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The Girl with Ghost Eyes

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Red Phoenix

Kylie Chan · 563 pages

When Emma Donahoe took the position of nanny to John Chen's daughter Simone, she never expected to be caring for the child of a Chinese god, and she didn't expect that demons would want him dead. Nor has moving from nanny to partner in his heavenly realm made Emma's life any easier. Now a powerful race of demons has been created to hunt her and her family from Hong Kong to Europe. And she and Simo

East Asian MythologyMartial ArtsFantasyFast-Paced
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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.

East Asian MythologyMartial ArtsFantasyFast-Paced
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Bleach, Volume 01

Tite Kubo · 200 pages

Ichigo Kurosaki has always been able to see ghosts, but this ability doesn't change his life nearly as much as his close encounter with Rukia Kuchiki, a Shinigami and member of the mysterious Soul Society. While fighting a Hollow, an evil spirit that preys on humans who display psychic energy, Rukia attempts to lend Ichigo some of her powers so that he can save his family; but much to her surprise

Martial ArtsGhosts & HauntingsFantasyFast-Paced
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Noragami: Stray God, Vol. 2

Adachitoka · 149 pages

East Asian MythologyGhosts & HauntingsFantasyFast-Paced
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Boxers

Gene Luen Yang · 328 pages

East Asian MythologyMartial ArtsCultural IdentityHistorical Fiction
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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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Shadowshaper

Daniel Jose Older · 320 pages

When the murals painted on the walls of her Brooklyn neighborhood start to change and fade in front of her, Sierra Santiago realizes that something strange is going on--then she discovers her Puerto Rican family are shadowshapers and finds herself in a battle with an evil anthropologist for the lives of her family and friends.

Ghosts & HauntingsCultural IdentityFantasyFast-Paced
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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.

Martial ArtsEast Asian MythologyFantasyFast-Paced
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Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit

Nahoko Uehashi · 248 pages

The wandering warrior Balsa is hired to protect Prince Chagum from both a mysterious monster and the prince's father, the Mikado.

East Asian MythologyMartial ArtsFantasyFemale Lead
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The Ghost Bride

Yangsze Choo · 362 pages

"One evening, my father asked me if I would like to become a ghost bride ..." Though ruled by British overlords, the Chinese of colonial Malaya still cling to ancient customs. And in the sleepy port town of Malacca, ghosts and superstitions abound. Li Lan, the daughter of a genteel but bankrupt family, has few prospects. But fate intervenes when she receives an unusual proposal from the wealthy an

East Asian MythologyGhosts & HauntingsFantasyFemale Lead
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Serpentine

Cindy Pon · 274 pages

Although sixteen-year-old Skybright feels lucky to be the handmaid and companion to the daughter of a wealthy family, she is hiding a secret that threatens to destroy her position and her closest relationships.

East Asian MythologyCultural IdentityFantasySeries Starter
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A Thousand Beginnings and Endings

Ellen Oh · 336 pages

East Asian MythologyCultural IdentityGhosts & HauntingsFantasy
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Naruto, Vol. 64: Ten Tails

Masashi Kishimoto · 186 pages

Martial ArtsEast Asian MythologyFast-PacedFantasy
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Gilded

Christina Farley · 345 pages

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The Diviners

Libba Bray · 608 pages

Do you believe there are ghosts and demons and Diviners among us? Evie O'Neill has been exiled from her boring old hometown and shipped off to the bustling streets of New York City--and she is pos-i-tute-ly ecstatic. It's 1926, and New York is filled with speakeasies, Ziegfeld girls, and rakish pickpockets. The only catch is that she has to live with her uncle Will and his unhealthy obsession w

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Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Search, Part 1

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

East Asian MythologyMartial ArtsFantasyFemale Lead
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Dark Tempest

Annette Marie · 350 pages

East Asian MythologyFantasyFast-PacedDemons
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First Grave on the Right

Darynda Jones · 328 pages

Meet Charley Davidson -- PI and grim reaper extraordinaire... Charley sees dead people. That's right, she sees dead people. And it's her job to convince them to 'go into the light.' But when these very dead people have died under less than ideal circumstances (i.e. murder), sometimes they want Charley to bring the bad guys to justice. Complicating matters are the intensely hot dreams she's been

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Strange and Ever After

Susan Dennard · 392 pages

"Traveling to Egypt with the Spirit-Hunters, Eleanor Fitt must control her growing power, face her feelings for Daniel, and confront the evil necromancer Marcus--all before it's too late"--

Ghosts & HauntingsFantasyFast-PacedFemale Lead
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The Monsters We Defy

Leslye Penelope · 349 pages

Ghosts & HauntingsCultural IdentityFantasyFemale Lead
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Journey to the West (4-Volume Boxed Set)

Wu Cheng'en · 2,346 pages

East Asian MythologyMartial ArtsFantasyDemons
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Jujutsu Kaisen, Vol. 1

Gege Akutami

The athletic Yuji Itadori chooses to spend his time with members of the Occult Research Club, who unseal a cursed object.

Martial ArtsFantasyFast-PacedSupernatural Horror
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Guardian of the Dead

Karen Healey · 352 pages

Eighteen-year-old New Zealand boarding school student Ellie Spencer must use her rusty tae kwon do skills and new-found magic to try to stop a fairy-like race of creatures from Maori myth and legend that is plotting to kill millions of humans in order to regain their lost immortality.

Martial ArtsCultural IdentityFast-PacedFemale Lead
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Of Metal and Wishes

Sarah Fine · 321 pages

In this loose retelling of The Phantom of the Opera, set in a reimagined industrial Asia, a ghost becomes obsessed with sixteen-year-old Wen, the daughter of a staff doctor in a slaughterhouse, who falls in love with one of the Noor, a despised group of men, racially different, hired as cheap factory labor.

Ghosts & HauntingsEast Asian MythologyFantasyFemale Lead

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