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The Woman Who Rides Like a Man

Pierce, Tamora. (Author).

Summary: From Tamora Pierce, the third book in the Song of the Lioness Quartet, honored with the Margaret A. Edwards Award. Newly knighted, Alanna of Trebond seeks adventure in the vast desert of Tortall. Captured by fierce desert dwellers, she is forced to prove herself in a duel to the death?either she will be killed or she will be inducted into the tribe. Although she triumphs, dire challenges lie ahead. As her mythic fate would have it, Alanna soon becomes the tribe's first female shaman?despite the desert dwellers? grave fear of the foreign woman warrior. Alanna must fight to change the ancient tribal customs of the desert tribes?for their sake and for the sake of all Tortall.

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  • ISBN: 9781439115145
  • ISBN: 1439115141
  • ISBN: 9781439115145
  • Physical Description: remote
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    1 online resource (304 pages)
  • Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2009.

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Formatted Contents Note: The woman who rides like a man -- The bloody hawk -- Bazhir Shaman -- Studies in sorcery -- Apprentices -- Ceremonies -- The voice of the tribes -- The king of the thieves -- At the sign of the dancing dove -- The doomed sorceress.

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Beloved author Tamora Pierce has written a great number of books, including the Song of the Lioness quartet, The Immortals quartet, the Circle of Magic quartet, the Protector of the Small quartet, The Circle Opens quartet, the Trickster series, The Will of the Empress, Melting Stones, the Beka Cooper series, and The Numair Chronicles. She lives in upstate New York with various cats, other four-legged animals, and birds who feed in her yard, and can be e-visited at Tamora-Pierce.net.

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