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"Step into The City of Brass, the spellbinding debut from S. A. Chakraborty--an imaginative alchemy of The Golem and the Jinni, The Grace of Kings, and Uprooted, in which the future of a magical Middle Eastern kingdom rests in the hands of a clever and defiant young con artist with miraculous healing gifts. Nahri has never believed in magic. Certainly, she has power; on the streets of eighteenth-century Cairo, she's a con woman of unsurpassed talent....
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Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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Told from the perspective of characters both beloved and hated, this new compilation of stories set in Daevabad enrich a world already teeming with magic and wonder, inviting readers to explore this kingdom hidden from human eyes.
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Sandsea trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Loulie al-Nazari is the Midnight Merchant: a criminal who, with the help of her jinn bodyguard, hunts and sells illegal magic. When she saves the life of a cowardly prince, she draws the attention of his powerful father, the sultan, who blackmails her into finding an ancient lamp that has the power to revive the barren land--at the cost of sacrificing all jinn. With no choice but to obey or be executed, Loulie journeys with the sultan's oldest son...
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Daevabad trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Harper Voyager
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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"The sequel to S. A. Chakraborty's brilliantly imagined fantasy The City of Brass, which #1 New York Times bestelling author Sabaa Tahir called "the best adult fantasy I've read since The Name of the Wind", in which a young con artist drawn into the kingdom of the djinn must navigate her way through their dangerous world of magic, court politics, and ever-shifting alliances"--
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Barnes & Noble
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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The Arabian Nights is your magic carpet ride to exotic lands full of wonders and marvels. First collected nearly a thousand years ago, these folktales are presented as stories that the beautiful Scheherazade tells her husband, King Shahryar, over a thousand-and-one consecutive nights. Among them are some of the best-known legends of eastern storytelling, including The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor," "The Story of Aladdin; or, The Wonderful Lamp,"...
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Daevabad trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Daevabad has fallen. After a brutal conquest stripped the city of its magic, Nahid leader Banu Manizheh and her resurrected commander, Dara, must try to repair their fraying alliance and stabilize a fractious, warring people. Nahri and Ali, now safe in Cairo, face difficult choices of their own. As peace grows more elusive and old players return, Nahri, Ali, and Dara come to understand that in order to remake the world, they may need to fight those...
9) Aladdin
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Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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A street rat frees a genie from a lamp, granting all of his wishes and transforming himself into a charming prince to marry a beautiful princess. But soon, an evil sorcerer becomes fixated on securing the lamp for his own sinister purposes.
10) Dodger and me
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Miserable because his only friend moved away and he has once again caused his baseball team to lose a game, fifth-grader Willy Ryan's life suddenly becomes a lot more interesting when he finds Dodger, a furry, blue chimpanzee that only he can see, and he has to decide what he really wishes for in life.
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RH Graphic, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Aster is bored at her new home in the mountains in the middle of nowhere--until she meets an odd old shepherdess and her woolly dogs, a sneaky trickster, and an angry fox.
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Harper
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English
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“An intoxicating fusion of fantasy and historical fiction. . . . Wecker’s storytelling skills dazzle." —Entertainment Weekly
A marvelous and absorbing debut novel about a chance meeting between two supernatural creatures in turn-of-the-century immigrant New York.
Chava is a golem, a creature made of clay by a disgraced rabbi knowledgeable in the ways of dark Kabbalistic magic.
...13) Ptolemy's gate
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Series
Bartimaeus trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Hyperion Books For Children
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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Bartimaeus, Nathanial, and Kitty face treacherous magicians and an enemy from "The Other Place" that threatens London and the world.
14) Aladdin
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Disney
Language
English
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Aladdin is an orphan living on the streets of the city of Agrabah, continually outwitting and avoiding local law enforcement. One day he meets a young girl--also hiding from the guards--who is actually Princess Jasmine, seeking to escape from a disagreement with her father the Sultan about her marriage. He gallantly conceals her, and promptly falls in love. Soon, the Grand Vizier Jafar divines that Aladdin represents the key to his plans, and tricks...
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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While attending a conference in Istanbul, Dr. Alithea Binnie happens to encounter a djinn who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom. This presents two problems: first, she doubts that he's real, and second, because she's a scholar of story and mythology, she knows all the cautionary tales of wishes gone wrong. The djinn pleads his case by telling her fantastical stories of his past. Eventually, she's beguiled and makes a wish that surprises...
Author
Series
Princess power volume 6
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
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At the bazaar, Princess Fatima buys a beautiful bottle that supposedly holds a real genie. But it turns out that Jasper the genie is powerless -- and no bigger than a caterpillar! In fact, his only real talent seems to be getting into mischief. Will Jasper ever be able to regain his gigantic size and magical touch?
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Whatever after volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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In their ninth journey through the magic mirror Abby and Jonah find themselves in the tale of Aladdin, and after giving the hero of the story a bloody nose in a game of dodge ball, they take his place with the evil magician looking for the magic lamp--and things continue to go down hill from there.
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Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Amina al-Sirafi should be content. After a storied and scandalous career as one of the Indian Ocean's most notorious pirates, she's survived backstabbing rogues, vengeful merchant princes, several husbands, and one actual demon to retire peacefully with her family to a life of piety, motherhood, and absolutely nothing that hints of the supernatural. But when she's tracked down by the obscenely wealthy mother of a former crewman, she's offered a job...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Bartimaeus, a wise-cracking djinni, finds himself in the tenth century and at the court of King Solomon with an unpleasant master and a sinister servant, and gets into trouble with King Solomon's magic ring.
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