Recommendations based on The Will of the Empressby Tamora Pierce

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  1. Cold Fire

    by Tamora Pierce
    A young girl with magical powers must navigate a world of political intrigue and danger to save her kingdom.

    As part of their travels, Daja and Frostpine are staying with some friends of Frostpine's from his days of studies as a Goldsmith, the Bancanor family. While they are staying there, Daja realized ... (Wikipedia)

  2. Street Magic

    by Tamora Pierce
    A young girl discovers her magical abilities and navigates the dangerous world of street gangs and magic.

    While Briar and his teacher Rosethorn are helping the locals in Chammur, Briar realizes that all is not as it should be in Chammur's streets. As a former 'street rat' himself, he tends to have an ... (Wikipedia)

  3. Shatterglass

    by Tamora Pierce
    A young glassmaker with a unique gift is hired to investigate a string of murders in a city plagued by corruption and prejudice.

    Trisana (Tris) Chandler meets Kethlun (Keth) Warder, a glass mage with a dangerous power: lightning. During their first meeting, he was unconsciously using his unknown ambient powers and accidentally ... (Wikipedia)

  4. Daughter of the Forest

    by Juliet Marillier
    Sorcha, a young woman, must complete an impossible task to save her brothers from a curse. She faces danger, love, and sacrifice in ancient Ireland.

    Sorcha, the youngest child of Irish Lord Colum of Sevenwaters, loses her mother at childbirth, and is raised almost entirely by her six older brothers. She is more or less ignored by her father. When ... (Wikipedia)

  5. Graceling

    by Kristin Cashore
    Adventure story of a young girl who discovers her extraordinary abilities and the risks she must take to protect her kingdom.

    This book tells the story of Katsa, a young woman with a "Grace", or power, which enhances her survival skills and makes her a highly efficient killer. It takes place in a world where Gracelings, or ... (Wikipedia)

  6. Howl’s Moving Castle

    by Diana Wynne Jones
    A young woman embarks on an adventure to break a curse and reclaim her identity in a magical world.

    18-year-old Sophie Hatter is the eldest of three sisters living in Market Chipping, a town in the magical kingdom of Ingary, where fairytale tropes are accepted ways of life, including that the ... (Wikipedia)

  7. Abhorsen

    by Garth Nix
    A young heroine embarks on a perilous quest to save her kingdom from a powerful enemy.

    The Abhorsen's House is besieged by Dead Hands led by Chlorr of the Mask under the control of Hedge the Necromancer, who in turn serves Orannis the Destroyer. With the help of their familiars Mogget ... (Wikipedia)

  8. Lirael

    by Garth Nix
    An orphan girl discovers her magical powers and embarks on a quest to save her kingdom.

    Lirael, the protagonist of the second and third books, is raised as a Clayr, part of a vast family of precognitive women who dwell in a remote glacier within the Old Kingdom. As she lacks the Clayr's ... (Wikipedia)

  9. Calling on Dragons

    by Patricia C. Wrede
    An adventurous girl's mission to save an enchanted kingdom from the dangers of dark magic.

    This novel is the third in the Enchanted Forest series, told from the witch Morwen's perspective. Morwen, a witch who lives in the Enchanted Forest, is having trouble with people who believe that ... (Wikipedia)

  10. Kushiel's Mercy

    by Jacqueline Carey
    A powerful story of redemption and justice, set in a world of complex magic and politics.

    Sidonie and Imriel confess their love, causing a national uproar. To mitigate the turmoil and quell the uprising, Queen Ysandre decrees that she won't acknowledge the lovers. To appease the Queen, ... (Wikipedia)

  11. Dragondrums

    by Anne McCaffrey
    A young boy's adventures as he strives to become a dragonrider.

    Dragondrums is the coming of age story of Piemur, a small, quick, clever apprentice at Harper Hall. When Piemur's clear treble voice changes, his place among the Harpers is no longer certain. He is ... (Wikipedia)

  12. The Looking Glass Wars

    by Frank Beddor
    A retelling of Alice in Wonderland, where Alice is a warrior princess fighting against the evil Red Queen in a parallel universe.

    The premise of the book is that Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel Alice in Wonderland was fiction, but that the character Alice is real, as, indeed, is the world of Wonderland . Carroll's novel is said to ... (Wikipedia)

  13. Book of Shadows

    by Cate Tiernan
    A young girl's journey to discover her hidden magical powers, while unraveling the secrets of the past.

    Morgan Rowlands is a high school student living in the picturesque town of Widow's Vale. Morgan is an ordinary girl who lives an ordinary life. However, her life becomes unsettled upon meeting Cal ... (Wikipedia)

  14. Kushiel's Avatar

    by Jacqueline Carey
    A gripping fantasy saga of political intrigue, magic, and forbidden love.

    The land of Terre d'Ange is a place of unsurpassed beauty and grace. It's inhabited by the race that rose from the seed of angels, and they live by one simple rule: Love as thou wilt. Phèdre nó ... (Goodreads)

  15. Searching for Dragons

    by Patricia C. Wrede
    Princess Cimorene and her friends embark on a quest to rescue King Mendanbar's stolen sword and find the missing King of the Dragons.

    Mendanbar, the young King of the Enchanted Forest, is puzzled about several burned spots where he found dragon scales, but, more significantly, he finds that the magical network that keeps the forest ... (Wikipedia)

  16. A Spell for Chameleon

    by Piers Anthony
    A young man must find his true love in a magical land where everyone has a unique magical talent.

    The book starts with the main character, Bink in his home town. He must discover his magical talent before he comes of age, or be exiled to Mundania. While on his way to see the Good Magician Humfrey ... (Wikipedia)

  17. Kushiel's Chosen

    by Jacqueline Carey
    A courtesan embarks on a quest to save her homeland from a powerful, mysterious force.

    Mighty Kushiel, of rod and weal,Late of the brazen portals,With blood-tipp'd dart a wound unhealed,Pricks the eyen of chosen mortals The land of Terre d'Ange is a place of unsurpassed beauty and ... (Goodreads)

  18. Ella Enchanted

    by Gail Carson Levine
    Ella is cursed with obedience and must break the spell to regain control of her life and find true love.

    At birth, Ella is inadvertently cursed by an imprudent young fairy named Lucinda, who bestows on her the "gift" of obedience. Anything anyone tells her to do, Ella must obey. Another girl might have ... (Goodreads)

  19. Sabriel

    by Garth Nix
    A young woman embarks on a quest to save her kingdom from an ancient evil, confronting her own mortality.

    The book opens with Sabriel raising a freshly killed rabbit from death. She is a young girl attending Wyverly College, an all-female boarding school in Ancelstierre. An undead creature enters the ... (Wikipedia)

  20. Little Men

    by Louisa May Alcott
    A group of young boys navigating life at a boarding school, learning valuable lessons along the way.

    With two sons of her own, and twelve rescued orphan boys filling the informal school at Plumfield, Jo March – now Jo Bhaer -- couldn't be happier. But despite the warm and affectionate help of the ... (Goodreads)

  21. Catherine, Called Birdy

    by Karen Cushman
    An adolescent girl's story of rebellion, seeking freedom in a restrictive society.

    The following is a description of the novel as it appears on the cover: "[T]he fourteen-year-old daughter of an English country knight keeps a journal in which she records the events of her life, ... (Wikipedia)

  22. The Two Princesses of Bamarre

    by Gail Carson Levine
    A brave princess embarks on a perilous journey to save her beloved sister from an evil curse.

    Princess Addie is fearful and shy. Princess Meryl is bold and brave. They are sisters, and they mean the world to each other. Bamarre is plagued by a fatal disease called the Gray Death, which has ... (Wikipedia)

  23. Luck in the Shadows

    by Lynn Flewelling
    A young thief's adventures in a fantasy world, filled with danger, secrets and hidden magic.

    When young Alec of Kerry is taken prisoner for a crime he didn’t commit, he is certain that his life is at an end. But one thing he never expected was his cellmate. Spy, rogue, thief, and noble, ... (Goodreads)

  24. A Great and Terrible Beauty

    by Libba Bray
    A Victorian-era boarding school girl discovers a hidden world of magic and danger. She must navigate the treacherous waters of power and desire.

    Gemma Doyle, the series' protagonist, is forced to leave India after the death of her mother to attend a private boarding school in London. On her sixteenth birthday, Gemma and her mother stroll ... (Wikipedia)

  25. The Farthest Shore

    by Ursula K. Le Guin
    A quest to save a magical kingdom from a mysterious force of darkness.

    A strange, inexplicable malaise is spreading throughout Earthsea. Magic is losing its power; songs are being forgotten; people and animals are sickening or going mad. Accompanied by Arren, the young ... (Wikipedia)

  26. Anne's House of Dreams

    by L.M. Montgomery
    A young couple's journey to build a life together, overcoming obstacles and finding joy.

    The book begins with Anne and Gilbert's wedding, which takes place in the Green Gables orchard. After the wedding, they move to their first home together, which Anne calls their "house of dreams". ... (Wikipedia)

  27. Angel Fire

    by L.A. Weatherly
    A girl with supernatural powers is hunted by evil angels, while falling in love with a half-angel.

    Only half-angel Willow, 16, has the power to defeat the malevolent Church of Angels, out to destroy her. When her love Alex, 17, leads other trained Angel Killers, they treat her with mistrust and ... (Goodreads)

  28. The Hunt

    by Andrew Fukuda
    Gene is a human in a world of vampires, and he must hide his identity to survive a deadly hunt.

    Don’t sweat. Don’t laugh. Don’t draw attention to yourself. And most of all, whatever you do, do not fall in love with one of them. Gene is different from everyone else around him. He can’t run with ... (Goodreads)

  29. Lady Smoke

    by Laura Sebastian
    The second book in the Ash Princess series, Lady Smoke follows Theo as she navigates political intrigue and betrayal in her quest to reclaim her throne.

    The second installment in the, New York Times, bestselling series "made for fans of Victoria Aveyard and Sabaa Tahir" (,Bustle,),, Lady Smoke, is an epic new fantasy about a throne cruelly stolen and ... (Barnes & Noble)

  30. Code Name Cassandra

    by Jenny Carroll
    Jess Mastriani uses her psychic powers to help the FBI find a missing girl, but her abilities put her in danger.

    Jessica, frappée par la foudre et capable de retrouver les enfants disparus, a prétendu devant la presse qu?elle avait perdu son « don » afin de faire lâcher prise au FBI, et s?est engagée pour six ... (Barnes & Noble)