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Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit

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Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Search, Part 1

Gene Luen Yang, Bryan Konietzko, Michael Dante DiMartino · 76 pages

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Eon: Dragoneye Reborn

Alison Goodman · 576 pages

Sixteen-year-old Eon has a dream, and a mission. For years, he's been studying sword-work and magic, toward one end. He and his master hope that he will be chosen as a Dragoneye-an apprentice to one of the twelve energy dragons of good fortune. But Eon has a dangerous secret. He is actually Eona, a sixteen-year-old girl who has been masquerading as a twelve-year-old boy. Females are forbidden t

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InuYasha: Turning Back Time

Rumiko Takahashi · 186 pages

Kagome, a young school girl from modern-day Japan, gets pulled into a time portal and transported back to feudal Japan where she discovers that her destiny is linked to that of Inu-Yasha, a doglike half-demon, and together, they search for the Shikon Jewel which can fulfull the dreams of any man or monster.

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Six Crimson Cranes

Elizabeth Lim · 454 pages

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Daughter of the Moon Goddess

Sue Lynn Tan · 503 pages

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The Woman Who Rides Like a Man

Tamora Pierce · 256 pages

On her first tour as a knight errant, Alanna assumes a position of influence with a fierce desert tribe, makes some changes in the role of women in the society, and continues her own emotional development. "Let her prove herself worthy as a man." Newly knighted, Alanna of Trebond seeks adventure in the vast desert of Tortall. Captured by fierce desert dwellers, she is forced to prove herself

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Dark Serpent

Kylie Chan · 553 pages

"When the ancestry of Xuan Wu's fianc℗♭́Ưe, Emma, is revealed, it threatens the harmony of the whole Celestial realm. The demons are gathering, powerful alliances are being made and stone Shen are under threat. However, Xuan Wu is distracted--he must save Emma from the Demon King and give her the elixir of immortality, but at what cost?"--Page 4 of cover.

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Prophecy

Ellen Oh · 336 pages

"A demon slayer, the only female warrior in the King's army, must battle demon soldiers, an evil shaman, and the Demon Lord to find the lost ruby of the Dragon King's prophecy and save her kingdom"--

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Yu Yu Hakusho, Volume 5: Focus Your Mind as One!

Yoshihiro Togashi · 205 pages

The Four Beasts, a group of demons, have attacked humanity with an infection of brain bugs. The bugs can only be controlled with a magic whistle, but Yusuke, Kuwabara, and Hiei and Karama have to get past the Four Beasts to get it.

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Dragon Keeper

Carole Wilkinson · 339 pages

set in China in 141 B.C. In a remote western palace, Ping, a slave girl of unknown origin, serves the emperor's Dragon Keeper, an incompetent drunkard who neglects the two last-known dragons in his charge. When one of them dies and an evil hunter threatens to kill the other for his magical body parts, the old dragon, Danzi, escapes with the girl. He entrusts Ping with his precious and beautiful pu

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The Poppy War

R.F. Kuang · 545 pages

Winner of the Reddit Fantasy Award for Best Debut 2018 ‘The best fantasy debut of 2018’ – WIRED

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The Girl with Ghost Eyes

M.H. Boroson · 288 pages

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Sakura Hime: The Legend of Princess Sakura, Vol. 5

Arina Tanemura

After Aoba and the other's storm Enja's hidden palace to rescue Sakura, Byakaya must defeat Maimai to get the key to the tower in which Sakura is imprisoned.

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The Bone Shard Daughter

Andrea Stewart · 435 pages

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A Magic Steeped in Poison

Judy I. Lin · 384 pages

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Yona of the Dawn, Vol. 3

Mizuho Kusanagi · 192 pages

On her 16th birthday, tragedy strikes Princess Yona's family. With Hak, she sets out to find a priest who can see the future.

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Dragon of the Lost Sea

Laurence Yep · 213 pages

An American Library Association's Notable Children's Books of 1982, this story weaves a fantasy quest with elements of Chinese mythology. Princess Shimmer is a dragon without a home after Civet, a sorceress, imprisoned Shimmer's sea home in a jewel. Shimmer is on a quest to get it back and to restore her home to its former glory. While tracking Civet, Shimmer meets up with Thorn, a young boy,

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Naruto, Vol. 64: Ten Tails

Masashi Kishimoto · 186 pages

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Empire of Night

Kelley Armstrong · 432 pages

"Separated while trying to save the children of their village, twin sisters Ashyn and Moria must draw on all their power and influence to defeat enemies of legend and avert war in the empire"-- Separated while trying to save the children of their village, twin sisters Ashyn and Moria must draw on all their power and influence to defeat enemies of legend and avert war in the empire. The plot con

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Throne of Glass

Sarah J. Maas · 428 pages

Lethal. Loyal. Legendary. Enter the world of Throne of Glass with the first book in the #1 bestselling series by Sarah J. Maas. In a land without magic, an assassin is summoned to the castle. She has no love for the vicious king who rules from his throne of glass, but she has not come to kill him. She has come to win her freedom. If she defeats twenty-three murderers, thieves, and warriors i

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Grave Mercy

Robin LaFevers · 549 pages

*Why be the sheep, when you can be the wolf?* Seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where the sisters still serve the gods of old. Here she learns that the god of Death Himself has blessed her with dangerous gifts—and a violent destiny. If she chooses to stay at the convent, she will be trained as an assassi

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The Demon Prince of Momochi House, Vol. 1

Aya Shouoto · 152 pages

"On her sixteenth birthday, orphan Himari Momochi inherits her ancestral estate that she's never seen. Momochi House exists on the barrier between the human and spiritual realms, and Himari is meant to act as guardian between the two worlds. But on the day she moves in, she finds three handsome squatters already living in the house, and one seems to have already taken over her role!"--Back cover.

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Journey to the West (4-Volume Boxed Set)

Wu Cheng'en · 2,346 pages

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