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Author
Series
Tale of Shikanoko volume 2
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
"An epic, fantastical adventure in the mythical Japan, a world inhabited by warriors, assassins, acrobats, ghosts, guardian spirits, demons, horses, and monkeys"--
Author
Series
Tale of Shikanoko volume 3
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
"A self-assured warrior stumbles into a game of Go that turns fatal. An ambitious lord leaves his nephew for dead and seizes his lands. A stubborn father forces his son to give up his wife to his older brother. A powerful priest meddles in the succession to the Lotus Throne. A woman of the Old People seeks five fathers for her five children, who will go on to found the Spider Tribe and direct the fate of the country. As destiny weaves its tapestry...
Author
Series
Tales of the Otori volume 1
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
A tour-de-force novel set in ancient Japan filled with passion, fantasy, and feuding warlords. The first volume in the highly anticipated "Tales of the Otori" trilogy. Sixteen-year-old Takeo's village has been massacred by an evil warlord, and he is about to be slain by the men who murdered his parents and neighbors. At the last moment, his life is saved by a nobleman, who claims the boy as his kin and begins his education. But nothing is as it seems....
Author
Series
Tale of Shikanoko volume 1
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
"In the opening pages of the action-packed Book One of Lian Hearn's epic Tale of Shikanoko series--all of which will be published in 2016--a future lord is dispossessed of his birthright by a scheming uncle, a mountain sorcerer imbues a mask with the spirit of a great stag for a lost young man, a stubborn father forces his son to give up his wife to his older brother, and a powerful priest meddles in the succession to the Lotus Throne, the child who...
Author
Series
Tales of the Otori volume 3
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
The stage is set: Takeo and his new bride Kaede are on the brink of starting a war to reclaim the lands that are her rightful claim by birth, with a thousand loyal warriors by their side. But much more is at stake, with Takeo sworn to avenge the death of his adoptive father. Kaede, a not-at-all helpless damsel, has also cast a first stone by renouncing the powerful Lord Fujiwara, who considers her his first wife. An imaginary feudal Japan is vividly...
Author
Series
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
A New York Times Notable Book of the YearBook II of the internationally best-selling Tales of the Otori trilogy, a sweeping saga set in a mythical, medieval Japan. In Book I of the Otori trilogy, Across the Nightingale Floor, Lian Hearn created a wholly original, fully-realized fantasy world where great powers clashed and young love dawned against a dazzling and mystical landscape. Nightingale was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, one...