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  Tales of the Otori: Book 1

  Across the Nightingale Floor

  by Lian Hearn

  This is the first book in a new epic trilogy that has already become a bestselling sensation in England and Australia, earning comparisons to The Lord of the Rings . It begins with the legend of a nightingale floor in a black-walled fortress-a floor that sings in alarm at the step of an assassin. It will take true courage and all the skills of an ancient Tribe for one orphaned youth named Takeo to discover the... (more)
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  Tales of the Otori: Book 3

  Brilliance of the Moon

  by Lian Hearn

  A beautiful, haunting evocation of the medieval Japan of Lian Hearn's imagination, this thrilling follow-up to Grass for His Pillow and Across the Nightingale Floor delves deeper into the complex loyalties that bind its characters from birth. Filled with adventure and surprising twists of plot and fortune, this final volume travels beyond the Three Countries, to the outside influences that threaten to intrude... (more)
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  Tales of the Otori: Book 2

  Grass for His Pillow

  by Lian Hearn

  Praised for its epic scope and descriptive detail, Across the Nightingale Floor , the first book of the Tales of the Otori, was an international bestseller and critical success, named by the London Times as "the most compelling novel to have been published this year." With Grass for His Pillow, Book Two of the Tales of the Otori , we return to the medieval Japan of Hearn's creation-a land of harsh beauty and... (more)
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  Tales of the Otori: Book 0

  Heaven's Net is Wide

  by Lian Hearn

  The new beginning-and the grand finale-to the beloved Tales of the Otori series. Heaven's Net Is Wide is the new first volume of the now complete Tales of the Otori- prequel to Across the Nightingale Floor , the book that first introduced Hearn's mythical, medieval Japanese world. This is the story of Lord Otori Shigeru-who has presided over the entire series as a sort of spiritual warrior-godfather-the man... (more)
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  Tales of the Otori: Book 4

  The Harsh Cry of the Heron

  The Last Tale of the Otori

  by Lian Hearn

  T he Harsh Cry of the Heron: The Last Tale of the Otori is a truly epic novel. It is the rich and satisfying conclusion to the Tales of the Otori series that both completes the characters' lives-prophesied and otherwise-and brilliantly illuminates unexpected aspects of the entire Otori saga. The Harsh Cry of the Heron is the only fitting end to such a stirring series: a book that takes the storytelling achievement... (more)
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  Tales of the Otori

  The Sword of the Warrior

  Episode 1: Across the Nightingale Floor

  by Lian Hearn

  Seventeen-year-old Tomasu lives in a remote mountain village, some of whose residents—including his mother—are members of the Hidden, a clandestine, peaceful religious sect. He has never met his father. One day, while Tomasu is out collecting mushrooms, a band of Tohan warriors descends upon and massacres the village. Tomasu confronts the warriors, but is rescued by the mysterious Lord Otori, who changes the... (more)
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  Tales of the Otori

  Journey To Inuyama

  Across the Nightingale Floor: Episode 2

  by Lian Hearn

  The second of two parts of a mini-edition of the classic novel from the Tales of the Otori. Lord Otori, Takeo, and Takeo’s new teacher Kenji set off to meet Kaede, a fifteen-year-old girl chosen as the future Lady Otori by a group of political collaborators. Takeo is still trying to come to terms with knowing that, through the father he never knew, he is one of the Tribe—a group of mysterious, ninja-like... (more)
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  Tales of the Otori

  Across the Nightingale Floor / Grass for His Pillow / Brilliance of the Moon

  by Lian Hearn

  In a remote mountain village high in the lands of the Three Countries lives Takeo, a boy with the exceptional skills of the deadly Tribe - preternatural hearing, the ability to be in two places at once and invisibility. But brought up among the peaceful Hidden, Takeo has yet to discover the dangerous potential of his own abilities. When his life is saved by the mysterious Lord Otori Shigeru, Takeo begins the... (more)
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  Battle for Maruyama

  Brilliance of the Moon: Episode 5 (Tales of the Otori, Book 3)

  by Lian Hearn

  Peace comes at the price of bloodshed—five battles will buy you peace, four to win and one to lose. At the temple of Terayama, the words of the blind sage’s prophecy continue to haunt Takeo as he readies his armies for battle. Determined to avenge Shigeru’s death and claim his rightful inheritance, Takeo and Kaede, together with Takeo’s forces, fight their way to the domain of Maruyama. But then they must... (more)
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  Scars of Victory

  Brilliance of the Moon: Episode 6 (Tales of the Otori)

  by Lian Hearn

  The second of two parts of a mini-edition of the classic novel from the Tales of the Otori. When Kaede arrives at Shirakawa, she learns her sisters have been taken to Lord Fujiwara’s house—and soon she too becomes a prisoner there. And neither Takeo nor Kaede know that Takeo’s old teacher, Muto Kenji, has grievances and schemes of his own. As Takeo and Kaede face disaster at the hands of their enemies, the... (more)
• Grass for His Pillow : Tales of the Otori Bk.2Lian Hearn

  

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  Grass for His Pillow : Tales of the Otori Bk.2

  by Lian Hearn

  With Grass for His Pillow, Book Two of the Otori trilogy, we return to the medieval Japan of Hearn's imagination - a land of harsh beauty and deceptive appearances.In a complex social hierarchy, amid dissembling clans and fractured allegiances, there is no place for passionate young love. The orphan Takeo, who has been taught the ways of the warrior class by Lord Otori Shigeru, has now been claimed by the... (more)
• Grass For His Pillow: Tales of Otori, Book Two (Tales of the Otori)Lian Hearn

  

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  Grass For His Pillow: Tales of Otori, Book Two (Tales of the Otori)

  by Lian Hearn

  Praised for its epic scope and descriptive detail, Across the Nightingale Floor , the first book of the Tales of the Otori, was an international bestseller and critical success, named by the London Times as "the most compelling novel to have been published this year." With Grass for His Pillow, Book Two of the Tales of the Otori , we return to the medieval Japan of Hearn's creation-a land of harsh beauty and... (more)