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Buying into the dream that education is the road out of poverty, a teen mom takes a chance on bettering herself, gets on welfare rolls, and talks her way into college. But once she's there, phallocratic narratives permeate every subject, and creative writing professors depend heavily on Freytag's pyramid to analyze life. So Ariel turns to a rich subcultural canon of resistance and failure, populated by writers like Audre Lorde, Tillie Olsen, and Kathy Acker. Wryly riffing on feminist literary tropes, We Were Witches documents the survival of a demonized single mother.

Theadora Kathryn Blackwood's life is just the way she wants it. Thea focuses on what she wants to do, what she wants to study, and the local COVEN hierarchy leaves her alone. It took years for her to accomplish that much freedom, and now she is about to graduate college, the local coven leader has given her what she wants most.

Faye Bright always felt a little bit different. And today she’s found out why. She’s just stumbled across her late mother’s diary which includes not only a spiffing recipe for jam roly-poly, but spells, incantations, runes and recitations...a witch's notebook. And Faye has inherited her mother’s abilities. Just in time, too. The Crow Folk are coming. Led by the charismatic Pumpkinhead, their strange magic threatens Faye and the villagers.

An enchanting new novella set in the magical world of Sunday Times bestseller Threadneedle. Rowan is visiting her aunt – Winne the hedge witch – in the Welsh countryside, to get back to nature and hone her skills, as well as taking a break from her annoying sisters and enjoying some peace...

The multimillion-copy bestselling story of Wicked comes full circle in The Witch of Maracoor, the final installment of Gregory Maguire’s Another Day series Following a confrontation with her reclusive great-grandfather, the onetime Wizard of Oz, Rainary Ko, the granddaughter of Oz’s Wicked...

An enchanting new novella set in the magical world of Sunday Times bestseller Threadneedle and The Times bestseller Shadowstitch “The unopenable box. A mythical object that appears in fairy tales and folklore across all cultures around the world. Sometimes the box can only be opened by the...

It’s the fall of 1969, and Gloria Random’s best friend John has been called up for the draft. To escape it, they decide to run away from their Midwest town and their mundane lives. Renaming themselves Witch and Roy, they head to New York City in search of Witch’s biological father. Landing in the East Village, they are pulled into a community of drug use, mystical rituals, and sexual experimentation as they try to hide deeper and deeper from the realities they left behind. James Leo Herlihy’s third novel captures the mood and grooves of late-60s New York at the height of the anti-war movement and the counterculture revolution.

One chance. That's all I’ll have. Along with a choice I can't possibly make. In just a few weeks, I’ve gone from living in a psychiatric hospital, to learning I have magic, to joining a secret society of witches. I've also had to come to terms with both what I am and where I came from. Half demon, half witch, born in the demon real - a magical mutation created for sacrificial purposes. It's so nice knowing that the woman who raised me only did so because she was planning to spill my blood on her sacrificial altar. So, yeah. No wonder I went crazy.

On the night of her eighteenth birthday, Alice should be celebrating. She can finally vote, she’s almost finished high school in Tecumseh, Oklahoma, and her family and twin brother, Alistair, have thrown a party to remember. But beneath her smile, Alice hides a growing fear—she might be pregnant. As a young witch, she knows there are ways to handle such things. She vows to stay away from Johnny Ackersly, her charming but reckless boyfriend, and plans to brew a tea that will bring her body back into balance. Then Johnny gives her a gift—a necklace strung with ruby-red beads.

Is there ever a good time to face an old enemy? Everyone knows that witches have a flair for melodrama, and Jax has enough to deal with, without babysitting her old arch-rival, Isadora Crowe. But when the StarDust Coven bodies start showing up, Jax begins to believe that the High Priestess’s jeopardy is real. To add to the detective wizard’s unease, the band of Hammerskins are becoming more ruthless by the day. It’s just a matter of time before they seize power and raze the Realm.

Magic is one thing. Three balls of fluff and fur are a completely different story. The prestigious and highly selective Jourdemayne Academy of Witchcraft only accepts 25 new students every year. But Harper Bishop has been virtually guaranteed her acceptance to the magic academy since the day she was born. But attending the academy was never her dream. Until three tiny kittens start speaking to her telepathically. Which isn't normal, even for witches.

In Origins, dive into Alexandra Heale's witchy whirlwind of a childhood, marked by her mom's firm rule to keep her magic under wraps. Growing up, Alexandra faced the daunting task of concealing her burgeoning powers, leading to a series of enchantingly awkward moments and magical missteps. Amidst learning to tame her unpredictable abilities, she navigated the perils of keeping her true self hidden, all while dealing with the everyday challenges of adolescence. In Origins, dive into Alexandra Heale's witchy whirlwind of a childhood, marked by her mom's firm rule to keep her magic under wraps.

Lythe’s homeroom teacher is dead. Her angry ghost says she was murdered. The hidden ward in the teacher’s house is evidence the ghost is telling the truth and witchcraft is involved. When a witch takes the dead teacher’s place and offers to help Lythe develop her magic, the teenager is caught up in a high-stakes battle.

Laylea is a dog. Sure, she can shift to human, but her soul is always a dog. Now the council wants to make her a full-time human just because she broke their stupid rules? She's already drowning in all the secrets she’s keeping for her friends. She’ll be damned if she’s keeping any for the idiots in charge.

As war looms, 11-year-old Mara hopes the knights of the god Belthor's church will protect her. Instead, they arrest her outspoken aunt Lila on trumped-up charges of witchcraft. When adults refuse to get involved, Mara steps up to rescue her aunt. Secrets unravel which cause her to see her mother, her father, and her country in a new way. Mara's curiosity, intelligence, and sense of right and wrong draw her into intrigues which will define her life.

A young woman is rescued from an attempt by her poacher father to drown her in a Florida swamp by a mysterious woman alleged to have magical powers. Fearful at first, the young woman learns to trust the secretive woman, who has chosen to hide out in the depths of a hostile environment. The younger woman returns to civilization to claim the farm her father would have stolen from her and to build a relationship with the man she has loved since they were children.

Her only hope is dark magic.... Ellie James may be a powerful witch, but she knows nothing - literally. Not even the simplest spell. Her potions? So-so. Her tarot readings? Meh. If not for her (former) foster sister, Pru, sneaking her food, Ellie would have to eat her car - which would be bad, since it’s also her house. But when Pru runs away and Ellie’s former foster mom shows up on Ellie’s figurative doorstep, desperate for help, Ellie learns the only thing worse than knowing nothing is dealing with the witch who knows everything....