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"The year is 1690, and the place is Nagasaki - a city where superstition, politics, and greed reign supreme. It is here that the mutilated body of Jan Spaen, a prominent Dutch trader and one of the few Westerners in Japan, washes ashore. With few leads and too many enemies, Sano Ichiro finds himself in the midst of a dangerous search for an elusive killer. With every clue, the investigation pulls him further into a tangled web of deception and samurai...
Author
Publisher
St. Martins Minotaur
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"A brilliant new twist on the fabled tale of the 47 Ronin, from an author with "a painter's eye for the minutiae of court life [and] a politican's ear for intrigue." --The New York Times Book Review Japan, 1703. On a snowy night, 47 warriors murder the man at the center of the scandal that turned them from samurai into masterless ronin two years before. Clearly this was an act of revenge--but why did they wait so long? And is there any reason they...
3) The iris fan
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Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Amid the ever-treacherous intrigue in the court, Sano Ichirō has been demoted from chamberlain to a lowly patrol guard. His relationship with his wife Reiko is in tatters, and a bizarre new alliance between his two enemies Yanagisawa and Ienobu has left him bewildered and wary. Yet Sano's dedication to the way of the warrior--the samurai code of honor--is undiminished. Then a harrowing, almost inconceivable crime takes place"--
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Flame in the mist volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Language
English
Description
"After an attempt is made on her life, Mariko disguises herself as a boy and infiltrates a gang of bandits known as the Black Clan, determined to hunt down the person responsible"--
The daughter of a prominent samurai, Mariko has long known her place--she may be an accomplished alchemist, whose cunning rivals that of her brother Kenshin, but because she is not a boy, her future has always been out of her hands. At just seventeen years old, Mariko...
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Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
"Yokai are the monsters, demons, and spirits of Japanese folklore, such as the shape-shifting kitsune, the obakeneko demon cats, and the evil oni ogres. Usagi faces all of these and more when a desperate woman begs him to find her kidnapped daughter"--Page 4 of cover.
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Young Samurai volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
August 1611. Jack Fletcher is shipwrecked off the coast of Japan - his beloved father and the crew lie slaughtered by ninja pirates. Rescued by the legendary sword master Masamoto Takeshi, Jack's only hope is to become a samurai warrior. And so his training begins. But life at the samurai school is a constant fight for survival.
11) The fire kimono
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
As the conflict between Sano Ichiro and his enemies escalates, the samurai detective and his wife, Reiko, are called in by the shogun to investigate a mysterious skeleton, in a case that forces them to confront long-buried secrets.
12) Fighting blind
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Samurai Jack decides to fight his arch-enemy Aku while under the effects of special crystals given to him by a race of mole people that render him invisible but temporarily blind.
14) Apache messiah
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Series
Six-gun warrior volume 8
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
1983.
Language
English
Author
Series
Shadow of the fox volume 1
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
One thousand years ago, the great Kami Dragon was summoned to grant a single terrible wish--and the land of Iwagoto was plunged into an age of darkness and chaos. Now, for whoever holds the Scroll of a Thousand Prayers, a new wish will be granted. A new age is about to dawn. Raised by monks in the isolated Silent Winds temple, Yumeko has trained all her life to hide her yokai nature. Half kitsune, half human, her skill with illusion is matched only...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 64
Language
English
Description
Shipwrecked English adventurer, John Blackthorn, finds himself a key figure in a vast power struggle that is to plunge medieval Japan into civil war. Set in the exotic world of Oriental intrigue, passions, discipline, courage, and rigid moral and martial codes.
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Series
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Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 21
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
One thousand years ago, a wish was made to the Harbinger of Change and a sword of rage and lightning was forged. Kamigoroshi. The Godslayer. It had one task: to seal away the powerful demon Hakaimono. Now he has broken free. Kitsune shapeshifter Yumeko has one task: to take her piece of the ancient and powerful scroll to the Steel Feather temple in order to prevent the summoning of the Harbinger of Change, the great Kami Dragon who will grant one...
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Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
2019-
Language
English
Description
"In Tokyo lies a small restaurant called 'Western Cuisine Nekoya, ' ordinary in every way--save one. Every Saturday, its door connects to another world! Follow along as a cavalcade of curious guests from half-elves to samurai, dragons, halflings and vampires enter its premises, all with the same goal in mind: to fill their stomachs with the most mouth-watering of foods."--Amazon.com
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