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Fireheart Tiger Children's Books cranky old church deacon knownAward winning author Aliette de Bodard returns with Fireheart Tiger, a powerful romantic fantasy that reads like The Goblin Emperor meets Howl's Moving Castle in a pre colonial Vietnamese esque world Fire burns bright and has a long memory. Quiet, thoughtful princess Thanh was sent away as a hostage to the powerful faraway country of Ephteria as a child. Now shes returned to her mother's imperial court, haunted not only by memories of her first