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The Twelve Kingdoms: Sea of Shadow
Fuyumi Ono, Xiao Ye Bu You Mei · back to the book
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Include books by the same authorFushigi Yûgi: The Mysterious Play, Vol. 3: Disciple
Yuu Watase · 194 pages
High school student Miaka Yuki is suddenly transported into a fictional version of ancient China where she encounters enemies with mystical powers.
Sword of the Bright Lady
M.C. Planck
"Christopher Sinclair goes out for a walk on a mild Arizona evening and never comes back. He stumbles into a freezing winter under an impossible night sky, where magic is real -- but bought at a terrible price. A misplaced act of decency lands him in a brawl with an arrogant nobleman and puts him under a death sentence. In desperation he agrees to be drafted into an eternal war, serving as a pries
Guardians of the Flame: The Warriors
Joel Rosenberg · 512 pages
The Ugly Stepsister
Aya Ling · 452 pages
When Kat accidentally rips apart an old picture book, she's magically transported into the world of Cinderella--as Katriona, one of the ugly stepsisters! Life turns upside down now that she’s a highborn lady and must learn how to survive the social season, including how to get through the door in a huge metal hoop skirt. To get back, she'll have to complete the story, right to the end of happily e
Magic Knight Rayearth I, Vol. 3
CLAMP · 205 pages
Three teenage girls are summoned to be "magic knights" by Princess Emerōdo and asked to save a mysterious place, Sefīro. Although their adventurous journey begins with confusion, these young heroines soon accept their duty as fighters.
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.
The Time of the Dark
Barbara Hambly · 283 pages
Night after night, Gil found herself dreaming of an impossible city where alien horrors warmed from underground lairs of darkness to destroy mankind and all the works of men. But when the wizard Ingold Inglorion crossed the Void to ask sanctuary for the last Prince of Dar, he learned her dreams had been true visions of a strange reality. On Ingold's world, the monstrous Dark had been mere lege
Spirited Away, Volume 4
Hayao Miyazaki · 172 pages
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Lyman Frank Baum · 226 pages
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz remains one of the world's most beloved and widely read books. Throughout a century of remarkable change, the popularity of L. Frank Baum's classic tale has endured and grown, embraced by generation after generation of children and the young at heart. To honour the centennial of its publication in 1900, the University Press of Kansas is presenting this special anniversar
Abarat
Clive Barker · 489 pages
Candy Quackenbush, a sixteen-year-old girl, is bored with her life and is desperate for something new. She lives in Chickentown, Minnesota, has a drunkard father, and is often made fun of by other kids. One day at school, a strange image enters her head, and she draws it in a textbook. When her teacher notices, she is furious, and Candy has the sudden impulse to simply walk out of school. She wand
The Devil is a Part-Timer Manga, Vol. 1
Satoshi Wagahara · 176 pages
After being soundly thrashed by the hero Emilia, the Devil King and his general beat a hasty retreat to a parallel universe ... only to land plop in the middle of bustling, modern-day Tokyo! Lacking the magic necessary to return home, the two are forced to assume human identities and live average human lives until they can find a better solution. And to make ends meet, Satan finds gainful employme
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
Half World
Hiromi Goto
Melanie Tamaki is human--but her parents aren't. They are from Half World, a Limbo between our world and the afterlife, and her father is still there. When her mother disappears, Melanie must follow her to Half World--and neither of them may return alive. Imagine Coraline as filmed by the Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki (Howl's Moving Castle), or Neil Gaiman collaborating with Charles de Lint. Ha
Gregor the Overlander
Suzanne Collins · 311 pages
Spirited Away, Volume 1
Hayao Miyazaki, Yuji Oniki, Cindy Davis Hewitt · 172 pages
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
Lewis Carroll · 273 pages
Critical Failures III: A Storm of S-Words
Robert Bevan · 280 pages
Sky Raiders
Brandon Mull · 432 pages
Adventure awaits in the Five Kingdoms—come and claim it in this start to a new series from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Fablehaven and Beyonders series. Cole Randolph was just trying to have a fun time with his friends on Halloween (and maybe get to know Jenna Hunt a little better). But when a spooky haunted house turns out to be a portal to something much creepier, Cole find