Targeted from the outset by rival classmates for her color, poverty, and gender, Rin discovers she possesses a lethal, unearthly power--an aptitude for the nearly-mythical art of shamanism....
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Author: Kuang, R. F.Summary:Genre: Fantasy fiction
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Author: Thi, Kim Phuc PhanSummary:
Get out! Run! We must leave this place! They are going to destroy this whole place! Go, children, run first! Go now! These were the final shouts nine year-old Kim Phuc heard before her world...
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Author: Wen, Abigail HingSummary:
Hearts were broken, revenge was plotted--at least Sophie and Xavier are friends now. Now that fall is here, they're focusing on what really matters. But the world doesn't seem to want...
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Author: Freed, D. I.Summary:
Corrupted. This is the word that has defined Yu since her infancy. Her God Sign is corrupted and so she is a cultivator without cultivation. Frail and sickly, Yu is the only descendant of her...
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Author: Swore, Wendy S.Summary:
Even though twelve-year-old Alexis was born in Hawaii, she won't surf or swim with her friends--not since the ocean and its hidden creatures swept her out to sea. Instead, she grabs her best...
Genre: Juvenile fiction, Sea fiction -
Author: Toland, Sarah, Willeumier, KristenSummary:
Neuroscientist Dr. Kristen Willeumier reveals how you can change your brain by making simple and easy modifications to your lifestyle. Combining clinical experience with revolutionary science, she...
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Author: Lee, Yoon HaSummary:
Machineries of Empire, the most exciting science fiction trilogy of the decade, reaches its astonishing conclusion! When Shuos Jedao wakes up for the first time, several things go wrong. His few...
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Author: De Bodard, AlietteSummary:
For generations Prosper Station has thrived under the guidance of its Honoured Ancestress: born of a human womb, the station's artificial intelligence has offered guidance and protection to...
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Author: Lee, C. B.Summary:
Welcome to Andover ... where superpowers are common, but internships are complicated. Just ask high school nobody, Jessica Tran. Despite her heroic lineage, Jess is resigned to a life without...
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Author: Kobayashi, ErikaSummary:
Nine years after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster, Japan is preparing for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. An unnamed narrator wakes up in a cold, sterile room, unable to recall her past...
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Author: Park, Linda Sue.Summary:
Prairie Lotus is a powerful, touching, multilayered book about a girl determined to fit in and realize her dreams: getting an education, becoming a dressmaker in her father's shop, and making...
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Author: Ko, LisaSummary:
One morning, Deming Guo's mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant named Polly, goes to her job at the nail salon and never comes home. No one can find any trace of her. With his mother gone,...
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Author: Mehrotra, RatiSummary:
Kyra is the youngest Markswoman in the Order of Kali, a highly trained sisterhood of elite warriors armed with telepathic blades. Guided by a strict code of conduct, Kyra and the other Orders are...
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Author: Guo, XiaoluSummary:
Xiaolu Guo is one of the most acclaimed Chinese-born writers of her generation, an iconoclastic and completely contemporary voice. Her vivid, poignant memoir, Nine Continents is the story of a...
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Author: Lee, Yoon HaSummary:
The first installment of the trilogy, Ninefox Gambit, centers on disgraced captain Kel Cheris, who must recapture the formidable Fortress of Scattered Needles in order to redeem herself in front...
Genre: Science fiction