Elisa A. Bonnin

A teen girl must bring together two broken worlds in order to save her nation in this lush, Filipino-inspired young adult fantasy novel from debut author Elisa A. Bonnin. “Be dauntless, for the hopes of the People rest in you.” Seri's world is defined by very clear rules: The beasts prowl the forest paths and hunt the People. The valiant explore the unknown world, kill the beasts, and gain strength from the armor they make from them. As an assistant to Eshai Unbroken, a young valor commander with a near-mythical reputation, Seri has seen first-hand the struggle to keep the beasts at bay and ensure the safety of the spreading trees where the People make their homes. That was how it always had been, and how it always would be. Until the day Seri encounters Tsana. Tsana is, impossibly, a stranger from the unknown world who can communicate with the beasts - a fact that makes Seri begin to doubt everything she's ever been taught. As Seri and Tsana grow closer, their worlds begin to collide, with deadly consequences. Somehow, with the world on the brink of war, Seri will have to find a way to make peace.

Dauntless

Twin thieves attempt to pull off a daring heist in this sophomore fantasy novel from Dauntless author Elisa A. Bonnin. The city of Leithon is under Imperial occupation and Arian Athensor has made it her playground. In stealing magical artifacts for the Resistance, bounding over rooftops to evade Imperial soldiers, and establishing herself as the darling thief of the underground, Arian lives a life wrapped in danger and trained towards survival. She’ll steal anything for the right price, and if she runs fast enough, she can almost escape the fact that her mother is dead, her father is missing, and her brother, Liam, is tamping down a wealth of power in a city that has outlawed magic. But then the mysterious Cavar comes to town with a job for the twins: to steal an artifact capable of ripping the souls from the living--the same artifact that used to hang around the neck of Arian’s mother. Suddenly, her past is no longer buried under adrenaline but intimately tied to the mission at hand, and Arian must face her guilt and pain head-on in order to pull off the heist. As Arian and Cavar infiltrate the strongest fortress in Leithon and Liam joins the Resistance as their resident mage, the twins find themselves embroiled in court politics and family secrets, and the mission becomes more than just another artifact theft. The target is now the Imperial rule, and Arian will go to any length necessary to steal her city back.

Stolen City

From author Elisa A. Bonnin comes Lovely Dark and Deep, a YA dark academia novel exploring magic, loneliness, and the power of found family. Hidden off the coast of Washington, veiled in mist, there is an island that does not appear on any map. And on that island is Ellery West. Ellery West has always been home for Faith. After an international move and a childhood spent adjusting to a new culture and a new language, the acclaimed school for magic feels like the only place she can be herself. That is, until Faith and another student walk into the forest, and only Faith walks out. Marked with the red stripe across her uniform that designates all students deemed too dangerous to attend regular classes, Faith becomes a social pariah, an exile of Ellery West. But all she has to do is keep her head down for one more year to graduate, and she gets to keep her magic. Because when students fail out of Ellery West, they have their magic taken away. Forever. And Faith can't let that happen. Except terrifying things are still happening to students, and the dark magic that was unleashed in the forest still seems to be at work. To stop it, Faith and the other Red Stripes will have to work together, risking expulsion from the magical world altogether.

Lovely Dark and Deep

S. Qiouyi Lu

Stuart Webb

Ville Meriläinen

Jennifer R. Povey

Valjeanne Jeffers

Erin Sneath

Rhiannon Held

Laura Duerr

Jordan Davies

Lucinda Gunnin

John A. McColley

Sean Frost

Adam Petrash

Timothy Nakayama

Darin M. Bush

Ali-Abbas Ali

Garrett Croker

J. C. Stearns

Fitting In: Historical Accounts of Paranormal Subcultures (Mad Scientist Journal Presents) (Volume 3)

Blake Jessop

Patrick Hurley

Tais Teng

A. J. Fitzwater

Priya Sridhar

Lin Darrow

D. A. Xiaolin Spires

L. Chan

G. Scott Huggins

Christine Lucas

Matt Moran

Nathan Crowder

Alisha A. Knaff

Aimee Kuzenski

Shirley Vogel

Frances Sharp

Mathew Murakami

Battling in All Her Finery: Historical Accounts of Otherworldly Women Leaders (Mad Scientist Journal Presents) (Volume 5)

Elisa A. Bonnin

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