseudoscientific experiments on them. While living together in the research facility, the girls' friendship evolves into romance. Years later, their relationship as a queer interracial couple is put to the test as they navigate 19th-century America while simultaneously trying to heal their shared past trauma. Both women are faced with the difficult decision of whether or not they must...
Dates:
2024
Ultramarinus, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023spring_jackens_nolita.pdf
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"A young captain is mutinied for crimes she didn't commit on an island teeming with untamable magic. She soon realizes she's far from alone in this new land and seems to be the only traveler who retained her memory prior to arriving, something that ties her to eccentric Marcel who's been in the same predicament for many years. As our Captain Crostaff navigates the bonds of trust and companionship within a fluid reality she has to learn the value of them both if she ever wants to set sail...
Dates:
2023
When Zombies Appear (Vol. 1 in Meg's Magical Mishaps), 2022
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Identifier: pf_2022fall_hicks_shawna.pdf
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"Dark Magic and Magical Creature Enforcement Task Force Detective Meg Madison is up to her elbows in zombies. The gross decaying beings seem to be popping up across the entire Dallas-Fort Worth Area, and Meg, her ghostly partner Vex, and their probationary knave officer Jack can't seem to figure out what or who is making them. Humans are in danger, magical creatures are in danger, and their jobs even seem to be in danger as the race is on to catch the dark magic-wielding culprit before the...
Dates:
2022