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In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her own horrifying Grace, the Grace of killing, and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king. The following books feature more gifted, kick-butt heroines, who are fighting to restore justice and honor, and in the process, find themselves.
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Nobody's princess
by Esther M. Friesner
Helen of Sparta, a beautiful princess, makes friends with huntress Atalanta and the young priestess who is the Oracle of Delphi when she sets out to define who she is and what she can accomplish.
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Warrior princess
by Frewin Jones
After a deadly attack on her home, fifteen-year-old Princess Branwen meets a mystical woman in white who prophesies that Branwen will save her homeland, Wales, from falling to the Saxons.
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I am Apache
by Tanya Landman
Witnessing the murder of her younger brother by Mexicans, Siki, a young Apache woman, vows to become a warrior and uses her skill with weapons and her clairvoyant powers to fight against the Mexicans and "White Eyes" who try to take away the land of her people.
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Grave mercy
by Robin LaFevers
In the fifteenth-century kingdom of Brittany, Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where she learns that the god of Death has blessed her with dangerous gifts.
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Huntress
by Malinda Lo
Seventeen-year-olds Kaede and Taisin are called to go on a dangerous and unprecedented journey to Tanlili, the city of the Fairy Queen, in an effort to restore the balance of nature in the human world.
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The Young Elites
by Marie Lu
Scarred and cast out after surviving the blood plague, Adelina finds a place for herself among the Young Elites who use their magical powers to advocate on behalf of young innocents and who are targeted by the white-robed soldiers of the Inquisition Axis. By the best-selling author of the Legend series.
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Throne of glass
by Sarah J Maas
After she has served a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, Crown Prince Dorian offers assassin Celaena Sardothien her freedom on the condition that she act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin.
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Finnikin of the rock
by Melina Marchetta
Surviving a usurper's attack that killed the Lumatere royal family, young Finnikin witnesses the effects of a devastating curse that is trapping and killing subjects and compels him to team up with an outspoken novice who believes a royal survivor will save the land.
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The falconer. Book one
by Elizabeth May
Determined to exact revenge against an evil faery who killed her mother, Aileana Kameron of mid-19th-century Edinburgh discovers her identity as the last in a line of female warriors who must stop increasingly powerful faeries from destroying humanity.
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Silver phoenix : beyond the Kingdom of Xia
by Cindy Pon
With her father long overdue from his journey and a lecherous merchant blackmailing her into marriage, seventeen-year-old Ai Ling becomes aware of a strange power within her as she goes in search of her parent.
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The sin eater's daughter
by Melinda Salisbury
Avoided by the rest of the court because of her divine ability to kill with a single touch, executioner Twylla pursues a forbidden romance while confronting a terrible sacrifice to help the queen destroy her enemies. A first novel.
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The kiss of deception
by Mary Pearson
A debut entry in a new trilogy by the author of the Jenna Fox Chronicles introduces Princess Lia, who flees an unwanted marriage and expectations about her supernatural legacy only to be pursued by her jilted fiancé and a ruthless assassin.
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Fever Crumb
by Philip Reeve
Raised by a member of the Order of Engineers, apprentice Fever is dispatched to assist archaeologist Kit Solvent with a top-secret project that causes Fever to recall bizarre memories that raise questions about her origins. By the author of the award-winning Here Lies Arthur.
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The false princess
by Eilis O'Neal
Raised with court privileges throughout her 16 years, Princess Nalia discovers that she is a false stand-in for the real princess who was hidden away for protection, a finding that precedes her dismissal to a humble village, where she experiences an awakening of dangerous magical powers.
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