The unmagical life of Briar Jones
(2026)

Fiction

Book

Call Numbers:
NEW FICTION/CROUCHER,L

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Availability

Locations Call Number Status
New & Popular Fiction NEW FICTION/CROUCHER,L Due: 11/21/2026

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2026
EDITION
First U.S. edition
DESCRIPTION

447 pages ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780063460218, 0063460211 :, 0063460211, 9780063460218
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

"Please note, this book is not suitable for young readers. For a list of content warnings, please turn to page 447."

"For as long as they can remember, Briar Jones dreamed of attending the Temple School of Thaumaturgy. Behind its looming ornate gates, the elite boarding school--the place that has produced the most CEOs and Prime Ministers in British history--is whispered to be magical. Briar's best friend, Sebastian Wolfe, never cared about Temple. He just wanted them to stay together forever. When, at age eleven, Seb gets an acceptance letter and Briar doesn't, their childhood friendship is shattered. Seb vanishes onto Temple's grounds and Briar resigns themself to a mundane life. But they can't completely forget their yearning for Temple, for the extraordinary, to be one of the chosen in the ivory tower. Seven years later, Briar secures a temp job sorting through the junk in Temple's attics. And when Briar takes it, they discover that quiet, sensitive Seb, the boy they once loved more than anything else in the world, has become Bastian: a beautiful, arrogant villain feared by the entire school. And worse, the secrets Temple is hiding might not be so enchanting after all."--Dust jacket flap

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