The Bird and the Blade

The Bird and the Blade

Author: Megan Bannen

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2018-06-05

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 006267417X

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A sweeping and tragic debut novel perfect for fans of The Wrath and the Dawn and Megan Whalen Turner. This young adult novel is an excellent choice for accelerated tween readers in grades 7 to 8, especially during homeschooling. It’s a fun way to keep your child entertained and engaged while not in the classroom. The Bird and the Blade is a lush, powerful story of life and death, battles and riddles, lies and secrets from author Megan Bannen. Enslaved in Kipchak Khanate, Jinghua has lost everything: her home, her family, her freedom . . . until the kingdom is conquered by enemy forces and she finds herself an unlikely conspirator in the escape of Prince Khalaf and his irascible father across the vast Mongol Empire. On the run, with adversaries on all sides and an endless journey ahead, Jinghua hatches a scheme to use the Kipchaks’ exile to return home, a plan that becomes increasingly fraught as her feelings for Khalaf evolve into an impossible love. Jinghua’s already dicey prospects take a downward turn when Khalaf seeks to restore his kingdom by forging a marriage alliance with Turandokht, the daughter of the Great Khan. As beautiful as she is cunning, Turandokht requires all potential suitors to solve three impossible riddles to win her hand—and if they fail, they die. Jinghua has kept her own counsel well, but with Khalaf’s kingdom—and his very life—on the line, she must reconcile the hard truth of her past with her love for a boy who has no idea what she’s capable of . . . even if it means losing him to the girl who’d sooner take his life than his heart.


The Blade Artist

The Blade Artist

Author: Irvine Welsh

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2016-04-07

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 1473520967

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‘Back to his violent best...dark, gruesome and captivating’ Esquire The most terrifying character from Trainspotting returns. Jim Francis has finally found the perfect life – and is now unrecognisable, even to himself. A successful painter and sculptor, he lives quietly with his wife, Melanie, and their two young daughters, in an affluent beach town in California. Some say he’s a fake and a con man, while others see him as a genuine visionary. But Francis has a very dark past, with another identity and a very different set of values. When he crosses the Atlantic to his native Scotland, for the funeral of a murdered son he barely knew, his old Edinburgh community expects him to take bloody revenge. But as he confronts his previous life, all those friends and enemies – and, most alarmingly, his former self – Francis seems to have other ideas. When Melanie discovers something gruesome in California, which indicates that her husband’s violent past might also be his psychotic present, things start to go very bad, very quickly. The Blade Artist is an elegant, electrifying novel – ultra violent but curiously redemptive – and it marks the return of one of modern fiction’s most infamous, terrifying characters, the incendiary Francis Begbie from Trainspotting.


Peace and Turmoil

Peace and Turmoil

Author: Elliot Brooks

Publisher:

Published: 2019-03-18

Total Pages: 732

ISBN-13: 9781733664301

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Peace and Turmoil is the first installment in an epic fantasy series following heirs from across the land of Abra'am as they try to navigate magic, politics, and fiends.


The Way of the Blade

The Way of the Blade

Author: Matei Florin

Publisher: Matei Florin

Published: 2023-08-13

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13:

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This manual is a combination of instructions, drawings and diagrams created by me to help you better understand the strategy and mindset behind the system that I teach. This is not a book like the others, because all the drawings are made by me. I decided to leave them in the original version, also trying to send you some of the energy, and the time invested by me to create this manual. This material comes as a support in the process of learning and must not replace face to face training. In this manual I try to share some information’s and instructions that I think can help you develop a good set of skills regarding the knife. Everything requires time, dedication and a lot of hard work to achieve a level of mastery. The illustrations that I draw is one of the elements that differentiate this manual from other knife combat materials. I wanted to create images that can help the student understand better this topic by giving them visual explicit content I share in this manual knife tactics, techniques and strategies, teaching you orthodox and unorthodox methods of training, ways of ambushing and how to prepare for counter-ambush situations but also about the philosophy and the combat mindset behind the system that I teach.


The Name of the Blade

The Name of the Blade

Author: Zoe Marriott

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Published: 2014-11-11

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 0763674168

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Ancient Japanese gods and monsters are unleashed on modern-day London in this first book of an epic trilogy from acclaimed fantasy writer Zoë Marriott. When Mio sneaks the family’s katana — a priceless ancestral sword —from her parents’ attic, she just wants to spice up a costume. But the katana is much more than a dusty antique. Awakening the power within the sword unleashes a terrible, ancient evil onto the streets of unsuspecting London. But it also releases Shinobu, a fearless warrior boy, from the depths of time. He helps to protect Mio — and steals her heart. With creatures straight out of Japanese myths stalking her and her friends, Mio realizes that if she cannot keep the sword safe and learn to control its legendary powers, she will lose not only her own life . . . but the love of a lifetime.


Untold Legends: Brotherhood of the Blade and the Warrior's Code

Untold Legends: Brotherhood of the Blade and the Warrior's Code

Author: Brad Anthony

Publisher: Prima Games

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 0761553258

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What Dark Beast Lurks Within You? -Crucial weapon and equipment charts -Complete combat strategies and walkthroughs -Learn to leverage dynamic attacks of opportunity -Master new combat moves and special abilities -Character morphing system revealed -2 guides in one! Full guide included for Untold Legends: Brotherhood of the Blade


Chosen by the Blade

Chosen by the Blade

Author: S. R. Sereda

Publisher: FriesenPress

Published: 2023-06-26

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 1039177913

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Orion, a student of the Academy, a school that trains devotees of the god Aarus, is about to have his eighteenth birthday. Trained to be a Chronicler, a historian who travels from town to town documenting important events, he is looking forward to his new life after graduation. There is only one hitch: every student of the Academy who turns eighteen is required to take a turn at attempting to pull a magical sword from an obelisk. Whoever is successful must set out on a perilous quest to find and kill the False One, a mysterious being who attempted to overthrow Aarus a millennia ago. Much to everyone's surprise, and his own dismay, Orion is chosen as the next Quester and is soon sent out on his journey. He meets Cassi, a feisty young blacksmith, who joins him on his quest, and together they must face the killer Shadows who haunt the forest along the way. As they hunt for the False One, with danger around every corner, Orion knows only too well that no peer who set out on this quest before him has ever returned to tell the tale.


Dead Time

Dead Time

Author: William W. Johnstone

Publisher: Pinnacle Books

Published: 2020-01-28

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 0786043857

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Johnstone Country. Try Not to Get Killed. In this explosive Hank Fallon thriller, the justice-seeking ex-con goes undercover and behind bars to expose a plot as big, as bold, and as deadly as the American Civil War . . . GET OUT OF JAIL FREE—OR DIE Doing time in Texas is no picnic. But getting sent to The Walls in Huntsville is a fate worse than hanging. If the guards don’t kill you, the prisoners will. And if it weren’t for the fact that the man who framed Hank Fallon and murdered his family could be inside The Walls, Hank would never step one foot in that heinous helltrap—let alone go undercover as an inmate. But this isn’t just another assignment. This is his chance for revenge . . . Inside The Walls, Hank quickly discovers who’s boss—as well as judge, jury, and executioner. The only relief from the gang fights and guard beatings is a prison work program that allows inmates to leave The Walls to work for plantation owner J.J. Justice. Hank figures it can’t be any worse than jail. But it is. Seems that Justice is ordering the men to commit robberies and murders. He’s stockpiling weapons. Building an army. And planning to restart the Civil War—all in the name of Justice . . . Live Free. Read Hard.