Ordinary or Extraordinary?

Characters that discover their own hidden identities... wizards, superheros, royalty, and more.
Updated September 19, 2022
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Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone /
Rowling, J. K.
Paper Book
Harry Potter spent ten long years living with Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, an aunt and uncle whose outrageous favoritism of their perfectly awful son Dudley leads to some of the most inspired dark comedy since Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. But fortunately for Harry, he's about to be granted a...
City of Bones
Cassandra Clare
Paper Book
Discover this first installment of the internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series and "prepare to be hooked" (Entertainment Weekly). When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder--much less a...
The Magicians
Lev Grossman
Paper Book
Lev Grossman's new novel THE BRIGHT SWORD is out now! The New York Times bestselling novel about a young man practicing magic in the real world, now an original series on SYFY "The Magicians is to Harry Potter as a shot of Irish whiskey is to a glass of...
The Princess Diaries
Meg Cabot
Paper Book
She's just a New York City girl living with her artist mom... News Flash: Dad is prince of Genovia. (So that's why a limo meets her at the airport!) Downer: Dad can't have any more kids. (So no heir to the throne.) Shock of the Century: Like it or not, Mia Thermopolis is prime...
The Heir and the Spare
Emily Albright
Paper Book
Soon after starting university in Oxford, Evie finds herself falling in love with her very own prince charming--who turns out to be an actual prince--in this contemporary novel that is Anna and the French Kiss with a royal family twist. When a letter from her late...
Girl on Fire
Alicia Keys
Paper Book

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