Kara Dalkey, Author . HarperCollins/Avon $4.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-06-440808-0
This imaginative debut book in the Water fantasy series stars an appealing, strong-willed 16-year-old who dreams of ascending to the Low Council that, conjointly with the High Council, rules Atlantis. Nia aspires to become an Avatar like her...
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Kara Dalkey, Author Tor Books $25.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-312-89071-1
Reality and fantasy collide in this engrossing tale of two warring clans vying for power, prestige and the chance to influence the man who sits on the chrysanthemum throne. Setting her tale in Japan during the last days of the Heian period (roughly...
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Kara Dalkey, Author Ace Books $16.95 (221p) ISBN 978-0-441-57973-0
Transferring Hans Christian Andersen's tale of the nightingale from China to Japan and transforming the bird into a young woman who plays the flute causes the story to lose some of its enchantment. Although Dalkey (The Curse of the Sagamore)...
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Kara Dalkey, Author Tor Books $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-86003-5
In the conclusion to Dalkey's brilliant trilogy begun in Goa and continued in Bijapur, Thomas Chinnery, an apprentice apothecary whom fortune and the Fates have set adrift far from his native England, winds his way ever deeper into the labyrinthine...
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Kara Dalkey, Author Tor Books $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-86000-4
Portugal's exotic colony of Goa, on India's western shore, was in the 16th century the farthest-flung outpost of Europe's fiercest and longest-lasting Inquisition. Here, historical fantasist Dalkey (The Nightingale) uses it as backdrop for an...
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Kara Dalkey, Author Tor Books $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-86001-1
Dalkey skillfully combines political, historical and herbal intrigues in this richly rewarding middle volume (after Goa) of her fantasy trilogy set in 16th-century India. Already damaged by the Inquisitors' strappado, youthful herbalist Thomas...
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Kara Dalkey, Author Puffin Books $4.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-14-038631-8
""A solid, suspenseful mix of history and mythology,"" said PW of this supernatural adventure set in 12th-century Japan, in which 13-year-old Mitsuko unwittingly accepts the help of a shape-shifting demon to search for her older sister. Ages 10-14. (
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Kara Dalkey, Author, Victor Lee, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $17 (208p) ISBN 978-0-15-201392-9
Dalkey (Nightingale) dusts off some time-worn devices to concoct an ambitious and action-packed historical fantasy/adventure that borrows elements from Shinto beliefs, Buddhism, haiku poetry and the records of a 12th-century Japanese noble clan....
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