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About Tracy Deonn
Tracy Deonn is a writer and second-generation fangirl. She grew up in central North Carolina, where she devoured fantasy books and Southern food in equal measure. After earning her master's degree in communication and performance studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Tracy worked in live theater, video game production, and K–12 education. When she’s not writing, Tracy speaks on panels at science fiction and fantasy conventions, reads fanfic, arranges puppy playdates, and keeps an eye out for ginger-flavored everything. She can be found on Twitter at @TracyDeonn and at TracyDeonn.com.
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Winner of the Coretta Scott King - John Steptoe for New Talent Author Award
Filled with mystery and an intriguingly rich magic system, Tracy Deonn’s YA contemporary fantasy reinvents the King Arthur legend and “braids together Southern folk traditions and Black Girl Magic into a searing modern tale of grief, power, and self-discovery” (Dhonielle Clayton, New York Times bestselling author of The Belles).
After her mother dies in an accident, sixteen-year-old Bree Matthews wants nothing to do with her family memories or childhood home. A residential program for bright high schoolers at UNC–Chapel Hill seems like the perfect escape—until Bree witnesses a magical attack her very first night on campus.
A flying demon feeding on human energies.
A secret society of so called “Legendborn” students that hunt the creatures down.
And a mysterious teenage mage who calls himself a “Merlin” and who attempts—and fails—to wipe Bree’s memory of everything she saw.
The mage’s failure unlocks Bree’s own unique magic and a buried memory with a hidden connection: the night her mother died, another Merlin was at the hospital. Now that Bree knows there’s more to her mother’s death than what’s on the police report, she’ll do whatever it takes to find out the truth, even if that means infiltrating the Legendborn as one of their initiates.
She recruits Nick, a self-exiled Legendborn with his own grudge against the group, and their reluctant partnership pulls them deeper into the society’s secrets—and closer to each other. But when the Legendborn reveal themselves as the descendants of King Arthur’s knights and explain that a magical war is coming, Bree has to decide how far she’ll go for the truth and whether she should use her magic to take the society down—or join the fight.
This paperback edition of Legendborn contains a teaser to the thrilling sequel, Bloodmarked, as well as an exclusive short story from Selwyn Kane's perspective!
The shadows have risen, and the line is law.
All Bree wanted was to uncover the truth behind her mother’s death. So she infiltrated the Legendborn Order, a secret society descended from King Arthur’s knights—only to discover her own ancestral power. Now, Bree has become someone new:
A Medium. A Bloodcrafter. A Scion.
But the ancient war between demons and the Order is rising to a deadly peak. And Nick, the Legendborn boy Bree fell in love with, has been kidnapped.
Bree wants to fight, but the Regents who rule the Order won’t let her. To them, she is an unknown girl with unheard-of power, and as the living anchor for the spell that preserves the Legendborn cycle, she must be protected.
When the Regents reveal they will do whatever it takes to hide the war, Bree and her friends must go on the run to rescue Nick themselves. But enemies are everywhere, Bree’s powers are unpredictable and dangerous, and she can’t escape her growing attraction to Selwyn, the mage sworn to protect Nick until death.
If Bree has any hope of saving herself and the people she loves, she must learn to control her powers from the ancestors who wielded them first—without losing herself in the process.
Um dos livros mais aguardados do ano, Lendários é uma fantasia apaixonante que une magia, mistério e sociedades secretas, trazendo um novo olhar sobre as lendas do rei Arthur
Partir parecia a fuga perfeita para Bree Matthews. Na verdade, a única fuga possível. Após perder a mãe, tudo que a menina de dezesseis anos quer é se manter longe das lembranças e das palavras carregadas de ressentimento na última discussão que tiveram. Por isso, Bree decide entrar em um programa da Universidade da Carolina do Norte para estudantes de excelência acadêmica. Um novo começo, distante da pessoa que ela era antes de tudo desmoronar.
Mas então, em seu primeiro dia no novo lar, Bree vê um demônio, e essa descoberta aterrorizante a conduzirá até os Lendários, membros de uma ordem secreta formada por descendentes dos cavaleiros da Távola Redonda do rei Arthur, jovens responsáveis por caçar e destruir essas criaturas demoníacas e proteger a humanidade.
Aos poucos, entre memórias enevoadas, ela percebe que não é a primeira vez que se depara com os Lendários, e que esse reencontro pode não ser mera coincidência. Com a ajuda de Nick, um ex-membro que quer distância da Ordem, Bree se infiltra nesse mundo de magia, privilégios e segredos para descobrir o que realmente aconteceu em seu passado. Ela só não contava que precisaria lidar com a desconfiança de um feiticeiro misterioso e com uma verdade avassaladora: os Lendários não são os únicos com o dom da magia. Dentro de Bree há uma força ancestral que ela ainda não consegue entender, mas que pode ser decisiva quando Camlann, a guerra final entre magos e demônios, chegar. Resta a Bree decidir se usará essa força para se unir à luta da Ordem ou para destruí-la de vez.
Lendários é a estreia arrebatadora e premiada de Tracy Deonn, o primeiro volume de uma fantasia eletrizante e sensível sobre a jornada de uma jovem para entender a origem de suas dores e de seus poderes. Com uma narrativa poderosa e personagens marcantes, o livro figurou por semanas na lista de best-sellers do The New York Times, foi indicado ao Hugo Awards, um dos prêmios mais importantes de fantasia, e recebeu, entre outros, o Coretta Scott King-John Steptoe Award para Novos Talentos, concedido a livros jovens e adultos escritos por pessoas negras.
From Amy Reed, Ellen Hopkins, Amber Smith, Nina LaCour, Sandhya Menon, and more of your favorite YA authors comes an “outstanding anthology” (School Library Connection) of essays that explore the diverse experiences of injustice, empowerment, and growing up female in America.
This collection of twenty-one essays from major YA authors—including award-winning and bestselling writers—touches on a powerful range of topics related to growing up female in today’s America, and the intersection with race, religion, and ethnicity. Sure to inspire hope and solidarity to anyone who reads it, Our Stories, Our Voices belongs on every young woman’s shelf.
This anthology features essays from Martha Brockenbrough, Jaye Robin Brown, Sona Charaipotra, Brandy Colbert, Somaiya Daud, Christine Day, Alexandra Duncan, Ilene Wong (I.W.) Gregorio, Maurene Goo. Ellen Hopkins, Stephanie Kuehnert, Nina LaCour, Anna-Marie LcLemore, Sandhya Menon, Hannah Moskowitz, Julie Murphy, Aisha Saeed, Jenny Torres Sanchez, Amber Smith, and Tracy Walker.
Tras la misteriosa muerte de su madre, Bree Matthews decide alejarse todo lo posible de sus recuerdos y se matricula en un programa para adolescentes con talento en la Universidad de Chapel Hill. Por fin, parece que la vida le sonríe… Hasta que, en su primer día, es testigo de un ataque mágico. De pronto, Bree se sumerge en un mundo de demonios que se alimentan de energía humana. Descubrirá a una sociedad secreta de estudiantes descendientes del rey Arturo que dan caza a estos seres y un mago manipulará su memoria para hacerla olvidar. Pero cuando los recuerdos de Bree reaparecen, la joven no se detendrá hasta averiguar la verdad sobre la muerte de su madre y los secretos de la enigmática orden.
Finalista de los premios Hugo y Locus.
Ganadora de los premios Ignyte y Coretta Scott King.