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102) Skeleton God
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2017.
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"Shan Tao Yun, now the reluctant constable of a remote Tibetan town, has learned to expect the impossible at the roof of the world, but nothing has prepared him for his discovery when he investigates a report that a nun has been savagely assaulted by ghosts. In an ancient tomb by the old nun lies a gilded saint buried centuries earlier, flanked by the remains of a Chinese soldier killed fifty years before and an American man murdered only hours earlier....
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Vannemar Morgan's dream is to link Earth to the stars with the greatest engineering feat of all time. A 24,000-mile-high space elevator. But first he must solve a million technical, political, and economic problems while allaying the wrath of God. For the only possible site on the planet for Morgans Orbital Tower is the monastery atop the Sacred Mountain of Sri Kanda.
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Pub. Date
[2009]
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IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 2
Description
A fox, having assumed the form of a woman in order to lure a solitary monk from his temple, thus winning a bet with a badger, ends up falling in love with the young man; and when she overhears a group of demons who have been dispatched to kill the monk and steal his inner peace, the fox/woman begins her struggle to save him.
107) The Dream Hunters
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[1999]
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Set in the Japan of long-ago folklore, this is the story of a fox who falls in love with a human monk. When she learns a lord means him ill, she enters the monk's dreams and strikes a bargain with the Japnese counterpart of Morpheus to save the monk's life.