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Author
Series
Dreadful tale of Prosper Redding volume 1
Publisher
Disney Book Group
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Description
A modern New England boy must rid himself of the ancient demon inhabiting his body and break his family's curse.
Author
Series
Publisher
Books in Motion
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Strange, twisted carvings and hideous gargoyles adorn the palazzo of the great Scarletti family. But a more fearful secret lurks within its storm-tossed turrets. For every bride who enters its forbidding walls is doomed to leave in a casket.
Nicoletta knows all too well the curse that plagues the house of Scarletti. She has always believed her miraculous healing gifts would set her apart and that no man would ever command her. Then she gazes into...
5) Nightbird
Author
Language
English
Description
Twig, aged twelve, is practically ignored by classmates and other residents of Sidwell, Massachusetts, but gets along fine with just her mother and brother, whose presence must be kept secret, until descendants of the witch who cursed her family move in next door and want to be her friends.
Author
Series
Emily Windsnap volume 3
Language
English
Description
When she incurs Neptune's wrath by finding a diamond ring buried under rocks in the ocean, Emily is put under a curse that will force her to choose to be either a mermaid or a human and split up her parents forever.
Author
Series
Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 18
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
350 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's 1922, and The Great War is over. With the world at peace, Amelia and her family return to the Valley of the Kings to explore its storied sands. But they are quickly troubled by treacherous secrets and murder. A woman presents them with a priceless but dangerous artifact--a golden king said to bring death to all who possess it. The woman's husband has already fallen, and now she needs help to return the relics to its tomb.
Author
Series
Emblem Island volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
After changing the fate he has known since birth, twelve-year-old Tor Luna, accompanied by his friends Engle and Melda, must visit the notorious Night Witch to break the curse he now faces.
10) The darkening
Author
Series
Darkening volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Prince Dalca was born for one purpose: to protect his home from the Storm, a deadly force that surrounds his city and curses everyone it touches. Vesper Vale is the daughter of failed revolutionaries. Since the Queen sentenced her mother to death by the Storm, she and her father have been on the run. So when the queen's soldiers, led by Prince Dalca, catch up to Vesper's father, she will do whatever it takes to save him from sharing her mother's cruel...
Author
Series
Nevermoor volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A cursed child destined to die on her eleventh birthday is rescued and whisked away to a secret realm called Nevermoor and given the chance to compete for a place in a prestigious organization called the Wundrous Society"--
Author
Series
Sands of Arawiya volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a world inspired by ancient Arabia, seventeen-year-old huntress Zafira must disguise herself as a man to seek a lost artifact that could return magic to her cursed world.
Zafira is the Hunter, disguising herself as a man when she braves the cursed forest of the Arz to feed her people. Nasir is the Prince of Death, assassinating those foolish enough to defy his autocratic father, the king. Both are legends in the kingdom of Arawiya-- but neither...
Author
Series
Kingdom of Wrenly volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's been raining non-stop for six whole days. Someone has cursed the Kingdom of Wrenly. Can Lucas and Clara figure out who's behind the evil spell and stop the villain before it's too late?"--
14) Broken wish
Author
Series
Mirror (Disney Hyperion) volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Elva must learn to wield her magical powers in a town that fears all witches while righting her family's past wrongs before it's too late"--
15) Tiger's curse
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Oregon teenager Kelsey forms a bond with a circus tiger who's actually one of two brothers, Indian princes Ren and Kishan, who were cursed to live as tigers for eternity. She travels with him to India where the tiger's curse may be broken once and for all.
Author
Language
English
Description
"When a girl who's never longed for adventure is hit with a curse that begins to transform her into a demon, she embarks on a quest to reverse the curse and return to her normal life, but along the way is forced to confront her true power within"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Anna Korlov series volume 1
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
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Description
For three years, seventeen-year-old Cas Lowood has carried on his father's work of dispatching the murderous dead, traveling with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat, but everything changes when he meets Anna, a girl unlike any ghost he has faced before.
18) The talent thief
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventh grader Tiffany Tudwell tries not to attract attention, but when she gains the ability to steal others' talents, Tiffany suddenly finds herself in the spotlight as she uses her powers to help save her dad's failing planetarium.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Formats
Description
When Clara vanishes after the puppeteer Grisini and two orphaned assistants were at her twelfth birthday party, suspicion of kidnapping chases the trio away from London and soon the two orphans are caught in a trap set by Grisini's ancient rival, a witch with a deadly inheritance to shed before it is too late.
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Aiden has been living like a ghost since his mother tried to stop a family curse by causing him to forget his psychic experiences but when Jarrod, a childhood friend, returns, so do the memories and Aiden is compelled to seek the truth and release them all from the story that has trapped them.
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