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From chudails and peris to jinn and goddesses, this lush collection of South Asian folklore, legends, and epics reimagines stories of old for a modern audience.

This fantasy and science fictionteen anthology edited by Samira Ahmed and Sona Charaipotra contains a wide range of stories from fourteen bestselling, award-winning, and emerging writers from the South Asian diaspora that will surprise, delight, and move you. So read on, for after all, magic has no borders.

A pair of star-crossed lovers search for a way back to one another against all odds . . .

A girl fights for her life against a malignant, generations-old evil . . .

A peri seeks to reclaim her lost powers . . .

A warrior rebels against her foretold destiny . . .

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A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year for Teens 2023!

''Samira has created a chilling, powerful, all-too-real near future that''s a must-read for everyone''s TBR''Karen M. McManus, author of One Of Us Is Lying

''A must-read . . . A heart-rending and all-too credible tale of sacrifice, the ugly face of authority and the courage of youth'' Sunday Times'' Children''s Book of the Month

''A tremendous novel'' the Guardian

Rebellions are built on hope.

Set in a horrifying ''fifteen minutes in the future'' United States, seventeen-year-old Layla Amin is forced into an internment camp for Muslim-Americans along with her parents.

With the help of newly-made friends also trapped within the camp, her boyfriend on the outside, and an unexpected alliance, Layla begins a journey to fight for freedom, leading a revolution against the internment camp''s Director and his guards.

Heart-racing and emotional, Internment questions the imaginary boundaries that separate us and challenges readers to fight the complicit silence that exists in our society today.

''Chillingly plausible'' Financial Times''If you enjoyed The Hate U Give, this should be at the top of your TBR pile'' -- Culturefly

''Powerful, timely and relentlessly compelling. HOLLOW FIRES burns brightly with Samira Ahmed''s trademark blend of thought-provoking social relevance, heartfelt coming-of-age and whip-smart plotting'' Karen McManus, author of ONE OF US IS LYINGSafiya Mirza dreams of becoming a journalist. One thing she''s learned as editor of her school newspaper is that a journalist''s job is to find the facts and not let personal bias affect the story: but that changes the day she discovers Jawad.

Jawad Ali was just fourteen when a teacher saw him wearing a cosplay jetpack and mistook it for a bomb. A mistake that got Jawad arrested, labelled a terrorist - ''Bomb Boy'' - and eventually killed. But who was the young boy behind the headlines?

With Jawad''s haunting voice guiding her throughout her investigation, Safiya seeks to tell the whole truth about the murdered boy and those who killed him.A powerful story of our times, Hollow Fires exposes the evil that hides in plain sight and the silent complicity of privileged bystanders who use alternative facts to bend the truth to their liking.

''Blazes with searing honesty and unflinching emotional truth'' Becky Albertalli, award-winning author of SIMON VS. THE HOMO SAPIENS AGENDAFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Internment comes a timely and gripping social-suspense novel about book banning, activism, and standing up for what you believe in.''Reading is dangerous because it shows us the truth. Words give us power; that''s why some adults want to silence us''Noor Khan is the new girl at school. Moving to the tiny town of Bayberry with her mother and sister after their family life is upended, she''s determined to keep her head down and make it through her final year, unnoticed.While hiding out in her school library, Noor notices that hundreds of books are being removed from the shelves and boxed up: a new school policy banning books that parents object to. Worse, almost all the books being targeted are by queer and BIPOC authors. Outraged, Noor and her new friends decide to read some of the banned books out loud to their classmates, to protest this new policy at school. But in Bayberry, trouble is never far behind. Can Noor effect change by speaking up, while navigating the politics of small-town life? And can she trust the son of the school board president, who she finds herself falling for?

''Rings with truth and hope'' Joanna Ho, bestselling author of THE SILENCE THAT BINDS US

''Hilarious and heart-wrenching, romantic and searching... a poetic, deeply profound exploration of the multiverses we inhabit'' - Libba Bray, New York Times bestselling author of the DIVINERS series''Addictive, inventive, and sometimes chilling... One of the most original YAs I''ve read in years'' - Melissa Albert, New York Times bestselling author of the HAZEL WOOD seriesAria Patel believes in facts. She likes stability, certainty, predictability. It''s why she''s so into science. And it''s why she dumped her boyfriend Rohan, before they went to different colleges - the odds were that something would go wrong eventually. Unlike love, science is something you can count on.But there''s no scientific explanation when Aria suddenly finds herself falling through parallel universes. And there''s no formula to explain how she keeps meeting Rohan in every new universe she falls into.After being ripped away from her world seconds before a tragedy occurs, Aria is left with two mindbending, physics-defying conudrums - can she navigate the multiverse and get home to save her family? And will she break one of her own rules to survive the multiverse, and fall in love?New York Times bestselling author Samira Ahmed is back with a whirlwind, star-crossing second-chance romance that explores the very nature of self, and what it means to love someone across the universe.

It is August in Paris and budding art historian Khayyam should be having the time of her life - but even in the City of Lights she can''t stop worrying about the mess she left back home in Chicago. Only when she meets a cute young Parisian - who happens to be a distant relative of the novelist Alexandre Dumas - do things start to get interesting, as she starts to unveil the story of a 19th century Muslim woman whose path may have intersected with Dumas, Eugène Delacroix and Lord Byron.Two hundred years earlier in the Ottoman empire, Leila is the most favoured woman in the Pasha''s harem. Her position is meant to be coveted; but she is struggling to survive as she fights to keep her true love hidden from her jealous captor.Echoing across centuries, as Khayyam uncovers the scintillating truth of Leila''s long-forgotten life, her own destiny is transformed forever.