April 2026 list by Angie R. |
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The Awakening of Roku
by Randy Ribay
Set in the world of Avatar, the Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra, comes the stunning conclusion to the story of Avatar Roku.
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Be Right Back
by Bill Wood
A year after the mystery that made them local legends, the Sanera gang reunites for the town’s Halloween festival—only for the celebration to turn deadly. When Cam spots the Carrington Ghoul and a new killer begins staging murders based on local legends they once debunked, the friends are forced back together. With the town exploiting its dark past and a murderer rewriting their history in blood, they must stop the next killing before one of them becomes part of the legend.
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Brighter Than Nine
by June CL Tan
Rui rises in the Exorcist Guild, Zizi fights to escape the underworld with dangerous knowledge, and Yiran uncovers a family secret that could push him toward betrayal. As new threats collide with old consequences, all three must reshape their fates to save the realms.
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Gifts
by Ursula K. Le Guin
In this beautifully crafted novel, the first of the Annals of the Western Shore trilogy, Ursula K. Le Guin writes of the proud cruelty of power, of how hard it is to grow up, and of how much harder still it is to find, in the world's darkness, gifts of light.
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Heart of Mischief: Soul of Shadow: Book Two
by Emma Noyes
After vowing to kill Elias for betraying her, Charlie Hudson forms a fragile alliance with him to uncover a string of murders, but as the dangers grow and her resolve falters, she fears she may be making the mistake of falling for him all over again.
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Her Hidden Fire
by Cliodhna O'Sullivan
In the first book of a heart-pounding, Irish-inspired debut romantasy series set in a world of dragons and magic, one girl must make an impossible decision: watch the boy she loves get exiled for lack of magic, or pass her formidable powers off as his own.
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In Time with You
by Kristin Dwyer
After her boyfriend Carter dies saving her from drowning, Nieve goes to stay with her grandmother, whose strange stories of magic suddenly come true when Nieve wakes up a year in the past with a chance to change fate, but as she tries to keep Carter safe, she begins to fall for the one person she never shouldhis best friend Max.
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Midnight on the Celestial
by Julia Alexandra
After failing her trial to keep her magic, eighteen-year-old spirit-summoner Roe boards the luxurious Celestial to earn a retrial, navigating treacherous colleagues, dark supernatural dangers, and a sinister conspiracy while fighting to uncover the ships secrets and reclaim her power.
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The Restitching of Camille Dulaine
by Lindsay A. Franklin
A splintered world, a heart gone cold. Hope reborn in threads of gold. After accidentally bridging the storyworlds together, Emlyn DuLaine faces an impossible task: sever the connections without destroying the stories themselves. If she fails, the characters will be trapped in twisted versions of their tales, forced to relive their worst moments forever.
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She Drinks the Light
by Yasmin Angoe
A teen girl on the secluded Golden Isle must uncover her family’s hidden, supernatural history to save her missing best friend. Addae, descended from escaped enslaved people known as the Kinfolk, discovers that ancient West African myths—and real dangers like the blood‑drinking Adze—are tied to her community’s secrets. As she searches the mainland for answers, she uncovers shocking truths about her grandmother, her lineage, and herself, forcing her to choose how far she’ll go to protect her friend and her home.
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Six Must Die
by Victoria Wlosok
A year after an escape room fire killed one of their friends, Steffi—who lost her memories of that night—receives a mysterious invitation to a new escape room. Reuniting with her fractured friend group, she hopes to finally learn the truth about what happened. But as the game turns deadly and players start dying, Steffi must uncover everyone’s secrets—and her own—before the mastermind ensures none of them make it out alive.
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A Time Traveler's History of Tomorrow
by Kendall Kulper
A time-bending, supernatural love story where a prickly young woman and a carefree stranger travel back in time to the Worlds Fair and must save the universe after accidentally destroying it in the first place.
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When I Was Death
by Alexis Henderson
Haunted by her sister's mysterious death, Roslyn joins a mysterious caravan of girls with whom her sister spent her last summer and who she discovers serve Death by reaping souls, forcing Roslyn to choose between finding closure or making a deadly bargain herself.
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