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1) Dragonfruit
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In the old tales, it is written that the egg of a seadragon, dragonfruit, holds within it the power to undo a person's greatest sorrow. But as with all things that offer hope when hope has gone, the tale comes with a warning. Every wish demands a price. Hanalei of Tamarind is the cherished daughter of an old island family. But when her father steals a seadragon egg meant for an ailing princess, she is forced into a life of exile. In the years that...
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Near the end of the American Civil War, four men and a boy make a desperate escape from the burning city of Richmond by means of a military hot air balloon. They are swept along for thousands of miles until they land on an unknown and apparently deserted island in the Pacific Ocean.