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Tokyo middle schooler Sakura Kinomoto bought a book of tarot cards for her friend's 15th birthday. Before wrapping it, she took a look inside and was propelled into an adventure beyond her wildest dreams. Who'd have thought a series of viral YouTube videos would be the perfect front for a hunt for magical beings disguised as a deck of cards?

A deepening crisis aboard a deep-space colonisation vessel has forced most of its crew to evacuate to the nearest planet. During the evacuation, a ship, carrying three young friends to safety, malfunctions and strands them in interstellar space. It's not long before the Ranegr - a drifting ship of outlaws - salvages their derelict pod.

Nathan Grant, an Aussie student at Warrawul Boarding School, has a pretty normal life. A chance encounter with a flesh-eating Homunculus turns all that upside down! Savagely killed by the creature, Nathan is brought back to life by the alchemic warrior, Astrid Rachelle. In so doing, she bestows upon him the powers of the arms alchemy: his soul in weapon form. Determined to use this power to its fullest value, Nathan joins Astrid on a hunt for the Homunculi infesting his town, before his friends and sister become lunch.

The witch Shaula Gorgon has joined forces with Moonface, an immortal, flesh-eating homunculus. Their goal: harvest the souls of mankind and use that spiritual energy to recreate the universe as they see fit. Who stands in their way? Let's do a head count.

Sakura has a lot to enjoy in life! She's got her crush, her paparazza best friend, a gluttonous flying teddy bear, Cards that bestow magic powers, and a new English teacher from Scotland. But unbeknownst to her, mysterious forces work to slowly turn her happy life upside down...

In this remarkable collection, ten premier scholars of nineteenth-century America address the epochal impact of the Civil War by examining the conflict in terms of three Americas - antebellum, wartime, and postbellum nations. Moreover, they recognize the critical role in this transformative era of three groups of Americans - white northerners, white southerners, and African Americans in the North and South.