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Poppy war volume 1
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English
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When Rin aced the Keju--the Empire-wide test to find the most talented youth to study at the academies--it was a shock to everyone: to the test officials, who couldn't believe a war orphan from Rooster Province could pass without cheating; to Rin's guardians, who always thought they'd be able to marry Rin off to further their criminal enterprise; and to Rin herself, who realized she was now finally free of the servitude and despair that had made up...
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Poppy war volume 2
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English
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Rin's story continues in this acclaimed sequel to The poppy war--an epic fantasy combining the history of 20th-century China with a gripping world of gods and monsters. Nikan is on the run from the murderous commands of the fiery Phoenix--the vengeful god who has blessed Rin with her fearsome power. Though she does not want to live, she refuses to die until she avenges the traitorous Empress who betrayed Rin's homeland to its enemies.
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Poppy war volume 3
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English
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The exciting end to The Poppy War trilogy, R. F. Kuang's acclaimed, award-winning epic fantasy that combines the history of twentieth-century China with a gripping world of gods and monsters, to devastating, enthralling effect. After saving her nation of Nikan from foreign invaders and battling the evil Empress Su Daji in a brutal civil war, Fang Runin was betrayed by allies and left for dead. Despite her losses, Rin hasn't given up on those for whom...
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Series
Shaman king volume 9
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Yoh and his friends must rescue Tao Ren, who has gotten himself locked in the family's dungeons after rebelling against his father. However, Yoh's influence has started to wear off and Ren has found a new weapon against his father's terrorism. Will Yoh and his friends be able to counter the horrible Way of the Tao?
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Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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Yoh and Tao Ren's battle to qualify in the second round of the Shaman Fight ends dramatically. Yoh takes to the hot springs to recover while Ren returns to China, determined to end the Tao reign of terror. Unfortunately, that means taking on his own father--the most feared shaman in China.
Author
Series
Shaman king volume 3
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
An old enemy gets an upgrade when a ghost possesses a bandit from feudal Japan. Back in action with a new body to abuse, Tokagero is out for revenge against Amidamaru, the samurai who killed him 600 years ago, and Yoh, the shaman who channels him. Meanwhile, a strange comet hurtles towards Earth. Yoh, a shaman, meaning he has the ability to channel spirits, is training to compete in the "Shaman Fight in Tokyo," a tournament held every 500 years to...
7) Storm born
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Series
Dark swan volume 1
Language
English
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When Eugenie Markham, a powerful shaman and mercenary, is hired to find a teenager taken to the Otherworld, she uncovers dark secrets about her past that could destroy the world.
8) Stray souls
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Series
Magicals Anonymous volume 1
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When Sharon Li unexpectedly discovers she's a shaman, it's not a moment too soon: London's soul is lost. Using her newfound oneness with the City, she sets about saving London from inevitable demise, but the problem is she has no clue where to start. Meanwhile, a mysterious gate has opened, and there are creatures loose that won't wait for her to catch up before they go out hunting. Now Sharon and her motley crew of magical misfits must find a way...
10) The glass god
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Series
Magicals Anonymous volume 2
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Sharon Li: apprentice shaman and community support officer for the magically inclined. It wasn't the career Sharon had in mind, but she's getting used to running Magicals Anonymous and learning how to Be One with the City. When the Midnight Mayor goes missing, leaving only a suspiciously innocent-looking umbrella behind him, Sharon finds herself promoted. Her first task: find the Midnight Mayor. The only clues she has are a city dryad's cryptic warning...
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Series
Shaman king volume 2
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
The gathering has begun--the gathering for Shaman Fight in Tokyo, the match to determine the one shaman who can commune with the Great Spirit and become the Shaman King. Injured after his fight with rival shaman Ren, 13-year-old Yoh wakes up in a hospital bed to meet his fiance, Anna Kyôyama, whom his family paired him up with in an arranged marriage! Of course, Anna is a shaman too ... and they'll need both their skills when Yoh is attacked by an...
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Series
Shaman king volume 5
Pub. Date
[2004], ©1998
Language
English
Description
An avalanche roars through Tokyo as Yoh, the prodigal shaman of Japan, fights Horohoro, ice-wielding shaman of the Ainu. Next, Yoh is pitted against Faust VIII, descendant of the European sorcerer who made the original deal with the devil.
Author
Series
Shaman king volume 4
Pub. Date
[2004], ©1998
Language
English
Description
Yoh, a shaman, meaning he has the ability to channel spirits, is training to complete in the "Shaman Fight in Tokyo," a tournament held every five hundred years to see who will become the Shaman King and shape humanity's future.
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Series
Shaman king volume 6
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
As his second Shaman Fight comes to an end, Yoh uses a last-ditch strategy--and his last mana--against Faust's army of skeletons. Recovering from his wounds in the hospital, Manta becomes separated from Yoh and makes a fateful decision to travel to Yoh's faraway home in Izumo, Japan--by motorcycle--with "Wooden Sword" Ryu for company. As Manta and Ryu travel across Japan, Yoh undergoes his own journey, descending into a pitch-black cave in search...
Author
Series
Shaman king volume 7
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Fortunately, Yoh's journey to the caves of Izumo has boosted his mana and his confidence. In the final battle of the Shaman Fight preliminaries, Yoh is up against Tao Ren and his Over Soul, Bason. With Ren's awesome mana and control of Bason, can Yoh and Amidamaru hope to prevail?
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"A mysterious and powerful plant medicine with curative powers that is drunk as a tea during a sacred ceremony, Ayahuasca has been known to change people's lives dramatically. But what was once a healing experience practiced only by Indigenous South Americans - and sought out by the adventurous few - has, in the past fifty years, become increasingly popular around the world. Hachumak, a Peruvian medicine man, has been practicing traditional healing...
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Series
Shaman king volume 11
Pub. Date
2007, ©1998
Language
English
Description
Yoh and his friends must travel through a mountain range toward the site of the old Patch Village.
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Series
Shaman king volume 21
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In a world where shamans communicate with the dead and call forth the power of legendary spirits to defeat their enemies in both body and soul, Yoh is a teenager with the ultimate ambition: to become the Shaman King, the one and only shaman who may commune with the Great Spirit and help remake the world for the better. But the road to this pinnacle of spiritual power runs through the Shaman Fight, a gauntlet of battles with rival mediums who call...
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