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Author: Peter Pagnamenta Publisher: Penguin Group ISBN: 9780143112143 Category : Armed Forces Languages : en Pages : 0
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Sword and Blossomtells the tragic true story of an extraordinary love affair that began when a young Army officer fell in love with a Japanese woman in the early years of the twentieth century. Based on a treasure trove of more than eight hundred letters, it chronicles Arthur Hart- Synnot and Masa Suzuki’s attempts to make a life together despite long periods of separation, racial prejudice, and political turbulence. Their doomed relationship, like that of their countries, was part of a confused age of extremes and contradictions, of violence and beauty, and of destinies etched out amid the conflicts of the first half of the twentieth century.
Author: Peter Pagnamenta Publisher: Penguin Group ISBN: 9780143112143 Category : Armed Forces Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Sword and Blossomtells the tragic true story of an extraordinary love affair that began when a young Army officer fell in love with a Japanese woman in the early years of the twentieth century. Based on a treasure trove of more than eight hundred letters, it chronicles Arthur Hart- Synnot and Masa Suzuki’s attempts to make a life together despite long periods of separation, racial prejudice, and political turbulence. Their doomed relationship, like that of their countries, was part of a confused age of extremes and contradictions, of violence and beauty, and of destinies etched out amid the conflicts of the first half of the twentieth century.
Author: Yong Jin Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 9780190974282 Category : China Languages : en Pages : 511
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"The Book and the Sword was Louis Cha's first novel, published in 1955. The story has a panoramic sweep which has at its heart a few unbeatable themes: secret societies, kung fu masters, and the sensational rumour so dear to Chinese hearts that the great Manchu Emperor Qian Long was not in fact a Manchu but a Han Chinese, a line of descent that came about as a result of a 'baby swap' on the part of the Chens of Haining in Southern China. It mixes in the exotic flavours of central Asia, a lost city in the desert guarded by wolf packs, and the Fragrant Princess. This lady is an embellishment of an actual historical figure - although whether she actually smelled of flowers, we will never know."--Jacket
Author: Angelina Zagonenko Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1546221670 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 185
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Renas life should be perfect. She has everything she could want, but she doesnt want any of it. The daughter of a famous model, Rena dreams of becoming a normal girl, living in a normal neighborhood, going to a normal school, and doing stuff most teens her age would do. Her life is about to change, but not in the way she hopes. On her fourteenth birthday, a demon from a different worlda world that existed five thousand years agoarrives and kidnaps her brother, Joey. The demon tells her she has something it wants and that she must travel back in time through a mirror in order to rescue Joey. On the other side of the mirror, in the world of the past, Rena uncovers many secrets and discovers she is more connected to that world than she could have known. With the help of a new friend, one whom she is inexplicably drawn to, she embarks on a journey to find her brother. But she soon learns that her companion may have a mysterious connection to her own past. In this fantasy novel, a teenage girl sets out to save her brother from the demon who kidnapped him and finds herself traveling in a strange mirror world of the past.
Author: Jane Yolen Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 9780152025335 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 380
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The newly crowned King Arthur has yet to win the support of the people. Merlin must do something before the king is betrayed, or murdered, or--worst of all--gets married. So Merlin creates a trick: a sword magically placed into a slab of rock that only Arthur can withdraw. Then he lets it be known that whosoever removes the blade will rule all of England, and invites any man who would dare, to try to pull out the sword. But then someone else pulls the sword out first. . . .
Author: Winter Morgan Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1510706100 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 83
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Peace has been restored to the Overworld after an epic griefer battle. Lily, Simon, and Michael are glad to have a break from fighting, and even from their attempts to escape the game and return to their normal lives. But then two new players are zapped onto the server, and no one’s sure who’s responsible for trapping them. With Mr. Anarchy and the other griefers in prison, anyone could be a suspect, and tempers flare as the townspeople’s suspicions turn inward. While Lily, Simon, and Michael are away seeking clues, the people of Lisimi Village turn against them, convinced that they’re keeping the knowledge of how to return home to themselves. Can the trio convince their friends of their innocence, bring the real villains to justice, and finally make their way home? Friendships are tested and unlikely allies emerge in this thrilling fourth book in bestselling author Winter Morgan’s Unofficial Minetrapped Adventure series. Sky Pony Press, with our Good Books, Racehorse and Arcade imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of books for young readers—picture books for small children, chapter books, books for middle grade readers, and novels for young adults. Our list includes bestsellers for children who love to play Minecraft; stories told with LEGO bricks; books that teach lessons about tolerance, patience, and the environment, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Author: Richard McStay Publisher: Richard McStay ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 147
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A mechanic from Pittsburgh seeking a new life after a wrongful conviction. A Plastic Surgeon on a brake from her life and fiancee in Cleveland. When their plane goes down in a remote part of the Pacific they are the only survivors. Normally they wouldn't make a good match, but they make a good team against the sea and pirates who want to see them dead.
Author: Paul S. Kemp Publisher: Del Rey ISBN: 1101964979 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 350
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For readers of Brent Weeks, Joe Abercrombie, Peter V. Brett, and Scott Lynch comes the first book in a fantastic, hilarious new sword-and-sorcery series that puts a clever new twist on the golden age of epic fantasy. Robbing tombs for fun and profit might not be a stable career, but Egil and Nix aren’t in it for the long-term prospects. Egil is the hammer-wielding warrior-priest of a discredited god. Nix is a roguish thief with just enough knowledge of magic to conjure up trouble. Together, they seek riches and renown, yet often find themselves enlisted in lost causes—generally against their will. So why should their big score be any different? The trouble starts when Nix and Egil kill the demonic guardian of a long-lost crypt, nullifying an ancient pact made by the ancestors of an obscenely powerful wizard. Now the wizard will stop at nothing to keep that power from slipping away, even if it means freeing a rapacious beast from its centuries-old prison. And who better than Egil and Nix—the ones responsible for his current predicament—to perform this thankless task? Praise for The Hammer and the Blade and Paul S. Kemp “A gripping tale [with] the feeling of a classic Dungeons & Dragons campaign.”—Publishers Weekly “Most heroes work up to killing demons. Egil and Nix start there and pick up the pace.”—Elaine Cunningham, author of the Thorn Trilogy “Kemp delivers sword and sorcery at its rollicking best, after the fashion of Fritz Leiber’s Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser.”—Library Journal
Author: Sherry Thomas Publisher: Sherry Thomas ISBN: 163128035X Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 323
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CHINA, 484 A.D. A Warrior in Disguise All her life, Mulan has trained for one purpose: to win the duel that every generation in her family must fight. If she prevails, she can reunite a pair of priceless heirloom swords separated decades earlier, and avenge her father, who was paralyzed in his own duel. Then a messenger from the Emperor arrives, demanding that all families send one soldier to fight the Rouran invaders in the north. Mulan’s father cannot go. Her brother is just a child. So she ties up her hair, takes up her sword, and joins the army as a man. A War for a Dynasty Thanks to her martial arts skills, Mulan is chosen for an elite team under the command of the princeling—the royal duke’s son, who is also the handsomest man she’s ever seen. But the princeling has secrets of his own, which explode into Mulan’s life and shake up everything she knows. As they cross the Great Wall to face the enemy beyond, Mulan and the princeling must find a way to unwind their past, unmask a traitor, and uncover the plans for the Rouran invasion…before it’s too late. Inspired by wuxia martial-arts dramas as well as the centuries-old ballad of Mulan, The Magnolia Sword is a thrilling, romantic, and sharp-edged novel that lives up to its beloved heroine.
Author: M. G. Sheftall Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0593472322 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 497
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A revelatory and groundbreaking account of Imperial Japan’s kamikaze—the suicide pilots of World War II—as told through the eyes of the survivors In the final year of World War II, a horrific new weapon was unleashed in the Pacific: the kamikaze. Idealistic, young Japanese men had been taught that there was no greater glory than to sacrifice one’s life to defend the homeland. Now, with the war all but lost, thousands of these determined warriors were hastily trained in the basics of piloting an airplane, then sent out in waves to crash into enemy warships, suicide attacks that killed altogether some seven thousand American sailors. But what of those men who took the sacred oath to die in battle and lived? In the wake of 9/11, ethnographer M. G. Sheftall was given unprecedented access to the cloistered community of Japan’s last remaining kamikaze survivors. As an American fluent in Japanese, Sheftall was the only westerner to ever sit face-to-face with these men and hear their stories. The result is a fascinating journey into the lives, indoctrination, and mindsets of the kamikaze, through the eyes of participants who are now lost to time.
Author: Peter Pagnamenta
Author: Peter Pagnamenta
Author: Zhixin Lin
Author: Yong Jin
Author: Angelina Zagonenko
Author: Jane Yolen
Author: Winter Morgan
Author: Richard McStay
Author: Paul S. Kemp
Author: Sherry Thomas
Author: M. G. Sheftall