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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Team Avatar is in peril as a dangerously powerful ancient spirit awakens with vengeance and destruction on its mind. Bonds will be tested and new truths revealed as Aang must answer an important question: Can humans and spirits co-exist?<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Team Avatar is in peril as a dangerously powerful ancient spirit awakens with vengeance and destruction on its mind. Bonds will be tested and new truths revealed as Aang must answer an important question: Can humans and spirits co-exist?! <p/>Written and drawn by the team behind the best-selling <i>The Promise</i> and <i>The Search</i>, Gene Luen Yang and Gurihiru, in collaboration with <i>Avatar: The Last Airbender </i>and <i>Legend of Korra</i> animated televison show creators Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, this is the ultimate continuation of <i>Avatar</i> and the perfect companion to <i>Legend of Korra</i>!<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Gene Luen Yang began making comic books in the fifth grade. He has since written and drawn a number of titles. His 2006 book <i>American Born Chinese</i> was the first graphic novel to be nominated for a National Book Award and the first to win the American Library Association's Michael L. Printz Award. It also won an Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album - New. His 2013 two-volume graphic novel <i>Boxers & Saints</i> was nominated for both the National Book Award and the LA Times Book Award. Gene currently writes the graphic novel continuation of the popular Nickelodeon cartoon <i>Avatar: The Last Airbender</i>. <i>The Shadow Hero</i>, his recent comic book series with Sonny Liew, revives the Green Turtle, an obscure 1940s character who is arguably the first Asian American superhero. <i>The Shadow Hero</i> is now available as individual digital issues via Amazon Kindle. The print trade paperback collection will be released on July 15, 2014. The author lives in San Francisco, CA..

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