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In Legends of the Samurai, Sato confronts both the history and the legend of the samurai, untangling the two to present an authentic picture of these legendary warriors. Through his masterful translations of original samurai tales, laws, dicta, reports, and arguments accompanied by insightful commentary, Hiroaki Sato chronicles the changing ethos of the Japanese warrior from the samurai's historical origins to his rise to political power. For this...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Xtreme UFC follows the thrilling action of today's most exciting professional mixed martial arts stars. The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) organization has produced dozens of champions over its 17-year history. This title focuses the Greatest Hits of the UFC. Reader interest is enhanced with quotes, statistics, action-packed photos and short, easy-to-read bursts of text. Glossary words provide additional information and understanding to the...
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IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Xtreme UFC follows the thrilling action of today's most exciting professional mixed martial arts stars. The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) organization has produced dozens of champions over its 17-year history. Inside the Octagon focuses on the rules, techniques, and history of the sport. UFC fights are held in an eight-sided ring, called the octagon. Reader interest is enhanced with quotes, statistics, action-packed photos and short, easy-to-read...
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G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
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[2014]
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IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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In this twist on "Little Red Riding Hood," a certain wolf trains to be a ninja in order to catch his prey, but he is not the only one mastering a martial art.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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Karate Kakapo loves karate more than anything---more than kung fu, more than judo, more than taekwondo. No one at her dojo tries harder or practices more. The running kicks, the jumping kicks, the side kicks---she has mastered them all. But Karate Kakapo is at a disadvantage: kakapos can't fly, and it seems that no amount of practice can help her conquer that elusive flying kick. Karate Kakapo comes to discover that sometimes coming at a problem from...
8) Take me on
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 16
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Abandoning kickboxing after a tragedy in the ring, champion fighter Haley is forced to train an attractive mixed martial arts student who secretly fights on Haley's behalf to redeem his troubled past.
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"MMA fighter Miles Dartman's casual arrangement with personal shopper Maxi Nevar would be many men's fantasy. She seeks him out, they have mindblowing sex, she leaves. Rinse, repeat. Yet lately, Miles wants more. And when Maxi requests his services via the Body Armor security agency, he's ready to finally break through her defenses--and protect her day and night. Receiving a large inheritance has brought chaos and uncertainty into Maxi's life. Her...
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G. P. Putnam's Sons
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c2012
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IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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In this twist on "The Three Little Pigs," Pig One and Two neglect their ninja school martial arts training and are no match for the wolf, but Pig Three's practice and dedication saves the day. Includes glossary of Japanese martial arts terms.
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The first book to focus on the intersection of Western philosophy and the Asian martial arts, Striking Beauty collapses the boundaries between Eastern and Western thought, comparatively studying the historical and philosophical traditions of martial arts practice and their ethical value in the modern world. Expanding Western philosophy's global outlook, the book forces a theoretical reckoning with the concerns of Chinese philosophy and the aesthetic...
12) Jack B. Ninja
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Inspired by the classic nursery rhyme, Jack employs his marital arts training to complete a secret mission that ends with a surpise.
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Enrico is an author, illustrator, actor, and martial artist based in Miami and New York City. He began his martial arts training at the age of eleven with his uncle who was a student of Ron Van Clief. Chinese Goju was his first martial art. He later picked up martial arts again as an adult under the instruction of Tracy Tyler, a past student of the Jujitsu master Moses Powell. After two years of training with Tracy he attended City Wing Tsun in Manhattan...
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The Book of Five Rings (五輪書, Go Rin no Sho) is a text on kenjutsu and the martial arts in general, written by the Japanese swordsman Miyamoto Musashi around 1645. Many translations have been made, and it enjoys an audience considerably broader than other martial artists and people across East Asia. For instance, some foreign business leaders find its discussion of conflict and taking the advantage to be relevant to their work in a business context....
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Private detective Reiji Akiba has a theory about those awkward moments and weird coincidences we all encounter in life. They are actually encounters with the dead-their way of sending us a message. But you may not want to open such strange mail from beyond-not unless you can see the ghostly attachment, like Akiba can. And not unless you carry a gun that can kill what isn't alive, like Akiba's aptly named Kagutsuchi, "the tool between God and earth"...
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In the politics, struggles, and battles that lead to the birth of a nation, sometimes even good people must die at the hands of allies. And now it's down to only a few warlords of Edo-era Japan. History already tells the story of the victor, but the real guts of Path of the Assassin lie in the characters behind the scenes--the ninja warriors doing the dirty work. Theirs is a story of families and war and intrigue, only far more mysterious and untold....
18) Path of the Assassin, Volume 12: Three Foot Battle: Path of the Assassin Vol. 12: Three Foot Battle
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The march continues as Japan's future shogun moves to the center of Japan to claim it as his own. But along the way he'll have to deal with intense and complicated politics, strange and sometimes perverted fighting techniques, and a rapidly changing samurai culture in old Japan. And often the history of Japan all rests on the wiles of shogun-to-be Ieyasu's clever and loyal ninja, Hattori Hanzo. Lone Wolf & Cub creators Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima...
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It's not easy being Hattori Hanzo. If he's not teaching Leyasu, the young, future shogun, how to love, then he's behind the scenes, teaching Leyasu how not to die in case of a momentary lapse of protection. If you thought you had a tough job, try taking a pudgy, protected youngster, and making him into the leader who will unite Japan under his single rule. From the creators of Lone Wolf & Cub comes a series about two young men bound to a nation's...
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This volume of Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima's rich series finds Ieyasu both fighting for his life and looking the future. First, a couple of eerie and mysterious ninja try to take his life, but find themselves foiled by the increasingly able ninja Hattori Hanzo. And then a nation's tribes face off and spin through intrigue and tactical web works, all while fascinatingly dark ninja politics weave subtext and sexy action throughout the masterly-drafted...
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