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From the award-winning author of the Eloia Born series, comes a new novella about identity, finding oneself in the midst of wandering spirits and young love in a Japanese port city... Fourteen-year-old Annabelle's only friends are ghosts. To make matters worse, her Japanese birth father left her family two years ago and her mother has recently remarried an American sailor. Her already difficult life on the backstreets of 1980s Yokosuka, Japan has gotten a lot more complicated as she tries to navigate the complicated social strata between the Filipino, American and Japanese cultures on the small naval base. When a motherless boy drifts into her world, her life changes in unexpected ways. The shifting weight of the adult responsibilities she has shouldered for far too long makes her question if life with only her ghosts caring for her is enough?

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"""Hirana's War is a wondrously beautiful conclusion to the Eloia Born duology. The sweeping worldbuilding and adventure will leave you breathless. Britta Jensen captures the fragility of coming of age and Leanora's strength and resilience in choosing to stand against the odds.""--Amanda Bennett, Midday Moonrise Blog ""This is an amazing Sequel to Eloia Born, it really has you questioning your own choices and loyalties. Would you be willing to fight in a war, even when you are a healer? I really enjoyed this novel and hope to see more of Britta Jensen in the future. I just loved turning every page and know it will definitely become a rereading favorite of mine."" --Angelica Montanez, college freshman (Goodreads) ""A love story set in space, a healer who can sing her way into battle, trying to survive a war... YES! Hirana's War has all of that and more. The story is well written and enjoyable. The excitement kicks off right away in the first chapter and continues throughout."" --Emily (Goodreads)"

Hirana's War is a wondrously beautiful conclusion to the Eloia Born duology. The sweeping worldbuilding and adventure will leave you breathless. Britta Jensen captures the fragility of coming of age and Leanora's strength and resilience in choosing to stand against the odds. --Amanda Bennett, Midday Moonrise Blog This is an amazing Sequel to Eloia Born, it really has you questioning your own choices and loyalties. Would you be willing to fight in a war, even when you are a healer? I really enjoyed this novel and hope to see more of Britta Jensen in the future. I just loved turning every page and know it will definitely become a rereading favorite of mine. --Angelica Montanez, college freshman (Goodreads) A love story set in space, a healer who can sing her way into battle, trying to survive a war... YES! Hirana's War has all of that and more. The story is well written and enjoyable. The excitement kicks off right away in the first chapter and continues throughout. --Emily (Goodreads)

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"Britta Jensen's debut YA novel Eloia Born won the 2019 Writer's League of Texas YA Discovery Prize and was long-listed for the 2016 Exeter Novel Prize. Reviewers are calling the book ""both a dystopian narrative and a quest story; consider it a spiritual successor to Lois Lowry's The Giver and M. Night Shyamalan's The Village."" The sequel, Hirana's War released October 1, 2020. Many of her stories explore themes of persevering through disability, parental separation and the intersection of various cultures on new worlds. Her stories have been shortlisted for the 2017 Henshaw Press and Fiction Factory prizes and she was published in Stories for Homes, Volume 2. Britta's plays have been performed in New York City, Japan and South Korea. She earned a BA in Acting Performance from Fordham University and an MA in Teaching of English Literature from Columbia University. For the past sixteen years she has taught creative writing and edited books for both traditional and indie authors. She has received numerous awards, including the General Sharp Award from the US Army, for her innovative teaching of creative writing in New York City, South Korea and Germany. Friends often refer to her as a polyglot-which is a product of living twenty-two years overseas in Japan, South Korea, and Germany before settling in Austin, Texas. She enjoys mentoring writers and editing books with The Writing Consultancy and Yellowbird Editors. In her spare time she dances Argentine Tango, sings and volunteers with the Relief Society, SCBWI and the Writer's League of Texas. Visit her YouTube channel for more insights into her writing process."

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