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When Japanese bombs start to fall over 1937 China, Nanking and her classmates are told to flee. They are entrusted with a 500-year-old collection of folklore and myth that is referred to as the Library of Legends. When one of Nanking's classmates is murdered and another is arrested, she realizes her family secret is putting her life in danger.
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In 1908, Jialing is only seven years old when she is abandoned in the courtyard of a once-lavish estate near Shanghai. Jialing is zazhong, Eurasian, and faces a lifetime of contempt from both Chinese and Europeans. Without her mother's protection, she can survive only if the estate's new owners, the Yang family, agree to take her in. Jialing finds allies in Anjuin, the eldest Yang daughter, and Fox, an animal spirit who has lived in the haunted courtyard...
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